Top Christmas Toys From The 1980s & 1990s!

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  • Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
  • The holiday season is usually when we reflect back on the year and think about everything we experienced. It's also a time when we think back to our childhood and remember that magical time at Christmas and the special gifts we recieved. In this video we will have a look back at the top Christmas toys from the 1980s & 1990s!
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  • @Branche11
    @Branche11 Рік тому +18

    Thanks!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      You're welcome and thank you for watching!

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 Рік тому +4

      Send me some money

    • @jonnym4670
      @jonnym4670 Рік тому +4

      @@RhettyforHistory i remember getting heman for my birthday wondering why my parents bought me a male strpper doll

    • @reneeg9750
      @reneeg9750 Рік тому

      @@jonnym4670 lol

  • @wht-rabt-obj
    @wht-rabt-obj Рік тому +302

    My best Christmas was when I was 10, in 1980. I wanted a telescope SO bad and I can down Christmas morning and there it was. My dad had gotten me a really good one and I was so happy. It even had really dark lenses you could use to look at the sun. Best Christmas memory ever. Now, I'd give anything just to have my dad back.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +12

      Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of what you had!

    • @ruthpullis9279
      @ruthpullis9279 Рік тому +28

      I hear you I miss my dad so much too. I give anything to see my dad again.

    • @brianharrison5481
      @brianharrison5481 Рік тому +13

      Keep the memory alive I would give all my presents to have my dad back too keep the stories going with the kids and you keep his legacy alive

    • @prophez23
      @prophez23 Рік тому +12

      Exactly the same for me to. I'd give anything to have my dad back.. I miss him so much.

    • @cherriaydelotte8327
      @cherriaydelotte8327 Рік тому +4

      Me too, Missy🕊

  • @christopherevans9119
    @christopherevans9119 Рік тому +215

    Nothing can ever compare growing up as a 1980s & 1990s child! I can feel the Nostalgia high kicking In!! 😁😆🤪✌🏻👍🤘🏻

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +7

      Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts!

    • @reginareece7081
      @reginareece7081 Рік тому +4

      @@RhettyforHistory so what you need to do is tell first of all what kind of clothes (short sleeves of all kinds) you wore in the 80s and 90s and conpare those short sleeves outfits with the outfits you wear on present day..
      Give your proper opinions on each..

    • @timopint1125
      @timopint1125 Рік тому +2

      growing up in any other time

    • @TransitionedToAShark
      @TransitionedToAShark Рік тому +2

      Was good but the start of the end of the world lol.

    • @havok9001
      @havok9001 Рік тому +1

      i born in 1986 & growing up in the 90's where the best i know we had Nes & Snes different years with few games i think we rent a N64 or so at the time

  • @TheRealRealOK
    @TheRealRealOK Рік тому +61

    An important part of Christmas in the 1980s was the Christmas Toy Catalogue from major department stores and Toys R Us. You circled everything you wanted and handed it to your parents hoping they’d buy it all.

    • @TheCrazyHedgehogLady
      @TheCrazyHedgehogLady 7 місяців тому +1

      Yes! That was always such an awesomely fun thing to do - all while daydreaming that maybe you’d somehow get all the things you’d circled. 😊🎄🦔

    • @DutchGameHunter
      @DutchGameHunter 4 місяці тому +1

      Imagine that kids from now probably don't even know what you're talking about. Catalogue? Pen? What's that 😂

    • @gilbert8162
      @gilbert8162 2 місяці тому +1

      @DutchGameHunter actually got a toy catalog in the mail that was from Amazon but was pretty much the same thing. Kid went wild with it. Carried it around all month

  • @angelapennington4724
    @angelapennington4724 Рік тому +59

    My brother was obsessed with He-man and I was a HUGE She-ra fan. I miss being a kid in the 80s and early 90s! I miss Teddy Ruxspin! I LOVED that toy!

    • @hockeycardrookiesslimscrap1588
      @hockeycardrookiesslimscrap1588 Рік тому +2

      He man is the best I was crazy about it lol my name is Adam and like he man was prince 🤴 Adam I figured it was just like me lol

    • @joannewilson1162
      @joannewilson1162 Рік тому +1

      I always wanted one. I had so many of the heman and shera figures. I still do actually. In a box in my garage…

    • @MikeS-bf9vq
      @MikeS-bf9vq 8 місяців тому +1

      Same here with He-Man and She-Ra….She-Ra was hot though

    • @Greencloud8
      @Greencloud8 7 місяців тому

      You can always find toys you miss online

    • @Greencloud8
      @Greencloud8 7 місяців тому

      I have grubby upstairs but idk where teddy went

  • @DD-DD-DD
    @DD-DD-DD Рік тому +28

    I distinctly remember the death of the arcade:
    Sitting in a friend's basement playing a game on a console, thinking "Why should I spend my quarters, when I can stay here and play this?"

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +4

      It really was a game changer. No pun intended. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

    • @chivalrous_chevy1163
      @chivalrous_chevy1163 Рік тому +2

      Yep, I remember thinking that too, while sitting at my friend's house. That was before emulation!

  • @Christmasveryfun
    @Christmasveryfun Рік тому +52

    Best time of the year. Love the memories of the old Christmas classics.

  • @lesliehackney7519
    @lesliehackney7519 Рік тому +33

    Oh my goodness, my kids who were born in the 70's and 80's probably owned 75% of those toys. We lived in Germany at the time of the Cabbage Patch kids craze so we actually got a Cabbage Patch kid at one of their toy stores. His papers were all in German and his name was Hans Gunter. Some or their favorites were He Man, She Ra, Ninja Turtles, Tickle me Elmo, Beanie Babies and many of the others. I am having a lot of fun with these videos. Can't wait for the next one.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories. That is interesting on the German Cabbage Patch Kid. I didn't realize they were doing that back then but that was smart of them.

  • @drew9738
    @drew9738 Рік тому +11

    The 80s and 90s was my childhood. They missed a lot but this brought me back. I enjoyed it.

  • @stephen9302
    @stephen9302 Рік тому +15

    I miss the 80's & 90's and Christmas mornings

  • @Emily-the_funny_guys
    @Emily-the_funny_guys Рік тому +41

    Arrr the memories. It takes me back to being a kid

  • @jessicayoung6208
    @jessicayoung6208 Рік тому +14

    I was born in 88. I will never forget when I was 5 I wanted a doll house and I will never forget Christmas morning waking up to my doll house I wanted so bad. One of the best Xmas memories I have.

  • @ccharlot
    @ccharlot Рік тому +36

    Back when Christmas was still magical in a way that really can't be recaptured as an adult

    • @EmilyS-gk3st
      @EmilyS-gk3st 8 місяців тому +1

      Christmas is still magical as an adult if you are Christian

    • @heresjohnny4836
      @heresjohnny4836 7 місяців тому

      using christmas, magical, and christian in the same sentance, quite interesting. no hate to noticed.@@EmilyS-gk3st

    • @drewcowan
      @drewcowan 7 місяців тому +1

      You must not have kids.

  • @SleepyJoe408
    @SleepyJoe408 8 місяців тому +4

    I was born in 88 but I feel like I grew up in the 80s. Everything about the 80s makes me feel nostalgic even though I didn’t actually live through that decade.

    • @NuclearBronsonRex
      @NuclearBronsonRex 8 місяців тому

      I never embraced lame 90s music. Nirvaner can suck it.

  • @milarski1974
    @milarski1974 8 місяців тому +3

    Loved growing up in the 80s and early 90s! Lucky enough I was able to keep a lot of stuff I had when I was a kid I still have some of my original Star Wars figures, Transformers, Tron figures, Clash of the Titan figures, and so many others. Having the love for the stuff I did back then made me be a toy collector as an adult and it's a great feeling to be able to reminisce with the stuff we had as a kid! I always tell everybody I'm a Toys R Us kid I don't ever want to grow up! All we do is deal with pains and bills when we get older! Might as well enjoy the things that made us happy when we were young as long as we can!

  • @katrin896
    @katrin896 Рік тому +55

    I was born in 1988 so I was literally a 90s child. I remember one Christmas when I got a suitcase that was actually full of pencils, colors, brushes, etc. I loved to draw and color when I was a child so this was like being a professional painter! I still remember that one to this day, I loved this gift!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +4

      I had a few things like that as well because I was really into art. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories.

    • @christhefampederson2324
      @christhefampederson2324 Рік тому +3

      I agree 💯 growing up in 80s was fun

    • @franfinesim
      @franfinesim Рік тому +2

      I wanted this suitcase!!! It was one of those wishes that never came true. One of m classmates had this and we were all jealous

  • @tanyalarose8907
    @tanyalarose8907 Рік тому +21

    I was 20 years old and pregnant with my first child. I remember sitting eating breakfast and hearing about the Cabbage patch kid riots at stores. I couldn't imagine what people saw in those dolls and still think they are ugly. A few years later though I was running around before Christmas trying to find Ninja turtle toys for my son. Then it was a Gameboy he wanted, my daughter wanted Tickle me elmo and a furbie. Both kids are grown now and I'm doing the same with my grandkids. Lol

    • @cocoaorange1
      @cocoaorange1 9 місяців тому

      Time flies.

    • @moonfire41
      @moonfire41 8 місяців тому

      So glad I'm not the only who dislikes those beedy eyed fat things.

  • @inesitagc11
    @inesitagc11 Рік тому +48

    Rainbow Brite and the care bears were very popular back then too.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +5

      Yes they were. Thank you for watching!

    • @cherecemorgan1204
      @cherecemorgan1204 Рік тому +4

      Sure was carebear rainbrite doll other stuff. Back than

    • @brandycopeland3200
      @brandycopeland3200 Рік тому +2

      I forgot those! ♥️

    • @tarnsand440
      @tarnsand440 Рік тому +1

      Hot Looks Dolls by Mattel.

    • @Sunny10tv
      @Sunny10tv Рік тому +1

      I know. Any daycare I went to in the 90's & I went to alot of different daycares back then not going to get into why... 🤦‍♀️ They were littered with rainbow brite doll's, care bears stuffed animals, & magic nursery doll's. Ironically I never had those particular stuffed animals / doll's at my house mainly because I wasn't allowed to watch carebears. I thought the rainbow brite doll's were cute. As a 90's girl / kid who grew up mainly with mechanical doll's I was curious one day in daycare to see what the magic nursery doll's did so picked one up & started looking for an on & off switch & battery compartment when didn't find one on the doll just put it back in the toy box in the daycare kind of bored with it at the time to be honest. I knew the magic nursery doll's were popular at the time that was the other reason I picked it up to look at & try to figure out why so popular. Other than the doll having a cute face I didn't see the appeal~ 🤷‍♀️✌️

  • @dariusq8894
    @dariusq8894 Рік тому +8

    My parents spoiled me rotten as a kid. Between my sister and I we had virtually all the toys on this list during the 80's, sometimes twice over (one for each of us). It saddens me a little that kids these days do not have the same kind of cultural touchstones.

  • @inesitagc11
    @inesitagc11 Рік тому +31

    Stretch Armstrong was a 70s toy that was also popular in the early 80s.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +3

      He was certainly a popular 70s toy. Thank you for watching!

    • @johnkollman3900
      @johnkollman3900 Рік тому +1

      Did you ever cut one open to see what was inside ?

    • @dr.awkward9075
      @dr.awkward9075 Рік тому +1

      I had the green, sea monster looking bad guy. I bet it's worth a fortune now.

    • @mcorleonep
      @mcorleonep 11 місяців тому

      I had that in the 70’s. It didn’t last forever. Eventually one of the appendages would rip an this red ooze came out.

    • @moonfire41
      @moonfire41 8 місяців тому

      We had stretch monster. Me and my brother got carried away in a tug o war with his arms and it splat goo all over the floor. I haven't heard Dad yell that loud except for when same brother took my dad's pickup on a joyride from Idaho to California years later.

  • @craigdavidson5613
    @craigdavidson5613 Рік тому +7

    I happened to find a Teddy Ruxpin one day at a local Charity Shop here in Australia. I could not believe my eyes since it only cost $4AU, with the original cassette tape, and it still worked well!

  • @eggie1978
    @eggie1978 Рік тому +28

    In the 80's, my mom had a hard time finding Cabbage Patch Kids for me and my sister for Christmas. Her father finally found two of them in a small toy boutique.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of how you got a Cabbage Patch Kid!

    • @royer_redos
      @royer_redos Рік тому +1

      We had to get on a waiting list at Toys R Us and couldn't get one until they called us, and then when we went we didn't get to choose!

    • @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj
      @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj Рік тому +2

      Yes I wanted one but my late parents were too poor to get one.

    • @rosgeall
      @rosgeall Рік тому +2

      My dad got mine in Asia while deployed there. I don’t know which country. He said they were much cheaper there than in the states. He couldn’t have afforded it otherwise on a military salary.

    • @cherriaydelotte8327
      @cherriaydelotte8327 Рік тому +1

      @@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj 😢

  • @Stormgazer
    @Stormgazer Рік тому +12

    Nintendo, He-Man, Thundercats, Transformers, and G.I. Joes, just to name a few.
    What a great time it was to be a kid.🎉
    Thanks for the memories.❤

  • @israelvaldez26
    @israelvaldez26 Рік тому +13

    In the early to late 90's I worked at both Toysrus and KB toys and was able to witness some of these toys being sold.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +3

      That would have been a crazy time for toys. Thank you for watching!

  • @buor_thrift
    @buor_thrift Рік тому +1

    I felt that with my soul when he siad "kids who received the nintendo as a present that Christmas will never forget the feeling they had when they first saw it and played it" man listen, this was one of thee BEST parts of my childhood, only time I would risk getting in trouble for not getting off the game and going to bed. Me and my siblings were hood rich when we got this for Christmas and you couldn't tell us nothing. I think whole family came together to buy this for us, grandma, aunties and all. The best feeling ever! The original Nintendo will always hold a very special place in my mind and heart.

  • @kevystead
    @kevystead Рік тому +25

    Grew up in the 80's.. Thundercats was my favorite. We had Cats Layer, The Thunder Tank and may of the figurines :)

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you had.

    • @pinebarrenpatriot8289
      @pinebarrenpatriot8289 Рік тому

      I loved Thunder Cats. I watched everyday at 3:30pm after school.

    • @Crissa42082
      @Crissa42082 Рік тому

      I was born in 82 but my mom said I loved it

  • @Soberman75
    @Soberman75 Рік тому +12

    the best years for toys.

  • @andrewbritch5821
    @andrewbritch5821 Рік тому +13

    Thanks for the memories of my childhood 😢 ❤ brings back the goods times when the world actually made since

  • @sfeliciano1984
    @sfeliciano1984 Рік тому +8

    My grandfather bought the Nintendo system for my brother's and a cabbage patch doll for me. I still have my cabbage patch certificate. Great times

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      Sounds like you had a really good grandfather because he got you both some big ones. Thank you for watching and sharing some memories!

  • @georgemarcouxjr6192
    @georgemarcouxjr6192 Рік тому +36

    70's and 80's best time to be a kid. Sadly, kids nowadays will never experience it.

  • @TopGunAce23
    @TopGunAce23 Рік тому +3

    70's baby here... favorite toy was my Atari 2600. Kicked off my lifelong love of gaming. I now have an xbox series x

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      Those Atari 2600 consoles were a ton of fun. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!

  • @johnnygee4206
    @johnnygee4206 Рік тому +30

    Yep, I was all about Transformers and MOTU back in the 80's, but I still remember the insanity around the Cabbage Patch Kids craze. My sister wanted one for Christmas, but after seeing news stories of parents physically fighting each other over them, she thought it would be too dangerous for Santa so she asked for a Rainbow Brite doll instead.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +3

      That's funny to hear her reasoning for not asking Santa for one. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

    • @rubo5411
      @rubo5411 Рік тому +3

      Someone died, got trampled at a store to get one. Insane

    • @rosgeall
      @rosgeall Рік тому +3

      My dad was military and was often able to get high demand toys when deployed overseas. That’s the only reason I was able to have a cabbage patch doll when they came out. Although at the time I thought Santa brought it.

    • @JSchaffer214
      @JSchaffer214 Рік тому +3

      I remember all the hype around Cabbage Patch Kids. I always remembered that and Teddy Ruxpin as being the two toys that really made some parents go nuts at Christmas!

  • @skivvywaver
    @skivvywaver Рік тому +32

    Rhetty, at some point in the 90s there was a "Troll doll" craze. My oldest daughter had like 50 of them.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      They seem to periodically come back every so often. Even in the last few years they made another appearance. Thank you for watching!

    • @DE-rc7gi
      @DE-rc7gi Рік тому +3

      Yes 1993 I had quite the collection!

    • @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj
      @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj Рік тому

      Yes I had only one and my nephews kept stripping him naked.😅

    • @cherriaydelotte8327
      @cherriaydelotte8327 Рік тому +1

      My daughter had a ton of Troll Dolls too. She still has them and she’s pushing 40 this year 😂
      She kept them for my granddaughters 🥰

    • @frogman72davitto94
      @frogman72davitto94 Рік тому

      I remember my sister had a few

  • @chanelhopeful5336
    @chanelhopeful5336 Рік тому +4

    The easy bake oven, the cabbage patch doll , n the snoopy snow cone machine were my all time favorite gifts 😊

  • @paulstan9828
    @paulstan9828 Рік тому +41

    Boy they come and go so fast don’t they. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 Рік тому

      MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄Paul. I hope you and your family have a wonderful day 😊
      By the way Paul, I listened to the other band you mentioned Broken Peach not bad, but I’m hooked on The Dead South. Actually listened to them for hours yesterday while I was doing my ongoing physio. If you haven’t heard of them, have a listen to Pentatonix, they are an a cappella group from Texas. My daughter loves them, she couldn’t find anyone that wanted to see them when they came here last, so I went with her to a Sydney concert. They were amazing, they are all great singers and each do something different. Our favourite is Mitch Grassi though, he is the tenor/counter tenor of group. Enjoy 😉

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 Рік тому

      @@swansfan6944 Hi Jodie I was just looking for you wanted to tell you and your family Merry Christmas!!🎁🎄 Thank you also. I was planning on going to my sisters house Christmas Day but we are expecting near zero temperatures and snow and high winds. So I think I’ll just stay home and spend Christmas with my senile cat Cousin Eddy. Ha!! He’s a good cat just pretty old and a little odd. Thanks I’ll look the group up that you mentioned. Take care Merry Christmas!

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 Рік тому

      @@paulstan9828 do you live far from your siblings Paul ? I can’t even imagine that type of weather and what it’s like to go out in but I do wish to see snow. It’s Friday morning here now, Christmas falls on a Sunday and it will be sunny 😎 and 26 degrees. I don’t know what that is in Fahrenheit, which I know is used over there.

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 Рік тому +1

      By the way Paul, I love your cats name 🤣 we have a very spoilt, beautiful 12 year old pug named Pugsley.

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 Рік тому

      @@swansfan6944 Ha!! That’s cute! I don’t live too far from my sister maybe 8 miles so it’s not too bad. Oh my 78 Fahrenheit that’s summer here. I don’t like snow especially when you have to drive in it. It’ll be -18 Celsius here tomorrow. 😁

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Рік тому +2

    I just overdosed...on nostalgia. I say this every time...The 80's and early 90's were the best time to be a kid. The music, the movies, the cartoons, the video games. I may be bias...but I'm also right!

    • @martiniangoldberg
      @martiniangoldberg Рік тому +1

      Sorry, Kris, but the '60s and '70s were better than the '80s and '90s. ☺

  • @jillgerber
    @jillgerber Рік тому +3

    Christmas 1983 my sister, our cousin Missy, and I each got a Cabbage Patch doll from our grandmother (or Nona, which is what we called her). Nona bought the dolls that summer, before the craze hit. Once the craze hit word got out around town that Nona had three dolls stashed away and people were offering her hundreds of dollars. She refused all the offers because she bought them for us. Each of the dolls resembled the granddaughter it was bought for. Mine had red hair, green eyes, and her name was Amy.

  • @AJDIYNetwork
    @AJDIYNetwork Рік тому +4

    Love your channel! I am in my late 40’s and grew up in the 80’s,90’s. My god the memories! Thank you! I would love to relive it just once more……

  • @hollyking2580
    @hollyking2580 Рік тому +8

    Cabbage Patch Dolls came out when I was in sixth grade. By that time, most of the girls in our class had outgrown dolls and were experimenting with fashion and makeup. But ALL of the IT girls owned a Cabbage Patch doll that they'd bring to school, almost as an accessory.

    • @pieluvr7362
      @pieluvr7362 Рік тому +2

      From playing with dolls to dressing like dolls

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      That's interesting. Thank you for watching and sharing a memory.

  • @Branche11
    @Branche11 Рік тому +5

    I still want these toys!

  • @andreyperkins6981
    @andreyperkins6981 Рік тому +2

    Pogo ball was one of my all-time favorite toys. Whoever ever heard of playing and exercising at the same time,haha.

  • @jedilegoarts9882
    @jedilegoarts9882 8 місяців тому +2

    My little pony show stable! Best Christmas gift moment ever. Parents had hidden it in the hall so I didn’t know about it till end of gift giving session. I was amazed! So happy.

  • @karlshuler1011
    @karlshuler1011 Рік тому +5

    Table Hockey was my favorite toy. In the 70's when I was small around 1970 I think it was Billy Blastoff

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had.

  • @crazymode341
    @crazymode341 Рік тому +6

    I got a doodle bear for Christmas one year I loved the crap out of that toy.. I was fascinated how I could draw all over my toy and it would just wash out..

  • @penbucket
    @penbucket Рік тому +6

    I still somehow remember the year (1978) I received the 12" Chewbacca figure AND the stuffed version for Christmas. My parents apparently bought them separately without consulting each other. Fair to say I did not mind! Star Wars was the Only toys to want want at that time. The best!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had.

  • @fab3laundry
    @fab3laundry Рік тому +9

    I remember Poochie, Popples, Lots a legs, Game/Watch by Nintendo, Magic Sand, Baby Alive, Barbie, Keepers, Smurfs, MOTU, Yo-Yo’s and plenty of others.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you remember. You mentioned some big ones!

    • @fab3laundry
      @fab3laundry Рік тому

      @@RhettyforHistory thanks for reminding me of 80’s. More adults are buying toys for themselves than ever before.

  • @toykeyper8914
    @toykeyper8914 Рік тому +1

    I'm an 80s kid and I loved all my girlie toys, especially My Little Pony, Barbie, Lady Lovely Locks, Care Bears, Fluppy Dogs, Sweet Secrets and Pound Puppies and Purries.

  • @AnotherWun
    @AnotherWun Рік тому +10

    I think one of my favorite toys from the 90s were POGs as they were much more affordable and accessible than many of the other popular toys for a few years.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +3

      Those really were popular. Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed.

    • @JSchaffer214
      @JSchaffer214 Рік тому

      I was 13 or 14 years old when pogs got big. A friend and I would ride our bikes to Wal-Mart (we lived close) once a week or so. On one visit my friend stole a bunch of pogs but I didn't know it until after we had left and he gave me a bunch of them. I was so scared that I never went back to that Wal-Mart with him again. I literally put the pogs in a bag and shoved them in a drawer somewhere, never having played with them. lol

    • @damondelgado4603
      @damondelgado4603 Рік тому

      I miss garbage pail kids trading cards

  • @crazymode341
    @crazymode341 Рік тому +3

    Koosh ball wars were huge in junior high in the 90s man those hurt...we would battle it out in class and at home who could throw the hardest lol

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      That sounds like fun though! Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!

  • @michael2244
    @michael2244 Рік тому +3

    I remember getting the Super NES for Christmas one year, best Christmas ever :D

  • @ronaldmiller2740
    @ronaldmiller2740 Рік тому +3

    GREAT WONDERFUL DAYSSSS!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS...

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and Merry Christmas to you Ronald!

  • @vancegosselin
    @vancegosselin Рік тому +1

    On my 14th birthday, December 24th I received a surprise gift from my parents one of those Walkman cassette stereos. The best present ever 🎁🎄🙂

  • @Rob-rx3jw
    @Rob-rx3jw Рік тому +5

    Ghostbusters bro! I wanted that Firehouse so damn bad!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      That was really popular too. Thank you for watching and sharing what you wanted.

  • @charlesparrish2831
    @charlesparrish2831 11 місяців тому

    I can remember awesome toys given by my loving sweet mother and father.I miss them so much.They are in Heaven watching over me and my 2 brothers.I remember getting surprised getting bikes,Atari,and PlayStation growing up and not expecting these types of things.They didn’t make that much money but loved us and provided for me and my 2 brothers. I am blessed having had such loving giving parents.God is great🙏❤️

  • @senrab99
    @senrab99 11 місяців тому +1

    LOL! We all sound like our parents and grandparents....classic!

  • @frenchfan3368
    @frenchfan3368 Рік тому +6

    As a child of the 1980s, I enjoyed collecting the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) wrestling dolls. I even had the blue, steel cage and ring to host my own wrestling matches.

  • @brittanyhill778
    @brittanyhill778 Рік тому +2

    I was a premature baby when I was born in August of 94, my Dad's sister, my Aunt, she gave my parents a bunch of cabbage patch doll clothes because their older daughter had collected them at one time and had not wanted them anymore.
    My mom said we had many cabbage patch outfits, but no dolls. lol

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      That's interesting you had all those clothes but no doll. Were they thinking your parents could put you in them? Thank you for watching and sharing a memory!

  • @1frogass1
    @1frogass1 Рік тому +4

    Rubik was a professor of architecture at the Budapest College. Not a toy designer, his actual purpose was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart.

  • @francoisregis2155
    @francoisregis2155 8 місяців тому +1

    Great memories thanks for sharing
    The 80’s and 90’s were so fun miss those times we had such cool toys

  • @drusmith3480
    @drusmith3480 Рік тому +2

    When I was a teenage Uncle, I got my little Nephew the TRANSFORMER, STARSCREAM, for Christmas. The after-school TRANSFORMERS cartoon was awesome! 🎄⛄️

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with Transformers!

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 Рік тому +4

    I got to see more of the latest toys of those times vicariously through my nieces and nephews now getting them back in the day! I sought out one of those popular fishing games that allowed you to "catch' certain popping up critters with their own specific fishing pole;

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      I do remember that game. It was pretty fun. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

  • @courtneypuzzo2502
    @courtneypuzzo2502 Рік тому +3

    remember many of these as I was born in 1985 and even had some of them I.E. Cabbage Patch Kids & Care Bears

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!

  • @ITIsFunnyDamnIT
    @ITIsFunnyDamnIT Рік тому +1

    Born in 1970 For me having a big wheel to ride round and round the neighborhood block was fun. I also had the 6 million dollar man doll. The KISS dolls, Tonka trucks, The Hess truck, a bag of plastic army men. I'd set up battlefield in the sand and play with them for hours, and race cars on a little race track. Those were fun. Than came out the board game Strageo a battlefield strategy game. Still I remember a lot of these 80s and 90s toy. Although much older by the late 80s I had a Nintendo, loved it, than I got the super Nintendo.

  • @appleforever6664
    @appleforever6664 Рік тому +11

    The toy M.U.S.C.L.E was very popular in the 1980s. Kids would bring them to school and trade them.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Yes they were. Thank you for watching!

    • @penbucket
      @penbucket Рік тому +2

      I have a few of them on my desk right now! I was Obsessed with those figures.

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 Рік тому +1

      I used to love the container that used to sell them in I think there's like 10 of them in each little reclosable container, I can't tell you how many ring sets I bought two. you know where you wrestle them in the plastic piece is always a snapped off when you try to put them in place LOL

  • @jeffreydotson4842
    @jeffreydotson4842 Рік тому +3

    I was a young adult when Pokemon made its US debut and can remember saying to a kid that in a few years the Pokemon craze would be dead and its cards and merchandise would be sold at yard sales and thrift shops for less than a buck. I can almost hear that now grown kid telling the story about that clueless adult who only thought he knew what he was talking about.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      I bet he did say that but I have thought the same thing about some items like that too. Thank you for watching and sharing your memory.

  • @Alinktome
    @Alinktome 4 місяці тому

    From my parents, the greatest joy I had was the Vectrex. I was 11 in 1982.
    But as I was, and I am still a great old child, I must say the very greatest joy of all time was made by myself, when I bought my Nintendo 64. Nothing in my life could compare with the hype, with the joy, the satisfaction and fun that this system brought me. ❤ Mario, star fox, goldeneye, and later, Ocarina of Time, which is the best souvenir of my life.
    (I mean, play activity of course)

  • @texas6060
    @texas6060 Рік тому +3

    Lol !! I remember the Cabbage patch doll craze. A friend of my Sister-in-law had a pair of Cabbage patch house slippers. My Youngest she was 3 yr old at the time, would find them an carried them around as her Babies finally one visit she refused to let them go. Needless to say she got to keep them from that forward.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!

  • @catgirl423
    @catgirl423 Рік тому +4

    aww the memeries, I miss being a kid at times, fun toys I had

    • @billybob-ro6qf
      @billybob-ro6qf Рік тому +1

      miss being a kid? LOL I'm 45 & still a kid. I made a vow years ago to be a Toys R Us kid & never grow up. Sadly, Toys R Us is no longer around, but I'm still a kid & always will be. Still watching cartoons & enjoying video games daily.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.

    • @catgirl423
      @catgirl423 Рік тому +1

      I'm 41, still act like a kid too but alot of times I mikss the oood old days, toy r us is still around, they have it in maceys a small section,, at least at the mall where I live does

    • @catgirl423
      @catgirl423 Рік тому

      miss, good

    • @catgirl423
      @catgirl423 Рік тому

      @@RhettyforHistory your welcome

  • @trungpham9763
    @trungpham9763 Рік тому +10

    This brings back so much memories 👌🏻

  • @mysticwolf75
    @mysticwolf75 Рік тому +3

    I worked in retail during both the Tickle Me Elmo craze and the Furby craze, watching people pushing and shoving each other to get one, until we ran out and spent the rest of the day writing rain checks (one of my managers was even knocked down opening the front doors during the Furby craze). But you forgot to mention the hot item for Christmas 1999, Game Boy Color! We sold out of those very quickly on Black Friday that year and we couldn't keep them in stock - much like Tickle Me Elmo and Furby, they sold out as fast as we got them in!

  • @shanp8907
    @shanp8907 Рік тому +7

    Oh my goodness… I loved Beanie babies! I still have about 10 that even have the protective cover on their tags. 😂 my daughter was crazy about them…my son, who is almost 30 thinks the old Nintendo system is “vintage” and cool😅

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +2

      It is funny to hear younger kids thinking about these things as vintage. In my mind it isn't. That is awesome you still have some Beanie Babies. Thank you for watching Shannon!

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 Рік тому +1

      If they have their protective covers on it they're probably worth a lot of money

  • @ToeTag9899
    @ToeTag9899 Рік тому

    I'm so glad I was born in the early 80's and grew up the old school way with no internet or smart phones just playing outside and going to the mall.

  • @joseleswopes1400
    @joseleswopes1400 Рік тому +4

    My kids and grandkids have had most everything on the list 💞 my son's loved the He Man series and my daughter's loved the Cabbage Patch dolls. Also Atari. 💞

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Sounds like your family has had some great toys! Thank you for watching Josele!

  • @donovanlong648
    @donovanlong648 10 місяців тому

    My fondest memory is waking up and finding a crash, it was two 57 Chevy I think, when you collided them the doors and hoods would fly off! Also remember the smell of peppermint candy canes and oranges In my stocking!! Raised by a single mom, and 55 years later, I would give anything to feel that joy again.!!

  • @yuukisama2001
    @yuukisama2001 Рік тому

    70's/80's kid 90 YA. I had the chance to enjoy some of these toys. We never had an NES, but we had a neighbor who had one. Years later I had a SNES and a GB.
    I had the chance to watch the children grow up enjoying stuff together and later new franchises.

  • @weslittlereptilefamily3418
    @weslittlereptilefamily3418 Рік тому +5

    I just found your channel. I was born in 77 so this is amazing! Subscribed!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching weslittlereptilefamily3418!

  • @passionnotparked9099
    @passionnotparked9099 Рік тому +2

    Society didn't just lost it sense of innocence, it also lost the best Decades of childhood experiences...Sadly most children growing up now, will never know and understand what a Christmas or Birthday Gift really is.

  • @ubettawrkb1tch132
    @ubettawrkb1tch132 Рік тому +5

    Not only are these videos really fun and informative, the comments are awesome!! Thanks for the excellent content 🎉❤

  • @erynd2524
    @erynd2524 Рік тому +1

    Omigod! Seeing the Atari and Nintendo gaming consoles brought back so many memories! I miss those days! I also had a game boy too!

  • @dorisbove2210
    @dorisbove2210 Рік тому +4

    I love the Rubik's cube I remember in the 80s it was Rubik's cube everything, earrings and necklaces it was a phenomenon 🥰 and they came out with other Rubik's cube variations, include one called The Snake it was like a long snake like shape Rubik's cube so awesome 😍

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      I do remember that one you mentioned. It wad definitely popular to have. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      I do remember that one you mentioned. It was definitely popular to have. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

  • @danp7463
    @danp7463 Рік тому +2

    I remember all of these toys and current events. I'm shocked that Garbage pail kids card's weren't in the line up. Parents hated them and boys loved them.

  • @joeheid4757
    @joeheid4757 Рік тому +3

    I was transitioning out of my "kid" status in the late 80's and didn't get some of them. But Atari was huge for me as we were late to that party.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      Atari really was a huge one to have and there were tons of games. Thank you for watching and sharing what you had.

  • @NW-kc7dn
    @NW-kc7dn 7 місяців тому +2

    My favorite was the Rainbow Brite doll!

  • @MikeysMorgue
    @MikeysMorgue Рік тому +4

    I had just about all of these! I still have a He-Man watch in mint condition.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you still have!

  • @Vic-ro2rp
    @Vic-ro2rp 5 місяців тому

    G.I. Joe, Transformers, Tyco Trains, BMX bike and NES ruled my childhood!❤️

  • @CarlWinslowFM
    @CarlWinslowFM 4 місяці тому +1

    Every single toy I remember like it was yesterday

  • @terrysilva6430
    @terrysilva6430 Рік тому +1

    I was so happy in 1986 I got the Jem and the holograms glitter n gold Jem for christmas, I loved watching the cartoon and getting the doll was amazing

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      She sure saw some good sales. Thank you for watching and sharing some memories!

  • @drexsonaljames8345
    @drexsonaljames8345 11 місяців тому +1

    When it came to the sewing machine my Aunt Gale was an absolute master genius... for Christmas she made her grandkids and nieces and nephews a cabbage patch doll...and it looked exactly like the real thing except the heads wasn't plastic but made out of the same material as the body... when my cousin took hers to school...the teachers and kids went crazy...and my aunt started making $$$$$$$$ lol...she was in high demand

    • @shawnawesome7770
      @shawnawesome7770 10 місяців тому

      The origional ones were all fabric like she made.

  • @frankrizzo4460
    @frankrizzo4460 Рік тому +1

    I remember getting the toy Chute's Away for Christmas in the early 80s had so fun playing it all day long. Dick Van Dyke did the commercial for it back then. Also I got Head to Head electronic football game as well. Great memories back then I miss those days now more than ever before 🤔

  • @Albert8044
    @Albert8044 Рік тому +2

    Right at the early peak of the 1990's, in my teens Christmas memory was the Sega Genesis as previously I was Nintendo in my 80's childhood.
    During my teens the Sega Genesis was basically a gaming console and most of their library of games was intended towards teens to young adults demographic, from that day forward I was so satisfied about owning a Sega Genesis.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories of what you had!

  • @jerk5828
    @jerk5828 8 місяців тому

    I will never forget when Nintendo came out I was in 1st grade it was in everyone’s Santa list at school I luckily got one and will always remember how great that Christmas was.

  • @Kendro311
    @Kendro311 6 місяців тому

    Best Christmas of my life... We were pretty poor, so even the rare treat of going to the arcade or Chuck E. Cheese was a rare thing, and when we did go i was grateful to get 2$ in quarters to play games. But one year not much was going on under the Christmas tree, which was fine. But found a note (from Santa) in my stocking telling me I should go check some area in the house, which lead me to more notes around the house, eventually ending up going to the oven. I opened it up and there it was. A glorious and beautiful recently released NES. Complete with light gun, Duck Hunt and my favorite arcade game Super Mario Bros. I was ELATED. Not only did i get the thing i wanted most, but I could play all my favorite games without leaving the house to stand in line to play, and i could play all i wanted, no quarters required. Man that was huge 😎. Kids today couldn't understand how cool it was back then. I still smile any time I think about that day, and am still as grateful to my folks for busting and saving to make it happen.

  • @jo100
    @jo100 Рік тому

    I remember those Toys, from the Mid 80s, to the Mid to Late 90s, because I was a 80s to 90s Kid and a 90s to Early 00s Teenager too, my Brothers and Sisters, and my Friend.

  • @cynthiacronin2794
    @cynthiacronin2794 Рік тому +9

    We got my nephew a teddy ruxpin. He was terrified of it. Needless to say that was about thirty bucks down the drain.😂

    • @gooniesgirl1979
      @gooniesgirl1979 Рік тому +1

      I never had one, but I hated it too. I wonder what happened to all of them? I used to go to the thrift store a lot and never really saw one.

    • @cynthiacronin2794
      @cynthiacronin2794 Рік тому +2

      @@gooniesgirl1979 I wonder what happened to it. I will have to ask his mom about Teddy's fate. 😅

    • @gooniesgirl1979
      @gooniesgirl1979 Рік тому +1

      @@cynthiacronin2794 I had a talking Snoopy. He wasn’t creepy unless you left the batteries to drain inside.

    • @soniamo4139
      @soniamo4139 Рік тому +1

      My mom got us a talking big bird that used tape to tell stories. That thing was terrifying!😂

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Oh wow! I wonder how often that happened? Thank you for watching and sharing a memory!

  • @sianefer-ptah1258
    @sianefer-ptah1258 9 місяців тому +1

    For us, we all did almost exactly the same things with the same toys. We are the last generation (X) to share so much, after all the generations of humans.
    Kids nowadays will not share so many things like we were able to.

  • @geologyjoerocks
    @geologyjoerocks 10 місяців тому

    My brother and I got the NES back in 1986 for Christmas, and we were stoked! Back then, the console also came with this goofy little robot that spun tops

  • @BreezyE-d3n
    @BreezyE-d3n Рік тому

    My best presents were skerlectrics and an Amstrad cpc 464 computer with cassette loading games lol. One Xmas I got Bohemian Rhapsody on vinyl from Santa. I listened to it on my headphones in bed about 20 times before everyone woke up. It blew my mind. My Mum had her issues but she did her best to make us happy. Love u Mum xx

  • @universalglitch
    @universalglitch Рік тому +86

    Sega genesis was 16 bit not 32. It came a year before super nintendo which was also a 16 bit system.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +16

      You're right on that. Thanks for watching and helping out with the information.

    • @universalglitch
      @universalglitch Рік тому +6

      @@RhettyforHistory 👍

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 Рік тому +9

      Altered Beast, Street fighter, Mortal Kombat ,Sonic Etc. Sega Genesis have some iconic games even the Dreamcast was really cool in my opinion I don't think it was marketed good enough though. Cheers Mate 🍻

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 Рік тому +5

      I didn't want say that but, you did.

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 Рік тому +2

      @@krisfrederick5001 🤘🤘🤘

  • @garnetgoldandglory7249
    @garnetgoldandglory7249 Рік тому +4

    Extremely blessed to have been born 1980. First, i wanna mention garbage pail kids but my Christmases had all these toys and were all magical. Also I loved my power wheels motorcycle. Not sure why those didn't make the list. Another thing about Christmases back then was getting a new bike. Those were usually the best thing kids got back then. Cause you know, we used to play outside

  • @foxy1908
    @foxy1908 Рік тому +4

    I remember one of my favorite toys I got for Christmas was a Panasonic boombox I recorded my childhood memories on that boombox still had the cassette tapes to this day and lots of memories of me when I was a kid if you have any childhood cassette tapes recordings preserve them I start putting them to digital now cuz you know they all last forever love your videos Merry Christmas

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the videos. I appreciate you sharing your memories too. Merry Christmas to you as well!