1980s Toys That Could Make You Rich!

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  • @TsjuunTze
    @TsjuunTze 2 роки тому +372

    These toys already made you rich. being fortunate enough to have grown up in a time period like that is a true blessing.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +11

      Yes it is. Thank you for watching!

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp 2 роки тому +9

      Me in the 80's playing with most of these: "I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow up..."
      Me now: "You already are."
      Me in the 80's: "Aww, that's sweet."
      Me now: "No, seriously, you already ARE. Save that stuff !
      Me in the 80's: (Doesn't save stuff)
      Me now: Hmm, I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow old... 🤣

    • @loneshewolf74
      @loneshewolf74 2 роки тому +7

      Yeah too bad it reminds you even more how sucky everything has gotten in the past 22 years and how humanity is doomed.

    • @TsjuunTze
      @TsjuunTze 2 роки тому +3

      @@loneshewolf74 True.

    • @danasuperstar
      @danasuperstar 2 роки тому +5

      This almost made me cry 😭

  • @nostalgicsoul76
    @nostalgicsoul76 2 роки тому +305

    The 80s was a great time to be a kid. Wish I could go back!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +13

      It would definitely be great to have a time machine! Thank you for watching!

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 2 роки тому +1

      Get in a time machine and go

    • @mudvalve
      @mudvalve 2 роки тому +3

      @@wildlifewarrior2670 I already did. Remember that “old guy” that beat you in Q*Bert at the arcade back in the summer of ‘86? That was me! 🤪

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 2 роки тому +3

      @@mudvalve crap it was you

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 2 роки тому

      @@mudvalve crap it was you

  • @benschlotte8242
    @benschlotte8242 2 роки тому +91

    Late 70’s early 80’s was a great time to be a kid. Many great Christmas memories from that time

    • @Dan23_7
      @Dan23_7 2 роки тому +1

      Born in 79 me, yep 80s seemed to be better Christmas’s than any other time

    • @M.C.Blackwell
      @M.C.Blackwell 2 роки тому +3

      Yes! My mom gave us the greatest toys! Christmas was the best day ever!

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 2 роки тому +2

      YES! I got to experience the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's in grade school, then as a teen in the 80's got to transition to high school, growing up in the best decade ever- the 1980's!!

    • @zephyrr108
      @zephyrr108 Рік тому +1

      Late 80s to 90s was the jam.

  • @o.c.g.m9426
    @o.c.g.m9426 2 роки тому +64

    Greatest decade to be a child.

  • @erict586
    @erict586 2 роки тому +390

    As someone who buys, restores and resells games the numbers you are stating are over inflated and can be from fake bids. Like the stadium events that sold on eBay for $200,000. Turns out it was kids making the bids. I have have been in the possession of very rare, games, and even had values assessed and was still no were near these numbers. When information like this is taken out of context it makes people think their old broken stuff is worth a fortune and in reality it isn't and it becomes impossible for someone like myself to buy, fix and resell an item when the value is way lower than what they think. It also makes it way too expensive for a casual collector to buy anything.

    • @jeannetteking8160
      @jeannetteking8160 2 роки тому +31

      I’m having this issue with CPK right now on eBay. People are selling their memories I think. Many sellers are asking for several thousand for a NIB Cabbage Patch from 1980’s. You know what I see when I find someone selling several NIB CPKs? I think of the times when I wasn’t able to get one of my own in the stores growing up because they bought all ten from the shelves…😢

    • @Subzero271978
      @Subzero271978 2 роки тому +11

      I’ve always seen values of collectibles, “as in the eye of the beholder “, kinda thing. Because if something is actually only worth $50, but a collector of that character, series or franchise wants it bad enough, they’ll pay double that.

    • @lucky43113
      @lucky43113 2 роки тому +11

      @@SatanenPerkele rare means very little. It's all about popularity

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 2 роки тому +8

      @@Subzero271978 1978 is a Good year to be born in my friend, 🥂, I totally feel the same way I just sold eight Ninja turtles to a toy store in chagrin Falls Ohio 150 bucks. To me that was a fair price specially for not being in 100% condition ,but decent, someone else could be priceless

    • @Subzero271978
      @Subzero271978 2 роки тому +3

      @@floydsemlow8253 I like to think it was, I was able to be around and see the beginning of a lot of cool stuff 😁. Yeah TMNT stuff is picking up steam again. But never ceases to amaze me how people will charge for nostalgia, it’s not even real, it’s a feeling. Hope you have a great rest of the weekend brother!

  • @damiantanks1738
    @damiantanks1738 Рік тому +16

    It you grew up in the 80s you had a great childhood. The 80s 90s were awesome

  • @tsadkiel2008
    @tsadkiel2008 2 роки тому +33

    Man I loved M.U.S.C.L.E. figures as a child, and He-man, transformers, smurfs, micro machines, Nintendo, boglins, baseball cards, mad balls, gI joe, a team, knight rider and tmnt's!
    Man nostalgia at it's best! Thank you for this video!

  • @jonnymmac
    @jonnymmac 2 роки тому +28

    Just a heads up. Nintendo Entertainment Systems sell complete in box for around $200 - $250.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      They can definitely be found cheaper too. I got one for $75. Just have to look for awhile. Thank you for watching!

    • @skittles074
      @skittles074 2 роки тому +1

      Sold mine for £600 odd back in the summer reluctantly.☹️

  • @mauricioramirez9744
    @mauricioramirez9744 2 роки тому +35

    In 1988 my brother and I redeemed cans and bottles, collected and saved every coin and penny we could find for 8 months until we had enough to get an nes from kay-bee toy store. I still have it and it still works and I still play it with my boys. Made in Japan still playable 30+ years later. Amazing.

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 2 роки тому +2

      good god, you must have had thousands to tens of thousands of those things to build up enough money!

    • @javedk
      @javedk Рік тому +1

      Loved Kay bee!!! Made the mall worth it.

    • @Veganerd_
      @Veganerd_ 9 місяців тому +3

      I still have an NES, too, Mauricio. I also have the Atari 2600 that my Dad bought around 1980, still works no problem..wish newer consoles were made to that standard of quality. I have built up quite a library of NES games over the last 6 1/2 years, almost 340 of them. Only a small handful are in box.

  • @captaindaddy8645
    @captaindaddy8645 2 роки тому +32

    best thing for me in the 80s as a child was the freedom to roam.i remember most all these things. i was into g.i joe.we were mostly outside ,involved in physical activities. the toys were rainy day and winter activities

    • @email6743
      @email6743 2 роки тому +1

      There's no difference from then to today though.

    • @thaismatsumoto
      @thaismatsumoto Рік тому +1

      Yep..my son had the Nintendo game system.we did too. But he spent most of his time outside on his B.M.X. bike. That was his big obsession. Now that he is in his forties he races quads . He even has sponsers and wins frequently..Luckily he also is a foreman at his construction company so he can pay for his expensive hobby.

  • @leeriches8841
    @leeriches8841 2 роки тому +11

    I wish my childhood bedroom had been preserved as a time capsule! This video is bringing back even more hidden memories from back in the day.

  • @JillyBean860
    @JillyBean860 2 роки тому +37

    My mom still plays games on the original NES system she bought for me in the 80s. I’m amazed that it still works.

    • @garystinten9339
      @garystinten9339 2 роки тому +1

      Very few moving parts. Electronic components are easier to replace also.

    • @JillyBean860
      @JillyBean860 2 роки тому

      @@garystinten9339 that's good to know in case it ever stops working.

    • @TH-hy9kr
      @TH-hy9kr Рік тому

      My brother has ours. He still plays it too. We thrift shopped a lot of the games we couldn't afford as kids over the years as adults and he has a great collection.

    • @shermhart7617
      @shermhart7617 Рік тому

      What games does she play?

    • @snowyowl9132
      @snowyowl9132 Рік тому

      I still play with my original NES too. What's so impressive to me is that it's the only console that hasn't required any type of restoration. My Gameboy Color is working too but the screen will probably need a replacement.

  • @danasuperstar
    @danasuperstar 2 роки тому +22

    I had a Rainbow Brite doll. No clue what happened to it. We didn’t think about selling our toys back then, just playing with them until they fell apart and then giving them away. I guess that’s why the 80s toys are so rare. I go antiquing a lot and hardly ever see 80s toys.

    • @eleanorhogan8643
      @eleanorhogan8643 7 місяців тому +3

      I had a Rainbow Brite too, I had Puppy Brite, Starlite, Lucky, Champ and Lurky too.

  • @dennislogan6781
    @dennislogan6781 2 роки тому +48

    What I find as sad is the people who are children today will not have tots to look back on their youth in 20 years. All they will have is electronics. I enjoyed my childhood playing with my toys and playing outside with my siblings and friends. Gen X'er s had the best childhood. Toys, Saturday morning cartoons, and playing outside. Who could ask for more.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      I do find it sad that kids just aren't into toys like they used to be. There really is a lot of joy in them no matter what you have. Even if they are homemade. Thank you for watching!

    • @g4lines197
      @g4lines197 2 роки тому

      @@RhettyforHistory I’m 20 and have many many fond memories of toys.

    • @Ranger1985.
      @Ranger1985. 2 роки тому +1

      My kids LOVE toys who you kiddin lol

    • @email6743
      @email6743 2 роки тому +1

      It's up to the parents to encourage a proper childhood, nothing has changed from then until now except people distracted by technology becoming victims of "advancement".

  • @Ranger1985.
    @Ranger1985. 2 роки тому +12

    I was fortunate enough to be a late 80s/early 90s kid with a brother who was a late 70s/early 80s kid. We had ALL the cool toys!

  • @katharinehansen5940
    @katharinehansen5940 2 роки тому +23

    I used to play Black Sabbath tapes in my Teddy Ruxpin.

  • @LivewireT
    @LivewireT 2 роки тому +20

    I loved my Rainbow Brite and Carebears when I was a child. I also remember GloWorms and I loved that thing to pieces.

    • @RetroReminiscing
      @RetroReminiscing 2 роки тому +3

      I had the Gloworm too! I remember seeing a friend of mine for the first time and really wanted one too..I also wanted the mr frosty maker ⛄⛄😂

    • @Sassyglbeauty
      @Sassyglbeauty 2 роки тому +3

      Yes! I also loved my Poochie I had. And Jets Barbie and van! Cabbage patch kids were awesome also!

    • @paultreadaway102
      @paultreadaway102 Рік тому

      Think Barbie has gone thru many eras she was born in 1959, Coronation Street 1960 longest running shows in history in the World don't forget Jem rocked in the 80s i even watched it girls had it and many others to choose,just as good as guys did

    • @enzudesign
      @enzudesign 3 місяці тому +1

      I loved my glo worm 😢

  • @carpediem4887
    @carpediem4887 2 роки тому +26

    Lots of nostalgia in this video for me! Thanks Rhett

  • @benharrison5816
    @benharrison5816 2 роки тому +48

    My parents recently gave me a couple of my old transformers from the 80s. Sound Wave and Blaster I think. I gave them to my kids. They're surprisingly well-built, have metal joints in them, and transform just as well as they did when I was a kid. They definitely don't make them like they used to in this case. Some of the greatest toys ever imo.

    • @scorpionwins6378
      @scorpionwins6378 2 роки тому +5

      Definitely don't make anything good anymore. Brittle plastic and cheap parts made in China. Toys are definitely garbage now. I worked at a Wal-Mart during a holiday season and was disgusted by all of the merchandise coming in. Made me wonder why anyone would ever want to buy any of that junk to begin with.

    • @goforbroke2
      @goforbroke2 Рік тому

      Yeah I have a bunch G.I Joe vehicles from the early 90s. They are built like tanks lol, super thick plastic, metal axles, and just very heavy.

  • @MegaYangman
    @MegaYangman 2 роки тому +11

    Voltron toys from the that era is worth a lot of money nowadays too! Great cartoon also!

    • @lowlifeangler
      @lowlifeangler 2 роки тому +1

      My Vehicle Voltron is still pretty good shape

  • @corycarson88
    @corycarson88 Рік тому +5

    I absolutely love seeing toys from my era (70’s-80’s). Unfortunately I was a little heathen back in my day and broke a lot of my toys which then got thrown away. As an adult I am finding a lot of them on eBay and having to pay a premium price. In the last couple years I have started to collect the WWF LJN wrestling figurines from the early-mid 80’s. It’s astonishing to see how much they were in the 80’s and now how much they go for on eBay. I have spent close to $10k on these wrestlers and have every intention to hand them down to my son one day when he can appreciate their value. Loved this video, very nostalgic and takes me back to the good ol’ days of being a kid!!!

  • @TreYay83
    @TreYay83 2 роки тому +7

    Owned over half of these toys! Man I miss those times!

  • @kerryfrew3805
    @kerryfrew3805 2 роки тому +10

    1980s was the best time to grow up in the toys ,cartoons,playing outside and no social media brain washing people was the greatest time ever I had the biggest majority of these toys before they got put in the bin as i outgrew them. I really miss those days

    • @AllSeeingEye91
      @AllSeeingEye91 2 роки тому +1

      90's was incredible aswell. Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokemon were HUUUGE!!!

    • @email6743
      @email6743 2 роки тому

      Rule number for mental health, delete social media.

  • @adamcarter6862
    @adamcarter6862 Рік тому +3

    I remember wanting these things but since we were poor I didn't get them. Funny how that memory just came back to me.

  • @remizart
    @remizart 2 роки тому +9

    I still have my Cabbage Patch kids and both Ewok stuffed animals! Great memories!

  • @Crasher1982
    @Crasher1982 2 роки тому +24

    I was an 80's kid. Good times. I still have a teddy ruxpin, a cabbage patch doll, a care bear and gobots.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +3

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you had!

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 2 роки тому +1

      @@RhettyforHistory YW. :) I still have them :)

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 2 роки тому +1

      @@RhettyforHistory Btw I love history. (It was one of my majors in university.) I had to give you my sub!

    • @devenifujita9899
      @devenifujita9899 Рік тому +1

      That’s the one toy I would re buy if I really needed a frivolous and yet happy pick me up, that Teddy Ruxpin. I loved that bear so much.

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 Рік тому

      @@devenifujita9899 :)

  • @delaneymarks2212
    @delaneymarks2212 2 роки тому +17

    Actually my brother’s He-Man doll “dated” my Barbie doll when we were kids. She was way too tall for him but otherwise it was fine.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing your memory of that!

    • @midlight9758
      @midlight9758 2 роки тому +4

      Omg same! We had Teela get so jealous.

    • @winters_coming4080
      @winters_coming4080 2 роки тому +3

      I made my brother's heman date my shera doll. I think they are brother & sister🤔relized that later in life😬 SHERA princess of powerrrrrrr🎵😂

    • @user-mv9tt4st9k
      @user-mv9tt4st9k 2 роки тому +1

      I hope He-Man put on some clothes, ha ha ha. 😂

  • @Gorlockthe
    @Gorlockthe 6 місяців тому +2

    ..figurine was worth 3.50 in the early 80s, and can be found on ebay nowadays for 39.95!
    with inflation, thats the equivalent of 1.99 in 1984!

  • @olivasaz
    @olivasaz 2 роки тому +13

    My brother and I grew up spoiled. We had every GI Joe, Transformer, Master of the Universe, MASK, Gobot, Star Wars, etc. toy you could think of. My dad had a pool table in the gameroom that during the 1980's was covered in toys. I went as far as to even keeping the boxes and manuals. My mom had given all our toys away as we got older and transitioned to video games. Had my mom kept everything we would have amassed a small fortune.

    • @retroboomer3197
      @retroboomer3197 2 роки тому +2

      Very similar to my upbringing. After I married and left the house, I should have taken all my old toys with me, but I never thought that my parents would just throw them all out.

    • @JB-ug5mf
      @JB-ug5mf 2 роки тому +1

      My parents bought my brother and I a lot of toys including Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers, HeMan and MASK. To my knowledge they are still in my parents attic. It gets cold and hot up there so their condition is probably comprimised because of that. But I thank them for buying all those for us on 1 income growing up.
      My parents just had their 50th wedding anniversary too.
      Have a great day everyone!

    • @doyouevendab77
      @doyouevendab77 Рік тому

      Taking them out of the box drops there value significantly. I was looking at Optimus prime yesterday. One played with but had the box and all accessories graded a 60 was 5,000, one sealed in box graded 80/90/90 was 25,000. Normal Optimus prime g1 with average wear and no box, ungraded, was around 500.

  • @jaydeebow6431
    @jaydeebow6431 11 місяців тому +1

    Was 8-year-old when He-Man started out, I can remember never missing a show as well as Thundercats,was my 2 favorite cartoons.

    • @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060
      @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 2 місяці тому

      Yay!!! At last someone mentions the Thundercats. My son's all time favourite toys. He still has them plus the Thunder tank. Cheers from NZ.

  • @dianerobertson1759
    @dianerobertson1759 2 роки тому +3

    We had a bunch of these toys, but we played with and loved all of our toys into the land fills.

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 Рік тому +1

    There is a big difference between what something has sold for on eBay and what something is listed for on eBay. Something could be listed for an astronomical price but that does not mean someone is willing to pay that price. I don’t think these items were ever sale at those prices.

  • @emmanuelgamarra8882
    @emmanuelgamarra8882 Рік тому +8

    The 80s are awesome

  • @spacebound7247
    @spacebound7247 2 роки тому +1

    Are ghostbusters toys worth anything?
    All the guys and ecto one and 2 but out of their packaging???

  • @PercyPumpkinheart
    @PercyPumpkinheart 2 роки тому +6

    Some of the markets for these items have, frankly, gone nuts. I can understand rare items going for inflated prices, but some of these toys and games are nearly as common as dirt, yet still often have high asking prices attached. If I can go to eBay any given day and find tons of examples of any TMNT, GI Joe, or M.U.S.C.L.E. figure I want, they aren't rare. Overwhelming demand (and in the case of video games, fishiness in the grading and auction world) has driven these high prices way beyond what they should be "naturally."

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      They have gone nuts and some of them can certainly be overinflated. But it is crazy to see what some people will pay for things like this. Thank you for watching!

  • @unicornmadness6286
    @unicornmadness6286 2 роки тому +1

    I just found this channel yesterday on Thanksgiving day and man am I happy. Great channel!

  • @songsan807
    @songsan807 2 роки тому +6

    As an 80s kid I loved the 80s so much. Have a bunch of the G1 Transformers and baseball cards still around. Not the fast pace twitter instagram instant response people expect and hundreds of options for everything.

  • @_kass3939
    @_kass3939 2 роки тому +1

    Ooo! I still have my Nintendo from the 80’s which still works. I also super Mario, donkey Kong, duck hunt, paper boy, pitfall and more. 😮

  • @Chuthermucker
    @Chuthermucker 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you for the walk through my kids toybox from then! They wore out most of their toys or they were passed to the grandkids and are still in play.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому

      It's perfectly normal to have toys well worn. To me it means they enjoyed them. Thank you for watching Tricia

  • @xlnuniex
    @xlnuniex 2 роки тому +2

    My sister still has her Nintendo; controllers and duck hunt gun and games. I want it just to play it. I bought this Nintendo mini that had games already stored in… but it’s not the whole game. And no duck hunt gun! Original is always best

  • @System_Sega
    @System_Sega 2 роки тому +3

    The NES did not come in 1983. It had a limited release in 1985 and full release in 1986.

  • @jenniesnodgrass6084
    @jenniesnodgrass6084 2 роки тому +1

    I remember loving my stuffed Smurfs and Odie and Gardield! 80's kids were lucky to have grown up in that time.

    • @TH-hy9kr
      @TH-hy9kr Рік тому

      Still have my stuffed Smurf. My gran got it for $.10 on sale because the series hadn't begun yet and no one knew what they were yet!

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 2 роки тому +3

    I have an NES Action Set with its original box and posters. I found it by the curb on trash day in 1999 along with 6 games in a shoe box. It still works fine and I played it a number of times before putting it away.

  • @Retro-2-now
    @Retro-2-now 2 роки тому +1

    You can ask anything you want on eBay. Doesn’t mean they sell anywhere close to that

  • @paulstan9828
    @paulstan9828 2 роки тому +6

    Ha!! Video games have sure come a long way. I remember pong being amazing. In the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s as the holidays got closer there were so many toy commercials. It’s not that way today. I wonder why?

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 2 роки тому +1

      Hi Paul 🤗 I’m wondering why as well, now that you have mentioned that. Then again we don’t even really have toy shops anymore, you buy your toys now from Kmart, Big W or Target. So sad that the those huge toy stores are gone, I enjoyed shopping in them with my children.

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 2 роки тому +1

      @@swansfan6944 Hi how are you? Yeah you are right plus most people are shopping on line also. Amazon is the big thing over here. There were so many toy stores like Toys R Us. I guess things change sometimes for the good and sometimes not. Take care nice to hear from you. Enjoy the rest of your day! 😁👍

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 2 роки тому +1

      @@paulstan9828 Toys R Us was the big one we shopped at as well, yes you are right Amazon and E bay are huge and a lot of people shop on line. I like to shop in person, problem is because everyone is shopping online the stores now don’t stock as much, so then you have to go online anyway.
      Take care 👋 Paul.

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 2 роки тому +1

      @@swansfan6944 I know I find myself shopping on line because of that reason also.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      The commercials are thinker on different streaming services and they are more user specific now. They know what you watch and what you could be interested in. Kind of weird. My father in law had the original Pong game system so he just recently gave us that. Pretty interesting because I had never played that version before. Only had it on the Atari system. Thank you for watching!

  • @anthonyamurri9278
    @anthonyamurri9278 2 роки тому +1

    I don't know if I can keep watching this. I'm 32 now. I've had so many NES systems in highschool and had 2 copies of Zelda in gold casings

  • @BE_PERRY
    @BE_PERRY 2 роки тому +13

    You should do more 80's vintage toys videos I found it interesting

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      I have a couple others if you haven't seen them. Thank uou for watching!

  • @Chriskros1984
    @Chriskros1984 Рік тому

    Did have some of the items …. Not anymore but the joy / memories i had cannot be replaced by money . Loved it .

  • @TURBOTOYS8
    @TURBOTOYS8 2 роки тому +3

    Gotta love them 80's Toys!! I loved the A-Team figures as well as the muscle men! The playmates turtles hold a special place in my heart too!

  • @bilirkisi7819
    @bilirkisi7819 2 роки тому +6

    I miss 80's

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      It was a great decade!

    • @mudvalve
      @mudvalve 2 роки тому +2

      I look back at movies and TV shows from the era, and to me, the clothing and hair styles still look good.

  • @SavaFiend
    @SavaFiend 2 роки тому +8

    I have two Cabbage Patch Kids from 1986 in original boxes. My mom had bought extra during the craze and just kept them all these years. Believe it or not they're not selling for more than like $50 on eBay and the like.
    I have that holiday Barbie from the video but it's definitely not NIB lol
    I also have the original set of My Little Pony (not new in boxes but meticulously well kept), Jem dolls, She Ra dolls, original Transformers, a whole bunch of other stuff that I had from the '80s when I was a kid. Even some classic '80s board games like Mall Madness and Fireball island.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you have!

    • @someguy9778
      @someguy9778 2 роки тому

      I sold a real porcelain Barbie, made by Matel and numbered I got at a private event I worked. Got several hundred. Might be more now.

    • @theresas2520
      @theresas2520 2 роки тому

      My favorite was Jem and She-Ra.
      I still have my She-Ra and her castle. Jem and her band. Her earrings still flash! I also loved the Wuzzles...I still have my Butterbear. (Half bear half butterfly).

    • @SavaFiend
      @SavaFiend 2 роки тому

      @@theresas2520 that's awesome! I don't have many She-Ra toys left I think all I have left is She-Ra and her horse. I still have the cassette tapes for a lot of the Jem dolls also those dolls were some of my favorites!

  • @joseleswopes1400
    @joseleswopes1400 2 роки тому +8

    My daughter's had every Barbie you could think of, Cabbage Patch Dolls. My oldest daughter had everything Strawberry Short Cake. The boys had just about everything under the sun 💕🥰

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      Sounds like your kids have had a lot. Thank you for watching and sharing what they have had.

    • @paultreadaway102
      @paultreadaway102 Рік тому

      It's not a Toy but a Game i have 1980s Trivial Pursuit i got it like 20years ago and wish i had Guess Who from the 80s those planks are somewhat the cover on the board is brilliant it would be worth abit i have the phoney one but have the cover similar to the one was made in 88

    • @krystalgreenwell4482
      @krystalgreenwell4482 Рік тому

      My aunt had everything strawberry shortcake and I had everything care bears lol we found the strawberry shortcake collection in the garage and I'll be damned if they still had there distinct smell after all these years. Sighs.....aw just to be able to go back in a memory by a smell......😊

  • @robertparr1256
    @robertparr1256 Місяць тому

    A kid in the 80s a teenager in the 90s...I was truly blessed!!

  • @amandapratt1851
    @amandapratt1851 2 роки тому +8

    Jeez, seeing my childhood sell for loads of dough is both surprising and sad. I'm glad I kept my original ninja turtles, my pet monster, voltron, and inhumanoids

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому

      It could be a great savings but there may be a point when all of the willing people to buy them are all gone. Never know. Thank you for watching!

    • @R-Lee-
      @R-Lee- 2 роки тому

      @@RhettyforHistory Yeah there will be a time when all the people who want those toys from the 80s are gone. But in my estimate the toys from the '80s are just getting hot right now. If you think about it, the men who had those toys in the '80s are now just hitting their 40s and 50s and that's the age when men have their highest earnings. So I think from now until 30 or 40 years from now is when those toys are going to be the most valuable. Then after that the market will fall.

  • @SolskjearAsDoneIt
    @SolskjearAsDoneIt Місяць тому

    So many reminders of toys as a kid that I’d completely forgotten about

  • @Da_Benski
    @Da_Benski 2 роки тому +6

    Seeing micro machines on your list reminded me that those things were already expensive back then. LoL
    I always thought that Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars were better values for what you got. My favorites had the "crush effect" body panels that would flip around when you would run them into something.

    • @stolnpckup
      @stolnpckup 2 роки тому

      I remember the cars that had the crash thing on the door or doors.

    • @Funco1979
      @Funco1979 Рік тому

      I liked them. Matchbox also had "Lock-ups" and by turning the key underneath you could prevent the wheels from turning.
      I always thought that Matchbox were nicer than HW and were my preference.
      Good days.

  • @Sidewayzview
    @Sidewayzview Місяць тому

    Man good memories here gad alot of these as a kid, haven't a clue where any of them are now.
    But thanks for the memories, simpler times.

  • @someguy9778
    @someguy9778 2 роки тому +5

    I can't believe my uncle spent that much on me when they first came out...NES. Miss that guy.

    • @JackTorrance333
      @JackTorrance333 2 роки тому +1

      Good man. My mother bought us one. We were poor! Don’t know how she ever pulled that off.

  • @dennischen8887
    @dennischen8887 2 роки тому +2

    Most people don't realize the amount of appreciation from toys. I collect hot wheels and action figures, and many of these bought within just the last several years have tripped in value. Like the Storm Mortal Kombat og Ninjas, RLC R34's, Mafex Superman, Figma Metroid, Marvel legends Spiderman figures, and more.

  • @RetroReminiscing
    @RetroReminiscing 2 роки тому +4

    Brilliant video, i still have som eof my old 70's and 80's toys and books etc..but im far too sentimental to sell them 😂Was great seeing all these images bringing back instant memories! Thank you for putting this together ! Sonique 🤗👌👌

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      I can certainly understand being centimental on what you have. That's really cool you still have a lot of that stuff though. Thank you for watching!

    • @RetroReminiscing
      @RetroReminiscing 2 роки тому

      @@RhettyforHistory Thank YOU for putting this video together, enjoyed it a lot and brought back great memories, thank you !

  • @tysheinin8733
    @tysheinin8733 2 роки тому +3

    I had a ton of LJN WWF wrestlers. I used to be able to find ones at thrift stores all the time to add to my collection in the 90s.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 роки тому +1

      I just found a Paul Bearer figure 😂

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you have!

  • @donny121able
    @donny121able 2 роки тому +2

    Never understood why people would pay silly money for old toys until I got older now it makes sense. I would love to own some toys I had as a child just to take me back in time for a while. I have to appreciate people that looked after there toys, I unfortunately used mine to do crash tests or see if they would survive being dropped out my bedroom window.

  • @TommyTiger619
    @TommyTiger619 2 роки тому +3

    As an 80's kid I actually had alot of these toys.

  • @JustinEvitable80
    @JustinEvitable80 Рік тому +1

    I had He-Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles & MUSCLE Figures toys growing up, but my parents got rid of them at one point. I didn't realize this until we cleared out a storage containment unit when I was 18. I'm sure they'd thought I'd forget and maybe still do I think I forgot. I never really brought it up.

  • @tammerahanes1792
    @tammerahanes1792 2 роки тому +4

    I purchased the turtle van when it came out it was cool. Also mighty isis was popular. Great memories. Thanks for Sharing 🙂😊

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому

      You're welcome and thank you for watching! It's always great to see what everyone had.

    • @redneckroy8947
      @redneckroy8947 2 роки тому

      I got two for Christmas when it first came out, because I begged everyone for one

  • @a_very_tired_gamedev2725
    @a_very_tired_gamedev2725 2 роки тому +2

    I need to start working on a time machine... guts me that I had a lot of these! Thanks for the nostalgia hit anyways!

  • @kirkmorrison6131
    @kirkmorrison6131 2 роки тому +6

    I am going back a bit further, but I still wish I had my Lionel trains from the 50s and 60s

  • @ScottW967
    @ScottW967 Рік тому +1

    Anyone remember Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids cards/stickers? I regret having thrown them out back then. I wonder how much they’d be worth today?

  • @hailboognish81
    @hailboognish81 2 роки тому +7

    My grandparents lived in London when cabbage patch kids came out. They bought 2, one for my sister and one for me, and brought them on the plane with them back to the states. My grandpa always said how ridiculously scary it was to fly with those “damn dolls”... 😅 I still have mine 😊
    People go mad over popular toys. I worked at toys r us through tickle me Elmo, furbys, Pokémon cards and the new Star Wars films. Witnessing adults accost children for a toy is wild.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +5

      It is crazy to see parents go crazy over certain toys. The 90s saw a lot of that. Thank you for watching and sharing what you have.

    • @nana820able
      @nana820able 2 роки тому +1

      My MIL bought my three kids the Olympic cabbage patch kids for Christmas They're all still in the original boxes since they were too old to play with them. Lol, she said you'll thank me some day when they're worth a lot of money. Still waiting.

    • @krisrhood2127
      @krisrhood2127 Рік тому

      I have four. They're supposed to be treated like children. I would NEVER let them be adopted by someone that violent!

  • @foamige
    @foamige 2 роки тому

    Still got loads of these at my folks place. Im 40 now but get em out for my nephews to play with. They love em.

  • @tarab7773
    @tarab7773 2 роки тому +4

    I miss my 80's childhood. Some things I had back then that I would give anything to have back.
    3 Cabbage patch kids( Josepha Ida, Regina Daisy, and Argus Abbott)
    Snoopy Snow Cone machine
    A telephone for my room that had a rainbow for the handle and a cloud for the base. It played a song when it rang. ( I think a Beethoven piece)
    Strawberry Shortcake set with all the people, their hair smelled so good!
    Care Bears, My little Pony, Rainbow Brite
    Speak n' Spell!
    Munchichi!
    California Raisins, Smurfs
    I had a Scooby-Doo light projector
    View finder, Debbie Gibson Electric Youth perfume, Baby Soft perfume
    Get in Shape girl set!
    Lisa Frank everything
    I had a pink castle tent thing that went around my bed!
    I look back at my toys now and realize my parents did want to make me happy. I may have not gotten all my emotional needs meet but I sure as heck had amazing toys:) My kids really missed out having to grow up in the electronic era:( we also had the best cartoons and TV shows!! Get along gang, punky Brewster, facts of life, growing pains, rags to riches, Mr. Belvedere, silver spoons, Heathcliff the cat, small wonder, and so much more like the after school specials etc:) I miss my jelly shoes, my leg warmers, all of it.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      You sure mentioned a lot from the 80s decade. Thank you for watching and sharing more for us to remember.

    • @nicoleleckner7902
      @nicoleleckner7902 2 роки тому +1

      Love the get along gang

    • @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060
      @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 2 місяці тому +1

      I bought my daughter the Cabbage Patch doll named Regina Susan. She still has it. You certainly received a lot of great toys. Cheers.

  • @williamworley6164
    @williamworley6164 2 роки тому +1

    I have a super Nes and a whole chicken feed box with toys from the '80s! I even have comic books in make condition from the early 2000s. In this video was really nostalgic. Thank you

  • @retroboomer3197
    @retroboomer3197 2 роки тому +3

    My parents spoiled the crap out of me. I was such an ungrateful child and didn't take care of my toys at all. Comic Books, Baseball Cards, Video Games, you name it. Some of the toys I had are going for $6000 on Ebay. 20X6000 sure would go a long way right now. I sure wish I could go back in time and slap the stupid off of me.

  • @pagalmasala
    @pagalmasala 2 роки тому +1

    I had an Intellevision by Mattel Electronics!

  • @chadallen7280
    @chadallen7280 2 роки тому +4

    I had 98 percent of these toys and had most of them till I moved out at 18. So the way I see it, my mom owes me like a million dollars. Wish me luck 😂

    • @ATLbench
      @ATLbench 2 роки тому

      I can relate to this as well as my brother. My mom is all about purging but I can’t blame her. If we had only had the foresight to keep the toys and even better, if we had bought 2 and kept one in the box! It’s crazy because even though I know this would have been a fantastic idea, I didn’t do it with my kids toys either. Imagine having all those Pokémon cards in sealed packs! And those don’t even take up room 🤦‍♂️.

    • @deannstanglenny9431
      @deannstanglenny9431 2 роки тому

      😂🤣

  • @deannayoung5311
    @deannayoung5311 2 роки тому +1

    My son had so many of these collections he loved and cared for!
    Given to him by his grandmother
    And birthdays and Christmas...
    But while I was at work and my son in school...
    His father took All..my son's toy's
    That my son had kept great care of!
    No remorse Through them out!!!
    And some he gave to
    The neighbor lady...
    My son was devastated 😢💔
    My son saw the neighbor boy playing with his toy's
    He told the boy and mom those are my toy's...
    The mom was like oh well...
    My son has never gotten over this!!!

  • @tinaknight9143
    @tinaknight9143 2 роки тому +3

    My Mom always told us we had to take care of our toys so our kids could play with them. Our toys were played with but not abused, so most were in very good condition. Most of my toys made it to my late thirties. Unfortunately, my husband (at the time) neglected to pay our storage bill among every other family bill when he decided to spend his entire checks on his girlfriend instead of family bills. He neglected to tell me about it, as he was in full control of our money at the time, and I lost everything including family heirlooms and most of our son's toys as well. As painful as it was to lose so many emotionally attached items, it was worth it to get out of that emotionally abusive marriage. Trading childhood toys for freedom.

  • @lookathisjunk8842
    @lookathisjunk8842 Місяць тому

    I have many of these available for purchase at my flea market booth at raynham flea market on Sundays. Row B, can't miss me with all the toys!

  • @gooniesgirl1979
    @gooniesgirl1979 2 роки тому +4

    My mom found a couple Cabbage Patch kids back then. She made a few hundred dollars. There’s still at least two opened ones in my parents’s basement. I had an animal one, too. Teddy Ruxpin always creeped me out then and still does.
    The room that I had to share with one of my older brothers was half sports trophies and Shirt Tales and my half had Care Bears. I found a vintage Rainbow Brite unicorn at the thrift store a few years ago. I have my original stuffed Gizmos and stuffed girl Ewok. I still have a Barbie and the Rockers van. I never had a Rocker Barbie, though. I finally spotted one at Kmart back in ‘87 or ‘88, but I was probably 8 or 9, so I guess I felt I was a little too old and didn’t want to ask my dad to buy it for me. I actually hid it behind some other stuff, thinking I would come back later to buy it, but it was gone.
    When my oldest brother moved out, I started cleaning out his closet so I could get him out quicker and have his room for my extra stuff. When I opened it, all his Dungeons & Dragons stuff fell out at my feet.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you have had and still have. It sounds like you have had some great ones and so has your brother.

  • @kjdempsey
    @kjdempsey Рік тому +1

    What about pogs, pocket monsters and crash dummies

  • @joeheid4757
    @joeheid4757 2 роки тому +7

    Parent from the 80's. "I can't believe we bought you a toy and you barely touched it!!"
    Same parent 40 years later. "Thanks for never touching that toy we bought you way back in the 80's!!!"

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому

      It definitely could be like that. Thank you for watching!

  • @ATLbench
    @ATLbench 2 роки тому

    I used to create elaborate terrains for my Ninja Turtles in the woods behind my house. Me and my friends built breakaway bridges with scrap wood over trenches lined with landscaping plastic and rocks to make it like a river. We made cool “hangouts” for our toys from cardboard boxes painted to look like city buildings or surrounded with bark and rocks to look like a cave. We cut up some corrugated drain pipe to look like sewers connecting our Turtle “world”. We must have spent an entire summer playing with just that and jumping on the trampoline. Needless to say our toys got wrecked! But it sure was fun!!

  • @israelvaldez26
    @israelvaldez26 2 роки тому +3

    I remember in 1987 when my dad took my collection of Star Wars toys to the local swap meet and sold my complete collection and ended up giving me some pocket money for my loss.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      And it could be possible that you broken even or got a little more than what was originally paid for them. I know that happened in my case. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

    • @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060
      @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 2 місяці тому +1

      Oh boy! I would have been devastated. What a mean thing to do. Cheers.

  • @Pr0phetEdge
    @Pr0phetEdge 2 роки тому +1

    as a Nintendo collector with 500+ games and every sealed console your numbers are crazy inaccurate. Mario is like 10 bucks and an NES is like 40 right now. Complete in box is maybe 180.

  • @plymouthduster225
    @plymouthduster225 2 роки тому +3

    Very interesting video Rhetty. I was a 90s kid but I had He-Man action figures and Transformers. Do you plan on doing a video on 1990s toys?

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      I do think I will do one on that decade at some point. Thank you for watching!

  • @nikkip.Christ-is-King
    @nikkip.Christ-is-King 2 роки тому +1

    I had one of those weird clear phones in the picture at the end. That and my own personal line in my room were all I requested one year for Christmas and I got it along with a CD player and a couple CD's.

  • @lindaball6714
    @lindaball6714 2 роки тому +7

    Lots of memories here. Thanks Rhetty ! Course 80’s wasn’t playing much but still cool to see again !!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you for watching Linda! I hope you are doing well.

    • @lindaball6714
      @lindaball6714 2 роки тому

      @@RhettyforHistory doing ok here. Hope u guys good

  • @dyslectische
    @dyslectische 2 роки тому +1

    I have still the original smurfs from the 80.
    I have them all and with the house .

  • @dustin6225
    @dustin6225 2 роки тому +4

    I love your channel and like the information, but I have to say your NES info is WAY off
    Most NES open systems will sell for about 50-75 bucks. And a boxed system shouldn't sell for more than 150. Also, your average copy of SMB will barely sell for a dollar, and that high-priced boxed version was an artificially inflated sale that was meant to drive up used game prices.
    Sorry, not trying to be a "gotcha", but I love your channel and want your info to be accurate.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      I got a NES in a box for $75 and it took me awhile to get that. There were a lot going for more. Those kind of tactics of inflating the price have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. Thank uou for watching!

  • @richardswartz296
    @richardswartz296 2 роки тому +1

    Why wasn't WWF dolls the thumb wrestlers bend ems or the bigger poseable dolls listed. The Remco AWA dolls was not listed either

  • @kaseys4145
    @kaseys4145 2 роки тому +7

    It would be cool to see some more on the girl toys that were popular.

  • @cowel8734
    @cowel8734 Рік тому +2

    I love seeing retro toys online, and in person is even better, but it's no longer fun to collect stuff because of greed and everyone wanting top dollar for junk.
    Im cool with the memories 😁

  • @TheNothing6
    @TheNothing6 2 роки тому +5

    I had a lot of these toys! I had a My Pet Monster. I loved playing with the orange handcuffs. I had Micro Machines. I had Transformers. I had He-Man. I had Madballs. I had a Nintendo. I had Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. My sister had a bunch of these toys, too!

    • @gooniesgirl1979
      @gooniesgirl1979 2 роки тому +1

      Did you try to put the Pet Monster handcuffs on your sister? I’m a little sister, luckily my brothers are 5 & 9 years older. They had other toys to torture me with. I have no sisters!

    • @TheNothing6
      @TheNothing6 2 роки тому +1

      @@gooniesgirl1979 No. I put them on myself and broke free. 🤣😂😂

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +2

      Sounds like you and your sister have had quite a few awesome toys! Thank you for watching!

    • @mine2394
      @mine2394 2 роки тому +1

      GI Joes we’re pretty good too

  • @tremoo5987
    @tremoo5987 2 роки тому

    I was nearly homeless, but then I stumbled into a box with all these toys. Now my life has changed. I am typing this on my yacht in Monaco! Chim chim charee!

  • @floydsemlow8253
    @floydsemlow8253 2 роки тому +4

    M.U.S.C.L.E Men are Legendary!! 💪

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for watching Floyd!

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 2 роки тому

      @@RhettyforHistory thank you for the badass videos you put out there. Born in 78 I just love everything that you produce and look forward to seeing your next .God bless and long live the 80s. Best decade EVER!! Side note..... Thanks for caring up about your viewers too personally respond to each and every one of them it means a lot

  • @miggy3735
    @miggy3735 Місяць тому

    Use to play with these little figures called Battle Beast when I was a kid back in the 80’s. They had water, fire, wood, wind symbols on their torso’s. Wish I would have held onto some of these toys.

  • @billschlafly4107
    @billschlafly4107 2 роки тому +2

    Heritage auctions, where all the SEALED/GRADED video games are being auctioned are run by the same people who built a market in coin collecting in the 80s. I believe one of the men went to prison over it for fraud. The scam is to get dumb money from investors who want to speculate on supposed rare items. The market on certain video games can collapse because periodically a warehouse or truck full of these games is found with hundreds or thousands of identical copies which flood the market.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому

      Those kind of tactics have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. I do find interesting how a lot of these things are just "found." Thank you for watching!

  • @amberfoster3285
    @amberfoster3285 2 місяці тому

    I remember going to see my Dad one weekend and he had gotten me all of the TMNT toys. It was great because it wasn't even my birthday or near Christmas!

  • @capnjohn7455
    @capnjohn7455 2 роки тому +3

    Super Mario Bros games are only valuable when complete in box. Otherwise I paid $30 for an excellent condition of a Super Mario 3 cartridge. Also Heritage House and the WATA grading system are corrupt (I.e. they are the same owners).

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 роки тому

      Nothing wrong with getting one not in the box. The object of it all is to use it. Just about every market has people in it to inflate prices. Thank you for watching!

  • @jasondebovis6427
    @jasondebovis6427 2 роки тому +2

    Those nes prices are WAY off. A nintendo costs $50-75. Boxed unopened is about $200-300. Mario Brothers fetches about $5-10 and sealed boxed is about $40-50. I have no idea where you are getting those prices.