Toys :)

This is another post that could definitely go on for many pages! How can a person possibly pick only a few of the wonderful toys we had growing up in the 90s? Where the toys' highest level of technology was that it can say multiple phrases. Oh, the good old days.

One of my all time favorite things to do when I was younger was have massive collections of random things. The littlest pet shop was something I became obsessed with.

I actually had this set! Hours of entertainment.

Similar to the littlest pet shop is pound puppies! Which actually had kittens too. This was also a pretty terrible TV show.


This next toy wasn't all that popular but I really loved them. Bundle of Babies!!



Who could forget the high tech toys too, such as Tamagotchi and Giga Pets? I think my record of keeping my Tamagotchi alive was two consecutive days. I'm going to be a great mother someday!


Krystal Princesses. There is a commercial on youtube from 1992 for these little dolls and it's pretty hilarious.

Finally, a doll in a snow globe! Where have you been all my life?

Fairy winkles. Tiny naked fairy babies that sleep in a huge sparkly clam shell. Every little girl's dream toy, obviously.

Precious.

Oh, God, treasure trolls. I must have had like 30 of these creepy little things. Not sure why everyone loved trolls so much back then. This one was my favorite.


Wonder world was always a really fun toy too! My brother had a space ship one and he dumped it on his carpet.


Adding to the list of creepy toys of the 90s is the furby. This toy seriously scared me and 90% of the human population. "Me hungry!"




I will definitely make a 90s toys part two!

Cinematic Gold, 90's Edition.

This post could go on for many pages because there were so many great TV shows in the 90's that I remember being borderline addicted to. I will just outline a few of my personal favorites, and I hope that you all remember and love them as much as I do! I am choosing to leave out the very obvious choices like Friends and Seinfeld, etc. Plus I was only 10 by the time 1999 rolled around so most of my memories are old cartoons.

1) Sailor Moon. My God, I was so obsessed with this show! I think I truly thought I was her. I even had the wand and the Barbies and I would force my brother to pretend he was Tuxedo Mask. Embarrassing. 

 

 
I guess my brother got revenge for all the years of me forcing him to be Tuxedo Mask because this is what my dolls look like...

2) Keeping with the anime theme, it would be a travesty not to mention Pokemon. I still have the original characters memorized. Now Pokemon is in its 23908th season, and Pikachu still hasn't evolved.
 

3) Rugrats. This show can actually still be seen late at night on Nickelodeon. I watched one episode semi-recently and I wish I hadn't. The memories were so great, but as an adult, the writing is very poor.
 

4) Obviously The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. If you grew up in the 90's then you still have the theme song memorized and are probably singing it in your head right now. And who can forget the Carlton dance!?

 
 The image quality leaves much to be desired.

4) The Wild Thornberrys. I really hated Eliza, I found her quite annoying. Yup, I "hate watched" this show. It was just really amusing to make fun of her. It also annoys me that the writers chose to misspell "berries."
 

5)  I know I said that most of the TV shows I watched were cartoons, but my parents often watched this show, and unfortunately we only had one television. I really thought this show was so boring. Northern Exposure. The best part was the moose during the intro.
 

6) The Nanny. That voice will forever remain embedded in my brain. My God. I'm not sure who decided this woman should be on TV, but they should be shot repeatedly. 

 

7) Boy Meets World. The wise words of Mr. Feeny will always guide me. Just kidding, but he was wise. I still don't know how in the world they came up with the name Topanga, but I wanted to be her.
 



8) Pinky and the Brain. What are they going to do tonight? The same thing they do every night; try to take over the world! 
 

9) Bobby's World. He made tricycles cool!
 

10) Captain Planet. Saving the world, one episode at a time! 

 

11) Daria. I wasn't really supposed to watch this show, but I did anyway. And I loved it. I think it shaped me into the sarcastic asshole that I am today. Thank you, Daria. And thank you, Quinn for being an example of everything I hate.
 

Honestly, this list can go on forever. I might have to just make another post about it another day. I know I am missing a ton of shows but whatever.

First post!

This is a blog all about things we all knew and loved from the 90's and 2000's! It's always fun to take a walk down memory lane and maybe even rediscovering some things that we might have forgotten about! I loved growing up in the era where the Internet made noise and the phone was every web surfer's enemy. "Just let me browse Netscape, damnit!" Here are a few Internet jewels that were basically amazing back then.

1) Expage. And cloud wallpaper in general. Gotta love the high tech gifs. 

 

2) "Dolls." These creepy little things were so popular. 

  
 

3) Livejournal and Xanga. Both websites are still around, but I think it's safe to say that we all miss Frank.

 

4) Napster and Kazaa! The glory days of illegally downloading music from either the grunge or boyband variety. This process could take hours or days to complete depending on how many songs one is trying to download at the same time. Praying to the Netscape gods that the file contains the full song.
 

5) AIM. Hours upon hours of typing and perfecting your profile. This is before we had Facebook to spend hours upon hours doing nothing on. Nobody can deny messing around with Smarterchild's patience...


I guess we should lump Buddy icons into this as well. I think we all remember a site called Iconator. "My icon has a deeper quote than yours."
 

6) Cursor trails. Just in case you can't keep track of where you are scrolling, these make it infinitely more confusing.



Honestly, the list can go on and on. That's why this is such a great topic to blog about. Much more to come later, from gelpens to pogs!