80s Kids Will Love This Walk Down Memory Lane Because You're About To Remember These 55 Forgotten Things Marketed To Children Back Then

Recollections of the '80s keep living on even as the world gets more advanced.

Maryjane

• Published in Nostalgia
• July 22, 2022

The 1980s were a fun time to live in. And if you are among those that experienced childhood during this time frame, then you understand that it was a magnificent time to be alive.

But if you're from a younger generation, you just might be interested in what made the ‘80s a wonderful time. Well, those times were a period of extraordinary pop culture, and that includes some of the best music, television programs, movies, and toys that were ever produced in history.

Those years are the most frequently connected with anything that has to do with nostalgia and style, and recollections of those years keep living on even as the world gets more advanced. Back then, children and teens would seldom be in touch with their parents over the course of the day or night.

As a matter of fact, you could stay out for as long as you wish, as long as you are back home when the street lamps come on. However, that is just a piece of it.

Kids then would never envision growing up as it is done in this present era. There are so many things that we had back then that we might have probably forgotten about now, but not to worry, we have listed some of the prominent ones down below.

So let’s go down memory lane, shall we? Great!

1. Reruns of Paddington

2. My pet monster

3. Panini sticker album books and the stickers

4. These Chuck E. Cheese hats

5. Cabbage Patch Kids–themed cardboard puzzles

6. Potato Head Kids

7. The random Wizard of Oz book

8. Cabbage Patch Kids beauty products

The "This is your brain on drugs" and the "I learned it from watching you!"

10. This Hanna-Barbera logo

11. This exact Pyrex casserole dish

12. The Fisher-Price skates

13. James and the Giant Peach with this soothing, minimalist cover

14. The Cynthia Blair books that all had food related titles

15. Toys "R" Us signs that looked like this

16. Flintstones Vitamins' infectious "We are Flintstones kids, 10 million strong and growing" jingle

17. Those plastic smock and face mask Halloween costumes

18. Fireball Island, which was the most excitingly designed board game ever

19. This Crock-Pot with flowers that every mom owned

20. And the top of Toys "R" Us's shelves being stocked with even more toys

21. Batman cereal

22. That one Garfield sitting down stuffed animal

23. These McDonald's glasses

24. The Disney Channel Magazine

25. Pricey 1-900 numbers that let you talk to your favorite cartoon characters

26. The delightful What Do Smurfs Do All Day?

27. Smurf Chef Boyardee pasta

28. The Fisher-Price cash register

29. The Mac Tonight Happy Meal toys

30. TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes

31. The Fisher-Price record player

32. Trapper Keepers

33. Nickelodeon's Mr. Wizard's World

34. The "Little Professor" calculator

35. The We Are the World cover that featured a group photo of all the celebs who sang on the title track

36. The traumatizing Webster episode where he accidentally burned down his family's apartment

37. These weird flashes that you would need to put on the camera

38. Cinnamon Toast Crunch having three bakers instead of just the one on the right

39. Shrinky Dinks

40. McGruff the Crime Dog PSAs

41. General Foods International Coffee

42. Morris the cat from the 9Lives cat food commercials

43. These Pencil sharpeners

44. Toy china tea sets that were made out of real porcelain

45. ABC's claymation "After These Messages" intros and outros

46. These Mr. Coffee makers

47. Snow and ski gloves that were always a blend of garish colors

48. Character-themed picture refills for your Lite-Brite

49. Large floppy disks that were actually floppy and that you could not touch the center hole of

50. Baskin-Robbins baseball helmet sundaes

51. The Back to the Future Part II futuristic sunglasses

52. Madballs, which seriously hurt if you got hit by one

53. Scratch-and-sniff stickers

54. The cube that Evie used to talk to her dad, Troy, on Out of This World

55. The oh-so-magical intro to the Disney Sunday Movie

Obviously, our lifestyle presently is not the same as it was during the 1980s, with the fashion sense as an exception. But then we have lists like this one, which takes us back to the days of reminiscing about the good old times.

Did you recall having anything listed in the above collection? Leave your replies in the comments below.

Maryjane