Eighties Flashback: The Best Toys of the Decade


As a kid I rocked crimped hair and pegged pants. Yup, you guessed it, I was born in 1980s. In the eighties, toys were simple. They were USB-plug-free, and offered endless hours of wholesome amusement. If you listened to George Michael and Debbie Gibson, odds are you owned at least one of these trinkets. 

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Lite Brite

Lite Brite allowed kids to create magical, glowing images by inserting plastic pegs into a black sheet of paper affixed to a screen. Its infamous jingle Lite-Brite, Lite-Brite, turn on the magical shining light dominated Saturday morning cartoons and will still get stuck in your head twenty years later.

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07.26.2010
Henry Brennan
I agree with Dan - I'm 54 years old - a bunch of these toys were around in the 60's (especially Lite-Brite and Spirograph).
01.20.2010
Denise Holcomb
most of these were really popular in the 70's. I still have my spirograph, complete in box.
01.08.2010
Leslie
The Spirograph was so massively fascinating to me. Loved it. I'm thinking I had that in the late 1970's though (I'm 41). If someone put a Spirograph set in front of me right now, I'd likely spend nearly an hour playing around with it, and then put my creations on the fridge. Okay, maybe I need more to do w/ my life right now. :)
12.31.2009
Natalie Josef
What a lovely trip through memory lane! I'll never forget the year Cabbage Patch kids came out and moms everywhere were beating each other up to get their hands on one.
12.08.2009
amber breeden
i was just thinking about this 80's toy the other day i also like my little ponies and strawberry shortcake!
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