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QuickbreathFinisher posted:What were these books about? I remember making fun of my best friend's little sister for reading them and having all the dolls or whatever, but I was always just a little curious what the books were like. Are they just "Pioneer daughter," "Dust bowl sisters," "Survivor of the Oregon Trail" etc. like I was picturing? Were all the dolls friends in the books? From what I recall, they're basically dolls that come with period-accurate accessories and books of stories that are about life in whatever period the doll is supposed to be from. I'm not a girl and I've never owned one, but I looked them up after hearing about them because it's just about the ne plus ultra of successfully selling overpriced crap to kids (a doll plus all the individual accessories is like $600). And did you know they're educational too? The Wikiest of Pedias posted:This product line aims to teach aspects of American history through a six–book series from the perspective of a nine– to eleven–year–old girl living in that time period. Although the books are written for an eight- to thirteen-year-old target audience, they endeavor to cover significant topics such as child labor, child abuse, poverty, racism, slavery, alcoholism, animal abuse, and war in manners appropriate for the understanding and sensibilities of their young audience. Christ, it makes the Technodrome (speaking of campy 90s stuff!) my parents wouldn't buy me when I was seven look like a subtle piece of marketing. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 16:32 on May 22, 2012 |
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KingOMtDew posted:I was going to see a movie yesterday at a theater that used to be a Showcase Cinema and was reminded of this video that they played before every movie. Brings back many memories. We've got a Regal Cinemas in my town, so I got to see this trailer every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_xMBFjqQ4 They use an upgraded version now. That last popcorn pop still usually makes me jump.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:For some reason, I remember the dolls being about $75-$80, then again that might have been in the earliest days as I was reading those things at the end of the '80s. I begged and begged and begged and got the Samantha one. It's still at my mom's. I never really played with it, but I can't remember if I was pressured not to as it was too fancy or if I just didn't have the interest once I got it. It came with an authentic Indian head penny. Yeah, it was $116 in 2000, when I left elementary school. Also, I will straight-up buy that Samantha doll off of you if you ever decide to sell it, because Pleasant Company stopped producing her. QuickbreathFinisher posted:What were these books about? I remember making fun of my best friend's little sister for reading them and having all the dolls or whatever, but I was always just a little curious what the books were like. Are they just "Pioneer daughter," "Dust bowl sisters," "Survivor of the Oregon Trail" etc. like I was picturing? Were all the dolls friends in the books? Like Vincent Van Goatse said, they were supposed to be educational books. Each book was set in a specific timeline (all of them in the year blah blah blah 4, so 1774, 1854, 1864, 1904, 1944, etc) and each book had a specific "theme" that set the plot of the story. At the end, there was about an 8-10 page section with old photos and things that told the history of whatever was going on in the book. The "theme" of each book was the same, pretty much, for every character. "Meet" was character introduction, "Learns a Lesson" involved schooling, "Happy Birthday" was about their birthday, "Surprise" is about Christmas, "Saves the Day" is where they get themselves into some sort of dangerous bullshit situation that they have to get out of, and "Changes for", as they used to be the last in each character's series, involved some huge game-changer scenario that would make things totally different for the character and their family. So, for example, "Meet Kirsten", set in 1854, deals with Kirsten and her family emigrating from Sweden to Minnesota. She speaks no English, is completely freaked out by American culture, and her best friend Marta loving dies of cholera on the ship across the Atlantic. "Meet Samantha", set in 1904, introduces Samantha as a rich orphan girl who lives with her super-rich grandma and everything is very Victorian and proper and Samantha's always getting her rear end in trouble because she doesn't just sit there in her room and play with dolls all day, instead she CLIMBS TREES and PLAYS OUTSIDE which is IMPROPER FOR A YOUNG LADY and there's lots of arguing about piano lessons and Samantha getting in trouble for ripping her stockings. In retrospect, even though the books were rather formulaic, they were really interesting to read for a nerdy girl like me, because it was awesome to find out about what it was like to live in those eras. I learned a lot about Swedish culture, the mail system in the 1850's, just how important fur trapping was, how important a simple find like a beehive in a tree could be to pioneers, etc. I'm keeping my copies for my kids to read later on, because they were pretty informative, however silly they got at times.
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May 22, 2012 18:02
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WebDog posted:I always wonder how women didn't spend their childhood in fear from glassy eyes boring into their souls from the top shelf. And how did you not get bored of these? Batman had grappling action and rockets. At best Barbie could get her face chewed off by the new dog and was utterly ruined. Batman on the other hand gained battlescars. I hated big dolls and baby dolls (CREEPY), but boy did I love my Barbies. From what I remember I spent most of my time making them gently caress and argue though. They were always fighting.
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madlilnerd posted:I hated big dolls and baby dolls (CREEPY), but boy did I love my Barbies. From what I remember I spent most of my time making them gently caress and argue though. They were always fighting. I'm pretty sure every girl growing up had a slightly older friend demonstrate where babies came from using Barbies.  You lay a naked Ken on top of a naked Barbie and then a baby comes out! 
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http://www.lisafrank.com/ I miss the days of where the merchandise of Lisa Frank was everywhere.
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What was the name of those dolls that were basically whirling propellers of doom which homed into anything fragile? They were the death of Christmas ornaments. I vaguely recall there being a version for boys. I think they got recalled from their "soft foam wings" causing more destruction than intended.
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WebDog posted:What was the name of those dolls that were basically whirling propellers of doom which homed into anything fragile? They were the death of Christmas ornaments. I vaguely recall there being a version for boys. I think they got recalled from their "soft foam wings" causing more destruction than intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETCLxxA8G_0 My friend and I would get into so much trouble letting these off into their fancy foyer with a 20ft ceiling.
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Phoenix Knives posted:http://www.lisafrank.com/ My 2nd grade teacher told us that Lisa Frank was dead. I honestly believed that up until I looked her up a minute ago on Wikipedia. What the gently caress, teacher. Big trampolines became a thing in the late 90s/early 2000 where I lived. Basically, if you had one, you were the life of the party. My dad absolutely refused to buy one (and looking back, that was probably a good idea) because they were dangerous.
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Aceofblue posted:Sky Dancers! Don't forget the Sky Dancers cartoon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpjz-_LTjQ Sadly the plot doesn't involve the Sky Dancers slamming into things to destroy them.
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May 23, 2012 15:35
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Nobody's mentioned the GI Joe of the 90s! Sergeant Savage and his Screaming Eagles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZC7vtK5IQ4 Everyone has huge muscles and fists bigger than their heads, and all the bad guys are Nazi robots.
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May 23, 2012 16:20
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Look at all of you with your girly twirly dancers.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO3Ym-lwrTQ 
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Freeze posted:I'm telling you, in 10 years these will be worth thousands!! My dad is still utterly convinced that his collection will make him rich in the future.
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So 90s.
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What about Subspace, among if not the first MMO ever made: I played this for so many years. It's still around, too! Can't say it's very campy though.
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Who remembers In Living Color? This was a sketch comedy show in the vein of Saturday Night Live that aired from 1990 to 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Living_Color http://youtu.be/MSO54NSiGiI has the theme song. I remember watching this at night with my mom.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Nobody's mentioned the GI Joe of the 90s! Sergeant Savage and his Screaming Eagles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZC7vtK5IQ4 The Sgt. Savage action figure was badass. He came with a bunch of WWII era weapons that were way more detailed than standard G.I.Joe accessories. Plus his nemesis was some kind of dictator with a Jetpack.
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metalhead librarian posted:Who remembers In Living Color? This was a sketch comedy show in the vein of Saturday Night Live that aired from 1990 to 1994. Weird, I also watched that with my mom. That, and reruns of Adam West Batman.
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metalhead librarian posted:Who remembers In Living Color?
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I posted:So 90s. I really hate to say this, but the show lost a lot without the original music in it to capture the 90s groups. Even if the DVD releases couldn't have had the original music, it would have been nice for optional captions or something that would say, "Lovefool by the Cardigans played in the televised version during this scene." I swear, MTV was the BEST from about 1990-1996. They had the right mix of content and quality. I keep trying to figure out what killed MTV for me, and know there seemed to be a big shift in the MTV stuff around 1996-97 with Spice Girls and Puff Daddy, then Britney and the rest. Then we get Woodstock '99 and it's official: The good times are over. I also think that MTV screwed up when it got rid of its genre shows, too: Yo!, Headbangers, 120 Minutes, Earth to MTV, Weekend Countdown, etc. They were really great venues for lesser known acts to get presented to their audience and potentially score some breakout success. I still remember the Summers in the 90s, staying up all night long, watching Speed Racer reruns at 3am, seeing the Art Institute commercials playing every hour, and the Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions and Joe's Apartment filling up time between videos at strange hours of the night, etc.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I swear, MTV was the BEST from about 1990-1996. They had the right mix of content and quality. I keep trying to figure out what killed MTV for me, and know there seemed to be a big shift in the MTV stuff around 1996-97 with Spice Girls and Puff Daddy, then Britney and the rest. Then we get Woodstock '99 and it's official: The good times are over. The Real World killed MTV. Because after that followed the first trickle of "reality" shows. There was Road Rage, and Singled Out, and probably a dozen more I'm forgotten. They kept adding more shows and bumping off music. 
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metalhead librarian posted:Who remembers In Living Color? This was a sketch comedy show in the vein of Saturday Night Live that aired from 1990 to 1994. Pff, who doesn't remember In Living Color? Try House of Buggin', with John Leguizamo and Luis Guzmán.
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ungulateman posted:My god, old Macs. And they tended to overheat and shut down. Great now you got the Bugdom theme playing in my head. Uh yeah Bugdom, a game that came bundled with those iMacs, and the framerate slowed to a crawl when multiple ants appeared on screen.
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Wandering Knitter posted:The Real World killed MTV. Because after that followed the first trickle of "reality" shows. There was Road Rage, and Singled Out, and probably a dozen more I'm forgotten. They kept adding more shows and bumping off music. I actually really liked the first 2 seasons of The Real World. Sure, it popularized the reality TV trend, but the first few years actually had a lot going for it. After that, though, I couldn't stand watching the show. I remember listening to an interview with Puck from 1999 or so where I think he said that after their season or the next some production staff behind the scenes changed, which may account for it. However, I still remember people who declared things like The Ten Spot and ANY non-music programming (The State, Dead at 21, Liquid TV, Love Line, animated shows, etc.) taking up even an hour or two a day total of programming was destroying the channel, and this was when it literally consisted of only a few hours a day staggered about. Personally, I didn't mind when their non-music programming consisted of a few hours a day. There was probably no other channel in the 90s that could have/would have taken a risk on something like the first few years of The Real World, Liquid TV, etc. On top of that, I seem to remember that even before the 90s MTV wasn't all music. We had reruns of the old Beatles Cartoon, The Monkees, Monty Python, The Young Ones, Half-Hour Comedy Hour, etc. Sure, most had some musical content, but MTV sort of knew how to not oversaturate them. I almost want to say Singled Out did more damage. I remember also during the Summer one year that it felt like after midnight they played NOTHING but Singled Out episodes for several hours straight, every night, for weeks.
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On the subject of Macs, didn't anybody else's school's Macs have "Flying Colors" installed? It was like a slightly-more-robust Mario Paint, and 90's as gently caress. It's also still for sale: http://www.magicmouse.com/h_flyingc.html
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Tewratomeh posted:On the subject of Macs, didn't anybody else's school's Macs have "Flying Colors" installed? It was like a slightly-more-robust Mario Paint, and 90's as gently caress. Nope, Kid Pix for our macs. And actually it was only installed on one Quadra 660. Landerig has a new favorite as of 19:08 on May 26, 2012 |
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Tewratomeh posted:On the subject of Macs, didn't anybody else's school's Macs have "Flying Colors" installed? It was like a slightly-more-robust Mario Paint, and 90's as gently caress. Oh man, did this have some sort of "Create a Picture Book" more or something, because then I totally borrowed this from the local library back when all they had was weird edutainment titles (also, The Way Things Work CD-ROM game). Now it's just piles of PS3 and 360 games. Never thought I'd live to see the day when libraries would be full of new console games.
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Dad Beer posted:Also, I was wondering if anybody else remembered a VHS I used to have called "Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs!" It was a shortish collection of little vignettes about dinosaurs fighting or taking care of their babies or whatever, and there was a host who would be at different dinosaur-related places in between them and introduce each segment. For some reason, over the course of the video he slowly turned into a dinosaur which completely terrified me; I loving loved dinosaurs back then though so I watched it pretty much every day. I'd love to be able to watch that goofy video again. Pick posted:I found the name of that film thanks to SA's "Help finding pre-internet things" thread. I only saw it once and the only thing I remembered was the part where he becomes a dinosaur. Irreversibly. It was kind of messed up. I have the sequel "More Dinosaurs" on VHS. Your username is familiar, Pick, and I think I was a part of that thread, as well. This one doesn't have him turning into a dinosaur (though one of his arms hasn't changed back yet). They were in an apartment building, and towards the end a dinosaur was outside and looking in the windows, and reaching in. That part scared me a lot when I was a kid. I just had to ask my dad "What was the name of that dinosaur video that scared me?" and he knew exactly what it was (and still had it). And the date on the tape is 1985, so not technically 90s poo poo. I'll see if I can get it online somehow (which may have been what I said last time...).
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I remember those, I rented them at a local library when I was a kid. I think one of them had a segment about the creatures of the book After Man for some reason.Rahonavis posted:E: Who were only outdone in terms of action figure spinoff lines created by people who had to have been on drugs by the truly bizarre "Jurassic Park" Chaos Effect. A shame their flagship dinosaur never left the prototype stage though.TShields posted:Another one nobody else seems to remember is "Widget the World Watcher". He was a purple shape-changing alien who had a floating computer in his watch. I don't remember what Widget did, exactly, but I feel like it was entertaining. Lolitas Alright! posted:it's why Yu-Gi-Oh! was missing the entire first season.  The "first season" was actually a seperate series made by a different company.
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The thing I remember about Widget was during the early Nineties, Atlus Japan was releasing stuff like the Megami Tensei series, while Atlus USA was giving us gems like Widget and its sequel, Super Widget. Now that Atlus is publishing more in the States, I don't want to play 60-hour RPGs anymore. That's one thing I remember from the Nineties: having the patience to play long rear end RPGs.
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Everyone wants a Log! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eusMzC7Rx7M Also, I don't know if this was shown in other areas, but I remember seeing this when I was younger and being extremely disturbed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-XTeyV8Dk It's called "The Killing of an Egg," a weird short cartoon by Paul Driessen
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Landerig posted:And they tended to overheat and shut down. Bugdom owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbAtjXq64Uc As does Nanosaur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqqs86_Mng VVV gently caress yes VVV RembrandtQEinstein has a new favorite as of 18:37 on May 27, 2012 |
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I remember the Spider-Man theme. No, not the one from the 50s that everyone knows, this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeIOeYKd-c XTREEEME!
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All this talk about MTV and strange cartoons put me in mind of those completely surreal Bill Plympton shorts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfgmuPa4uA He even did a game (if you can call it that) for Win95! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdHzYye5OvE
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Painfully 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBYM6g8Tck
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Shebrew posted:
Just now, watching this on youtube unearthed some deeply rooted and long forgotten fears from my childhood. I am now remembering that I was TERRIFIED of this clip for some reason, and had to change that channel when it came on. I had completely forgotten about it.
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Re: 90s mixtape The Spin Doctors were the 90sest band of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWbMu4PtpE Of course, there's always Goldfinger, which was the late 90sest band of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwsxoo_FL8 Although Jimmy's Chicken Shack was a pretty close contender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WR3gF9J0hQ psydude has a new favorite as of 20:30 on May 29, 2012 |
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