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At least the some of the educational stuff of the time glommed on to the gross fad. Otherwise, we'd be without a book that has textured fake bird feces on the cover, and gave kids instructions on how to make cookies that looked like dog poo poo.
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Metal Loaf posted:Speaking of gross out cartoons: I want the toilet seat!
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Faerunner posted:I want the toilet seat! Well, ain't that cute... BUT IT'S WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!
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Darthemed posted:At least the some of the educational stuff of the time glommed on to the gross fad. Otherwise, we'd be without a book that has textured fake bird feces on the cover, and gave kids instructions on how to make cookies that looked like dog poo poo. I had this book and it was amazing. 
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THAT'S WHAT IT WAS loving CALLED Oh jeez thanks, I've been trying to put a name to this series for a couple of years now and was starting to think I had imagined it.
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What's the paper say about tomorrow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqZZgVxnCk ANOTHER SCORCHER! Cool.
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Got Milk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSsswr6z9Y
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Isn't The Pirates of Dark Water on YouTube in its entirety? I remember watching every episode there a couple of years ago for a welcome flash back from my childhood.
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Starhawk64 posted:What is it with the 90s obsession for slime and grossout humor? I mean, look at Nickelodeon, it had shows like Double Dare that were all about sliming people and getting them to dig through stuff that looked like boogers and earwax. maybe The Ghostbusters had something to do with it.
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Rickycat posted:Got Milk? My favorite Got Milk commercial is the one with Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwFUNHtCJQ
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BobFossil posted:maybe The Ghostbusters had something to do with it. According to the director commentary Ivan Reitman took credit for coining the verb form for "slime," so you may be on to something.
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TunaSpleen posted:Goddammit, now I just recall a time in ~1994 when I saved up a bunch of Kool Aid packet points and mailed them off for a "holographic magic poster of dinosaurs in 3D!!" and the picture shown on the label was an artist's elaboration of the 'solved' image, not the real one. I was SO pissed when my poster tube finally arrived and it contained a blurry acid trip picture with some instructions to cross my eyes. I still put that thing up on my wall, but it was months before I ever saw one dinosaur on that thing. I know this post is from FOREVER AGO but I just wanted to sympathize and say I had the exact same experience when I was 8-9. I remember that poster. I cried because I couldn't see the dinosaurs. I took it into the bathroom to study it while I was sitting in the tub taking a bath. Oh how I loved/hated it. It had prime real estate right in the middle of my door.
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An Australian supermarket chain-store called Tuckerbag with a talking tuckerbag as the mascot who was then phased out after the mid 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPp9ml1yZM And a creepy talking teddy bear called Huggie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_4kvkDG88A
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The best 90s commercial was the original hot pockets commercial that was done infomercials style complete with grainy black and white footage of a lady trying to stuff an entire pizza into a toaster, with the announcer saying something like "HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU??" But I have never been able to find it on the internet 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5gAkna3jI the past is gone, but something might be found to take its place...
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Just remembered a few more: Ronin loving Warriors  Toy Story game on Sega Genesis - I was pretty horrible at it, but never gave up on getting just a bit further each time I played it. However, I've never beaten it  One of the best claymation shows  Whole lotta dis 
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I still play the poo poo out of RollerCoaster Tycoon.
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kloa posted:Toy Story game on Sega Genesis - I was pretty horrible at it, but never gave up on getting just a bit further each time I played it. However, I've never beaten it That was a hard game. I never got past the first-person bit in the claw machine maze.
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From the still image alone, that game looks like it has a frame-rate of ten.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:From the still image alone, that game looks like it has a frame-rate of ten. Attacking was kind of awkward, but I remember it being pretty surprisingly smooth.
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I just looked up a youtube video, and I am legit impressed with how smooth it runs.
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This probably predates the nineties by a good margin but gently caress it I was born in '91 and this was my childhood. Mother  loving  BRIO  I feel bad for any kid under 7 that never owned at least a figure-eight set.
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Oh man, I had so much BRIO. I still have. I used to build tracks all over the living room. We have a couple of old home made videos of me in the middle of all the tracks with lots of differnt trains, cranes, boats, ferries and what not. And huge bridges which probably shouldn't have been. There was always accidents of course. Both in the world I was in, and when my 2-3 year old sister came and wanted to play and destroyed everything like a motherfuckin' Godzilla.
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Triskelli posted:BRIO  Content:  Razzles weren't exactly unique to the 90s, but the invitation to cop some mega-prizes sure as hell is.
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Triskelli posted:BRIO I had a Brio set, but most of my trains were Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends replicas, because that was my favourite programme.
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Metal Loaf posted:I had a Brio set, but most of my trains were Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends replicas, because that was my favourite programme. I have no idea if they were intentionally compatible, but I hade some Thomas the Tank Engine trains that were the right size for my Brio tracks. Basically planned my parents' Christmas shopping for me out for years right there. Would set them up around my Matchbox Car Whatever Exciting Adjectives Mega City Playset and act out the deep interpersonal dramas of people who never get out of their vehicles for any reason ever. Speaking of which, Hot Wheels actually grabbed onto 90's X-Treme branding with both hands and apparently has yet to actually let go. I suppose there isn't much more to marketing to kids than "take two things they'd think are cool and mash them together."
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Oh god, I have kids that just aged out of TtTE. The wooden TtTE trains and metal powered TtTE engines that are Brio compatible (they may even be made by brio, but I'm not sure). Then there are plastic ones that are roughly the same size, but not compatible. Then there are smaller Take-and-Play versions that are also not compatible with anything, but have neat folding play sets. Then there are plastic Chuggington trains that I think can run on the Brio track, but have different connectors so you can use the track but not the train cars.
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As well as the wooden models, I also had a substantial collection of the metal ones, which would probably be worth something if I'd left them in their original packaging and hadn't let all the paint get chipped or scraped away. But then, where would be the fun in that? I mean, fair enough if you're a collector, but what's the point of having toys when you're a kid if you aren't going to play with them?
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Skeleton Ape posted:Here, have some Gak. Did the 80s have such a "market this to kids by showing grown up hate it" vibe or did it just peak in the 90s? This is the only good thing Michael Bay has ever directed.
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Kids channel commercials in the 90s were a vast desert of tilted, color-overlaid video footage, jazzy jingles, and children with bowl cuts jumping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMY8XakxQ8 As I mentioned before, I might as well have been a girl in the 90s because of my obsession with Lisa Frank, Beanie Babies, and the like. But I had one girly proclivity that I still carry to this day. Every August we would visit my grandmother in New Jersey, which meant a week of my pale Pennsylvania-Dutch rear end getting sunburned as hell, but more importantly, it meant back to school shopping. And back to school shopping meant one thing to me. Pens. Pens were my ultimate weakness. I got completely sucked into the gel-pen hype of the late 90s, but even before that, I had a bright red pencil box (adorned in holographic Pokemon stickers, duh) that was filled to the brim with a pen from every pack of interesting pens I had used since kindergarten. There was probably a pen of every color. I used to love those clear neon pens that came in hot pink, blue, purple, and green (the best one), because neon was everyone's favorite color in the 90s. I had these swirly clear ones that I loved looking at. I can't find any evidence of them online, but I remember they were Bics and they came in red, green, blue, and maybe purple. For some reason I had a fascination with clear colored plastic and glass as a kid. I remember my favorite Lego was a clear blood-red crystal-shaped Lego from an Egyptian tomb set, and my favorite crazy bone was also clear dark red. I had these iridescent marbles, too, that were rainbow mirrored like an oil slick, but purple or blue when you held them up to a light. I liked looking through them I guess. Anyway. More pens.  One of these 10-colored interchangeable ballpoint monsters was probably my favorite. I remember changing colors mid-word pretty frequently on it. It also looks a lot like a vibrator. These were the least girly versions I could find on GIS, a lot of them are Hello Kitty themed apparently. but mine was solid blue with a clear part near the color-change mechanism, kinda like these, and it was sweet as hell. You could see all the springs and stuff!  I had this thing too, which basically was a vibrator. Which is weird. It had a motor in it that spun and made everything you wrote squiggly in stead of straight lines! Which was fun somehow!   Spirographs were 90s as gently caress, too. I still love me a good pen, though. QuickbreathFinisher has a new favorite as of 01:08 on Apr 19, 2013 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Pens were my ultimate weakness. I got completely sucked into the gel-pen hype of the late 90s, but even before that, I had a bright red pencil box (adorned in holographic Pokemon stickers, duh) that was filled to the brim with a pen from every pack of interesting pens I had used since kindergarten. There was probably a pen of every color. I used to love those clear neon pens that came in hot pink, blue, purple, and green (the best one), because neon was everyone's favorite color in the 90s. I had these swirly clear ones that I loved looking at. I can't find any evidence of them online, but I remember they were Bics and they came in red, green, blue, and maybe purple. I remember the exact Bic pens you are referring to, at least if they were in the style of Bic "crystals" but in awesome colours. The problem is, I also remember all sorts of other Bic pens from the same era. And I, too, can find zero images of them online. There was a period in the 90s where Bic was releasing series after series of "themed" pens. Tribal. Aliens. Zebra stripes. There were so many I don't even remember them all. What I do know is that, for no reason I can explain, I NEEDED to have ALL OF THEM. Jesus. I carried around a ball of such pens in a rubber-band when I was in fourth grade. There were at least fifty.
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Dis posted:I remember the exact Bic pens you are referring to, at least if they were in the style of Bic "crystals" but in awesome colours. The problem is, I also remember all sorts of other Bic pens from the same era. And I, too, can find zero images of them online. There was a period in the 90s where Bic was releasing series after series of "themed" pens. Tribal. Aliens. Zebra stripes. There were so many I don't even remember them all. What I do know is that, for no reason I can explain, I NEEDED to have ALL OF THEM. I found a half-used solid black pad of post-it notes specifically for use with gel pens and those neon pens in the far back of the supply closet at work the other day, but no matching pens. I've just been using them to confuse coworkers with invisible notes since I don't have any proper colors that would show up.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I found a half-used solid black pad of post-it notes specifically for use with gel pens and those neon pens in the far back of the supply closet at work the other day, but no matching pens. I've just been using them to confuse coworkers with invisible notes since I don't have any proper colors that would show up. Ooh. I know what you're talking about there too? but the pens that would write on black paper were an entirely different animal from the ones I was talking about in my last post. Those were just your basic bics with WILD AND CRAZY thematic elements to make you seem all unique or something. I'm going on another google-hunt.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I used to love those clear neon pens that came in hot pink, blue, purple, and green (the best one), because neon was everyone's favorite color in the 90s. I had these swirly clear ones that I loved looking at. I can't find any evidence of them online, but I remember they were Bics and they came in red, green, blue, and maybe purple. The Bic pens you're thinking of are called Shimmers and are still sold. Shimmers are regular ballpoint Bics instead of gel pens. I used to have a pack or two and remember having a problem with the pens clogging when I wanted to write with them. 
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Triskelli posted:BRIO BRIO trains were really expensive compared to what I got: a BRIO train set knock-off made in the good old USSR, in plastic. It was 100% compatible with BRIO and the "containers" you could load on the train had magnets on top so they could be lifted with a crane or something. There were also a bunch of plastic houses, including a station and it was altogether very nice. For a Russian toy.
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 These ugly things were all I used from kindergarten to third grade. Gaudy 90's aesthetic within your grasp. This is my guilty pleasure 90's song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfRNRymrv9k
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I remember these having terrible erasers that would just drag the graphite around on the paper. Could someone confirm this?
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Darthemed posted:I remember these having terrible erasers that would just drag the graphite around on the paper. Could someone confirm this? Yep, I remember they turned everything they tried to erase into a huge grey smudge. Obviously the solution was not to stop using your  pencils, but to try and make fewer mistakes. They had a weird, waxy texture to them that I guess was better at smearing graphite everywhere than...whatever real erasers do. Absorb it I guess?
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