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My mom upgraded to that one when I was in high school. I hate it. I hate the elevated board feeling wobbly and unbalanced every time you touch it, the plastic looks and feels tacky, and the color of the tiles just feels like it's trying too hard compared with the natural wood grain. Give me the classic any day.
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feedmyleg posted:My mom upgraded to that one when I was in high school. I hate it. I hate the elevated board feeling wobbly and unbalanced every time you touch it, the plastic looks and feels tacky, and the color of the tiles just feels like it's trying too hard compared with the natural wood grain. Give me the classic any day. The one we had def. had real wood tiles, but I looked it up and the original Deluxe version is from the 70's. I don't recall it being wobbly? But it's been DECADES since I've used it. I wouldn't be surprised if the "new" Deluxe edition decades later cheaped out and went to fake-wood-looking plastic. Or do you just mean you prefer natural wood grain vs/ painted/stained darker wood?
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My memories of my parents having the entertainment center with the lazy Susan design for the TV tray was that it was essentially worthless as there was always going to be at least one cable so comically short or stretched to reach a VCR or whatever as to ensure that if you tried to rotate the TV you'd unplug or break something.
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Our entertainment center, which was just a little stand that only replaced a ratty old bench we’d been using, had that pivoting top; it was worthless not due to cable length issues, but because it just didn’t work with the weight of the tv sitting on itDrBouvenstein posted:The pieces were different, too. You can see here the options are Thimble, Battleship, Train, Iron, Shoe, Top-hat, Cannon, Wheelbarrow, Statue, and Dog. I think only the train and the statue were exclusive, because I remember the cannon for sure and maybe the top hat
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My family's entertainment center was a paper bag with a bunch of glue dumped in to it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The pieces were different, too. You can see here the options are Thimble, Battleship, Train, Iron, Shoe, Top-hat, Cannon, Wheelbarrow, Statue, and Dog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5esjxBN17ls
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vE5ewvxdfo I thought this song was the coolest poo poo back in 1980-whatever the gently caress. I swear I remember there being a PA system when I would go skiing at Kissing Bridge (Western NY state) that they played music on. I think they had speakers on the lifts or something and whenever they played this song my 8-9 year old rear end was all like gently caress yeah!! The video always creeped me out though with the flappy arms. How many of you knew what song it was when I mentioned "the video with the flappy arms"?
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that is a sweet set up. i love glass bricks. aaahhhh
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Gonz posted:
uber_stoat posted:that is a sweet set up. i love glass bricks. aaahhhh So fashionable 80s people basically wanted every room to feel as close to a bathroom as possible. Or maybe a gym shower.
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I just saw this photo and was transported back to a time when I got on the nerves of my entire family by playing with them way too goddamn much inside the house.
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lobsterminator posted:So fashionable 80s people basically wanted every room to feel as close to a bathroom as possible. Or maybe a gym shower. About 5-10 years ago there were people who thought the height of fashion was making their entire house look like the inside of an Apple store, so "executive coke bathroom" is probably a step up. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 16:46 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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Gonz posted:
uber_stoat posted:that is a sweet set up. i love glass bricks. aaahhhh God, I love both of these.
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Gonz posted:I just saw this photo and was transported back to a time when I got on the nerves of my entire family by playing with them way too goddamn much inside the house. I had the second version, with the orange speaker and four different drum sounds. Those things did not work as well in the air as advertised 
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Those rooms look like the Maxx from saved by the bell.
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I sleep in a 90s paper cup, do you?
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lobsterminator posted:I sleep in a 90s paper cup, do you? I sleep in a big bed with your wife
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Oh neat a duvet with the overlay from the end of every scene from Blossom on it
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uber_stoat posted:that is a sweet set up. i love glass bricks. aaahhhh It reminds me of the old Publix stores with a glass wall in front of the doors. Are there any of those left? Publix on Nebraska and Hanna in Tampa had the glass bricks the last time I was there, but that's been a few years.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuElf1_OoM This was posted in the '90s thread, but this CD commercial features all the top '80s punk bands.
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Mad Hamish posted:God, I love both of these. Glass brick walls are awesome, I kinda want one with bricks that look like those clear plastic puzzles
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What a fashion statement: strapping a TI-92 shaped device onto your wrist.
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Parkingtigers posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuElf1_OoM They knew what they were doing and it's magnificent 
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Parkingtigers posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuElf1_OoM Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer sold out
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Reminds me of the Garfield reflector we all had that I think was a cereal box prize. I'd post a pic, but the Awful app doesn't play nice with imgur anymore, and every URL I find for an image is either webp or is full of tracking info or wherever so it doesn't work with the Awful app image upload. Edit: On a laptop now: 
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you were sovereign of the road if you had these.
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holy poo poo that unlocked some memories. I think I was like 5 or 6 when I had this and I was super into watching Ghostbusters over and over even though the librarian ghost scared the poo poo out of me
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I wanted to get enough of these to completely fill every spoke on both wheels.
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Spokey dokeys were great until they got stuck at the outer edge of the rim on the spoke nuts and wouldn't make that Spokey Sparkles were something too.
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I fed those sharpeners SO many pencils in elementary school. So satisfying.
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Now I want one of those pencil sharpeners just for the smell
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You can still buy them. Top one is 50 euro, bottom one is 130 euro.  
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