Wanna reminisce?

midgetthemighty · February 2012

Oh, and The Boxcar Children was my absolute favorite series of books.

dumdumfroggie · February 2012

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[QUOTE]Oh, and The Boxcar Children was my absolute favorite series of books.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]

<div>I LOVED that series! Also, the Popples. I still have a couple of those around somewhere.</div>

celticmyss · February 2012

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[QUOTE]Oh, and The Boxcar Children was my absolute favorite series of books.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]

<div>Yes! I have been planning to get it for my niece. </div>

mehgank · February 2012

I was all about the Sweet Valley Twins/Sweet Valley High books. I was so thrilled when they came out with the tv show.

dmiller9274 · February 2012

Books - The Babysitters Club, RL Stine and Christopher Pike were my favorites.

tv shows - Small Wonder, I so wanted a robot sister. Remember those 5 minute things in between the kids shows on HBO called Brain Games, I LOVED those. Encyclopedia - look it up (God I hope someone gets that) Fraggle Rock. Babar

toys - Barbie and the Rockers, I even had their tour bus. Remember the Barbie pools, they were totally crappy and could hold like a glass of water, but I thought they were the greatest things ever. Garbage pail kids. DId any one else have those dolls with the magnet arms, legs and heads so you could interchange them. I loved those damn things.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · February 2012

I only had like, five channels growing up until my parents finally got satellite TV (Country people can't get cable? Or couldn't, I guess). All my friends watched all these shows on Nickelodeon and I couldn't watch them. I just had a fuckton of videotapes and watched PBS. But when I did get to watch Nickelodeon in town with my friends I could never figure out what the big deal was, lol.

celticmyss · February 2012

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[QUOTE]I was all about the Sweet Valley Twins/Sweet Valley High books. I was so thrilled when they came out with the tv show.
Posted by mehgank[/QUOTE]

<div>I read all those too. I was quite amused when the actress who played Jessica showed up on It's Always Sunny. I liked a lot of the Babysitter's Club books too and read them around the same time. </div><div>
</div><div>I also read the Vampire Diaries and the Secret Circle when they first came out. I refuse to watch the shows. </div><div>
</div><div>Two other favorite books were the Egypt Game and Ghosts I Have Been. </div><div>
</div><div>We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up but my mother could never deny me books. I always really looked forward to school book fairs. </div>

AllAboutTheBenjamin · February 2012

Loved The Wonder Years. I had the most massive crush on Kevin Arnold.

midgetthemighty · February 2012

I own the entire collection of Goosebumps. They were my brothers, I read most of them but he gave them to me for if/when I finally get a classroom.

Anyone remember him?

celticmyss · February 2012

I always preferred Christopher Pike to RL Stiene but I'd read either. Also, Scary Stories to Tell After Dark was awesome!

I loved any kind of scary/ghost stories as a kid. My mother let me watch the Shining at 5, I think it warped me!

AllAboutTheBenjamin · February 2012

Did anyone else have a checkered baby doll? Mine was all pink and my cousin had a blue one. I took that thing everywhere and slept with it for years. She was so special to me. She sits on my dresser at my parents house and she's basically a rag now after being washed so many times. She has a pink skirt and hat, and her face, arms and legs are all pink and white checkers. Blue felt eyes (well, one eye now, lol) and little pieces of yellowish orange yarn for a small tuft of hair coming out of her bonnet. I wish I knew what they were called.

mehgank · February 2012

koda - they have a shiit-ton of The Wonder Years on Netflix right now (6 seasons, I think). I don't remember it only being a half hour show, though, I could've sworn it used to be an hour segment per episode.

Dude, I wanted to go on Legends of the Hidden Temple so friggin' bad. I still kinda do...::hangs head::

reils · February 2012

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[QUOTE]My favorite books growing up were <strong>Lurlene McDaniel novels</strong>. They female characters were always diagnosed with some form of terminal illness or would fall in love with a dying boy or something . I loved those books and would bawl when I read them. A few years later I got hooked on VC Andrews novels. I crack up just thinking about those ones. Total trash, and I now have the urge to read them all over again.
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<div>I had totally forgot about these! I used read these and just bawl. I am not sure why I kept reading them knowing that someone always dies. </div><div>
</div><div>I also used to read Nancy Drew. I had almost the whole set of these. </div><div>
</div><div>Does anyone remember He-man and She-ra? I had the She-ra castle it was awesome. I also used to have this dollhouse thing that folded together so it looked like a pumpkin. I am not sure if it was related to a TV show or a book or something though. </div>

celticmyss · February 2012

The best part about the VC Andrews books was that she wrote very few of them. She died halfway through writing the second series or something like that but it was so popular they kept cranking them out using ghost writers. Heck, there are still new ones coming out and she died in 1986.

I think that is a big part of the reason they're so formulaic.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · February 2012

I watched a lot of "older" movies when I was a kid. Pollyanna, the original Parent Trap and original Freaky Friday, Swiss Family Robinson, the Apple Dumpling Gang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

reils · February 2012

Oh I remember VC Andrews too. Is Flowers in the Attic the one where this mean old lady for some reason gets stuck looking after these kids and she makes them bath in bleach? Or I am confused?

midgetthemighty · February 2012

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[QUOTE]koda - they have a shiit-ton of The Wonder Years on Netflix right now (6 seasons, I think). I don't remember it only being a half hour show, though, I could've sworn it used to be an hour segment per episode. <strong>Dude, I wanted to go on Legends of the Hidden Temple so friggin' bad. I still kinda do...::hangs head::
</strong>Posted by mehgank[/QUOTE]

I will go with you. I love that show!

dmiller9274 · February 2012

reils, I loved he-man and she-ra.

Edie, I still have a scar on my leg where my sister and I tried to build the Agro Crag (sp?) in our back yard.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · February 2012

C'mon, no one had a checkered baby doll? This is driving me crazy!

KateJ10 · February 2012

this post is cracking me up!

Flowers in the attic- the old grandma and the mom lock up the 4 kids in the attic to basically fend for themselves until the grandpa dies, and feed them arsenic on their powdered donuts I think. SUCH a trashy set of books, I also loved them

Nancy Drew, Goosebumps, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High, berenstein Bears, Barbies, Pound puppies, Popples-

dmiller9274 · February 2012

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[QUOTE]C'mon, no one had a checkered baby doll? This is driving me crazy!
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]
I actually think I might have, but I can't remember for sure. My grandma made most of the dolls I had growing up, but my mom kept the dolls and boxes for all of the store bought ones we had. I'm going to ask her about it tonight.

maratea · February 2012

Has anyone mentioned PeeWee's Playhouse? Because, come on. That was the coolest show. Pre-Paul Rubens public display of manjunk. I was always scared of the talking floor because I just knew the floor in my room was going to eat me.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · February 2012

Lol, Mara my mom never let me watch Pee Wee's Playhouse because of that.

KateJ10 · February 2012

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[QUOTE]Has anyone mentioned PeeWee's Playhouse? Because, come on. That was the coolest show. Pre-Paul Rubens public display of manjunk. I was always scared of the talking floor because I just knew the floor in my room was going to eat me.
Posted by maratea[/QUOTE]

Our family STILL makes jokes about PeeWee's big adventure. Loved that movie- also, I was obsessed with his giant ball of aluminum foil and used to think about starting my own giant tinfoil ball when I was a kid.

mehgank · February 2012

For Christmas 1997, I got a Dear Diary electronic toy, and I thought it was the coolest thing EVAR.

I can't for the life of me remember writing anything in it for fear of my brothers getting a hold of it, I just remember that it did horoscopes and love predictions (enter your name + his name and it shows the results).

I also got a couple pots of apple and raspberry flavored lip gloss from Garden Botanika and felt like I was, like, totally cool with my glossy lips.

jennamarie10 · February 2012

I read every single one of the Babysitters Club books. Man, was I obsessed with those. Especially the double length "special" Summer vacation ones.

sweetredhead · February 2012

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[QUOTE]Did anyone ever watch the cartoon Jem & The Holograms? I was obsessed with her, and I confess I bought the DVD set of all the shows for myself for Christmas this year :)
Posted by NicoleSahara[/QUOTE]

The theme song is my current ringtone. I thought it went best with my 80s style pink cassette tape phone cover. Only my sisters have gotten the joke. I still love Jem and her earrings.

midgetthemighty · February 2012

Anyone watch the cartoon about Adventure of the Gummy Bears? "Gummy bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere"...

sweetredhead · February 2012

Also I loved picture page with bill Cosby and hey dude. That was my true show.

celticmyss · February 2012

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[QUOTE]Anyone watch the cartoon about Adventure of the Gummy Bears? "Gummy bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere"...
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]

<div>I will now have the song in my head all day. Thanks a lot! My mother always referred to Mauna Lai guava juice as Gummy Beary juice. </div>

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