No real reason for this post except to share that I am SAD TO LEARN that I cannot buy DS some of my favorite childhood toys! They just don't exist anymore! I looked for: kitty kitty kittens, popples, and yum yums!
I also discovered that FAO Schwartz closed for good!!! 
What is happeningggggg? (Also, how late am I to this party?!).
What were some of your favorite childhood throwback toys? Have you been able to find them again?
persimmon / 1431 posts
@wrkbrk: they have the new popples now. They are scary looking.
I remember:
popples
rainbow brite
strawberry shortcake
pillow people
the original cabbage patch kids
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Polly Pockets! I really dislike what they look like now. I wish I kept mine. I handed them down to my sister.
nectarine / 2210 posts
@Mrs. Pickle: yes! I loved my Polly pockets! The ones now are so depressing. I remember donating mine too.
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
How funny! I just bought a lite brite from our local thrift store and was having fun showing the kids how it's done.
pomelo / 5621 posts
My son has an original popples. My sister had kept hers and gave it to him when he was a baby.
Any of the toys from when we were kids that they have remade are kind of scary looking.
pomelo / 5866 posts
Some of the Retro toys LO has are:
2XL
Uno
Etch a Sketch
Cabbage Patch Doll
We just bought a record player the other week.
pomelo / 5326 posts
I was just lamenting to my mom how I wish I still had my popples to give to my DD. I remember how happy I was the Christmas I got it. I do have a collection of trolls and my Wrinkles dog for her.
pomelo / 5084 posts
I forgot about trolls, pillow people, and puffalumps!
We really did have the best era for toys. 
Everything now is meh. Im going to look up the remade popples!
grapefruit / 4466 posts
My favorite was the cassette tape player (maybe fisher price brand?) with a microphone that you could use for recording. I'm assuming that's not made anymore. 
I mostly played a ridiculous amount with barbies.
When I was a kid my mom gave me all her old toys that she saved - I never really liked them, and a few literally disintegrated in my hands, lol....
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
@wrkbrk: my mom's friend bought my son the most gigantic bucket of tinker toys from the 70s (used), and he looooooves them. Too many modern toys are super breakable or dumb.
My favorites were Lego and dolls my dad would bring back from business trips and craft sets, stuff that still exists. I lucked out I guess.
grapefruit / 4085 posts
M has my old My Little Ponies, Strawberry Shortcake dolls and Cabbage Patch Kids. Can't believe how much they all changed! I want to get her an easy bake oven which I never had. I also loved Care Bears, fashion plates and shrinky dinks.
honeydew / 7504 posts
My husband has been giving ALL of his old He-Man toys to D for Christmas over the past couple of years. He has almost all of the action figures. We still have Castle Greyskull in the basement - I think he's saving that for the big last hurrah.
pomelo / 5573 posts
@wrkbrk: I still have my Puffalump from when I was a kid - I slept with it every night for way way way too long.
nectarine / 2436 posts
Awww I still have my kitty kitty kitten! That ball rolls around in her head and sounds like a puree , so funny
persimmon / 1445 posts
I was really obsessed with American Girl dolls and have always dreamt of handing them down to my daughter. Super glad I saved all my dolls/ clothes/ books because the new ones are NOT as awesome- they come with fewer books and the "Girl of the Year" storylines aren't as powerful as the historical dolls were.
I am still going to take her to AG for tea for her birthday though... if only to fulfill my own childhood dream since I never got to go lol.
persimmon / 1445 posts
@periwinklebee: I had one of those Fisher Price recorders and kept it until (whispers) high school. My best friend and I actually used it to record a rap about American History to the tune of Baby Got Back, for which we got extra credit in 11th grade. I was super sad when it was destroyed in a car accident. Wish I could give it to my daughter 
nectarine / 2210 posts
@caterw: I have all of my American girl dolls too! I hate how a lot of it isn't as good of quality now. Plus they got rid of pictures in the books, I guess to make them "cooler" for older girls?
pomelo / 5084 posts
@caterw: Hahaha. I did something similar with a friend when we were about 13!!
@pachamama: Aww I so wish I still had mine!
For some reason I never had an American Girl doll. But I totally believe the old ones were much better than the ones they sell now!
bananas / 9227 posts
I loved Rainbow Brite! Cabbage Patch, Puffalump. I'd love to find a Puffalump for DD.
grapefruit / 4466 posts
@caterw: aw, that stinks that it was destroyed. It was really the best!
bananas / 9227 posts
@Mrs. Pickle: I found a cute Polly Pocket set at an airport Duty Free store while we were on vacation last year. I didn't realize this version was an older edition and hard to find. It's not like the oldskool version, but the face is a lot nicer than the newest version! The clothes aren't painted on either (there's one that looks similar but with painted on clothes).
It took a little searching, but I found another other set of the same version (different characters) from a vendor on Amazon. They're MagiClips compatible.
nectarine / 2461 posts
@delight: I had a Wrinkles!! jealous you still have yours I still remember being so upset when we lost the stuffed bone that was in her dress pocket in a move.
nectarine / 2951 posts
I loved my Fisher Price record player and tape recorder, Cabbage Patch Kids, and Lite Brite!!
nectarine / 2667 posts
@periwinklebee: I absolutely loved that tape recorder when I was a kid!!
I loved my Popples and Pound Puppies. I had a lot of art stuff (like that spin-art and the Fashion Plates that you made rubbings with) and board games. I still have my Pretty Pretty Princess. But I'm sad that my kids will never know the joy of early computer games. We played a ton of weird little games that I don't remember the names for; one was a small man running around underground collecting gems, another was a Chip & Dale adventure. I loved all those cheesy games!
grapefruit / 4466 posts
@JoyfulKiwi: You can find lots of retro games online! i.e. Chip & Dale seems to be here: http://www.8bbit.com/chip-n-dale-rescue-rangers
pomelo / 5326 posts
@JoyfulKiwi: I remember all my old computer games for our Commodore 64 too. They were amazing! Is Montezuma's Revenge the one you were trying to remember? It was a little man underground collecting stuff. One of my favs!
pomelo / 5326 posts
@LCTBQE: I will admit that we have also lost our bone somewhere along the way!! My DD loves wrinkles though!
pomelo / 5084 posts
Omg I just looked up Wrinkles bc I had no memory of what those were and I had one too!! Like early early early - maybe one of my first toddler toys. No clue where it ended up. They were so cute!
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