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26 Nostalgic Toys We’d Trade Our Entire Beanie Baby Collection For

November 11, 2023

By now, you’ve probably seen us get nostalgic for all kinds of stuff. Movies, TV, music, video games, a political landscape where the biggest scandal was a President in a tan suit. But our nostalgia for toys is on a whole other level. When we think of them, it’s like we can feel them in our hands, and hear the ridiculous voices we used to give them. Make some funny gun noises with your mouth for our favorite toys from yesteryear:

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LEGO

350,000-Piece LEGO City Brick engineer Gerry Burrows completed the 350,000-piece Garrison of Moriah in only 11 months. It includes a colosseum, hangar, bridge, waterfalls, and Gerry-Burrows-sized statuary. Thematically, it draws from The Lord of the Rings, the Bible, and classical architecture, and is peopled with Star Wars action figures. CRACKED.COM — Source

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26 Nostalgic Toys We’d Trade Our Entire Beanie Baby Collection For — Source

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K'Nex Citadel Shadowman93 devoted an entire room to his K'Nex creation, Citadel V2. It's the culmination of over three years of work and constitutes more than 55 individual elements, five lifts, three motors, and innumerable jiggers which direct the balls down 17 separate paths. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SPECIAL EDITIONS The Nakatomi Plaza Die Hard Collection is $800 on Amazon It has all five movies on Blu-ray and Digital HD, and an exclusive doc with filmmaker and actor interviews. There are five mini DIEHARD posters, a 32-page book МАХАТОМ! FLAZA DIEHARD of production details, and a massive hand- painted Nakatomi Plaza building. They only sold this at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con. FIPPEL NAKATOMI ADEHARD KIYAYA No HAND DIEH - 6 - MAKATOM PLAZA 0-7 DIEHARD 10 DIEH MOTHER - DIEHARD STATE adidas COLORES ستد THOMAS GARRIA SPOV HANS adidas GALADA - DISWEST CRACKED — Source

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Back to the Future

SPECIAL EDITIONS The Back to the Future Flux Capacitor Box Set For its 30th anniversary, the three films and bonus discs with additional material came with a commemorative book, and the animated series (that had not been available before). All neatly packaged in a Flux Capacitor with moving LED lights. CHPACOTOR DRIVE BEFORE OPENING SMIELD EYES FROM L HT... DELOREAN CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED The Ultimate Matrix Collection in the Nebuchadnezzar ship With only 400 ever made (and only released in Japan), they're extremely hard to find. The two-foot long ship contains the three movies, The Matrix Experience, The Animatrix, and a ton of bonus features. SPECIAL EDITIONS — Source

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Furbies were banned from the Pentagon. Officials feared the toy would record classified information. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1991, The Little Tikes Cozy Coupe was America's best selling car. Ettle tikes For over 40 years, the company has sold 457,000 cars each year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You can watch a Cabbage Patch Doll be born at BabyLand General in Georgia. The doll hospital is staffed by LPNs (Licensed Patch Nurses) who facilitate births from Mother Cabbage on the hour. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nerf

Nerf's first slogan was You can't hurt babies or old people. The world's first INDOOR BALL NERF NBRF Yu The world's BALL first INDOOR The motto helped sell millions of Nerf balls in just its first year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Silly String is used to find tripwires around bombs. Soldiers shoot the string into the air and if it falls to the ground they know there aren't any wires- if it hangs in the air they know otherwise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Barbie and Ken are named after siblings. Together since 1961, it still took them until 2004 to break up. The couple reconciled in 2011. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mr. Potato Head used to be a real potato... that you had to provide. TRY НЕ ВОЛ POTA E! BA Pie J F any poi Incla bod ma Originally MR the toy came with Lot to e stick into a had In 1964 potato you Mattel began providing the plastic potato body. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frank Lloyd Wright's son, John Lloyd Wright, invented the Lincoln Logs. Не got the idea when he saw his dad employ a similar interlocking style in order to earthquake proof one of his buildings. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Super Soaker was invented by a Nasa Engineer. In addition to the Super Soaker, Dr. Lonnie Johnson also invented the Nerf Gun and holds over 100 patents. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer. The company produces over 318 million tires every year- or about 870,000 tires a day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Disastrous Comedy 1983 Rubik, the Amazing Cube He-Man was a highly successful show based on a toy, because look at the characters they had to work with. Giving a Rubik's Cube an alien-like face and random powers only lasted 13 strange episodes, and did nothing to help hawk the product. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED ВЕВОР AND ROCKSTEADY WERE CREATED SOLELY FOR TOY SALES. They didn't appear in the live action movies, but were created by Peter Laird as more characters for the cartoon's toy line. They weren't given much personality or backstory, just Shredder's henchmen for the Turtles to beat every time. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES — Source

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CRACKED THE TRANSFORMERS CARTOON WAS MADE TO HAWK PRODUCT. In 1984, Hasbro bought a toy line from the Japanese company Takara, and rebranded them as Transformers. They created the Transformers series based on the toy line, and made $950 million in toy sales from 1984 to 1990 alone. — Source

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The 1983 HE-MAN was syndicated AND THE developed cartoon MASTERS by Mattel OF THE UNIVERSE just to sell dolls (err... action figures). Reagan era deregulation paved the way for toy companies to create product based programming aimed at children, basically allowing Saturday morning cartoons to become half hour commericals. CRACKED.COM — Source

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G.I. Joe

In the 1980s, the struggling HASBRO toy company released a new action figure for its GIJOE line. The new character SNAKE EYES was clad completely in BLACK because Hasbro couldn't afford COLORED PAINT. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED FRISBEES USED TO BE PIE TINS. The Frisbie Pie Company unwittingly ushered in a new era of lawn games when, in the grand tradition of broke student upcycling, Yale students figured out they could throw them really far. Fries PIES 46 — Source

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CRACKED THE SLINKY WAS DEVELOPED FOR THE NAVY. The strong spring was supposed to secure objects on ships, but then its inventor dropped it and realized it was a lot more fun to play with. Slinky COLLECTOR'S EDITION EDITION COLLECTOR LA EDICIÓN DE COLECCIONISTA HECHE MADE - 5+ Slinky — Source

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CRACKED SILLY PUTTY WAS DEVELOPED AS A RUBBER SUBSTITUTE. It was originally thought to be useless until the scientists examining it whipped it out at parties, which were really boring in the 1940s. — Source

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My 24-year-old son and I found this Darth Maul toy while browsing in an ANTIQUE STORE. AGES 4 AND UP SMALL VEHICLE STAR ASST. NO 84135 NO 84141 WARS EPISODE SITH SPEEDER™ AND DARTH MAUL Harber WITH LAUNCHING SITH PROBE DROID™ Не then bought it, saying, I REMEMBER HAVING THIS WHEN I WAS FIVE! CRACKED.COM — Source

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