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Gak Splat

Charles — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:55:32 +0000

Who remembers that gummy thing: Nickelodeon Gak Splat by Mattel ? I remember making fart noises with it, stretch it, throwing it on my toys…what a weird “toy” to play with ! Here is what the makers said about it : “Gak is thick and will stretch and break like Silly Putty, but it will flow and is cold to the touch like Slime. The Gak can be twisted and squeezed and different colors can be mixed. Gak is stored in an amoeba shaped plastic container called a “Splat” and will make rude noises when stuffed in the Splat.”

Apparently they are making and new version of Gak and it’s called Splish Splat..Looks like the “gum” war is not over after all!

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Goosebumps

Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:15:18 +0000

Long before Harry Potter and Twilight, in the beginning of the 90′s, Goosebumps (by R.L Stine) was the most popular book serie for kids.Groovy colors on the cover and creepy titles, Goosebumps were horror fiction novel for children. Werewolves, vampires, weird creatures, demons, witches and fantasy beasts were the main characters. And the clever marketing made you want to have all of the books, since the covers were so “cool” to look at.

PS : I had to read these books at my friends place since my parents wouldn’t let me read them..

Pogo Ball

ImThatOld — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:22:45 +0000

Or the best way to crack kid skulls in the 80s.. also known as Springbal, Lolobal and Disc-O. It was a hit in the middle of 80s when it started to be mass produced by Hasbro.

It’s a saturn shaped toy and to play with it, you have to stand (at least try to) on the plastic form and keep the rubber ball betwwen your legs and jump… then fall

Pogo ball commercial from 1985 :

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Captain Planet and the Planeteers

ImThatOld — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:12:49 +0000

Captain Planet is an environemtalist animated tv show…. yeah, doesn’t sound fun said like that At the beginning of the 90s, it suddenly became obvious that we were polluting too much. So they start to communicate a lot about how we have to behave to save our planet. But how to explain that to kids ? cartoons. 21 jumpstreet taught me not to do drugs and Captain Planet to respect environment. Thanks to TV I’m a good person

Gaia, spirit of earth started to worry about earth and hired 5 teenagers from all over the planet : Kwame is from Africa, Wheeler from North America, Linka from Eastern Europe, Gi from Asia and Ma-Ti from South America and gave them rings with super power : earth, wind and fire (couldn’t resist) water and.. love. Yeah right… and they all fight together to protect the planet. Sometimes (often) when they’re running out of ideas, they combine the power of their rings to call Captain Planet (a blue guy with red underwears basically…). I can’t remember why, but I used to love this show

Here’s Captain Planet Intro :

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and I can’t resist to show you the Don Cheadle parody :

“Captain Planet bitches!”

Space Jam

ImThatOld — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:39 +0000

As a 90s kid in the 90s, there’s 2 things I loved above all : cartoons (of course.. candys could have been also a correct answer) AND Michael Jordan. So, when they decided to mix both, it just blew my mind ! Bugs Bunny and His Airness together in a movie. Wow.

Storyline : The owner of “Moron Mountain”, an extraterrestrial theme park ,decide to send his minions, the “Nerlucks” to capture the Looney Tunes as a new attraction for his failing park. The Looney Tunes challenge them to a basket ball game, because the minions are very small. But they steal talent of NBA superstars : Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson and others and become giant basket-ball monsters. Michael Jordan, who was freshly retired was not captured and tries to help Bugs Bunny and his squad to win the game. oh.. and Bill Murray is the coach

Space Jam Trailer :

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The movie was released in 1996, 16 years ago.

Hard to talk of Space Jam without thinking of the theme song by R. Kelly : I believe I can fly

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Blood Sugar Sex Magic

ImThatOld — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:49:45 +0000

Still one of the best CD I ever bought. Blood Sugar Sex Magic is the fifth studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and it was released on september 24, 1991. 20 years ago.

Some tracks of this album such as “Give it away” or “Under the bridge” became hugely successful.

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I first saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers in a Simpsons episode of the 4th season : “Krusty gets cancelled” which was first aired in the USA on May 13, 1993.

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At this time, the members of the band were :

Flea – bass, backing vocals, trumpet, percussion, keyboard
John Frusciante – guitars, backing vocals, percussion
Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals, percussion
Chad Smith – drums, percussion

Marty McFly’s Nike Air Mag are available

ImThatOld — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:30:24 +0000

You can now buy the shoes from Back to the future 2 on eBay. Nike has created 1 500 pairs of the limited edition to be auction off on eBay over the next 10 days and all proceeds are going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fight Parkinson’s disease.

http://nikemag.ebay.com/

The shoes won’t feature the power-lacing … but maybe in 2015 according to the shoes seller in this video

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http://www.back4thefuture.com/

and if we’re lucky, 2015 will bring us the hoverboard too

Furby

ImThatOld — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:36:12 +0000

If you’re born these last 20 years, you had a Furby or you wanted to have one.

The commercial was amazing, it’ almost s a living animal ! it reminded me Gizmo from the Gremlins… It was a fluffy electronic robot, some sort of creature born from the love of an Ewok and an owl. It was kind of cute until it starts to talk… it was talking all day long ! couldn’t stop it and you had to learn their language so hard to know at the beginning if it was hungry, bored or just in an annoying mood. The solution ? you lock it in the closet and pick it up the next morning… or not

Furbies could talk together and they seemed to understand each others… I guess it’s a good thing they’re not sold anymore they probably would have take control of the world by now.

The furbies were the must-have toys in 1998.

Here’s a furbies conversation : (certainly preparing a riot or something…)

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Thanks to Evelien for the memory

Legends of the hidden temple

ImThatOld — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:46:37 +0000

The Legends of the hidden temple was a game show for children in a temple filled with lost treasures protected by mysterious Mayan Temple Guards.

Six teams of two children (one boy and one girl) had to perform physical stunts and to answer questions. After the eliminations rounds, the only team left had 3 minutes to retrieve the artefact and win a grand prize.

The legends of the hidden temple was aired on Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1995 and was presented by Kirk Fogg.

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This is the song that doesn’t end…

ImThatOld — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:16:44 +0000

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… yes it goes on and on my friend some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they`ll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that doesn’t end yes it goes on and on my friend some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they`ll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that doesn’t end yes it goes on and on my friend some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they`ll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that doesn’t end yes it goes on and on my friend some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they`ll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that doesn’t end yes it goes on and on my friend some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they`ll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song…

Lamb Chop’s Play-Along is a children’s TV series aired on PBS from 1992 until 1997.