The ’90s were a time of grunge music, uncharted internet exploration, and…toys! So. Many. Toys. We had toys like…
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HitClips, which were 60-second microchip songs that you played in a tiny stereo:
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Those water-filled squishy tubes that had glitter or plastic animals floating inside them:
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This specific medieval castle that you only ever saw at your boy cousin’s house:
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This Kids Meal Zeus toy that had a glow-in-the-dark lightning bolt:
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The Baby All Gone doll that ate these cherries that magically disappeared:
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This balancing bird toy that you’d carry around on your finger all day long:
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Wooly Willy, which your parents probably gave you to play with during a road trip:
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The Creepy Crawlers Workshop, which was SO COOL and the perfect companion to an Easy Bake Oven:
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The Barbie “Shop With Me” cash register, because there’s nothing kids like to do more than pretend they’re working an hourly job:
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Silly Putty!!! Specifically, when you would press it against your parents’ newspaper and copy the ink onto the putty:
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Those robot dogs you begged your parents for because they never let you get a Furby:
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Polly Pockets, which were so tiny and cute, and at the same time, the most painful experience in the world if you ever stepped on one:
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Doodle Bears, which were perfect for all the kids who absolutely loved giving their dolls makeovers:
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Supersoakers!!! There were so many to choose from, but they all elicited the same amount of fun:
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The Laser Challenge game set that you could wear around your house and play with…until your parents made you put it away:
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Nickelodeon’s Floam, because in the ’90s, all forms of slime were king:
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The OG version of Pretty Pretty Princess, which was an absurd amount of fun for a game that had almost zero rules:
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Sky Dancers, which were so fun to make fly, but hurt so bad if they landed on your head:
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A Talkboy or Talkgirl, because there’s nothing more ’90s kids loved more than pretending they were spies:
’90s and ’00s babies, what other once-popular toys did you love playing with as a kid? Let us know in the comments!