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    40 Pictures Of Forgotten '90s Kids Things That'll Give Millennials A Full-On Nostalgiagasm

    By Brian Galindo,

    7 hours ago

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    1. The Flintstones' lucky egg machine that they would have at the exit of the supermarket or at mom-and-pop pizza parlors:

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    2. TGIF crossover episodes that made no sense but went hard:

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    3. TVs with built-in VCRs that had like 13-inch wide screens and were the coolest thing you could have in your bedroom:

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    4. These sand-filled, glittery, rainbow lizard toys that everyone seemed to own:

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    5. These mechanical pencil sharpeners that would always give you a little bit of anxiety whenever you had to use one in a quiet classroom:

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    6. Those nylon lunch sacks that always smelled like old sandwiches after a few months of use:

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    7. The best snack you could have at recess:

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    8. And what afternoon snacks looked like (or at least what you dreamed to have as afternoon snacks):

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    9. Crest Kid's Sparkle Fun toothpaste that tasted a bit too delicious and was almost tempting to eat:

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    10. Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley playing their The Jeffersons characters in Old Navy commercials:

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    11. The 60-second commercial for Pure Moods that really did take you away and leave you with a sense of bliss:

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    12. The plastic tag protectors you'd get for your Beanie Babies to make sure you kept the tags perfect and not affect the value:

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    13. Skip-It, which was really a torture device for your ankles (especially if you played with it with no socks):

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    14. The dirty green carpet you sat on to read books and magazines at Barnes & Noble:

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    15. And the carpet at Chuck E. Cheese's that was always covered in old gum, dirt, and food bits — that you somehow, always, ended up touching irregardless:

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    16. These glow-in-the-dark blocks that you never saw anyone have IRL:

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    17. And this Rainbow Art set that — thanks to the commercials playing nonstop — you ended up begging your parents to order for you:

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    18. Hair gel from L.A. Looks and Dep (which you would add globs and globs of to make your hair look stiff as a board):

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    19. The rainbow-colored bags that Toys "R" Us used to have:

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    20. And the overwhelming smell of tires whenever you walked through the bicycle aisle at Toys "R" Us:

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    21. The "oh-so-cool for like a week" 3D posters that you could hang on your bedroom wall like artwork:

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    22. No Fear T-shirts, which you thought were badass:

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    23. Suzanne Somers' ThighMaster and the infomercials for it that played all weekend:

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    24. Tissue paper ghosts you'd make at school with Tootsie Pops, pipe cleaners, Sharpies, and the super rough tissues that the school provided year-round:

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    25. Rosie O'Donnell playing different games with the audience in a segment that aired before the guests came out:

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    26. These Disney read-along tapes and books that basically sliced your hand open when you tried to get them out of the packaging:

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    27. Wilson from Home Improvement, and how they always managed to cover his face in every situation:

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    28. And Mimi from The Drew Carey show who was the original Karen:

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    29. All the extra labels that came with blank VHS tapes that no one would ever use:

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    30. Life Savers Holes that were essentially candy Tic Tacs:

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    31. All the Looney Tunes home decor items that they sold at the Warner Bros. Studio Store that you swore one day you would decorate your house with:

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    32. The awesome Disney Happy Meal toys that came in mini-VHS clamshells:

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    33. The cheeseburger or French fries seats you'd always want to sit on whenever you went to McDonald's:

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    34. And the McDonald's drink cups that looked like they had been drawn by colored pencils:

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    35. Spacemaker pencil boxes, which were one of the ultimate accessories you could have at school:

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    36. The Jack in the Box car antenna topper — also, just antenna toppers in general:

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    37. These plastic swords, which would legit hurt someone if you struck them with it:

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    38. Ultra-thin portable CD players that felt like the peak of technology:

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    39. And multi-disc stereo systems with remote controls, which also felt like the peak of technology:

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    40. And lastly, the scrambled adult cable channels that sometimes gave you a small glimpse of things, even though they looked like a Rorschach test:

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    Comments / 6
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    Mouse
    41m ago
    I was cleaning out the attic over the summer and found my son’s Pogs. Seriously, over 300 of them. Total blast from his 90’s past. He’s making me save them so he can pick them up when he visits this Christmas.
    GunFun111
    3h ago
    The adult cable channel was scrambled but when u first changed to it u got about 1 second of clear picture. So u’d just change back and forth to catch glimpses of bewbs lol
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