mrs. frazier’s childhood christmas list a history of toys
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Mrs. Frazier’s Childhood Christmas List
A History of Toys
Care Bears• Each Care Bear and Care Bear
Cousin has a symbol on its tummy that corresponding to its name and care ability, like a rainbow for Cheer Bear, a shooting star for Wish Bear, and a rain cloud for Grumpy Bear. It’s from this symbol that the Care Bears and Cousins drew their powers. When standing together they can generate the ultimate weapon, the Care Bear Stare. A light radiates from their bellies to form a ray that brings cheer, love, care, and goodness into the heart of their target.
Crimp and Curl Cabbage Patch Doll
Dolls that were made to mimic real babies. You got a birth certificate, could choose a kid with different color eyes, hair, skin, etc.
Glo Worm
A stuffed toy for young children that
when squeezed, would light up the toy's vinyl bottom from within, creating a soft glow.
Teddy Ruxpin
• Teddy was an animatronic bear. Teddy would move his mouth and eyes as he read stories via a standard cassette tape deck built into his back. There was also a companion toy named Grubby which connected to Teddy via a cable; this allowed the two some (minimal)
interaction.
SuperSoaker 50
• The very first Super Soaker EVER!!! I had to have it!
• This water gun was like no other! It used pressurized air to shoot the water with great force!
Super Nintendo
• This was the 2nd Nintendo ever made!
• AND it came with Super Mario World included!
Roller Blades
• Also known as inline skates, these things were all the rage! Be careful though, if you fall you will most certainly break SOMETHING!
Stretch Armstrong• Stretch Armstrong
was in the shape of a well-muscled blond man wearing a pair of swimming trunks. Its most notable feature was that its arms and legs could stretch outwards, presumably without breaking.
Board Games
• Clue• Don’t Wake Dad!
• Girl Talk
Spirograph
• A Spirograph consists of a set of plastic gears and other shapes such as rings, triangles, or straight bars. There are several sizes of gears and shapes, and all edges have teeth to engage any other piece. For instance, smaller gears fit inside the larger rings, but also can engage the outside of the rings in such a fashion that they rotate around the inside or along the outside edge of the rings.
Bedazzler!
• Oh snap! Jazz yourself up by putting plastic rhinestones on EVERYTHING!
Talk Boy
• The Talkboy was a portable variable speed cassette player and recorder. It was used by Macauley Caulkin in the movie Home Alone. I HAD to have it!
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This was just a sample of the things I wanted over the years!! There was soooooooooo much more I begged and pleaded for. Are any of these items familiar to you? Have they stood the test of time?