Slumber Party fun 1994 with a cute fridge and a couch that folds out into sleeping area. Inside of School Playset 1990, missing Polly Pocket :(

Care Bears have been revived with a fervor, just like Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony, so we haven't exactly missed them. HOWEVER....They did look differentback then. I always wanted the brown one with the simple heart on his chest (this picture is not my collection- I only had one: Loves a lot Bear. She was pink with two hearts on her chest.) I only had one My Little Pony in the 80's: Snuggles. She was gray with pink hair. I was a little disappointed because there was nothing you could do with her! I brushed her hair a thousand times then I was like...OK..is there a Ken or a PJ Pony for her to play with? Is there a stable she can sleep in? Now they got wise and made beauty shops and circuses and roller rinks and ice cream shops. Here is the commercial that I remember very well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9J2vF3Q3o8&feature=PlayList&p=60B732B738DA1651&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=46 Oh wait- Here is Snuggles: Cabbage Patch Kids were a big deal in 1984. They were cloth and had a little butt and smelled like baby powder! They came with a little birth certificate and already had names, most of which were really horrific, like Levina, my dolls name. I am sure the first 40 dolls had regular 80s names like Jenny, Becky, Holly and Carrie and then they ran out of shit and started coming up with names like Bertha and Ethel. The dolls were at their height in 1983 and people were straight up rioting over them! My mom went down to fight the crowds at Gemco. My friend Liz had one named Bonnie Christine that looked like the one above, and I wanted to kidnap her and rush the border. Check out the Cabbage Patch commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYh3KGhhjic&feature=related Above are the one and only Dolly Pops by Knickerbocker. My sis and and I actually had the play set featured below- It was a little town. Remember that one outfit that had a whole bike on it? You could just click the whole thing on the doll. I also liked that little sailor suit. Do you guys remember clicking on these little outfits? I loved the wedding dress that had a veil- but it covered the doll's hair. My favorite dress was the little pink frock with the two bows on the front, and my favorite doll was the dark haired one, because she had straight bangs. I normally liked blond dolls, but not in the Dolly Pop world! Below is a vintage Strawberry Shortcake doll. She smelled so good. I played with her in our garden when I was a kid. Ahhh, good memories. I also had the good fortune to have the bake shoppe. It was a big strawberry that opened up and had a little kitchen inside, where you could make little pies and cakes. Did you guys have one of these? I could never wait for the little cake to cool, I was too impatient. I always burnt the roof of my mouth. And if I actually decided to frost one of these little cakes, the frosting would rip the top off the cake, because it was too hot! It was torture waiting for any baked good to cool. It is like having a huge, white piece of paper and a brand new box of crayons and saying "Don't draw a picture!" Below are Sea Wees. Yay! My sister and I played with them in the bathtub. They had long hair, which is all that matters when you are a little girl. You just want to sit around brushing hair all day.We used to pretend they were razors and we would shave our legs with their tails. We called them "shaver-leggers." They came with lily pads that were sponges and little combs (below) These are Charmkins. They were really tiny and detailed and smelled good. My sister had Brown Eyed Susan (nice name- sounds like a butthole charm). I remember there being a Ferris wheel that you could hang your charms on. Does anyone remember Poochie? I barely do myself, but I had to include it. It was some failed attempt at a girls' brand that never took off. Someone got fired for that one! I just remember they called it "Poochie for Girls!" I think that was a given, people! I am sure many boys liked Poochie. But I am sure they were doing kick-ball-changes and jazz hands in the school play. Just sayin. These dolls were creepy. You could get them at the county fair or the swapmeet and they would fall apart easily. They were made of thin wire and some pantyhose and styrafoam. I peeled the face off mine and it was white styrafoam behind it! Holly Hobbie dolls are really from the 70's, but we still had them in our houses in the 80's, correct? Here are Heather, Holly and Amy.

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What can I say? They're just too cute.

Ah, vintage toys :) What a feeling to see old toys that you used to play with as a child and remember how fun it was.

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One of the greatest girls toys from the 1980's was definitely Charmkins. First things first: They smelled good. They were named after flowers and plants (always a good thing to have a theme) and they were tiny. Girls love teeny tiny things. Aside from all of that goodness, they were little charms that were attached to jewelry like rings and barrettes! Let's look at some Charmkins... Johhny Jump up! My sister had this one, Brown Eyed Susan. It was the only Charmkin in my house and I was devastated that it didn't belong to ME. Friend of ours had Charmkins- it seemed every girl we knew had one or two at least. I admired them from afar. Brown eyed susan came with this little clip and ribbon. Cute, huh? And here is another beautiful one, Morning Glory. I would have cut a bitch for this one... Let's look at some more! This is Chrysanthemum... Sunny Bunch and Honey Bunch, the twins! Aren't these cute? None of these pics are mine, FYI, so kudos to these collections... Sweet Bea! Here is the Whippoorwill birdie on a ring...this is really cute Sweet Beth! Willie Winkle! Baby Sunshine Bouncing Bet and Half-an-Inchworm! (buy these from eBay and Etsy-- they are there!) Busy Lizzie (The Beaver!) Twinkle and Sunflower Swan Freckle face Bouncing Bet and Half-an-Inchworm Hyacinthia Johnny Jump up Mollyberry My Pony Pixie--must have been the same company as My Little Pony! Petal Pink Puppy Poison Ivy and Dragonweed Poison Ivy w balcony-- cute Poppy Cat Primrose Fairy Charmkins Pocket Pops with Magic Garden Rosie Racoon Sweet Bea & Honey Bee Violet the Skunk Here is one of the jewelry box/houses, the Whippoorwill Flower Mill, and below is the packaging Another jewelry box/house! Here is the beautiful little ..whatever this is- display ferris wheel flower? One of you lucky girls who owned this can set me straight and let me know. These little pocketpops are really cool- they are kind of like Polly Pockets. This one is called lollipop garden, and the one above it is an apple orchard! And last but not least the cartoon- which I do not remember. But I had to pay tribute to Charmkins! Charmkins cartoon: and some Charmkins packaging:

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This is a photo of the Koeda ice cream parlor playset closed. It is made of vinyl and apparently well-made, the snaps still hadn't come off. With a little wiping which I didn't get to do, this will look as good as new. This little box also moonlighted as a sewing box for me. The next photo shows how the inside looks. I forgot to take the Koedachan toy characters but my sister, Yasmin told me they're safe and sound in my little toy chest. The photo shows the play set opened. The furniture are very tiny measuring only half an inch at the most. My second vintage Koedachan is the Grandma Dollhouse. It's got more stuff and is bigger. The dollhouse is made of vinyl and cardboard that can be folded for easy carry-along. I'm not too crazy about the bright neon colors but hey, it was the early 80s so everything had to be shockingly bright. The upper bedroom/nursery has a ceiling light that lights up when the "sun" tab is slid to the right to reveal a "moon" tab.

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