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Weekly series of different nostalgic items. Each month has a new theme.
Compact-concept style/”take along toys” month continues with a toyline based around a simple concept, with a tie-in to last week’s featured toyline: if Polly Pocket were a boy, and spiders, Frankenstein, and various other baddies existed in her world, she would be Mighty Max.
You’ll just hope Polly can breathe while confined to your pocket!
Continue reading “So Small, You Can Take Her Anywhere: The Story of Polly Pocket”
It’s hardly the latest, it might be the greatest…and the name makes you hungry for a certain starchy food…
It’s the thing to do, kids will envy you! Continue reading “Did You “Do The Freddie”?”
More importantly, have done it recently? Like, last week?
I’m not above admitting I did it in my living room on the weekend.
Continue reading “Running In Place: Did You Do “The Running Man”?”
Some say it’s mystic, others say it’s a fad.
I say, fads don’t last almost thirty years.
Continue reading “You Can Feel It: The Story of The Electric Slide”
Before you come after me with pitchforks, consider the fact that this was a trend in the days before the internet was common, we only really had magazines and television (not YouTube) to guide us on trends, and well, we were sorta dumb enough to fall into this trap.
Only in the 1990s, my friends.
Continue reading “Hey Macarena!: The History of The Mid-1990s Dance Craze”
