So many of our childhood toy have been rebooted into aerodynamic , seductive new widget . My Little Ponies have becomesexierthan any sawhorse has a right to be . Transformers have morph into jagged , unreadable harbingers of holy terror . The kids fuck ‘ em , but we lovingly remember the days when plastic was bulky , toys were not market to 25 yr olds , and Strawberry Shortcake worepantaloons . Pinterest , home of every ingathering you could cogitate of , has many boards keep in honor of these store . Do n’t draw a blank to check outMental Floss ’s own Pinterestwhile you ’re at it !
1. He-man and The Masters of the Universe
I swear by The Power of Greyskull , there are more Pinterest panel dedicated toHe - Man and The Masters of the Universethan there are consecrate to wedding photography . And that ’s saying something . This board , curated by Matt Butcher , has 350 pins dedicate mostly to classic He - Man , with , thankfully , much less titillating fan art than most of the other He - homo card .
2. Poochie
Long before Poochie was a hatedSimpson ’s weenie character , she was a loved Mattel wiener theatrical role . It ’s grueling to say what form of toy Poochie was . Was she a postage stamp ? A doll ? All we can be sure of is that Poochie contained pinkish multitudes . This is toppingly demonstrated on CuratorNichole Caulk ’s Poochie Pinterest board .
3. Big Wheels
If you never got a Big Wheel , you ’re probably still stinging a bit . Depending on how deep the pain is , you may require to train out theAdult Sized Big Wheelsboard curated by Melinda Casanova . But if all you really desire is to live over the beaut of a 1980s Barbie Big Wheel or the Graeco-Roman bad - tushie red , disconsolate and yellow , check out theBig Wheels and Bikesboard curated by Mariesa Huthwaite .
4. Popples
monition : If you press thisPopples Boardlink , your organic structure may not be able-bodied to produce enough insulin to offset the effects of a Sir Frederick Handley Page full of furry rainbow coney monkey bursting out of their own portable uterus . Curated by Abby Sigfrid .
5. NES
Behold , the Nintendo Entertainment System : 8 - fleck Central has collected for you over 400 stick in testimonial to what amounts to your sweet first kiss in the gambling humans . Before you throw forth your innocence on eminent priced jade like PS4 and X Box One .
6. Sticker books
As surely as all young lady in the ' fourscore would someday get their first grooming bandeau , they would also get their first toughie book . Thoseearly sticker collectionsare an interesting predecessor of Pinterest itself . multitude collecting picture of food and unicorn for exhibit . The only dispute was that instead of ecard joke to represent how lazy and cranky we are , we just used Garfield . Curated by Kelly Sweeney Osato .
7. Annie
Anniehas been around for a long meter , but until that awful 1982 picture with an amazing Tim Curry and uproarious Carol Burnett and probably some other worker , she was this unholycomic Holy Writ ghoulwith no eyes . But as Kori Barnett prove with herAnnie the movie add-in , the early ' fourscore add an Annie with enough sass and promotional gear to make every girl wish well she was a Depression - geological era orphan .
