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Actually, it is Tang.

Had it served hot with breakfast .... mmmm warm Tang.... that keeps the winter bugs at bay.

Name a fad toy from the
70s
80s
90s
&
new millenium


No right or wrong but it is pop culture


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Furby!

One I can think of from the 80s is the Rubik Cube.

Overlapping one here in the UK that straddled the late 60s and early 70s (I think it finally died a death in 1973) was Clackers. Apparently discontinued because they shattered and kids were lacerated by flying shrapnel. We lived such interesting lives back then.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Bleh! Tamagochi!

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

70s - slinky (wrong decade?)
80s - rubics cube
90s - gameboy
2000s - brand name(?) sneakers with wheels in heel

can anyone else come up wiv a complete list ????

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70s - tee shirts with velour letters spelling cute slogans
80s - headbands with hearts on springs
90s - thought bubble stickers on photos
2000s - hands free kit for mobile to use in the car

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70's -- 8 tracks & players
80's -- cassettes (y'all remeber 'cassingles'?? ) and double deck cassette players for copying your buddy's new Bon Jovi cassette
90's -- CD players
2000's -- MP3 players

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

70 and back. reel to reel
80 vhs/beta
90 dvd
00s downloadable movies / Blue ray dvd

crazyred, you forgot record's.

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

I would have said records if the years had started in the 50's & 60's....it said 70's. 8 tracks were the 'latest' in that decade right??

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

true. i guess i didnt think of them that way... well then, records were new to me in the 70s.. hows that?

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

80s - headbands with hearts on springs

Ah, Deelyboppers!

Forgot one thing that was a BIG hit over here in the 1970s by the way - the Smash Martians. They were used to advertise Smash - a brand of instant mashed potato (yes, just add water, just like the 10,000 instant Martians in the Bugs Bunny cartoon) - and looked like this. If you were ANYWHERE near a British television set in the 1970s, these will be INSTANTLY recognisable.

So that the rest of the world can see what the fuss is about, have a look at the original advert preserved for posterity on YouTube, which incidentally has been voted the Best TV Advert of the past 25 years in a poll by the BBC.

In fact you can still buy Smash Martians toys if you know where to look ...


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

I would have said records if the years had started in the 50's & 60's.

that makes me sad. to think that people believe that records didn't come around until the 50s...so scary, so tragic.

The first disc records were introduced in the late 1880s, which is post phonographic cylinders. The 78, which is probably what you're thinking of...didn't start until the late 20s...of course, the discs were pretty brittle, and the drummer had to play down the hall in the bathroom or the needle would bust the record...many early records have woodblock percussion, no snares or floor toms.

Another fun fact... the average length of a recorded song today is 3 minutes 20 seconds...because that's how long you had on a record before you had to flip sides.

Gene Krupa's famous drum solo for Sing, Sing, Sing...lasted 17 minutes...that's a lot of record discs for one song.

We're not talking about when stuff was invented, just when it became trendy. I did NOT think for one minute that records weren't invented until the '50's, so it's not all that sad and tragic. Just like 8 tracks were not invented in the 70's, cassettes were not invented in the '80's etc. This is a pop-culture, "what was the big thing in that decade" thread.

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."