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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 8:50:18 GMT -5
Did anyone read Goosebumps? I was obsessed with those things when I was little. I also remember when the Choose Your Own Adventure books were like all anybody read. I only read a couple Goosebumps books. When I was in elementary school I was obsessed with Animorphs. (Also, after Animorphs, Goosebumps never seemed all that scary.) I remember AniMorphs, yeah. I didn't read all that many, but they were kinda weird imo
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Post by tiger beetle on Aug 11, 2016 8:50:54 GMT -5
I remember some of these but not all
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 9:01:01 GMT -5
I only read a couple Goosebumps books. When I was in elementary school I was obsessed with Animorphs. (Also, after Animorphs, Goosebumps never seemed all that scary.) I remember AniMorphs, yeah. I didn't read all that many, but they were kinda weird imo Animorphs was actually really dark, which I've only picked up on after reading them again as a young adult. I mean, you have five kids and an alien cadet fighting a secret guerilla war against a race of parasitic alien slugs by turning into animals (or even other aliens). One of the kids gets trapped as a red-tailed hawk in the first book, later tries to kill himself, and in a later book is graphically tortured. Jake has to deal with the fact he's eventually going to have to kill his own brother, who's a high-ranking Controller; Marco finds out his mother is Visser One and sets up a plan to murder her (he can't quite go through with it and eventually gives himself away, but still); Cassie, the group's resident tree-hugging animal lover, is scarily manipulative and is lucky that most of her decisions pan out in the Animorphs' favor—she's also the one who came up with the idea on how to get rid of David, the team's Sixth Ranger Traitor (by trapping him in rat morph and leaving him on a deserted rocky island); David, once he's turned traitor, tries to kill each of the Animorphs while they're in animal form (he almost succeeds with Jake and actually thought he'd killed Tobias), and then quite probably killed Jake and Rachel's cousin Saddler so he could morph him and take over his life (Saddler was in critical condition after an accident); and Rachel... Rachel goes from being the group's resident fashionista and gymnast to their most skilled and dangerous warrior. Then you have Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, the Andalite arsith (military cadet) who's stuck on Earth and constantly torn between his people and his new friends. And then you have the books where the kids infiltrate Zone 51 as horses only to find out the huge secret is a primitive alien toilet, the Helmacrons, the Atlantis book, the oatmeal book, the one where Cassie ends up in Australia and accidentally gives a Cape buffalo and an ant the power to morph. (Okay, scratch that last one. Anything involving ants in Animorphs is pure nightmare fuel.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2016 9:07:13 GMT -5
Oh man yep I was hit with nostalgia reading through that list.
Also stuff like Floam, scented markers, and those airbrush markers that there would always be random commercials for back then on tv.
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 9:10:18 GMT -5
Oh, on the subject of the 80s, since OP mentioned it... I wasn't around, but I have seen quite a few TV shows and read a few books from that decade (and I love the music). - 21 Jump Street
- Murder, She Wrote
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Hawaii Five-O
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Doctor Who (yes, it was around, shhh)
- Okay, speaking of Doctor Who, I love the 1996 TV movie with Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. And the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels are good, too.
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Spaceballs
- The Nancy Drew Case Files
- The Saddle Club (first book came out in 1986, I think)
- Pat Benatar
- Bon Jovi
- Heart
- Def Leppard
- Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2016 9:12:30 GMT -5
Cats was a musical that was really popular in the eighties. I haven't been in the eighties but I'm a musical lover, so I learned/e
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Aug 11, 2016 9:17:59 GMT -5
snap bracelets silly bands
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 9:21:38 GMT -5
Sweep series Blue is for Nightmares series T*Witches series (books and movies) Circle of Three series Spy Kids Daughters of the Moon Sisters of Isis Sons of the Dark (all three by Lynne Ewing) Percy Jackson first becoming a thing The rise and fall of MySpace (o.O? Can't believe I lived through that)
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Post by Yoshimi on Aug 11, 2016 9:33:29 GMT -5
Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat
When I was young I thought this was fake and it was some sort of dream, so as I grew up I heard less about it so it made me feel as if this was a hallucination, but no. ITS FREAKING REAL
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 9:40:17 GMT -5
Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat When I was young I thought this was fake and it was some sort of dream, so as I grew up I heard less about it so it made me feel as if this was a hallucination, but no. ITS FREAKING REAL I loved Sagwa when I was younger! (Tbh, I think it's the reason why I like shrimp so much.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2016 9:41:23 GMT -5
Also I remember watching stuff like Barney and Teletubbies.
And the Land Before Time!
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 9:45:05 GMT -5
Shrek. All the Shrek movies. The Incredibles Prince of Egypt Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Aug 11, 2016 10:42:34 GMT -5
how about we don't remember that
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 10:44:06 GMT -5
Oh man yep I was hit with nostalgia reading through that list. Also stuff like Floam, scented markers, and those airbrush markers that there would always be random commercials for back then on tv. Omg Floam, I remember that! They used to sell tubs of them next to the cash registers, and I'd always beg her to buy me them. I kind o remember those air brush commercials, too. Floam had commercials too, which I remember more vividly. Brambleshadow The hell. That's pretty bad, especially since I always considered them kid books...
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 10:45:41 GMT -5
Also I remember watching stuff like Barney and Teletubbies. And the Land Before Time! My mom wouldn't let me watch Barney xD And I remember Land Before Time. Didn't the mom die in one episode, or something?
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Aug 11, 2016 11:00:39 GMT -5
Also I remember watching stuff like Barney and Teletubbies. And the Land Before Time! My mom wouldn't let me watch Barney xD And I remember Land Before Time. Didn't the mom die in one episode, or something? the first movie, but i think it was the grandmother?? idk i watched it once when i was 6
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 11:11:19 GMT -5
Saint Ambrosef I just remember it being really sad. Sootfeather Whoops. I'll fix that later.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2016 11:24:47 GMT -5
The mother dies in Movie One. Apparently sad, but I like it because character development.
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 17:01:44 GMT -5
Oh man yep I was hit with nostalgia reading through that list. Also stuff like Floam, scented markers, and those airbrush markers that there would always be random commercials for back then on tv. Omg Floam, I remember that! They used to sell tubs of them next to the cash registers, and I'd always beg her to buy me them. I kind o remember those air brush commercials, too. Floam had commercials too, which I remember more vividly. Brambleshadow The hell. That's pretty bad, especially since I always considered them kid books... Yep. Animorphs is brutal. You know the book with Rachel morphing into a starfish? She gets split into two halves and at one point beats a Hork-Bajir over the head to death with a severed grizzly bear arm in that one. So... yeah, Goosebumps never seemed all that terrifying. (And let's not even get into all of the nightmare fuel in Animorphs.)
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 17:06:52 GMT -5
Omg Floam, I remember that! They used to sell tubs of them next to the cash registers, and I'd always beg her to buy me them. I kind o remember those air brush commercials, too. Floam had commercials too, which I remember more vividly. Brambleshadow The hell. That's pretty bad, especially since I always considered them kid books... Yep. Animorphs is brutal. You know the book with Rachel morphing into a starfish? She gets split into two halves and at one point beats a Hork-Bajir over the head to death with a severed grizzly bear arm in that one. So... yeah, Goosebumps never seemed all that terrifying. (And let's not even get into all of the nightmare fuel in Animorphs.) Kind of like how Courage and Ren and Stimpy had dark stuff and yet still got classified as kids shows.
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 17:15:23 GMT -5
Yep. Animorphs is brutal. You know the book with Rachel morphing into a starfish? She gets split into two halves and at one point beats a Hork-Bajir over the head to death with a severed grizzly bear arm in that one. So... yeah, Goosebumps never seemed all that terrifying. (And let's not even get into all of the nightmare fuel in Animorphs.) Kind of like how Courage and Ren and Stimpy had dark stuff and yet still got classified as kids shows. There's a joke in the Tumblr fandom that the editors/publishers didn't actually read any of the books. They just saw the concept of "kids turning into animals" and the covers and the cool little flipbooks in the corner and went, "Sure, let's market this towards young kids." ...Sort of like Warriors, actually. These books really aren't all that kid-friendly.
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 17:35:49 GMT -5
Kind of like how Courage and Ren and Stimpy had dark stuff and yet still got classified as kids shows. There's a joke in the Tumblr fandom that the editors/publishers didn't actually read any of the books. They just saw the concept of "kids turning into animals" and the covers and the cool little flipbooks in the corner and went, "Sure, let's market this towards young kids." ...Sort of like Warriors, actually. These books really aren't all that kid-friendly. They're more kid friendly than that...
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 17:54:41 GMT -5
Does anyone remember Cabbage Patch Kids?
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Post by Auransky on Aug 11, 2016 17:58:54 GMT -5
Just a heads up-
Bill Nye The Science Guy, is still played in science classes from elementary - high school.
While doing some of my observations in different school districts, I'd sit through some good old Bill Nye with the entire class. Myself working in a public school setting, sometimes on the teachers list is an episode of everyone's favorite scientist.
The middle schoolers and high schoolers especially today will sing to the theme song. When I'm working with elementary school kids i'm like; "Hey kids lets sing this together!" <3
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 18:09:38 GMT -5
Just a heads up- Bill Nye The Science Guy, is still played in science classes from elementary - high school. While doing some of my observations in different school districts, I'd sit through some good old Bill Nye with the entire class. Myself working in a public school setting, sometimes on the teachers list is an episode of everyone's favorite scientist. The middle schoolers and high schoolers especially today will sing to the theme song. When I'm working with elementary school kids i'm like; "Hey kids lets sing this together!" <3 Oooh, Bill Nye the Science Guy! We used to watch him in elementary school (along with The Magic School Bus). Stop me before I start chanting the theme song.
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Post by Auransky on Aug 11, 2016 18:21:42 GMT -5
Brambleshadow I don't see a reason to stop you!Yea the kids still listen to it. I was helping my old eighth grade physics teacher last year. He played Bill Nye and all the kids were singing. On top of that, I stayed the whole day just to see if my brother would sing during fourth period. My god... he did. Like I hid under the desk in the back of the room, then popped out while I caught him and all his friends singing. It was classic!
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 18:36:34 GMT -5
I had to do it. Sorry not sorry.
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Aug 11, 2016 18:41:35 GMT -5
I remember watching Bill Nye in 8th grade lol
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Post by Brambleshadow on Aug 11, 2016 18:57:47 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned the Teen Titans cartoon yet?
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