Cabbage Patch boy – Yello80s collection
See also: Cola Wars, Print, Cars, Food/ Restaurants, McDonalds, Holidays, Products, Toys/Games, Travel.
Ah, toys, toys, toys! It seemed everything in the 1980s existed for one purpose: to sell toys. Cartoons? Coming to a local Kmart near you just in time for the Christmas rush. Fast food? Buy the meal to get the toy. Breakfast cereal? What’s breakfast cereal? Oh, that crunchy crap we dumped out on the table to get– the toy. Marketers knew that the all-powerful toy marketing scheme had to start somewhere and they made good use of that other omnipresent selling machine to get their wares out to the masses: the television. Here’s some of my favourite ads from the 80s.
Lite Brite courtesy ilovetvcommercials80
Teddy Ruxpin Show and Tell courtesy adobro
Star Wars toys courtesy mr80stvshows
The Animator courtesy xBeatrushx
MadBalls courtesy RecreationBerkshire
Blurp Balls courtesy wheezebucket
Baby All Gone courtesy kagemusha168
PogoBall courtesy SpacedCobraTV
Puffalumps courtesy iencoder
Fantastic Flowers courtesy weatherguru76
NKOTB Dolls courtesy Ecossaise
HuggaBunch dolls courtesy Lauren Gainey
Gummi Bears Shrinky Dinks courtesy amtelevision
My Buddy / Kid Sister courtesy weatherguru76