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You Are In the Right Place-GEN X Here Celebrating Our Collective Experience. The GEN Xperience is a brand. A positive echo of an era of boundless optimism and sometimes excess. Delivering content built with a heavy dose of the 80s while also recognizing the full breadth of growing up in GEN X, the 70s through the mid-90s. A place where those of a certain age can RECALL, REMINISCE, and RELIVE the memories of events, legends, and lifestyle that have stood the test of time.
The GEN Xperience pulls back the curtain for everyone to peek inside the last great generation of genuine creativity whose by-products are infinitely attached to our shared cultural zeitgeist.
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12 Forgotten 80s Toys DEEP CUTS | Unusual 80s Toys You PROBABLY MISSED from Your Favorite Toylines
Forgotten 80s Toys from Popular 1980s Toylines. 80s Toys and Action Figures that are Strange, Unusual & Rare Deep Cuts from Favorite 80s Toylines you loved. 12 Things from the 80s that I consider Deep Cuts from 80s Toys and Toylines You've Probably Forgotten or Missed Entirely.
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10 ABSURD MOTU Original 1980s Toys | Weird Masters of the Universe VINTAGE 80s Toys & Action Figures
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MOTU, Masters of the Universe, and the vintage toyline filled with awesome, wild, sometimes weird, and definitely Absurd 1980s Toys & Action Figures. 10 Original 1980s MOTU Toys and Action Figures that are the most absurd toys in the line. My top 10 Absurd MOTU 80s Toys from the Vintage Original 1980s Masters of the Universe Toyline. Skeletor and He-Man top the line along with dozens of incredi...
8 Things TODAY that Would NOT Be ACCEPTABLE In 1980s | Today THINGS NOT SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE in 80s
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A Number of things that we consider normal today would NOT BE ACCEPTABLE in the 1980s. Some things we do today have changed since the 1970s and 1980s and anyone from that period might consider that these Things Have NOT Aged Well and EVEN Socially Unacceptable. Here are ONLY 8 Things Today that Would NOT Be Acceptable in the 70s and 80s.
What RICH KIDS HAD in the 80s…And WE WANTED | 1980s THINGS that Made You Rich Growing Up GEN X
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The 1980s left us unforgettable memories, fashion and cutting edge technological advances. Many of our friends had the best 1980s toys, clothes, video games systems, computers, and more expensive tastes that convinced us they were rich. Cars, clothes, computers, toys from the era of excess, the 1980s, were the things we thought only the rich kids had and we wanted growing up in GEN X.
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In 1984, the Olympic Games were on Life Support and Losing Public Interest. The Best Olympics Ever were the 1984 LA Olympics that MADE Money and Effectively Saved ALL Future Olympic Games. Thanks to the Best Olympics in 1984 in LA for bringing renewed interest and GOLD MEDALS the future of the Olympic Games like the 2024 Olympics in Paris with Simon Biles and Stephen Nedoroscik, was assured...a...
8 Comic Strips Turned 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoons | SUNDAY FUNNIES Go Animated as 1980s Cartoons
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Classic Comic Strips Got Animated as 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoons. From Newspaper Comic Strips to Cartoon Series on Saturday Mornings, Popeye, Flash Gordon, Heathcliff, Peanuts, and More jumped from the Sunday Funnies into Animated Offerings as 80s Cartoons. 8 Comic Strips from the Sunday Funnies, like Garfield and Dennis the Menace, Turned Cartoons during the 80s on Saturday Mornings. Did t...
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10 Classic 1970s & 1980s TV Show Stars Who Are NOT DEAD YET. Sole Survivors of Classic TV Sitcom and 70s & 80s TV Series who continue to represent the best TV shows from The GEN Xperience. Wonder Woman, Bionic Woman, Ginger Grant, Steve Austin, Joyce DeWitt Janet, Bob Newhart Show, Incredible Hulk, and more TV Shows Lead Characters who are still alive, the last lone survivor of a favorite Class...
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40 Years Ago, Faye Dunaway Starred in the 1984 Box Office Bomb, Supergirl. DC Comic Superhero, Supergirl, failed in her first Motion Picture and many people think that Faye Dunaway was the Kryptonite that Flopped this Film based on her previous Movie Disaster, Mommie Dearest. Faye Dunaway is a great actress, so what caused Helen Slater's first film to be a disaster for 40 year? You decided as w...
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Its Prime Days Again, so why not celebrate the ONLY way that makes sense, with 1980s Action Figure G1 OPTIMUS PRIME and 40 years of the Transformers Cartoon and 80s Toys. Prime was the Father of a Generation and now a Pop Culture Icon that came from a 1980s Action Figure and 80s Cartoon. Make Prime Days all about Optimus Prime and this 1980s Action Figure Cartoon Franchise that took the world b...
The 13 BEST Storytelling Sitcom Theme Songs EVER | Sitcom Theme Songs YOU STILL Sing in the Shower
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The 13 Best Sitcom Theme Songs that tell the story. The TOP 13 BEST Storytelling 70s and 80s Sitcom Theme Songs You STILL Sing in the Shower. From Laverne & Shirley, Good Times, and Three's Company to The Facts of Life, Maude, Cheers, and My Two Dads, the TOP 1970s and 1980s Sitcoms with the Best Storytelling Theme Songs. Check out the Goldie Hawn Show mentioned in this video here: czcams.com/v...
The 4th of July ONCE UPON a TIME in America| GETTING LIT for Independence Day...as We Remember It
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Get LIT for Independence Day the way we remember it in America. The 4th of July Parades, Picnics, and FIREWORKS how we remember them, or THINK we remember them Once Upon a Time in America. The 4th of July in America with Hot Dogs and Firework Fails.
The BEST Video Game CARTOONS from the 80s | 80s Saturday Morning Cartoons from the ARCADE You LOVED
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The Very Best Video Game Cartoons were made in the 1980s as part of Saturday Morning Cartoons. Video Game Cartoons based on the best and most favorite Classic Arcade Characters like Donkey Kong, Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Pac Man and More were brought to life as Video Game Cartoons on 1980s Saturday Morning TV. The Best Video Game Cartoons came out in the 80s so see how the Arcade went Anima...
Madonna - WORLD TOUR of Mediocre Movies | MATERIAL GIRL & Her 20+ Hollywood ROLES You Don't Know
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Madonna just completed her 2024 World Tour, but let's not forget Madonna Movies. More than just Like a Virgin, Like a Prayer, Material Girl, Vogue, and the rest of her hit pop songs, Madonna had some Hit Movies, or did she? Featured in over 20 films in what many consider a mediocre movie career, Pop Music Diva Madonna starred in Hollywood Roles YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW, and many consider more miss...
13 Must See 80s TV Hero TRANSFORMATIONS | Live Action & Animated Epic Hero Transformations UPDATED
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Epic Transformations of Iconic HEROES from 1980s TV you MUST SEE. 1970s Wonder Woman and Incredible Hulk Transformations, along with 1980s Transformers and Masters of the Universe He-Man and She Ra Magical Girl Transformations that made these Iconic 70s and 80s TV Shows Epic Must See. 1980s Cartoons and 70s TV Shows EPIC Hero Transformations everyone should know. This is a Reimaging, a Redux, a...
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12 OBSCURE 1980s Toylines You Always WANTED | Lesser Known or Forgotten 80s Toys & Action Figures
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I had a couple of the omnibots. They were too small to sell as regular autobot cars, but too big to sell as minibots, so since there was only three of them, Hasbro just sold them as mail-order toys.
Battle Beasts were awesome! I still have that white lion somewhere
Nice. Glad they didn't get lost.
I had all three of the mask vehicles. 😢 I don't have them anymore I wish I did
YOu did? I didn't know anyone with those pieces. They were probably easy to lose.
I still have stinkor and moss man. They both still have their scents
Lucky you. NOt my Moss Man
Zodiac was my least favorite but most played with character. Who was this guy? He was neither good nor bad? A cosmic enforcer? Okay. With that amount of anonymity he fit in to almost any storyline. Actually the only thing that bugged me about him was they used the same clawed feet as skeletor, but they left them flesh colored and it did not look right.
He was the odd bean. I too didn't know what to do with him since I saw the description as both GOOD and EVIL on the card back. Plus, he didn't really look like a space cop, lol.
I had the Go-Bots Oddball toy from Wendy's!
What? That is awesome. Those were so forgotten, glad you remembered.
Man I hd those terror claws and was one of my favs
lol...I'm not dissing it too much. It would have been a great action feature for kids to play with...but just absurd that he needed them. I do appreciate the comment, man.
I didn't know about the Jem and Wendy's Gobots. But then we didn't have a Wendy's over here to begin with. That MLP cloud shower set doesn't seem like a deep cut to me tough. I saw it several times during my childhood. I always tought it looked like would fit better with the Carebears tough.
Perhaps you are right about the Waterfall, but as the Care Bears Care A Lot was so obvious, and the Pony sets aren't iconic, that one was about as forgotten as I could get. Thanks for comments and the view, I do appreciate it.
@@GENXPERIENCE For me i'd say the Birthflower mailaway ponies. Not just 1 mailaway but an entire series of 12! One for each month. Their cutie marks were all flowers that are asociated to those months. Like a daffodil for the month March.
🙂awesome, i love 80s toys.....especially he-man and the masters of the universe
You know it. I hope you continue to enjoy.
Brother, you are the only person I have seen on CZcams mention the Great Space Coaster, "No news is good news, with Gary Ganews".
Awesome. I actually was going to do a full show on it. Yeah, it is rarely remembered...but that theme song man...and of course Gary...deserve more.
Some really fun choices. Laser light stuff invaded a lot of toylines including MASK. I've seen advertisements for the various Transformers, GI Joe and even My Little Pony mail-ins.
Laser light was a...BIG HIT...if you know what I mean, lol. There were so many obscure toys from those mail aways, too. I was too impatient to get those. THanks for the comment.
Any chance you will be at JoeLanta this month? Love to meet you in person.
Hey man. I would love to meet you. I haven't gone to conventions much in years, but perhaps I will do one in the near future. It would be an easy trip to manage.
12:12 Mask might have something to do with why I like certain grown up “gear” activities now. 😂😂😂
Ah hah. Well, just goes to show you how our childhood playthings help define our adult playthings.
I had Arkus from Power Lords as a kid...i had no idea what line he came from till i was grown 😂
THat is kind of fun. Having a random toy that you didn't know what they were part of, but they joined in all the fun anyway.
I had 2 Power Lords toys, I had won at the fair. Don't think I ver saw them in stores.
*anxiously awaiting Part 2*
Thank you, I really think there could be some more great ones.
Your page is such a gem for us who were the right age to enjoy all of the amazing toys the 80’s had to offer. Seeing the Power Lords and Beast Machines unlocked memories of toys that I completely forgot I’d owned
That is perfect. I love hearing that, and that is the intent. My page might not always be about toys...but who am I kidding, they made it great, lol.
Really brings back some long forgotten memories. Nothing was like the 1980s when it comes to marketing toys to kids. Never came close to owning everything but I did have transformers, GIJoe, Voltron and he-man before my childhood ended and I got interested in girls.
Yeah, how could we own them all...although I did see some kids try. There was such a great diverse array of options, and I loved most of them. Thanks for watching.
Anyone else’s brain combine sky commanders with air raiders? I was absolutely sure that the string/grapple play pattern was air raiders. Huh. Weird. Great video by the way! Some fantastic deep cuts here & very well presented.
I can imagine that for sure. It was hard to keep track of when doing the research for the show.
I really enjoyed seeing the He Man and Power Lords they were really awesome thanks.☕👋🇺🇲
What amazing toys we had, am I right? Thank you for watching.
Great video...I definitely can relate. Makes me think maybe somethings from the past might be better in today's time. Keep up the great work Fam.❤️
Hey hey. So good to see you here. And yes, I agree some ways of life then would be make today better off if they were still around. Thank you so much.
My new non-for profit: tops for bottoms
lol...at least you're not charging.
Super girl was just too sexy 😍
Can't deny she wasn't gorgeous.
I remember how massive cabbage patch kids where here in the UK and the garbage pale kids bubble gum cards 😂👍
I loved my deck of Garbage Pail Kids. So damn funny
Now its horrific artificial limbs in meat trays its disgusting and obviously satanic especially here in the UK
Obviously Satanic, lol! Or people are just gross. Thanks for all the comments and the views. I appreciate you.
No reboot needed. Leave it alone.
Nah, nothing really needs a reboot.
Dude, Dragstor is in the Evil Horde, not Evil Warriors, sure u know, just said several times, sorry to bitch
Do Any of you know who that female figure with the red bathing suit and gold spiked/shark-fin helmet shown at the end is? If she was mentioned in the video, I missed it
That is Mara from Blackstar
I adore Supergirl. It’d bad fun. Guilty pleasure campy. “Because WE OWWWN THE MATCHES!” 😂😂😂
lol. You aren't wrong. It is just too bad it is still such a commercial flop...but don't get me wrong besides loving it as a kid, Supergirl herself is FAB
You missed quite a few. Archie's TV Funnies featured Dick Tracy, Moon Mullins, Smokey Stover, Nancy (& Sluggo), Broom Hilda, Emmy Lou, The Dropouts and The Captain & The Kids (The Katzenjammer Kids) in 1971 and later included Alley Oop and Tumbleweeds (for one episode) on The Fabulous Funnies in 1978. Dennis The Menace, The Wizard Of ID and Miss Peach were animated segments on The Curiosity Shop in 1971. Fred Basset had an animated series in the UK in 1976. Morrie Turner's Wee Pals became Kid Power in 1972 on ABC. ABC's Saturday Superstar Movie featured an episode called "Popeye Meets The Man Who Hated Laughter" which featured other King Features characters (Blondie & Dagwood, Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey, Jiggs & Maggie from Bringing Up Father, Henry, Hi & Lois, The Katzenjammer Kids, Little Iodine, The Little King, Quincy, Steve Canyon, Tiger, Tim Tyler of Tim Tyler's Luck. Prince Valiant and the very first appearance of The Defenders Of The Earth with Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magician, Lothar and The Phantom). Plus: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! (1998) King Features Trilogy with Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith & Krazy Kat (1963) Animal Crackers (1997) Baby Blues (2000) Dilbert (1999) For Better Or For Worse (2000) Mother Goose & Grimm / Grimmy (1991) The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991) Phantom 2040 (1994) Flash Gordon (1996) The Boondocks (2005) Other comic strip characters have had animated primetime specials like: Cathy (1987, 1988 & 1989) Beetle Bailey (1989) Blondie & Dagwood (1987 & 1989) Hagar The Horrible (1989) The Far Side (1994 & 1997) Doonesbury (1977) Marvin (1989) B.C. (1973 & 1981) The Family Circus (1978, 1979 & 1982) Ziggy (1982) Little Orphan Annie (1995) Pogo (1969) Dennis The Menace (1981) The Fantastic Funnies (1980), hosted by Loni Anderson featured animated shorts of Dennis The Menace, Barney Google, B.C., Andy Capp, Blondie & Dagwood, Doonesbury, Momma, Hagar The Horrible, Cathy, Broom Hilda, Tumbleweeds, Marmaduke (before his 1981 series with Heathcliff), a clip from the "I Go Pogo" movie and the very first Garfield animated short voiced by the late Scott Beach, who was the original voice of Garfield in 1980 before Lorenzo Music first voiced him in "Here Comes Garfield" in 1982. Fun Facts: Lil Abner appeared in a series of animated cartoons beginning in 1944 before The New Shmoo first appeared on NBC's Fred & Barney Meet The Shmoo (previously Fred & Barney Meet The Thing in 1979). Little Orphan Annie appeared in two live action movies starring Mitzi Green (1932) and Ann Gillis (1938) before Aileen Quinn played "Annie" in 1982. The Peanuts gang appeared in animated commercials for The Ford Motor Company before they got their first animated Christmas Special in 1965.
A lot of those were Comic Books and DID NOT appear as Comic Strips in the newspaper, or were Comic Books before they were strips...so in that case they did not fit my parameters. But they are good ones for a whole other show. Also, your list is really going outside of Saturday Morning Cartoons made from Comic Strips, so maybe you got a little confused of the theme of the show. Not to mention so many of those are out of The GEN Experience and into new generations. But there is a lot of info to pack in there.
OMG I totally forgot about Mantisaur. Lol. Yeah. A dragon was needed.
YAY, I love that someone felt the same. As creepy as a Mantis is...where were the dragons. Thank you for the comments.
Infaceables, thanks I hate it!
Awesome. You are welcome
I always used Faker as Skeletors failed experiment to make his own He-Man. He wasn't AS powerful as He-Man, but still strong enough to be a henchman. He kind of became my Starscream, plotting against Skeletor because a part of him was kind of like He-Man, he wanted to defeat him, but only to take his place and then beat He-Man.
Love your thoughtful perspective on it. I shared some of the same story for Faker, too.
I was raised in the 80s and I've only heard of very few of those. Never even wanted them. The only toys I really wanted were the original Voltron and Transformers.
Well, you can't go wrong with the Transformers.
My cousin had a coleco while i had the Atari. Never knew anyone who had the flagg but i remember seeing moms in the store fighting over cabbage patch dolls, saying they must be super rich.
I thought the same thing. I thought anyone who had one, let alone more than one, was filthy rich.
Interesting and wonderful that all the primetime Superheroes of the 70s are still with us. The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk!
I started to notice that, too. It made me feel good.
I remember the Navarone Giant Play Set. I didn't have one, but a friend did. The Family Tree House was cool also. My cousin had the Death Star Space Station. I always wanted that one for the obvious Star Wars fanboy reasons!
My brother had the Death Star...so I made it mine, lol. Yeah, it was just awesome.
I had the Bionic Man Mission Control Center! And, of course, Steve Austin! So Cool!!
He was such an incredible figure. What a time.
Great video! I grew up on Star Wars (like most boys) and never owned any of these but knew of several. I remember a neighbor had a Shogun Warrior and I thought it AMAZING! Honorable mention for me: Crystar from Remco (1983). Because I had Crystar and Warbow but always wanted them all!
Crystar is popular, I don't remember it at all, but I do love being introduced to something new. Thank you so much.
0:45 There were only 72 vintage MOTU figures? Not as many as I expected. I had just three. I was born a little too late for MOTU. They were present on the playground, but were just about to be supplanted by the next big thing, my main nostalgic childhood franchise; The Transformers. The Filmation style of the MOTU cartoon already seemed dated to me back then, when compared to other sci-fi fantasy series like Thundercats, Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, or The Mighty Orbots. I do have enough fondness for the characters to have a small MOTU collection though. 5 Origins figures, plus the main cast from the Club Greyskull Ultimates (cartoon style) line. Just missing Evil-Lyn. 😬
I still love how you honor them and that small connection you had to them. Yeah, there were not as many MOTU as GI JOE or Transformers. I was there for their debut so I have a big emotional connection. Transformers came out 2 years later, and they did take over my love, too. Thanks for watching and sharing.
I've seen those Tops characters in toy shops and shows, i never knew they were MotU.. crazy. I kinda drifted away from MotU after the movie. Not because of the movie, lol, i was just getting into new things
I can understand not seeing them as MOTU, I certainly didn't. The MOTU movie was there last hurrah for me. I was too old for toys (at that time, lol), and the movie was just a ball of crazy. Thank you for watching and commenting.
A grown man that collects toys: I TOTALLY get that. It’s cool. A grown man that says “that’s fire”: NOT cool. Totally NOT tubular. So UNradical
lol
the patchouly oil was actually used as a portion of the oil in the plastic of the arms and legs, mine is still pungent 40 years later
Nice. My Moss Man lost it fast.
Moss Man lost his pine scent within a year because it was just perfume. But stinkor's patchouli persists to this day because it's literally part of the plastic
I worked at the Moline, IL Holidome from '92-'96. Some of the greatest memories of my life happened there. Sadly, it became a Ramada in the early 2000's and was torn down around 2015. 329 rooms, restaurant, lounge, airport convention center, two indoor pools, hot tub, finess room, arcade, mini basketball court, nine hole put-put golf, ping pong tables, and seven hot-tub suites. Never to be equaled or replaced, in my opinion. "Thank you for calling the Moline, IL Holiday Inn Airport Convention Center. How may I direct your call?"
Thank you so much for sharing this. So few people seem to have the memories that I, and you, both share. I didn't work there, but boy was that something. My parents getting a room right on the edge of all the action. To a kid it was endless surprises. LOL, love the greeting at the end...I can almost hear you doing it with a smile in your voice.
11:48 That was the whole appeal of Kenner's speeder bike from ROTJ. Just to keep crashing into stuff and blowing it up, via button press.
Ah hah...there's another good one, the SPeeder Bikes. Thanks for the memory.
They were “tops”
tee hee
I lost interest in MOTU when Hordak came along. The figures kinda went off the rails into silly territory and felt like a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
I did love the Horde's first figures: Grizzlor, Leech, etc...but it is true, that is what was going on. I just thought when they went all Snake Men.
I had Barbie's, and it would make me mad that most of the Mego figures were much shorter, meaning she had very few options for a date that looked right, lol
Yeah, no kidding. You'd think they would all get together and sell more if they all could get along. Thank you for sharing.
I was a lucky kid, lol, i had the Fonze garage & hotrod, the pop up family tree house, and the McDonald's.
Okay, that is pretty awesome. I don't know anyone who had the Garage and hot rode. But I did love my treehouse and McDs.
The amount of these I had...I could never remember the names of the Super Naturals or the Infaceables.
Amazing isn't it? Some things just leave us. We may not remember their names, but the imagery is there. Thanks for sharing and watching.
You pretty much covered every figure that eventually turned me away from Motu, it all ended up looking like a cash grab
LOL. Well, they were trying to stay relevant and keep up with those others. But at least MOTU was the trend setter...it just couldn't last. Thanks for the watch.