i had SO many squinkies and their playsets. the hello kitty and disney princess ones were my favorites,, but i eventually decided to give my whole collection to my little cousins. i will never forget the horror of finding cinderella’s decapitated head in the carpet at their house.
24 yo also autistic! Most of those were more my little sister's than mine but I literally still dream about Moshi Monsters sometimes. I played an ungodly amount of MM in the early 2010s. I LOVED Squinkies and Zhu Zhus but I had "you're twelve we're not buying you kids' toys" parents. I used to steal my siblings' to play with. The all-brown gen 1 Zhu Zhu was my absolutely favorite.
@@carissaclanton4150ew! My mom WANTED me to still enjoy toys at 12! My grandma was still buying me Barbies at 14 Parents that discourage their kids are icky (Also another autist in their 20s here lol I'm 22)
@@GaryCandyPrince because both the creator of this video & the audience are neurodivergent & celebrate our traits that are prominent as kids & adults?? read the room lol
@@GaryCandyPrince The creator is autistic so autists relate to her in general. It's common for autists to mention being autistic in a space that's clearly welcoming of neurodivergent individuals.
I thought Squinkies was going to be one of those toy lines that gets completely forgotten about! I remember owning the Adventure Mall Surprise Nintendo DS game years ago. So much fun!
Me too! I thought no one remembered them cuz every time I bring them up, no one knows what I’m talking about. I had so many of them, I had the play sets, I had a puzzle, I even had the mini version of squinkies, zinkies. :3
@@isabella1878 Aww, I know what you mean! So many of our favorite toys get forgotten about. So glad there's a little corner of us on the internet who remember Squinkies! :D
There was a HUGE successful vending machine toy line called Lil Homies back in the late 90s. Completely changed the game. I remember hunting down machines that carried them and just cleaning them out. Feel like they were one of the first in the mini craze.
this reminded me that me and my brother used to pretend that our squinkies were in minecraft when we ran out of screen time and we would call it squinky minecraft !!!!!!! :D
Squishy squooshy squashy fun A tiny surprise with every one Pop the bubble, that’s where they hide And every squinkie’s a surprise inside SQUINKIES SQUINKIES SQUINKIES This is gonna be one of those generational nostalgia things for years to come isn’t it
This is not that related to the video but it feels so cool to see someone around my age (I’m 17 but you know not super far off) creating videos like this successfully, especially someone who’s also autistic and a lesbian who talks about so many things that are nostalgic for me. It’s like this channel was made exactly for me haha!! This probably sounds weird but you seem sm like the type of person who id want to be friends with :3
does anyone remember zoobles? i used to collect a lot of them and i was OBSESSED as a child. i’d love for this creator to make a video on them and perhaps the disappearance surrounding them? another amazing video that allows me to indulge in my childhood nostalgia. thank you!!
YES. I absolutely loved these as a kid! Too bad when they tried to make a reboot, they essentially ruined them by using the same contemporary theming as most girls’ toys of the 2020s.
I cant believe this wasnt mentioned, squinkies had a online game like webkins, the squinkies came with a code in the capsules that you could get play the character in game. It wasnt very popular when I played in 2012-2014 but you could decorate your house and play mini games, and walk around squishland.
I had the gum ball machine hair ones, I legit just asked my dad after watching both this and the shopkins vids if they were still in “their plastic tote prisons in the attic” and I’m on the verge of going home and looking my 20 year old ass wants to play with nostalgic toys
I’m currently 32 and I collected these in 2010 when I was 18. I loved them especially the animal ones. The frog was always my favourite. I still have some of the original ones somewhere. Thank you for doing these.❤
I regret getting rid of my squinkies every day. Especially my totodile one, which I’m sure was off brand since i can’t find ANYTHING about any Pokémon squikies anywhere but i swear it wasn’t just a crocodile squinkie it was 100% a totodile, miss my silly guys
You single handedly ended my toy ID torture. I had these teeny tiny hair pieces that were mixed in with Giftems that I could NOT identify. I got so frustrated I put them away for two weeks. And by coincidence I watched your video, and I saw the Squinkies Do Drops, I thought 'hold up' AND THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE Thank you so much, I owe you my sanity XDD
To elaborate on the mention of the coin-op capsule toy machines being popular in Japan: Japan is actually where those originate! They're called "gachapon" or "gashapon" (both are correct) over there, with "gacha/gasha" representing the sound the crank makes as you turn it and "pon" being the sound of the capsule coming out. (This is also where the term "gacha", as in "gacha game", originates) They were invented in the '60s by a man named Ryuzo Shigeta--he was inspired by an American machine he saw that released candy and toys, but he found the mechanism kind of haphazard and came up with the idea of putting the toys in capsules to streamline it. Additionally the Pokeball comparison isn't as far off as you think--the earliest ideas for the Pokemon games took heavy inspiration from gachapon, and the original name was planned to be "Capumon" (short for Capsule Monsters) rather than "Pokemon" (short for Pocket Monsters) If I remember correctly this was changed for copyright reasons? but it's worth noting that in the first few games the Pokeballs looked and seemingly functioned a lot like gacha capsules with them coming apart into two pieces, though since then they've been portrayed as one unit with a hinge and featuring a button
I had (and still have the hello kitty squinkies) so many squinkies they were so cute (and looked super chewy lol). I LOVED the ds games specifically the one where they’d chaotically jump on different platforms. And then the one where they’d collect coins outside to get new squinkies. Ugh so iconic
My cat used to love playing with squinkies. We would buy them specifically for him. I mean, if it was a really cool one, i would keep it. But mostly, they were cat toys. They bounced in an odd, frantic way and our cat loved to chase them. Ah memories. ❤
Only memory I have of these is playing with them at a friend's house when I was like 7. Basically she was having her birthday party and apparently I was the only one to show up, she was very happy I was there, I gave her her gift and we played squinkies for like 5 minutes before I had to leave. I haven't talked to her in like years since then so I really hope she's doing okay now.
I actually really loved the army set. It came with the usual tweezers but were "military themed", had a rollback car that could fit a couple zinkies, and the magnifying glass was cool too. And, they could be put away easily in the grenade. I also liked the variation and the amount of figures they had. I remember there were a few that were silver or black, some where snipers and some had two big bazookas. I played with those for hours. I would set them all up on my couch and make them go to war, and play with them like little dolls, too. I think these figures were really nice. They gave me an outlet to do more "girly" things that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten to do. They were soft and squishy and had faces, despite them seeming like a stereotypical "boys toy" in all other regards. I was never really allowed to have too many stuffed animals, but I could play around with these little guys in my bed before I went to sleep and make up stories about them. lowkey the zinkies army set might have opened the door for me being a little too into people in airsoft gear
I USED YOUR PARADE CODE!!! Thank you so much ❤❤ I saved like $100 and I got two, two piece sets!! I’m literally so excited, and was sure to mention your name and channel when it asked me about how I learned about them. Also LOVE your deep dives. You tackle all my favorite childhood loves, and I learn a lot about them. My mom literally asked me yesterday if I was going to watch some presidential debate and I told her “I can’t I’m watching a deep dive on squinkies, I’ve got adult PRIORITIES!!” 😂
I remember when I was five or six, I would obsessively watch CookieswirlC, and I loved unboxing so much I started keeping the boxes and repacking toys to reopen, especially squinkies
I remember one of the commercials showing a squinkies capsule between each finger on someone's hand and that inspired me to use them to learn how to do the star trek thing
my mom sold all my squinkies and lps as a kid because i didnt clean my room and i think about them every day they were the best i wish i still had them
you deserve to have millions of subscribers. you put in the work girl, and we love to see it!! well-researched media takes time but it creates better content and your videos are consistently some of my favorites 💜
30:58 You had the perfect opportunity to recreate your intro lol I loved these little critters, me and my friends would sneak them into class and draw birds eye views of a house for them to live in. The only Squinkies I remember having was the blue squirrel!
The other day I found my hello kitty fruit squinkies and was going through my old collections this video is perfectly timed lol, I love all of your deep dives!
34:40 My white dog in that shape was my FAVORITE. And the horse. All of these individual shapes are so nostalgic. I think I had every one (different colors of course)
OMG THIS MAKES ME SOOOOO HAPPY IN FIRST GRADE I HAD A SQUINKIES THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTY WHERE MY MOM BOUGHT 100 SQUINKIES AND HID THEM ALL AROUND THE HOUSE AND BACKYARD!!!
I remember I only had a small handful of these, but watching this video unlocked a core memory I didn't even know I had. I remember everytime my family lost bored game pieces, we would use these!! And now that I know that they are back, I'm gonna beg my mom to get me some!! :D
I remember my younger brother stole two of these from a friend. one was a little green-blue mouse with a piece of cheese and the other was immediately lost and forgotten. I didn’t agree with him stealing from friends but stopped caring when I found out they could suction to your tongue,
AHHHH this video was so good, havent heard anyone talk about squinkies in what feels like forever!!! If you're in need of any new video topics you should look into Barbie Peekaboos! They're another toy i never hear anyone talk about anymore that i was absolutely obsessed with as a kid! 💚
OMG I WAS OBSESSED WITH THESE!!! literally ended up getting so many. this and those animal shaped rubber bands were the only things i ever traded as a kid. I always heard about school kids trading stuff and felt left out, then one girl brought a squinkie to the homeschool group and I freaked the hell out
Us being the same age and still having that time basically skipped for us, makes so much sense that we are in such a nostalgia kick. I absolutely love the toys from my childhood, and everyday I wish I did not grow up so fast.
SQUINKIES WERE MY CHILDHOOD. I loved them!!!! I miss them so much, and I really wish they were still around. I had so many, definitely nearly 500. I miss my blue dragon squinkie that I lost years ago, my yellow deer, and especially, my red fox. I haven’t seen my red fox since I was five. If only I had kept them in a box instead of spreading them around like a maniac. I remember when squinkies came back as squinkie do’s (the newer line) I collected those too, tho was unable to collect enough before they too were discontinued. I could say more, but that would be rambling.
I had so many Squinkies as a kid! I actually carried a drawstring bag (that would’ve had jewelry inside originally) to school with my Squinkies. I’m pretty sure they were my first fidgets now that I think about it. I had a ton of Disney sets. I know I had the Little Mermaid one, the Tangled one, and the Cinderella one. I also had an Aristocats one. Maybe I had the Princess set? I had a lot of random Squinkies too. I think we traded them at school and some of them were given to me as a gift. I remember in third grade that I would tie yarn around my neck and hook a Squinkies ball as the charm and have a Squinkie inside. Man, those were the days.
when i was in grade school we used to design our own sets as lil top down blueprints on sheets of paper, the whole class got involved and one kid was the dealer. he had a fanny pack full of more every day
The only squinkie I ever got as a child was a purple hippo I found on the ground at school (still in the ball). I still have it, but was so hurt when it ripped down the middle. I always wanted more, but I felt my mom would say no as I already had a PLETHORA of toys. So happy they're back :3
I'm glad you covered this. They were my absolute favorite toy growing up (that I even brought to a show and tell) and I have so many of them to this day!
i have literally never seen or heard of these before. it's really interesting to find out about something that was a "big, smash success" that people are nostalgic for that i have absolutely no experience with. great video!
OH MY GOD WAIT I know this video is like 3 weeks old, and Im not sure if just all targets look the same, but I think thats the same one as my local one!! I legit remember buying lps and THE SAME TOYS we're there! Anyways, squinkies are epic, your epic, keep making content or i will explode into multiple lego pieces
I completely forgot about these!! thank you, for the nostalgia 💛 we collected these in middle school because they were cute. I also remember doing that with silly bands and jelly bracelets
omfg as a kid who had (and still has..) a lot of chewing stims i LOVED these things. i keep bringing them up in toy collection circles but.. nobody i talk to seems to believe they existed??
TIL that you're a fellow Autistic person! It always delights me when I find another of my people in the wild. 😁 I guess it pays to stick around and listen to the sponsored portion instead of fast forwarding. 🤙🏻
Squinkies were currency in my school. We would put them out on our desks and rent each others or trade. It was top tier drama when someone's squinkie went missing 😂
omg my old elementary school has an old thing that we all call the Squinkie Incident!!! Essentially, one of my friends had like 50 bajilion squinkies all crammed into the giant gumball case to bring to show and tell, and so at gym we went to play with the toys (cuz the teacher let us do that). Well one kid, ONE JERK from our class ended up football punting the case out of my friend's hands, and it caused the case to explode, making squinkies go EVERYWHERE. And cuz they were so rubbery and bouncy, some of those squinkies bounced FAST, hitting kids and causing chaos. pretty sure some kids are still finding squinkies in that gym....
I remember bok choy boys! I used to have a small collection of them! Bok choy boys is one of several vending machine things that I like as a kid. The other being bouncy balls, temporary tattoos and stickers.
i actually adore your content so much!! As an autistic person myself, its hard to find videos that cover the topics i used to love as a kid and its so refreshing to see someone finally covering the stuff i enjoy!! i love your content sm!! Keep up the good work !!! :3
This was my childhood. I'm so glad I saw this video, I was able to go out to target and get the full first wave! I'm going to make it a display of memorial for my childhood
Awesome video! The research put into this was so impressive. I can’t believe the timing of this because I just got a box of Squinkies back that I had left behind at an old house. I think I’m gonna have to do an unboxing now.
I didn’t know I needed you to cover this 😭 I had a handful as a kid but no memory of finding out about them or collecting them?? Resisting the urge to buy them now
when i was a kid, i had a squinky of a whale and i was playing with it in the sink when it got sucked down the drain. for YEARS it stayed in there until 2019 when the sink got clogged and my dad fished it out. he asked me if i wanted it and i said NO! i shouldve kept it!!!!!!!!
I only had one set as a kid, and it was the Cinderella wand with the little Cinderella and 2 mice. I chewed on that Cinderella for a LONG time and she disappeared in the couch until we found her all over again. The mice were a lost cause 😂.
29:08 yes! It’s great to see a toy company actually acknowledging the adult collector market. A great example of what NOT to do is rainbow high. They changed their theme to be about these ugly slime squishies, removed second outfits entirely and added glitter to them to appeal to kids when a large amount of their sales came from adult collectors. They’re not pretty unpopular (the glittery versions)
i have such vivid memories of going to see my grandparents and always always getting squinkies from the little shop by their house, they taste so good.
my mom was one of the bloggers that got sent squinkies early!! we had the cupcake set and I remember being absolutely fascinated with the toys. me and my siblings would set up all our squinkies in rows and then take bartering and trading them wayyy to seriously
My cat saw my phone and literally blocked my view to watch you 😂 he laid down purring his heart out like two inches from the screen watching so intently ❤
I loved these things as a kid! got some of the initial, non-licensed ones for christmas and i loved carrying them around and lining them up on the stairs!!! They're such good Little Guys!! They were so fragile, though (or maybe I was a really rough kid idk) and I was so sad when some of their ears fell off :( Edit: ohmygosh i forgot about the octopi squinkies they were sososo cute!!!
OH MY GOSH. I was trying to remember the name of these toys for YEARS. I was obsessed with them (and chewing on them) as a kid. It drove me nuts I couldn’t remember their name. Thank you!
I JUST DISCOVERED YOUR CHANNEL AND OMG A PORTALS CD IN THE BACK YOU ARE NOW MY FAVORITE CZcamsR OH AND WE ARE IN LIKE ALL OF THE SAME FANDOMS BASED OFF YOUR ROOM
Hi there! I have a suggestion for a brand you can talk about in a future video: Fisher Price! You should talk about the history of the brand and its collection of toys, ESPECIALLY the new ones I see now (the earbuds, the car keys, THE STANLEY CUP?????)
Chewing and choking on these>>!!!
universal experience
REALLLL
Literally better than anything ever
I also used to make them bounce like a bouncy ball sometimes
@@Fluorite-Fox so did i lmfao
I liked how they had the little holes on the bottom so when you chewed them they would suction to your tongue it was the best
Realest words have never been spoken
FACTS !!!
Omg I remember doing that!! I would always see how long they could stay suctioned on to my tounge
The princesses with the round dresses always had the best suction for some reason.
I would stick out my tounge with it and giggle and laugh as I look in the mirror or just keep biting what a core memory you just unlocked wow
OH YES OH GOD YES OH SHIT MY MOUTH IS FULL OF RUBBER
CHEW, MY PLASTIC PAL, CHEW LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
[cuts to footage of milk being poured into a bowl of Squinkies]
@@the_real_Kurt_Yarish YOU TARNISH THEIR TASTE??
@@Paradox_Incognito milky squinkies😁
i had SO many squinkies and their playsets. the hello kitty and disney princess ones were my favorites,, but i eventually decided to give my whole collection to my little cousins. i will never forget the horror of finding cinderella’s decapitated head in the carpet at their house.
NOOO 😭😭
Never trust little kids with your toy collections.
Chewing on these and Polly Pocket clothes probably makes up about 95% of the microplastics in my body
23 year old autistic gal here! Squinkies, Zhu Zhus, Furreal Friends, Moshi Monsters, Aquabeads, Mash Em’s!! memories man🥲🩷
24 yo also autistic! Most of those were more my little sister's than mine but I literally still dream about Moshi Monsters sometimes. I played an ungodly amount of MM in the early 2010s.
I LOVED Squinkies and Zhu Zhus but I had "you're twelve we're not buying you kids' toys" parents. I used to steal my siblings' to play with. The all-brown gen 1 Zhu Zhu was my absolutely favorite.
@@carissaclanton4150ew! My mom WANTED me to still enjoy toys at 12!
My grandma was still buying me Barbies at 14
Parents that discourage their kids are icky
(Also another autist in their 20s here lol I'm 22)
I do not know what being autistic has to do with anything
@@GaryCandyPrince because both the creator of this video & the audience are neurodivergent & celebrate our traits that are prominent as kids & adults?? read the room lol
@@GaryCandyPrince
The creator is autistic so autists relate to her in general. It's common for autists to mention being autistic in a space that's clearly welcoming of neurodivergent individuals.
when I was in 1st grade, they would give kids fake money for being good and squinkies were always one of the things you could buy with the fake money
I thought Squinkies was going to be one of those toy lines that gets completely forgotten about! I remember owning the Adventure Mall Surprise Nintendo DS game years ago. So much fun!
I had the original game and loooved it. +I loved giving my Squinkie-Doo’s baths in the bathroom sink.
Me too! I thought no one remembered them cuz every time I bring them up, no one knows what I’m talking about. I had so many of them, I had the play sets, I had a puzzle, I even had the mini version of squinkies, zinkies. :3
@@isabella1878 Aww, I know what you mean! So many of our favorite toys get forgotten about. So glad there's a little corner of us on the internet who remember Squinkies! :D
@@awtumn yes, 100%. These are my peoples!
Lol for some reason as a kid I thought they were gonna become super expensive collectibles. I failed to save a single one anyways haha
There was a HUGE successful vending machine toy line called Lil Homies back in the late 90s. Completely changed the game. I remember hunting down machines that carried them and just cleaning them out. Feel like they were one of the first in the mini craze.
I remember that! Everyone had Homies
googled these guys and,, yeah they sure are lil homies
memories.. i chewed so often on squinkies its a miracle i didnt choke to death
this reminded me that me and my brother used to pretend that our squinkies were in minecraft when we ran out of screen time and we would call it squinky minecraft !!!!!!! :D
Squishy squooshy squashy fun
A tiny surprise with every one
Pop the bubble, that’s where they hide
And every squinkie’s a surprise inside
SQUINKIES SQUINKIES SQUINKIES
This is gonna be one of those generational nostalgia things for years to come isn’t it
This is not that related to the video but it feels so cool to see someone around my age (I’m 17 but you know not super far off) creating videos like this successfully, especially someone who’s also autistic and a lesbian who talks about so many things that are nostalgic for me. It’s like this channel was made exactly for me haha!!
This probably sounds weird but you seem sm like the type of person who id want to be friends with :3
that’s so sweet THANK YOU 🫶🫶
does anyone remember zoobles? i used to collect a lot of them and i was OBSESSED as a child.
i’d love for this creator to make a video on them and perhaps the disappearance surrounding them?
another amazing video that allows me to indulge in my childhood nostalgia. thank you!!
I remember the zoobles. I had some when i was younger and remember the last one i had was a kangaroo and a baby one. I miss them so much!
YES. I absolutely loved these as a kid! Too bad when they tried to make a reboot, they essentially ruined them by using the same contemporary theming as most girls’ toys of the 2020s.
I cant believe this wasnt mentioned, squinkies had a online game like webkins, the squinkies came with a code in the capsules that you could get play the character in game.
It wasnt very popular when I played in 2012-2014 but you could decorate your house and play mini games, and walk around squishland.
I had the gum ball machine hair ones, I legit just asked my dad after watching both this and the shopkins vids if they were still in “their plastic tote prisons in the attic” and I’m on the verge of going home and looking my 20 year old ass wants to play with nostalgic toys
I’m currently 32 and I collected these in 2010 when I was 18. I loved them especially the animal ones. The frog was always my favourite. I still have some of the original ones somewhere. Thank you for doing these.❤
I regret getting rid of my squinkies every day. Especially my totodile one, which I’m sure was off brand since i can’t find ANYTHING about any Pokémon squikies anywhere but i swear it wasn’t just a crocodile squinkie it was 100% a totodile, miss my silly guys
You single handedly ended my toy ID torture. I had these teeny tiny hair pieces that were mixed in with Giftems that I could NOT identify. I got so frustrated I put them away for two weeks. And by coincidence I watched your video, and I saw the Squinkies Do Drops, I thought 'hold up' AND THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE
Thank you so much, I owe you my sanity XDD
To elaborate on the mention of the coin-op capsule toy machines being popular in Japan:
Japan is actually where those originate! They're called "gachapon" or "gashapon" (both are correct) over there, with "gacha/gasha" representing the sound the crank makes as you turn it and "pon" being the sound of the capsule coming out. (This is also where the term "gacha", as in "gacha game", originates)
They were invented in the '60s by a man named Ryuzo Shigeta--he was inspired by an American machine he saw that released candy and toys, but he found the mechanism kind of haphazard and came up with the idea of putting the toys in capsules to streamline it.
Additionally the Pokeball comparison isn't as far off as you think--the earliest ideas for the Pokemon games took heavy inspiration from gachapon, and the original name was planned to be "Capumon" (short for Capsule Monsters) rather than "Pokemon" (short for Pocket Monsters)
If I remember correctly this was changed for copyright reasons? but it's worth noting that in the first few games the Pokeballs looked and seemingly functioned a lot like gacha capsules with them coming apart into two pieces, though since then they've been portrayed as one unit with a hinge and featuring a button
Eating my squinkies like popcorn to this video
I had (and still have the hello kitty squinkies) so many squinkies they were so cute (and looked super chewy lol). I LOVED the ds games specifically the one where they’d chaotically jump on different platforms. And then the one where they’d collect coins outside to get new squinkies. Ugh so iconic
Keep doing these late 2000s - early 2010s nostalgia videos!
The 2000s kids are growing up and need our nostalgia dose 🤚
As someone who's now on her 20's, I agree
My cat used to love playing with squinkies. We would buy them specifically for him. I mean, if it was a really cool one, i would keep it. But mostly, they were cat toys. They bounced in an odd, frantic way and our cat loved to chase them. Ah memories. ❤
I still have most of my Squinkies! Most of mine were Disney and fuzzy ones, and me and my friend always came up with the craziest storylines
Only memory I have of these is playing with them at a friend's house when I was like 7. Basically she was having her birthday party and apparently I was the only one to show up, she was very happy I was there, I gave her her gift and we played squinkies for like 5 minutes before I had to leave. I haven't talked to her in like years since then so I really hope she's doing okay now.
I actually really loved the army set. It came with the usual tweezers but were "military themed", had a rollback car that could fit a couple zinkies, and the magnifying glass was cool too. And, they could be put away easily in the grenade. I also liked the variation and the amount of figures they had. I remember there were a few that were silver or black, some where snipers and some had two big bazookas. I played with those for hours. I would set them all up on my couch and make them go to war, and play with them like little dolls, too. I think these figures were really nice. They gave me an outlet to do more "girly" things that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten to do. They were soft and squishy and had faces, despite them seeming like a stereotypical "boys toy" in all other regards. I was never really allowed to have too many stuffed animals, but I could play around with these little guys in my bed before I went to sleep and make up stories about them.
lowkey the zinkies army set might have opened the door for me being a little too into people in airsoft gear
I can still taste the plastic of that little blue mouse
I USED YOUR PARADE CODE!!! Thank you so much ❤❤ I saved like $100 and I got two, two piece sets!! I’m literally so excited, and was sure to mention your name and channel when it asked me about how I learned about them.
Also LOVE your deep dives. You tackle all my favorite childhood loves, and I learn a lot about them. My mom literally asked me yesterday if I was going to watch some presidential debate and I told her “I can’t I’m watching a deep dive on squinkies, I’ve got adult PRIORITIES!!” 😂
@@geeknight1999 OMG yay!! hope you enjoy & i’m so glad you enjoy my content 🫶
I remember when I was five or six, I would obsessively watch CookieswirlC, and I loved unboxing so much I started keeping the boxes and repacking toys to reopen, especially squinkies
I remember one of the commercials showing a squinkies capsule between each finger on someone's hand and that inspired me to use them to learn how to do the star trek thing
my mom sold all my squinkies and lps as a kid because i didnt clean my room and i think about them every day they were the best i wish i still had them
I still have my Squinkies! I got the hello kitty ones and some normal ones too. I kept it in a coin purse and called it: the holy grail of Squinkies.
you deserve to have millions of subscribers. you put in the work girl, and we love to see it!! well-researched media takes time but it creates better content and your videos are consistently some of my favorites 💜
thank you so much! that means a lot
I would collect them by looking around my school since everyone lost theirs and I had like 6😭😭
currently losing my mind bc now i can’t stop thinking about wHERE MY SQUINKIES ARE. this video unlocked a core memory for me fr.
It's always a good day when Lula uploads.
Remember Sick Bricks? I used to eat that mobile game up when I was younger. It was one of my favorites
this is so nostalgic i literally had this cupcake house from thumbnail
THESE WERE MY HOLY GRAIL
I USED TO BE OBSESSED WITH SQUINKIEWS
the bake set playset is forever iconic to me I loved it possibly more than individual squinkies
The lighting and decoration of your setup gives me so much nostalgia thank you 🥹🥹🥹
30:58 You had the perfect opportunity to recreate your intro lol
I loved these little critters, me and my friends would sneak them into class and draw birds eye views of a house for them to live in. The only Squinkies I remember having was the blue squirrel!
OMG WAIT i could’ve holy shit
Aw man!
The other day I found my hello kitty fruit squinkies and was going through my old collections this video is perfectly timed lol, I love all of your deep dives!
34:40 My white dog in that shape was my FAVORITE. And the horse.
All of these individual shapes are so nostalgic. I think I had every one (different colors of course)
i feel criminally early for this but i am HYPED for the squinkies deep dive i've been waiting for this
I’m so happy you did a video on this! Squinkies we’re so underrated
OMG THIS MAKES ME SOOOOO HAPPY IN FIRST GRADE I HAD A SQUINKIES THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTY WHERE MY MOM BOUGHT 100 SQUINKIES AND HID THEM ALL AROUND THE HOUSE AND BACKYARD!!!
I remember I only had a small handful of these, but watching this video unlocked a core memory I didn't even know I had. I remember everytime my family lost bored game pieces, we would use these!! And now that I know that they are back, I'm gonna beg my mom to get me some!! :D
I remember my younger brother stole two of these from a friend. one was a little green-blue mouse with a piece of cheese and the other was immediately lost and forgotten. I didn’t agree with him stealing from friends but stopped caring when I found out they could suction to your tongue,
They can also suction onto the fingertips.
Omg i remember these, chewing on them was crazy!!!!
if your taking video requests, i would love to see a video about the looney tunes show from 2011! It's so good and a really good adaptation
That show was genuinely hilarious
"i used to be obsessed with kelli maple" UNNLLOOOCKKEDD A MEMORY
AHHHH this video was so good, havent heard anyone talk about squinkies in what feels like forever!!!
If you're in need of any new video topics you should look into Barbie Peekaboos! They're another toy i never hear anyone talk about anymore that i was absolutely obsessed with as a kid! 💚
OMG I WAS OBSESSED WITH THESE!!! literally ended up getting so many. this and those animal shaped rubber bands were the only things i ever traded as a kid. I always heard about school kids trading stuff and felt left out, then one girl brought a squinkie to the homeschool group and I freaked the hell out
Us being the same age and still having that time basically skipped for us, makes so much sense that we are in such a nostalgia kick. I absolutely love the toys from my childhood, and everyday I wish I did not grow up so fast.
SQUINKIES WERE MY CHILDHOOD. I loved them!!!! I miss them so much, and I really wish they were still around. I had so many, definitely nearly 500. I miss my blue dragon squinkie that I lost years ago, my yellow deer, and especially, my red fox. I haven’t seen my red fox since I was five. If only I had kept them in a box instead of spreading them around like a maniac. I remember when squinkies came back as squinkie do’s (the newer line) I collected those too, tho was unable to collect enough before they too were discontinued. I could say more, but that would be rambling.
lula knew i needed something to watch while i finished my breakfast 😋
I had so many Squinkies as a kid! I actually carried a drawstring bag (that would’ve had jewelry inside originally) to school with my Squinkies. I’m pretty sure they were my first fidgets now that I think about it. I had a ton of Disney sets. I know I had the Little Mermaid one, the Tangled one, and the Cinderella one. I also had an Aristocats one. Maybe I had the Princess set? I had a lot of random Squinkies too. I think we traded them at school and some of them were given to me as a gift. I remember in third grade that I would tie yarn around my neck and hook a Squinkies ball as the charm and have a Squinkie inside. Man, those were the days.
Omg the way I was just thinking about watching one of your vids and you blessed us with a new one 😭
when i was in grade school we used to design our own sets as lil top down blueprints on sheets of paper, the whole class got involved and one kid was the dealer. he had a fanny pack full of more every day
The only squinkie I ever got as a child was a purple hippo I found on the ground at school (still in the ball). I still have it, but was so hurt when it ripped down the middle. I always wanted more, but I felt my mom would say no as I already had a PLETHORA of toys. So happy they're back :3
I'm glad you covered this. They were my absolute favorite toy growing up (that I even brought to a show and tell) and I have so many of them to this day!
i have literally never seen or heard of these before. it's really interesting to find out about something that was a "big, smash success" that people are nostalgic for that i have absolutely no experience with. great video!
OH MY GOD WAIT I know this video is like 3 weeks old, and Im not sure if just all targets look the same, but I think thats the same one as my local one!! I legit remember buying lps and THE SAME TOYS we're there!
Anyways, squinkies are epic, your epic, keep making content or i will explode into multiple lego pieces
I completely forgot about these!! thank you, for the nostalgia 💛 we collected these in middle school because they were cute. I also remember doing that with silly bands and jelly bracelets
omfg as a kid who had (and still has..) a lot of chewing stims i LOVED these things. i keep bringing them up in toy collection circles but.. nobody i talk to seems to believe they existed??
TIL that you're a fellow Autistic person! It always delights me when I find another of my people in the wild. 😁 I guess it pays to stick around and listen to the sponsored portion instead of fast forwarding. 🤙🏻
Squinkies were currency in my school. We would put them out on our desks and rent each others or trade. It was top tier drama when someone's squinkie went missing 😂
omg my old elementary school has an old thing that we all call the Squinkie Incident!!! Essentially, one of my friends had like 50 bajilion squinkies all crammed into the giant gumball case to bring to show and tell, and so at gym we went to play with the toys (cuz the teacher let us do that). Well one kid, ONE JERK from our class ended up football punting the case out of my friend's hands, and it caused the case to explode, making squinkies go EVERYWHERE. And cuz they were so rubbery and bouncy, some of those squinkies bounced FAST, hitting kids and causing chaos. pretty sure some kids are still finding squinkies in that gym....
I remember bok choy boys! I used to have a small collection of them! Bok choy boys is one of several vending machine things that I like as a kid. The other being bouncy balls, temporary tattoos and stickers.
i actually adore your content so much!! As an autistic person myself, its hard to find videos that cover the topics i used to love as a kid and its so refreshing to see someone finally covering the stuff i enjoy!! i love your content sm!! Keep up the good work !!! :3
This was my childhood. I'm so glad I saw this video, I was able to go out to target and get the full first wave! I'm going to make it a display of memorial for my childhood
Awesome video! The research put into this was so impressive. I can’t believe the timing of this because I just got a box of Squinkies back that I had left behind at an old house. I think I’m gonna have to do an unboxing now.
SO HAPPY FOR THIS VIDEO i’ve had a vague memory of this toy, i thought i’d never see it again!
As an autistic 19 year old guy who also doesn’t have his driver's license, I feel that one
Congrats you unlocked these memories from the recesses of my brain just with your thumbnail
I didn’t know I needed you to cover this 😭 I had a handful as a kid but no memory of finding out about them or collecting them?? Resisting the urge to buy them now
I remember really liking the fact that they were in those small capsules. I thought I remember playing with / wanting a gumball machine set they had.
when i was a kid, i had a squinky of a whale and i was playing with it in the sink when it got sucked down the drain. for YEARS it stayed in there until 2019 when the sink got clogged and my dad fished it out. he asked me if i wanted it and i said NO! i shouldve kept it!!!!!!!!
The getting a license and immediately wanting to show it off is so true
I only had one set as a kid, and it was the Cinderella wand with the little Cinderella and 2 mice. I chewed on that Cinderella for a LONG time and she disappeared in the couch until we found her all over again. The mice were a lost cause 😂.
18:08 I love seeing little editing mistakes in videos, they feel more real. Loved this vid thank youuuu
29:08 yes! It’s great to see a toy company actually acknowledging the adult collector market.
A great example of what NOT to do is rainbow high. They changed their theme to be about these ugly slime squishies, removed second outfits entirely and added glitter to them to appeal to kids when a large amount of their sales came from adult collectors. They’re not pretty unpopular (the glittery versions)
ohmygosh, your videos give me such sweet nostalgic peace. thank you for all the energy and time you put into your channel!!
you cover the best topics ever like YES I NEED PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS SO IK IM NOT CRAZY (btw your makeup looks stunning 🫶🫶)
i have such vivid memories of going to see my grandparents and always always getting squinkies from the little shop by their house, they taste so good.
my mom was one of the bloggers that got sent squinkies early!! we had the cupcake set and I remember being absolutely fascinated with the toys. me and my siblings would set up all our squinkies in rows and then take bartering and trading them wayyy to seriously
My cat saw my phone and literally blocked my view to watch you 😂 he laid down purring his heart out like two inches from the screen watching so intently ❤
I loved these things as a kid! got some of the initial, non-licensed ones for christmas and i loved carrying them around and lining them up on the stairs!!! They're such good Little Guys!! They were so fragile, though (or maybe I was a really rough kid idk) and I was so sad when some of their ears fell off :(
Edit: ohmygosh i forgot about the octopi squinkies they were sososo cute!!!
YES YOU MADE THIS VIDEO!! THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!! I'm actually so happy rn
OH MY GOSH. I was trying to remember the name of these toys for YEARS. I was obsessed with them (and chewing on them) as a kid. It drove me nuts I couldn’t remember their name. Thank you!
i used to stick these on my tongue and then keep them in my mouth
how i’ve survived this far is beyond me
I JUST DISCOVERED YOUR CHANNEL AND OMG A PORTALS CD IN THE BACK YOU ARE NOW MY FAVORITE CZcamsR
OH AND WE ARE IN LIKE ALL OF THE SAME FANDOMS BASED OFF YOUR ROOM
Hi there! I have a suggestion for a brand you can talk about in a future video: Fisher Price! You should talk about the history of the brand and its collection of toys, ESPECIALLY the new ones I see now (the earbuds, the car keys, THE STANLEY CUP?????)
the reaction from the thumbs up fireworks😭 me when i saw it for the first time
The Hannah Montana shirt and skullete temp tattoo goes hard
You Really Looking Deep In The Vault For This One!
YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO THIS IS SO. UGHHH I LOVE YOU. WATCHING ALL THE ADS ALL THE WAY THRU JUST FOR U BAE
WOOO SQUINKYS !!!