As well as scrunching up their faces, you could roll their eyes and scare your sibling’s half to death with some strategic placement. Released at the tail end of the 80s by Mattel, Boglins were a variety of rubberised hand puppets, available in large, small and baby sizes. Apart from making you slightly high, they allowed you to create your own T-Shirt designs which expanded to a foamy, fluffy 3D effect when heated with a hair dryer. If your kind of thing was a chemical in a tube that released noxious gasses upon heating, then Fluffits from Tomy were your idea toy. For me, I loved the certificates on the back which you could pass on to particular family members as and when you felt necessary. This Topps sticker collection was everywhere throughout the mid 80s, with school kids swapping, sticking and dropping them everywhere. Originally known as Kinkeshi in Japan, these original figures were a range of sculpted erasers, and we actually received knock off versions over in Europe around 1987.Īlthough not strictly a toy. Welcome to the tiny world of Muscle Men, in all their variable glory. When you’re surrounded by skin bursting 80s action movies, then the obvious thing to do is release a line of toys focussed purley on MUSCLE. A Selection of Rocklords Number 6: Muscle Men Produced as a spin off go-bots toyline in 1986, they lasted 3 series before finally biting the dust. Although rather than ruling rocks, they were actually rocks themselves. If you were to gather a selection of rocks and declare yourself the ruler of these said rocks, you may well describe yourself as a Rock Lord, and that’s exactly what this range of toys claimed to be. What a crazy era of strangeness, digitalisation and senseless money wasting… and I loved it.Īnd if you had some money to waste as a kid, nice parents, or even just friends who let you play with their toys, you might remember one of these obscure gems… If you didn’t, then, errrm, sorry… I guess. Ahhhh, the 80s… A time of dubious television programming, flat top hair and muscle packed blockbusters.
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