Childhood Favorites - Page 3

Vanimdil · 02-23-2002, 10:26 PM

I LOVED my Strawberry Shortcake dolls when I was little! I had Stawberry Shortcake and three of her friends.

Hey Renille, I use to play "Little House on the Prairie" all the time when I was younger. I "was" Laura.

elf_princess · 02-23-2002, 11:18 PM

Hey Vanimdil!!! I love strawberry shortcake dolls too! I played with them for a long time... much better than barbie!!! at least i thought so!

galadriel88 · 02-23-2002, 11:39 PM

I had read all the Little House on the Prarie books by the time I was in 3rd grade. I loved them b/c my real name is Laura. I got started on them in kindergarten when a lady that goes to church with me gave me Little House in the Big Woods for KG graduation - adn from then on, I was hooked! The show was a little before my time so I never really watched that, though.

Darth Tater · 02-23-2002, 11:44 PM

The TV show was actually worse then the books. I didn't think it was possible, but somehow they managed!

Rána Eressëa · 02-24-2002, 11:28 AM

*starts singing* Teenage Mutant Ninja TURTLES!

Yeah, I think a lot of people liked them. I never could pick a favorite between Raphael and Michaelangelo

Arathorn · 02-24-2002, 11:37 AM

...heroes in a half-shell, TURTLE POWER!

Renille · 02-24-2002, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Vanimdil

Hey Renille, I use to play "Little House on the Prairie" all the time when I was younger. I "was" Laura.

Haha...I always wanted to be Laura. But my friend who was as stubborn as me occasionaly got sick of being Mary all the time. Once, she wanted ME to be Mary, and I wouldn't...I said I'd be Laura's favorite tree or something instead. Needless to say, that didn't last very long.

Bacchus · 02-24-2002, 01:46 PM

Dating myself a bit....

Fave cartoons--Speed Racer and Starblazers

Fave movie--Star Wars series (yes, I saw the original theatrical release of all three)

Fave sports team--Dallas Cowboys (They DID have a team before Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. Coached by a fellow named Landry...)

Arathorn · 02-24-2002, 02:05 PM

Bacchus

Quote:

Starblazers

I remember that. It's the one with the old shipwreck (or was it a sub) that they turned into a starship, right? I sort of remember it having a sad ending though.

samwise of the shire · 02-25-2002, 05:45 PM

I also had a doll named Rapunzel. I got her one Christmas and by the end of the day she was TOTALLY un-dressed(she was a soft doll. You know the kind kids snuggle up to for thier naps?)and at the end of the day her hair would have made even Medusa balk it was so freaky lookin. What were your favorite stories,toys or whatever?
How's that for a new thread?
Sam
ps. I would watch Barney sometimes. And Care Bears. And Nika Turtles. But Bugs Bunny is the BEST of all time.

elf_princess · 02-25-2002, 07:51 PM

hmm... my favorite story would have to be the little red hen. My grandma always used to read it to me. My favorite thing would have to be my blanket which I called my bee. I got it when I was born and I've had it ever since. It's yellow with that satiny stuff around the edges.

LuthienTinuviel · 02-26-2002, 04:50 PM

INVADER ZIM IS GOD.
call me weird, but i like rocket power and as told by ginger too.
from the 80's, it's not a cartoon, but it's an old called under the umbrella tree.
it naever came in too well, cause it came from across the river from canada, but it still loved it.

popples were sweet in their day

Rána Eressëa · 02-26-2002, 10:27 PM

You know, when I was in kindergarten me and my best friend would fight over who got to be the Pink Ranger

Nibs · 02-26-2002, 10:37 PM

Under the Umbrella Tree... not much comes to my mind, but I remember watching it a little... I recall the blue bird character, but nothing else for sure. Good ol' Crayola Days...

Oh, and I can't believe I hadn't mentioned Looney Tunes... some one else did, and I know I grew up always knowing that Wile E. Coyote would never catch that Roadrunner. It would disrupt the Earth's orbit around the Sun, I'm sure.

I also grew up with the first game systems... mostly Nintendo. I can recall blissfully playing Mario and being in awe at what we considered state-of-the-art electronics technology (for games, at least). We had that running pad, duck hunt, Contra, Double Dragon... the works. Now it lingers on our shelf as a dust collection/paperweight until we pull it down and play with it for about five minutes then become bored with it again... it's pretty neat recalling all these childhood memories, but I can feel myself getting all profound and gloomy and stuff. I should stop.

Starr Polish · 02-26-2002, 10:41 PM

My friend and I never fought about who got to be pink, I hated the color, so I was always Trini (yellow). I always kind of resented the pink ranger being the the spotlight, so we always made up games from Disney movies, and she was always a secondary character...mahahha.

As we got older and were in junior high or nearing it, we pretended to be at high school dances. Ahh, the days of hte Spice Girls...gack!

LuthienTinuviel · 02-26-2002, 10:43 PM

ahh ! the running pad!
i spilled juice on my friends and i bet she still hates me

i always used to beat her at the olympic long jump.. ya know the one where ya had to jump up off the pad and whnen you hit, your character did, no matter how high they were a split second before?
well i used to just step off to the side of the pad and cheat al ittle !

i can't believ i remember that!

Arathorn · 02-26-2002, 11:03 PM

nibs,

Thanks for reminding me of Looney Tunes. My favorite lines are from from Yosemite Sam.

Sam: Surrender or die Rabbit! I got you outnumbered one to one!

Bugs: ...I speak softly, but I carry a BIG STICK!
Sam: Well I speak LOOUUUD and I carry a BIGGER STICK! And I use it too!*bonks Bugs on the head*

Bregalad · 03-09-2002, 01:18 AM

Nibs, I remember when the only game was pong. Talk about simple graphics, but graphics wasn't even a word back then! And I very fondly remember an arcade game called Asteroids! What I wouldn't give to play some Asteroids right now!

Arathorn · 03-09-2002, 03:40 AM

Hey, I remember pong. That one had one BIG pixels getting bounced around by 2 vertical lines/paddles.

As for Nintendo, I remember when they were just on these flat LCD panel toys called Game n' Watch. There's octupus, fire, donkey kong, manhole, etc. I also remember the classic zaxxon, q-bert, and space invaders.

The Ring Mistro · 03-09-2002, 03:01 PM

I remember pogs : i used 2 a've a shiney one

02-23-2002, 11:39 PM	#43
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	I had read all the Little House on the Prarie books by the time I was in 3rd grade. I loved them b/c my real name is Laura. I got started on them in kindergarten when a lady that goes to church with me gave me Little House in the Big Woods for KG graduation - adn from then on, I was hooked! The show was a little before my time so I never really watched that, though. __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

02-23-2002, 11:44 PM	#44
Darth Tater The man Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: MA Posts: 4,572	The TV show was actually worse then the books. I didn't think it was possible, but somehow they managed! __________________ Visit the worlds greatest webpage! No, not The Tolkien Trail! Just click this! The Tolkien Trail ~Camelot

02-24-2002, 11:37 AM	#46
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	...heroes in a half-shell, TURTLE POWER! __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

02-24-2002, 01:46 PM	#48
Bacchus Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Houston TX USA Posts: 245	Dating myself a bit.... Fave cartoons--Speed Racer and Starblazers Fave movie--Star Wars series (yes, I saw the original theatrical release of all three) Fave sports team--Dallas Cowboys (They DID have a team before Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. Coached by a fellow named Landry...) __________________ Yet neither by wolf, nor by Balrog, nor by Dragon, would Morgoth have achieved his end, but for the treachery of Men. Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.

02-25-2002, 05:45 PM	#50
samwise of the shire Radically Tolkienited Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+>< Posts: 967	I also had a doll named Rapunzel. I got her one Christmas and by the end of the day she was TOTALLY un-dressed(she was a soft doll. You know the kind kids snuggle up to for thier naps?)and at the end of the day her hair would have made even Medusa balk it was so freaky lookin. What were your favorite stories,toys or whatever? How's that for a new thread? Sam ps. I would watch Barney sometimes. And Care Bears. And Nika Turtles. But Bugs Bunny is the BEST of all time. __________________ Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA...

02-23-2002, 10:26 PM	#41
Vanimdil Enting Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 51	I LOVED my Strawberry Shortcake dolls when I was little! I had Stawberry Shortcake and three of her friends. Hey Renille, I use to play "Little House on the Prairie" all the time when I was younger. I "was" Laura.

02-23-2002, 11:18 PM	#42
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	Hey Vanimdil!!! I love strawberry shortcake dolls too! I played with them for a long time... much better than barbie!!! at least i thought so!

02-24-2002, 11:28 AM	#45
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	starts singing Teenage Mutant Ninja TURTLES! Yeah, I think a lot of people liked them. I never could pick a favorite between Raphael and Michaelangelo

02-25-2002, 07:51 PM	#51
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	hmm... my favorite story would have to be the little red hen. My grandma always used to read it to me. My favorite thing would have to be my blanket which I called my bee. I got it when I was born and I've had it ever since. It's yellow with that satiny stuff around the edges.

02-26-2002, 04:50 PM	#52
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	INVADER ZIM IS GOD. call me weird, but i like rocket power and as told by ginger too. from the 80's, it's not a cartoon, but it's an old called under the umbrella tree. it naever came in too well, cause it came from across the river from canada, but it still loved it. popples were sweet in their day __________________

02-26-2002, 10:27 PM	#53
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	You know, when I was in kindergarten me and my best friend would fight over who got to be the Pink Ranger

02-26-2002, 10:37 PM	#54
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	Under the Umbrella Tree... not much comes to my mind, but I remember watching it a little... I recall the blue bird character, but nothing else for sure. Good ol' Crayola Days... Oh, and I can't believe I hadn't mentioned Looney Tunes... some one else did, and I know I grew up always knowing that Wile E. Coyote would never catch that Roadrunner. It would disrupt the Earth's orbit around the Sun, I'm sure. I also grew up with the first game systems... mostly Nintendo. I can recall blissfully playing Mario and being in awe at what we considered state-of-the-art electronics technology (for games, at least). We had that running pad, duck hunt, Contra, Double Dragon... the works. Now it lingers on our shelf as a dust collection/paperweight until we pull it down and play with it for about five minutes then become bored with it again... it's pretty neat recalling all these childhood memories, but I can feel myself getting all profound and gloomy and stuff. I should stop. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

02-26-2002, 10:41 PM	#55
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	My friend and I never fought about who got to be pink, I hated the color, so I was always Trini (yellow). I always kind of resented the pink ranger being the the spotlight, so we always made up games from Disney movies, and she was always a secondary character...mahahha. As we got older and were in junior high or nearing it, we pretended to be at high school dances. Ahh, the days of hte Spice Girls...gack! __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

02-26-2002, 10:43 PM	#56
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	ahh ! the running pad! i spilled juice on my friends and i bet she still hates me i always used to beat her at the olympic long jump.. ya know the one where ya had to jump up off the pad and whnen you hit, your character did, no matter how high they were a split second before? well i used to just step off to the side of the pad and cheat al ittle ! i can't believ i remember that! __________________

02-26-2002, 11:03 PM	#57
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	nibs, Thanks for reminding me of Looney Tunes. My favorite lines are from from Yosemite Sam. Sam: Surrender or die Rabbit! I got you outnumbered one to one! Bugs: ...I speak softly, but I carry a BIG STICK! Sam: Well I speak LOOUUUD and I carry a BIGGER STICK! And I use it too!bonks Bugs on the head __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... Last edited by Arathorn : 02-26-2002 at 11:41 PM.

03-09-2002, 01:18 AM	#58
Bregalad Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: KY Posts: 217	Nibs, I remember when the only game was pong. Talk about simple graphics, but graphics wasn't even a word back then! And I very fondly remember an arcade game called Asteroids! What I wouldn't give to play some Asteroids right now! __________________ "They have called me that ever since I said yes to an elder Ent before he had finished his question" -Quickbeam This post property of Entmoot.

03-09-2002, 03:40 AM	#59
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	Hey, I remember pong. That one had one BIG pixels getting bounced around by 2 vertical lines/paddles. As for Nintendo, I remember when they were just on these flat LCD panel toys called Game n' Watch. There's octupus, fire, donkey kong, manhole, etc. I also remember the classic zaxxon, q-bert, and space invaders. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

03-09-2002, 03:01 PM	#60
The Ring Mistro Sapling Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: on earth . . . . . . : somewhere ? Posts: 10	Old toys I remember pogs : i used 2 a've a shiney one

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