Top 34+ Things That Belong in a ’90s Time Capsule

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

For those of us who grew up in the 90s, it can sometimes feel as if we suddenly woke up to find that childhood was 25 years ago, and as that era fades into “history,” so do the items and objects that made it what it was. These nostalgic things (and many more) feel as if they’ve been locked in a time capsule and buried underground, and can teach us a lot about that magical decade.

#1: 10-Color Pens

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

We all know that the ten-color pens were superseded by the far more logical and effective four-color pens, but that didn’t mean they had to be done away with entirely. These ten color pens were the absolute height of stationery style and now they’re nowhere to be found at all.

#3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

There were a whole bunch of iconic titles you were reading as a 90s kid, but Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark had a special status among them. I haven’t seen them on any bookshelf recently, and my only explanation is that all the copies are hidden away as they were deemed too scary to take into the 2000s.

#4: Pop-Tarts Crunch

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

As if Pop-Tarts weren’t amazing enough, lucky kids in the ’90s got to eat these miniature versions in milk. My house was healthy, so I only ever got to have these at sleepovers, and I’d always be asking for a second bowl. Did all the Pop-Tarts Crunch ever manufactured get eaten?

#6: FM Scan Radio

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

It does make sense that we do away with things like FM Scan Radios that really do have almost no purpose in today’s world. Yet I can only hope that someone thought these were important enough to include in their time capsule, as seeing one in another forty years would be really gratifying.

#7: The Talkboy

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Childhood must be so much less interesting today, without all the cool spy-style gadgets we used to play with. I guess the Talkboy was less suited to adolescent espionage, but it was brilliant for pranks. The potential havoc you could wreak with one of these was infinite. Gosh, I wish I still had mine.

#9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Back in the day, if you wanted to feel like you were eating McDonald’s without the calories, you might have had the option of McDonald’s water. The fast food chain felt they needed to improve their image and help local communities by supplying water coolers. In return, they got free marketing.

#10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

In my family, the Blockbuster gumball machine was strictly out of bounds, but it didn’t matter because if you were even looking at one of these, it meant you were about to rent a video, so you didn’t even care that you weren’t getting a gumball. Even so, begging our parents for one was part of the ritual.

#12: Polly Pocket

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Now that I come to think of it, Polly Pockets were basically a smartphone for little girls in the 90s. I know, they didn’t do any of the things that a smartphone does but perhaps they fulfill the same crucial role in the owner’s life. They must be present in your pocket at all times, or disaster could follow.

#13: Hard Rock Cafe

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

It’s slightly harder to make an entire restaurant chain vanish off the map than it is to take a few old toys out of production, so how is it that the previously ubiquitous Hard Rock Cafe is nowhere to be seen? Or maybe there’s one lone branch still kicking somewhere in the middle of Nevada or something.

#15: McDonalds Hercules plates

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Truthfully, McDonald’s probably only manufactured and marketed these plates for a very limited period, but mine lasted me almost a decade, so as far as I’m concerned, they were a staple feature of the entire 1990s. If there was a food I didn’t want to eat, all one needed to do was serve it on this plate, and I’d gobble it up.

#16: Lunchables

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Lunchables were easy and fun for kids, and they were certainly easy and fun for busy and exhausted parents. A whole generation of kids was bringing these beautiful boxes of delightful delicacies to school, and I don’t really understand why we wouldn’t want to pass them on to the next generation.

#18: This Exact Casserole Dish

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

The prevalence of these casserole dishes in 90s childhoods means they must have been equally prevalent in 70s kitchenware catalogs and in 80s wedding gift registries. What was inside the dish didn’t matter; it could range from tantalizing foods to less appealing ones. What mattered was the floral design on the outside.

#19: Warheads Candy

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

The beautiful thing about the Warheads sour candies was that on the one hand, they did actually taste good, but on the other hand, they could be used for some pretty effective schoolyard bullying. If you wanted to prove that a kid was weaker than you, all you needed to do was call a Warhead challenge and hope you hadn’t bitten off more than you could chew.

#21: Crayola Stamp Markers

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

The 90s were some kind of strange golden age for a particular genre of stationery that was very cool but a lot less useful. We would cover all of our school reports and art projects in little colored stamps of lips and paw prints for absolutely no reason other than the fact that we could.

#22: General Electric Alarm Clock

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

This was the alarm clock that I would see on my parents’ bedside table when I came to wake them up on a Saturday morning, missing the irony that the alarm was the one who was supposed to wake them two hours later. It was kind of a mystical object back then and remains so because who knows where it went?

#24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

If you weren’t one of those kids whose parents got their ears pierced at age 5, then chances are you were accessing with these. In fact, I even feel a little bit sorry for the kids who were already wearing real jewelry. They missed the opportunity to actually be in vogue with everyone else and stick on the little colorful shapes.

#25: View Master

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

View Masters were like your own individual mini-slideshows. I suppose they don’t really have a function anymore as kids these days can just slip on some VR goggles and be instantly transported to a different reality. So if someone does want a simple personal slideshow they’ll have to go searching for one of these.

#27: Blockbuster Membership Card

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

In the 90s, there were few things that were more valuable or dear to you than your Blockbuster membership card. Even if you had no need to carry a wallet yet, you could be sure you were going to get one in order to have somewhere to put this card. I wish I still had mine. And I wish there was somewhere to use it.

#28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Of Course, McDonald’s has cycled through a whole range of aesthetics over the years, but these hamburger stools that furnished the restaurant throughout the 90s must be one of the better features. It was a little strange to be sitting on a burger, especially one with eyes, but the novelty outweighed any hesitation one might have.

#30: Kid Pix Game

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

In retrospect, it’s hard to believe just how much time we spent doodling away on Kid Pix, thinking that we were budding artists. It’s just one of a number of computer programs that I really do wish could make a comeback. I recently tried to see if I could download it just to play around a bit. Needless to say, I couldn’t find it.

#31: Magic Eye Posters

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Learning how to reveal the secrets of these posters felt like a kind of rite of passage ceremony that every kid had to go through to prove their worth. It was incredibly frustrating if you were unable to find the hidden image it contained, but once you did manage, the feeling of success (and superiority over the kids who hadn’t yet) was unparalleled.

#34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Ball pits seem like a ’90s and 2000s thing, although they probably still exist. They were super fun, but also pretty gross. It’s not like they ever washed those balls! You could smell the sweaty feet and sometimes even see the dirt and grime on them. We’re surprised our parents let us go inside those things. But then again, parents in the 90s were more chill compared to today’s parents.

#34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

#1: 10-Color Pens, #3: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, #4: Pop-Tarts Crunch, #6: FM Scan Radio, #7: The Talkboy, #9: McDonald’s Cooler at School Functions, #10: Blockbuster Gumball Machine, #12: Polly Pocket, #13: Hard Rock Cafe, #15: McDonalds Hercules plates, #16: Lunchables, #18: This Exact Casserole Dish, #19: Warheads Candy, #21: Crayola Stamp Markers, #22: General Electric Alarm Clock, #24: This Exact Set of Stick-On Earrings, #25: View Master, #27: Blockbuster Membership Card, #28: Hamburger Stools at McDonald’s, #30: Kid Pix Game, #31: Magic Eye Posters, #34: Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pits, #34: Rainbow-Colored Toys “R” Us Plastic Bags

Toys “R” Us was a kids’ kingdom back in the 90s. In those decades, it was one of the most popular toy stores around. Kids could spend hours perusing the shelves, checking out all the latest and coolest toys on the market. While they are still around, they have undergone financial difficulties and bankruptcy over the years, and today, they aren’t nearly as big or prominent as they used to be back in the day.

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