1980s Toys That Could Make You Rich!

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @TsjuunTze
    @TsjuunTze 2 года назад +366

    These toys already made you rich. being fortunate enough to have grown up in a time period like that is a true blessing.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +11

      Yes it is. Thank you for watching!

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp 2 года назад +9

      Me in the 80's playing with most of these: "I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow up..."
      Me now: "You already are."
      Me in the 80's: "Aww, that's sweet."
      Me now: "No, seriously, you already ARE. Save that stuff !
      Me in the 80's: (Doesn't save stuff)
      Me now: Hmm, I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow old... 🤣

    • @loneshewolf74
      @loneshewolf74 2 года назад +7

      Yeah too bad it reminds you even more how sucky everything has gotten in the past 22 years and how humanity is doomed.

    • @TsjuunTze
      @TsjuunTze 2 года назад +3

      @@loneshewolf74 True.

    • @danasuperstar
      @danasuperstar 2 года назад +5

      This almost made me cry 😭

  • @nostalgicsoul76
    @nostalgicsoul76 2 года назад +300

    The 80s was a great time to be a kid. Wish I could go back!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +13

      It would definitely be great to have a time machine! Thank you for watching!

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 2 года назад +1

      Get in a time machine and go

    • @mudvalve
      @mudvalve 2 года назад +3

      @@wildlifewarrior2670 I already did. Remember that “old guy” that beat you in Q*Bert at the arcade back in the summer of ‘86? That was me! 🤪

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 2 года назад +3

      @@mudvalve crap it was you

    • @wildlifewarrior2670
      @wildlifewarrior2670 2 года назад

      @@mudvalve crap it was you

  • @benschlotte8242
    @benschlotte8242 2 года назад +86

    Late 70’s early 80’s was a great time to be a kid. Many great Christmas memories from that time

    • @Dan23_7
      @Dan23_7 2 года назад +1

      Born in 79 me, yep 80s seemed to be better Christmas’s than any other time

    • @M.C.Blackwell
      @M.C.Blackwell 2 года назад +3

      Yes! My mom gave us the greatest toys! Christmas was the best day ever!

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 2 года назад +2

      YES! I got to experience the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's in grade school, then as a teen in the 80's got to transition to high school, growing up in the best decade ever- the 1980's!!

    • @zephyrr108
      @zephyrr108 Год назад +1

      Late 80s to 90s was the jam.

  • @erict586
    @erict586 2 года назад +385

    As someone who buys, restores and resells games the numbers you are stating are over inflated and can be from fake bids. Like the stadium events that sold on eBay for $200,000. Turns out it was kids making the bids. I have have been in the possession of very rare, games, and even had values assessed and was still no were near these numbers. When information like this is taken out of context it makes people think their old broken stuff is worth a fortune and in reality it isn't and it becomes impossible for someone like myself to buy, fix and resell an item when the value is way lower than what they think. It also makes it way too expensive for a casual collector to buy anything.

    • @jeannetteking8160
      @jeannetteking8160 2 года назад +31

      I’m having this issue with CPK right now on eBay. People are selling their memories I think. Many sellers are asking for several thousand for a NIB Cabbage Patch from 1980’s. You know what I see when I find someone selling several NIB CPKs? I think of the times when I wasn’t able to get one of my own in the stores growing up because they bought all ten from the shelves…😢

    • @Subzero271978
      @Subzero271978 2 года назад +11

      I’ve always seen values of collectibles, “as in the eye of the beholder “, kinda thing. Because if something is actually only worth $50, but a collector of that character, series or franchise wants it bad enough, they’ll pay double that.

    • @lucky43113
      @lucky43113 2 года назад +11

      @@SatanenPerkele rare means very little. It's all about popularity

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 2 года назад +8

      @@Subzero271978 1978 is a Good year to be born in my friend, 🥂, I totally feel the same way I just sold eight Ninja turtles to a toy store in chagrin Falls Ohio 150 bucks. To me that was a fair price specially for not being in 100% condition ,but decent, someone else could be priceless

    • @Subzero271978
      @Subzero271978 2 года назад +3

      @@floydsemlow8253 I like to think it was, I was able to be around and see the beginning of a lot of cool stuff 😁. Yeah TMNT stuff is picking up steam again. But never ceases to amaze me how people will charge for nostalgia, it’s not even real, it’s a feeling. Hope you have a great rest of the weekend brother!

  • @tsadkiel2008
    @tsadkiel2008 2 года назад +30

    Man I loved M.U.S.C.L.E. figures as a child, and He-man, transformers, smurfs, micro machines, Nintendo, boglins, baseball cards, mad balls, gI joe, a team, knight rider and tmnt's!
    Man nostalgia at it's best! Thank you for this video!

  • @o.c.g.m9426
    @o.c.g.m9426 Год назад +58

    Greatest decade to be a child.

  • @mauricioramirez9744
    @mauricioramirez9744 2 года назад +34

    In 1988 my brother and I redeemed cans and bottles, collected and saved every coin and penny we could find for 8 months until we had enough to get an nes from kay-bee toy store. I still have it and it still works and I still play it with my boys. Made in Japan still playable 30+ years later. Amazing.

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 2 года назад +2

      good god, you must have had thousands to tens of thousands of those things to build up enough money!

    • @javedk
      @javedk 11 месяцев назад +1

      Loved Kay bee!!! Made the mall worth it.

    • @Veganerd_
      @Veganerd_ 8 месяцев назад +3

      I still have an NES, too, Mauricio. I also have the Atari 2600 that my Dad bought around 1980, still works no problem..wish newer consoles were made to that standard of quality. I have built up quite a library of NES games over the last 6 1/2 years, almost 340 of them. Only a small handful are in box.

  • @jonnymmac
    @jonnymmac 2 года назад +27

    Just a heads up. Nintendo Entertainment Systems sell complete in box for around $200 - $250.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      They can definitely be found cheaper too. I got one for $75. Just have to look for awhile. Thank you for watching!

    • @skittles074
      @skittles074 2 года назад

      Sold mine for £600 odd back in the summer reluctantly.☹️

  • @captaindaddy8645
    @captaindaddy8645 2 года назад +32

    best thing for me in the 80s as a child was the freedom to roam.i remember most all these things. i was into g.i joe.we were mostly outside ,involved in physical activities. the toys were rainy day and winter activities

    • @email6743
      @email6743 2 года назад +1

      There's no difference from then to today though.

    • @thaismatsumoto
      @thaismatsumoto Год назад +1

      Yep..my son had the Nintendo game system.we did too. But he spent most of his time outside on his B.M.X. bike. That was his big obsession. Now that he is in his forties he races quads . He even has sponsers and wins frequently..Luckily he also is a foreman at his construction company so he can pay for his expensive hobby.

  • @damiantanks1738
    @damiantanks1738 Год назад +13

    It you grew up in the 80s you had a great childhood. The 80s 90s were awesome

  • @danasuperstar
    @danasuperstar 2 года назад +22

    I had a Rainbow Brite doll. No clue what happened to it. We didn’t think about selling our toys back then, just playing with them until they fell apart and then giving them away. I guess that’s why the 80s toys are so rare. I go antiquing a lot and hardly ever see 80s toys.

    • @eleanorhogan8643
      @eleanorhogan8643 6 месяцев назад +3

      I had a Rainbow Brite too, I had Puppy Brite, Starlite, Lucky, Champ and Lurky too.

  • @leeriches8841
    @leeriches8841 Год назад +11

    I wish my childhood bedroom had been preserved as a time capsule! This video is bringing back even more hidden memories from back in the day.

  • @benharrison5816
    @benharrison5816 2 года назад +48

    My parents recently gave me a couple of my old transformers from the 80s. Sound Wave and Blaster I think. I gave them to my kids. They're surprisingly well-built, have metal joints in them, and transform just as well as they did when I was a kid. They definitely don't make them like they used to in this case. Some of the greatest toys ever imo.

    • @scorpionwins6378
      @scorpionwins6378 2 года назад +5

      Definitely don't make anything good anymore. Brittle plastic and cheap parts made in China. Toys are definitely garbage now. I worked at a Wal-Mart during a holiday season and was disgusted by all of the merchandise coming in. Made me wonder why anyone would ever want to buy any of that junk to begin with.

    • @goforbroke2
      @goforbroke2 Год назад

      Yeah I have a bunch G.I Joe vehicles from the early 90s. They are built like tanks lol, super thick plastic, metal axles, and just very heavy.

  • @Ranger1985.
    @Ranger1985. 2 года назад +11

    I was fortunate enough to be a late 80s/early 90s kid with a brother who was a late 70s/early 80s kid. We had ALL the cool toys!

  • @dennislogan6781
    @dennislogan6781 2 года назад +47

    What I find as sad is the people who are children today will not have tots to look back on their youth in 20 years. All they will have is electronics. I enjoyed my childhood playing with my toys and playing outside with my siblings and friends. Gen X'er s had the best childhood. Toys, Saturday morning cartoons, and playing outside. Who could ask for more.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      I do find it sad that kids just aren't into toys like they used to be. There really is a lot of joy in them no matter what you have. Even if they are homemade. Thank you for watching!

    • @g4lines197
      @g4lines197 2 года назад

      @@RhettyforHistory I’m 20 and have many many fond memories of toys.

    • @Ranger1985.
      @Ranger1985. 2 года назад +1

      My kids LOVE toys who you kiddin lol

    • @email6743
      @email6743 2 года назад +1

      It's up to the parents to encourage a proper childhood, nothing has changed from then until now except people distracted by technology becoming victims of "advancement".

  • @JillyBean860
    @JillyBean860 2 года назад +36

    My mom still plays games on the original NES system she bought for me in the 80s. I’m amazed that it still works.

    • @garystinten9339
      @garystinten9339 Год назад +1

      Very few moving parts. Electronic components are easier to replace also.

    • @JillyBean860
      @JillyBean860 Год назад

      @@garystinten9339 that's good to know in case it ever stops working.

    • @TH-hy9kr
      @TH-hy9kr Год назад

      My brother has ours. He still plays it too. We thrift shopped a lot of the games we couldn't afford as kids over the years as adults and he has a great collection.

    • @shermhart7617
      @shermhart7617 Год назад

      What games does she play?

    • @snowyowl9132
      @snowyowl9132 Год назад

      I still play with my original NES too. What's so impressive to me is that it's the only console that hasn't required any type of restoration. My Gameboy Color is working too but the screen will probably need a replacement.

  • @LivewireT
    @LivewireT 2 года назад +20

    I loved my Rainbow Brite and Carebears when I was a child. I also remember GloWorms and I loved that thing to pieces.

    • @RetroReminiscing
      @RetroReminiscing 2 года назад +3

      I had the Gloworm too! I remember seeing a friend of mine for the first time and really wanted one too..I also wanted the mr frosty maker ⛄⛄😂

    • @Sassyglbeauty
      @Sassyglbeauty 2 года назад +3

      Yes! I also loved my Poochie I had. And Jets Barbie and van! Cabbage patch kids were awesome also!

    • @paultreadaway102
      @paultreadaway102 Год назад

      Think Barbie has gone thru many eras she was born in 1959, Coronation Street 1960 longest running shows in history in the World don't forget Jem rocked in the 80s i even watched it girls had it and many others to choose,just as good as guys did

    • @enzudesign
      @enzudesign 2 месяца назад +1

      I loved my glo worm 😢

  • @carpediem4887
    @carpediem4887 2 года назад +26

    Lots of nostalgia in this video for me! Thanks Rhett

  • @corycarson88
    @corycarson88 Год назад +5

    I absolutely love seeing toys from my era (70’s-80’s). Unfortunately I was a little heathen back in my day and broke a lot of my toys which then got thrown away. As an adult I am finding a lot of them on eBay and having to pay a premium price. In the last couple years I have started to collect the WWF LJN wrestling figurines from the early-mid 80’s. It’s astonishing to see how much they were in the 80’s and now how much they go for on eBay. I have spent close to $10k on these wrestlers and have every intention to hand them down to my son one day when he can appreciate their value. Loved this video, very nostalgic and takes me back to the good ol’ days of being a kid!!!

  • @katharinehansen5940
    @katharinehansen5940 2 года назад +21

    I used to play Black Sabbath tapes in my Teddy Ruxpin.

  • @MegaYangman
    @MegaYangman 2 года назад +11

    Voltron toys from the that era is worth a lot of money nowadays too! Great cartoon also!

    • @lowlifeangler
      @lowlifeangler 2 года назад +1

      My Vehicle Voltron is still pretty good shape

  • @remizart
    @remizart Год назад +9

    I still have my Cabbage Patch kids and both Ewok stuffed animals! Great memories!

  • @TreYay83
    @TreYay83 2 года назад +7

    Owned over half of these toys! Man I miss those times!

  • @kerryfrew3805
    @kerryfrew3805 2 года назад +10

    1980s was the best time to grow up in the toys ,cartoons,playing outside and no social media brain washing people was the greatest time ever I had the biggest majority of these toys before they got put in the bin as i outgrew them. I really miss those days

    • @AllSeeingEye91
      @AllSeeingEye91 2 года назад +1

      90's was incredible aswell. Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokemon were HUUUGE!!!

    • @email6743
      @email6743 2 года назад

      Rule number for mental health, delete social media.

  • @adamcarter6862
    @adamcarter6862 Год назад +3

    I remember wanting these things but since we were poor I didn't get them. Funny how that memory just came back to me.

  • @Crasher1982
    @Crasher1982 2 года назад +24

    I was an 80's kid. Good times. I still have a teddy ruxpin, a cabbage patch doll, a care bear and gobots.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +3

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you had!

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 2 года назад +1

      @@RhettyforHistory YW. :) I still have them :)

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 2 года назад +1

      @@RhettyforHistory Btw I love history. (It was one of my majors in university.) I had to give you my sub!

    • @devenifujita9899
      @devenifujita9899 Год назад +1

      That’s the one toy I would re buy if I really needed a frivolous and yet happy pick me up, that Teddy Ruxpin. I loved that bear so much.

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 Год назад

      @@devenifujita9899 :)

  • @delaneymarks2212
    @delaneymarks2212 2 года назад +17

    Actually my brother’s He-Man doll “dated” my Barbie doll when we were kids. She was way too tall for him but otherwise it was fine.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing your memory of that!

    • @midlight9758
      @midlight9758 2 года назад +4

      Omg same! We had Teela get so jealous.

    • @winters_coming4080
      @winters_coming4080 2 года назад +3

      I made my brother's heman date my shera doll. I think they are brother & sister🤔relized that later in life😬 SHERA princess of powerrrrrrr🎵😂

    • @user-mv9tt4st9k
      @user-mv9tt4st9k 2 года назад +1

      I hope He-Man put on some clothes, ha ha ha. 😂

  • @olivasaz
    @olivasaz 2 года назад +13

    My brother and I grew up spoiled. We had every GI Joe, Transformer, Master of the Universe, MASK, Gobot, Star Wars, etc. toy you could think of. My dad had a pool table in the gameroom that during the 1980's was covered in toys. I went as far as to even keeping the boxes and manuals. My mom had given all our toys away as we got older and transitioned to video games. Had my mom kept everything we would have amassed a small fortune.

    • @retroboomer3197
      @retroboomer3197 2 года назад +2

      Very similar to my upbringing. After I married and left the house, I should have taken all my old toys with me, but I never thought that my parents would just throw them all out.

    • @JB-ug5mf
      @JB-ug5mf 2 года назад +1

      My parents bought my brother and I a lot of toys including Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers, HeMan and MASK. To my knowledge they are still in my parents attic. It gets cold and hot up there so their condition is probably comprimised because of that. But I thank them for buying all those for us on 1 income growing up.
      My parents just had their 50th wedding anniversary too.
      Have a great day everyone!

    • @doyouevendab77
      @doyouevendab77 Год назад

      Taking them out of the box drops there value significantly. I was looking at Optimus prime yesterday. One played with but had the box and all accessories graded a 60 was 5,000, one sealed in box graded 80/90/90 was 25,000. Normal Optimus prime g1 with average wear and no box, ungraded, was around 500.

  • @songsan807
    @songsan807 2 года назад +6

    As an 80s kid I loved the 80s so much. Have a bunch of the G1 Transformers and baseball cards still around. Not the fast pace twitter instagram instant response people expect and hundreds of options for everything.

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 2 года назад +3

    I have an NES Action Set with its original box and posters. I found it by the curb on trash day in 1999 along with 6 games in a shoe box. It still works fine and I played it a number of times before putting it away.

  • @TURBOTOYS8
    @TURBOTOYS8 2 года назад +3

    Gotta love them 80's Toys!! I loved the A-Team figures as well as the muscle men! The playmates turtles hold a special place in my heart too!

  • @PercyPumpkinheart
    @PercyPumpkinheart 2 года назад +6

    Some of the markets for these items have, frankly, gone nuts. I can understand rare items going for inflated prices, but some of these toys and games are nearly as common as dirt, yet still often have high asking prices attached. If I can go to eBay any given day and find tons of examples of any TMNT, GI Joe, or M.U.S.C.L.E. figure I want, they aren't rare. Overwhelming demand (and in the case of video games, fishiness in the grading and auction world) has driven these high prices way beyond what they should be "naturally."

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      They have gone nuts and some of them can certainly be overinflated. But it is crazy to see what some people will pay for things like this. Thank you for watching!

  • @emmanuelgamarra8882
    @emmanuelgamarra8882 Год назад +8

    The 80s are awesome

  • @dianerobertson1759
    @dianerobertson1759 2 года назад +3

    We had a bunch of these toys, but we played with and loved all of our toys into the land fills.

  • @joseleswopes1400
    @joseleswopes1400 2 года назад +8

    My daughter's had every Barbie you could think of, Cabbage Patch Dolls. My oldest daughter had everything Strawberry Short Cake. The boys had just about everything under the sun 💕🥰

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      Sounds like your kids have had a lot. Thank you for watching and sharing what they have had.

    • @paultreadaway102
      @paultreadaway102 Год назад

      It's not a Toy but a Game i have 1980s Trivial Pursuit i got it like 20years ago and wish i had Guess Who from the 80s those planks are somewhat the cover on the board is brilliant it would be worth abit i have the phoney one but have the cover similar to the one was made in 88

    • @krystalgreenwell4482
      @krystalgreenwell4482 Год назад

      My aunt had everything strawberry shortcake and I had everything care bears lol we found the strawberry shortcake collection in the garage and I'll be damned if they still had there distinct smell after all these years. Sighs.....aw just to be able to go back in a memory by a smell......😊

  • @_kass3939
    @_kass3939 2 года назад +1

    Ooo! I still have my Nintendo from the 80’s which still works. I also super Mario, donkey Kong, duck hunt, paper boy, pitfall and more. 😮

  • @Chuthermucker
    @Chuthermucker 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for the walk through my kids toybox from then! They wore out most of their toys or they were passed to the grandkids and are still in play.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      It's perfectly normal to have toys well worn. To me it means they enjoyed them. Thank you for watching Tricia

  • @jaydeebow6431
    @jaydeebow6431 10 месяцев назад +1

    Was 8-year-old when He-Man started out, I can remember never missing a show as well as Thundercats,was my 2 favorite cartoons.

    • @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060
      @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 Месяц назад

      Yay!!! At last someone mentions the Thundercats. My son's all time favourite toys. He still has them plus the Thunder tank. Cheers from NZ.

  • @SavaFiend
    @SavaFiend 2 года назад +8

    I have two Cabbage Patch Kids from 1986 in original boxes. My mom had bought extra during the craze and just kept them all these years. Believe it or not they're not selling for more than like $50 on eBay and the like.
    I have that holiday Barbie from the video but it's definitely not NIB lol
    I also have the original set of My Little Pony (not new in boxes but meticulously well kept), Jem dolls, She Ra dolls, original Transformers, a whole bunch of other stuff that I had from the '80s when I was a kid. Even some classic '80s board games like Mall Madness and Fireball island.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +2

      Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you have!

    • @someguy9778
      @someguy9778 2 года назад

      I sold a real porcelain Barbie, made by Matel and numbered I got at a private event I worked. Got several hundred. Might be more now.

    • @theresas2520
      @theresas2520 2 года назад

      My favorite was Jem and She-Ra.
      I still have my She-Ra and her castle. Jem and her band. Her earrings still flash! I also loved the Wuzzles...I still have my Butterbear. (Half bear half butterfly).

    • @SavaFiend
      @SavaFiend 2 года назад

      @@theresas2520 that's awesome! I don't have many She-Ra toys left I think all I have left is She-Ra and her horse. I still have the cassette tapes for a lot of the Jem dolls also those dolls were some of my favorites!

  • @dennischen8887
    @dennischen8887 2 года назад +2

    Most people don't realize the amount of appreciation from toys. I collect hot wheels and action figures, and many of these bought within just the last several years have tripped in value. Like the Storm Mortal Kombat og Ninjas, RLC R34's, Mafex Superman, Figma Metroid, Marvel legends Spiderman figures, and more.

  • @Da_Benski
    @Da_Benski 2 года назад +6

    Seeing micro machines on your list reminded me that those things were already expensive back then. LoL
    I always thought that Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars were better values for what you got. My favorites had the "crush effect" body panels that would flip around when you would run them into something.

    • @stolnpckup
      @stolnpckup Год назад

      I remember the cars that had the crash thing on the door or doors.

    • @Funco1979
      @Funco1979 Год назад

      I liked them. Matchbox also had "Lock-ups" and by turning the key underneath you could prevent the wheels from turning.
      I always thought that Matchbox were nicer than HW and were my preference.
      Good days.

  • @deannayoung5311
    @deannayoung5311 2 года назад +1

    My son had so many of these collections he loved and cared for!
    Given to him by his grandmother
    And birthdays and Christmas...
    But while I was at work and my son in school...
    His father took All..my son's toy's
    That my son had kept great care of!
    No remorse Through them out!!!
    And some he gave to
    The neighbor lady...
    My son was devastated 😢💔
    My son saw the neighbor boy playing with his toy's
    He told the boy and mom those are my toy's...
    The mom was like oh well...
    My son has never gotten over this!!!

  • @amandapratt1851
    @amandapratt1851 2 года назад +8

    Jeez, seeing my childhood sell for loads of dough is both surprising and sad. I'm glad I kept my original ninja turtles, my pet monster, voltron, and inhumanoids

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      It could be a great savings but there may be a point when all of the willing people to buy them are all gone. Never know. Thank you for watching!

    • @R-Lee-
      @R-Lee- 2 года назад

      @@RhettyforHistory Yeah there will be a time when all the people who want those toys from the 80s are gone. But in my estimate the toys from the '80s are just getting hot right now. If you think about it, the men who had those toys in the '80s are now just hitting their 40s and 50s and that's the age when men have their highest earnings. So I think from now until 30 or 40 years from now is when those toys are going to be the most valuable. Then after that the market will fall.

  • @unicornmadness6286
    @unicornmadness6286 2 года назад +1

    I just found this channel yesterday on Thanksgiving day and man am I happy. Great channel!

  • @hailboognish81
    @hailboognish81 2 года назад +7

    My grandparents lived in London when cabbage patch kids came out. They bought 2, one for my sister and one for me, and brought them on the plane with them back to the states. My grandpa always said how ridiculously scary it was to fly with those “damn dolls”... 😅 I still have mine 😊
    People go mad over popular toys. I worked at toys r us through tickle me Elmo, furbys, Pokémon cards and the new Star Wars films. Witnessing adults accost children for a toy is wild.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +5

      It is crazy to see parents go crazy over certain toys. The 90s saw a lot of that. Thank you for watching and sharing what you have.

    • @nana820able
      @nana820able 2 года назад +1

      My MIL bought my three kids the Olympic cabbage patch kids for Christmas They're all still in the original boxes since they were too old to play with them. Lol, she said you'll thank me some day when they're worth a lot of money. Still waiting.

    • @krisrhood2127
      @krisrhood2127 Год назад

      I have four. They're supposed to be treated like children. I would NEVER let them be adopted by someone that violent!

  • @donny121able
    @donny121able 2 года назад +2

    Never understood why people would pay silly money for old toys until I got older now it makes sense. I would love to own some toys I had as a child just to take me back in time for a while. I have to appreciate people that looked after there toys, I unfortunately used mine to do crash tests or see if they would survive being dropped out my bedroom window.

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 Год назад +1

    There is a big difference between what something has sold for on eBay and what something is listed for on eBay. Something could be listed for an astronomical price but that does not mean someone is willing to pay that price. I don’t think these items were ever sale at those prices.

  • @RetroReminiscing
    @RetroReminiscing 2 года назад +4

    Brilliant video, i still have som eof my old 70's and 80's toys and books etc..but im far too sentimental to sell them 😂Was great seeing all these images bringing back instant memories! Thank you for putting this together ! Sonique 🤗👌👌

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      I can certainly understand being centimental on what you have. That's really cool you still have a lot of that stuff though. Thank you for watching!

    • @RetroReminiscing
      @RetroReminiscing 2 года назад

      @@RhettyforHistory Thank YOU for putting this video together, enjoyed it a lot and brought back great memories, thank you !

  • @jenniesnodgrass6084
    @jenniesnodgrass6084 2 года назад +1

    I remember loving my stuffed Smurfs and Odie and Gardield! 80's kids were lucky to have grown up in that time.

    • @TH-hy9kr
      @TH-hy9kr Год назад

      Still have my stuffed Smurf. My gran got it for $.10 on sale because the series hadn't begun yet and no one knew what they were yet!

  • @BE_PERRY
    @BE_PERRY 2 года назад +13

    You should do more 80's vintage toys videos I found it interesting

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +2

      I have a couple others if you haven't seen them. Thank uou for watching!

  • @someguy9778
    @someguy9778 2 года назад +5

    I can't believe my uncle spent that much on me when they first came out...NES. Miss that guy.

    • @JackTorrance333
      @JackTorrance333 Год назад +1

      Good man. My mother bought us one. We were poor! Don’t know how she ever pulled that off.

  • @cowel8734
    @cowel8734 Год назад +2

    I love seeing retro toys online, and in person is even better, but it's no longer fun to collect stuff because of greed and everyone wanting top dollar for junk.
    Im cool with the memories 😁

  • @tammerahanes1792
    @tammerahanes1792 2 года назад +4

    I purchased the turtle van when it came out it was cool. Also mighty isis was popular. Great memories. Thanks for Sharing 🙂😊

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      You're welcome and thank you for watching! It's always great to see what everyone had.

    • @redneckroy8947
      @redneckroy8947 2 года назад

      I got two for Christmas when it first came out, because I begged everyone for one

  • @Chriskros1984
    @Chriskros1984 Год назад

    Did have some of the items …. Not anymore but the joy / memories i had cannot be replaced by money . Loved it .

  • @paulstan9828
    @paulstan9828 2 года назад +6

    Ha!! Video games have sure come a long way. I remember pong being amazing. In the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s as the holidays got closer there were so many toy commercials. It’s not that way today. I wonder why?

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 2 года назад +1

      Hi Paul 🤗 I’m wondering why as well, now that you have mentioned that. Then again we don’t even really have toy shops anymore, you buy your toys now from Kmart, Big W or Target. So sad that the those huge toy stores are gone, I enjoyed shopping in them with my children.

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 2 года назад +1

      @@swansfan6944 Hi how are you? Yeah you are right plus most people are shopping on line also. Amazon is the big thing over here. There were so many toy stores like Toys R Us. I guess things change sometimes for the good and sometimes not. Take care nice to hear from you. Enjoy the rest of your day! 😁👍

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 2 года назад +1

      @@paulstan9828 Toys R Us was the big one we shopped at as well, yes you are right Amazon and E bay are huge and a lot of people shop on line. I like to shop in person, problem is because everyone is shopping online the stores now don’t stock as much, so then you have to go online anyway.
      Take care 👋 Paul.

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 2 года назад +1

      @@swansfan6944 I know I find myself shopping on line because of that reason also.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      The commercials are thinker on different streaming services and they are more user specific now. They know what you watch and what you could be interested in. Kind of weird. My father in law had the original Pong game system so he just recently gave us that. Pretty interesting because I had never played that version before. Only had it on the Atari system. Thank you for watching!

  • @JustinEvitable80
    @JustinEvitable80 Год назад +1

    I had He-Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles & MUSCLE Figures toys growing up, but my parents got rid of them at one point. I didn't realize this until we cleared out a storage containment unit when I was 18. I'm sure they'd thought I'd forget and maybe still do I think I forgot. I never really brought it up.

  • @System_Sega
    @System_Sega 2 года назад +3

    The NES did not come in 1983. It had a limited release in 1985 and full release in 1986.

  • @robertparr1256
    @robertparr1256 12 дней назад

    A kid in the 80s a teenager in the 90s...I was truly blessed!!

  • @retroboomer3197
    @retroboomer3197 2 года назад +3

    My parents spoiled the crap out of me. I was such an ungrateful child and didn't take care of my toys at all. Comic Books, Baseball Cards, Video Games, you name it. Some of the toys I had are going for $6000 on Ebay. 20X6000 sure would go a long way right now. I sure wish I could go back in time and slap the stupid off of me.

  • @williamworley6164
    @williamworley6164 2 года назад +1

    I have a super Nes and a whole chicken feed box with toys from the '80s! I even have comic books in make condition from the early 2000s. In this video was really nostalgic. Thank you

  • @tarab7773
    @tarab7773 2 года назад +4

    I miss my 80's childhood. Some things I had back then that I would give anything to have back.
    3 Cabbage patch kids( Josepha Ida, Regina Daisy, and Argus Abbott)
    Snoopy Snow Cone machine
    A telephone for my room that had a rainbow for the handle and a cloud for the base. It played a song when it rang. ( I think a Beethoven piece)
    Strawberry Shortcake set with all the people, their hair smelled so good!
    Care Bears, My little Pony, Rainbow Brite
    Speak n' Spell!
    Munchichi!
    California Raisins, Smurfs
    I had a Scooby-Doo light projector
    View finder, Debbie Gibson Electric Youth perfume, Baby Soft perfume
    Get in Shape girl set!
    Lisa Frank everything
    I had a pink castle tent thing that went around my bed!
    I look back at my toys now and realize my parents did want to make me happy. I may have not gotten all my emotional needs meet but I sure as heck had amazing toys:) My kids really missed out having to grow up in the electronic era:( we also had the best cartoons and TV shows!! Get along gang, punky Brewster, facts of life, growing pains, rags to riches, Mr. Belvedere, silver spoons, Heathcliff the cat, small wonder, and so much more like the after school specials etc:) I miss my jelly shoes, my leg warmers, all of it.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      You sure mentioned a lot from the 80s decade. Thank you for watching and sharing more for us to remember.

    • @nicoleleckner7902
      @nicoleleckner7902 2 года назад +1

      Love the get along gang

    • @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060
      @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 Месяц назад +1

      I bought my daughter the Cabbage Patch doll named Regina Susan. She still has it. You certainly received a lot of great toys. Cheers.

  • @xlnuniex
    @xlnuniex 2 года назад +2

    My sister still has her Nintendo; controllers and duck hunt gun and games. I want it just to play it. I bought this Nintendo mini that had games already stored in… but it’s not the whole game. And no duck hunt gun! Original is always best

  • @tysheinin8733
    @tysheinin8733 2 года назад +3

    I had a ton of LJN WWF wrestlers. I used to be able to find ones at thrift stores all the time to add to my collection in the 90s.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад +1

      I just found a Paul Bearer figure 😂

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      Thank you for watching and sharing what you have!

  • @dyslectische
    @dyslectische 2 года назад +1

    I have still the original smurfs from the 80.
    I have them all and with the house .

  • @bilirkisi7819
    @bilirkisi7819 2 года назад +6

    I miss 80's

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +2

      It was a great decade!

    • @mudvalve
      @mudvalve 2 года назад +2

      I look back at movies and TV shows from the era, and to me, the clothing and hair styles still look good.

  • @Retro-2-now
    @Retro-2-now 2 года назад +1

    You can ask anything you want on eBay. Doesn’t mean they sell anywhere close to that

  • @TommyTiger619
    @TommyTiger619 Год назад +3

    As an 80's kid I actually had alot of these toys.

  • @SolskjearAsDoneIt
    @SolskjearAsDoneIt 13 дней назад

    So many reminders of toys as a kid that I’d completely forgotten about

  • @lindaball6714
    @lindaball6714 2 года назад +7

    Lots of memories here. Thanks Rhetty ! Course 80’s wasn’t playing much but still cool to see again !!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +2

      Thank you for watching Linda! I hope you are doing well.

    • @lindaball6714
      @lindaball6714 2 года назад

      @@RhettyforHistory doing ok here. Hope u guys good

  • @anthonyamurri9278
    @anthonyamurri9278 2 года назад +1

    I don't know if I can keep watching this. I'm 32 now. I've had so many NES systems in highschool and had 2 copies of Zelda in gold casings

  • @tinaknight9143
    @tinaknight9143 2 года назад +3

    My Mom always told us we had to take care of our toys so our kids could play with them. Our toys were played with but not abused, so most were in very good condition. Most of my toys made it to my late thirties. Unfortunately, my husband (at the time) neglected to pay our storage bill among every other family bill when he decided to spend his entire checks on his girlfriend instead of family bills. He neglected to tell me about it, as he was in full control of our money at the time, and I lost everything including family heirlooms and most of our son's toys as well. As painful as it was to lose so many emotionally attached items, it was worth it to get out of that emotionally abusive marriage. Trading childhood toys for freedom.

  • @a_very_tired_gamedev2725
    @a_very_tired_gamedev2725 2 года назад +2

    I need to start working on a time machine... guts me that I had a lot of these! Thanks for the nostalgia hit anyways!

  • @chadallen7280
    @chadallen7280 2 года назад +4

    I had 98 percent of these toys and had most of them till I moved out at 18. So the way I see it, my mom owes me like a million dollars. Wish me luck 😂

    • @ATLbench
      @ATLbench 2 года назад

      I can relate to this as well as my brother. My mom is all about purging but I can’t blame her. If we had only had the foresight to keep the toys and even better, if we had bought 2 and kept one in the box! It’s crazy because even though I know this would have been a fantastic idea, I didn’t do it with my kids toys either. Imagine having all those Pokémon cards in sealed packs! And those don’t even take up room 🤦‍♂️.

    • @deannstanglenny9431
      @deannstanglenny9431 2 года назад

      😂🤣

  • @caroleroseburgh1344
    @caroleroseburgh1344 2 года назад +2

    Hi Rhett 🙋🏽. WOW I wish I had some of those things. I could sure use the money 😂🤣😂😅 LOL. Have a great weekend ‼️

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      It would be great to have a stock pile of them. Especially if they were in mint condition. Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great weekend as well!

  • @kaseys4145
    @kaseys4145 2 года назад +7

    It would be cool to see some more on the girl toys that were popular.

  • @Sidewayzview
    @Sidewayzview 12 дней назад

    Man good memories here gad alot of these as a kid, haven't a clue where any of them are now.
    But thanks for the memories, simpler times.

  • @plymouthduster225
    @plymouthduster225 2 года назад +3

    Very interesting video Rhetty. I was a 90s kid but I had He-Man action figures and Transformers. Do you plan on doing a video on 1990s toys?

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      I do think I will do one on that decade at some point. Thank you for watching!

  • @spacebound7247
    @spacebound7247 2 года назад +1

    Are ghostbusters toys worth anything?
    All the guys and ecto one and 2 but out of their packaging???

  • @TheNothing6
    @TheNothing6 2 года назад +5

    I had a lot of these toys! I had a My Pet Monster. I loved playing with the orange handcuffs. I had Micro Machines. I had Transformers. I had He-Man. I had Madballs. I had a Nintendo. I had Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. My sister had a bunch of these toys, too!

    • @gooniesgirl1979
      @gooniesgirl1979 2 года назад +1

      Did you try to put the Pet Monster handcuffs on your sister? I’m a little sister, luckily my brothers are 5 & 9 years older. They had other toys to torture me with. I have no sisters!

    • @TheNothing6
      @TheNothing6 2 года назад +1

      @@gooniesgirl1979 No. I put them on myself and broke free. 🤣😂😂

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +2

      Sounds like you and your sister have had quite a few awesome toys! Thank you for watching!

    • @mine2394
      @mine2394 Год назад +1

      GI Joes we’re pretty good too

  • @israelvaldez26
    @israelvaldez26 2 года назад +3

    I remember in 1987 when my dad took my collection of Star Wars toys to the local swap meet and sold my complete collection and ended up giving me some pocket money for my loss.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      And it could be possible that you broken even or got a little more than what was originally paid for them. I know that happened in my case. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

    • @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060
      @wendy-diannwendy-diann8060 Месяц назад +1

      Oh boy! I would have been devastated. What a mean thing to do. Cheers.

  • @foamige
    @foamige Год назад

    Still got loads of these at my folks place. Im 40 now but get em out for my nephews to play with. They love em.

  • @floydsemlow8253
    @floydsemlow8253 2 года назад +4

    M.U.S.C.L.E Men are Legendary!! 💪

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      Thank you for watching Floyd!

    • @floydsemlow8253
      @floydsemlow8253 2 года назад

      @@RhettyforHistory thank you for the badass videos you put out there. Born in 78 I just love everything that you produce and look forward to seeing your next .God bless and long live the 80s. Best decade EVER!! Side note..... Thanks for caring up about your viewers too personally respond to each and every one of them it means a lot

  • @ATLbench
    @ATLbench 2 года назад

    I used to create elaborate terrains for my Ninja Turtles in the woods behind my house. Me and my friends built breakaway bridges with scrap wood over trenches lined with landscaping plastic and rocks to make it like a river. We made cool “hangouts” for our toys from cardboard boxes painted to look like city buildings or surrounded with bark and rocks to look like a cave. We cut up some corrugated drain pipe to look like sewers connecting our Turtle “world”. We must have spent an entire summer playing with just that and jumping on the trampoline. Needless to say our toys got wrecked! But it sure was fun!!

  • @kirkmorrison6131
    @kirkmorrison6131 2 года назад +6

    I am going back a bit further, but I still wish I had my Lionel trains from the 50s and 60s

  • @vincentcastor5978
    @vincentcastor5978 6 месяцев назад +1

    Old toys appreciate in value. Money is depreciating at alarming rates. Keep your old toys.

  • @TammieR-B
    @TammieR-B 2 года назад +7

    These type of "how much they worth now" videos amaze me. Then makes me a bit nauseous to know that I played with mine till they fell apart 😃 thanks for the memories ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      I would hated to have had toys that I never played with. That's how memories are made! Thank you for watching!

  • @nikkip.Christ-is-King
    @nikkip.Christ-is-King 2 года назад +1

    I had one of those weird clear phones in the picture at the end. That and my own personal line in my room were all I requested one year for Christmas and I got it along with a CD player and a couple CD's.

  • @retrogamestudios6688
    @retrogamestudios6688 2 года назад +3

    Nice, all my Nintendo games aren't selling nowhere and yup my Zelda's in the box...rhetty I got a lot of stuff on this list I'm gonna retire happy someday....I knew I shouldn't have listened to mom and dad when the said don't play with barbies

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      Thank you for watching and I hope you are able to get good money for what you have some day.

  • @mattnobrega6621
    @mattnobrega6621 2 года назад +1

    Don't ever trade your childhood memories for anything. Those memories are priceless and will last forever. Money comes and goes and can lose value.
    I had some of them toys in my life. I lost them all over the years. Still got some of my 12 inch g.i. Joe's(not from the 80's though)

  • @joeheid4757
    @joeheid4757 2 года назад +7

    Parent from the 80's. "I can't believe we bought you a toy and you barely touched it!!"
    Same parent 40 years later. "Thanks for never touching that toy we bought you way back in the 80's!!!"

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      It definitely could be like that. Thank you for watching!

  • @Bloomcycle
    @Bloomcycle 2 года назад +2

    I had all the Fisher Price toys in the late 60's. From the airport to the parking garage to the gas station 😎

    • @TH-hy9kr
      @TH-hy9kr Год назад

      I had the ferris wheel and the bus. My brother had the plane. Those were fun!

  • @dustin6225
    @dustin6225 2 года назад +4

    I love your channel and like the information, but I have to say your NES info is WAY off
    Most NES open systems will sell for about 50-75 bucks. And a boxed system shouldn't sell for more than 150. Also, your average copy of SMB will barely sell for a dollar, and that high-priced boxed version was an artificially inflated sale that was meant to drive up used game prices.
    Sorry, not trying to be a "gotcha", but I love your channel and want your info to be accurate.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад +1

      I got a NES in a box for $75 and it took me awhile to get that. There were a lot going for more. Those kind of tactics of inflating the price have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. Thank uou for watching!

  • @Gorlockthe
    @Gorlockthe 5 месяцев назад +1

    ..figurine was worth 3.50 in the early 80s, and can be found on ebay nowadays for 39.95!
    with inflation, thats the equivalent of 1.99 in 1984!

  • @capnjohn7455
    @capnjohn7455 2 года назад +3

    Super Mario Bros games are only valuable when complete in box. Otherwise I paid $30 for an excellent condition of a Super Mario 3 cartridge. Also Heritage House and the WATA grading system are corrupt (I.e. they are the same owners).

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      Nothing wrong with getting one not in the box. The object of it all is to use it. Just about every market has people in it to inflate prices. Thank you for watching!

  • @mr.smithgnrsmith7808
    @mr.smithgnrsmith7808 2 года назад +3

    Boglins were every young boys dream toy on the 80s…with all the cool Jim Henson films, Neverending Story etc, it was like a creature from Henson

    • @ATLbench
      @ATLbench 2 года назад

      The eyes were so realistic and it was like a puppet right? You could put your hand inside and make facial expressions if I recall correctly.

  • @Jennifer-jt9cb
    @Jennifer-jt9cb Год назад +2

    I play my NES all the time. I love the 8 bit graphics, and games back then had uniqueness and originality unlike the games of today. I have a couple that I keep hooked up, and one that's CIB. It's not still sealed, but it's all there. That one I'm hanging on to for the memories.

    • @mine2394
      @mine2394 Год назад

      True
      Games were fun 🤩 back then

    • @snowyowl9132
      @snowyowl9132 Год назад

      Yep, those games and a lot of SNES and even some N64 games are much better than games of the 2000s. They are much simpler, so fun to play and require no updates or add-ons.

  • @billschlafly4107
    @billschlafly4107 2 года назад +2

    Heritage auctions, where all the SEALED/GRADED video games are being auctioned are run by the same people who built a market in coin collecting in the 80s. I believe one of the men went to prison over it for fraud. The scam is to get dumb money from investors who want to speculate on supposed rare items. The market on certain video games can collapse because periodically a warehouse or truck full of these games is found with hundreds or thousands of identical copies which flood the market.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  2 года назад

      Those kind of tactics have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. I do find interesting how a lot of these things are just "found." Thank you for watching!

  • @Nobby76
    @Nobby76 16 дней назад

    I bought my NES second hand about 10 years after they came out. I paid £40 for the console and was buying the game carts for £3 a pop
    Most of the boy toys listed here i owned at some point. Nearly everything we sold or threw away when we stopped playing with them, but a few things we did keep. I still have an original factory saled He-Man and Skeletor figures, in my junk box in the loft i still have a few of the Muscle figures. Later in life my brother and i decided to go back and collect a lot of the cool stuff we had owned/missed out on as kids. Including an original "Speak and Spell" "Simon" and a "Major Morgan". Some of the original GrandStand electronic games like Caveman, Scramble and Astrowars. Both versions of the Sinclair pocket tv and one of the very first Casio electronic musical keyboards.. Its the white casio VL-Tone. We also went back and started collecting as many of the old computers from the 80's and 90's ranging from a Sinclair Z80 to a commodore 64 and Vic 20. To things like a macintosh classic and our most recent one the tatung einstein.

  • @Jogadireito79
    @Jogadireito79 Год назад +8

    Saudades dos anos 80 ❤️

  • @brandyb01
    @brandyb01 2 года назад +2

    I collect cabbage patches and have been for many years the only ones that are into the thousands are the original handmade ones not the mass produced ones.