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New Article: Fisher Price’s POCKET ROCKERS!

Okay, first of all, that thread about the worst movies you've seen in theaters down below is awesome, and proves that there's a lot more lurkers here than I originally thought. Maybe we should make these kinds of polls and surveys a daily thing? At least it'd let you talk about more than whatever new article there is on a particular day -- in this case, Fisher Price's Pocket Rockers, the miniature tape players from the 80's that let kids listen to Debbie Gibson in super style. You could wear the players, you could wear the tapes -- you could wear pretty much everything contained in the collection, and for my money, that was a much more poignant selling point than hearing two tracks from Tiffany. Some of you will probably remember these...

Posted by Matt on 01/21/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 82 comments

Didn’t even read it, just want the first comment.

Oh Yeah!

Chestnuts roasted by whitemale_98 @ 01/21/2004 12:20 PM

Zoom? Zoom onto what…a big white screen?
…Maybe I’ll check back later.

Chestnuts roasted by d-d-dave-some @ 01/21/2004 12:24 PM

scroll down d-d-dave

Chestnuts roasted by saint matthew @ 01/21/2004 12:29 PM

my friend had the fat boys/ beachboys collective singing the new hip fresh 80′s version of wipe out. and the band that sang walk like an egyptian.

Chestnuts roasted by nick @ 01/21/2004 12:32 PM

heh. Yeah, I remember these. Now they have Tiger’s Hit Clips, new tech, same idea. I hated the bastardization of a favorite CCR song to shill these suckers. Out here in OK, only the rich kids could afford to be so new-wave hip and wear the strange color patterns that are the legacy of the 80′s, but in farm country, that just got you beat up. Fashion wise, the best thing about the 80′s is they ain’t the 70′s. Although I love the bizzare transistor radios from back then.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/21/2004 12:39 PM

I am looking for one of those PXL cameras F-P had out once.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/21/2004 12:59 PM

Portable entertainment for children. What could be more lucrative? Now semi-affluent kids can watch their 2 favorite episodes of Spongebob Squarepants on those little black-and-white portable Video Now players from Hasbro. Looks like sucksville to me. Luckily for Hasbro, children are suckers.

Chestnuts roasted by MadMax1001 @ 01/21/2004 1:06 PM

So far I’ve found two (three?) secret links in the article. The ‘zoom’ links to a pic which goes to an old toy article, and if you click on the kid’s sunglasses in the last pic, I think Matt calls you a shithead. Searched it again, and the plus sign in that shit-pic links to a Hungry Hippos ad. This is fun! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Ern @ 01/21/2004 1:18 PM

heh

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 01/21/2004 1:28 PM

Greatness!

Mattos-The Memorymaker!

Chestnuts roasted by Slacker @ 01/21/2004 1:44 PM

Wait a sec. The Hungry Hungry Hippos I remember went something like:

"Who will win? No one knows! Feed the hungry hip-hip-hoes"

Must be one o’ dem revamps. Carry on.

Chestnuts roasted by Slacker @ 01/21/2004 1:47 PM

so I remember those charms really well… probably too well since I’m a dude, but I had an older cousin, who I believe was in love with the things. I seem to remember them having a distinct smell, when looking at the picture, I can almost smell it… I remember her having the baby bottle, only I think her’s had a blue top

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 01/21/2004 1:48 PM

Hey! I have a VideoNow player!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/21/2004 1:57 PM

I used to make fun of the people who had these =) Nice.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/21/2004 1:59 PM

Ahhh! How deep does the rabbit hole go? Not-So-Secret, indeed.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 01/21/2004 1:59 PM

Slacker, yea they had several Hungry Hippos songs. The first I remember was "Hungry Hungry hippos…Hungry Hungry Hippos" (try to imagine it). They also had the "cha cha" sounding one with all the Hippos dancing "We love to feed our face, we’re in an eating race". I also remember the one you’re talking about. I think it was somewhere in between.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/21/2004 2:02 PM

I didn’t have the Pocket Rockers but I still have a giant plastic chain full of little plastic charms. I must have been a sick little kid ’cause there’s a whole section on there dedicated to liqour bottles. =)

Chestnuts roasted by metalchick666 @ 01/21/2004 2:24 PM

Anyone see the Oprah-themed one on The Man Show?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/21/2004 2:25 PM

DONT THEY HAVE SOMETHING OUT NOW OR AT LEAST IN THE PAST YEAR CALLED "HIP CLIPS" WHICH WERE LITTLE TAPES WITH A COUPLE OF SONGS FOR KIDS. THATS LIKE THE SAME THING.

Chestnuts roasted by MIKEY @ 01/21/2004 2:39 PM

Holy shit, I rocked the shit out of those terrible things. Err…. I mean, my sister did.

Chestnuts roasted by Bryan @ 01/21/2004 2:42 PM

damn lunch break, I was about to post something really awsome, then I realiezed it was 11:30, and I had to go pick up my daughter from school….man am I old. Anyway, I remember pining for these things every time I saw the comercial. Nobody at my school ever had them, but I wanted it anyway. I still feel the pain any time I see the little minni cassette recorders.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 01/21/2004 2:44 PM

HEY MIKEY, THE ALSO HAVE SOMETHING OUT NOW CALLED THE CAPS LOCK KEY, THAT YOU CAN PRESS BEFORE SAYING SOMETHING.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 01/21/2004 2:50 PM

All of this brings to mind my beloved Personics custom made tapes from Sam Goody’s.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 01/21/2004 2:51 PM

Hehe, I actually don’t remember these, and probably wouldn’t have wanted one even if I knew they existed at the time. I had one of those REAL Sesame Street tape players on which I blared MC Hammer. I also seriously went through the sound test in Castlevania 3 and recorded all the tracks onto tape.

Chestnuts roasted by Abob Lyndsae @ 01/21/2004 2:56 PM

I have never even heard of these. Guess I was too young in ’88. But I never fell prey to many fads, either; I was always the outsider.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 01/21/2004 2:57 PM

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