what your childhood toys look like now

I was strolling through a shop the other day and came across a collection of "ORIGINAL TY Beanie Babies!" I was all pumped... until I looked at them.

It's not original at all! Look at its eyes! It's gotten the 21st century eye treatment! They're HUGE!

I decided to look up how many other toys have changed through the years since I haven't been in a Toys R Us in a while, and it's a little terrifying.

Barbie Styling Heads now come with pets... and even more extensive make-up than ever.

Furby has gotten even creepier... WITH LED EYEBALLS!

The doctor's kit is in a tote bag, but other than that I'm happy to see not much has changed.

If you've seen Toy Story 3, you know about Barbie's Dream House nowadays... elevators and way more pink.

If you thought Bop It was hard way back then, stay away from the new versions. 

Polly Pocket... doesn't even live in a pocket anymore!

The Easy Bake Oven... looks nothing like an oven, unless you're living in Zenon's world.

GIRL TALK still exists?! YUP. With a One Direction version.

So long innocent, simple red car. 

And so long simplicity of the Skip It. Now there's levels and lights and OMG ARE WE AT A RAVE?!

Lite Brite... no longer making you poke lights through a piece of paper because that's wasting... it's an LED screen now.

Pink sports cars are soooo not girly enough for today's Barbie car.

OMG REMEMBER BABY ALL GONE?! Or something like that.... She can still eat her magic peas, but can't have real hair.

Once again, simple is no longer cool. Little People got makeovers too.

Ooh and the Littlest Pet Shop! Again with the big eyes.... They don't look remotely the same anymore.

Oh, look... more humongous eyes on My Little Pony.

And even Etch-A-Sketch has gotten a millennium makeover. 90 degree angles are so last century.

So... maybe kids these days are kinda playing with all the awesome toys we used to play with.... but they're mostly completely different. Plastic surgery at its finest. 

love,

elizabethany

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what more of your childhood toys are worth now

Done a lot of these "what are they worth" posts lately, but get ready for more head-hitting prices.

THIS GAME WAS SO CRAZY! I mean, I really don't remember how to play, but I know it was fun.

Oh, just some skateboards that you ride with your fingers... Now worth the triple digits.

Easiest, most simple game ever, but ya never know what those collectors like.

The original Super Soaker. It would never win in a fight with the new things they've come up with, but people are offering some dough.

K'nex Rolle Coasters. The people who buy this for nearly $1,000 must think they're gonna get to ride it.

No one's got street cred like the Street Sharks... obviously worth a lot now since their appearance in Sharknado.

Fisher Price castle, complete with a canon and a hideaway tower.

I mean, these were pretty damn special... so now they're going for $1100.

The smallest doll in all the land, now with a hefty bill.

The original Game Boy best come with some games if I'm going to be paying that kinda money. 

Of course these things can't be considered "worth" all this money unless someone's going to pay that much for them, right? Unless we're playing by "Storage Wars" rules because you never see someone actually buy any of the stuff they find and price out.

Either way... it's time to start hoarding so I can be rich in twenty years... Cuz I know we had at least six of those things that my mom probably threw out three years ago. 

love,

elizabethany

PS: Find even more of them here.

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toys from your childhood that will make you rich

Remember when I looked up the value of all those Happy Meal toys that you've been saving, assuming they'd be worth a lot some day? Well, since you weren't alone in that, the space they're taking up is worth more than the toy itself.

BUT!, my friends... If you're a hoarder like me my mom, you might have some serious dolla dolla bills hidden in your attic, basement, bedroom, whatever.

I know for a fact I had these, that were handed down from my mom. If she got rid of them, she threw away $50.

You betta believe I was organizing my [lack of] fashion with this here Clueless device! Now it can get girl fabulous for $75.

I think I had one of these diaries before a real one... and now my [forever] locked up memories are worth $80.

Everyone remembers Talkboys! [And if you don't you're either really young or need to educate yourself.] If you didn't throw away the ancient technology, it's worth $90.

Surely you remember this doodling diddy! I mean, I don't totally remember how it worked, but that's for the person paying $95 to figure out.

Who knew a Mr Potato Head Lite Brite would still be cool in 2013!? If you thought it might be, you're sitting on $120.

Sweet, creepy, Teddy Ruxpin. If you've got it all, his life savings is about $240.

Just a Tamagotchi keychain, with a devilish spin. No big deal right? Fine. Go ahead and give away the $435.

This is nothing but an electric Hello Kitty pencil sharpener... worth $500!

A My Little Pony teaset. Whatever little girls owned this, probably rarely played with it, and were lucky if it didn't accidentally fall from their closet and shatter. That's why it's worth $500 now!

Just a whistling Nerf football from 1989. Someone probably paid $10 for it... and now they're getting $1500!

I definitely remember seeing this dog in the stores or somewhere, and now his dance moves are worth 50,000 freaking dollars. WHAT?!

Seriously, pots of gold are basically sitting in your/your parents' house right now. You need to get to it before they do, and fast. Then buy me something nice to thank me for letting you know.

I'm going to sneak into my house this weekend and hopefully collect $825, if my mom didn't get trash-happy all of the sudden.

love,
elizabethany

PS See more toys and their worth here!

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old school happy meal toys to remember

Once upon a time, Happy Meal toys are what drove people to McDonald's. If they were something good, you were there. A lot. People also got multiples of each one and never took them out of the wrapper, hoping one day they'd be worth something.

I think it's finally become "one day." These are the toys you should remember, and how much they're worth today.

I think my family literally collected at least 20 of these dalmatians, which is only 1/5 of them! There were actually 102 different ones, and totally one of my top 3 ever.

All of them: $187

McDonald's Changeables were the first Transformers in my life. Who knew fast food items could be so COOL?!

On sale for a couple dollars each

Disney Masterpiece collection were little figurines from the biggest movies that came in mini VHS boxes. Sweet Pocahontas came with a brush so her hair didn't get all nappy.
$5 average per toy

When it was Barbie time, I was a happy girl. For some reason, I still won't really let my mom throw any of them out. 

$2 a piece

Let's not forget the other half of Barbie week: HOT WHEELS week! I'm pretty sure it's where my brother got the coolest of his collection.

Trying to be sold for $10, probably another one worth about $2

I totally forgot about these things! The "Fry Kids!" Just little figurines that look like pompoms, but I loved 'em.

Older ones going for $10

Oh yes, Furbies made their way to McDonald's with even creepier eyes and barely moving toes and ears. 

If you want 81 of them, it's $480.

For Halloween, you got a sweet trick-or-treeting bucket! SCORE! And those McNugget buddies were basically a baby made by a dress-up doll and Mr. Potato Head.

BUCKETS: $10

BUDDIES: $6 each

When Muppets: Treasure Island came out, we got the neatest bathtime toys. You betta believe Kermit shot his water cannon at Miss Piggy. 

$2 each

What better way to celebrate the Mighty Ducks than to have your own puck that rolled around on regular hard floors?! Pretty sure we still own a couple of these, too.

$2 each

I'm not sure why anyone would ever buy the regular version when you could just shoot these into the sky. Oh, that's right. The real ones had glitter.

$30 for the entire set

Tamagotchi hit the drive thru with locket keychains filled with figures of the creatures you raised on the real technologically advanced keyrings. 

$3 each

Can't fill a court without a full team! So of course you wanted to get all the pieces of the Space Jam puzzle, who all did fancy tricks!

$10 for all 8

When I saw/remembered these, I geeked out. The Tiny Toons flip-cars raced along and switched drivers whenever yours was sucking.

Again about $2 each

Mulan tops! It wasn't just Mulan, but any top that was of this kind was the ish. All you had to do was swipe it on the floor a couple times; You didn't have to worry about balance.

$4 new/in the wrapper

And of course, the Ty Teenie Beanies! Not only did you have to collect bags of the original ones, but now these, that were pretty crappy and made of felt, to be honest. 

Sorry, but only $2-5 each. 

Considering each one is only worth about $2, and that's if people are buying them from eBay, you should probably just throw them out if you're saving them. It's been at least 15 years since most of these came out and they're worth about the same or a dollar more. 

Yeah, that's pretty disappointing...

But back to happy! That was a blast from the past, right?!

love,

elizabethany

PS FYI: It is currently Barbie/HEXBug [?] time!

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