Let’s take a trip back to the ’90s and dive under the tree and unwrap a few Millennial Christmas toys that were all the rage back in the day.
I’m presenting this as a 12-Inch Poll, of course. It’s the holidays season and I’m simultaneously in making-my-shopping-list mode and nostalgia mode. And I’m guessing you probably are, too. And I’m also guessing that you either unwrapped one of the gifts below as a kid (or maybe a sibling or cousin or friend did). Or, you were the one wrapping one of these for a kid during the holiday season.
By the time the ’90s came around, marketing toys to kids had evolved. The Madison Avenue ad machine of the ’70s and ’80s had evolved and was even more on point in developing toys that kids would crave in the ’90s. And that trend of developing TV shows that existed explicitly to sell toys to kids that had bloomed in the ’80s–either in the programming or in the commercials–was still going strong.
Millennial Christmas Toys: 12 Favorites From the ’90s
I did some research to identify some of the top toys of the early part of the ’90s, when the average Millennial was getting the big gifts. Some of them were obvious wish-list choices (hello, Nintendo Game Boy). But there are some others that were maybe a little less obvious but were still huge at the time. Especially in the Boston area (hello, New Kids on the Block Concert Kits).
If you’ve voted in one of my polls before, you know the deal. Scroll through the toys below, soak in the nostalgia from the early ’90s commercials, then cast your vote. And, as always, if a favorite toy of yours didn’t make the cut, let me know on the ROCK 92.9 Twitter or Facebook.
