Another example of nineties toymakers going HAM on miniatures. Tech Deck fingerboards are small skateboards that can be manipulated and “ridden” using your fingers. Fingerboards were initially produced as keychains for skate shops but evolved into a standalone product. Boards had all of the features of a full-sized skateboard, including moving wheels, trucks, grip tape, and graphics. They exposed younger audiences to skateboarding culture and created new marketing opportunities for skateboard brands and companies.
Tech Deck fingerboards were a much safer alternative to actual skateboarding, which allowed enthusiasts of all ages and abilities the chance to participate in the trend. While they may have looked like a novelty trinket, Tech Decks allowed for the same functionality as real skateboards meaning users could learn the tricks they saw in their favorite video games like Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Mastering an ollie or a kickflip took time and dedication. Still, it didn’t require the blood sacrifice that actual skating often demands.
In the nineties, Tech Deck boards became a popular collector’s item, similar to Beanie Babies and Pokemon cards. Thanks to some savvy marketing and brand licensing agreements, the miniature boards began to feature the same graphics as full-sized versions from brands like ELEMENT, Girl, Toy Machine, and Zero. Portable and inexpensive, it was easy to sneak a quick Tech Deck sesh at recess or inside your middle school desk. An entire industry popped up around the trendy toy, from tiny rails, half pipes, and other skateboard settings to miniature BMX bikes. In the early 2000s, Teck Deck partnered with McDonald's to include plastic fingerboards as Happy Meals toys.
Sleeping, walking the dog, and rocking the cradle may sound like a boring list of chores. Still, if you were raised in the nineties, you’d immediately recognize these as tricks you could perform with your Yomega Brain yo-yo. While yo-yo toys have...
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Toymakers in the 1990s really were all about the portable toy. From the Tamagotchi and portable CD players to handheld electronics like the Game Boy Color, if you couldn’t take it with you, what good was it to a nineties kid? Aimed at a somewhat...
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Remember setting up toy cars and town scenes on your playmat? Well, you can still accessorize your living space and create your own mini town with this city life playmat. Just remember to pick up those legos when you are done – they hurt when you step on them!
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With our galaxy under threat from the Evil Emperor Zerg, we must rely on the greatest Space Ranger to ever patrol our toy boxes: Buzz Lightyear! Relive those epic childhood Toy Story moments with your very own Buzz Lightyear doll. To infinity... and beyond!
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Christmas 1996: a holiday toy season that will live in infamy. The N64 video game system and Tickle Me Elmo were the two hottest toys to hit the market and nineties parents were freaking out. The crazed rush to buy up all of the Tickle Me Elmo’s...
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You may remember these as “Sock’em Boppers” before they were rebranded to the current “Socker Boppers.” But, the fact remains the same – punching friends and siblings with airbag gloves is still “more fun than a pillow fight!”
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The slap bracelet, an innocuous little wrist wrap turned children's toy, was to early '90s kids what fidget spinners are to children of the 2010s. Incredibly simple and idiotically brilliant, the slap bracelet was both a fashion statement and an...
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Although the design is not the same as that old tube TV shape, Lite-Brites are still available for purchase. Grab one today and express your inner '90s kid through light and tiny little plastic pegs.
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With a sticky hand toy, you can master the art of grabbing things from a slightly longer distance than you can reach! As many '90s kids know, they are also a pretty useful tool for annoying siblings.
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Do you miss the days of being peed on by a toy doll? Well, miss them no more! Baby Alive is back and ready to provide all of the biological joys that come with caring for a very hungry and thirsty baby.
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