Kids of the 90's

Our toys are coming back

2015-01-08T15:20:00.000-08:00

Hi, guys!

I went on a random toy hunt at my local Wal-Mart and Target. I'll admit that I haven't really paid much attention to toys in a long time. I mean besides Nintendo stuff. I know that people say to keep all of your clothing and toys because they'll be popular once again. I knew that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and My Littlest Pet Shop were making a triumphant come back. My sister and I had these toys when we were younger, but unfortunately don't have any of them any more.

Here is what else I found on my toy hunt!

Power Morphicon 2014

2014-08-18T17:10:00.003-07:00

Hi guys, long time no write.

My apologizes I've just been extremely busy, but enough of that. If you've read some previous entries of this blog you know that I was an avid watcher of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Every two years in Pasadena, California there is an all Power Rangers convention. I, personally, have never been to one, I'll be stalking YouTube shortly after the convention has closed.

I must say that guest list looks amazing! Most of Saban's early 90's creations are going to be there, Big Bad BeetleBorgs, VR Troopers, Masked Rider, and of course Power Rangers throughout the years. I'm more excited to hear from characters that aren't as active in social media or are active in cons. For instance; Carol Hoyt.

Austin St. John is back from the middle east and is going to be there this year, he was also in the very first Power Morphicon in 2007. He has been doing a lot of cons since he's been back and now has a Facebook, Twitter account, and is on Instagram. I'm thankful that he seems very humble and respectful to the fans.

Then I made a YouTube video on my channel that Yuuta Mochizuki was announced to appear a few weeks back. He was Geki the Tyranno Ranger, in Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger.

On my old YouTube account I had a what you might call a 'tribute' to him, I also put this video on my SeraMyu fan page on MySpace. (My old YouTube has been taken down, so I'm going to try to embed the MySpace version.)as been taken down, so I'm going to try to embed the MySpace version.) For some reason, I can't embed to videos in one post, so I'm going to put a link to my Yuuta Mochizuki tribute video.
https://mysp.ac/PLQA

Merry Christmas!!

2013-12-23T17:24:00.000-08:00

I know that this is early, but I want to wish everybody a Happy and Joyous Christmas!

Hiatus

2013-10-23T14:25:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!

I know that I've been having a little hiatus with this blog. I'm hoping that it isn't the case for much longer. I got a couple ideas for future entries, that I'm excited for. I'm hoping when I go to my sister's house for Thanksgiving I'm able to find some of the things that I need. I've also been busy with college, school, and with another blog that I'm doing here on blogger. I'll link it here http://kaelancer.blogspot.com , feel free to visit it.

I'm also very happy that "Kids of the 90's" still gets plenty of people reading it weekly.

Here's a random photo of something that I got dirt cheap a week ago. It also came with a screen light/ magnifier, two games, and a GameCube link cable.

Animal Crossing!

2013-09-28T17:10:00.003-07:00

I know that Animal Crossing, the original release for North America, didn't come out in the 90's, but it was pretty close. It came out in 2001, I was still in high school. This is probably going to be the only exception to having something in the 00's.

I got Animal Crossing:New Leaf when it came out this summer. It's great, fun, but also very VERY addicting. Then being a nostalgia nut that I am, I hooked up my gamecube and attempted to play.

Well, I haven't played my file in like 9 months. My town was covered in weeds, I couldn't remember what was donated to the museum, and I just wanted to start over. It was a hard decision because I had amazing neighbors; Mitzi, Bob, Lucky, and Cob were my favorites. After a few seconds of thoughts I deleted the file from my memory card and started over.

I must say the New Leaf has spoiled me. Everything takes much longer to do in the original version, such as selling things to Tom Nook, switching between tools, and getting fossils inspected. It's still very much enjoyable to play, and very addicting. I don't have any regrets for starting my town over.

For those who don't know what Animal Crossing is. I'm going to give a short description of what it's about.

You start the game in a traveling in a Train, and cat named Rover asks to sit down with you. You don't really have the option to tell him 'no.' He then proceeds to ask you questions. One is what's your name, I always name my avatar FUNKIE. Another is the name of the town that you're traveling to, my town name always changes. Another question he asks regards if you have a place to stay and money. It doesn't matter what you say, Rover will excuse himself to make a phone call. After he comes back he tells you that he's talked to a friend that's willing to help your character out, Tom Nook. When you arrive to your town, you finally get to see what your character looks like, it depends on how you answered your questions as to the hair and eye color/ shape will look like. Now is where my memory may get a little fuzzy. I believe Tom Nook is waiting for you when you get to the train station, he proceeds to tell you that he has some dirt cheap houses that you can live in. There are four houses to choose from, they are all the same except for roof color. I should also mention that they aren't really "houses" they are more like a tiny shack.
After you pick one Tom Nook tells you how to save, this is important or you'll get harassed by Mr. Resetti. Mr. Resetti can and WILL yell at you for minutes upon minutes if you don't save, it's a big PITA! When Tom Nook asks for money for the house you only have 1,000 bells, bells is the money that is used in the Animal Crossing universe, then he says that it isn't enough and offers you a part time job in his little shop. You basically do all the grunt work for him; making deliveries, doing advertising, work on the landscaping. He also has you meet all the neighbors, I think you start out with 4, and Tortimer who's the mayor. After you do all the jobs Nook using the money he was going to pay you to go towards your "loan." It still won't be paid off, but he tells you that you can go fishing, catch bugs, and dig up fossils. You just bring him what you caught and he'll pay you for them. Fossil's have to be sent away to the Farway museum to be inspected. (You can also take fishes, bugs, and fossils to the local museum to be donated.) You can take the bells that you earn to buy furniture, clothes, other tools, and pay off loans, to make your house larger.

My Animal Crossing Collection

That's the gist of Animal Crossing. I've owned and played every version except for the Wii one. (Only because I have never owned a Wii)

Cool Runnings

2013-04-04T18:52:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

I actually watched "Cool Runnings" last night. It was one of my favorites when I was a child. This movie is hilarious, serious, inspirational, and is all around fun. I actually forgot all about this movie, until I visited Amazon.com and it was a suggested product for me. I, of course, ordered it. I think that the one thing that stood out for me was that it didn't have the traditional Disney sport movie ending. Cool Runnings did NOT medal at the olympics and their final run was disastrous. I don't want to ruin the ending for anybody who hasn't seen it yet, but I was terrified watching the ending now as an adult. It was sad as a child, but not nearly as sad as it was last night. (Darn, adult hormones.) I took a picture of the DVD on my Instagram account.

http://instagram.com/p/XqU0CGnhKy/

I highly recommend this movie.

Mighty Ducks part 0

2013-02-26T12:01:00.001-08:00

That's right part zero! Nobody has the original Mighty Ducks movie to rent or borrow. Even freaking iTunes only has the second and third Mighty Ducks movie to rent. I'm freaking disappointed! (sad face) So I'm sadly going to have to put the rest of my reviews on hold..... for now.

The Mighty Ducks (part 1)

2013-01-25T07:32:00.001-08:00

The Mighty Ducks, was a absolute favorite movie of mine when I was younger. I actually owned all 3 of the movies on VHS. I haven't gotten them on DVD yet, which I might do in the future.

In the 90's there were a bunch of movies about young kids, usually around 11 or 12 years old, who were misfits in the sports world. They are the underdog who just got even score a single point, then magically by the end of the movie they are the district champions.This movie is no exception. I'm going to stick with the first Mighty Ducks movie, since I just seen it on tv. (The other two movies in the trilogy pretty much follow the same formula.)

This movie starts out with a big time lawyer, Gordon Bombay, who got arrested for a DUI and was sentenced to community service. He was forced to coach District 5 pee wee hockey team, who was the worst team of the league. He arrives at the lake that the kids are practicing at, some of the kids are more annoying than others. None of them really have any real talent, heck the goalie Goldberg is afraid of the dang puck! Except for Charlie who has a teaspoon of talent at the beginning of this movie.

The kids aren't really sure what to think of their new coach, since all of their others coaches quit. They start calling him out. To earn their trust and respect coach Bombay takes them for a ride in his limo on the frozen lake. Charlie's mom, later to be Bombay's love interest, shows up P.O.ed. For some reason she didn't like her son being driven around on his, that could possibly break and drown the kids. (Those last couple of sentences where dripping with sarcasm, for those of you who couldn't tell)

On to the teams first game with Bombay as their coach. It is against the champions of the league, The Hawks. Flash back sequence: Bombay was a little kid playing pee wee hockey as the star of the Hawks team. Holy coincidence Batman!

Movies

2013-01-15T05:41:00.001-08:00

Hello,

I was thinking about this a couple of weeks back. Do you have any movies that you absolutely loved when you were younger, but when you watched them in recent times you realized how horrible they are? Or has the opposite happened, and you still love them as much now as you did as a child?
(comment below)

Summer Camp

2012-11-20T10:55:00.000-08:00

I almost forgot about this classic Nickelodeon show, I found out that they had a reunion last year at Comikaze. It was about a group of kids and the mischief that they caused while away at summer camp. I'll dive deeper into the show on my next blog. But before I leave here is a clue.

UPDATE: I haven't had a chance to rewatch the show yet, but I'm going to really soon. *sorry*

Upcoming Halloween

2012-10-19T03:52:00.002-07:00

Hey, I know that it has been a very long time since I've posted. Life has kept me very busy! It is already October 19, which means that it is almost Halloween. It used to be one of my favorite celebrations as a kid, mainly because it just meant that you could ran around all over town and get high off of sugar. Honestly, what kid wouldn't love that. I'm going to write a more in depth post about this soon.

What are some of your favorite memories of Halloween?

More thoughts of Hey Dude: Season 1

2012-07-30T17:39:00.000-07:00

After my initial excitement of actually getting to watch this series again, I put it away and haven't really watched it again until recently. The nostalgia of it is still makes my heart patter, but now I'm watching it without my rose colored glasses.

I can say that at the time that this originally aired there really wasn't anything else like it on the air. A bunch of kids working a summer job on a dude ranch, mind you they literally spent the whole summer at the Bar None Ranch away from their families. Yes, by today's standards the acting is horrible and cheesy. You would think that working on a Dude Ranch, there would be a lot of excitement and action. Most everything was toned down, possibly because they didn't want the actors getting hurt?

Most of season 1 featured Brad and Ted arguing and tension between the sexes. One episode even featured a boys vs girls competition. They were on a DUDE RANCH, and the coolest thing we get it an obvious calm horse, trying to act wild while Brad calms him down to ride. On the note of Brad, I have never heard of a girl named Bradley.

I don't think that this show would stand a chance by today's standards, but by 1989's it was alright.

SIDE NOTE: I'm thinking of getting season 2.

baseball cards

2012-06-13T09:59:00.001-07:00

If you were a kid in the '90's you probably had a collection of baseball cards. In my collection, I have a variety of sports cards.Where I lived a pack was only 25 cents, and it included a stick of gum. I always ate the gum even though it was like chewing rocks, lol.

I still have a book full of cards, somewhere. My question is... What do you do with them? Did you throw them out? Are you still collecting? Did you hand them down to somebody? Did you sell them?

I'm at a loss of what to do with mine. Leave me a comment below.

A whole year older!

2012-05-11T12:33:00.001-07:00

Well, I'm older now then I was the last time that I have posted. I had a great birthday, thanks everyone!

Do you guys have any birthday traditions? I only had to birthday parties growing up, one was when I was in 2nd grade and the other was when I was in 5th grade. The one I had in 5th grade was pretty awesome, we had a half day of school and we had a field trip to the circus. Heck yes!!! I had 4 or 5 friends over and we stayed up all night, played power rangers, circus, and poker. We did have one kid who fell asleep, so we tortured her by putting bumble balls, remember those?, in her sleeping bag. I don't think I have any pics of the actual party though. Dang, times before cell phones, digital cameras/ camcorders.

We put 2 bumble balls in her sleeping bag, one lesson she learned is that if the birthday girl and everybody else is staying up all night long, then so are you!! They might look soft, but they were hard and hurt if they bumped you wrong. Man, I was evil!!!!

I found a YouTube video of what a bumble ball is, just in case somebody forgot/ doesn't remember.

zoo!

2012-04-22T18:59:00.000-07:00

We went to the zoo for my birthday yesterday. It was fun and I got sun burnt, ouch! This zoo lets you pet and feed the animals. I got a ton of pics and video, but I haven't had time to edit everything out yet. We fed lemurs, giraffes, birds, and rode on a camel. We also saw a ton of other animals and ate ice cream. It was a lot of fun!

This camel is named Charlie, we couldn't convince him to go to Candy Mountain.

The lemur's love cranberry's. (My sister is feeding this one.)

AHHHH...... Sorry!

2012-04-12T17:37:00.000-07:00

I know, I've been bad. I haven't updated in a month! I'm sorry, I've just been so busy with work and school. I will update again soon, I promise.

It's almost my birthday, which means one thing ZOO!!!!!

My next post will be about all the wonderful adventures you can have at the zoo. As a bonus, here's a pic of a giraffe <3

Batman

2012-03-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

When I think of Batman, I think of Michael Keaton. When I think of Joker, I think Jack Nicholson. My sister and I loved 1989's movie simply named "Batman." It was one of the very few movies that we actually wore out. We even brought the movie to our babysitters house to watch with our friends. (Nowadays babysitters probably wouldn't let you get away with watching or bringing that)

I have watched the newer version, The Dark Knight, and I liked it okay. I just like this movie better, it might be because this movie was part of my childhood. I liked how crazy the Joker was. He drove damsel Vicki Vale, absolutely crazy. Vicki Vale was Bruce Wayne's love interest in this movie. She was a photographer for the local newspaper. She was an alright character, she wasn't really that strong of a woman. She screamed a lot in this movie, I'm not kidding. My dad even warned the babysitter that she screamed a lot, lol.

Michael Keaton, to me, was an amazing Batman. He was very mysterious, quiet, and stayed in the shadows. Isn't that how Bruce Wayne and Batman are supposed to be?

Jack Nicholson's Joker was a wild card. He took over the city putting poison is hygiene items. He took over Gotham City's parade. He promised to give away money, so of course, pretty much the whole city's population showed up. He ended up releasing gas and to make matters worse, the money he was giving away was "Joker Bucks". He also had a sidekick named Bob, he didn't say much, but I'm always a little sad when the Joker shoots him :(

I also really loved the soundtrack. Danny Elfman did an amazing job! I used to be obsessed with Lego Batman, I was pleasantly surprised that they used most of the music from the soundtrack of this movie. On a side note: A GameStop employee told me that they were coming out with Lego Batman 2.

I for got to mention, they looked awesome!!! I also liked the movies version of the Batmobile, its very sleek. The new Bat tumbler, or whatever it's called is also pretty badass.

CLUE

2012-02-22T06:26:00.000-08:00

This is another fun board game that my sister and I used to play, we usually played it at our grandma's house.

If you've never played before it's a simple game. Where you each pick a character and try to figure out the murderer, the weapon they used, and which room they were in. I really can't remember exactly how to play, it's been YEARS! I'll have to dig up the game, I think we might have it somewhere. Anyway, before you start playing you put in an envelope one card of a person, room, and weapon. Then when you make it to a room you just guess who did it. For example, Professor Plum, in the conservatory, with the rope. And if anybody had those cards they'd lay them out and everybody would cross them off their lists. Until you have all but one of each category crossed off. Then when you know, you make your guess. I'm thinking you have to go to a certain room to make your guess, but I'm really fuzzy at the details.

I'm going to tell a story about one ridiculously funny time that we played. We, my sister, cousin, and I, were upstairs at first we were playing hide and go seek, but it quickly got boring and we got in lots of trouble for running in the house. My cousin found Clue and suggested that we play it. We had a couple of successful rounds. It was getting late and thought that we would have enough time for one more round. We literally just got started. I think we had the envelope put together and just distributed the cards, when my grandma yelled up the stairs that my dad was here, then my cousin quickly made a guess and he was 100% right. That made a long game quick, lol.

While We Are On The Subject of Power Rangers

2012-02-11T08:07:00.000-08:00

I apologize for not doing a new blog for awhile. It's been super busy here lately.

Anyway, I was just reminded why I didn't like Jason David Frank, Tommy, on power rangers. I just listened to an interview that he did on No Pink Spandex, and does that boy not know when to shut up! I'm sorry but talking bad about Austin St. John every chance you get is really pathetic. The Power Rangers Debuted in 1993 and this particular interview was in 2010, I think it's time to move on Jason David Frank. He spent close to 30 minutes talking horribly about ASJ, I'm at a lost of words. Then again I don't believe much Jason David Frank says anymore. He claims to have invented the hand moves of the Turbo morph, but they used an almost identical one in Carranger (激走戦隊カーレンジャー) I think I remember one time when he said that they didn't use any Japanese stock footage of the green ranger, because the green ranger dies. WRONG! I've seen all of Zyuranger and I can guarantee you that they used stock footage.

I'm sorry I know this isn't what I normally post about, but that really got under my skin this morning.

NEXT POST: a board game that my cousin always cheated in. Do you need a clue?

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

2012-01-27T09:18:00.000-08:00

I have very mixed feelings about this movie, and did since I was small. I watched it in the movie theatre and bought it at K-mart the day it came out on VHS. I know that I have touched this movie a little bit before.

Even though Jason, Trini, and Zack weren't in this movie I was still super excited to see it. I'll start off with the things I didn't like about this movie. (Please keep in mind that this is my opinion)

1.) The name of it. Really they couldn't have gotten any more creative then Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.

2.) The costume's. I know that a lot of people liked them. I thought they looked cheap and to be perfectly honest dumb. I know Saban had a bigger budget and didn't use stock footage, but still.....

3.) Zedd and Rita, I'm sorry but I thought that they should've been in it much more.

4.) The death and then revival of Zordon, I still don't get it. I understand out of his chamber he can't survive, but how the heck did they bring him back to live! I know somebody will more than likely enlighten me on this.

5.) The zords looked horrible, I haven't actually watched this movie in a long time, but once again even as a child I thought they looked really fake and too computerized.

What I did like about this movie.

1.) The action.

2.) Dulcea, as I was a young girl at this time it was nice to have a really strong female.

4.) Adam's one liners. "I'm a frog." "Welcome, to Jurassic Park."

5.) I did like the Fred story line also. It was nice to know what was going on in Angel Grove, while the Rangers were on Phados.

6.) When the show went back on television they had to basically redo the whole movie to incorporate Kakuranger footage. Which I don't mind at all because Kakuranger is one of my favorite of the Super Sentai.

Overall, this wasn't a bad movie. It was cheesy like the television show, but with a bigger budget and didn't use had Japanese stock footage. I might watch it again after typing this.

MMPR VHS

2012-01-23T13:23:00.000-08:00

I went downstairs at my mom's house to see if I could find anything from my childhood. Unfortunately, most of my stuff is long gone. I did find some of my old Power Ranger tapes. I used to have a ton of them and both movies, so I don't know where the rest are at. If you were like me though, you probably spent countless hours watching the guys put evil in its place.

happy face

2012-01-21T12:18:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to let everybody know that I have some VHS tapes of my favorite show in the basement. I'm so excited. I'm going to take pictures and do a real blog soon.

Super Mario Land

2012-01-13T08:24:00.000-08:00

When I got my GameBoy for Christmas, I also got Super Mario Land. My GameBoy didn't come with a game, while my sister's came with Tetris. I was stocked, I love Mario! The game is basically a classic platformer, with new enemies and bosses. (Bowser wasn't in this game, and you were try to save Daisy not Princess Toadstool)

Even though I loved this game, I never was able to beat the final boss. I downloaded the game to my 3DS and I finally beat it! Mission Accomplished. But the payoff wasn't that satisfying.

Here's what you get. NOTE: Movie Maker wasn't working properly, so this unfortunately is unedited.

Scetch Comedy for kids

2012-01-08T17:52:00.000-08:00

Fresh out the box
Stop, look, and watch
Ready yet, get set
It's All That!

I bet you all know where this is going. Yes, I was an avid All That fan. I just watched some sketches on YouTube and they are still hilarious. Lori Beth and Katrina were my favorites by far. (girl power) Although I do love all of the original cast. My favorite reoccurring sketches were, Baggin Saggin Barry, Cooking with Randy and Mandy, Lemonade Scammer, Good Burger, Super Dude, Detective Dan, Island girls, Miss Fingerly, the loud Librarian, and Vital Information. I guess it would've been easier for me to list my least favorites. I was so in love with the show, there is a cassette tape out in the universe somewhere that my sister and I do our own versions of our favorite skits. I sure hope that tape doesn't wind up in the wrong hands, lol.

Yesterday I was looking up Katrina Johnson on YouTube and was surprised to find out that there was a All That reunion at Comikaze Expo just a few months ago. So needless to say I nerded all over the place watching the Comikaze footage and remembering the good ole days. I'm still waiting for it to make it on DVD, so I can really watch it!

What were some of your favorite "All That" moments?

And yes, they did have a catchy theme song! (I'm starting to realize that most shows I watched did and got stuck in my head forever and ever and EVER!)

Kaelancer on facebook

2012-01-04T11:04:00.000-08:00

I hope everybody had a great New Year. I'm totally ready for 2012. This post isn't really about anything in the 90's, but I just wanted to share some news with you.

I started a page on Facebook for us to get to know each other better. If you have a facebook you are more than welcome to join my page and join in the fun!!