8/28/2023 0 Comments 80s hype musicThere was no way to resist the allure of G.I Joe and it makes it one of the best toys and cartoons of all time. When you combine this with traditional marketing it was like crack for a ten year old kid. Now he had an enemy in COBRA and a real mission to follow. Up until then, he had just been an army man. The big thing they did with the cartoon, that other toy companies would soon follow, was they gave G.I Joe a backstory. They would end up making over 250 different vehicles, and I wanted every single one. Making the figures smaller also allowed for Hasbro to make a ton of vehicles they could sell with them that wouldn’t be gigantic. The also created one of the first marketing approaches by using a cartoon show as basically a 30-minute commercial to sell the new toys. Thanks to the success of the Star Wars toyline G.I Joe was now introduced in 1982 as a 3.75-inch version as opposed to its old 12-inch size. During the Vietnam war, any war based toys took a massive hit in the sales department and were really hard to market and sell. G.I Joe was created by Hasbro and had existed for decades in a larger form. I’m still going on 30 years of not getting the aircraft carrier for Christmas… Birthdays and Christmas would be based around asking for, and hopefully getting, any of the toys. Your day would be centered around getting home intime to watch it on T.V. If you were a kid growing up in this decade G.I Joe was one of the biggest parts of your life. G.I Joe is one of a handful of iconic toys and cartoons from the ‘80s. Batman (people think of it in the ‘90s but it makes the cut) 2.We can go on and on about all these glorious movies and some other notables that round out the decade are With BTTF 2 you had a look into the past, the future and then it acted as a sort of prequel taking us back into the original movie. You also have my favorite of all time Back To The Future and the epic sequel that combined all the best elements of time travel. It was actually Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom that would lead to the first PG-13 rating and set the tone for this awesome genre of movies. It allows things to not be so family friendly but didn’t push it too far so that younger people were isolated from it. This is the era that brought us the PG-13 rating which was the perfect movie classification. (luckily T he Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was long after the ‘80s and it can rot in hell) This could also be called the Spielberg era as you’v got the classics like E.T (which was actually the highest money maker of the ‘80s) T he Goonies, and the monumental I ndiana Jones movies. Star Wars would get the ball rolling when it was released in 1977 but the momentum and the fandom really took shape in the ‘80s with the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It gave us some of the biggest movies and trilogies of all time and gave rise to the blockbuster. Was the ‘80s the golden age of movies? It might be hard to argue that. These are of course from my vantage point so feel free to scream at me in any manner you feel fit. So let’s look at 12 things that made the ‘80s the greatest decade. We tend to remember the last time we had a memory of it and over time this filters out any of the garbage and you’re left with pure nostalgia. We look back fondly and as time goes by but we don’t think about all the crap that was happening. Ask anyone who grew up in any decade, they will tell you that’s when things were the best, sports were better, music and movies were better, and it was just a better time to be alive. This isn’t to say that if you were older in the ‘80s that you didn’t appreciate it but your main, and fondest, memories are usually based on when you were a kid.Ĭall it “ golden age thinking” or looking back with rose colored glasses but most things seemed better when you were a kid. We were just getting old enough to embrace everything the ‘80s would have to offer. I was born in the late ‘70s and similar to anyone who was born then we weren’t a child of the ‘70s but one of the ‘80s. You can listen to the podcast version or read on… It is the decade most often associated with nostalgia and the style, and memories of the decade, continue to live on. The 1980s were a time of great pop culture including some of the best movies, music, TV shows, and toys of all time. If you’re from a younger generation you might be curious in looking back on 12 things that made the ’80s the greatest decade. If you grew up in this decade you know what a great time it was to be alive.
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