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About This Quiz
The '70s was one of the funkiest times in human history. People weren't afraid to be weird or to be themselves - whether those things overlapped is another story. And if you think the happenings of that decade didn't affect the toys, you're wrong. We're going to show you a list of the decade's most popular toys, and it's your job to correctly identify what they are. Think you've got what it takes?ÂÂ
Dolls like trolls with their wacky hair reminded us of how colorful that time was. Toys like the Lite Brite gave us a hint of what was to be expected in the '80s, and inventions like the Pogo Ball reminded us of how people danced at festivals like Woodstock.ÂÂ
Of course, there were toys that would go on to have immense success and long futures, like the Easy-Bake Ovens, Strawberry Shortcake dolls, Rubik's Cubes and My Little Pony figurines. Other toys, like the Nerf Balls, Barbie, Hot Wheels and Star Wars Figurines, went on to branch out and inspire other toys, most of which are still available today.
So, if you're enough of a toy fan and you think you've got the chops to ace this quiz, let's get started!
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Which toy is this?
Beast Saga
American Girl
Simon
This memory game tested players with a series of lights and tones. Each player would be required to repeat the sequence made by the electronic game. As the game progressed, the sequences would become longer and more complicated.
Bionicle
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Which toy is this?
Battleship
This game started off as a pen and paper game but evolved into a physical board game when it was released by the Milton Bradley Company in 1967. Currently, Battleship is being produced by Hasbro.
Bratz
Chatter Telephone
G.I. Joe
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Which toy is this?
Fijit Friends
Etch A Sketch
Easy-Bake Oven
Rock'em Sock'em Robots
The robots were named Red Rocker and Blue Bomber; this game features two dueling robots, controlled by players. The aim of the game is to deliver a knockout to your opponent.
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Which toy is this?
DohVinci
Shrinky Dinks
These pieces of plastic sheets came with bordered drawings or blank pages. After the user colored and cut their design, the plastic was placed in the oven where it would shrink down to size, making the plastic thicker and the colors more vibrant.
Jewel Pod
Lazer Tag
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Which toy is this?
Max Steel
Baby Alive Doll
Produced by Kenner in 1973, these baby dolls could eat, drink and make a mess. The dolls came in blonde, brunette and African American varieties.
Lalaloopsy
Nerf Blaster
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Which toy is this?
Nerf Balls
These balls dominated the 70's; Nerf promised that it would not damage lamps or break windows, making it a safe indoor ball.
Mr. Potato Head
Pillow Pets
Rilu Rilu Fairilu
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Which toy is this?
Hungry Hungry Hippos
The circular playfield housed four pastel colored hippos of yellow, green, pink and orange. When the marbles were dropped, excitement erupted, and the player whose hippo ate the most marbles from the board was the winner.
CloudPets
Silly Bandz
Kre-O
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Which toy is this?
Nintendo DSi
Rainbow Brite
Teenie Beanies
Magna Doodle
This was a dustless chalkboard created by Japanese engineers; a plastic pen would connect with dark magnetic dust behind a slate to produce works of art. An erasable arm could be used to clean the board.
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Which toy is this?
Super Soaker
Sifteo Cubes
GI Joe Astronaut
The king of action figures, G.I Joe, produced this talking 12-inch astronaut clad version of the action figure. It included a realistic space suit, gloves, boots, space camera, propellant gun, dog tags and an air conditioner.
VideoNow
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Which toy is this?
Easy-Bake Oven
Fijit Friends
Groovy Girls
Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
The Evel Knievel stunt cycles came in many different poses of the legendary stuntman doing his amazing feats, with his bike of course.
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Which toy is this?
Etch A Sketch
American Girl
Easy-Bake Oven
Introduced in 1963, this utility toy used a 60-watt bulb to power the oven. The Easy-Bake Oven also included different mixes and cake pans.
Bionicle
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Which toy is this?
Beast Saga
Sit 'n Spin
This toy brings a euphoric and giddy feeling to the user, the Sit 'n Spin consists of a solid base with a steering wheel poking through the middle. The spinner twists the steering wheel to go around in a circular motion.
Bratz
G.I. Joe
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Which toy is this?
Boggle
This speedy spelling game involves players making as many words as possible from 16 letters placed on a square letter grid.
Chatter Telephone
Lazer Tag
DohVinci
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Which toy is this?
Spirograph
Dubbed Toy of the Year in 1967, the Spirograph used two plastic pieces and a pen to make elaborate shapes and swirl art.
Lite Brite
Bratz Doll
Punch Me Toy
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Which toy is this?
Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure
This action figure was fashioned after the half-man, half-robot action star Steve Austin, from the series named "The Six Million Dollar Man."
Max Steel
Jewel Pod
Lalaloopsy
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Which toy is this?
Rainbow Brite
Easy-Bake Oven
Lite Brite
A light bulb had to be installed behind the screen, which was made up of a grid filled with holes that colored pegs would fit into to create illuminated designs.
Mr. Potato Head
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Which toy is this?
Nintendo DSi
Etch A Sketch
Super Soaker
Rubik's Cube
This was a six-sided cube, with each side having a different color. The aim of this toy was to scramble the colors, then restore the colors back to a uniform solid color on each side of the cube.
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Which toy is this?
Rilu Rilu Fairilu
American Girl
Stretch Armstrong
This doll was a muscularly built doll with the ability to be bent, pulled, tied and twisted by the user, always returning to its original dimensions when play was over.
Teenie Beanies
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Which toy is this?
Bratz
Aggravation
This four-player board game's aim was for a player to reach his home section on the board first. A player's piece could be captured by another player landing on that player's space, which was known as "aggravating."
Fijit Friends
Jewel Pod
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Which toy is this?
Chatter Telephone
Bionicle
Pet Rock
Produced in 1975 by Gary Dahl, these pet rocks came in custom-built cardboard boxes for $4 each. Dahl sold 1.5 million Pet Rocks and became a millionaire.
G.I. Joe
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Which toy is this?
Nerf Blaster
Groovy Girls
Viewfinder
This toy came with reels that depicted everything from cartoons, movies, travel catalogs and more. The Viewfinder was red and had a glasses-shaped viewing port and a dial that would change the reel image.
Pillow Pets
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Which toy is this?
Silly Bandz
Rainbow Brite
Sifteo Cubes
Clackers
These ear-splitting, heavy yet small balls on a string were highly addictive. The toy was pulled from the market in 1971, because of its explosive properties.
WikiCommons
Which toy is this?
Lalaloopsy
Lazer Tag
DohVinci
Atari 2600
This is a video game console, released in 1977 by Atari, Inc., originally sold for $199. This console was equipped with a Combat cartridge and two joysticks.
Youtube
Which toy is this?
Easy-Bake Oven
Kre-O
CloudPets
Mouse Trap
Built with crazy contraptions, this board game was made to catch a mouse. Each player received a plastic mouse piece, and the aim of the game was not to get caught.
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Which toy is this?
Ants in the Pants
This game featured a large pair of free-standing pants and 16 ants. These springy ants came in green, red, yellow and blue. Each player had to get all of their colored ants into the pants before the other players.
Beast Saga
Etch A Sketch
Max Steel
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Which toy is this?
Socker Boppers
Giant inflated boxing gloves offered tons of fun to users. These safe boxing gloves came in a variety of colors and were deemed to be "more fun than a pillow fight!"
American Girl
Fijit Friends
Jewel Pod
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Which toy is this?
Nintendo DSi
Etch A Sketch
The two white knobs attached to the face of this game were used to create drawings on the screen; a quick shake of the screen made the images disappear.
Groovy Girls
Nerf Blaster
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Which toy is this?
Rilu Rilu Fairilu
Bratz
Holly Hobbie
This rag doll was fashioned after the children's book character Holly Hobbie and was launched in 1975 by Knickerbocker Toy Company.
Teenie Beanies
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Which toy is this?
Silly Bandz
Pillow Pets
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Mattel Auto Race
The first electronic handheld game was produced by Mattel Electronics in 1976. The aim of this game was to get your car - or blip - from the bottom of the screen to top of the screen four times, avoiding swerving cars, to win.
YouTube
Which toy is this?
Beast Saga
Barrel of Monkeys
First introduced in 1966, this addictive game involved a plastic barrel and 12 monkeys with outstretched hands. The aim was to connect as many of these simians as possible into one long line.
Chatter Telephone
G.I. Joe
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Which toy is this?
CloudPets
Baby Beans
These soft-bodied dolls were produced by Mattel in the 1970s. The three original Baby Beans included Bitty Beans, Black Bitty Beans, and Booful beans.
Easy-Bake Oven
Kre-O
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Which toy is this?
Sifteo Cubes
Super Soaker
Etch A Sketch
Merlin
Powered by six AA batteries, this hand-held game was divided into three sections. The bottom part contained the buttons, the middle part held the keypad, and the top part housed the speaker.
Youtube
Which toy is this?
Max Steel
Weeble Wobble Tree House
This playset came with a freestanding tree base and house affixed to the top. It offered a place to play with wobbling Weebles.
Rainbow Brite
Lazer Tag
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Which toy is this?
Toss Across
This advanced version of tic-tac-toe consisted of a raised board. Players earned a chance to put either an X or an O when that spot was conquered by throwing a beanbag to claim it.
DohVinci
Jewel Pod
Lalaloopsy
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Which toy is this?
Rilu Rilu Fairilu
Groovy Girls
Twister
Players would take turns spinning a pointer on a plastic board that would give them the location to put hands or feet on a plastic sheet filled with colored circles, placed on a flat surface.
Nintendo DSi
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Which toy is this?
Fijit Friends
Chatter Telephone
Mr. Potato Head
Mastermind
Two players were pitted against each other in this battle of codebreaking; the maker would set up a four-color peg code, and the breaker would try to guess the code.
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Which toy is this?
Bionicle
Nerf Blaster
Cat's Eye
Marbles were dumped into a hopper, and each player had to push a button to fill their channel with five marbles. Whichever player's tray was filled with their own marbles and the cat's eye was the winner.
Silly Bandz
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Which toy is this?
Beast Saga
Operation
This fun and zany game by Milton Bradley, introduced in the mid-1960s, involved players removing objects from a patient with a pair of tweezers, without touching the sides of the compartments.
Bratz
CloudPets
Youtube
Which toy is this?
Hi Ho! Cherry-O
This educational game's aim was to teach players how to count. Each player started off with a cherry tree filled with cherries to be picked; the first player to fill their bucket with ten cherries would shout out "Hi-Ho! Cherry-O."
Kre-O
Pillow Pets
Sifteo Cubes
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Which toy is this?
Etch A Sketch
Weebles
Originally, this toy came with a Webble Mom, Dad, sister and baby. The egg-shaped family could not be knocked down or pushed over because of a counter-weight technology that was part of its design.
American Girl
Lazer Tag
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Which toy is this?
G.I. Joe
Max Steel
Rilu Rilu Fairilu
Corn Popper
This noisy toy would be pushed around by a steering stick. It consisted of a plastic dome filled with brightly colored balls that would fly and hit the dome, causing a popping sound. A huge hit with toddlers!
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Which toy is this?
DohVinci
Connect Four
This two-player game involved each player taking turns dropping their discs from the top into a six-row, seven-column standing grid. This game was produced by Milton Bradley in 1974.
Jewel Pod
Rainbow Brite
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Which toy is this?
Sequence Numbers
Also known as Sequence, the aim of this game is to form rows of five poker chips onto the board by placing a chip on the spaces corresponding to the cards played from a hand. This game can be played by up to six players.
Chatter Telephone
Nerf Blaster
Nintendo DSi
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Which toy is this?
Mr. Potato Head
Easy-Bake Oven
Lalaloopsy
Steppers
Durable and innovative, this five-inch-tall stepping toy has a braided handle and is available in green, purple, yellow, blue and red. Users would place the Steppers under their feet and use the handle to keep them in place while they stomped around.
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Which toy is this?
Groovy Girls
Don't Break the Ice
This Milton Bradley game required a steady hand; it consisted of a little plastic man perched on a glacier of plastic ice. Players needed to be delicate and strategic in breaking the ice.
Etch A Sketch
Kre-O
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Which toy is this?
Mr Mouth
This big, yellow, bald plastic head was the target for four catapults. The goal was to flip as many tokens into Mr. Mouth, which would be chewing. Whoever got all their tokens to enter the mouth first would be the winner.
Bratz
Fijit Friends
CloudPets
You Got:
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