Time for a new installment of Ads From Your Childhood. This is really just an excuse for a good old trip down memory lane rather than showcasing great ads. The following ads are real blasts from the past and they bring me back to being five or six years old, sprawled across the carpet in the sitting room watching Saturday morning cartoons on the DJ Kat Show (which an alarmingly small number of people seem to remember. Please tell me you remember it?). This was long before Spongebob Squarepants made an appearance and Dora the Explorer wasn't even a thought in some animator's head yet. Carebears, Superted, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (even at that young age I fancied April O' Neil, who didn't?) and Alf (OK he's not strictly a cartoon but Alf's so cool he makes his own rules) were where all the fun was at in those days.
It was also a time of cool kids jingles. Who didn't love this one?
And this ad made me envy every single kid in the UK at the time because they had Toys R'Us and we didn't. I remember once in the early ninties we were going to visit friends of my parents in Southampton and for weeks beforehand all I would talk about was the fact that I'd get to go to Toys R'Us. To be honest I'd still love to go and just play in Toys R'Us.
And the last one for this installment, I reckon I'd bop along to this if I saw it for the first time today. We all adore a Kia-Ora.
Ah, the memories!
Do people really not rem DJ Cat? Used to watch him every morn on Sky before school, the turtles were on then too! Ah the days when so much was squashed in before 9 in the morn ;)
ReplyDeleteLove those ads! Not sure I had the same jealousy over the Toys'R'Us ad tho.. :D
I know, it's almost a travesty not remembering the great DJ Kat.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't jealous of the ad, just what it represented. Imagine a store the size of a warehouse full of toys. That was unheard of in Ireland at the time.