Random things that were big in the '90s.

[StanleyTheCrane]

I'm trying to make up a quiz for a friend's birthday based on things that were popular in the '90s, plus I was just having fun reminiscing with another friend. So I wondered, what random and lesser known things do you remember being popular back then?

Riverdance is one I remember. That was so huge back then and I was obsessed with it and Michael Flatley. I remember watching Eurovision live when they had Michael Flatley and Jean Butler perform and being blown away by it.

Bodyshop
Fresh Prince 😬🙈
The Word
IT Girls
Paula Yates, Bob & Michael
Neighbours
Home & Away
Glastonbury
Spike Island
The Beach - book, film, song
Titanic

Do you remember the velvet headbands that had your name written on in sort of 3d paint?

I do! Yes, personalised things were huge.

I only ever had one personalised item though. I had a very common name and only ever found an empty box when looking for my name. The strange thing was though that I never actually encountered another person my age with the same name, until high school and even there I only met one.

YY to the mini Head sports bags! 🤣🤣🤣

Forever Friends / Country Companions / Purple Ronnie cards
Velvet jackets
Red hair dye
Hippie shops
Tartan 'plaid' shirts
Grunge
Pen pals
'Romeo and Juliet' with Clare Danes
Keanu Reeves in 'Point Break'
Mizz / Just 17 / More
MTV unplugged (especially Nirvana)
Radiohead 'The Bends'
River Island carrier bags with the weird antique cat picture
Taping the top 40
Putting sellotape over VHS tapes to record
Athena posters involving tyres
Anne Geddis' babies in flowerpots
Push pops and Sunny D

MPeople, not MPop (sorry!)

And yes, Peugeot cars

Grolsch bottle tops on your trainers

Yes to velvet jackets!
Reminds me of the velvet hats a la Blossom

Gameboy
Pokémon
PCs in homes
First mainstream mobile phones, often shared within the family

Has anyone mentioned The Big Breakfast with Zig & Zag and TGIF

@PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn

Yes to velvet jackets! Reminds me of the velvet hats a la Blossom

🤣🤣🤣 Blossom and Six!

£120 week in Corfu allocation on arrival 18-30s holidays...please no judgements

Alcopops
'Ironic'sexism in lads mags like Loaded
Eurotrash

Heather Shimmer lipstick. Maybe that was just our school!

Cartoon Network on the TV, watching Cow and Chicken

Ebeneezer Goode

Ripped 501's
Checked shirts
DM boots
Friendship bracelets
Those things like friendship bracelets in your hair
Smoking silk cut
Snakebite & black
Nose rings
Belly rings

The chart show on a Saturday morning.

Best friend" jewellery. Usually necklaces. Usually a broken heart with best on one and friend on the other, you wore worn and guess you one the other?!

I loved those.

I cannot begin to tell you how happy this thread is making me grin it's like a big warm fuzzy feeling

I'm glad to hear that it's making you as happy as it's making me.

TOTP 1992 is on BBC4 at 8.00. Could get some "fashion" tips lol

Ty for letting me know. I definitely need to watch that.

@StanleyTheCrane I never got one as a child and to this day I'm gutted. I saw one in a charity shop not so long ago and nearly bought it until I realised I probably couldn't get the chocolates for it any more.

They made them up until fairly recently but it seems that they have stopped producing them. I'm sorry that you'll never get to experience the joy of a Cadbury's dairy milk machine.

Panda pops! Blue Raspberry mmmmm

Buying wrapping paper from Athena and using it as a poster, or putting it on your door

Mizz magazine with position of the week in

Jeremy beadle

Toys in cereal

@Overthinking22

Heather Shimmer lipstick. Maybe that was just our school!

That was on my list to post and dream matte mousse foundation!

Naf Naf coats from the market
Glitter spray that would send my mum bonkers with the state of the bathroom!
Pro plus to be able to party all night and roll into college the next morning!

@sleepyhoglet

Toys in cereal

I miss this - why did they go away?

Glitter

@sleepyhoglet

Toys in cereal

I loved these! Proper Polly Pockets and what were those plastic dogs and cats you could collect? No bigger than your thumb and weren't movable but were always frozen in the act of doing something. I remember getting some that were heat sensitive so you could warm them up and the wound on their paw would disappear!