MetaFilter posts tagged with nostalgia and childhood

Growing Up Star Wars

one_bean — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:21:11 -0800

There is something indescribable about the Growing Up Star Wars (1977 - 1985) Flickr pool. I think it's the fact that the nostalgia for a commercial product actually is pretty moving. Okay, some are creepy, but in general I'm happy this exists. It's strange to see your childhood and realize how old it looks.

Pre-Videogame Era Toys

jonson — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:57 -0800

Before there were videogames, growing up in England in the late 1960s though the 70's we had Action Transfers. The Letraset company branched off its division of hand set rub-on transfer fonts into full blown action scenes, with Cowboys & Indians, famous historical battles, Vikings, natural disasters & more. This collector has dozens of sets, scanned in high resolution & never used.

There are no windows and no doors. Of course, there's always MY way out.

miss lynnster — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:49:26 -0800

Virtual Space Mountain! Wheeeee! (Click on the second video where you sit in front. What are you, a wuss?) Real video just can't do Space Mountain justice, but it does a pretty good job of capturing some other rides. Feel like revisiting some original Magic Kingdom rides without leaving home? Well here you go... Pirates, Mr. Toad, Small World, Haunted Mansion, Tiki Room, Thunder Mountain, Star Tours, Indiana Jones, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Cruise, Matter horn, Roger Rabbit, the late Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse and a bunch of people covered in lightbulbs dancing to the world's most excruciatingly annoying synthesized music. During your virtual day at the park, please just remember to watch out for Goofy. That dude is nothing but a messed up troublemaker. And don't forget... the parking trams do not go to aisles B as in Bambi & C as in Cinderella.

25 Favorite Sesame Street Memories

anastasiav — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:22:07 -0800

“Because if Mr. Snuffleupagus is real, anything is possible.”
25 Favorite Sesame Street Memories

Sometimes I'm Mr. Grumpy but I'm always Mr. Bumpy

drezdn — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:11:26 -0800

Mr. Men and Little Miss, the official site of childhood classics, where you can even make your own. For those who can't get enough, there's always the unofficial site.

Avocado Memories

debralee — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:15:41 -0800

Avocado Memories. It's more than a photo collection and group of essays about his parents' failures with interior decoration; it's a nostalgic website brought about by Wes Clark's impulse to let his children know what it was like growing up during a more innocent age.

Enough womd!

answergrape — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:46:14 -0800

Let's talk about childhood toys. A wander down memory lane, past care-bears and etch-a-sketches and barrel-o-monkeys. Warning: this site resulted in the bidding up of auctions for Weebles "Tree House" action sets. I'd forgotten how marvelously upright they remained until I whipped their little egg-like bodies out of a second-story window onto concrete. What was your favorite childhood toy? Do you still have it, or do you have the sudden need to re-acquire it?