Category: Toys and School Fads
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One of the first trends that took over many Australian youngster’s lives was the infamous Hypercolor T-shirts.I grew up in South Australia and started school in 1990. Unlike most other States, South Australia did not have a compulsory uniform policy until the early to mid-1990s, so for the first few years of my public primary…
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Chances are, if you were a young Aussie child between the ages of 5 and 14 in the late 1990s, or in lower primary school in the mid-2000s during its resurgence, you experienced Tamagotchis’s huge ‘plague’ and popularity. Ironically, they also inspired Nintendo’s iconic and hugely popular late 90’s series, Pokémon, which replaced the Tamagotchi…