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Fisher Price Castle

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 21:14:11 No.9246941 View View Reply Original Report

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Why was this castle so common in the 90s?
Was there any marketing campaign that made it so ubiquitous?

Was it only in North America?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 21:17:21 No.9246952 Report

Quoted By: >>9246960 >>9247088

It was a ‘Nineties thing? I had something like it when I was a kid, and i was born in 2001.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 21:19:23 No.9246960 Report

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>>9246952
Might even be earlier... I had one as well, born in 1992, but I'm pretty sure my parent got it in a garage sale.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:03:14 No.9247088 Report

Quoted By: >>9247170 >>9250477

>>9246952
I think it was a case of so many of them existing in the 90s that they would just naturally end up in the hands of later generations.
Hell I see one of these at least every month at the local car boot sale

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:13:02 No.9247116 Report

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I’ve always wondered this as well. I had the castle and my cousin had the pirate ship with a bunch of the pirate accessories. We both weren’t really “close” so I don’t think like, my parents talked to their parents.

They really need to make a battle royal with this aesthetic

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:18:01 No.9247126 Report

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>>9246941
>Was it only in North America?
No.

t.bong who owned one as a kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:32:50 No.9247170 Report

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>>9247088
Mine was brand new.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 23:11:34 No.9247264 Report

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>>9246941
burger born in 88 here. I can't name a single other kid I knew that did not have this. In all honesty I can't remember there ever being commercials or mass advertising of it. Apparently released in 94. It was the 90s, where I'm guessing marketing toys for younger children wasn't AS big of a deal considering families went OUT to shop together, and inevitably would end up in the toy aisle. Just speculating, since I know how massive of ad campaigns for some toys were back then. picrel was one of my favorite toys growing up, along with the castle. Street Sharks, Godzillas, and TMNT taking this bad boy on was fucking fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Aug 2021 23:52:31 No.9247370 Report

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>>9246941
98 here, had something very similar in Aus. I remember it was grey knights with red weapons and black knights with grey weapons a bit different to the OP pic. The castle was a bit different in that the prison door was on the left tower I think, and there were fewer windows. I think there was only one cannon, if there was one at all, and there was a red tiled roof on one of the towers. I remember seeing one similar to it at a friend's house, which might have been the Fisher Price one in the OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 07:08:29 No.9248058 Report

Quoted By: >>9248348

>>9246941
Ireland I had this castle

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 09:23:33 No.9248162 Report

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>>9246941
I think it's a combination of what a number of anon's have said here.

It's a generic and large playset that hit the market during the 90s, arguably the ripest time for toy purchases as kids were not yet consumed by digital media.

The other thing is that it's pretty darn durable, and likely to survive a lot of rough play which makes it more likely it would survive as a hand me down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 12:28:19 No.9248316 Report

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>>9246941
several of my friends in Denmark had this one aswell

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 12:44:23 No.9248348 Report

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>>9248058
germany here. I had it too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 13:04:39 No.9248371 Report

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This castle is based, idk what is that makes it so iconic, perhaps it’s just well designed. It’s very compact for what it is, but is large at the same time. They managed to cram a lot of stuff into something while keeping it aesthetic looking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 13:23:50 No.9248393 Report

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I only had the pc games for the castle and pirates. Never actually had the toys. I do wish they still made sets like this or rereleased them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 13:25:30 No.9248396 Report

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my cousin had one
it was amazing set to play with
t. pole

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 13:42:32 No.9248415 Report

Quoted By: >>9248466

fuck this castle for making me think knights had canons

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 13:59:03 No.9248443 Report

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>>9246941
American here, I actually didn't have one. My neighbor did, but most of my other friends did not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 14:12:45 No.9248466 Report

Quoted By: >>9249220

>>9248415
Cannons were used in 1346 by the English in the battle of Crećy. They were used rarely in medieval times because they were expensive but they did exist, mostly mounted in castles/forts for defense.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 15:00:04 No.9248560 Report

Quoted By: >>9248584

I think it was a combination of being cheap with a long product run, difficult to lose and sturdy. Handed down to each kid (with fewer and fewer figures) as well as still being purchased. I had one new, my neighbor gave me one used, I saw countless in garage sales as a kid too.

The pirate ship and island were similarly ubiquitous.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 15:15:09 No.9248584 Report

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>>9248560
The island. Loved this thing. Along with the raft with the iron shark mouth that could snap figures.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 15:28:55 No.9248620 Report

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So I guess that game was actuslly related to the toys

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 20:24:21 No.9249220 Report

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>>9248466
Knights like this would've been dying out by the 1300's.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 20:28:14 No.9249228 Report

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>>9247264
How far has fisher price fallen.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 20:35:53 No.9249254 Report

Quoted By: >>9249331

>>9249228
Nvm. Still so much soul.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 20:50:54 No.9249304 Report

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I was born in '87 and I never saw one of these until nostalgia threads in the 2000s. None of my friends nor I had one, and I even had a friend who was That Kid that always got whatever he wanted. Dude had the Terror Drome, The General, Castle Grayskull, the Ghostbusters fire house, and the fucking Technodrome. Not to mention the shit ton of figures and vehicles so its really weird that something this big and common slipped by my entire childhood.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 21:02:28 No.9249331 Report

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>>9249254
Imaginext is the cool/soul one. likely to slowly transition kids to toys with semi-pointy objects without being too extreme

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Anonymous Tue 17 Aug 2021 22:09:28 No.9249469 Report

Quoted By: >>9250088 >>9250270

Kids in the 90s had >>9246941 because kids in the 70s grew up with pic related. The nostalgia of playing with the old castle probably pushed a lot of parents into buying the new one as they had very similar designs and play patterns.

I actually grew up with the original beast of a castle, it weighed a ton and could probably kill someone if you dropped it on their heads. Sadly it was a bit too small to really be used with Joes, but it was great for the smaller scale figures that were all over the late 80s/early 90s.

WIsh I still had it as it was a fantastic display piece at the very least, but it got lost in one of my many moves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 03:04:42 No.9250088 Report

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>>9249469
this toy is made out of 24 karot SOULinium

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 04:36:59 No.9250263 Report

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God damn, this takes me back. My brother and I had the caslte, the pirate ship, treasure island, the wild west town and the sea monster. They were our favorites besides our Legos, and we played the paint right off of their weapons and shields.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 04:42:04 No.9250268 Report

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Yeah I didn’t even play with knights and I remember they had this for us to play with in kindergarten and I remember friends having it and thinking it was a cool toy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 04:42:24 No.9250270 Report

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>>9249469
i had my dad's one of these passed down to me as a kid, i remember the intense creaky sound from the spring on the drawbridge, the secret passage behind the stairs. really let a little kids imagination run wild, i loved the trap doors and the whole thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 08:15:03 No.9250477 Report

Quoted By: >>9250479

>>9247088
I got a new one around 2002/03, though I'm in the UK so maybe we got a shipment of old toys and they just passed them off as brand new.

Having this castle + pic was the shit when I was 4

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Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 08:16:05 No.9250479 Report

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>>9250477

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Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 14:00:45 No.9250782 Report

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The western stuff was a favorite of mine. However, I wish they would've released a train set to go along with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 14:57:29 No.9250876 Report

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>>9246941
>Why was this castle so common in the 90s?
Kids like medieval fantasy stuff, it was big yet relatively cheap, sturdy, and came with a bunch of little figures. Pretty good deal for a parent. Plus I remember there was a period where the McDonalds happy meal toys were similar little knight figures of the same line (one of them is even in the pic), so that may have convince some parents to get the castle once their kids already had little figures to go with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 20:29:19 No.9251402 Report

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>>9246941
I remember this castle, it was best! Or maybe I'm just nostalgic...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Aug 2021 16:45:07 No.9253492 Report

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>>9246941
I had it. Absolute kino of the highest order for its price
t. Frenchie

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Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 07:43:02 No.9257022 Report

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Don't forget the Sea Serpent

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 08:58:42 No.9257071 Report

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>>9246941
It was always in toy catalogues

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Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 09:36:56 No.9257113 Report

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>>9250479
I had an extremely similar one, pic related from an old birthday photo I found. It looks like the same molds, just different prints on the sails. The pirates look very familiar. Can anyone ID the brand? It's not the Fisher Price one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 13:23:43 No.9257310 Report

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>>9246941
Because it was fucking cool as hell

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Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 14:40:31 No.9257375 Report

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Paint it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 15:26:57 No.9257437 Report

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I asked my folks about this. They said that I really loved Zelda and this was a physical thing they could get along those lines. I’ve never considered that but maybe it’s just a byproduct of something else.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Aug 2021 16:21:46 No.9257513 Report

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'87 boomer here. I also had this. My guess is a combination of things. First it is somewhat reminiscent of Castle Greyskull playset. Has some of the same features ect. Second it was a neat playset that didn't break the bank.

Basically it's the equivocate of the weird ball on a crazy track thingy that all Pediatric doctors offices had when you were a kid.

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