Shit you liked as a kid, does it hold up? - Ineveitably the answer is no

I'm not sure that anyone over the age of 13 can eat a Lunchables without wanting to gag. A while back I bought one on a whim that was just a ham and cheese sandwich, and yet somehow they managed to make it disgusting. Even as a kid I don't remember them tasting that great (especially those pizzas), so I certainly don't plan on trying any of the other ones.
 
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I really liked Airplane! as a kid, albeit one taped off a CTV broadcast where the nudity, drug-taking and other adult content was removed though the TV edit of Airplane! included several "deleted scenes" not included in the theatrical cut, so when I eventually got my own proper VHS copy and, a decade later, the DVD, which only had the theatrical cut, I was wondering if I dreamed up little moments like the Mary dashboard statue covering her eyes just before the landing.

It wasn't until the Airplane! Blu-Ray that gave you the option to watch a "long-haul" version of the movie with many of the deleted scenes included in the edited-for-TV version recut back in (in addition to the regular theatrical cut, since Blu-Ray can do seamless branching).

So, yeah, Airplane! is one thing I enjoyed as a kid that holds up really well.

Also, while Saturday morning Garfield and Friends is hit-or-miss, most primetime Garfield TV specials are still pretty good to great. RIP Lorenzo Music and Lou Rawls!

Some Manajerk said:
Micro Machines have held up pretty well, at least the old ones from the 90's.
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I still have some of mine from the late 1980s. I generally preferred Hot Wheels, but I still collected some Micro Machines. My favourite that I had was a three-pack of Presidential Limousines. I think I still have the Reagan-era Lincoln limo but I don't have the other two including the 1961 Lincoln Continental SS-100-X convertible limousine that Kennedy was shot in, which was a pretty dark choice for a Micro Machines (even if I recognize that it was the Presidential limo from before the assassination and is possibly the most iconic Presidential limo of all).
 
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As a kid, I loved the movie "The Court Jester", but in almost two decades of not watching it, I completely forgot that it even existed . . . until I found a DVD in a bargain bin and immediately bought it.
I was really anxious when I watched it, cause I was really afraid that my favorite childhood movie would turn out to be a stinker. Kid's sometimes just have aweful taste, after all.

So I watched it and holy fucking shit, "holding up" is an understatement. If anything, being able to watch it in the english original has highly elevated my enjoyment of the movie, even though the German dub is absolutely stellar.
Now, I consider it an absolute classic of comedy movies and a must see, full of memorable scenes ("The vessel with the pestle and the chalice from the palace").

What I didn't remember was how complex the plot is and how well everything works together, like cogwheels that set each other into motion.
 
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I used to watch tapes of Wallace and Gromit over and over when I was really young and these days I still adore stop motion animation, I'd say they held up pretty well. There's a unique charm to those old low budget british kids' shows from the 60s-70s like The Clangers and Bagpuss, I still really like all that stuff, it's very cute.
 
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I’ve tried revisiting some stuff I was into as a kid; ninja turtles, batman TAS, boy meets world, the missionary position, animaniacs, and gundam wing. Only three of those things held up.
 
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Lionhead's Black and White is something I've always thought of fondly, and when I get back to it, I remember all those summer evenings I spent just raising my creature well.

Aside from his habit of nibbling on flocks and people, that is.
 
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Terminator 2 holds up weirdly well in f/x terms; the first one does not.

Clop said:
erry Pratchett holds up, bless him
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I re-read the Dragonlance novels a few years ago. Mixed bag. The magic system makes as much sense as any fantasy series, and is probably better than most. The characters were still as memorable. The nuts and bolts prose, though. Oh, god. Silvery haired elf maids bathing in silvery springs under a silvery moon shaking their silvery tresses, etc. Didn't bother me in my younger days at all.

I absolutely loved the Xanth books by Piers Anthony as a kid and I'm afraid to even look at them again given all the pedo- overtones everybody now claims are there. :\
 
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I'm not sure that anyone over the age of 13 can eat a Lunchables without wanting to gag. A while back I bought one on a whim that was just a ham and cheese sandwich, and yet somehow they managed to make it disgusting. Even as a kid I don't remember them tasting that great (especially those pizzas), so I certainly don't plan on trying any of the other ones.
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I take lunchables on bike trips because they pack easily and it's cheaper and lower cal than eating fast food. They aren't fantastic, but the turkey and cheddar is inoffensive enough.

Choose Your Own adventure and D&D Endless Quest books varied widely from one book to the next but I stand by the concept and still keep a few favorites around for nostalgia.
 
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I remember the captain under pants books that had that flip-o-rama gimmick in them whenever a big action scene would occur. I still like the idea of it to this day no matter how corny it is and for children’s books, they still hold up story wise. I’ve also got a collection of mad magazines from when my grandpa was a kid and holy shit they’re so much better than the ones I read as a kid (not that mad magazine was completely in the shitter when I was a kid) but the old ones are so much better and Don Martins style of drawing and sound effects make the old issues so much more enjoyable
 
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Wakfu, both the game and the animated series.

From what I seen, the game still gets updates and has a healthy playerbase.
And the show had a third season not too long ago with the backing of Netflix, I think this is one of the few good moves Netflix has done so far.
 
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Elwood P. Dowd said:
I absolutely loved the Xanth books by Piers Anthony as a kid and I'm afraid to even look at them again given all the pedo- overtones everybody now claims are there. :\
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I went back and re-read his books a while back. the Xanth ones are still, well, okayish. then i went and re-read his Incarnations series and good grief the preachiness in some of them sort of smacks you in the face
 
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A few months ago I tried rewatching my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh duel The Master of Magicians. I wound up fast-forwarding through most of it because of how cringeworthy Arcana's Dialogue was. The only characters that were tolerable were Yami Yugi, Kaiba and Dark Magician Girl as the other FourKids actors seemed to be phoning it in.

The only two shows from my childhood that still hold up are Ed, Edd n Eddy and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Everything else is very corny
 
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Transformers still holds up. Yes it was a 25-ish minute toy commercial, but it was an enjoyable toy commercial and hearing Optimus Prime say "Autobots, transform and roll out" is still awesome.
Some Manajerk said:
I went back and re-read his books a while back. the Xanth ones are still, well, okayish. then i went and re-read his Incarnations series and good grief the preachiness in some of them sort of smacks you in the face
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I always thought the first two Xanth novels were okay and everything after that was just pun-based garbage. As for the Incarnations series, On a Pale Horse and Wielding a Red Sword were pretty good, but yeah, everything else in that series was just preachy bullshit.
 
I used to get up in the morning to watch Medabots, and I'd always see like half an episode before I had to go to school. I have no idea how I managed to stand the dubbing considering it's on par with / worse than Sailor Moon, but I still get a dumb amount of enjoyment from it. Then I realized one of the lines actually spoken in this show for children, aired Saturday mornings, was "[You burned my house down], so I will turn yours into a funeral pyre."
 
Oscar Wildean said:
The Babysitters Club. Doesn't really hold up but sometimes it's fun to read again if I'm bored.
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Oh God, Babysitter's Club. I tried watching some of the old tapes from the show that I begged my mom to order for me when they first came out. Did not hold up at all. Now Goosebumps chose your own adventure books are still fun, just for all the ways you can die.

Edit: Hank the Cow dog is still something I like to read every once in a while to unwind. I'm still a little jealous that my brother in law got to meet John R. Erickson.
 
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