INYIM Media Coming Of Age: You Had It? We Had It! I'ts The Vintage Playskool Flashlight...

INYIM Media Coming Of Age: You Had It? We Had It! I'ts The Vintage Playskool Flashlight...

"Welcome to another edition of the Hot Slut of the Day spin-off: Wait, This Hasn’t Been HSOTD Before?  In the 1980s, Playskool debuted its now-iconic Flashlight (Note to the Typo Gods: Please take pity upon me and don’t let me accidentally “Playskool Fleshlight” during this post). Yes, the 1980s was a simpler time when a damn flashlight brought us hours upon hours of entertainment. Playskool’s Flashlight also gave kids their first taste of stressing out while furiously searching through a junk drawer for batteries that work after their flashlight goes out. And yes, since it was the 80s, we then checked the refrigerator for the drained batteries our mom put in there to give them “new life.”

The Playskool Flashlight made its debut in the mid-80s, and at first, it was a collab with Duracell. The Playskool x Duracell Flashlight wasn’t your basic flashlight. It blasted out three different colors (barely) and it turned off by itself. I’m pretty sure that in the 80s, it was technically impossible to make spooky faces and shadow puppets without that shit. This Playskool Flashlight from 1986 stars 80s DILF Alex Karras (aka the dad from Webster and the gay bodyguard from Victor/Victoria).

Playskool’s Flashlight was a mainstay in the 80s and 90s, and it was something that could grow with you. Kids of the 80s that became raver teens of the 90s could use the Playskool Flashlight as makeshift color-changing strobe lights by shaking it really fast.

The Playskool Flashlight, as we knew it, isn’t around anymore, but it will forever live in my head thanks to the unforgettable clicking sound it made every time you changed the colors on it. I may not remember the first names of some of my cousin’s kids, but I will forever remember the color-changing clicking sound of a Playskool Flashlight."  -Dlisted.com