Merry Christmas Eve my friends! Even if you don’t celebrate the holiday, I hope you’re warm and cozy and enjoying the day. For our penultimate episode of 2025, I’ve got Gen X Toy Trivia. Why Gen X? Because I’m Gen X and it’s my show.
But also because of the changes in how things were advertised to kids made our toys a little more intense. Fear not, future holiday episodes will reach out to other generations.
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Trivia x2!
I love the word “Penultimate.” My wife is glad that you didn’t forget Gen X. We get left out a lot.
Dorky – 8 right, 8 my wife got right, 16 points – That’s who released those dolls?
Geeky – 9 right, 7 my wife got right, 32 points –
Nerdy – 4 right, 3 my wife got right, 21 points – Kenner’s competition question: I was sure I knew it, and I was wrong! My wife’s wrong answer “Decepticons” was a better answer.
Almost all of the wrong answers were followed by “Oh! I remember those!”
According to my Spotify stats, the bulk of my audience is Gen X or Elder Millennial. We shall not be forgotten! We will not go quietly! We will schedule our colonoscopies in 2026!
What’s interesting (or sad) is that Hasbro basically owns all those brands now (well most of them). They could build this massive Cinematic Universe like Marvel has. The money’s just there for the taking if they could hire a set of competent writers.
I’ve been reading the new Transformers and GI Joe comics, and they put them all together, with Energon being the thing that powers all of the Cobra weapons and gadgets. It’s been pretty fascinating.
Nice! I’ll see my library has those.
I missed one in each round. Every time I heard the correct answers I winced, because it was always something my sister collected that I really should have known.
I tried to be gender agnostic on these since girls were marketed to just as aggressively as boys.