Remember those pencel cases that had all the compartments. Turns out they are still around and quite popular in Asian countries.

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Spartan04@reddit

I had one as a kid that I got as a Christmas present one year. Though on mine the main pencil compartment slid out of the bottom when you pushed the button instead of moving up into a triangle.

I remember using the spring loaded compartments to launch small objects. Like if you put a pebble on top of one of them and then hit the button it’d send it flying.

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codebygloom@reddit (OP)

The slide-up one like in the video seems to be a new feature, or at least I never saw one like it back then. Mine was the same as yours; push a button, and it opened from the bottom.

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

I grew up in San Jose, CA and we had the first Sanrio store outside of Japan in our mall (Eastridge). Lots of girls around my age had them in school. I miss that store so much.

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2Pizzas1Box@reddit

I had a crappy one shaped like a robot, with movable arms & legs etc. One arm had a pencil sharpener, I think.

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I lived in Thailand around this time and we had access to some pretty dope features. No actual drugs, but it could pop out Swiss army knife tools including thermometers, magnification lenses (obviously for setting fire to things), little brooms will whisk away eraser dust, along with transparent tape, measuring tape, and whiteout tape dispensers.

I was so looking forward to adulthood when we'd surely have scientific calculators, messaging consoles, and mass spectrometry tricorders in our pencil cases. It turns out the ones now don't even bother to lift the pencils out of the box anymore.

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SpaceTheFinalFrontir@reddit

No, not that one

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UltraMechaPunk@reddit

Oh man, I completely forgot about these. I can’t remember if I actually had one or if I just saw other kids in my class playing with them.

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IncitefulInsights@reddit

What are these actually called? Is there a certain name for this type of pencil case?

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file91e@reddit

Quite niccccce…Check It Out

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Mine were Sanrio/Hello Kitty so I always assumed they were an Asian thing in the first place. Loved them so much.

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codebygloom@reddit (OP)

The most popular ones that I can remember were Barbie, My Little Pony, and Hot Wheels. All I can remember about mine is that it was black with dark blue accents, but I can't remember what was on the covers at all.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

No?

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codebygloom@reddit (OP)

My wife is the same way. Born in the same year, she went to school one district over from me, and nobody in her school had one, according to her memory.

I knew kids in other surrounding districts who had them, so it was really weird that nobody in hers did.

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SpeedwayBoogie70@reddit

I am 82 and none of us had these and I never saw them.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Yeah, these were from the future

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Hypnot0ad@reddit

Born same year and never saw these things.

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JuniorQuestion8509@reddit

83 & never saw this! 🤷‍♀️

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JessicaCatears@reddit

Did that dude pull ut a straw and a little baggie?

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codebygloom@reddit (OP)

Yeah, the one in the video is filled with drugs.

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Piranha_Vortex@reddit

Would. Dang. I need one

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goat_penis_souffle@reddit

In elementary school, there was this kid from Japan who had one of these that looked like a rocket/ transformer sort of thing. Broke my brain that this was a pencil case, which I had only known as being a smelly vinyl pouch from the drugstore school supply aisle.

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codebygloom@reddit (OP)

Lol, fat-finger typing and dyslexia. I'm surprised the spell checker didn't catch that.