How many of you had a Glow Worm toy when you were a kid?

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FigureFourWoo@reddit

Yes. They weren’t very snuggly with their plastic face.

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evolkitty@reddit

So many of our toys in the 80’s had plastic faces. Glow worms, cabbage patch kids, popples, kid sister…

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TheQueefyQuiche@reddit

Teddy Roxbin (sp?) was like a plastic brick loaded with D batteries, covered in a thin later of fabric.

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amaurer3210@reddit

Don't forget about Grubby, he was twice the size and even heavier!

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No_Kaleidoscope9901@reddit

You also had to squeeze it really hard to get it to light up.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

I guess that was the trade-off for being able to glow.

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nocountryforolddick@reddit

i still have it since 1989, well not me but my daughter...

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Iceprincess1282@reddit

It was my 1st gift I got for my son when I found out I was pregnant in 2011! I wanted him to have some sort of connection with his parents.

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EL3MENTALIST@reddit

My sister and I both had one in the early 80’s. I took the light out of mine and used it as a flashlight.

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Snugglebunny1983@reddit

I had the green one. I wish I still had one. If you still want one, you should get one. I've never understood the point of gendering toys.

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evolkitty@reddit

So many toys of my youth had plastic faces. Glow worms, cabbage patch kids, popples, my babies dolls… it was the 80’s man

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I also had the green one. I loved that thing until it didn't glow anymore. As a teen I told my mom she could get rid of it, but as an adult I wish I still had it. Looked online, but the new ones just aren't the same.

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LeoDavinciAgain@reddit

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Mudcreek47@reddit

My sis had one. I think all sisters did in the 80s.

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bananachow@reddit

Still have it!

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

Does it still glow?

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bananachow@reddit

Last time I checked, about 5 years ago, it did. It’s at my parents’ house. I need to ask them lol

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Impossible_Turn_7627@reddit

I loved mine. It was a comfort when I was scared of the dark.

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mystiqueallie@reddit

I had one. My daughter got one of the newer ones when she was little (it has a plush head with hard face - little alien tentacle ears instead of the cute nightcap.

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danita0053@reddit

I hid my money in the back. Perfect spot.

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bicycle_bandito@reddit

I got mine when I came down with chicken pox.

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KindPainting2961@reddit

Glow worm went on dates with my Barbie

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flowbkwrds@reddit

Yes. The strangest thing about glo worms is how many we found in our backyard after the creek there would flood. The creek ran through yards in the neighborhood and would flood with heavy rains. It wasn't uncommon to find basketballs and stuff like that, but glo worms, way more than you would think!

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NoOne206@reddit

I only had the Wendy’s toys, I believe those are the same fam? Always wanted the stuffed one but never got it

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neon_farts@reddit

They still make em. My kids don’t really hang out with it anymore, but we’ve still got it!

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kittibear33@reddit

Are their faces still hard?

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neon_farts@reddit

Yup! haha

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kittibear33@reddit

Thanks! I’ll hold off on getting one for my kid then. 😂

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Thorn_and_Thimble@reddit

I had one. It was like going to bed with a battle mace.

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ebzees@reddit

👋🏻

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Even-Fan7692@reddit

somehow it’s one of two childhood stuffed animals I have in my closet right now. still works if I put new batteries in it!

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

I'm seeing several people in the thread saying that they kept theirs. Must have been a lot of people's favorite.

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OrangeAugust@reddit

Meeee. I still have some of the small glow bugs

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rob132@reddit

Remember an episode from the cartoon where the worm got hit on the head and had amnesia.

I remember as a child thinking" if he can't remember anything, how can you remember how to talk?"

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Whatchab@reddit

No, but I wanted one so badly.

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Both-Tree@reddit

I thought everyone did

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ilikeaffection@reddit

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OriginalMSV@reddit

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CherryCherry5@reddit

I did.

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Munchkin531@reddit

Yes! I had one it was so cute.

When I had my first son I got a similar one but it wasn't quite the same. I think it was a seahorse

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Verbull710@reddit

Great weapon to swing at the younger brother, that glowworm face was no joke

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Usual-Role-9084@reddit

I loved my Glo Worm. My son is 6 and he’s on his third Glo Worm. Obviously different design but same green-hued body and hard plastic face lol

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

They still make them?

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Sufficient-Penalty40@reddit

They do! They even have a feature where you can make a custom recording that the glow worm will play back while it glows. I just remember mine glowing back in the day.

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WrenchNRatchet@reddit

Do they still take C (or D?) cell batteries?

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Sufficient-Penalty40@reddit

😂😂😂just double or triple A now

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javaper@reddit

I've got mine somewhere still.

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Lorrainium@reddit

My cousins had them. I had PJ Sparkles.

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Bminions@reddit

Oh shit. Between my wife randomly mentioning Amelia Bedelia books earlier and this post, I'm having some crazy recalled memories today.

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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

We had a couple. Don’t know if something was wrong with mine but I remember I had to squeeze it so hard to get it to light up. My brother’s didn’t have the same issue.

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

Had the glow worm one. And Teddy Ruxpin. Can you tell our parents didn’t want to put us to bed themselves?

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SirBobsonDugnutt@reddit

Still got mine. I remember it being really hard to squeeze the light on. At least with my little hands at the time.

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Educational-Basil472@reddit

Of course! Then when I had my child I gave them one as well!!

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butterbean8686@reddit

My cousin had one. I wanted one so bad! She used to let me hold it until I fell asleep though.

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Impossible_Memory_85@reddit

I had one as a boy

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Alternative-Light514@reddit

My sister and I had glow worm bed tents that would glow in the dark. She had a glow worm toy, I didn’t.

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Alternative-Light514@reddit

These shits. Bedroom camping was pretty fun.

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Tangential_Comment@reddit

My pops used to run an injection molding place in the 80s and made the soft head piece. We got a few for free;)

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Nancy-Drew-Who@reddit

There’s a picture at my parent’s house of me holding my glow worm while sitting in the front seat of my mom’s Cadillac. I was 3 and my feet didn’t even reach the edge of the seat 🙃

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Messijoes18@reddit

I remember watching the movies as a kid and thinking that their lore was way deeper than I thought it was going to be

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Ok_Egg_2665@reddit

I had one and I loved it! Its batteries lasted way longer than they had any right to. That thing was so special to me.

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StabbyMcStabsauce@reddit

My grandma sewed mine to my dress when I was a toddler moving overseas. Ive still got one from 1982

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jamie535535@reddit

I did. I didn’t know they were supposed to be for girls.

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ChromeDestiny@reddit

I assumed some were for boys and girls cause they had a green one.

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TheRealWatchingFace@reddit

Had him since 82. The light is missing, and baby me ate the hat tassles.

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cibolaburns@reddit

I wanted one so badly.

Fun fact if you like fever dream memory satisfaction:

If you used to watch the show as it aired after My Little Pony (in rotation with Pound Puppies and The Potato Head Kids) - the entire 10 episode mini series “The Quest” when the glo friends have to strike out and try and source more moon drops (and stumble across a vulture and her baby…and there’s a big weird wizard toad…) is available on YouTube.

To be able to actually watch it in sequence, to its completion was fantastic. I only had 2-3 episodes on an old vhs and always wondered what the resolution was.

(It had Nancy Cartwright and Russi Taylor credited as voice actors - which I always found so cool).

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