30 Toys and Accessories Every '90s Preteen Absolutely HAD to Have

I still remember getting my Teddy Ruxpin for my birthday one year. He was a stuffed bear with a cassette player in his back so he could read you stories. I took him absolutely everywhere and probably still have him.

I had just about every piece of Barbie paraphernalia available in the 1990s, including this Barbie Dream House. I got it for Christmas one year and love it so much that I still own it. Who would ever want to part with a two-story pink and white Barbie house?

Koosh balls were my original stress relievers, back when elementary school stress included psyching myself up for playing wiffle ball in gym class and not missing the bus in the morning. I loved pulling on the rubbery strings, almost like it was a yo-yo, but I never had to worry about it not coming back up to me.

My family stocked up on Super Soakers for Summer when all our friends would come over to play in our pool. It was always fun to run around the yard with these squirt guns and then dive in to continue the chase.

Crossfire is a tabletop game that's a little bit like hockey. You had to shoot your little metal pellets at the puck to score goals, and I don't know that I ever won a game because my aim has never been my strong suit.

View Masters were such cool toys back in the day. You put in a disc with photo negatives and looked at them through the lenses. I had a huge variety of Disney discs.

Supposedly these strap-on Moon Shoes made you feel like you were walking on the moon, but I mostly just walked like a clumsy baby animal in these clunky things.

Listen, I know Easy Bake Ovens are ridiculous little machines that basically bake with the heat of a light bulb, but I'm still bitter that I never had one. My mom just let me help her bake real things in the real oven, but I wanted the cool little one too. I almost bought myself one in college, but it just wasn't the same at that point.

I'm not up on what toys are like these days since I'm old now, but the more I think about all my toys in the '90s, the more I realize everything was miniature. Littlest Pet Shop pets were no exception. They were similar to Polly Pocket but a little bit bigger, essentially just plastic animals with little playsets that I naturally had a few hundred of.

I wasn't much for dolls when I was young, but the one I truly loved was my Water Baby. The body was hollow rubber so you could fill it with water, making her more pliant like a human baby.

I absolutely had no idea what any of my power bead bracelets supposedly meant, but it was cool to have them in a variety of colors, so of course that is exactly what I did.

It took me a very long time to realize that mood rings aren't actually reading your moods and that it comes down to body temperature. But elementary school me truly believed my mood ring would tell my friends when I was mad at them.

In the later '90s, when I'd graduated on to junior high, I absolutely couldn't walk out the door for school without a good layer of body glitter. It was the preteen's highlighter of the '90s. If I think hard enough, I can still smell the plastic-like scent of it now.