15 Old-School Disney Products You Absolutely Had in Your Childhood Home

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Disney may be doing OK with its current projects, like Frozen and Moana, but we millennials will always have a soft spot for movies like The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. Growing up in the 1990s, we watched Pocahontas on the screen while cuddling our Meeko plush toys, drinking out of our glittery tumblers, and taking breaks to play our Beauty and the Beast handheld video games.

While there's a chance some of our old and beloved toys are now worth something, I mostly just wish I had them around for fun and to reminisce about when the hardest decision I had to make in a day was whether I wanted Kool-Aid or lemonade with my lunch. Alas, I don't have any of these left, but I do have amazing memories of these 15 Disney picks.

01
Little Mermaid Sleeping Bag

Little Mermaid Sleeping Bag

Sadly, I never had one of these, mostly because I couldn't fathom needing a sleeping bag for anything, but every single one of my friends had one.

Buy your own: Little Mermaid Sleeping Bag ($19)

02
Lion King Bedding

Lion King Bedding

I did have Lion King bedding for a while, though. It was after Barbie and Winnie the Pooh and before ditching cartoons and going for the oh-so-mature theme of tropical paradise.

Buy your own: Lion King Pillowcase ($14)

03
View-Master

View-Master

This handy toy let you see scenes of your favorite Disney flicks through the little lens as you flipped through the pictures. I'm pretty sure we still have one at my parents' house.

Buy your own: Disney View-Master ($25)

04
Winnie the Pooh Bank

Winnie the Pooh Bank

Guess where I kept all my pennies? (It was never more than pennies because saving money has never been my strong suit.) I kept them inside my Winnie the Pooh bank, of course.

Buy your own: Winnie the Pooh Bank ($19)

05
Little Mermaid Lunch Box

Little Mermaid Lunch Box

Did you and your friends have to coordinate who had which lunch box so that you all had something different? No? Well, we did. All of us had a variety of these hard-case boxes with a Thermos inside.

Buy your own: Little Mermaid Lunch Box ($25)

06
Charm Bracelets

Charm Bracelets

My love of charm bracelets started with the Disney ones I had as a child. I still collect charms now, and several of them are Disney themed.

Buy your own: Little Mermaid Charm Bracelet ($20)

07
Beauty and the Beast Puppets

Beauty and the Beast Puppets

With my Beast puppet, I liked to make him much friendlier than the actual Beast was. I know he's just a misunderstood guy, but he was still kind of an ass in the beginning.

Buy your own: Beauty and the Beast Puppet ($15)

08
Handheld Video Games

Handheld Video Games

My introduction to video games wasn't through these handheld Disney ones, however, I played my Lion King one nonstop.

Buy your own: Beauty and the Beast Handheld Game ($30)

09
Read-Along Books

Read-Along Books

I had so, so many of these, partially because I just had a lot of books, but also because I had to have everything Disney, and these books helped me become a better reader.

Buy your own: My First Read-Along ($12)

10
Burger King Cups

Burger King Cups

This cup collection was the greatest thing Burger King ever did. My Lion King cup (are we sensing a pattern to what my favorite movie might have been?) was my all-time-favorite cup until it disappeared. I eventually bought a new one on eBay a few years ago, but that one disappeared too. Best cups ever.

Buy your own: Set of Two Pocahontas Glasses ($10)

11
Lion King Playset

Lion King Playset

Yes, I had this playset. Yes, it was basically like a Polly Pocket but Lion King themed. It was Pride Rock with all the characters, but I could pack it all up and throw it in my supercool sequined purse and bring it to church to play.

Buy your own: Lion King Playset ($20)

12
Watches

Watches

Back when my dad would get me every single Disney cartoon on VHS, they would come with a movie cell and a watch, so I had a whole lot of Disney watches.

Buy your own: Mickey Mouse Watch ($30)

13
Little Golden Books

Little Golden Books

I probably had every single one of these Little Golden Books, which weren't exclusive to Disney but did have a lot of Disney stories.

Buy your own: Little Golden Book ($6)

14
Plush Toys

Plush Toys

Do you remember going to the Disney Store at the mall and there being that giant mountain of plush toys in the back of the store? Disney designed that after what my house looked like. My plush toy collection was and still is rather large, to say the least.

Buy your own: Plush Meeko ($32)

15
Glitter Cups

Glitter Cups

I imagine you can still get some variety of these glittery tumblers either at the Disney parks or in various stores, but nothing compares to the original ones from our childhood that were covered in 101 Dalmatians or, what else, Lion King.

Buy your own: Set of Four Glitter Tumblers ($23)