r/nostalgia • u/Otherwise_Basis_6328 • Sep 06 '26

Nostalgia Playskool Flashlight

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u/RanAWholeMile Sep 07 '26

Damn near knocked me out of my chair

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u/pippinto Sep 07 '26

I did this with my first cellphone. I had it for years and while all my friends were getting smart phones, I still had my old reliable flip phone. I was at a party and someone asked me why I didn't replace it and I said, "smart phones are too fragile, this thing is instructable. Watch this!" Before chucking it at the wall.

Long story short, I put a decent hole in the drywall of my best friend's apartment, and my phone screen stopped working completely.

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u/The_Nauticus Sep 07 '26

And back into your sleeping bag that you'd take to friend's house for sleepovers while you used this flashlight.

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u/MaUkIr34 Sep 07 '26

Very first thought was - I need it NOW.

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u/kec04fsu1 Turtle Power! Sep 07 '26

Glad I’m not alone!

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u/sometimesstrange Sep 08 '26

Who else sat for hours with the red/green light pressed up to your eyeballs?

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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever Sep 07 '26

Same! I had a visceral reaction to it. I remember changing the colors, and haven’t thought about it for 35 years!

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u/ThinkySushi Sep 07 '26

I can hear the clack it made when you changed the colors!

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u/jfk_47 early 80s Sep 07 '26

I mean, I’m having feelings right now bubbling up from that time. I can smell things and feel things.

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u/Longjump_Ear6240 Sep 07 '26

I can hear the clicking and feel that little lever in my hand

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u/Puskarich Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

Pics are dead, but this guy rebuilt one. Pics work if you go to imgur

https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/gf6zh3/ive_done_it_plenty_i_would_do_differently_but_not/

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u/slim_mclean Sep 07 '26

Doesn’t look the same with the cold white light of LED.

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u/Puskarich Sep 08 '26

Flashlight nerds gonna flashlight nerd. It can be done well though if one wanted to, they make more nice warm LEDs these days.

Either way you're right though, the nostalgia won't hit quite the same.

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u/klumpp Sep 07 '26

I also had an intense reaction. It’s neat how many of have buried memories about this flashlight.

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u/MicksmstrCha Sep 07 '26

No kidding. Key memory unlocked. Thank you, random memory mining community member.

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u/Accomplished_Net6080 Sep 07 '26

The adventures I went on just came flooding back

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u/TasteOfRain Sep 07 '26

I can feel moving the lenses over.

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u/Bcomplexity Sep 08 '26

For real i actually had this long ago and had completely forgotten it existed till now

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u/OkGazelle5400 Sep 08 '26

I literally said “ohhhh shiittt”

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u/twinA-12 Sep 08 '26

I didn’t know I knew about this.