Blast from the Past

[jaydeed]

Was in Value Village and spotted two gaming mags from 2004 with full page Neopet ads on the back! Bought them (they had YGO in and my daughter's into that too) and here are the covers,

[charelan]

Thanks for sharing! Those were cool to look at - I didn't realize there was a physical card game at one point.

[jaydeed]

I have some packs of the cards also from Value Village. Sadly the rare item cards were long gone but they're fun to look at. I also have some of the actual Neopet magazines which were very posh, almost graphic novel quality.

[WhiteWolf]

I still have a nice stack of Neopets Magazines somewhere, so you're not the only one!

[jaydeed]

I wish I had more! We bought them for our daughter and I found them in the basement when I got into playing with my own account years later.

[etrnldarkness]

Man the memories! Every time I come across the plushies I used to own it gives me a nice sense of nostalgia - especially since they were used in the 200th neopian times addition (one at least). Good days!

[jaydeed]

The plushies are adorable! I have a bunch of them, some the Happy Meal ones, some bigger, and if I had room, I'd put them out somewhere, but they're languishing in a drawer. I wish there was new merch. I don't know how new ppl find Neopets tbh. There's no advertising that I ever see.

[acorah]

They look great - thanks for posting that. I don`t think Britain ever got that sort of stuff ...

[jaydeed]

 I'm English, but we moved to Canada in 1997 and my kids didn't get into Neo until the 2000s so I'm not sure if they did have the merch back home Seems a shame!

[etrnldarkness]

On 10/1/2017 at 10:04 AM, jaydeed said:

The plushies are adorable! I have a bunch of them, some the Happy Meal ones, some bigger, and if I had room, I'd put them out somewhere, but they're languishing in a drawer. I wish there was new merch. I don't know how new ppl find Neopets tbh. There's no advertising that I ever see.

I know! I used to see them in many stores and now they are nonexsistant. Most of ours are from the happy meals too I do have some that people got rid of and we ended up with them and I also had a sticker book for the longest time when I wanted the codes, muwahahaha.

[jaydeed]

Oh I haven't seen the stickers! I was so ticked off when I got a mint in box item, a little computer game, sealed in hard plastic, and the code didn't work :-( Sent in a ticket and was told I was out of luck.

[etrnldarkness]

@jaydeed That is awful about the codes! :( After you mentioned that though I think that was why I ended up getting the stickers (and further recollection it was stickers and paper...like stationary set). I believe it was one of few items where the code wasn't easily accessible since I was worried about people stealing codes too. I think that was a big problem at the time. :/ Sadly, I got rid of it a few years ago since my son had no interest in it I do have a lot of their cards though!