The Toys That Made Us looks back at toys of the 1970s and 1980s

What if you could boogie back down memory lane with all the toys you treasured growing up? Wouldn’t it feel just excellent to chill again with your plastic pals from Star Wars, Transformers, Star Trek, G I Joe, Barbie, He-Man, Hello Kitty and Lego? Or to reminisce about how, back in the day, you could do more voices than Seth MacFarlane – from Jabba the Hutt’s basso profundo to Skeletor’s irritating nasal whine – as you put your figurines through endless drama across the living-room carpet?

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Well, as Jambi, the blue-faced genie, used to merrily declare on Pee-wee’s Playhouse – “Your wish is granted!” – as Netflix gets set to mine a mother lode of nostalgia with The Toys That Made Us, an eight-part documentary series. The series will bring to life the origins of some of the most popular toy lines in history. We’ll meet the minds behind history’s most iconic franchises, who discuss the rise – and sometimes fall – of their billion-dollar creations.

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