#Pop Up

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Video thumbnail — Perfection board game commercial 1992
Toys 1990–1999

Perfection

The frantic tabletop game where you race against a 60-second timer to fit 25 small shaped plastic pieces into their matching holes in a tray—before the spring-loaded tray POPS up, launching all the pieces into the air. Originally released in 1973 and later produced by Milton Bradley, it remained a nerve-wracking living-room staple through the 1990s.

Video thumbnail — Spirit Halloween - Why They're Successful
Trends 1983–present

Spirit Halloween

Every August, a dead storefront blooms orange and black. Spirit Halloween turned vacant retail space into a two-month empire of costumes and animatronics — the annual resurrection that tells you a Sears used to be here, and that Halloween is coming.