#Ride On Toys

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Video thumbnail — Little Tikes Cozy Coupe TV commercial — best-selling vehicle in America since 1979
Toys 1979–present

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe

The red-and-yellow plastic car with the Flintstones floor: no pedals, just your feet, a door that opened and a roof that made it feel real. The Little Tikes Cozy Coupe sat in every 90s driveway and daycare, and in 1991 it outsold the Honda Accord and the Ford Taurus.

Video thumbnail — Barbie Power Wheels commercial (1996)
Toys 1984–present

Power Wheels

The battery-powered Jeep the rich kid on the block drove down the sidewalk while everyone else pedaled. Power Wheels, and above all the hot-pink Barbie Jeep, were the 90s driveway status symbol, right up to the 1998 recall of about ten million of them.