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Few moments spark as much childhood anticipation as Christmas mornings, when we would wake up pre-dawn and race to the tree to see if Santa had brought us the gifts on our list. If you grew up in the 1980s, there’s a good chance those presents were among the decade’s most iconic toys. It was an epic era for playthings, marked by the invention of Nintendo, the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, and action figures tied to Saturday-morning cartoons like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Care Bears .

Here are the most popular toys each year of the 1980s, according to curators at the Strong National Museum of Play , who compiled the

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