What's your favourite childhood fad?

[DemonSpawn77]

Remember Pogs? Pokemon? Crazy Bones? Yea, you've probably experienced a few elementary school fads in your lifetime. If you weren't an anti-social little brat sitting by yourself at recess burning ants with the magnifying glass you found at home next to the rest of your petty articles of minor destruction, what would you say was your favourite fad? The Pokemon games for the Game Boy are mine. For like $40 you got an absolutely massive game with lovable characters (at the time), all of whom you wanted to find. And everyone you knew had it! Childhood seemed so simple and fun. I miss those days sometimes.

[System_Zero]

Pogs. But now they're back. They should have stayed dead.

[Rab]

I'd probably go for Yo yo's, or bouncy balls.

[Slevin57]

I'm goin with Pokemon for Game Boy :P.

Of course then I became bitter and began my plans to destroy my classmates lives piece by piece, but thats another story.

[crooked]

"the things you pwn end up pwning you" - Tyler Durden.

[Idspispopd]

Pogs, Legos, Lincoln Logs and Double Dragon.

Oh and Johnny Quest, Robotech and Silverhawks.

[StopMakingSense]

I'd go with yo yos, but oh man pogs, i forgot about those. I still have some somewhere...

All the memories are rushing back.

[SUPERflakes!]

I'd have to say...pogs....yeah

[System_Zero]

Pogs was perhaps the most easily assessable and ratably available more than any other childhood fad.

[Kinetix]

I do believe fapping is a childhood hobby.

[Destagow]

Pokemon

[System_Zero]

I got into Pokemon before it became a fad just after it was released in the US. But when it got to the point that everyone loved Pokemon but never actually played the game is where I said fuck you all and just sat there silently power leveling my Gangar...

[Avarik]

Eh, Pokemon was fun, so were Crazy Bones.

I loved Micro Machines too.

[pr0x]

It's depressing how the young kids I see today never play with pogs, yoyo's, bouncing... balls(?), now their all drinking cider on the streets and gradually turning into scum.

I loved pogs so much. I tried starting a Gogo (i think) trend... they were like transparent little coloured monsters. I was like the only kid who bought them. :(

Childhood did zomgerpwn, though. It was so easy to be entertained.

[s33r]

I still love Pokemon.

But Beanie Babies will always hold a special place in my heart. My dad decided I was too obsessed with them and stole them all. When I got them back two years later, they were covered in rat urine, chewed up and no longer worth the four hundred dollars I had spent on them. All because I liked them more than my normal pillow. If I hadn't slept with them, I probably could have gotten off with a warning.

[System_Zero]

Pogs are coming back, but they lack the flare that they used to exhbit in the past. The slamers are plastic instead of being made of metal. And they're not trying to make pogs collectable thus trying to ad some kind of value with rare pogs and shit.

[RaptorAlex]

Yo yo's all the way

I mean how many other fads are that simple and yet so complex?

Not only are they a great toy but also in drastic situations they become a semi-deadly weapon! :whistle:

[Green Hat Linux]

gotta be pokemon...i still have a binder of cards that could be used as a weapon somewhere...

[Microphotometrically]

^^^
what hes said.

but it's not a memory.

my binder is in full use.

I take out my cards periodically and reminisce.

i put on my Ash Cathcem look alike hat, and flip it backwards, wishing that i could one day be an Elite Four member. :'(

[Green Hat Linux]

actualy, i rmemeber where it is now...
*goes and grabs it from the closet, causus an avalanch*
damn...

i think its one of the original nintendo binders...used all to hell tho...

[DemonSpawn77]

I lost and/or burned (yes, set on fire) most of my Pokemon cards. The stack was humongous. Though, I did keep those shiny holographic ones. Who would throw away something shiny?

[Mastaninjapirate]

Pokemon. No contest. I still love pokemon and was excited when I recently found a few cards in french and german.

[Microphotometrically]

ehm.

If I had a nintendo ds.
i would SO get the new pokemon game.

you can actually be a pokemon!!

why couldn't this have come out a couple of years earlier :(

[Alx292]

What were those things called that you slide across the floor at other little things? They were monsters? Some were morphed household appliances? Were those crazy bones? I had so many of those.. I loved it. If I lost I would chuck the rest of my pieces at my opponent. Good times.

[JohnPaul]

Yeh I remember those days, Everyone would bust out there Game Boys at school and we would trade off Pokemon. I really miss those days to. There was always something exciting to show your friends.

Remember Pogs? Pokemon? Crazy Bones? Yea, you've probably experienced a few elementary school fads in your lifetime. If you weren't an anti-social little brat sitting by yourself at recess burning ants with the magnifying glass you found at home next to the rest of your petty articles of minor destruction, what would you say was your favourite fad? The Pokemon games for the Game Boy are mine. For like $40 you got an absolutely massive game with lovable characters (at the time), all of whom you wanted to find. And everyone you knew had it! Childhood seemed so simple and fun. I miss those days sometimes.

[naomiReturns]

Whenever I think of the '90s, I always think of this one birthday party I attended at the age of eight or so. It was Spice Girls-themed. Everyone dressed up as one of the Spice Girls. We listened to the Backstreet Boys during the party, and then we stayed up until 00h00 watching Titanic. The next morning, we were all sent home with goodie bags filled with lollipops and yo-yos.

To me, that one night epitomized the decade.

[Doku]

Ah they are so many that make me smile! For sure Pokemon games, I loved them soooooo much! Pogs were another huge deal too, I even spent like 50 bucks on a pog maker so I could make my own and be like.. "Yeah I have this super rare one right here" Lets see.. Marbles were another big thing in my youth.

I dunno about you guys but another huge thing was the T.V. shows of the day.. Power Rangers, Where in the World is Carmen San Diago, Doug, Clarissa Explains it All, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, not to mention all those other saturday morning cartoons. I really wish I could just spend like a week watching all those shows again!

[Mastaninjapirate]

I'm watching Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers right now on Jetix. Not sure how often that happens.
Furbys. Did anyone else have a Furby? I miss those things. I'd go over to friends' houses and we'd just mess around with our furbys for hours using this huge guidebook. Then they started adding stuff to it and it went downhill for me.

[StopMakingSense]

I
Furbys. Did anyone else have a Furby? I miss those things.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/furby

[Mooters]

I got into Pokemon before it became a fad just after it was released in the US. But when it got to the point that everyone loved Pokemon but never actually played the game is where I said fuck you all and just sat there silently power leveling my Gangar...

Oh yes, I remenber this. Aren't you the one who got "US" into poke'mon?
I hated getting my file erased. Like in thus humorus Pennyarcade comic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v406/AMGF/20051130h.jpg

Oh, system. That "1337" speak in your sig, you got that from the flash I showed you. >:(

[We_Be_1337]

Sadly, I had all of those, but one I hold dear is marbles, just 20-odd kids sitting beside dirt rings. I was really good at it, because I had this one massive marble that was the size of my fist (Today, not back then). It was great, I still have them actually. ( I lost the big one though) I belive the order of size from smallest to biggest is: pee-wee, small, medium, big, kong, king-kong.

[SPASTICHOBO]

Back in my day it was all about the TMNT merchandise. We always went over to this one kid's house cause he was rich enough to buy all the cool playsets and vehicles. Although I did have plenty of fun in my akward teenage years with Pokemon, beating the shit out of my frineds with my Blastoise.

[My Internet Sucks]

Does anyone remember Mighty Max? I don't really care about the show, but those toys were the shit. Seriously they were insane.

http://www.pop-arena.com/articles/maxtoys/mighty9.jpg
http://www.pop-arena.com/articles/maxtoys/mighty8.jpg

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

[SPASTICHOBO]

Does anyone remember Mighty Max? I don't really care about the show, but those toys were the shit. Seriously they were insane.

http://www.pop-arena.com/articles/maxtoys/mighty9.jpg
http://www.pop-arena.com/articles/maxtoys/mighty8.jpg

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

Hell yeah I do. It was one of my favorite shows back in the day. My friend had all the cool toys to go along with it too.

[jdubbs]

slap bracelets anyone? i remember in my elementary school, they sold those in the bookstore. all of us would buy them and then the teacher would confiscate them during class and they would more than likely get recirculated back to the bookstore where we would buy them again. pretty ingenius racket if i do say so myself.

[Shins]

slap bracelets anyone? i remember in my elementary school, they sold those in the bookstore. all of us would buy them and then the teacher would confiscate them during class and they would more than likely get recirculated back to the bookstore where we would buy them again. pretty ingenious racket if i do say so myself.

Fuck, I forgot all about those.

I remember being way into Power Rangers shit. Oh, and DBZ. I look back with fond memories of the former, and burn myself with a lighter when I reminisce about the latter.

[SPASTICHOBO]

slap bracelets anyone? i remember in my elementary school, they sold those in the bookstore. all of us would buy them and then the teacher would confiscate them during class and they would more than likely get recirculated back to the bookstore where we would buy them again. pretty ingenius racket if i do say so myself.

Ha shit I almost forgot about those things. My sister had like a million of them.

[MasterGlitch]

Hot Wheels, Micro Machines, and Tamagachis. Those were the best things ever when I was little. I'm kinda pissed that they brought back Tamagachis and made them so gay. "Generation 2" Tamagachis were bad enough.

And, yeah, Mighty Max pwned.

[My Internet Sucks]

..............Tamagachis. Those were the best things ever when I was little. I'm kinda pissed that they brought back Tamagachis and made them so gay. "Generation 2" Tamagachis were bad enough.


Fuck yeah son, Tamagachis were the best. Everyone fucking had one. The only thing better were Digimon. Before it evolved into the shitty anime/show/manga/and whatever other bastard child, it was the best virtual-pet-tamagachi-thing ever. It was just like Tamagachis except you could battle them. I dunno why, but that made them 10x better. Doesn't anyone else remember these?

[Starkey]

Yugio was the shit, i also played pokemon and i think i have my pogs stored somewhere in my attic

[Seraphim]

Lesee... slap braclets, anything heat reactive (like mood-rings, those one t-shirts, color-change bracelets), gummi sandals, M.U.S.C.L.E. Men, anything glow-in-the-dark/UV reactive...

... the one thing, though, that tops the list would be any kind of toys with a hologram or heat-reactive mark on it, like Battle Beasts and those one Knight toys.

[dylan]

PKMN CARDS.
I just organized them and made a new deck this weekend.

[Napoleon]

I'd have to say for me, it was collecting Garbage Pale Kid cards. I had them all over the place. Any doubles that I had I would stick on my door.

[SPASTICHOBO]

Lesee... slap braclets, anything heat reactive (like mood-rings, those one t-shirts, color-change bracelets), gummi sandals, M.U.S.C.L.E. Men, anything glow-in-the-dark/UV reactive...

... the one thing, though, that tops the list would be any kind of toys with a hologram or heat-reactive mark on it, like Battle Beasts and those one Knight toys.

Ah I forgot about the heat reactive things. I was a pimp in Kindergarden with my 1337 color changing pencils.

[BhueGo]

POKEMON I miss it so much I dont remember what happened. It just left my life after I bought blue version then gold I quit caring so depressing :( anyways there was also digimon but now this new thing YuGiOh I hate it no card game will ever compare to digital or pocket monsters :)

[Scout]

I didn't like pog. My older brother would show off all his pogs to my face and I would have 1/5 the collection he had :( . But I was a master at Poke'mon. No not the gay cookie cutter new games Nintendo releases every month, but the old Blue Version! I was also in to YuGiOh, I never liked the show it was the card game I was in to.

[Omega Avatar]

Pokemon Blue Version was good, but Pokemon Red Version the shit. Every other Pokemon game (except maybe Blue) isn't fit to stand on the same shelf as it.

[BeanFire]

um... whats the difference? Pokemon pwnd. Same with them bouncy balls. So easily amused by a little rubber thing that could bounce 20 someodd feet in the sky on a random occasion. I also liked hot wheelz. They were awsome. Also my dad gave me an NES around the time i was in grade 2 I think. I loved Mario and Duck hunter:) .

[Daedalus66]

Poke'mon was the big thing. In yr 5, I got suspended from primary school from stealing some n00bs cards...hehe. I was young and foolish!

[MasterGlitch]

no card game will ever compare to digital or pocket monsters :)

Clearly you've never played an actual good TCG like Magic: The Gathering. Magic pwns all others.

[Phinius Gage]

Zomg i loved that game

[Trainwreck]

i loved Magic TG... that was amazing, i won more pogs that way...


as far as my favorite, i'd have to say Warheads. they came out when i was in 5th grade, and we traded them like some sort of drug cartel. then my school banned them, but we still brought them.

once i put a few in my teacher's coffee. she freaked out and spilled it all over herself, and it was extremely hot, so we got to go to a different classroom for the day, because the teacher went to the nurse's office

[biffking]

Anything Fraggle Rock was awesome, TMNT were always fun to play with.

[Trainwreck]

Fraggle Rock was ledgendary.

And the Snorks? A cheap rip-off of smurfs

[Daedalus66]

What was Fraggle Rock? and the Snorks?

[biffking]

Fraggle Rock was an awesome show by Jim Henson. Just about every kid that grew up in the 80's watched it at some point. You can get info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock
And the Snorks were these freaky little smurf like things with these snorkels on their heads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snorks

[RyanBennettBass]

mine has to be pokemon. it didnt get popular in my area untill the first series was on its second showing on sky one, but i started watching it straight away (when we get up for school it was the only thing that was on) so i had the games already, and i was the knowing one on pokemon back then.

actually now i think about it pokemon was probably the start of all my nerdyness that made me unpopular... i owe it so much ¬¬

[s33r]

Care Bears 4evah!

That show twisted my soul into the unrecognizable, putrid stinking mass it is today. The amount of sheer evil poured into a half-hour pragram still inspires awe.

[KillHour]

Dood, those hot warheads (infernos I think). You tell people they're a new warheads flavor, and they pop like 3 to show how 1337 they are, and you laugh like hell as they scream for water... :twisted:

[mwknowles92]

Pokemon, but then everybody started doing it...
the cool part was i already had hella cards so i won hecka money in bets =)
i still got some cards if somebody wants to buy, they're only the original classics, not that new crap they have

[fr0zt]

Micro Machines Military. Those things are still cool till this day... and at 18, I refuse to throw them out.

[BhueGo]

I still love pokemon I ment to sell them or give them away but when the time came I couldnt force myself to do it there worth to much to me............along with digimon and some old bouncy balls ^_^

[MaudKip]

I miss the Yo Yo fad. But I could never rock the damn cradle = [

[TheDarkNight]

I still love Pokemon.

But Beanie Babies will always hold a special place in my heart. My dad decided I was too obsessed with them and stole them all. When I got them back two years later, they were covered in rat urine, chewed up and no longer worth the four hundred dollars I had spent on them. All because I liked them more than my normal pillow. If I hadn't slept with them, I probably could have gotten off with a warning.



I'd get revenge for that shit. Put your dad in a roach infested nursing home when he gets older.

[Steve]

Pogs, pokemon, leggo anyone? Marbles and tiddlywinks.. GT's were what we all loved in winter. I remember when the PS1 was getting big, my brother never stopped playing X-treme sports. Tamagochis.. Furby and fraggle rock. I think the only fad we never got involved in as kids was The Simpsons paraphenalia. My mother claimed they were a bad influence.

[cobweb]

oh man when my best friend up until a few years ago and i were little we were sooooooo obsessed with pokemon. so he and i would go everywhere together with out gameboys and like always be playing in companionship. it was sweet... man i miss those days.

and this isn't really a FAD but i was highly obsessed with sailor moon. like, very much so.

[Marlin]

I always really liked stretch armstrong he was really cool. I also LOVED sega genesis Gunstar Heros was the best game EVER!

[yourusername]

Finger Skatebaords, Pokemon, and the Backstreet Boys.

That just summed up 3rd grade for me.




edit: POWER RANGERS. The original and the ninja ones, and the rest just fail at life.

[yourusername]

Sorry, I didn't realized it would creat a new post. D:


Pokemon Yellow pwns Blue and Red. Enough said.

[Erosennin]

sugar highs and sleep

[Microphotometrically]

1337.com

[spiritfighter]

My childhood consisted of Cartoon Network's Toonami and the internet.

AKA:

Sailor Moon and bad fanfiction.

[Napalm]

My childhood consisted of dodging snipers, and learning to detect mines. D:

[crooked]

cry us a river

[Napalm]

ill cry ur mom a river



in her mahgin


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