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Post by sunwukong on Apr 22, 2008 0:26:37 GMT -5
I also had slap bracelets as a kid. I had a lime green one that said "Can't Touch This!". Damn, I was cool.
I also took part in the whole "digital pets" thing. Tamagotchi and the like. I had a Star Wars R2-D2 one that I think I ended up smashing within three days because of how annoying it was.
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Post by Rob's No. 1 Fan on Apr 22, 2008 1:05:55 GMT -5
Bottlecaps. Yep. I was about five-years-old. Gramma said you could turn them in for money. "Lots o' children collect bottlecaps, hunny," she informed me. "Now you collect enough of 'em and we'll go down the 'dimestore' and by you a nice toy." So everywhere I went, I kept my eyes to the ground for bottlecaps.... along my yard, in my friends yards, at the church.... I would pick them up and put them in my pocket. Over nine days or so, I had collected only about 20 or thirty.... a mix of beer bottle caps and plastic soda bottle ones. Gramma threw them in the trash. ... never got my toy.  . |
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Post by default on Apr 22, 2008 1:17:44 GMT -5
Bottlecaps. Yep. I was about five-years-old. Gramma said you could turn them in for money. "Lots o' children collect bottlecaps, hunny," she said. "Now you collect enough of 'em and we'll go down the 'dimestore' and by you a nice toy." So everywhere I went, I kept my eyes to the ground for bottlecaps.... along my yard, in my friends yards, at the church.... I would pick them up and put them in my pocket. Over nine days or so, I had collected only about 20 or thirty.... a mix of beer bottle caps and plastic soda bottle ones. Gramma threw them in the trash. ... never got my toy. . lol, my sister used to walk along the roads picking up caps whenever Pepsi would do their cap codes. She got quite a bit of stuff, but I made her mad when I told her not to pick up any Mountain Dew bottles with liquid in them. We lived along a U.S. Highway with lots of truckers and some of it wasn't Mountain Dew, but rather... Mountain Don't. In the Pepsi bottles, you could tell. |
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Post by katelin on Apr 22, 2008 1:28:16 GMT -5
Beanie Babies; There was actually an entire store dedicated to them around here. I would obsess over their tags getting ruined(like it mattered) and getting those little plastic covers for them.
Furby; How these ever became so popular is beyond me(and how I bought into it is still a mystery). Mine would NEVER shut up. Even when I would turn it off, I could still hear it. I remember burying mine underneath my blankets one time.
Anything by Lisa Frank; All those pretty colors....
Oh yeah, and remember those little virtual pet things? Yah, me and my friends were all over it.
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Post by Samoa Kenny on Apr 22, 2008 1:31:52 GMT -5
What are some of the fads yall here at Wrestlecrap bought into? Preferably stuff as a kid. Like just about everyone else I fell into the Pokemon fad. I do remember I thought it was stupid for it to be on at like 8 in the morning on Saturdays. People wanna sleep, damn. I did buy the cards though. Never learned the game. Kinda ended for me when I lost them at my moms N.A meeting. Never bothered to try and collect them and buy then Pokemon was starting to fall off. Once I found out the cards werent ever really gonna be worth much anyway I made sure not to waste a bunch of money on that... You lost your Pokeman cards at your moms NA meeting? I don't mean to make fun, but that make me laugh out loud |
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Post by Joekishi on Apr 22, 2008 2:23:08 GMT -5
Trucker Hats, I bought one, and it looks good on my head.
Pogs were pretty much the only widespread fad I fell into.
Oh and um...yeah that was it.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Apr 22, 2008 2:25:44 GMT -5
Snap bracelets (banned by schools, LMAO), trading cards, big puffy pink sweatshirts and New Kids On the Block.
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Post by samachine on Apr 22, 2008 2:42:42 GMT -5
All of them.
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Post by Loki on Apr 22, 2008 3:55:26 GMT -5
Bright clothes, like any other good kid in the late 80s  Cycling shorts. Actually I wish I still had a pair of those Shiny acetate tracksuits Voltron (the only cartoon fad I fell for) I should probably count Mutant Chronicles card game as a fad, but it was the alternative choice to Magic, so I'm not sure... It was a "niche" fad, so to speak. Oh, and wrestling too, but I was already watching before it went popular around 1988, and still watch now that it's forgotten again. |
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Post by Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture on Apr 22, 2008 7:48:34 GMT -5
I bought a buttload of different CCGs. The Magic ones are still probably worth most of the money invested in them (as I have quite a bit of Ice Age ones). But I was into a bunch of others... I have basically all the original Marvel Overpower set, some of the expansions (got out before the DC one started and they put in the fourth factor), I also had some Star Trek: TNG ones (the starter deck my friend bought me for $20 had two cards worth over $20... Tasha Yar and some ship) and a starter deck of Star Trek: The Classic... (got the most valuable card from that set "I'm a doctor, not a..." Oh, and some Star Wars. I traded some decent card away for Pops, as I had to have him. I also was really into Magic: The Gathering when the game first came out. Me and my friends were playing every weekend. I happened to witness a lot of stupid things associated with that game. 2 of my really good friends got into a huge brawl at school because one thought the other stole his Demonic Hordes card (when it fell down between the seat of his car). Another friend of mine went to a local card and comic shop, waited until the owner was distracted, jumped the counter, and ran off with 2 cases of Ice Age packs. |
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Post by J is Justice on Apr 22, 2008 7:56:27 GMT -5
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Apr 22, 2008 10:56:13 GMT -5
pogs
ninja turtles
power rangers until 1995
yo yo's
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Post by El Duderino on Apr 22, 2008 11:05:56 GMT -5
All of em... 'Cept for Beanie Babies, never got the appeal of em'. And luckily, me being an "urban youth" meant me never having a mullet, zubaz pants, or anything like that. Instead I had Grant Hill's, Iverson's [the first Answers... the black and gold joints], and of course replica Champion jerseys and those cheap MLB adjustable caps before new era fitteds took off. Good times lol.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Apr 22, 2008 11:12:36 GMT -5
grunge I was 16 living in Seattle at the time couldn't help it
I also had a mambo sock
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Post by DSR on Apr 22, 2008 11:17:03 GMT -5
Pogs, Ninja Turtles, and I guess nu metal.
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Post by Queen of the Harpies on Apr 22, 2008 11:18:22 GMT -5
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Post by gsguy on Apr 22, 2008 11:23:15 GMT -5
Pogs and Pokemon
I'm sure there's more but I can't remember.
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 22, 2008 15:30:39 GMT -5
What are some of the fads yall here at Wrestlecrap bought into? Preferably stuff as a kid. Like just about everyone else I fell into the Pokemon fad. I do remember I thought it was stupid for it to be on at like 8 in the morning on Saturdays. People wanna sleep, damn. I did buy the cards though. Never learned the game. Kinda ended for me when I lost them at my moms N.A meeting. Never bothered to try and collect them and buy then Pokemon was starting to fall off. Once I found out the cards werent ever really gonna be worth much anyway I made sure not to waste a bunch of money on that... You lost your Pokeman cards at your moms NA meeting? I don't mean to make fun, but that make me laugh out loud Other kids brought they're cards up... |
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