10 Toy Fads That You Thought Would Last Forever

Your life was totally fine until these trends came along and made you feel inadequate and left-out. You ran to your parents to ask them to buy whatever it was that was hot that year because you had to have have it. They tried to explain to you that it was just a trend and that spending your (their) hard earned money on it was pointless, but you didn't want to hear it. Well, what do you have to say for yourself now? Here are 10 Toy Fads That You Thought Would Last Forever.


10. Furby 

Okay now that we're talking about it I can finally ask, am I the only one that thought the Furby was a blatant rip-off of Gizmo from the movie Gremlins? This bothered the shit out of me because Gremlins was one of my favorite movies, so when kids my age didn't know what I was talking about I wanted to smash my head against a wall.

Apparently there was a lawsuit and Hasboro eventually developed a Gizmo Furby. Damn, I was a smart little guy, I could have been a lawyer. 

9. Tickle Me Elmo 

I wasn't really part of this trend, but my little cousin certainly was. So was every mother in the United States. It was CRAZY. There were protests, stampedes, and giant yellow talking birds. Okay the last one was a joke but I find it funny that the voice of this very perverted toy got him self caught up in a sex scandal recently.

8. Koosh Ball

Speaking of toys that sound dirty, the Koosh Ball. These things had no purpose except for annoying the crap out of teachers. The one thing about these that I remember is that they have a distinctive smell. I once ripped all of the hairs off of it to see what was in the middle. Want to know what it was? I bet you do.

7. Razor Scooters 

I know this isn't necessarily a toy but it was certainly a faze and it did sell at Toys R' Us so sue me (not really I can't afford it). I sincerely thought that owning a Razor scooter would change my life. Then I got one and boy was I wrong. This would only make a difference in my life if every road in the world was paved like a basketball court, but I live in NYC and we've been doing construction on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway forever. If my memory serves me correctly, Razor scooters were not allowed in school because they could be potentially used as weapons. Yes I said school and not prison.

6. Yo-yos 

Sure, every fad essentially consists of things that have been around before but Yo-yos? Really? It's essentially a pet rock with a string. But the Yo-yos of the 90s were different, they had 'brains'. When I saw the commercials back then I thought it was the beginning of the Terminator prophecy and Yomega and Duncan were Skynet. I would later learn that the brains were just weights used to keep the Yo-yo on the floor longer. Today we have Pokemon trainers but back then we had Yo-yo trainers that knew all the tricks and walked around and battled each other, backwards hat included. Speaking of Pokemon...

5. Pokemon Cards

Gotta catch Em' all. Wow was that cute, when it was actually a f$#*ing manageable task. Pokemon are still around today but are no where near as popular as they once were. In the 90s the principals in my school were breaking up Pokemon card trading deals as if they were taking out major narcotic distributors. These bastards even managed to get TWO motion pictures in theaters, and they both made huge profit. Speaking of useless pocket-sized Japanese stuff...

4. Tamagotchis

It's really the original Pokemon if you think about it, with a dash of the sims. These little guys were pretty annoying but it was fun to show your friends that it can poop. Maybe if we still had these girls wouldn't be getting pregnant at 16. 

3. Trolls

I don't have many memories of these, maybe because they creep me out. I do remember getting the hair in my mouth a few times. I also just became aware that these things look like the Olsen twins and that makes sense because they were big in the 90s too. Big figuratively. 

2. Fingerboards 

Fingerboards have been in the skateboarding community since the 70s as keychains, but in the 90s a Japanese company would have the marbles to make these things fully functional and collectibale. With the increased popularity of skateboarding in the late 90s with games like Tony Hawks Pro Skater, fingerboard product sales would reach an estimated $120 Million. 

1. Beanie Babies

These little stuffed animals became popular because they weren't at stiff as the others at the time, but they became a craze once Ty (the company that produces them) announced that they would be retiring their line of fuzzy friends. Apparently Ty did a Michael Jordan/Jay-Z because they are still being produced today. 

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