These things, where you push down on the center and then they'd pop up into the air, were all the rage in grade school. Teachers confiscated enough to fill drawers and yet they still showed up.
When I was in 8th grade I suctioned one of these on my forehead. I had a hickey for a week. Not a fun week at school.
Those bracelets that you slap against your arm and they roll up. They were big in the 90's, but they're back... My daughter has one from this era.
Pogs ---- Whether these were a fad or not, I want to add they were a big deal not only in the early and mid 90's, but there was a whole Pog "Milkcap" era in the 70's/80's, and yet again in the late 2000's.
Mad Balls --- loved them, and bizarre enough, they are now for sale again.
Oh and the... THE SOUTH BEACH DIET ! Hahaha! Maybe the Atkins diet too?
Hypercolor T-shirts. Everyone had to have one...but the fad died off fast once we figured out how disgusting they actually were to wear.
The shirt changes colour from a heat source...your hand being placed on it for example would turn the shirt from pink to purple where you held your hand on the shirt for a few seconds. This was all cool and fun when we saw it on commercials....untill we wore them and had what looked like everlasting sweat marks and pit stains.
Do you remember you could collect the whole set and make one giant poster out of them because it was like a puzzle on the back?!? Those were actually pretty awesome haha..... Now I want some
I don't remember what they were called, but around 1986 everybody was collecting these plastic key chains. You would buy something like a coiled, nylon coated loop and buy a crap ton of key chains to put on them. Typically they were mini boom boxes, telephones, skateboards, sunglasses and anything else you could imagine. It was all really cheap. You would usually get 5 or so new ones anytime you went to the gas station. You couldn't do anything with them other than look at them. Everyone wanted to have the most and the most cool ones possible. This was about the same time that girls were wearing lace on their wrists like Madonna and boys were rapping Brass Monkey. So I think '86 is dead on.
I don't pay enough attention, then again I was at the card shop getting MTG cards the other day and there was kids playing it, but you know it is the shitty game because they were playing on a Sunday and the owner wasn't even running the store.
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as many have mentioned
POGS
plus...
(even though I never owned one growing up)
this dance
once again, never owned a pair as a kid, but thought they were cool
our fidget spinner of the time (well some of us...)
Pump up shoes
I think they are pumped up kicks if we are talking about fads, I mean one hit wonders combined with shoes works even better!
Lite Brite? Pogo Balls?
Hula Hoops
Coonskin caps and Davy Crockett
Lava lamps
Hippies (and strange/bizarre movies about them)
These things, where you push down on the center and then they'd pop up into the air, were all the rage in grade school. Teachers confiscated enough to fill drawers and yet they still showed up.
When I was in 8th grade I suctioned one of these on my forehead. I had a hickey for a week. Not a fun week at school.
NES Mini
Chokers
Those bracelets that you slap against your arm and they roll up. They were big in the 90's, but they're back... My daughter has one from this era.
Pogs ---- Whether these were a fad or not, I want to add they were a big deal not only in the early and mid 90's, but there was a whole Pog "Milkcap" era in the 70's/80's, and yet again in the late 2000's.
Mad Balls --- loved them, and bizarre enough, they are now for sale again.
Oh and the... THE SOUTH BEACH DIET ! Hahaha! Maybe the Atkins diet too?
One fad I wish I still had are my old Rumble Robots. You haven't lived until you've played a round with Boltman and Lugnut.
I had Lugnut. Those things were fun as hell.
Crazy Bones
crazy bones! Those were awesome. I think I still have a couple at my parents house
The shirt changes colour from a heat source...your hand being placed on it for example would turn the shirt from pink to purple where you held your hand on the shirt for a few seconds. This was all cool and fun when we saw it on commercials....untill we wore them and had what looked like everlasting sweat marks and pit stains.
Garbage Pail Kids
YESSSSS!!!
Do you remember you could collect the whole set and make one giant poster out of them because it was like a puzzle on the back?!? Those were actually pretty awesome haha..... Now I want some
People still using those Friggit Spinners or whatever?
Brendan has one
What about Creepy Crawlers?
Sock 'Em Boppers?
The shirts that changed color in the sun?
Most of mine have been mentioned (pogs, beanie babies, tomagotchi, yoyos, devil sticks, tech decks, lite brites, easy bake ovens, slap on bracelets)
What about Creepy Crawlers?
Sock 'Em Boppers?
The shirts that changed color in the sun?
I mentioned the shirts haha ...I was all over that one because I remember them so well.
Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon...Pet rocks.
yu-gi-oh card game is still going hardcore
Dog tags were popular at one time, as well as pictures that you had to stare at cross eyed for ten minutes before a blurry image would appear.
Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon...Pet rocks.
Yu-Gi-Oh is bigger than ever...
Now Furby and Beanie Babies are where it was at!
I'm pretty sure Furby became google
Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon...Pet rocks.
yu-gi-oh card game is still going hardcore
I don't pay enough attention, then again I was at the card shop getting MTG cards the other day and there was kids playing it, but you know it is the shitty game because they were playing on a Sunday and the owner wasn't even running the store.
TheToxieRules faded pretty quickly if I remember correctly