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Storm Eagle 12-18-2010 10:53 AM

What fads from your youth did NOT like?
 
So, when you're a kid, and you're a part of certain fad experiences, your parents would probably get on your case about it, and tell you that the thing you're into is inane. However, there were probably things that were popular in your youth that even you managed to dislike. So what were they? Here, I'll start by sharing mine:

Garbage Pail Kids: They were just too gross for me. I still can't stand to look at them to this day. I probably sound like a hypocrite though, since I can watch most horror movies, played and own the Mortal Kombat games, and am still a huge Beavis and Butt-head fan to this day. I'll admit though, at first they didn't seem so bad to me, and I was even going to start buying them myself. The store I went to was out of them. Then new waves started coming out and were starting to get a bit gross for me. That's when I decided that they actually do suck.

Pacifiers: I saw a lot of kids wearing them when I was in the eighth grade, and I thought they looked damn ridiculous. It totally made my day when the principal announced on the loudspeaker that kids are banned from wearing them in the school.

Okay so this is all I can think of for now. If there were any others, maybe they'll come back to me and I'll mention them.

gobo 12-18-2010 11:16 AM

Original He-Man. Too sexist.

Samhain 12-18-2010 04:48 PM

Yu-Gi-Oh- I wasnt really ''little'', I think I was like 12 or 13. But back in the day, it was all about Pokemon. Then, all of a sudden, everyone liked Yugioh. That is, except for me. I was the only one that stayed into Pokemon (Still am to this day). All my other friends talked about that crap nonstop and teased me for still liking it.

Other than that I cant reaally think of anything else...

RAM BAM 12-18-2010 09:05 PM

That ball with a ring around it Maybe someone can refresh my memory as to what it was called. You bounced on the hard plastic part and there was a rubber ball in the center.

pet rock pointless.

Eiko 12-18-2010 09:54 PM

Power Rangers i could not stand them.

Powder 12-18-2010 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Samhain (Post 811840)
Yu-Gi-Oh- I wasnt really ''little'', I think I was like 12 or 13. But back in the day, it was all about Pokemon. Then, all of a sudden, everyone liked Yugioh. That is, except for me. I was the only one that stayed into Pokemon (Still am to this day). All my other friends talked about that crap nonstop and teased me for still liking it.

Other than that I cant reaally think of anything else...

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Originally Posted by Eiko (Post 811894)
Power Rangers i could not stand them.

I've been spoken for. Peace.

Storm Eagle 12-18-2010 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Eiko (Post 811894)
Power Rangers. I could not stand them.

Eh, you're no fun.

As for the pacifiers I talked about, this is what they looked like.
http://leannpeterson.files.wordpress...-necklaces.jpg

Though here's another thing that I never bothered with even as a teenager, and it still goes on and I still think is ridiculous. Sagging pants.

Tomoshibi Amatsu 12-19-2010 06:36 AM

It might sound weird but I never got into Looney Tunes or the Hannah Barbera shorts. I just always found them boring. Even now I still don't really like them. I prefer stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs more.

Cure 12-19-2010 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Tomoshibi Amatsu (Post 811923)
It might sound weird but I never got into Looney Tunes or the Hannah Barbera shorts. I just always found them boring. Even now I still don't really like them. I prefer stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs more.

Those aren't fads.

Tomoshibi Amatsu 12-19-2010 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Cure (Post 811946)
Those aren't fads.

I don't know. I'd consider it a fad since it was shown so much when I was a kid, and most people my age liked that when they were kids too. But then again I could just be going by what popular cartoons I just wasn't a fan of when I was a kid. I don't know it feels like the same thing to me.

Pokemon was really the only thing I ever saw as a fad. But I guess I never really got into transformers or GIJOE. If I have to go by fads like those I mean. I wasn't trying to come off as stupid or anything in this thread. I just never considered any of that stuff fads. I just saw them as popular shows. Even TMNT I only saw it as a popular cartoon not a fad.

But hey I was just a kid then.

GK Punk 12-19-2010 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by gobo (Post 811822)
Original He-Man. Too sexist.

Wha...!? But He-Man was the coolest!

XERO 12-19-2010 10:02 PM

Furbies.

I just didn't friggin' get it.

Candy Kappa 12-19-2010 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Benvenuto (Post 811993)
Furbies.

I just didn't friggin' get it.

What?!

Furbies where awesome, waking you up late night with their evil dead eyes, screaming profanity to you. Nagging for food until you strangle it with a cord...


Yeah... Furbies was fun until you actually got one

XERO 12-19-2010 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiwamu The Kappa (Post 811994)
What?!

Furbies where awesome, waking you up late night with their evil dead eyes, screaming profanity to you. Nagging for food until you strangle it with a cord...

Sounds like where I used to live. :P

Machias Banshee 12-19-2010 10:43 PM

Furbies, Beanie Babies, Pogs and Pokemon. Guh... I never understood why people had 30,000 pogs. Furbies could be taught to be evil, Beanie babies are useless, and pokemon was the ONLY thing I sold while working at Sears in high school...

Storm Eagle 12-19-2010 11:24 PM

Since I had mentioned Garbage Pail Kids earlier, I remember when I went to orientation for the high school I was about to attend, I saw some stuck on the inside of someone's locker and I prayed to God I never got that locker. Thankfully I never did. They came out in the 80s, but I went to high school from 1993 to 1997. They were brought back in 2003 though. I used to like going into Hot Topic, but I stopped going once they started selling Garbage Pail Kids cards and other merchandise such as t-shirts.

Eiko 12-20-2010 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Storm Eagle (Post 811911)
Eh, you're no fun.

Lol just never really liked them. Plus couldn't really understand why there had to be an explosion after every fight they had.

Jester 12-20-2010 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by RAM BAM (Post 811879)
That ball with a ring around it Maybe someone can refresh my memory as to what it was called. You bounced on the hard plastic part and there was a rubber ball in the center.

Oh...the Pogo-Ball. My grandma had one for us kids when I was younger. Never could do it very well.
http://www.qfonic.com/images/product...er/image01.jpg

I was always late to the fad game. I came late to Power Rangers and then abrubtly left and gave all my PR role playing stuff (Morpher, Blade Blaster, Saba the talking sword) to some neighborhood kids. Never liked Pokemon, though I'm sure I'd like the game, the craze surrounding it was nuts. Never got into G.I. Joe, Thundercats, or He-Man, mainly because I think they were a tad before my time is all.

BubblyShell22 12-20-2010 10:23 AM

Power Rangers, Pokemon, and Furbies. I loved Beanie Babies and have a big collection of them.

gobo 12-20-2010 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by GK (Post 811976)
Wha...!? But He-Man was the coolest!

In 2002? Absolutely!! ^_^


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