Comparing fads with others [including tmnt]

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So a while ago someone was trying to argue that the Power Rangers fad was bigger than the Pokemon fad, that of course is wrong as Pokemon was much bigger than PRs ever was. Of course it was a PR forum and in the end he was never convinced and assumed I was crazy for even mentioning it

Anyways during the argument I mentioned that TMNT vs PRs was a more debatable topic on which fad was bigger than Pokemon. So what do you guys think? I was born in the late 80s but I still remember the TMNT fad very well and it being everywhere even if I may have been too young to catch the peak of the fad. But with what I remember I think the PR fad was bigger than TMNT however the TMNT lasted much longer as a fad than PRs did. Can't remember any other huge fads in the 90s besides TMNT/PR/PKMN.

So ummm..what about other fads? Yu-Gi-Oh seemed pretty big after the Pokemon fad died down but I don't think it ever reached the level the PKMN fad did. YGO came out as I stopped being a kid though so its harder for me to know DBZ was pretty popular but I don't think it quite reached fad level status. Naruto/Ben10 both seem very popular at least awhile ago but since I'm not a kid I'm not sure how big they really got. Don't know of any other things in the 00's that were huge fads though me not being a kid likely has a factor in that.

Now I'm definitely not familiar with how big some stuff was in the 80s, I know Transformers/He-Man were pretty big but I don't think I'd be able to measure how big they were though for some reason I don't think they ever got as big as TMNT did. Theres others like Thundercats/Voltron but I don't think they were as big as Transformers/He-Man.

Now I'm not counting fads like say tamagotchi/furby's/videogames etc but more show oriented fads that tend to last longer. So yeah I'm wondering what other opinions may be, I'm guessing most members here are more familiar with the 80s stuff and it may be hard but try not to be biased, if you weren't a kid or didn't like a fad doesn't mean it wasn't big(ger).

Edit:Oh and I'm talking during the peak of the fads not necessarily length, Power Rangers has been on the air since it came out but the fad clearly ended around season 3.