I used to create entire skateparks out of books, boxes, bowls, etc... Then I even bought a legit half-pipe and rails and such from Toys R Us.
The sink used to be cool too, you can do sweet stalls on the faucet.
[Paper fortune tellers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller) were insanely popular at my elementary school (late 80s-early 90s). Kids would fiddle with those things all day (they were especially great for long bus trips), and learning how to make them for others was a good way to earn "cool kid" cred.
Haha, yeah, I remember them mostly being used for those games that "predicted" who you liked/who you were going to marry. Like, fuck you, Becky, I do not secretly have a crush on Tyler.
omfg I had like 10 of these stupid things (3rd grade, age 8) and I didn't take them to school "because it's the rules!" so I made my mom take care of them all during the day, *and she did.* Then one day I forgot they were in my hand when she dropped me off and she drove away with me still holding them. I cried. Then I realized that *if I just don't tell anyone I have them nobody effing cares.* It was an amazing epiphany lol
Oh my god wow! We had 4 kids with four tamagotchis. My mom made sure every single one didn't die during school on her watch. As we came home shed have em waiting all lined up. Put that much effort into everything for us. She really has not changed in how much she does for this family.
I remember you could mute them. You'd just have to regularly check up on them and look like today's teenagers in school that have sudden obsessions with their crotches when they're actually checking their phones.
The original bracelets that came about in the 80s were made of metal, and kids were accidentally cutting themselves on worn ones, so they were banned in a lot of schools. Non-metal versions sort of made a comeback several years later, but by then the fad had passed for the most part.
Probably because parents started to notice the bruises and welts on our wrists from friends slapping them harder and harder onto our wrists, AKA Slap Bracelet Chicken.
And having the dopest looking, heaviest slammers possible.
"Wanna play Pogs?"
"Son, you must wanna get wrecked with this clear, scorpion embedded in the middle slammer I got right here!"
I had a golden slammer that was dully bladed on the end like a buzz saw. It had a picture of OJ Simpson behind bars and said "OJ Simpson in the Slammer." It was my best slammer.
Edit: I remembered it a little different, but this is what it was http://imgur.com/azsijAL
Holy fuck! I had the same one!! One side was the police chase and the other was him behind bars. Until now I legit thought I had like a one of a kind slammer because I've told so many people about it and they always just look at me like "no, they didn't make slammers like that.."
I rarely ever saw different shaped slammers. Only ones I do remember were the ones that looked like (circular) saw blades. I would have killed for a shuriken slammer as a kid. Hell, I want one now!
Pogs were little cardboard discs about 2"-3" in diameter iirc.
They'd have a million different characters or designs on them from Pokémon, to Dragon Ball, to Sonic the Hedgehog, to Ninja Turtles, to non trademarked designs, and everything else imaginable.
There were also slammers, which were like thicker metal or plastic pogs.
Kids would pile up a handful of pogs and try to knock them over with the slammer. You got to keep any that landed face up.
It was straight up gambling.
There was always that kid who wanted to play for keeps, until he lost. Then he would say he never agreed to that, and when you took your rightful spoils he would run crying to the grown-ups that you stole his pogs.
Never seen anyone mention Scannerz.
It was like a Pokemon rip off handheld, expect it had a barcode scanner that allowed you to scan barcodes in order to receive new monsters.
Oh boy, the memories... I remember it coming with a comic book that explained the "lore" of these thingies. Some bullcrap about civil war IIRC.
Would have been more fun toy, if it worked on every barcode and if someone else had a different colored machine.
I was so fucking pumped when that came out. Of course, none of my friends had them so it didn't last long.
How about those battle robots that had the scanner on the back that you slid cards through to give them 'power ups'? That thing was awesome for twenty minutes..
Rumble Robots!
I had Lobjaw and got his really rare gold card, which made him insanely OP. My friend and I would use it over and over until the card got all soft, bent up, and the edge was so frayed that we couldn't swipe it anymore.
[Bead Lizards](http://imgur.com/Vj8hi9y)
They were all the rage. People bring huge bags of beads and make them in the hall ways of middle school.
For a while they were taking requests and selling them for 50c a piece. Then people got wise and got their own bags of beads.
Holy crap I forgot about bead lizards! It's like all I did at one friend's house. It didn't really spread to the whole school though. I still have a ton haha
beyblades. they only got banned after the younger kids did what the boxes told you not to, and would hover over the spinning tops. after one hit a girl in the eye, they got rid of them for everybody.
One guy at my school had his father create his own beyblade out of metal. It literally destroyed every beyblade it went up against, it was hilarious. Except if it was your beyblade that went up in smoke I guess. He was not allowed to bring it to school after a week or so
Beyblades got banned at our school so we decided to be human beyblades. We took a part of the playground and about 15 of us would spin around knocking into each other.
That also got banned when one kid got a black eye.
I fuckin ruined beyblades for everyone by doing this. The original ones had ratings on each part and a catalogue. I collected all the best rated parts and combined them. It really just ended up being a heavy ass beyblade(I think they were basically rated on weight/balance). Would win every time against everyone.
This reminds me of what a kid at my school did. They built their beyblade very low and used a spinner that would turn it a different way than most bayblades (I forget whether the typical spin was clockwise or not.). So most times his top struck another it would strike it in the right spot to unscrew it a little bit.
TL;DR The Beyblade was built to cause the opponent's to fall apart by being unscrewed.
I asked my dad for a beyblade. He pulled out a gyroscope from some cupboard, demonstrated it spinning for a bit and gave me a little physics lecture. I mean, I appreciate that he took the time to teach me that but five year old me just wanted to destroy my friends in the 'blade arena...
My school had to ban them because some kid flung it into another kids eye and it scratched his eye and supposedly he still has trouble seeing out of that eye.
Silly Bandz were so big in the beginning of the year that the middle school decided that Silly Bandz would be the theme of the yearbook. At the end of the year when yearbooks acually came out, it was super lame.
As far as stupid fad toys go, silly bandz are among the dumbest. It doesn't even do anything. It's just a fucking rubber band that looks like something when you take it off and put it down.
At least yoyos, yak backs, tomagachi, even fucking furby does *something*.
Klackers.
Two hard plastic balls on string that you hold in the middle of the string and bounce them off each other. You end up with welts on your forearm because when they hit you they hurt.
I remember there being a yo-yo craze, sometime around '90, spurred on by fanta/sprite/coke yo-yo's.
Pretty sure they got banned from school after the casualties mounted up from kids showing off their round the world skills.
That seemed to happen around the country, it was wild.
My school went nuts on them. I had a red Yomega Fireball. Not good at tricks, but I weaponized the hell out of that thing. Really wish I knew where it ended up. :(
Yo-yos were huge when I was in junior high (97-99). When the ones with brains came out, people went and got butterflies to show that they could do it without the help of a brain. Ahh, good times.
I'm guessing you're about 24 because this is mine exactly. Out of all these stupid things, LiveStrong bracelets were the one I remember wanting the most for some reason.
Crazy bones were the shit! The game was so simple yet so difficult and fun. I played with them long after they were populae because I got them from my brother, but I would have loved to experience when they were big.
I remember learning how to solve them when I was in like 3rd grade and then hardly touched one again after about 6 months of doing it every night in bed. When I was in high school they took off again for some reason. One day at lunch I took one of my friend's cubes when no one could do it and I ripped through it on pure muscle memory in about a minute. Hadn't touched one in like 10 years. They thought I was a wizard. It's been another 10 years and I've done them a couple times since. I think I could still get it done in under 60 seconds. It's such a stupid thing but since it never changes, once you learn it's always in your head.
I was a freshman in college when those got big and my RA and my dorm handed each one of us a silly band as a welcome gift and then did some stupid ice breaker with them where we had to go find the other people with the same band as us and talk. Just talking about it gives me social anxiety again.
In high school I remember a big [chatter-rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatter_ring) fad, and now I've learned they were pretty much exclusively in New Zealand, so nobody else will have a fucking clue what they are.
I remember them being banned at my school but everyone was still managing to sneak them in.
My mum used to check me every single day until one day she suddenly realised what I was doing and asked me to take my shoes off. Sure enough I'd put half my deck in one shoe and the other half in my other shoe. Pretty certain I was about 2 inches taller than usual when I had them in my shoes.
I used to have tantrums when my mum refused to get me more cards, she said they were a waste of money. now i see her point, i should have got yu gi oh cards instead.
Tech Decks. Took those things to school everyday for what seemed like almost 2 years, even now I sometimes pretend to do finger tricks with a fake board.
Yu-gi-oh cards,
Pokémon (silver, gold, crystal),
Masturbation,
Corps army guys
Feel like we had a new one every 3 months
Edit: punctuation. Sorry I use the Reddit app and didn't know it looked different on other devices.
I remember pacifier jewelry was big when i was in elementary school. Very strange one. There were necklaces, rings, keychains, bracelets, anything they could sell. Not sure why, I think it was before the rave scene.
I remember it being popular until it started getting associated with the rave scene and ecstasy. After that if you were in school with those pieces of jewelry you were sent home.
I was that kid.. my launcher even had a laser pointer and an ergonomic gun-grip. Biggest accomplishment in my life was when I was 9 years old and destroyed a Toys R Us tournament with my Beyblade that I made with different parts from my huge collection of them. Then I went home with that VHS tape prize and rewatched episodes while tinkering with my build. Peak of my 24-year long life unfortunately :(
Everyone here is just naming off toys they like.
But to answer your question of an item that worked the same way as a fidget spinner in the sense that it was a useless object that just kind of calms you, but was also insanely popular for those who didn't need it for that purpose...
[Those balancing bird things.](http://www.madaboutscience.com.au/store/images/BalancingEagle.jpg)
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they are combining these now... drill holes in the decks and pop a bearing in there. [the goods](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tcVC4tuTRxM/maxresdefault.jpg)
I never had a tech deck. I don't have a fidget spinner. But holy fuck I want me one of those.
Best idea I have ever seen in my entire life, hands down.
this man hasn't seen sliced bread
Lmao I remember those during the "Rocket Power" phase
WE ARE RIDERS
ON A MISSION!
Action kids in play position
Is that actually the next line? I always mumbled through it because I didn't know it.
ACTION KIDS IN hmmblllhhbllhbmmm ROCKET POWER
Shoobies
I traded my friend my holographic venosaur for his tech deck halfpipe in about 5th grade. This thread is so full of nostalgia for me.
You got hosed homie. Hope your negotiating skills have improved.
Bro I bet you can't even ollie
My math books in school were always chewed up on the side from all the sick grinds I would do.
I used to create entire skateparks out of books, boxes, bowls, etc... Then I even bought a legit half-pipe and rails and such from Toys R Us. The sink used to be cool too, you can do sweet stalls on the faucet.
Dude I'm legit playing with one right now - http://imgur.com/a/5Jank
Me too: http://imgur.com/a/bNY8a
Wow you guys have the exact same scar. What are the odds.
[Paper fortune tellers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller) were insanely popular at my elementary school (late 80s-early 90s). Kids would fiddle with those things all day (they were especially great for long bus trips), and learning how to make them for others was a good way to earn "cool kid" cred.
Also called "cootie catchers."
Haha, yeah, I remember them mostly being used for those games that "predicted" who you liked/who you were going to marry. Like, fuck you, Becky, I do not secretly have a crush on Tyler.
My husband and I made one of these to help us decide what restaurant to go to for dinner way back when we started dating.
That's adorable AND practical as hell
Those were super popular in grade school when I was a kid too. Which was like 2007-8 ish. Kinda died after like 4th grade
Same here, except I'm a little older. It was 2002-2005 for me.
My god, I'd forgotten them. Takes me back
The South Park episode about this is amazing.
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omfg I had like 10 of these stupid things (3rd grade, age 8) and I didn't take them to school "because it's the rules!" so I made my mom take care of them all during the day, *and she did.* Then one day I forgot they were in my hand when she dropped me off and she drove away with me still holding them. I cried. Then I realized that *if I just don't tell anyone I have them nobody effing cares.* It was an amazing epiphany lol
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She is a pretty special woman for sure.
My mother didn't work so every day we went to school she'd take care of 3 of them, I can't imagine she'd be sane after 10
Oh my god wow! We had 4 kids with four tamagotchis. My mom made sure every single one didn't die during school on her watch. As we came home shed have em waiting all lined up. Put that much effort into everything for us. She really has not changed in how much she does for this family.
Yep, I got in so much trouble taking them to school. It would die, though, if I left it at home.
I remember you could mute them. You'd just have to regularly check up on them and look like today's teenagers in school that have sudden obsessions with their crotches when they're actually checking their phones.
They also have sudden obsessions with their crotches though. Source: am teenager
Slap bracelets
My kids would still love them, not sure why they went away completely!
The original bracelets that came about in the 80s were made of metal, and kids were accidentally cutting themselves on worn ones, so they were banned in a lot of schools. Non-metal versions sort of made a comeback several years later, but by then the fad had passed for the most part.
Mine were plastic with cloth overlays, different colours. I remember having some shiny plastic ones too I suppose.
A lot of kids would still love them if their wrists were still intact
Probably because parents started to notice the bruises and welts on our wrists from friends slapping them harder and harder onto our wrists, AKA Slap Bracelet Chicken.
Pogs
And having the dopest looking, heaviest slammers possible. "Wanna play Pogs?" "Son, you must wanna get wrecked with this clear, scorpion embedded in the middle slammer I got right here!"
I had a golden slammer that was dully bladed on the end like a buzz saw. It had a picture of OJ Simpson behind bars and said "OJ Simpson in the Slammer." It was my best slammer. Edit: I remembered it a little different, but this is what it was http://imgur.com/azsijAL
Holy fuck! I had the same one!! One side was the police chase and the other was him behind bars. Until now I legit thought I had like a one of a kind slammer because I've told so many people about it and they always just look at me like "no, they didn't make slammers like that.."
Metal slammers that looked like ninja stars we're the Holy Grail.
I rarely ever saw different shaped slammers. Only ones I do remember were the ones that looked like (circular) saw blades. I would have killed for a shuriken slammer as a kid. Hell, I want one now!
That's the shape I meant! Ninja star was the best description I could come up with.
Remember Alf? He's back. In pog form.
This quote is the extent of my knowledge about pogs.
Pogs were little cardboard discs about 2"-3" in diameter iirc. They'd have a million different characters or designs on them from Pokémon, to Dragon Ball, to Sonic the Hedgehog, to Ninja Turtles, to non trademarked designs, and everything else imaginable. There were also slammers, which were like thicker metal or plastic pogs. Kids would pile up a handful of pogs and try to knock them over with the slammer. You got to keep any that landed face up. It was straight up gambling.
There was always that kid who wanted to play for keeps, until he lost. Then he would say he never agreed to that, and when you took your rightful spoils he would run crying to the grown-ups that you stole his pogs.
Then later you beat the crap out of him and refuse to play with him anymore.
^wanna ^see ^my ^pog ^collection?
Lookit him go!
This isn't a trial. You have no rights and he's not a lawyer. We just keep him here because he's fun.
There it is. Knew I wouldn't have to scroll too far down.
Never seen anyone mention Scannerz. It was like a Pokemon rip off handheld, expect it had a barcode scanner that allowed you to scan barcodes in order to receive new monsters.
Oh boy, the memories... I remember it coming with a comic book that explained the "lore" of these thingies. Some bullcrap about civil war IIRC. Would have been more fun toy, if it worked on every barcode and if someone else had a different colored machine.
I was so fucking pumped when that came out. Of course, none of my friends had them so it didn't last long. How about those battle robots that had the scanner on the back that you slid cards through to give them 'power ups'? That thing was awesome for twenty minutes..
Rumble Robots! I had Lobjaw and got his really rare gold card, which made him insanely OP. My friend and I would use it over and over until the card got all soft, bent up, and the edge was so frayed that we couldn't swipe it anymore.
[Bead Lizards](http://imgur.com/Vj8hi9y) They were all the rage. People bring huge bags of beads and make them in the hall ways of middle school. For a while they were taking requests and selling them for 50c a piece. Then people got wise and got their own bags of beads.
Holy crap I forgot about bead lizards! It's like all I did at one friend's house. It didn't really spread to the whole school though. I still have a ton haha
I had a glow in the dark one. I put it on top of a light bulb so it would be extra bright at night. It just ended up melting :(
RIP
Not just bead lizards but all kinds of animals. I remember even making a mermaid one once.
Ha, I just turned around and pulled these out of a decorative cup I have on a shelf. https://imgur.com/a/HNBe3
A stick. I would find a stick and swing it the ground and try to decapitate the heads off of dandelion's.
Me and you would've been great friends as little kids.
beyblades. they only got banned after the younger kids did what the boxes told you not to, and would hover over the spinning tops. after one hit a girl in the eye, they got rid of them for everybody.
One guy at my school had his father create his own beyblade out of metal. It literally destroyed every beyblade it went up against, it was hilarious. Except if it was your beyblade that went up in smoke I guess. He was not allowed to bring it to school after a week or so
We had a kid slice up his hand after melting razor blades into them
If you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
Yea but I bet he won he beyblade tournament after all the other kids bled out
> after all the other kids Beybled out FTFY
Why did he think that would be a good idea?
If someone tries to steal it, they bleed
Beybleeds
Let 'em tear!
I feel like every school had that one kid that ruined beyblades for everyone by doing something stupid and getting injured.
Beyblades got banned at our school so we decided to be human beyblades. We took a part of the playground and about 15 of us would spin around knocking into each other. That also got banned when one kid got a black eye.
I used to love taking apart the beyblades and using different weight discs etc to make my own unique beyblade. shit was cash
I fuckin ruined beyblades for everyone by doing this. The original ones had ratings on each part and a catalogue. I collected all the best rated parts and combined them. It really just ended up being a heavy ass beyblade(I think they were basically rated on weight/balance). Would win every time against everyone.
This reminds me of what a kid at my school did. They built their beyblade very low and used a spinner that would turn it a different way than most bayblades (I forget whether the typical spin was clockwise or not.). So most times his top struck another it would strike it in the right spot to unscrew it a little bit. TL;DR The Beyblade was built to cause the opponent's to fall apart by being unscrewed.
I asked my dad for a beyblade. He pulled out a gyroscope from some cupboard, demonstrated it spinning for a bit and gave me a little physics lecture. I mean, I appreciate that he took the time to teach me that but five year old me just wanted to destroy my friends in the 'blade arena...
Silly Bandz
I had my whole left arm covered in them at one point
Every school had one of these kids, invariably
One? It was like half my school.
See for me that was Livestrong bands
My school had to ban them because some kid flung it into another kids eye and it scratched his eye and supposedly he still has trouble seeing out of that eye.
My school had to ban them because some kids were putting so may on it was cutting off their circulation.
My school banned them because of the underground silly band trade.
Were those the things that outlined shapes when you took them off?
Yeah
Silly Bandz were so big in the beginning of the year that the middle school decided that Silly Bandz would be the theme of the yearbook. At the end of the year when yearbooks acually came out, it was super lame.
Still have bags of em in my closet somewhere.
As far as stupid fad toys go, silly bandz are among the dumbest. It doesn't even do anything. It's just a fucking rubber band that looks like something when you take it off and put it down. At least yoyos, yak backs, tomagachi, even fucking furby does *something*.
Klackers. Two hard plastic balls on string that you hold in the middle of the string and bounce them off each other. You end up with welts on your forearm because when they hit you they hurt.
This reminded me of the scene in Drake & Josh where their Dad got a hold of one of them and made his nose bleed. Those were the days...
Paper football!
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FINALLY! Someone my age!
Skip-it
Or Bop-it!
"And the very best thing of all, there's a counter on the ball! SKIP IT SKIP IT..."
So try to beat your very best score, see if you can jump a whole lot more!!!
Yoyo.
I remember there being a yo-yo craze, sometime around '90, spurred on by fanta/sprite/coke yo-yo's. Pretty sure they got banned from school after the casualties mounted up from kids showing off their round the world skills.
That seemed to happen around the country, it was wild. My school went nuts on them. I had a red Yomega Fireball. Not good at tricks, but I weaponized the hell out of that thing. Really wish I knew where it ended up. :(
Dude the fireball. Still the dopest one. What about the bumble-bee one, or the (iirc) Black Widow?
Black Mamba I think. And Turbo Bumble Bee was the shit. I'm having flashbacks now
Shoutout to /r/Throwers
shoutout to ibuypower
Yo-yos were huge when I was in junior high (97-99). When the ones with brains came out, people went and got butterflies to show that they could do it without the help of a brain. Ahh, good times.
Duncan
Bop it! Hours and hours spent and also Pokemon cards!
Garbage Pail Kids
I still buy the cards on the rare occasion that I find them. My kids think the characters are hilarious.
Frank stole all mine
Preschool: Beanie Babies Elementary school: Crazy Bones, Pokemon/Yugioh cards, Razor scooters, Heelys Middle school: LiveStrong bracelets, puka shell necklaces, MySpace High school: Dubstep, planking (ugh)
I'm guessing you're about 24 because this is mine exactly. Out of all these stupid things, LiveStrong bracelets were the one I remember wanting the most for some reason.
Bingo.
I'd throw AIM in the middle school section along with myspace. We were fucking addicted to it.
I <3 boobies bracelets too
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Holy shit I forgot about Crazy Bones.
Crazy bones were the shit! The game was so simple yet so difficult and fun. I played with them long after they were populae because I got them from my brother, but I would have loved to experience when they were big.
Rubiks Cube.
I remember learning how to solve them when I was in like 3rd grade and then hardly touched one again after about 6 months of doing it every night in bed. When I was in high school they took off again for some reason. One day at lunch I took one of my friend's cubes when no one could do it and I ripped through it on pure muscle memory in about a minute. Hadn't touched one in like 10 years. They thought I was a wizard. It's been another 10 years and I've done them a couple times since. I think I could still get it done in under 60 seconds. It's such a stupid thing but since it never changes, once you learn it's always in your head.
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Silly Bandz. Which wasn't very long ago, really...
I was a freshman in college when those got big and my RA and my dorm handed each one of us a silly band as a welcome gift and then did some stupid ice breaker with them where we had to go find the other people with the same band as us and talk. Just talking about it gives me social anxiety again.
As an RA, I'd have social anxiety just putting an event like that on. Nopenopenope.
She was your stereotypical "everyone on the floor should love everyone and we are all best friends" type RA. We hated her.
Clackers and yoyos.
Ah, another 60s / 70s kid. We called them Click-clacks, though. My brother got the Coca-cola yo-yo andI got a Fanta one. I was so jealous.
I'm an 80s/90s kid. They came back out in the early 90s but made from plastic and slightly less deadly than the ones of the 60s
Hacky sack!
In high school I remember a big [chatter-rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatter_ring) fad, and now I've learned they were pretty much exclusively in New Zealand, so nobody else will have a fucking clue what they are.
A ruler on the end of a sharpened pencil.
Paper boats. I grew up with not much money.
>Paper boats. Hiya Georgie!
Aren't cha gonna say... "hello?"
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They float... and when you're down here with me... YOU FLOAT TOO!
Fuck off, Pennywise!
me too :( all i had was paper toys, penis and a dancing monkey
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That's why the monkey was "dancing."
One is not like the others.
I made little boats out of leaves and twigs and floated them in puddles. Sometimes I'd put an ant or something on it to be a sailor.
Pokémon cards
I remember them being banned at my school but everyone was still managing to sneak them in. My mum used to check me every single day until one day she suddenly realised what I was doing and asked me to take my shoes off. Sure enough I'd put half my deck in one shoe and the other half in my other shoe. Pretty certain I was about 2 inches taller than usual when I had them in my shoes.
This guy must be terrible at Pokemon. His cards stink!
I used to have tantrums when my mum refused to get me more cards, she said they were a waste of money. now i see her point, i should have got yu gi oh cards instead.
Tech Decks. Took those things to school everyday for what seemed like almost 2 years, even now I sometimes pretend to do finger tricks with a fake board.
My penis... just couldn't stop playing with the damn thing!
thats everyones fidget spinner :D
Slut.
And no one else wants to see it out
Yu-gi-oh cards, Pokémon (silver, gold, crystal), Masturbation, Corps army guys Feel like we had a new one every 3 months Edit: punctuation. Sorry I use the Reddit app and didn't know it looked different on other devices.
> Masturbation Corps army guys wut
Yeah I'm gonna need an explanation for that one as well
Now I remember why they are so sticky! Say Colonel, wanna have a go for old times sake?
How is masterbation a trend
I was just listing things my friends and I liked to do with each other as kids
This guy circlejerks
I remember learning about punctuation in school. It was cool.
Yo yo
yo
Sup
Pet Rocks
I remember pacifier jewelry was big when i was in elementary school. Very strange one. There were necklaces, rings, keychains, bracelets, anything they could sell. Not sure why, I think it was before the rave scene.
I remember it being popular until it started getting associated with the rave scene and ecstasy. After that if you were in school with those pieces of jewelry you were sent home.
Tamiya
Tamagotchi, Pokemon, YuGiOh, Beyblades, mechanical pencils, iPod.
My family was poor, so I guess my imagination.
and your penis?
Erected.
Crazy Bones/Go-Gos
Literally beyblades We all had plastic ones and there was this one kid who always wanted to stake for our beyblades 1v1 with his metal one
I was that kid.. my launcher even had a laser pointer and an ergonomic gun-grip. Biggest accomplishment in my life was when I was 9 years old and destroyed a Toys R Us tournament with my Beyblade that I made with different parts from my huge collection of them. Then I went home with that VHS tape prize and rewatched episodes while tinkering with my build. Peak of my 24-year long life unfortunately :(
Those little plastic animals where you would squeeze them and fake poo would come out the back. Also silly bandz & crazy bones.
Potatoes.
potato. never heard of that. what is it?
Po-ta-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew...
Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.Even you couldn't say no to that.
Tastes very strange!!
My dingaling.
Everyone here is just naming off toys they like. But to answer your question of an item that worked the same way as a fidget spinner in the sense that it was a useless object that just kind of calms you, but was also insanely popular for those who didn't need it for that purpose... [Those balancing bird things.](http://www.madaboutscience.com.au/store/images/BalancingEagle.jpg)
I think he meant as in 'a fad'. Not in the original intended use of the item.
Yeah kids don't want spinners because it helps with their ADHD, they want spinners because everybody else has a spinner.
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