What were your fads growing up?

[MorganL4]

So, I just made my response to this thread: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.390647-Am-I-the-only-one-thats-getting-tired-of-Fads-Teenage-Girls-like-get-ripped-on-all-the-time#15704267

and in it I stated that my fads that I partook of were Pokemon N'Sync and Yu Gi Oh, but then I remembered I'd forgot that Bennie Babies was technically first.

So Escapist, I put the question to you: What fads did you fall prey to in your youth..... And have you continued on with any of them up to now?

For me, I can not honestly think of any fad that I have continued on with till today.... I guess zombies are a bit of a fad right now but I liked zombies before Shaun of the Dead came out... So HA!

Shortly before I was born Video Games were supposed to be a fad.... Look how that turned out.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Jacks, Pogs, Yoyo's, Pokemon Cards and Tamagotchi's are the first ones to come to mind!

There was also one after Ali G came out where you did that clicking thing with your finger... I was never really into fads, unless they interested me... if they didn't I would just take the abuse of not having whatever it was that I aparently shoud have!

Oh, and I had a portable CD player all the way through to when I got my first ipod in 2008! And I never owned a bag with only one strap! And I never made/wore a friendship bracelet! And I never had one of those finger skateboards!

 

[Eleuthera]

Yoyo's were a fad for a while, as where marbles (but that might have been local instead of national). Besides those two? I don't really recall.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Yoyo's were a fad for a while, as where marbles (but that might have been local instead of national). Besides those two? I don't really recall.

Haha! Nope... we had both of those too! The Yoyos with the bearings that you could do tricks with!

Not only national... they were international fads!

 

[Eleuthera]

Haha! Nope... we had both of those too! The Yoyos with the bearings that you could do tricks with!

Not only national... they were international fads!

Except that my youth and yours were some 10 years apart , so maybe the fads just repeated at different times and in different locations.

EDIT: just thought of one more, BMX bikes when I was 6-8 years old

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur...

According to my parents, a lot of their clothes from when they were teens came back in the late 90's early 2000s.

YoYos were popular for like a year...

Pokemon exploded when I was in grade school in the late 90s... I mean holy fuck did it take off in the States.

Gangster rap was huge, (sex, drugs, gangstas wit guns yo!) now its sort of posse'

Tamagotchi' was really big too, they were banned in my school.

Oh laser pointers too... we were shining them at each other in class.

Ska was pretty popular too. Think of Punk meets Polka.

There is much much more, but I can't think of it all.
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And yet all I seemed to snag myself into was pokemon... damn I miss pokemon stadium.
I wanted a laser pointer, but by then you needed to be 18 and my parents wouldn't buy it for me.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Except that my youth and yours were some 10 years apart , so maybe the fads just repeated at different times and in different locations.

Ooh! Good point! So 90's West of England was 80's Netherlands! :/

 

[Scarim Coral]

Quite a few-

POG/ Tazos
Yoyo
Tanigotchi/ Digital pet
Pokemon
Those platic charity wrist bands stuff (however I never able to get hold of the official bands)

 

[MammothBlade]

POKEMON TRADING CARDS

They were practically the only fad that really interested me... and now I'm not into them anymore. I still play pokemon, but the days of getting trading cards are long gone.

 

[Hazy992]

Pokemon cards, Yu-Gi-Oh cards and Beyblades from the top of my head. Maybe things like Yo-Yos and Super Soakers and stuff.

Oh and micro scooters

 

[Rawne1980]

Boglins.

I had an army of mini Boglins and 3 big ones.

I loved my Boglins when I was a lad.

 

[Fappy]

I'll bold those that I actually followed: Pokemon, Pogs, Crazy Bones, Beanie Babies, Razor Scooters, Skateboarding (this was at the height of Tony Hawk's popularity), Dragon Ball Z, Wristbands, Boy Bands, etc. Long list to say the least.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Pokemon, everything about it, and I still play the games these days.
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I liked Beanie Babies and of course...

 

[Fappy]

Pokemon, everything about it, and I still play the games these days.
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I liked Beanie Babies and of course...

How could I forget about those foul beasts!?

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Pokemon, everything about it, and I still play the games these days.
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I liked Beanie Babies and of course...

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How could I forget about those foul beasts!?

You must have repressed the memory because of the trauma they caused.
My mother managed to get one at the height of the shopping season, when people were fist fighting over them.
To this day, I don't know how she accomplished it.

 

[Fappy]

Pokemon, everything about it, and I still play the games these days.
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I liked Beanie Babies and of course...

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How could I forget about those foul beasts!?

You must have repressed the memory because of the trauma they caused.
My mother managed to get one at the height of the shopping season, when people were fist fighting over them.
To this day, I don't know how she accomplished it.

Your mother may be wanted in Maine for first degree murder. Just saiyan!

But yeah, those things were fucking possessed. One freaked out on us once and my sister and I had to put it out of its misery with blunt force trauma.

 

[Friendly Lich]

Yu-gi-oh, Dragonball Z, Pokemon games and cards, Beyblades, Razor Scooters, Skateboards, Pogs, Tech Decks with the little thumbs that skateboard, Toonami, adult swim, Beanie Babies, Furbies, and a good economy.

 

[BlackStar42]

Yugioh cards, Beyblades and Tamagotchi. Fun times

 

[MetaKnight19]

Pokemon cards, Pogs, yo-yos, fingerboards and scooters. Scooters are really making a comeback round where I live, it's not uncommon to see gangs of around 5 teenagers scoot their way to Tesco...