All the rage

TeddyTedson

from Steroids, fuarrrkkkk.
Not really.

When you were young do you remember things used to become all the rage for a while before leaving just as fast as they came. But for few months they were in, everyone became obsessed.

For example it was yo-yos at one stage.
Companies like Coca Cola had ever kid in the country back to basics with yo-yos. I even remember a yo-yo man coming to our school and doing things with his on stage.
Another time it was all about tamagotchies. The little feckers were some work.
Pogs - how can you leave out pogs.
Then I remember one year every kid wanted a tele tubby doll for Christmas. Parents were freaking out because little Johnny wasn't going to have his doll in time for Christmas.

There were so many throughout the various decades. But has it stopped now. I never really hear of things taking over in the same way. It might be a good time for something like yo-yos to take over again seeing as everyone is broke and can't afford to buy expensive toys for their kids.

What else do people remember being really big as a kid.

This should be a bit of pun

El_Dangeroso

Don't push me! Push a push-pop!

Also a weird craze for eating Vicks cough drops. And xworx jeans. And fancy paper. Fancy paper was a weird one.

Pushtrak

Thought this was going to be an Argh, fury, rage thread.

Thread disappoints.

Sunnyisland

Playing piggy :-)

stovelid

They were called Spinners, not common yo-yos actually.

blacklilly

Totally forgot about the yo yo craze until you mentioned it! I also remember our school getting box loads of cheese strings for promotion

hondasam

TeddyTedson wrote: »

. But has it stopped now. I never really hear of things taking over in the same way.

I phone is all the rage.

Fight_Night

Pokemon
Yu-Gi-OH
Beyblades.

Pokemon in particular though.

Oh and Pogs. Never quite got them.

Fight_Night

And Tamagotchis. Jaysus they were stupid.

TeddyTedson

hondasam wrote: »

I phone is all the rage.

Tell me about it:(

Onwards and upwards though, I have a new Samsung S3:D

gobnaitolunacy

Cabbage Patch Kids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers (the only thing thats come back from the dead, sort of)
Moving statues, one of the weirdest crazes....none of them move now, unless they're made of non-ferrous metal...

BUBBLE WRAP

Prank calls like...

I want a manta hug and kiss.

dirtyden

When I was a chap a different item was the in thing every christmas, BMX bikes one year, then skateboards then rollerblades the commodore 64 another year.


Parka jackets were cool for about 2 years, and also padded check shirts.

Mr Magners

Joe Bloggs Jeans and L.A. Gear runners

TeddyTedson

What was the football on a dog leash thing I used to always see on TV. It was supposed to get you better at doing volleys :D

leggo

Wearing an onion on your belt, which was the style at the time.

dr.bollocko

Philately grabbed me for a brief while.

Had to get that Stanley Gibbons monkey off my back. Then my stamp book had entire pages full of Hungarian stamps and SFA else. Apart from that cool zig and zag one.

So I packed it in and started drinking heavily instead.

Fúck you stamps.

BUBBLE WRAP

Does anyone remember, Putting a coke can in the spokes of your bike to make it sound like a motorbike? I thought I was the cats pjs with my motorbike sound effect. :cool:

starviewadams

TeddyTedson wrote: »

from Steroids, fuarrrkkkk.
Not really.

When you were young do you remember things used to become all the rage for a while before leaving just as fast as they came. But for few months they were in, everyone became obsessed.

For example it was yo-yos at one stage.
Companies like Coca Cola had ever kid in the country back to basics with yo-yos. I even remember a yo-yo man coming to our school and doing things with his on stage.
Another time it was all about tamagotchies. The little feckers were some work.
Pogs - how can you leave out pogs.
Then I remember one year every kid wanted a tele tubby doll for Christmas. Parents were freaking out because little Johnny wasn't going to have his doll in time for Christmas.

There were so many throughout the various decades. But has it stopped now. I never really hear of things taking over in the same way. It might be a good time for something like yo-yos to take over again seeing as everyone is broke and can't afford to buy expensive toys for their kids.

What else do people remember being really big as a kid.

This should be a bit of pun

Christian Bros school?!

gobnaitolunacy

White Guinness (think it was Breo or something)
Guinness Light
Blue Nun

Rothko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0YkXmebAGM

Tombi!

Suas11 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0YkXmebAGM

Trini and Kimberly, they jump started my puberty

Ghandee

These yokes.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4056/4210572421_905250d997_z.jpg

These yokes too.

Tommy Dillon

anyone remember playing marbles with monster in my pocket?

and of course marbles....

the coca cola bugs also, spent a summer collecting labels for them

Tombi!

Art Attack was another one.

The yoyos were something like: collect X amount of labels from cola bottles (or skittle packs) and get a free one.

gobnaitolunacy

The yoke to make briquettes out of squished up wet newspapers.

Ghandee

Tommy Dillon wrote: »

anyone remember playing marbles with monster in my pocket?

and of course marbles....

the coca cola bugs also, spent a summer collecting labels for them

GAAman

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Philately grabbed me for a brief while.

Had to get that Stanley Gibbons monkey off my back. Then my stamp book had entire pages full of Hungarian stamps and SFA else. Apart from that cool zig and zag one.

So I packed it in and started drinking heavily instead.

Fúck you stamps.

Is that your way of saying you have a tramp stamp doc?

Muckit

doc martins. The more holes the better.... and padded lumberjack shirts wore as a jacket :rolleyes:

crew cuts.... and 'the step' ..... you know like someone shoved a pot on your head and cut around it.... cringe central

1ZRed

Furbys.

Never got the appeal of the little hairy ****ers myself though!

Damokc

Crash test dummies were a must have one Christmas. I didnt get em though so I just broke what figures I had so their hands and legs would fall off!

Paddy Cow

Collecting call cards. Myself and my friend used to do the rounds of the phone boxes after school

Tommy Dillon

Ghandee wrote: »

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NIMAN

Those dog leads that made it look like you were walking an invisible dog.

Funny for a couple of minutes at most.

TeddyTedson

Anyone remember these little guys

bluecherry74

Fluorescent shoelaces.

Jeans with a zip at the ankle.

Care bear sticker albums!

Super-Rush

Naff jackets, the reflectors for your bike out of cornflakes boxes and butter vouchers.

captainjack

Kick-bags had their day

Fecky the Ninth

Hula hoops - http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs7/3408523_o.gif

Clackers - http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_572/1294394567gFjqCO.jpg

And Monkey boots - http://www.modshoes.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/mod-shoes-monkey-boots/monkey-boots-mod-shoes.jpg

All the rage back in the day.

TeddyTedson

Ghandee wrote: »

These yokes.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4056/4210572421_905250d997_z.jpg

These yokes too.

Jesus yea. I remember some of my brothers and sisters bikes being covered with them.

And one of those bouncy things in the garden too.
Also stilts, that I recently used for more leverage when taking my punctured tire off my car.

Those plastic hoop things too!

NIMAN

Top Trump cards.

krudler

Furbys, they're coming back though they updated them , be out this christmas

These things, the more you had the cooler you were. They came in loads of sizes. I only had a few

Chuck Stone

Running the rim of old bicycle wheel with a stick.

Some buzz.

BattleCorp

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Anyone remember these little guys

A lad I know has a wife who looks like that :eek:

Birroc

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I even remember a yo-yo man coming to our school and doing things with his on stage.

Really...interesting...was it a priest?

Skiup

The slinky

Hours of fun on the stairs

cocoshovel

I remember people sniffing sherbert in primary school because they thought they were deadly. F*cking morons.

Eve_Dublin

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Don't push me! Push a push-pop!

Also a weird craze for eating Vicks cough drops. And xworx jeans. And fancy paper. Fancy paper was a weird one.

Ahahahaha....how in the love of jaysus did you remember that?? I did that! Mmmm.

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Does anyone remember, Putting a coke can in the spokes of your bike to make it sound like a motorbike? I thought I was the cats pjs with my motorbike sound effect. :cool:

Nope.


Marbles in a bumbag.

Bits of gravel stuck in cuts in your knees.

Luminous stuff.

Bermuda shorts.

Fido Dido.

Soap on a rope.

Hand-me-downs.

Ordering chips in the chipper and running away.

Chomps.

Trobolgan.

Eve_Dublin

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Chomps.
.

Smiley bars!

Paparazzo

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Fido Dido

He was a prick