Recreation Fads

is this thread even in the right place?...hmm

okay, my question is have you been in any of the fads in the past, or even the present. you know like pogs, Pokemon Cards, those Furby things, Tomagotchies, etc.

sadly, i've been in too many fads that it hurts me today knowing how much money i've spent on them and how badly i need the money today *cries* i got trapped into Pokemon Cards(i was in gr. 5!), furbies, tamagotchies, Pogs, yoyo's, and that's all i can think of right now, but there was probably more *cries again*

 

Does it count as being into a fad if the only reason I bought Pokémon cards was to resell them? *LOL* Made some nice money off it when a foil Charizard was $60, too.

Although actually, I did (and still do, sometimes) play the Pokémon GBC games. What can I say... they're not half bad, for what they are.

But here's a thought: anime is becoming quite popular now. Does this mean that we're ALL currently into a silly fad? *shudders at the thought* XD

 

2 words....Yugioh Cards... ><;;

 

Pokemon Cards, Tomagochi thingies (i spent over $60 on that ****), jelly roll pens ($5!!! damn!) and along with those stupid cabbage patch dolls

 

*LOL* Yeah, I had a few jelly roll pens myself, for doodling and whatnot - but I was in highschool at the time, and told my dad they were "school supplies" so I could seperate my notes by color. XD Sucker.

 

Those pens were a fad for all of three days. I picked up and dropped both Pokemon and YuGiOh TCG. So far, only MtG still has a pull on my spendings.

 

What about D&D? i mean the players are so.. creepy!

 

Why, thank you. ~_^ I'll take that as a compliment.

I'm not sure if I'd call D&D a fad, though - or MTG. Normally, a fad blows over within a few years... and D&D's been going strong since, what, the sixties?

 

Don't make me cast magic missile at the darkness!

I've been caught up in a few fads in the past. I loved playing the Pokemon TCG, I had a psychic/rock deck with at least 25 foil cards in it! The games are still great also, I'm replaying Pokemon Blue right now ^^;

What ticked me off, though, was whenever my friends and I played Star Wars CCG in the caf we would get stupid punks who came up to us and yelled "Look at them!! playing Pokemon cards!!" I guess Jabba the Hutt looked like Pikachu to them...

I can't say I was part of the Dragonball fad either, because I was a huge DB fan even before everyone started getting into it. When I was younger I was always made fun of by people at school because I watched DBZ.. and then a couple years later they were all screaming fanboys and fangirls for it.

 

Ah, true, I'm a DnD junkie too. Woot, I'm creepy! *cheer*

Well, the thing is, with a fad, the whole thing rarely actually blows over. The levels of interest are the things that fluctuate. Even though the thing may still be going strong, it might have been a lot stronger before than it is now, and so on.

The Pokemon games are great, don't get me wrong. The games held a great concept, if you put aside all the over-hyping and the merchandise and everything else - the things that made Pokemon 'hated'.

 

Before TCG's were so vast and popular...... normal collectible cards ruled! My brother and I and his friends bought baseball, basketball, football, and Marvel Comics cards! I wasn't even that serious in collecting--it simply just rubbed off from my brother. Hopefully all those cards are still in that dusty old box at the back of our house.

And yeah, pogs were a pretty mean craze too. I was in 4th or 5th grade when a teacher in Hawaii was credited with bringing back the craze (from when he was a kid growing up in Hawaii), and soon it turned into a big business. It was funny how at first, pogs were really hard to get. So my brother and I made our own! (out of junk sports cards) And we kept em in used Stridex-pad-containers! It was only half a year later that I got my first real pog (from Starmarket), then in about the second half of 5th grade I won a pog-design contest in my class, and received about a dozen pogs there (although they all had the same design).

How about mini-scooters? My brother and I each bought one as soon as they showed up at Sears, and they were the $100 Huffy Micro kind. Did you know that they originated in Japan as fashion statements? I loved riding mine in the long aisles between bookshelves, on empty floors in the library. Cuz the floor is so smooth!

 

I can't remember bing into any fads becides pogs, which I really loved. I was kinda into pokemon cards for a while, but mostly my sister was so I could just uuhh...."borrow" hers :sweat2:

 

nah, yo-yos beat all these hands down!
i was caught up in that fad for a couple o years :sad:
i could do heaps of tricks and all that...

*hangs head in shame*

 

What about crazy bones? and beanie babies?
I have over 150 beanie babies along with a bunch of books on collecting them too! thats over 500 dollars down the drain, along with that there were crazy bones, they were lil pieces of plastic and they always broke apart. Sadly toy makers know how to waste our money

 

yea...we WERE happy...though remembering all the money i spent and could have saved instead would have made me a lot happier than i am now *cries*

i just remembered another thing....does Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys count as a fad? i remember going all crazy about them and collecting those fake spice girls pictures and those cheap rings and gum. geez, i'm too easy to manipulate...

 

Haha, yes I guess you are. New question, what fad are you into now? I am into...
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All your Base
Runescape.

 

ugh, i remember runescape. i used to play that game. it's fun at first for a while but then it just bores me. it's unfair *shakes fist* and for your new question texhnolyze naruto, i asked that from the start. i said to list the fads you've been into now and then.

 

Go. Impudent![/Kosh]

Anyway D&D is not exactly a fad given that it's survived for over 25 years now and still has a strong following. Now POGS! There was a fad you could enjoy. I remember when I first got my own pogs! Now we had seen pogs at school a fair bit in those days, though we still added "Milkcap" at the end of their name, as was the style at the time! And I was on my way to the local variety store to pick up some milk! Now at the time I was wearing shorts, as was the style at the time, because it was hot! And as I was walking I tripped and skinned my knee (I was 9 or 10 or something). Now, my mom had begun to take on a super-health-freak fad at the time, and I didn't want her to see the scrape or else it'd be the iodine for me! Iodine is awful stuff - it burns and it stains your skin for a while! Scientists use iodine to detect the presence of starch, and let me tell you, the only starch I knew of was in my teachers shirt! Anyway once I got to the store and picked up some 1% milk - as was the style at the time - I went to the back of the store to find some bandaids to cover up the scrape! And thats when I saw them - Star Trek The Next Generation Pogs! Hesitantly I put down the band aids and picked up the Pogs. Screw band aids. I'd take the iodine if I could get these pogs. And thus began my pog dynasty! I entered into playground underworld of trading, contests and flipping. For a long time I used a standard plastic slammer, but then these NEW metal slammers began to hit the field. I had to upgrade, and I had to do it soon! I had seen those who used spiked metal slammers, and found that they damaged the pogs way too much - what good is a pog if it has a big hole in the center?! But eventually I found a good one. I also got the official pog playboard, and as the pog holders began to fill, the competition began to seek replacements wherever they could find them. And that was when the trouble started. As the market began to flood with bootleg pogs; pogs from Korea; unlisenced pogs and pogs that stole visuals from tv shows and changed the colours (I still have a bootleg pog showing a Female Power Armor from Macross with a bizarre colour scheme), The Man began to step in. First we couldn't use metal slammers because the "special" kid was losing too much. Fair enough, I had maintained a stable of plastic slammers just in case. Then we couldn't play for keeps - irksome, but still good practice for after school games. Then Pogs were banned - PERIOD! You couldn't play them after school on the playground either - they would watch. This decimated the market and soon after Pogs died out and we were all left with thousands of unsellable cardboard disks.

And thats the story of how I got iodine on my knee!

 

Wow...that was an interesting story...seriously! you should make a children's book about that or something cause i loved it especialy the first half. Though i didn't know that 1% milk had a fad, but oh well. i bow to you *bows*