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.

 

[MorganL4]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Pogs
Yoyo
Hacky sack made a bit of a comeback near the end of the 90's
Pokemon
Tamagachi

God the 90's were just awful.

 

[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...

 

[MorganL4]

God the 90's were just awful.

not if you were of an age to go clubbing they weren't...

anyway eh "fads"...i can remember skateboards the first time round ?...that's before they got fat...
also Top Trumps

ye sorry im old

 

[DugMachine]

Pokemon and rap music woo. Tbh I don't remember too many fads, I was that kid that didn't go outside much and played vidya games all day.

 

[Khazoth]

A fad is any form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period, generally as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. A fad is said to "catch on" when the number of people adopting it begins to increase rapidly. The behavior will normally fade quickly once the perception of novelty is gone

Fads imply that the things I liked in the 90's i'm no longer interested in today. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was something I collected every single toy for and its still an awesome series for every age group, Batman has only gone farther into the main stream and has followed me into adulthood, otherwise i'm drawing a blank.. Power Rangers? Pokemon maybe?

 

[Coffeejack]

Pokemon, Digimon, Beyblades, Uno cards, Tamiya racing cars.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Boglins.

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

I loved my Boglins when I was a lad.

LOL. I had those too.
I used to make them look like they were singing along to Pogues tunes because I thought they looked like what Shane MacGowan sounded like.


The funny thing is that most of the "fads" I followed my friends into are still around: Video Games, Transformers, GI Joe. But I guess they weren't really fads then.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

I loved Pokemon cards and pokemon in general (hadn't the faintest clue about how to play pokemon cards but still) Pogs were huge as well, however Yu-Gi-oh was the biggest. I was the baddest man in the school yard when I was younger. I had the most cards and if you wanted someone battled I was the man you came to. I was like Yu-Gi-Oh Godfather. And of course their was the incedent in which someone stole my cards. Well I chased him down and introduced him to a world of pain. I distinctly remember getting paid to get other peoples cards back as well when I was one of the older kids in school (about 8 years old)

 

[aba1]

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.

Here we go I was surprised nobody mentioned pogs or crazy bones!

I also played with yugioh cards and digimon cards myself but all of the above for the most part were things that were definitely around.

 

[MorganL4]

Magic: The Gathering. I consider myself lucky, since it survived the test of time.

Unlike the later much more explosive existences of Pog, Pokemon cards and Tamagotchis.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Pogs, Magic The Gathering, Grunge, Looney Tunes, TMNT, big hair... the 80's and 90's, basically.

Girls weren't allowed to play Magic, though. Nope. It was a boy thing.

At least my cousin let us look at the cards and play a little bit when he came over to our house.

... DnD was also a boys only thing in High School. Which was stupid, as I was a bigger geek than those guys and really wanted to play. I think they let my sister be a cleric for one game.

 

[Latinidiot]

Let's see. Pokemon cards, yu gi oh cards, marbles, those spinning things, beyblades I believe, and that's it I believe.

 

[Fappy]

Pogs, Magic The Gathering, Grunge, Looney Tunes, TMNT, big hair... the 80's and 90's, basically.

Girls weren't allowed to play Magic, though. Nope. It was a boy thing.

At least my cousin let us look at the cards and play a little bit when he came over to our house.

... DnD was also a boys only thing in High School. Which was stupid, as I was a bigger geek than those guys and really wanted to play. I think they let my sister be a cleric for one game.

At this point I've played tabletop RPGs with just as many girls as I have boys. Oh, how times have changed XP

 

[Cowabungaa]

First and best one during my youth:

Those things were like gold for pretty much every Dutch kid during the 90's.

Next to that I joined in the Pokemon crowd and, during my first two adolescence years, the Yu Gi Oh fad. I didn't join in with a lot of fads. Most were too expensive. I had a knock-off Tamagotchi though.

 

[SquidVicious]

I started school in '92 which happened to be the same year '90's rap sensation group Kriss Kross (look them up, I'll wait) dropped the song "Jump" and the unfortunate trend of wearing clothing backwards. Now I was just a little kid when this happened, but growing up in Canada my elementary school went from Kindergarden to Grade 7 and some of the older students took a liking to that style and adopted it as their own. I still vividly recall my first day of school and seeing people with their shirts and pants on backwards, it was quite a confusing experience.

In terms of fads I participated in, many have already been said, pogs, yoyos, Pokemon, Goosebumps, Harry Potter, Magic: The Gathering