Did you ever get into a fad?

[JC]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Oh man, I wish I still had my yo-yo. It was a Yomega Brain. We used to trade the non-spring side so we'd have multi-colors. I wonder if I can dig it up somewhere...

I have a Yomega...'the yoyo with a brain'...still in the packaging

Still have my Duncan yoyos from the 1972 YoYo craze....Imperial, Butterfly, Professional, Velvet, Tournament, Gold Award....ah, the memories *sniff*



JC

 

[iamme]

Didn't anyone else fold their pant legs over and then roll them up?

 

[4Lclovergirl]

OK, I'm a girl, so mine may be a little different, but in grade school we rolled our socks down, and cuffed our jeans to make them tight against our legs.. shrudder.

I had the slap breaclets, I remember my parents had a fit about them! Oh, and I collected comics!

Anyone remember garbage pail kids?

 

[NokiaDude]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Oh man, I wish I still had my yo-yo. It was a Yomega Brain. We used to trade the non-spring side so we'd have multi-colors. I wonder if I can dig it up somewhere...

I used to have an X-Brain two or three years ago. I must have forgotten it a friend's place or else it got lost in our house. I'm just glad I have my ~$10 Turbo Bumble Bee!

 

[her209]

"My 5/5 Shivan Dragon will take out your..."

"What, what?! My Royal Assassin kills him "

LOL, those were da dayz. Marton Stromgold 4eva! I had 20/21 Birds of Paradise once.

 

[gopunk]

tamagachis

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: iamme
Didn't anyone else fold their pant legs over and then roll them up?

I was thinking of that exact same thing the minute I saw this post. The 'ol tuck and roll on the bottom of your jeans and they had to be nice and tight (I still can't believe that was cool). Now it is a contest to see how baggy you can get them.

 

[WhiteKnight]

I did slap bracelets until that urban legend started going around about some kid slicing his wrist open. I also played Magic, but before it became really popular. I only played about a month.

Edit: Oh, and I have a Nalgene bottle that I carry around, but it's about 8 years old, so again, before it was a fad.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Ornery
What is it called when you shave your hair off, wear a baseball cap, sometimes backward, even indoors when it's 95 degrees, and baggy pants draped around your knees? I NEVER was a part of anything like that! I won't even start on the "car tuning" thing...

good, we'll all be better off then..

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: 4Lclovergirl
OK, I'm a girl, so mine may be a little different, but in grade school we rolled our socks down, and cuffed our jeans to make them tight against our legs.. shrudder.

Originally posted by: Staley8

I was thinking of that exact same thing the minute I saw this post. The 'ol tuck and roll on the bottom of your jeans and they had to be nice and tight (I still can't believe that was cool). Now it is a contest to see how baggy you can get them.

whew, it wasn't just me

 

[Darien]

Slap bracelets
Pogs (Goooo eliminator!)
Yo-yos
Magic: The Gathering -- many of todays cards pale in comparison to some of the truely powerful from 4th edition and before. Don't see many cards for one black and X that say "target player discards x # of cards" anymore (Stopped playing around the time 5th edition came out)
Pokémon (though I was playing it much before it ever grew in the US...)
Quake 3 -- good LAN memories...

 

[her209]

Did anyone else wear sweat bands?

 

[LordMaul]

Pogs! Yo-Yos! W00t!

I still have all my yo-yos and a few of the old pogs, including one of those 1/2" thick brass things you would hit the pogs with. :beer::beer:

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: LordMaul
Pogs! Yo-Yos! W00t!

I still have all my yo-yos and a few of the old pogs, including one of those 1/2" thick brass things you would hit the pogs with. :beer::beer:

LMAO. I think i have a few of those lying around too. Played for slammers with those .5" ones

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: iamme
Didn't anyone else fold their pant legs over and then roll them up?

My brother did that... I tried for about a day and hated it.

 

[AUMM]

what?? yo-yo's are out now??

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
pogs
magic: the gathering in 1994.

I remember I absolutly hated pogs then finally got into it when everyone got out so I was SOL.

Damn you geekness.

Magic luckily I didn't buy anything Since I inheritated it from my Brother then quickly learned that I sucked so I quited.

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: Darien

Originally posted by: LordMaul
Pogs! Yo-Yos! W00t!

I still have all my yo-yos and a few of the old pogs, including one of those 1/2" thick brass things you would hit the pogs with. :beer::beer:

LMAO. I think i have a few of those lying around too. Played for slammers with those .5" ones

I really liked the huge brass pogs. I need to find those because they look medevial.

 

[Cyberian]

I had a Davy Crockett 'coonskin cap that I wore night and day, indoors and out, summer and winter.

This is not me, but I looked like just as big of a Dork.

 

[Koing]

No fads no nothing.

Just did sports 5x a week during the week and once on Sunday.......

 

[Metalloid]

Tamogachie things for like 2 months were cool. I kinda got into Yo-Yo's also. I had one of those Yomega X-Brain Butterflies.

 

[NutBucket]

*Looks around.....* Prolly just MTG. This was for about a year in middle school. I had mainly revised and stopped shortly after Ice Age came out. Other then that I think my parents did a good job of not letting me get caught up in fads. Like I never had huge baggy pants that were all the rage for a while.

 

[HannibalX]

Did you ever get into a fad?

Yeah Anandtech! LOL

 

[PraetorianGuards]

Pogs
Slap bracelets
Marvel trading cards - damn them! Spent $20 for a special card once. That was a couple weeks of allowance.

 

[Mallow]

Slap Bands and Friendship Bracelets