What fads do you remember?

Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:18 am

Yoyo's

Those rubber aliens in the eggs and kids would say they could give birth! :lol:
Oh yeah I forgot about these!
My alien fell in the grass and became a green baby Chewbacca
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:36 am

I remember them being around at the same time as that awful fad for wearing Bay City Rollers tartan. Must get home in time to watch Shang-a-Lang.

Haha, I still remember the girls getting into fights about who was the best: the Bay City Rollers or the Osmonds. The boys were too busy getting into their own fights over which was the best team between Newcastle and Sunderland to take much notice. I remember my dad decided to support Sunderland purely to annoy our neighbours.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:41 am

We also had Football stickers

Skateboards and roller blades

Diablo's

Sunny D

WWE (Or WWF as it was known!)
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 7:44 am

Flipping baseball cards.
Dressing as a hood (leather jacket with 117 zippers, garrison belt, motorcycle boots).
Trying to do your hair like Presley or Edd Burns and failing miserably.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 7:52 am

Pogs and beanie babies come to mind. Also, Cabbage Patch kids.......I feel so old now....

My first thought was Pogs too! :happy:
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 11:35 am

Sunny D
I used to trade my Jaffa Cakes for that stuff (trading my JCs for anything meant serious business) because I wasn't allowed my own - apparently E numbers made me hyper as ADD kid these days, thankfully no one got to diagnose me and now everyone thinks I'm crazy :ninja:

Pokemon stickers
Digimon stickers

Digivices
PokeDexs
Pokeballs
Tamagotchi
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they became caramel Freddos
Roller skates
Kirb
Tig
Hidey tig
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Toby Green
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 11:15 am

Only one I remember from elementary school was friendship beads.

They were just little beads threaded onto a safety pin that you stuck in your shoes.
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Emily Graham
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:28 am

At an attempt of some chronological order...

- Crazy Bones
- Pokemon Cards
- Yugio(?) Cards
- Digimon(?) Cards
- Beyblades(?)
- Spiked hair, too, haha
- Those skateboard velcro shoes, and in general skateboard shoes
- ...Skateboards
- Those teckdecks(?)
- I swear belts were at one time
- Wearing those stupid hats and leaving the sticker on them
- Those coloured bracelets, yea
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Kayleigh Williams
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:43 pm

Pogs
Pokemon Cards
Yo-yos
French Skipping
Star Wars
Power Rangers
Witches and Wizards
Roller Blades and Skates
MicroScooters
Hunt (Hide and seek in the dark)
Big Brother (Still got fans, but not as much now)
SPL Stickers

Canne remember anymore.
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james tait
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 8:13 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n0Bupm8mkg
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Sarah Knight
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:19 am

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles---I think I had just about every turtle figure ever made at the time.
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Dalia
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:31 am

Snap Bracelets and Garbage Pail Kids.
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Solène We
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:14 am

Cars replacing the covered wagon. I remember n the early days, we'd often see people trapped in mud and yell at them to get a horse. As you know, it didn't work :(
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Crystal Clear
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:08 am

Cars replacing the covered wagon. I remember n the early days, we'd often see people trapped in mud and yell at them to get a horse. As you know, it didn't work :(

:laugh:

Edit: actually I do remember outside toilets, but prehistoric sanitation isn't really a "fad" as such.
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Agnieszka Bak
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:56 am

Parachute pants. IIRC my brother had a pair, and I though they looked ridiculous on him.

Mine were black :P

Only one I remember from elementary school was friendship beads.

They were just little beads threaded onto a safety pin that you stuck in your shoes.

We did this too but we usually pinned them to our clothing. I frequented a little local Mom and Pop store that had a huge selection of individual beads and safety pins of all sizes for sale.

I also remember Kangaroos shoes- sneakers with a pocket barely large enough to hold a quarter.
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Emily Rose
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 10:09 pm

Does anyone remember Capri Sun?
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Krystina Proietti
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:27 am

Plaid flanel shirts, long hair on guys and cargo shorts. It was a grunge thing
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Ells
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:54 am

Pogs and beanie babies come to mind.

These, definitely.

And Tamagotchis. :bunny:
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cheryl wright
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 10:55 pm

Rubik's Cube (edit: I never got past about 50 seconds)
Gloria Vanderbilt jeans
Brooke Shields & Calvin Klein
Slime (gooey stuff that came in a plastic garbage pail)
Pop Rocks
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Jack
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:30 pm

humm i remember trapper keepers
them skatey shoes
of course i was to poor
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stephanie eastwood
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:42 am

There was this time in the eighties, when everyone decided brothel creepers and bootlace ties were cool again. That didn't last too long. Just after the return of 'Mod', iirc. Which wasn't too long after 'peacock punk', which involved dressing like Adam and the Ants.
Gloria Vanderbilt jeans
Oh. god. They're loads more expensive, because they are not just jeans, they're, you know, 'designer'.
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Richard Dixon
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:22 pm

- Lava lamps

- Really *big* afros.

- Platform shoes

- The Partridge Family

- Those flimsy Bruce Lee kung-fu shoes..

..in purple.

- Pat Benatar

- Big hair

- 80's shoulder pads

- Pastel coloured clothing

and Grunge.
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Matt Bigelow
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:18 am

Silly bands from a few years back.

I think a lot of people are also using large head phones now, some just for "style".
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Isabel Ruiz
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:44 am

Pogs, dude, pogs!



Kids play too many computer games these days.



EDIT: I think things started going downhill when they stopped giving things away in crisp packets. Life was never the same.
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Ladymorphine
 
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:06 am

Yoyo's

Pokemon cards

Those rubber aliens in the eggs and kids would say they could give birth! :lol:

Livestrong bands

Limp Bizkit and Slip Knot hoodies

Nike TN Trainers and hats

Pogz
I remember all those fads in the UK. Pogs did not last long where I lived, we were more interested in other things. I remember the rubber aliens very well, I remember thinking it was very cool.
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