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18 Dec 2013, 1:57 pm

Rubiks cube. Took all of two minutes to get bored with it and take it apart. Real easy to solve that way. Then again pretty much every toy i ever had,,, got taken apart, along with stuff that wasnt toys. Why have to deal with someone asking them how something works when I had a perfectly good screwdriver? :)



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19 Dec 2013, 9:30 am

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This article mentions Furby's. My sister had one. It was annoying because there was no off switch and it talked constantly. The only way you could stop it is to take the batteries out.
From what i heard the new furby's don't have off switches either.


I had a furby. I don't remember exactly how but there was a way to make it go to sleep and you had to tip it over or something to wake it up. It might have been covering it's eyes for a while that made it sleep.



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20 Dec 2013, 12:44 am

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25 Horrifying Toys


Regarding #21: now we know where TOY STORY 3 got the "Cymbal-Banging Monkey"--THIS IS THE SAME ONE. 8O


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20 Dec 2013, 8:19 am

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Regarding #21: now we know where TOY STORY 3 got the "Cymbal-Banging Monkey"--THIS IS THE SAME ONE. 8O


There was a Stephen King story about one of those.

I had 25 when I was a kid.



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20 Dec 2013, 9:34 am

Furby, that thing would just never stop talking after waking up at midnight for no reason, and it had no off switch! The lights in the house were off and I was in a bunk bed and I remember crying for my parents because it scared me, I couldn't see and I was afraid of the dark. My parents threw it away and put the trash bag outside for the truck to pick it up. It gave me nightmares for a while afterward. I cheered when I saw TWO get destroyed on "Is it a good idea to Microwave this?".



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20 Dec 2013, 11:23 am

hanyo wrote:
conundrum wrote:

Regarding #21: now we know where TOY STORY 3 got the "Cymbal-Banging Monkey"--THIS IS THE SAME ONE. 8O


There was a Stephen King story about one of those.

I had 25 when I was a kid.


I remember that story. I think it was definitely one of the best things King ever wrote.


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20 Dec 2013, 11:33 am

This was not a popular toy,but it scared the hell out of me when I was five.It was in a furniture store,I think it was a promo toy for naugherhide furniture.It was a doll type thing that had fangs,claws, and pointy ears.All I could do was stare with my mouth open at it.The adults mistook my fascination with it.One day when I came home,there it was in the house,a present for me.It terrified me and I hid it in a closet for years.


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20 Dec 2013, 11:39 am

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This was not a popular toy,but it scared the hell out of me when I was five.It was in a furniture store,I think it was a promo toy for naugherhide furniture.It was a doll type thing that had fangs,claws, and pointy ears.All I could do was stare with my mouth open at it.The adults mistook my fascination with it.One day when I came home,there it was in the house,a present for me.It terrified me and I hid it in a closet for years.


Sounds like the beginning of a horror story! :D


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20 Dec 2013, 2:25 pm

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This was not a popular toy,but it scared the hell out of me when I was five.It was in a furniture store,I think it was a promo toy for naugherhide furniture.It was a doll type thing that had fangs,claws, and pointy ears.All I could do was stare with my mouth open at it.The adults mistook my fascination with it.One day when I came home,there it was in the house,a present for me.It terrified me and I hid it in a closet for years.


Sounds like the beginning of a horror story! :D


Had to look it up--was it this thing?

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/n ... 70-stuffed

With that being said, that should have been a MONSTERS INC. character. :)

And yes--that could have been the beginning of a horror story. 8)


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20 Dec 2013, 4:11 pm

Paddle balls looked like so much fun on TV. But God aweful boring when actualy playing it.
Marbles, the game played in the sand, also borring as whatching love boat.
I got a giant crane for christmass one year. All you could do with it was rotate it around and make the arm go up and down, so much wow I nearly died. Lasted 2 sessions of 5 minutes each.
I can't remember the name, but there was a "grow your own crystals" set when I was young. Utterly boring.
Woopy cushions. "put that thing away" was the only responce it got. Very dull.

I had more fun with plastic poo bought from a Mad magazine :)



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20 Dec 2013, 9:37 pm

conundrum wrote:
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This was not a popular toy,but it scared the hell out of me when I was five.It was in a furniture store,I think it was a promo toy for naugherhide furniture.It was a doll type thing that had fangs,claws, and pointy ears.All I could do was stare with my mouth open at it.The adults mistook my fascination with it.One day when I came home,there it was in the house,a present for me.It terrified me and I hid it in a closet for years.


Sounds like the beginning of a horror story! :D


Had to look it up--was it this thing?

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/n ... 70-stuffed

With that being said, that should have been a MONSTERS INC. character. :)

And yes--that could have been the beginning of a horror story. 8)


That's it.The one I was given was tan.I never thought it looked like an owl when I was little.
It's not frightening now,but back then it scared the heck out of me.It does look like it should be in a story terrorizing little kids.


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20 Dec 2013, 11:35 pm

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That's it.The one I was given was tan.I never thought it looked like an owl when I was little.
It's not frightening now,but back then it scared the heck out of me.It does look like it should be in a story terrorizing little kids.


Yep. :) Although now, I find it kind of cute--guess I'm weird like that.


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21 Dec 2013, 12:46 am

I liked Etch-a-Sketch. I got damn good at it, too.

Now, my Mouse Trap game was another story. That thing may have been briefly fun for the two minutes it remained set up correctly, but all I remember was the intense frustration of trying to set it up, and then fixing it when things got inevitably knocked out of place.



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21 Dec 2013, 11:43 am

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I liked Etch-a-Sketch. I got damn good at it, too.

Now, my Mouse Trap game was another story. That thing may have been briefly fun for the two minutes it remained set up correctly, but all I remember was the intense frustration of trying to set it up, and then fixing it when things got inevitably knocked out of place.


I remember Mouse Trap! Loved it, even though it did keep falling down. Sometimes, I'd just keep reassembling and unassembling the thing for hours, without actually playing the game--loved the "Rube Goldberg"-esque design. 8)


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21 Dec 2013, 9:29 pm

I was never good at the game 'Risk' and thought that trolls were ugly.

My barbies usually became headless.



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22 Dec 2013, 6:07 pm

I was always an action figure dude (and it wasn't hard to know what I liked), so I got what I liked.