popular toys that we actually hated

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Twister. A friend had it and insisted I play with them. Hell no! I have the dexterity of a dead cow.

Noticed the cut in the Furby video. They probably put batteries back in it.

Raggedy Ann! OMG! I was terrified of her malicious smirk and those laser-like black button eyes! I would hide her every night. My mother would always find her. My mom had it in her head that I loved Raggedy Ann and could not sleep without her [ I did not tell my mom otherwise because I did not want to hurt her feelings. It seemed so important to her to think that I loved the doll] I would leave her at the head of the bed and sleep on the opposite end. When I finally fell asleep I would have horrific nightmares about her.

Someone gave me a Barbie when I was 5 and I totally destroyed her, ripped off the head and limbs and took the "bones" out of the limbs. Thankfully I never got another one. It creeped me out.

I begged for an easy bake oven until my friend got one. When we tried to bake I was very disappointed with the results. My mom said she would not get me one and told me I could use the real stove and oven whenever I wanted. I was happy with the real thing. I liked the frisbee because it was easy to throw far. I can't catch worth beans though.

This was probably a very good thing--you learned how to cook and bake *for real* early on.

Operation-I hated that buzzing noise and it would set me off crying for hours as a toddler.
Ditto for the poster who hated their Slinky.
Got a Tamagochi as an adult and wasted an entire weekend hatching it-no regrets because it was so cute flying away when it grew up!
I want a Punisher crotch rocket action figure but last time I looked they were too expensive on eBay.

Wow! I thought I had a bad Christmas when my parents got me fat clothes and a Smurfette doll because they were pissed off at me for being a normal stinky teenager. I'm glad your wife has such a supportive husband to sympathize.

Thank you very much for saying so.

Furby almost ruined our holiday.

My DD is 9. She still has magical thinking. My husband thought this Furby was like the old one. I didn't research it. He viewed it as an adult, not a little girl.

It has NO volume control, no off switch, and the damn thing changes personalities at the drop of the hat.

My nephew tossed it around, and the stupid thing morphed into demon spawn. DD was hysterical. Is there a reset button? Don't know. Pulled the batteries, and still had the Chuckie.

After much Googling, we figured how to revert it back. This is a BS toy that trains you to tolerate that future psycho boyfriend/girlfriend.

They should have marketed a boy/girl version. Ours has turned into demon possession Furby, and Herman Munster Furby. Neither is cool to a 9 year old girl.

Or else market it to the teenage/young adult crowd. I could see them dragging it around in a frat or out bar hopping as a joke.

All of DD'S friends, who received on over Christmas, are trying to EBay them.

Furby is just a really mismarketed toy..

(Side eye to the stupid thing, sitting on my kitchen shelf)

Risk-------> I hate games that take 30 minutes set up, and 8 hours to finish. Never. Again.

I found Monopoly so boring.The only cool thing were the little figurines.Guess I'm a lousy capitalist.The game Life was ok because we changed the rules,we just kept circling the board having more kids and problems.Like the real world.I didn't like Operation either,or most board games.

Jack-in-the-box scared me

Am I the only person here who enjoyed owning a Furby? I got one back when they were brand new, and I loved that thing. It disappointed me later on though when I saw how the later generation Furbies had different features and such.

I liked mine. It was possible to make them sleep when you weren't playing with them.

I couldn't play operation with batteries in. The buzzing noise scared me.

if it were a real animal, my tamagotchi would've been a neglect and cruelty case for the RSPCA.