popular toys that we actually hated

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I knew that from the ads alone--refused to get one.

Jack-in-the-box. 'Nuff said.

Another one that used to scare the crap out of me as a kid was a game called Perfection, where you had these yellow shapes that you had to fit into their proper slots before time ran out (at which point the board would jump and all the pieces would fly out). Why my parents thought that would make an awesome Christmas gift (especially when they KNEW how easily I startle) is completely beyond me...

I would post a Youtube link to the commercial, but apparently I'm not allowed to if I've been a member for less than 5 days and/or if I've posted less than 5 comments. Poop.

Here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp6t69K4G9c[/youtube]

And:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBnorlaxj84[/youtube]

^ thanks! God those commercials bring back so many bad memories...

^You're welcome.

That was yet another game I never wanted, but I saw the commercials so many times they were stuck in my head for years. Just reading your post reminded me of them, word for word, note for note...yikes.

And they just HAD to choose the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel for the jingle, thereby making it even more traumatizing...ugh.

Yes--for the one from 1992, at least. When you mentioned the game, I actually first thought of the one from the 1970s.

I seem to remember having a similar game--it wasn't called this, but the concept was basically the same. Hmm...now I'm curious.

I'm a 90s kid, so the 1992 one is the one I remember The 70s one would have been a little before my time.

I loved Tamagotchis. I managed to collect half a dozen of the various 90's handheld pets.

Furby was the disappointment. It just kind of sat there and made noises at me, and made me feel bad if I accidentally dropped it. My brothers took it and used it as a football.

Barbies, dolls...you never could do anything with them, except of giving them into the shelf and look at them.

My parents knew about that, when I was a small kid in kindergarten, but I still got some from relatives from now and then, and my parents forced me to act cheerful when being presented with them. -.-

And I never really got into that pokemonstuff. Got presented with one of the first games (Red or blue edition for game boy or game boy colour.), because everyone was so cheering about it and so my parents seem to think it was cool for me, but didnt even play it until the end a single time. You run around without any cause and hope that by chance you might meet an pokemon, you still dont have yet, and that you mostly wont have any need of anyway. -.-

Found it:

http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/BoobyTrap.html

I've never seen a first generation Furby, which I'm guessing you had.

Let me say, this lastest version is a FAIL to the 4 through 10 club. My friend can't even give the new one away.

I believe this may have been the one I had



It was either that, or it was pure black.

^They were so deceptively cute--I always thought they looked like Gremlins.

I never got one because I wasn't fond of talking toys, period. From what I've heard about them, that's probably a good thing.

My son got this choo choo train that was the loudest and most obnoxious ever,we dismantled the sound.
On toys I loved,did anyone else love play doh?The smell and the feel of it?

Yes.