Are There Still Toy Crazes?
By popciclecold
@popciclecold (39557)
United States
January 14, 2023 2:49pm CST
I was just lying here and mylotting, reading posts about kids, having fun. I started thinking back way before computers, when a toy was a craze. I thought about the hula hoop. I felt like every kid in the world had one. That's all you could see everywhere. I remember on the news a man got arrested on the beach, because he was surrounded by kids with hula hoops. He just start grabbing and breaking them. Kids use to have so much fun, I suppose they still do, but hula hoops was a craze. What was your favorite toy.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50561)
• United States
15 Jan 23
My sister and I enjoyed our hula hoop. 
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@Tampa_girl7 (50561)
• United States
15 Jan 23
@popciclecold i know I wouldn’t be able to do it now.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
14 Jan 23
I agree, but we sure had a lot of it.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
14 Jan 23
@Nevena83 Yes we did, and had a lot of fun doing it.
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@Nevena83 (65277)
• Serbia
14 Jan 23
@popciclecold Yes, we really had fun playing even without toys. We socialized a lot more and spent time in nature.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
15 Jan 23
My kiddo has a hula hoop. I need to get her one more fir when her cousin visits.
I loved my Barbie's. They were my favorites.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
16 Jan 23
That would be cool. Hula hoop was crazy.
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@wolfgirl569 (108347)
• Marion, Ohio
15 Jan 23
I had a pony as a kid. That was my favorite thing to do
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@Deepizzaguy (104319)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14 Jan 23
I liked playing a boxing game that was with characters that looked like robots but small size inside of a boxing ring.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
14 Jan 23
My kids liked Mike Tyson punchout. They played it all night on the weekend.
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@Deepizzaguy (104319)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
15 Jan 23
@popciclecold Boxing video game are really good to play on a video game.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
14 Jan 23
Lol, I had forgot about the pet rocks..
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@Ronrybs (19565)
• London, England
14 Jan 23
@popciclecold Me too, I should have captured some from the wild and sold them on with a warning that they were untamed!
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@kaylachan (71942)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Jan 23
I remember having one as a kid, myself. They were fun. I think hoverboards are real popular now.
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@jobelbojel (36049)
• Philippines
15 Jan 23
Nowadays, kids are into mobile games. They don't know how to play toys.
We bought toys for my nephews to ensure they feel how it was back then.
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@choijungeun (2629)
• Hangzhou, China
14 Jan 23
My favorite is the doll,it is a fluffy white dog,i liked it very much,but time flew by,i didn't know where it is now.
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@DaddyEvil (137762)
• United States
15 Jan 23
I grew up on a farm out in the middle of nowhere. I rode a bike, a horse or was somewhere reading a book I'd borrowed from one of the neighbors.
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@RasmaSandra (80884)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Jan 23
We always lived in apartments so I never had a hula hoop since I would have broken al of mom's vases on the shelves, I became more creative I even watched TV with a coloring book or a drawing pad in my lap working on creating pictures,
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
15 Jan 23
Yeah, I remenber the yo yo, and all the things kids would do with. Rubic cube was too tough for me lol.
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@JESSY3236 (20039)
• United States
17 Jan 23
In the 80's there was a cabbage patch doll craze. I never had one though. My favorite toy was a doll named Jessica. Her eyes opened and closed. I also loved Barbies.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
17 Jan 23
Cabbage patch was really popular.
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@Chellezhere (5742)
• United States
15 Jan 23
I was better with the baton than the hula hoop.
Schylling's Twirling Baton for Kids is a pretty metal baton with plastic ends on both sides that's perfect for making up funky dance routines!
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@Chellezhere (5742)
• United States
15 Jan 23
@popciclecold I had a few of them during my childhood.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
16 Jan 23
Wow, batons would seem really hard. Hula hoop seems easy.
@dgobucks226 (35778)
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15 Jan 23
I think many kids today have replaced physical toys with video games. I remember the Nintendo craze. I even bought one to play Mario Bros, tennis and golf. Now with Play Station and other video devices they have become way more sophisticated..
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
16 Jan 23
I remenber Mike Tyson punch out. My family almost drove me crazy. All night. Ugh.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
16 Jan 23
@dgobucks226 They were weren't they?
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@dgobucks226 (35778)
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16 Jan 23
@popciclecold Yes, those games are addictive to some. Today's kids seem totally absorbed in their phones whether playing games or texting their friends. They never seem to look up!
Silly puddy and slinky were loads of fun!
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@suwardie03 (317)
• Semarang, Indonesia
15 Jan 23
I prefer the more viral ones here, namely lato lato.
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@popciclecold (39557)
• United States
15 Jan 23
@suwardie03 No, I haven't. First time.
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@suwardie03 (317)
• Semarang, Indonesia
15 Jan 23
@popciclecold have you ever heard of the game lato lato
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