What was everyone's favourite fad product from childhood?

JBS2022
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What was a  favourite or least favourite if you prefer product/toy from your childhood that ended up being a fad and overhyped? 

I loved the tamagotchi ( virtual pet) and me and my school friends actually buried them when they died

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  • JBS2022
    JBS2022 Scope Member Posts: 2,074 Championing
    edited March 2023
    They still sell them but they've cheapened out massively. And nowhere near as popular
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    I loved Pogs. I still have a couple of Looney Tunes ones. My cousins kids look at me like I'm from the stone age  :D
  • JBS2022
    JBS2022 Scope Member Posts: 2,074 Championing
    Hannah_Scope said:
    I loved Pogs. I still have a couple of Looney Tunes ones. My cousins kids look at me like I'm from the stone age  :D
    Can be worth a few quid on Ebay
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,525 Championing
    As teenagers we had a cb radio we loved it, annoyed neighbours tho coming over their TV accasionally. Not as popular now but there is a cb radio shop by me
  • Luna51
    Luna51 Online Community Member Posts: 297 Empowering
    Sandy_123 said:
    As teenagers we had a cb radio we loved it, annoyed neighbours tho coming over their TV accasionally. Not as popular now but there is a cb radio shop by me
    As a kid, I remember my friend's older brother was always on his cb radio, we loved listening to him talking to girls as we hid outside his bedroom door.. 😂
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,525 Championing
    Lol @Luna51
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 741 Pioneering
    A Stylophone, although, most won't have a Scooby Doo what that was. :D
    I still have it & it still works.
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 12,586 Championing
    Go gos
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,669 Pioneering
    Top Trumps.  :)
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    Good call with Top Trumps @rebel11 that's a classic! :) I think for me it's Pokémon cards
  • JBS2022
    JBS2022 Scope Member Posts: 2,074 Championing
    Furbys creeped me out, My daughter had one, I used to think it was spying on me lol
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Can't remember it's name but there was a toy caterpillar which had hundreds of legs I wanted one when young but never got one.
  • JBS2022
    JBS2022 Scope Member Posts: 2,074 Championing
    edited March 2023
    emancherry33 said:
    Can't remember it's name but there was a toy caterpillar which had hundreds of legs I wanted one when young but never got one.
    Was it the "Lots a Lots a legs Caterpillar" from the mid 80s onwards.
  • JBS2022
    JBS2022 Scope Member Posts: 2,074 Championing
    I remember these creepy stickers called Garbage Pail Kids, I used to collect them when I was a kid. 
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Yep remember them well my mum banned me from getting them 
  • Binky1234
    Binky1234 Online Community Member Posts: 453 Empowering
    Slinky

    Used to watch it going down the stairs. I've seen them in shops but they're plastic and rainbow coloured, where mine was silver and metal.

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