Crazes!

Degsy

There always seemed to be something that "everybody is doing"..short lived but hugely popular.

I'll start the ball rolling!

Thomas828

Yo-yos.

I've seen that craze come and go at least four times in the past thirty years.

lord lucan

LoLo balls. Remember wrecking myself on my sisters one in the late 80's when i was far to big to be using it!:D

Rubik.

Thomas828 wrote: »

Yo-yos.

I've seen that craze come and go at least four times in the past thirty years.

Hula Hoops

Superbus

My weird 90s generation became totally infatuated with Pokémon, and to a very much lesser extent, Digimon.

Cards, video games, the TV show, movies, it was THE thing.

fryup

Breakdancin groovy man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-zgEPRHurE

Murt10

Clackers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE

Havermeyer

Pogs.



I still have hundreds of these in a box somewhere.

Niles

Superbus wrote: »

My weird 90s generation became totally infatuated with Pokémon, and to a very much lesser extent, Digimon.

Cards, video games, the TV show, movies, it was THE thing.

The amount of AA batteries my twelve year old self went through on that game, Energiser must have made more out of the craze than Nintendo did.

Thomas828 wrote: »

Yo-yos.

I've seen that craze come and go at least four times in the past thirty years.

I seem to remember a yo-yo craze in our school after one of the sweet companies had some promotion. There were two versions, Skittles (the more common one) and something else (Opal Fruits maybe?).

bullets

Light up Yo-Yo's

(if they ever accidentally hit the floor during use they would break and split in two)
Got these down the market during late 80's and earlier they would be brought back
as presents by the Grandparents that went on Holiday to the Cannery islands.

road_high

Tomogotchis (prob spelt wrong!) were all the rage during the mid nineties or thereabouts. Stupid little electronic pets you fed and stuff. Complete sh1te looking back but everybody had the stupid things

bullets

Degsy

bullets

Degsy wrote: »

I just watched the trailer for Dallas 2012 with JR alive and well! and Bobby (AKA man from Atlantis)came out of the shower and survived the years into the 21st century too along with Sue Ellen. Scary stuff!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d220ZdzdFTQ

I won a fancy dress competition as a child when me mother dressed me up
as an arab with a sign saying "oil" get you JR Got a windup firetruck as a prize.

~B

Skerries

these were big for a while in the playground and also those very bouncy rubber balls and marbles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arTZp0vrtA

Skerries

Degsy wrote: »

There always seemed to be something that "everybody is doing"..short lived but hugely popular.

I'll start the ball rolling!

don't be silly, Rubiks cubes don't roll!

WindSock

Skerries wrote: »

don't be silly, Rubiks cubes don't roll!

But Slinky's do! :pac:

kinda

Niles

mfitzy wrote: »

Tomogotchis (prob spelt wrong!) were all the rage during the mid nineties or thereabouts. Stupid little electronic pets you fed and stuff. Complete sh1te looking back but everybody had the stupid things

Tamagotchis! How could I have forgot those! I seem to remember a Furby craze as well, especially my sisters' ones being pushed to various levels of endurance.

ElleEm

Remember when we all wore these?

http://www.imisstheoldschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pacifiers.jpg

WindSock

ElleEm wrote: »

Remember when we all wore these?

http://www.imisstheoldschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pacifiers.jpg

Sadly

mikemac

Line dancing swept the country and Garth Brooks was one of the most successful musicians in the world

There were sessions in every parish hall and even roving instructors who came around and taught.
Including a young lad from Castleknock, Dublin who went on to bigger and better things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZ-oTbLpTI

But then suddenly line dancing disappeared with a trace

Nerdkiller1991

Obviously, none of you remember the greatness that is LOG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0kWqJJZa4

Marty McFly

Ecplipse jeans and x works jeans oh how im glad the mother has no photos of that period of my life:).

Degsy

Remember these:



And these?

kelle

The horror that was knickerbockers (Ashamedly I wore these aged 12!)

And pedal pushers

síofra

Trolls!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D

Rubik.

Princess Peach

Snap on bracelets :pac:

Degsy

BMX..especially with "mag" wheels!

Princess Peach

Speaking of bikes, the reflectors your used to get free in cereals!

KungPao

briany

I'd kill all of you (with a super soaker) for just a handful of these bad boys :

lord lucan

MaidenSlayer

I don't know about you guys but I feel these were maybe not as epidemic as previous posts, but nearly everybody I knew my age when I was around 8 or 9 had them.





And I'm sure you could throw Sonic The Hedgehog in as a craze!

kelle

MaidenSlayer wrote: »

I don't know about you guys but I feel these were maybe not as epidemic as previous posts, but nearly everybody I knew my age when I was around 8 or 9 had them.





And I'm sure you could throw Sonic The Hedgehog in as a craze!

I forgot Nintendo was around long before the DS and Wii!

Degsy

kelle wrote: »

I forgot Nintendo was around long before the DS and Wii!

Dont forget this



then this


then this



then this




Etc..