Stupid junk as kids...
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- mg33
As you look back on your youth, what are some of the stupid things you wanted - toys, products, etc?
I'm talking things like Spoke-E-Dokes, those silly colored attachments for bike spokes, or, as my stepsister had to have, a silly turn signal for her bicycle when she only rode it around our quiet neighborhood.
- somatica0
This really stupid electrical engineering set where you had hundreds of different colored wires and diodes attached to a giant board, and you had to follow these massive diagrams running all the wires to their right ports. It took hours. Then end result if you got everything right when you flipped the switch was a light bulb lighting up. What an incredible waste.
- I got crap like that as a gift one christmas. Chemistry set, microscope, electrical stuff. Ugh...mg33
- man, I remember that shit... what was it called? I had it too.Point5
- i had one of these too, you could make it into anything! ....23kon
- ... light sensitive burglar alarms, a radio, bedside lamp ...23kon
- nocomply0
Oh yeah the "toy aisle" at the grocery store. I always needed a piece of junk from there, but rarely got it
- ian0
A potato gun. I had one once that was a water pistol, it shot corks and if you stuck the barrel into a potato, it would lodge a tiny piece in their and you could shoot it out. It were great, most of the other potato guns only shot bits of potato.
- avolve0
Slappy hands were the fun!
- dude i had one of those on my desk until about a week agonocomply
- they still are the fun!slappy
- got one here, too (-:invisiblechamber
- these were the best.sleepyfatso
- mg330
I was big into baseball cards, and looking back it's absurd how finicky we all were about "I have the entire set from this year by Tops!" or whatever. What a racket.
- harlequino0
Laser Tag, probably. Played it for all of a week.
On the other hand, the Fischer Price PXL video camera that shot video on audio cassettes was the best thing ever. No one thought I should have it and I would forget about it immediateyl. But no fuckin way. Drove that sucker into the ground making stop motion movies with star wars figures and matchbox cars.
- mg330
Also - those sunglasses where you could see behind you.
- fyoucher10
garbage pail kids cards
- morilla0
Shrinky Dinks
- fyoucher10
I've since settled for mark rydan posters
- nocomply0
had a fair amount of these too:
- These were great!!!organic_grid
- THAT'S NOT JUNK!!!!!!!
eighteen
- Antonelli0
- haha - i once invented (based on this technique) guess what: a telephone for deaf people.invisiblechamber
- Antonelli0
- now that's a nice throwback!nocomply
- o man i loved that thing.BrokenAC
- n/hBrokenAC
- I might still have this somewhere.
awesome.sofakingzero
- marychain0
I needed this toy hiking/explorer kit thing with binoculars, a field guide, a compass and who knows what else.......so I could go looking for treasure.....in my suburban neighborhood of course
- GreedoLives0
castle greyskull
i remember it was pretty damn expensive but i whined and whined and whined until i got it and then played with it maybe 5 times.- Oh shit, I had like two of them, crazy instant flashback...organic_grid
- good pic, good conditiondskz
- the bridge is not on, i want to see it installeddskz
- loved castle grayskull. Shit, I used to bring GI Joe up in that piecePoint5
- cursiveshotgun0
- how old are you now? Like 20?imnotadesigner
- 23cursiveshotgun
- or 35cursiveshotgun
- totally forgot about theseOnesandZeros
