What fad from your childhood/teenage years used to be "in" but now has vanished?

[rebel rebel]

The street game kerbsies.

 

[Wizzfizz]

3DTV

 

[unwashed potato!]

3DTV

Biggest fad yet. I told my parents don't bother. They ended up spending thousands on a crappy 3d TV that they used for 1 month at best

 

[NickK]

British Bulldog .. responsible for many broken limbs and noses.

 

[Malevolence]

gat pistols

Look what I found in my man drawer.

 

[vanpeebles]

Look what I found in my man drawer.

Hahaha, pump n pop!

 

[mmj_uk]

I remember having a cap gun, kids would probably end up being arrested by the anti-terror police playing with one of those in public now.

 

[Malevolence]

We used to play around the streets and along the banks of the local river with toy guns all the time, lobbing afe-enders and cast off mugs and plates (used to dig hundreds of the buggers up from just under the surface) as grenades. Looking back, it's a surprise none of us were hospitalised by the afe-enders. You're right though, if kids did that these days there would be ARV's screaming all over the place.

 

[unwashed potato!]

I remember having a cap gun, kids would probably end up being arrested by the anti-terror police playing with one of those in public now.

Quite rightly so. I don't see of all the toys kids have these days, whyd they'd wantd a fake gun or at least why their parents would want them growing up playing with guns

 

[Malevolence]

Quite rightly so. I don't see of all the toys kids have these days, whyd they'd wantd a fake gun or at least why their parents would want them growing up playing with guns

Yes, why would children want to go outside in the fresh air to play with toy guns anymore when they just go on their consoles, fire up GTA and **** hookers before shooting them in the face to get their money back?

 

[unwashed potato!]

Yes, why would children want to go outside in the fresh air to play with toy guns anymore when they just go on their consoles, fire up GTA and **** hookers before shooting them in the face to get their money back?

That's surely not the only alternative is it? Maybe your parents should have bought you better outdoors toys

 

[AndyCr15]

Huge big 3D VR game units you put helmets on in shopping centres then feel sick after 2 minutes as there's sooooo much lag.

 

[krooton]

The concept of home-ownership in one's 20s

 

[Arthur Hucksake]

Cap guns were amazing. Especially the one with the revolver style loading.

 

[MookJong]

I had all manner of cap and rubber dart guns, absolutely brilliant fun. Did you ever do that thing where you got a strip of caps and ran a coin over them?

Ahh the 80s, long before NERF guns and PC culture

 

[something daft already!!]

Rubik's cubes
ZX Spectrum
Roller Boots
Amiga
Gonks
Conflict with Argentina. (sort of but relations are still pretty cool)

 

[wolfie138]

3DTV

when was 3dtv in your childhood? I thought sets only came out a few years ago?

 

[something daft already!!]

when was 3dtv in your childhood? I thought sets only came out a few years ago?

Tomorrows world did it.

 

[chroniclard]

I had all manner of cap and rubber dart guns, absolutely brilliant fun. Did you ever do that thing where you got a strip of caps and ran a coin over them?

Ahh the 80s, long before NERF guns and PC culture

You can still buy it all. I bought a cap gun revolver a while ago for a fancy dress party.

There are just better alternatives these days, nerf guns are epic.

 

[lee1101]

I had all manner of cap and rubber dart guns, absolutely brilliant fun. Did you ever do that thing where you got a strip of caps and ran a coin over them?

O yes! I used to end up with black thumbnails and burns on my finger tips from holding the coin to close to the paper.