Fads when you were growing up...

Knee length Umbro football manager coats
Pop drink branded YoYo's
1989 Batman sticker album designed like the Panini football ones, possibly the first time I'd seen Hollywood target kids like that.
 
I was a huge Ultimate Warrior fan when I was young :D

I watched some of his promos recently on YT. The guy was a complete headcase, as were a number of the others!
 
Push Pops, think they got banned at one point
Jumping Poppers
Fun Snaps
Popping Candy
You Know When You've Been Tangoed Ads.
 
malachi said:
Push Pops, think they got banned at one point
Jumping Poppers
Fun Snaps
Popping Candy
You Know When You've Been Tangoed Ads.
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Ah the Tango ads were good but I get why they stopped them. Too many idiots copying and hurting people
 
Dad showing me how to make fire with a magnifying glass
Train set handed down from cousins
Finding things to blow up with the 12V train set transformer (iron wool, capacitors)
Magic Snakes
Cherry Coke camera
Rubik's Magic

my fads anyway ;)
 
builder22 said:
wasn't going to post about this because it was so stupid!... but I remember in primary 4-5, so 8-10 yr old when the teacher was out of the classroom someone would stand against the wall and take a deep breath and hold it then someone else would push on their chest and they would faint... hopefully getting caught as they fell...mental, something eventually happened that resulted in the teachers finding out and I think it stopped then
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Yeah that went round my school... and got stopped after a fairly serious incident
 
keyser said:
Dad showing me how to make fire with a magnifying glass
Train set handed down from cousins
Finding things to blow up with the 12V train set transformer (iron wool, capacitors)
Magic Snakes
Cherry Coke camera
Rubik's Magic

my fads anyway ;)
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If you are long sighted your specs are magnifying glasses.... as a kid thats awesome to always be carrying tools for fires :-)
 
Conkers, marbles, cards in the spokes of our Raleigh Choppers to make vroom vroom noises...
Life was simpler being a kid in the '70's.
 
mmj_uk said:
Are those the things that you held by the tail and they went side to side or am I thinking of something different?
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Ah yeah I thought maybe I should have explained that one, I bought them from a joke shop near my grans house, they were are a black pellet that you light outside and it creates looong black ash that looks like a snake :) also a lot of smoke. I could light them with my magnifying glass! good times. Eventually they were banned, not sure why. They might have another name outside of the UK.

Turns out they were probably a load of sugar :)
 
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