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

[SydDanube]

Not sure about bag bombs but i do remember Fun Snaps. Small white paper wraps that you threw at the floor to make them explode.

 

[vanpeebles]

Not sure about bag bombs but i do remember Fun Snaps. Small white paper wraps that you threw at the floor to make them explode.

Devil bangers!

 

[Gerard]

Coke ran a tournament in my local supermarket to win a golden yo yo and it drew quite a big crowd. My mother thought that playing video games on a Saturday afternoon was a waste but going up the town to watch someone swing a piece of plastic on a string about was apparently worthwhile.

They seemed to do that all over in shopping centres, win a "gold spinner" from the increasingly irritated Coca Cola YoYo rep.

 

[Geodude97AD]

Bangers
Garbage pail stickers
YoYo
Arcades

 

[wolfie138]

it's funny how some fads last and some are a blip. Skateboards took off massively and then faded away mostly but are still a big part of a niche culture, if that's not self-contradictory lol, but as a recent example - how massive a craze were fidget spinners? and now you never see one.

 

[NMBlack]

From my primary school days:

Top Trumps
Duncan Yo-Yos
Trim balls (a.k.a. lolo balls)....if you don't know what these are, be careful with your google searching....
Action Force
Fighting Fantasy books

 

[b00merang69]

it's funny how some fads last and some are a blip. Skateboards took off massively and then faded away mostly but are still a big part of a niche culture, if that's not self-contradictory lol, but as a recent example - how massive a craze were fidget spinners? and now you never see one.

The original skateboard craze in the 70's did and was those narrow plastic boards with plastic wheels that stopped dead on a small stone ands you flew off, it was not till the late 80's early 90's I seen the now familiar models that were wooden and broader and decent rubber wheels.

 

[Digital X]

@MookJong Wasn't sure how to take that?

 

[wazza300]

I remember the coca cola,sprite,fanta yoyo's

You cant get a 10p mix up anymore either

I remember deelyboppers as well

 

[Hades]

Let's see if anyone else remembers this playground game from the 1970's...

"I went to the shop and I bought some... sticky... sticky... glue!"

 

[b00merang69]

Apple

Banana

coke

 

[Digital X]

I remember that vaguely, didn't you each go around and say something and then try to repeat it back?

 

[b00merang69]

AFAIRT it was alphabetical, as I said above.

I went to the shop and I bought an Apple.

The next person says something starting with B and so on.

 

[Eddie]

Dolly whopping, clothes peg guns and the humble bogie - although this one looks a bit too 'state of the art' compared with my efforts...



Those were the days when the streets used to be filled with kids playing. If you didn't come home with snot running down your face, covered in mud and a cut knee you were sent back out and told to try harder!

 

[hominid]

BMX's, Roller skates, Video Arcades, C64 and Disco!

 

[TurtleTwo]

Pogs

 

[MatteH Oxford]

Being hetrosexual, mentally stable, no tattoos and having a political understanding greater than the sixth form common room.

 

[233]

Catapults
Air rifles
And maybe just in Fife Crossbows

different times you’d have a police ARV hunting you down these days

 

[wez130]

Joe Bloggs Jeans
NAF NAF coats
Stolen from Ivor jeans shop
Evil Knievel toy
SPX trainers
KangaRoo's with the secret pocket
Kangol clothing
Raleigh Choppers
Roller blades
Killer pool

 

[Malevolence]

KangaRoo's with the secret pocket

It was hardly secret given it was one of the USPs.