DEATH TO TOY FADS

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I know it's been a while, but....guess what's been coming in like gangbusters for the past couple of weeks now that the demand for it is almost completely gone?

Every truck for the past three weeks we've gotten in either a shitload of the rats (I refuse to call them hamsters anymore) or a shitload of the accessories. Sometimes a lot of both.

Today I had a full pallet of rats and accessories needing to be backstocked. They just aren't selling anymore. I don't have any more room in backstock to put the damn things. And there are still orders on these things.

Why, oh why, couldn't we have gotten these fuckers in last fall when everybody wanted one? No, we had to try selling them exclusively in the online store and making a complete mess of it.

[jjllbb]

The demand at my store is pretty consistant.

And now they're coming out with "Kung-zhu" which is the BOY version of the things. Can you tell how excited I am?

[sarasquirrel]

every other kid wants silly bands

im glad we dont carry them...seriously....they may be the dumbest things yet

[jjllbb]

every other kid wants silly bands

im glad we dont carry them...seriously....they may be the dumbest things yet

Our store started carrying them a few weeks ago because the demand got so high.

But they're not the real ones, they're a knock-off.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

every other kid wants silly bands

im glad we dont carry them...seriously....they may be the dumbest things yet

Should that fad continue, I expect the swamp's buyers will start picking them up...


...right at the moment everybody decides they want Baby Puke-On-U or some other such moronic toy.

[dalesys]

...And now they're coming out with "Kung-zhu" which is the BOY version of the things. Can you tell how excited I am?

Eeeeeeeeeee! And they'll start reproducing.... Eeeeeeeeeee!

[Android Kaeli]

My store got a knock-off of the silly bands too, those lasted all but two days before all 300 packs of them were sold out. I had no clue what the silly bands were, I thought that the damned things were pretty-looking rubber bands until someone told me what they really were.

If I wanted to pay what we were selling those things for, I'd go to the nearest Hot Topic and spend the same amount on a 25-pack of bracelets.

Oh, I saw my first Zhu-Zhu pet two months ago and haven't seen one since.

[Zellie Crescent]

Sillybands. Those things are retarted, they're just rubber bands.

[AyreBiskits]

rubber bands?? seriously??? omg

[phantasy]

Wow. Living in Peru and never watching the news really pushes a person back when it comes to fads and such...

Silly Bands? Are those the "animal shaped bands" called "sillybandz"? If so, the websites pictures remind me of high school when kids would spend stupid amounts of their parents money on things like this (grillz, anyone?).. I'm ashamed to be a part of this generation...

I also hate the pose that the girls do in the websites pictures page. They purse their lips together, pull up their eyebrows and point their gaze in another part of the room giving a catbuttface, and think it's cool?? Ugh.

[ShadedWings]

Yeah.. we got the ZhuZhu's and accessories in a few months ago. They came in and I was like "oh look, so that's what they look like. I bet we'll not sell any of them". True enough, we haven't sold one yet. I hear a kid squeal now and then over them but buy them? nahhh.

[Andara Bledin]

I also hate the pose that the girls do in the websites pictures page. They purse their lips together, pull up their eyebrows and point their gaze in another part of the room giving a catbuttface, and think it's cool?? Ugh.

That's referred to as duckface, and it's supposed to be some sort of sexy pout, or something, but I've yet to see it look anything but completely douchetastic.

^-.-^

[dalesys]

That's referred to as duckface...

As in the phrase "F*** a duck"?

[RoadRanger]

First major Christmas toy fad that I can remember with enough lack of availability to cause normal human parents to turn into crazed monsters was the Cabbage Patch Kids, back in the early 80's. I remember some store gave away one as a promotional, and had an armed guard to escort the winner to their car. People were selling them via newspaper ads (this was pre-internet) for hundreds of dollars (they cost around $20 normally).

Oh crap! I remember that! Seeing news reports complete with video of grown adults literally trying to kill each other to get one!

It was like all the WWF battle royal's packed into one - everyone against everyone, only with no ring and no ref to keep things straight!

LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUUMMMMMBBBBLLLLLEEEEEE!!!!

[phantasy]

That's referred to as duckface, and it's supposed to be some sort of sexy pout, or something, but I've yet to see it look anything but completely douchetastic.

^-.-^

...Duckface...? Ew.... I see no sexiness in that pose/facial expression. At all...