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  • #16
    Quoth Chromatix View Post
    Frankly, Black Friday sounds like a Universally Stupid Idea. We don't have it over here.

    Combining it with a "special event" for this year's mega-fad toy is just going to make it even more insane than last year - and given that people actually died last year, that's not a good thing.
    It is a Universally Stupid Idea. There's never anything being offered by any of the local stores that would would make me get up at Oh-Dark-Thirty to stand in line and fight other people for them. But since I work until 7 am that day, I always wind up picking up a few things after work since I'm there anyway, and if I went home and slept and then came back, the store would be picked clean.

    And I don't know if the big Zhu-Zhu pet thing is just going to be one particular retailer or if the swamp is going to try something with them too. I hope they don't. I've been lucky enough not to find myself in a retail riot, and I don't need to experience that anytime soon.

    If we do have a big Zhu-Zhu pets thing going on, I'm demanding a cattle prod and pepper spray at the very least--for "crowd control" purposes.
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    • #17
      See, I could have avoided the whole thing entirely if my parents had the same TV set up that I have at home.

      I have no commercials ever. My kid goes over there and it's like the home shopping network or something.

      So she said she liked the "little hamsters" so off Mom went to get one, and somehow managed to get obliviously lucky. We later looked on Amazon to see what they were going for out of curiosity, and they're going for 50 bucks!

      And people are PAYING that! I am of the opinion that you pay that kind of money for something like that, you deserve the dry cornholing you get.

      Then I told my Mom, "listen, we will not be doing the 'hot toy' foolishness with these children." She was right there with me, she honestly didn't know what the deal was with them till after the fact. She just got them because my kid thought they were cute.

      And she does play with it, it's a cute little thing. It sits on her work table and chirps at her. She colored it's back pink.

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      • #18
        Another Christmas, another useless toy fad. this is monumentally stupid.Thank the gods my children like video games. That I can handle.

        I had a supervisor a few years ago that actually admitted to hitting a woman to get a Tickle Me Elmo for her sister. No toy on planet earth is worth it. If my kids want it and I can't grab one, they can wait till after the new year. by then the fascination with it is gone.
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        • #19
          I had a cabbage patch doll during the psycho craze, but only because my aunt sent me one from England, where my uncle was stationed at the time. His name was Delmer Casius and he came with nappies and a sailor suit outfit. Only cabbage patch I ever had.

          Remember Beanie Babies? There was some fun insanity. My dad was a delivery driver for UPS at the time, and would hide the boxes inside other empty ones to keep from getting mugged on the way into the stores.
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          • #20
            Okay so first: Out of morbid curiosity one year I will go to a store on Black Friday and watch.

            Second: Everyone thought my daughter would turn me into a pushover. I proved them wrong I mastered the words, "We'll see"

            I never get my daughter the hottest toy of the year I get her the toys she wants.
            What this means is that if six months ago she was dying to get a toy and three months later she still wanted it then I got it for her and put it under the tree. Only once I got her the hottest thing to hit the shelves I bought it on E Bay and it was something I got because she had asked for it two years running. Not during Christmas either.

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            • #21
              Don't get me started on the hot toy fads.
              Remember when those Fur Real pets first came out? My little cousin HAD to have one. My aunt searched forever for one and finally ended up getting one off ebay. For $125.00. At a time when she, her husband, and my cousin were living with my Mom and myself rent free because they couldn't afford a place to live. My cousin played with that toy for ohhh... about four minutes and then pretty much forgot about it until it started making weird and random noises 'cause the batteries were getting ready to die.
              As far as I can remember, my mom only gave into the toy fad once when the Teacher Barbie came out. Grandma ended up getting one that some lady brought back to the store because it didn't have underwear.
              I remeber getting a few toys like a stuffed animal and a model horse, clothes, books, and the occasional Disney movie on VHS. Christmas at our house was more about spending time with family and friends than getting stuff when I was younger.

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              • #22
                Want to know what is ironic? The fact that (at least last time I looked) Cabbage Patch Kids cost the exact same amount on ebay now that they did in stores when they were a craze.

                Which means they are worth less.

                I met that guy, Xavier Roberts, who started the things. He used to do craft shows here in town, and I had friends who did too, so I would hang out at the shows and help out in my friend's booth. Real nice guy. I wonder if his original soft sculpture dolls are worth a lot nowadays?

                Knowing how cool his original concept was, it made me
                1. kind of sad seeing how commercialized such a cool, folksie toy became and
                2. Happy for him that at least he's probably made a hell of a good living off his idea.

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                • #23
                  Quoth LillFilly View Post
                  My sister got attacked by some woman over a shipment of beanie babies; both were going for the same one and the woman pulled my sister's hair back to get to it first. Ugh!

                  You know, that woman could get her kids a REAL hamster and teach them the responsibility of caring for another life. Nah, sounds too responsible...

                  No, no, no no, you never buy an animal as a present unless the person recieving it wants a pet. Alot of people give pets as preseant to those who don't want it and aren't willing to take the time to properly take care of it.

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                  • #24
                    I'm a major Star Wars fan. I used to have a bunch of the original Star Wars figures from the 70's (even the blue Snaggletooth until Sparky found it). Then Kenner ended that line sometime in the mid 80's. In 1995, they started an updated version of the Star Wars figure line. They were pretty cool and all and damn near impossible to find for about the first year. I remember driving all over southern Michigan for them. When I'd go to visit a vendor, after I was done with my business, I'd stop at the Toys 'R Us. Even did the Midnight Phantom Menace thing...sigh....I however refused to pay comic book store prices.

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                    • #25
                      I don't think I ever asked for huge fad toys. I remember begging for toys I wanted, but nothing like Furby's or Tickle me Elmo.

                      I think the only time i really begged for the "hot new thing" was when the GameBoy Advanced game out in Summer 2001. I did not get it. Mostly because I got my first Gameboy Color for Christmas 2000. So my dad didn't want to waste money.

                      I have a lot of little cousins though. It is PAINFUL in more than one way to hear them screaming for the craze of the year. Especially if I'm at the store with them.
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                      • #26
                        Ah, the Zhu Zhu pets. We have a post-it by the phone at the operator's desk that says something like, "If anyone calls for zhu zhu pets, we are sold out. We don't know when we'l get any in. When we do, it will be an unspecified amount. We will not hold them for anyone at all." It's like reading the operator's half of the conversation with the SC, and you know the conversation will go just like that every time.
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                        • #27
                          Quoth AriGriffin View Post
                          As far as I can remember, my mom only gave into the toy fad once when the Teacher Barbie came out. Grandma ended up getting one that some lady brought back to the store because it didn't have underwear.
                          And now Van Halen is going through my mind (if I remember my 80's music correctly). I guess I'm glad that I'm at the age that the only thing I want for Christmas is porn.

                          Er... I mean socks. Yeah. Socks.

                          I don't recall ever falling for any of the fads, unless one might consider Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was very surprised to get a model 2 SEGA Genesis (when I would've been happy with just the Tiger Electronics version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2), and I still don't know why my mom ever bought me a Furby (I was, what, in my early teens? Ended up as a bookend).
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                          • #28
                            Quoth Chromatix View Post
                            Combining it with a "special event" for this year's mega-fad toy is just going to make it even more insane than last year - and given that people actually died last year, that's not a good thing.
                            Yes, we remember it well.

                            I'm afraid it may happen again this year. The suits don't care. Who gives a damn how many peons die as long as they can sell millions of dollars of crap and get their bonuses this year?! Let's put them on the front lines, holding back the buckling front doors and frantic mobs and see how quickly they change their tunes.
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                            • #29
                              Quoth XCashier View Post
                              Yes, we remember it well.

                              I'm afraid it may happen again this year. The suits don't care. Who gives a damn how many peons die as long as they can sell millions of dollars of crap and get their bonuses this year?! Let's put them on the front lines, holding back the buckling front doors and frantic mobs and see how quickly they change their tunes.
                              Yeah right.

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                              • #30
                                Quoth Bloodsoul View Post
                                And now Van Halen is going through my mind (if I remember my 80's music correctly). I guess I'm glad that I'm at the age that the only thing I want for Christmas is porn.

                                Er... I mean socks. Yeah. Socks.

                                I don't recall ever falling for any of the fads, unless one might consider Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was very surprised to get a model 2 SEGA Genesis (when I would've been happy with just the Tiger Electronics version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2), and I still don't know why my mom ever bought me a Furby (I was, what, in my early teens? Ended up as a bookend).

                                I was all about Ninjas Turtles as well, but I'm told I was asking for them before they actually became a big hit.

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