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The Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products
FloggingMollyrox writes "UGO looks at the recent 2004 Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products. Forget about Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man, the real stuff was an art farm that grows vegetables, a pogo stick that shoots you over the moon, 'real' shrunken heads, and an educational plush toy based on an alien invasion."
Either way.. I suppose it's an interesting concept... and they are kind of cute...
Buy the President
The anti-salmon
and was too normal or poor to get
They hoped to make a killing selling Simpsons-branded "Ralph Wiggum Nose Goblins". Then they found out that all the kids could easily make these themselves.
Baboochi left their planet because they were invaded by the evil Zartans and came to Earth to find a new home in the arms of children.
Baboochi(TM) will help teach your children to brush their teeth, clean their room, share with others, and many more important lessons that parents want their kids to learn.
Holy shit WTF. I must own one of these.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
It's Log!
It's Log!
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!
It's Log!
It's Log!
It's better than bad, it's good!
hang on The Cheat...we're takin this baby TO THE MOOOOON!!
Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such toy-fair debut documentary films as "Tickle-Me Elmo - the NC-17 Version" and "Coleco Adam: Miracle in Silicon".
Any fish with three eyes? I lost Blinky while I was over in Japan...
True story.
Tellmi's illuminated quills are made of soft rubber and viciously vibrate when he's turned on. I'm not going to examine the double uses for such an item, but at the very least, I could see some necks being massaged.
Yes. Necks. That is the only thing this will be used for, i promise. Cartman's mom is on the other line wanting to order one....gotta go!
The earliest/weirdest toy I ever got was a drawer full of these weird plastic canadian locking blocks.
My parents, coming out of their hippy-ness, got them for me to "expand my mind and creativity". Being 7, what did I make with them? guns/firearms/rocket launchers/etc.
*sigh* good times.
The SCO-MOLD squeezes your somewhat generic *nix operating system into a form that SCO can demand a license and sue you for.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Don't worry, at least Blinky tasted good. *burp*
Hate me!
I've read that toy companies target adult buyers via product design, with products for young children- teddy bears for example, have proportions similar to babies, which supposedly triggers a [mat/pat]ernal instinct in parents.
Tellmi's figured out a much better instinct to trigger in the parents, it sounds like :-)
"Mommy, stop borrowing Mr. Quills! Every time you do his batteries are dead!"
I see this as a great strategy. A second one gets bought shortly after the first, for sure. The second one is in part responsible for the purchase of the third, anywhere from 9-36 months later...perfect! What's their stock symbol?
Please help metamoderate.
Check out "Orgasmic the Hedgehog", that blue sex toy thingy shown on the first page.
Why does the teddy bear transform into a dildo welding killbot? WHY!!!!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Tellmi's illuminated quills are made of soft rubber and viciously vibrate when he's turned on.
So do mine.
I may be a fat bastard, but having...a pogo stick that shoots you over the moon...doesn't make me a cow! -Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
Oh damn... they left out "Bag O' Glass" again!
it's a plush head containing fake vomit, bugs, moldy cheese, rats and worms. -- you just never know which disgusting, vile thing will pop out of his mouth, ears or nostrils next!
Watch out for the lawyers. This is a direct infringement of SCO's business strategy.
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Can you nominate heads? What about Bill Gates, George Bush, the CEO of SCO, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Eminem?
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Damn, kids are so spoiled these days, when I was a kid all we got to play with was a stick and a warning not to poke your eye out.
even on the second bounce, one of the demonstrators had to have himself at least five or six feet above ground
Sounds really cool. I wonder if it comes with a padded helmet for indoor use.
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I try to follow the link from work and our firewall has it blocked. If I'm real stupid, I can try the link three or four more times so that IT can start an investigation into my web viewing habits. Wahoo!
I say they should design real-life action figures of characters like Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Steve Jobs! Maybe we can even bundle them in two-packs. I think a Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds would look nice together.
What if we throw a CEO for Motorola and Kevin Mitnick in one pack? You know people would dish out the cash for this.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
You got a warning? Lucky bastard...now stop moving, my depth perception sucks.
-moitz-
Screw 'em...who cares what anyone thinks.
My parents would have laughted their heads off if I had asked for this stuff. Back in my day, the toy store was up hill both ways, and we liked it, damn it!
No seriously, this stuff is a joke! My first toy was a set of wood sticks notched so I could make log cabins & stuff. That and a piece of cheap astroturf & I had a farm! Naturallyt he farm required animals so my father swiped a couple of drones from the bee hive. If you pull their wings off they make perfectly acceptable "cows," "horses," or "mules."
My next toy was a little broken down wagon my dad got from the dump. A little sledgehammer action on the axle & some paint and it was good to go. Of course it took about 30 seconds for us to go to the nearest hilla nd go for a ride. My devil worshiping brother helped me go a bit faster than I liked, usually. I've been thrown at speed and straddled a small tree at speed when rides went wrong, which could account for my present baldness.
Surely somebody else bombarded Destro & Snake from "space" with pellet guns & firecrackers?
Kids these days are getting the shaft. Childhood was a lot more fun before safety and responsible parenting were necessities. The fake vomit from Ned might get a few screams from mothers still. I want that now.
Why do I have this? I don't smoke.
That FlyBar reminds me of a toy we saw a few years ago... The Death Wish Shoes. :D
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I mean, if some kid combined that with his Habitrail he could put a powerful hurt on his pet hamster...
[I'll get back to work now.....]
A goal is a dream with a deadline
if the photo on the flybar's website is realistic, i cant imagine what would happen to the user if he lost his balance...
i mean, the footprint of that thing is not enough to make the flybar usable on grass, which means it's going to be used mostly on asphalt and concrete.
then again, i fancy myself racing with a buddy on a local bikepath, doing 5 foot high leaps... enough to scare the crap out of the rollerbladers, who incidentally already pissoff the bicycle riders to no end...
Sticks? Luxury! We didn't even have rocks. We were too busy jumping around to keep the slowly cooling crust of the earth from burning our feet to think about playing with rocks or sticks.
------ "Darn floor. Big bite." (Koko the gorilla's best attempt at explaining the experience of an earthquake.)
An obvious cover story, it's the invasion of the body snatchers I tell you!
They're here already! You're next!
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