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#1

What childhood crazes did you get hooked on?

In rough order I went through:

Panini premier league stickers
Pogs
Tazos
Yo-yos
Tamagotchis
Shag bands

Those were the main ones. Honourable mention to that time walkers crisps out fivers in winning packets, and boglins.

#2

Them Corinthians soccer players models with the huge heads

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#3

Tamagotchis for me too, and shag bands. Hahaha so silly looking back now.
Can’t think of any others now, by the time I got to secondary school it was like… bebo and legal highs

#4

Football stickers

Luminous socks. That was a thing in the mid-80s I think.

Yo-yos the coke, sprite ones etc.

Mini footballs (probably again from coke).

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#5

I had a Pro-Yo 3

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#6

Merlin Premier League stickers
Worms (the computer game), was that a craze?

#7

I have a (much beloved) colleague who collects those to this day as well as those Funko Pop things. Basically, if it’s got a big plastic head, this guy will buy it. He has a truly absurd amount of them and one of the things I love the most about him is that he used to find out who all our new starters supported each year and then bring them in a big-head from their favourite team.

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#8

I remember go-go’s after pogs.

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#10

WWF trading cards

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#11

Tide pods.

39 I was

#12

We had to have a school assembly because too many kids were snorting pixie sticks

#13

Pokemon was my first love, to the extend that I actively hated every craze that came thereafter. Yu-Gi-Oh and Beyblade can get fucked

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#15

Football sticker poll.

Did your school have a thing during swapsies that a shiny metal sticker was worth two normal one?

A shiny metal sticker worth two normal ones?
  • Yes (our school was capitalist)
  • No (our school aimed for a fairer society)

0 voters

#16

Pokemon Cards which somehow is still a fucking thing and probably bigger now than it was when I bought a starter pack from Dixons in 1999.

#17

Fidget Spinners

#20

Turgid Glinners

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#22

Also some rarer ‘big name’ players were deemed to be worth more. Eg. 1x Eric Cantona would cost you, say, a Warren Barton and a Steve Howey.

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#23

Is that a Scooby Doo thing?

#24

You’ll just have to pretend here that I’ve managed to make a really good Ed Woodward / Harry maguire joke.

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#26

100% this. Remember saving up the coupons to have enough to send off the 2 players they did in the away kit.
Had the wee stand for the squad and all.
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