What Toy Turned out to be The Biggest Rip-Offs As a Kid?

[P. Gorath]

Whether they seemed so cool in the commercial or on the back of the box, some childhood toys you just HAD to have...and then you brought them home and opened them up and they SUCKED. HARD.

From old school stuff like SPINJAS to those jet planes on rings you put around your finger and then wooshed around :lame: to the crappiest of the transformers like that mini aircraft carrier thing that also turned into a fugly jet with a convertible top (but didnt turn into a robot???).

Sometimes I feel like my childhood was all about toys that looked cool but were shitty.

Anyone remember the Monster in my Pocket board game with the rubber ball you shot at them? :lame:

Donatello with a shell that opened up to hold more weapons? :lame:

ANYTHING Nerf that wasnt a turbo football

The giant super soakers that you had to refill every other spray regardless of how much water was in the tanks?

Oh yeah, and my biggest childhood pet peeve...ghetto radio controlled cars. These normally came in two categories: the crappy ones with actuall chords attached from the remote to the car (so it really wasnt radio controlled) and the crappy ones where the remote only had the "go" button and the steering was done because when you turned the car on it would automatically start spinning in a circle (thus holding the "go" button made it go straight).

Any more you can think of?

[DarkGiygas]

i always thought that super soaker where you put ice cubes in and it turned them to water was retarded

[rsigley]

that stupid football game that just vibrated

jarts (i think they killed a bunch of kids too IIRC)

[sonicspear64]

The giant super soakers that you had to refill every other spray regardless of how much water was in the tanks?


Is that the same one where you had to pump a billion times just to get an ounce of water out? Wait they're all like that.... "INTENSE PUMPING REQUIRED"

[The Epidemic]

worst rip-off ever....shit never worked.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3072/mcgyverpaperclipoy6.jpg

[Rhio2k]

Charlie Brown Sno-Cone maker (you're supposed to use crushed ice in the machine...so why the fuck do you need the machine??)

[MAGUS1234]

well the best was the nerf bazookas, ohh man nothing felt better than tagging my cousins with a lugi coated nerf ball

[Manx]

- Nerf weapons
- Balsa wood airplanes (not rally a rip off since they are cheap and fun until you break them, which is usually on the first launch)
- The BIG Styrofoam airplanes (These really are a rip off because they NEVER fly... ever... )
- Any action figure that shoots, because you WILL inevitably loose the projectile. They also don't shoot very far most the time.
- Crappy RC cars have to be the bottom tier of all toys because they have so much potential and yet fail so hard.

[Million]

I hated how the transformer toys often didn't look like their cartoon counterparts.

-yeah, the "remote" control cars that weren't really that....it was about as stupid imo as a "remote control" for your tv....but imagine a cord that connected the "remote" control to the set. So, the cord defeated the purpose...you get to feel like a moron following this little so-called "remote" controlled car around...you HAVE to follow it because it's still attached to the "remote" control. I'm laughing again just thinking about this. I was at least smart enough to make that decision early on "Never again..". From that point on, I made sure to see that the "rc" vehicle I wanted had no cord.

-Mystery grab-bags at comic stores.---thankfully, I was smart enough to avoid this. Usually, all the comics you get are some lame old trash from many decades ago that no one would've bought anyway. The concept is stupid anyway....apply it to something else. Who would seriously buy a "mystery grab bag" of something? This is a blind purchase. No thanks, I'd rather see exactly what I'm paying for.

-it's not really a toy in the same sense, but Nintendo's Play Choice 10 arcade machine. Ok, it's 10 games, usually included SMB, Bionic Commando, probably Contra, Punch-Out!, and some others. Here's the thing....there was a "300"(seconds?) timer that counted down from the moment you put in a quarter.(yes, it begins counting down before you even press "start") At the end of the timer, the game freezes until you put in more money....so this was a way to guarantee that a kid would continually put quarters into their machine every 5 minutes. Heh, and of course ....this wasn't popular, probably for that very reason. I rarely saw people playing it.

*random gripe---I hated when action figures got loose. GI Joes were notorious for this...but it seemed to happen to most action figures though. Eventually, the joints are loose, and it can no longer hold a pose at all.

[Rico!]

ditto on those cheap ass RC cars. I never got a good one like the ones on tv because those were usually like $100+ at toysrus. :sad:

[Shadow Ace 50]

-Sock em boppers (shit busted when my friend stole off on me)

-Crossfire (gay game, funny ass song)

- Skip-it (wtf that got boring after five minutes)

- Stretch armstrong was meh and heh (it was cool...im not sure)

-Mcdonalds meal makers (make minature shakes and fries, shit gave people e.coli)


-yo-yo's because they came out with a better brand like every month

[Manx]

Wow.
I completely forgot about the play choice 10. They also had on with the SNES controller on it that had SMBs and F-zero and you could find one in every McDonald's.

[Stuckey]

The TMNT blimp. The Party Wagon was quality, but the damn blimp ain't even float :sad:

[J-ride]

Remember that shitty NES controller that had the track that the directional ran on and it had turbo buttons? That thing was the biggest piece of crap I ever received. Those lame flashlight comics, it was cool in a way to read comics on your wall at night, but it was impossible to find good comics, finding a Batman/Superman/Spiderman one was like finding a wonka ticket in your candy bar. Most of the time you ended up with a snorks/Jabberjaw comic, lame.

[MrBlank]

Any fleamarket Toy.

sure it seemed cool, then you realized its a bullshit ass fleamarket toy.

[maxx]

co-sign skip-it

[Tsumuri]

Those cheapo "2000 games in 1" Nintendo Entertainment System clones complete with knockoff controllers that would plug right into your TV set and have you play about 100 variations of Mario Brothers and other generic Nintendo games. Those things last a month tops, unless yours craps out on you the moment you plug that sucker right in.

Fun while they last, but you can see the cruddiness of the toy after it starts malfunctioning fast. Damn bootlegs!

[tl613]

Sea Monkeys

[jim_kim]

That Ninja Turtles Punching Helicopter....that thing barely fit any of my TMNT toys, and the trigger for the fists broke after one week.....

[EndLeSS8]

Any of those slime things/ silly putty things

Play with it for 10 minutes, it gets all dirty and gross and useless.

[maxx]

Those cheapo "2000 games in 1" Nintendo Entertainment System clones complete with knockoff controllers that would plug right into your TV set and have you play about 100 variations of Mario Brothers and other generic Nintendo games. Those things last a month tops, unless yours craps out on you the moment you plug that sucker right in.

Fun while they last, but you can see the cruddiness of the toy after it starts malfunctioning fast. Damn bootlegs!

lol werent they selling those like 4 years ago in mall kiosks?

[Nekoboy Eriku]

Action figures that only bent at the hips and shoulders. Where's the action in that?

[strakka]

Nerf weapons were alright at first... then kids started losing eyes & had nowhere to cry from. The Arrowstorm was 12 types of amazing all in one toy.

[Warpticon]

-Crossfire (gay game, funny ass song)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDUx-RWJxw

Also, Karate Kid action figures.

And I think the Nerf Boomerang was LL Cool J's inspiration for Mama Said Knock You Out, because you sure as hell coudln't call it a comeback.

[Tsumuri]

lol werent they selling those like 4 years ago in mall kiosks?

Yeah, but then Nintendo caught on and they were forced to take their illegal operations to Swap Meets.

What catches my attention in these systems is that there are at least 1 or two NES games created specifically for the system. Once, I saw a Pikachu platformer, and everyone knows Pokemon came out WAYY after the NES died. Another I saw was a Harry Potter beat em up. Weird shit.

[AdverseSolutions]

the transformer that was also a tape deck. bought one, didn't work, took it back. got a new one, DIDN'T WORK. lol shit was booty

[TS]

I got a Mouse Trap game one Christmas, that shit always got stuck on the slide.

[$hAoLIn]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=firG54W7VBk

[mastermind]

The Yo-Yo Ball (http://www.drtoy.com/2003_b/big_time_toys_2003_b.html) I had one. Only because I was 10 years old and a douche that didn't know how to work a real yoyo. Now that I think about it, I was REALLY a douche: I was filipino and couldn't work a yoyo. That was sad. Good thing I can do the shit now. Man... :rofl:

The Turbo Touch 360 (http://www.nesplayer.com/database/accessories/turbotouch.htm). I got one because I couldn't get Zangief's SPD out right when I was 12 or 13. Wow that shit sucked.

[Wolfkiller]

This is because I'm stupid more than anything, but I thought the board game Guess Who? actually talked like in the commercial. :( Such a let down!

[TS]

yo, "GAME PIECES DO NO ACTUALLY TALK."

[Warpticon]

the transformer that was also a tape deck. bought one, didn't work, took it back. got a new one, DIDN'T WORK. lol shit was booty

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[Digitalbooty]

Skip-it. that thing looked like so much fun on the commercial.

"AND THE VERY BEST THING OF ALL!! THERE'S A COUNTER ON THIS BALL!! Try to beat your very best score, see if you can skip a WHOLE LOT MORE!! Skiip-it, Skiiip-it..."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=na0tYUeNKfk


edit: yes, I guess it was a girl's toy...

[Wolfkiller]

yo, "GAME PIECES DO NO ACTUALLY TALK."

Bullshit, they added that AFTER I bought it! :crybaby:

And you fools need to quit hating on Nerf...you know goddamn well the bow and arrow was top tier. They lost it when they started making the little darts with the suction cups though. I had some epic bow and arrow battles when I was younger.

[Million]

haha, so you were an example of the kids they thought of when adding that hilarious disclaimer; "Game cards do NOT actually talk." It always made me laugh that they had to put that in there....it's like the warnings on packages with styrofoam peanuts--"Do not eat this." :rofl:

I also had a Turbo Touch 360...not by choice. It came free in the mail thanks to...some magazine...I can't remember. This was THE worst controller in the history of the industry. If I had a little more free time, I'd make a website specifically to post nothing but hate for that piece of garbage. I'm offended that it even exists in this world. Nothing was/is worse than Turbo Touch...it's like the Church's Chicken of all game controllers....it's the bottom of the barrell.

[Return of Shiki]

-it's not really a toy in the same sense, but Nintendo's Play Choice 10 arcade machine. Ok, it's 10 games, usually included SMB, Bionic Commando, probably Contra, Punch-Out!, and some others. Here's the thing....there was a "300"(seconds?) timer that counted down from the moment you put in a quarter.(yes, it begins counting down before you even press "start") At the end of the timer, the game freezes until you put in more money....so this was a way to guarantee that a kid would continually put quarters into their machine every 5 minutes. Heh, and of course ....this wasn't popular, probably for that very reason. I rarely saw people playing it.


Oh man...I actually remember one of those things.
I played one once at some pizza place when I was like 10 years old. It actually had Mega Man 3, which I had never played at the time so I was like "awesome"...until I realized that 300 seconds really wasn't a very long time, even for 25 cents. I think I put like 3 quarters in to make it to Gemini Man and then just said to hell with this.

[TS]

I always thought the Guess Who commercial was hillarious for the disclaimer. The thing is, the OG version of the game was not electronic in any way at all, the actual faces on the game pieces were fucknig TALKING. Of furcking COURSE that shit wouldn't happen.

Fuck those Tiger handheld games though. I hated all those fuckers.

[pherai]

DBZ action figures were a bust. Man, I'm really cracking up reading some of this shit.

The "remote" controlled cars I would get would always have the absolute worst turning mechanism ever concieved by man. All you could do was go straight forward, or use this awful turn which went backwards and to the right, so if you wanted to go right, you'd have to spin the car around 270 degrees just to face that way.

Those Tiger handheld games were way bunk. I remember having Mortal Kombat on one of those, and it licked balls. Every move, and character looked the same, you could never move, and your opponents life would just randomly drop as you mashed the buttons. I can't imagine someone actually testing that thing out and thinking "man, kids are gonna really enjoy this shit"

[BrwnbellyYankee]

the damn voice activated super soaker that you wore on your head, and when you yelled it would shoot. it seemed so cool in the commercial, when i got it home and it shot like 5 feet i was pissed.

[AdverseSolutions]

Fuck those Tiger handheld games though. I hated all those fuckers.

funny thing is you know like one of them was completely amazing and that somebody out there swears by it. 'it's the drac x of the system man omg' followed by an invitation to fellate them

[pc1x1]

DBZ action figures were a bust. Man, I'm really cracking up reading some of this shit.

The "remote" controlled cars I would get would always have the absolute worst turning mechanism ever concieved by man. All you could do was go straight forward, or use this awful turn which went backwards and to the right, so if you wanted to go right, you'd have to spin the car around 270 degrees just to face that way.

Those Tiger handheld games were way bunk. I remember having Mortal Kombat on one of those, and it licked balls. Every move, and character looked the same, you could never move, and your opponents life would just randomly drop as you mashed the buttons. I can't imagine someone actually testing that thing out and thinking "man, kids are gonna really enjoy this shit"

It's more like, Kids are going to buy this shit? Yes? Sell it and make it seem cooler than it is, alot cooler. Lol

Case and point: Guess Who, these figures actually don't talk! LOL!.
I bought the game too :smokin:.

[scum gale 88]

Fuck those Tiger handheld games though. I hated all those fuckers.


AHHHH! I had 2 of those as a kid! I was maybe 6 or 7, I didnt have enough money to get a gameboy and those handheld games just looked! so! tasty!
I got sonic 3 and street fighter 2. I thought "I have these games for my genesis but now I can play them everywhere!", worst purchase ever. well,one OF the worst.

I picked myself up a manticore megazord sometime after christmas...what the fuck. on paper it sounds like a plastic lion orgasm. a lion robot that combines with a phoenix that transforms into a robot! awesome!

NOOP!

its a stupid toy and the combining feature only works about 50% of the time. the legs have zero movement and the arms dont do much of anything. the box is massive so I assumed the robot would be massive. its actually one of the shorter megazords Ive seen, its the shortest one that I own anyway. that god they put the operation overdrive zord in a window box because that things a piece of shit. no WAY, under any circumstance should anybody buy that horrid thing

[freehode]

Darkwing Duck Tiger game...

"Why am I blinking?" "Oh I guess blinking is bad because I just died when that black turd thing that I guess is supposed to be a weapon hit me."

[TS]

Not only did the Tiger games look ugly as FUCK and the control would make your fingers bleed, but some of them shits would actually freeze up on you. And sometimes there was no on/off button (which actually worked).

Fuck.

I remember the R-Zone being fucking hillarious, because it looked like a piece of shit. It was made by Tiger (STRIKE ONE) and instead of having a screen like the other shitty Tiger games it had an eyepiece that you wore over your eye (STRIKE TWO).

STRIKE THREE. (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/104/)

To cap things off, the lead game for that bitch was Mortal Kombat 3. Game Over.

Luckily I never bought one, because man...yeah...no.

[AlphaDragoon02]

The Tiger ripoff "3D handheld" games sucked ass, although the one for Battle Arena Toshinden was interesting enough to my younger self to play a couple of times.

[EveryFlowerFlow]

Tiger handheld Terminator 2 and Home alone 2 were God-tier

screw you haters. :rock:

[Weeks]

The Virtuaboy. What a fucking disaster. I'm so glad my parents didn't get me one of those.

Anything made by Tiger, EVER.

Instead of buying me a 64 like I wanted, my parents bought me an Atari Jaguar. A fucking Jaguar for my birthday. I pretended to be all happy and enjoy it but man, I was pissed. What a surprise, it stopped working after a few months.

ANY 'remote control' car from Toys R Us that cost less than 100 dollars was almost guaranteed to blow. I still can't believe some executive at the toy company had the balls to actually propose a 'remote-control car' with a cord attached to it. It's so profoundly lame.

How about any of those 'remote control helicopter' toys that don't fly at all?

[Zaelar]

I got some good use out of some of those tiger handhelds....yeah they sucked, but I still had some fun.

And the turbo touch 360 was such a great controller! It was only bad when I took it to my friend's house in the winter since it didn't work right when cold.

......you know what I probably just enjoyed everything I got as a kid. Damn lousy childhood......at least I had contra....

[Kayin]

Snip.

I actually had an R-Zone Superscreen, that thing was the biggest POS ever. :rofl:

[Preppy]

the transformer that was also a tape deck. bought one, didn't work, took it back. got a new one, DIDN'T WORK. lol shit was bootyYou should have got the one with headphones (http://www.microforever.com/MC10cassetteman.htm) or the one that works (http://cgi.ebay.com/TRANSFORMERS-SOUNDWAVE-REAL-WORKING-CASSETTE-PLAYER_W0QQitemZ170122067077QQihZ007QQcategoryZ753 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). (I could've sworn there was a working AM(?) radio one too, but I can't find that now.

* the metal vibrating football game definitely did suck. Did anyone actually ever get any value from that? I was such a sucker and always wanted one even after my brother and I had had two already and hated them....
* crossfire the game was awesome. my brothers and I loved that.
* RC cars generally sucked, but I got one that had a button that let you pop up the trailer that then fired nerf missiles. THAT was awesome.

Seamonkeys and ant farms were my big disappointment. The seamonkeys were tiny and didn't do anything, and the ants didn't farm shit.

[m121akuma]

Two words:

"CREEEEEEPY CRAWLERS!"

I burn my fucking fingers baking some bug that barely stretches and doesn't stick to shit, and shit, you can't even EAT it. WTF DO I DO WITH THAT SHIT!

[terracotta]

Magic: The Gathering

traded my life for fucking cardboard

[Kayin]

Money: The Wasting

Fixed~

[Demon Dash]

Wrestling rings, those things sucked beyond belief... I don't think I ever owned one wrestling ring that didn't break in a corner...

[ToyRobotTerror]

Toxic avengers whatever it was called and his oversized skateboard.

[Colt Steele]

the transformer that was also a tape deck. bought one, didn't work, took it back. got a new one, DIDN'T WORK. lol shit was booty
Hope that was a joke post, cause I still have that in my closet. Bigger version of Soundwave that doesn't transform, but actually works. Shit still plays my 80s glam tapes.
*edit*
Yeah the one that Preppy posted. Can't believe ppl are auctioning that off...that shit's going in the casket.

[Gimpy]

Oh good, I remember back during the christmas of 89 I got this Tyco RC called the Typhoon. It was a hovercraft that could go over water and land. I saw that commercial and was like I got to ahve that toy. So when Christmas rolled around I got the toy. But what failed to be mentioned was that this toy didn't go over cement or dirt. The only hard surface that it went over was linoleum(sp?). So basically the only two places I could use it at was my kitchen and a pool. I'm not the swimming type. :lame:

[AdverseSolutions]

Hope that was a joke post, cause I still have that in my closet. Bigger version of Soundwave that doesn't transform, but actually works. Shit still plays my 80s glam tapes.
*edit*
Yeah the one that Preppy posted. Can't believe ppl are auctioning that off...that shit's going in the casket.

shit man, that's crazy. both the ones i got never worked, dunno what to say.

whoever said virtual boy is right on the money. it's interesting, i went through a retro gaming phase where i was like uhhh buy a bunch of old cow shit and yep i picked up a VB (not as bad as VD). worst thing about it: no 2 player (right?) so basically you're sitting in the corner of your room all day goggled into this red and black fleshlight on a tripod. only game worth any kind of damn on the system was red alarm. my theory was that nintendo realized how totally awful it was about 6 months before it went to market but figured we already spent hella money in R&D and shit so let's just put it out. lol. beginning of bad times for nintendo damn. vb also features basically the rarest game ever for collectors. anyone know the name? /quiz

[arcticninja]

do I even have to say it?

POWER GLOVE.

close thread.

[Gimpy]

You know else was a rip-off toy when I was younger? I don't know if the majority of y'all even seen t his toy but it was a transforming digital watch. It transformed to a robot from a watch. I use to see kids in my class with them and they came in red, blue, and black. So I got one; not knowing it was only one dimensional when it came to it's movements. But I still played with them.

[Taichi]

The Slime Pit.

when your mom takes the fucking slime away, green Kool Aid does not an acceptable substitute make.

and I daresay we made MORE of a fucking mess on her carpet with Blue Dye #6 than we ever could've with a jar of artificial snot.

[RoboGem II]

Magic: The Gathering

traded my life for fucking cardboard

This game is fucking evil. I spent at least $4-5000 with nothing to show for it in the end, and sold my collection for $1500 to a local game store.

Pogs fucking suck too, $5 for a pack of 20 pogs and a slammer, or like $3 for a pack of official 10 pogs.

Those just suck because it was a money sink, they were hella fun.

And I pity anyone who had a shitty super soaker growing up. I had a fucking water bow that can shoot 30 feet and I could just pull back and shoot over and over, and this thing raped almost any supersoaker that ever came out.

[ParryPerson.]

Charlie Brown Sno-Cone maker (you're supposed to use crushed ice in the machine...so why the fuck do you need the machine??)

YES! Fuck this thing, seriously. I remember just grinding it out on a normal ice cube for HOURS and then nothing happened to the ice cube, I cried forever.

I got married and my wife says "Oh, you just use kool aid ice cubes since they crubmle really easy".

OH REALLY? THANKS FOR TELLING ME THAT SNOOPY YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.

[box]

Teddy Ruxpin

Teddy freakin ruxpin

[Infested Jester]

Manglors (http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7294/toy14cy5.jpg) :mad: :mad:

What a fucking waste.....they were rubbery/stretchy figures and the gimmick was, you can rip them apart and then put them back together with this slime they gave you. The shit never went back together, not even close. Worse yet, they dried up after a day. Just from having them out or holding them all kinds of lint and dust clung to them making them useless.

[Taichi]

Teddy Ruxpin

Teddy freakin ruxpin

I dunno, back when he took REAL Cassettes, it was always worth a laugh to have him belt out the latest licks from Def Leppard, Poison, or Whitesnake.

[Higher-Jin]

I also fell victim to the crappy RC car. After realizing it couldn't go farther than 10 feet at a much slower rate then everyone else's I decided I didn't want to play with it anymore. The tiger games were trash, but I remember a electronic mario game and a nifty power rangers game (black casing, required 4 batteries and was all kinds of awesome) that were pretty decent. I think a big rip off was all those alternate dimension ninja turtles that they kept coming up with at the height of their popularity. Suddenly you could own Elvis Donatello, Astronaut Raph, and Medieval Mikey. It sucked when you needed one more turtle to complete the set and all you could find was "Tax Attorney Leonardo" in his striped business suit to lead your troop of turtles to battle.

I swear man, looking around it seems like the toy industry was Lloyd from dumb and dumber - and we were the blind kid looking to buy a headless paraquete for 25 dollars.

[J4YX2]

Trolls.

[Wild Kitty]

Pogs fucking suck too, $5 for a pack of 20 pogs and a slammer, or like $3 for a pack of official 10 pogs.

Those just suck because it was a money sink, they were hella fun.


Pogs were kind of a ripoff but I never spent more than like 20 bucks of my own on shit. I STILL have all my POG stuff.

I got the official gameboard and a little travel case, like over 5000 pogs (only about 1000 official ones) I went to some tournaments and stuff and would trade pogs w/ my dumb friends down the street for baseball cards. I got a Cal Ripkin Jr. Rookie card via trading pogs that was worth about 400 bucks back in 95. I should check Beckett to see how much it's worth now.

I can tell you that my friend's father wasn't too happy when he found out he traded that card away for some cheap metal slammer.

[Taichi]

Kids have no concept of value.

besides, it's just fucking cardboard.

[Gimpy]

I dunno, back when he took REAL Cassettes, it was always worth a laugh to have him belt out the latest licks from Def Leppard, Poison, or Whitesnake.



It's even funnier when someone played N.W.A.. That had me :rofl: as a kid when I saw that.

[Taichi]

I'm sure it would've been!

but I was 8, I didn't know anybody who had a NWA cassette, because all my friends were my age, and none of 'em were allowed to listen to NWA.

[TrunksSS3]

ditto on those cheap ass RC cars. I never got a good one like the ones on tv because those were usually like $100+ at toysrus. :sad:

co-sign with you there...


i had the remote one with that dam short cord LOLZ

the really good ones costed to dam much $100 plus :crybaby: so only the cool kids had them


this topic reminds of the of the VHI 'I Love Toys"

[arcticninja]

if anything, magic has had the highest return on investment out of all hobbies/games/toys I've had. If I sold my collection, it would be enough to buy a car. I've known people that have bought houses with their collections.

[BBQ]

pogs weren't too bad as it was a learning tool on gambling. I lost almost all my pogs to a girl down the street when I was a kid. It was traumatizing as I worked so hard getting them. Even today I hate going to casinos with friends.

[Taichi]

Christmas was always fun once you learned what was up.

and why Santa liked Rich Kids more.

[Jr7891]

I hated Tiger handhelds. I had Goosebumps, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Sonic, and I think some bullshit game they made up.

Goosebumps was the best game, but that isn't saying much. There was this pedophile trying to touch you, so you had to dodge him and take pictures with your camera. But, the game froze when you pressed attack. So you wither had to get a screwdriver to reset it or get a needle. The needle reset button broke the whole dame toy when I pressed it so I said fuck it and sold the piece of shit to some kid for $25 and threw the batteries in my gameboy.

Mortal Kombat fucking sucked. Even though you could pick all the characters, the only character whose special move actually worked was Sonya. So all you could do to attempt to have fun was pick her and spam her fireball.

Street Fighter? I couldn't get the piece of shit to even start.

Sonic 3's box showed pictures of the Genesis game. But, they remade the shitty bonus stage. Thats reason enough to hate it.

I had more fun playing my 3000n1 which should be actually be called a 15 in 1. Tetris was great and it was backlit before every other handheld.

Tiger has just reached near SNES level games in 2006 with their Scan System. I honestly think that their Xmen fighting game was the worst shit I ever played. That game was worse than War Gods.

[asianhitler]

I always hated when I got a Voltron toy that wasn't able to shoot its hands. I expected all of them to do that! >=\

[Zero619]

for me it's these games
1)those 100 in 1 handheld games

2)Those low budget no name hand games where you do the same thing over and over until you lose and get gameover.

(Thank god nintendo game out with the game boy and all of its succesors or we'd probably still be playing those junk)


3) Those console knock offs with their knock off games.( those were trash)

4) Remote controlled cars on the race track that only went in a circle.

5) Remote controlled car with the wire

I gonna get flamed for these two but these are the TRUE WINNERS of biggest rip off toy:

6) Giga Pets (digital pets...... yeah.)

7) Yugi-oh cards (Im sorry but i am NOT paying $15 for a fucking card with Blue Eyes White Dragon on it.) besides buying the packs to get some of the good/rare cards, the money you spent on those adds up.


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[DS]

Nickolodeon Gak. That shit dried up after 1 week. And it was $10. GGPO. Shark Attack was a pretty hard ripoff, too. The Shark ate up AA batteries with a vengeance.

[Zero619]

^^^I remember that. Never knew it dried up eventually.

I heard also that Game.com was a POS also.

Can some one tell me what GGPO means?

[JackTenrac!]

Good Game Peace Out.

- Neo Geo AES. Seriously folks, you're paying $5 bills(00) for 16 bit system, and like hella lot for the games themselves. I couldn't bear to watch this.

- Gak.

[shoo]

as a kid i always wanted that micro wheels big ass van thing that folds out and looks like city

it was really sucky and all the parts always came off T_T

[Taichi]

for me it's these games

7) Yugi-oh cards (Im sorry but i am NOT paying $15 for a fucking card with Blue Eyes White Dragon on it.) besides buying the packs to get some of the good/rare cards, the money you spent on those adds up.


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I have THREE BEWD, they're all different, and all official.

I didn't pay for a single one of them.

[The Epidemic]

Two words:

"CREEEEEEPY CRAWLERS!"

I burn my fucking fingers baking some bug that barely stretches and doesn't stick to shit, and shit, you can't even EAT it. WTF DO I DO WITH THAT SHIT!

i remember those wack-ass gel things...i remember some of my frineds wanted them when we were in like 3rd or 4th grade

[orochizoolander]

FIRSTOFF THE TURBO TOUCH 360 IS THE GREATEST ****ING CONTROLLER EVAR!!!

How can yall hate on it? sure it sucked ass for fighting games but back in the day it was the reason i beasted on all my favorite games like gunstar heroes, rocket knight adventures, vectorman, comix zone, exo squad, sonic, chakan, barkleys shutup n jam, zoop, columns n countless others so YALL STFU TURBO TOUCH 360 OWNED!!!

Also what's with the virtual boy hate? sure it was only 1 player not NOT portable at all and the red n black 3d graphics hurt ur eyes after like 30 mins but red alarm, bomberman, and mario tennis (godtier AI they always hit it on the line) were fun as hell GGPO.

The #1 biggest ripoff toy by far which i'm surprised wasn't mentioned yet is the slinky i don't care if u had the plastic rainbow one or the metal one they both ALWAYS TANGLED UP AFTER 1 "FLIGHT" DOWN STAIRS...damn stairs owned even back then. Another big ripoff was pogs i was never into them they were just cheap pieces of cardboard that u stack in a pile n hit with slammers WTF? how can anyone regardless of age find any entertainment in that? Also brain yoyo's were the gayest shit ever all my friends had one and they were EXACTLY liek any other yoyo but 432849234890 times more expensive i never understood that. Now don't even get me started on tamagotchis them shits kept me up at 4am when i was like 9 years old just to tell me it needed food or me to clean it's shit...I DON'T WANT NO BABY AT THE AGE OF 9 KTHX GGPO. Nerf toys were hit or miss some were cool some sucked major ass but the one that takes the cake is the nerf vortex that shit NEVER flew straight no matter how great ur aim was **** U JOHN ELLWAY that commercial was soooo misleading. In the early 90's i had a few transformers action figures and bumblebee ALWAYS broke it was this tiny ass shiny plastic bitch that cost like $3.00 my mom bought me like 3 of them n they all broke I also hated those gayass medabots and those mini cars that u launched with ur fingers with plastic tongs the commercial was all like THE SPEED IS AS UIR FINGERTIPS!! GTFO HERE WITH THAT SHIT.


I understand all the hate on RC cars i never had any but they looked pretty lame in the radioshack stores but i remember my friend had one that was liek a monster truck n it's wheels opened up to reveal claws comin out i thought that was kinda cool.

[.Free.]

i'd say stretch armstrong... or his nemesis the red guy(forgot his name) vacuum guy or somethin.... well the toy you had a pump to suck all the air from him and made him rock hard.... The toys always ripped and all the sand came out.

[Taichi]

yeah, that's because they were made of balloon latex, and that stuff isn't meant to last forever.

anybody who thought otherwise is deluded.

the day they start using rip-stop kevlar in some gimmick toy, and it rips, you have a right to complain, until then, tough shit.

[Wild Kitty]

Yo I loved my Stretch Armstrong and the Red guy

You just need to be chill with some of your toys guys. Remember how it told you to fix stretch? It was like, glue him together and put a band-aid on it.

That red guy was fun

[Taichi]

"That Red Guy"'s name was Vac-Man, by the way.


then they created the "Vac Pack" which were smaller figures........it was a neat gimmick......

but that wasn't sand, it was Corn Starch.......

[N-Ken]

Godamnit stretch armstrong was the biggest rip off, cause he got hard and then you couldnt do shit with him, after the commercials made him look so gdlk:(

[Taichi]

Stretch Armstrong was filled with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

going 'hard' just meant the syrup was stagnating.

since it's an organic substance, it's bound to break down. (News Flash: Plastic is ALSO organic, and breaks down, just a WHOLE lot slower)

what's important is that he was fun while you had him.......it's not like, say, a GI Joe figure, which is gonna last for decades.

I don't know very many people who keep Stretch Armstrong in the box, the novelty was in the gimmick.

eventually that gimmick was gonna wear out.

[pherai]

Those like action pens or attack pens or whatever they were called. There was one with a mini basketball game, one with a laser pointer, one with little helicopters. They all got ****ed up after like 5 uses. I had the helicopter one and not only would the helicopter just fall of the pen without launching 90% of the time, but after a couple days, the mechanism would barely pull the ripcord in anymore.

All of the power rangers toys sucked too. They did form together into the megazord, but once they were together, the megazord could just stand there and do nothing. It was completely immobile. Even in their seperate forms they were immobile.

[Preppy]

^-- Oh man. I had a little cassette-sized pen set that converted into a rocket launcher that fired the eraser rocket. I don't know where the hell that came from, but that's the only "action pen" set I've ever seen that seemed worthwhile.

The nerf dart firing remote control truck (http://cgi.ebay.com/Tyco-Remote-Control-Firepower-6-0V-JET-TURBO-Truck_W0QQitemZ220114648122QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4402 9QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem) I was talking about. (Tyco Firepower, model No 2847-27 Blue, 2847-49 Red). I randomly had somebody come into my office lusting after my Masterpiece Optimus, so had to pull out Devastator and a bunch of other toys from my desk drawers for him (his request), and randomly ran across the FirePower Owner's Manual in my desk.
Get one of those if you want an awesome RC car.

Stretch Armstrong sucked.
The Etch-a-Sketch sucked. I could squiggle and that was about it.
Go-Bots sucked. Anytime I got one I had to start pretending it was a Transformer. =P
Zartan's that didn't color change sucked.
Vehicle Voltron sucked.
PlayMobil sucked. They're great, but since everyone else had Legos, what the hell were you going to do with them?

[Autocrat1]

"Talkin' Turtles (TMNT)"

You basically had to shove this long piece of red dookie string across the turtles' big-ass-shell...uh, shell and they say what was written on the aforementioned hot dookie in the most jarbled cum-guzzling noise that makes "Ooooh! Shell Shock!" from Turtles In Time™ seem like an epic money shot by comparison.

"I'm trippin' off acid..." -Raphael Hayes

And those fuckers on the box scared the shit outta me as I never saw the underground comic (no pupils + big smiling face = emo kiddy nightmares)...and they all talking like Michaelangelo WTF...:confused: (http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9003/tmnt5182sg0.jpg)

[Night]

+ eleventy billion on Super Soakers. The commercials got kids prematurely ejaculating because of the "shotgun" look and feel so you can pump and everything, but it was all a scam!

Even today, any conventional pullback water cannon, those tube like cannons where you just dip the nozzle in a body of water, pull back, and push again provides more output than any super soaker on the market, and you don't even need spend time to refill any tanks as the water source comes straight from drawing from the pool, river, etc.

[Taichi]

the "No Pupils" thing was standard. That's the way Laird drew 'em.

[AdverseSolutions]

super soakers were like widespread masturbation practice. somebody jocelyn elders'ed a whole generation of young men.

[swordofkenshin]

I remember one year for christmas I wanted leonardo and my mom got me this fuckin krang playset that came with some weird wannabe gak crap.

-SoK-

[PsychoSquall]

Remember during that time when it seemed like every comic book all had to have a TOTALLY RAD HOLOGRAPHIC 3-D FOIL-EMBOSSED POLYBAGGED comic cover WITH FREE COMIC CARD included... making the total cost 2-3 dollars MORE??? Wow, I feel so special knowing my comic has a cover using every damn gimmick they could think of, yet the story and artwork WITHIN the book sucked donkey nuts.

FREE PRIZE within the cereal/Cracker Jacks. Ok, apparently 'prizes' meant the cheapest, gheyest, smallest piece of shit possible.

Those ads in really old comic books for crap like X-ray glasses and SeaMonkeys. LOL I remember seeing one that claimed it would make you rediculously muscular like Superman. They had a picture of a kid, before and after. I'd like to see that in comics nowadays...

[Biolink]

It seems like humans have gotten smarter over a short period of time,because some of this stuff I could never imagine playing with(At the moment I can't think of any rip-off toys that I had).

The Macgyver Paperclip that they actually attempted to sell.That shit is just scandolous.You know you hacve bought a shitty product when the cardboard box outside of the toy is probably worth more that what is inside the box.

[{PFH}-Lake]

mine were Battle Beast, there arms would always fucking break. And GI joes would fall apart.

[m121akuma]

Oh, I got one for ya'll. Tomogatchi. GODDAMN, Those things ruined lives. And now that I'm in Japan, I see that shit EVERYWHERE again. GODDAMMIT LET IT DIE! I DON'T WANT FUCKING TOMOGATCHI BREAD!

[TS]

Hahaha, tamagotchi bread.

I figured the trend would be long dead in Japan by now, since it started there like 10 years ago.

[woof]

tiger handheld games are so fucking awful

Godamnit stretch armstrong was the biggest rip off, cause he got hard and then you couldnt do shit with him, after the commercials made him look so gdlk:(
what

man when i had stretch armstrong he fucking leaked all over the place the day after i bought it
that shit was mad hard to clean out of the carpet

[.Free.]

i use to have a baseball bat that, when u swung it, it made a sound like u hit the ball... there was something inside it that would slide... i forgot the name of it...i thought it was cool back then but thinking back on it now, it's pretty lame to buy a bat that makes a hitting sound.

also Zap It! a water gun that shoots water but suppose to look like ink... it would make your shirt look black but after a while the color disappears just leaving u wet. lame gun that took batteries and was like an automatic just push down the trigger and it was shaped like an Uzi.

[TrunksSS3]

that Nerf football that that makes a sound when you throw it was kinda kool lol


dont you hate it when the rubberband from your G.I joe brakes on you lol

[Gimpy]

Another toy they started "pussyfiying" Entertech(sp?)water guns. When they first came out they had dark colors for them but then parent groups started bitching and they started using loud ass colors and shit like neon pink with neon green camo and shit.

[JackTenrac!]

Nano Babies == Tamagotchi's clone from Irwin. I had one. Lost it like 2 months into school.

[Satomiblood]

I'd say when games like NES Castlevania cost close to $70.

[EvilRyuX]

The biggest rip-off has to go to that Plug-And-Play Baseball game, that had the game in the ''Base Shaped'' console and gave you a bat controller. Unless you were in a room where there was a HUGE amount of space, the chances of you actually enjoying this game was slim, since you had to be careful not to swing it too hard and have it fly out of your hands and break something. Kinda like the Wii controllers when they had the weaker straps. Yeah, I didn't have a lot of space to really enjoy it, cause you had to basically swing hard to CRANK the ball in the game to actually get somewhere in it. Swing too weak and it was an instant out.

I remember the Virtual Boy from way back too. It was fun for all of about... 5 minutes, when it then started to hurt my eyes. The only game I had for it was Mario Tennis, but had the Virtual Boy taken back either the same day or the next day since it not only hurt my eyes, but I didn't really enjoy having to stare at Red and Black lines in a goggle-type machine.

[soup or man]

All of those Laser Tag games. I haven't used any of the ones that have come out in the last 8 - 10 years, but before that they were balls. If you weren't playing in perfect darkness, and standing no more than 3 feet from your target, you weren't going to hit him.

I had one set that didn't make any sort of audible sound when you hit the person, there was no "laser" to see where you were shooting, and the screen on the gun was not backlit, so you couldn't see your score in the dark. Basically, if the batteries ran out, you could play it exactly like you could if it was functional. After about 10 minutes, you walk over to a light, look at your gun, and say "I think I got like 888--oh god my batteries are dead."

[Jida]

Trolls.

Shit yes!

My cousins used to cut their hair off and set them on fire and give 'em afros and shit. All I could think of was washing and combing their hair. Yes homo. :rofl:

[Tantin]

http://www.nesplayer.com/database/accessories/images/tt360ad.jpg

This really upsets me.

On second thought, I believe this ad is why OZoolander enjoys this controller so much.

[Autocrat1]

http://www.nesplayer.com/database/accessories/images/tt360ad.jpg

This really upsets me.
No homo...

[AcEtUrNeDjOkEr]

This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Force)

[Taichi]

ALABAMA MAN! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=1TAvLL77eHw)
WILD WACKY ACTION BIKE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArBvUO5SRyc)

[VangardB]

Aurora Interactor: The damn thing was supossed to rumble when something happened in a video game but the shit just didn't work how I expected when I was a kid....what a piece of shit!

Ninja Turtle Ooze: Not really a toy but I really wanted the shit. Poured it on some toys....they never worked again! And you could only really use it once.

[Nagata Lock II]

Nerf weapons were alright at first... then kids started losing eyes & had nowhere to cry from.
:rofl: Oh man... burst laughing at work from this line. :rofl:

[Wolfkiller]

mine were Battle Beast, there arms would always fucking break. And GI joes would fall apart.

Oh hell no. You can't hate on Battle Beasts. Those were the coolest! Rub their bellies to make fire, water, or wood! Sucks that the arms did snap occasionally though. I still have all of mine.

[P. Gorath]

I've got another one...those portable racing "video games" that was really just a cutout of a car that you moved left or right over a lit up background with some sound effects?

[Satomiblood]

Ninja Turtle Ooze: Not really a toy but I really wanted the shit. Poured it on some toys....they never worked again! And you could only really use it once.

I poured that shit allover my GI Joes.

[Gimpy]

I had that ninja turtle ooze; that shit had a funny smell to it. Non-toxic my ass!!

[{PFH}-Lake]

Oh hell no. You can't hate on Battle Beasts. Those were the coolest! Rub their bellies to make fire, water, or wood! Sucks that the arms did snap occasionally though. I still have all of mine. I loved Battle Beasts but they just broke to easy.

[poppinrice]

the damn voice activated super soaker that you wore on your head, and when you yelled it would shoot. it seemed so cool in the commercial, when i got it home and it shot like 5 feet i was pissed.

haha , i had one of those

its really bad cuz you would be yelling "FIRE!!" and people would hear you thinking there is an actual fire going on and they be callin 911 and stuff.

[Sephiroth_KMFDM]

Pelican memory cards for the PS1... fuck them.... I lost so many saved games to this company fuck'em.

[poppinrice]

pogs weren't too bad as it was a learning tool on gambling. I lost almost all my pogs to a girl down the street when I was a kid. It was traumatizing as I worked so hard getting them. Even today I hate going to casinos with friends.

yay someone mentioned pogs :D