Contest: ENTER Miscellaneous Avatar Contest: Fads!

[scotpens]

This one's fairly simple: Any short-lived pop culture phenomenon that could be considered a fad. That includes toys, games, novelty products, clothing fashions, dance crazes, and silly stunts. I'll allow media images, but no fantasy or sci-fi. Usual rules apply: maximum 200 x 200 pixels and 1 MB. You may enter up to three avatars.

My entries:

Pet Rock, 1975

Roller disco, late 1970s

Macarena, 1996

So let's get those entries in, folks. Who knows, some of them might make a comeback!

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Dug into my memories of my own youth for these:

#1

Tamagotchi

#2

Smurf figures from Schleich (they lasted a long while, actually)

#3

The Wackeldackel (a bobble-head dachshund, most often put in cars back in the late 90s in Germany)

 

[scotpens]

I hear crickets. Let's have some entries, people!

The Hula Hoop? The Twist? Mood rings? Leg warmers? Streaking? (SFW, naturally.) Volkswagen stuffing? (Yep, that was actually a "thing.")

 

[auntiehill]

Rubik's Cube

Crocs

Slinky

 

[Avro Arrow]

I hear crickets. Let's have some entries, people!

It's only been a day, give us time!

 

[scotpens]

3 days in and I have to bump the thread to the top again! I thought the response to this contest might be a bit more, well, enthusiastic.

The fads don't have to be recent, you know. I'll accept flagpole sitting. Although "ether frolics" might be going back a bit too far.

 

[Kor]

Maybe somebody could do Chia Pets? Ch-ch-ch-chia!

Kor

 

[think]

^Chchchchchia pets yeah that was great stuff ---

3 days in and I have to bump the thread to the top again! I thought the response to this contest might be a bit more, well, enthusiastic.

The fads don't have to be recent, you know. I'll accept flagpole sitting. Although "ether frolics" might be going back a bit too far.

Ahhh I like the enthusiasm @scotpens

 

[think]

fidget spinners

Pez

Buttons / and smiley faces (two in one) although these old smiley faces have become emojis so yeah they have evolved I guess.

 

[scotpens]

I'd like to get a few more entries before I post the voting thread. Some suggestions: Women's shoulder pads, big hair, parachute pants, mullet haircuts, Cabbage Patch Kids, Valley-speak -- and that was just the '80s!

 

[Malicia]

How have I never heard of Pet Rock? I want one!

I don't think roller disco is a fad though because it was popular since the Northern Soul days to the 90s and I remember going to Rollers in Milton Keynes in 1989. It will make a comeback someday.

 

[BK613]

Earth shoes and beanie babies come to mind. CB Radios. And mood rings.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't think roller disco is a fad

ALL disco was a fad.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Uggs (they're back, BTW!!)

Beanie Babies

Gangnam Style!

 

[scotpens]

Voting thread goes up tomorrow. Get those last-minute entries in -- before they come back in style!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

 

[scotpens]

Is that just a bit of nostalgia or do you intend to make an avatar out of it?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm sorry, I forgot this thread was about avatars. My bad

 

[Oddish]

I remember the ET fad, that almost killed home video gaming in its infancy.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

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