Most boring toy

[Miss Chicken]

MONEY doesn't grow on trees it comes from an ATM.
Parents and a consumer behaviour expert are concerned about the message children are getting from a new toy cash dispenser.
The electronic toy comes with a "Viza" card from the "Kid's Bank".
Children can deposit coins and the machine dispenses "$100 notes".
UTAS Professor Aron O'Cass, a marketing and consumer behaviour expert, said it was up to parents to make sure their kids understood how money was earned.
"There's a big divorce with children where they don't appreciate that money is not endless and there are these plastic cards and these holes in the wall where you get money," he said.

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What parent in their right mind would think such a toy would amuse children for more than a minute or two?

And if parents are concerned about the message that such a toy would send their children there is a simple solution - don't spend $39 on it instead spend the money on worthwhile toys.


I am not just going to ask people's opinion on this toy but also I would like to know what was the most boring toy that was ever bought for you.


For me it was Mister Potato Head, what a useless toy that was/is.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

 

[Miss Chicken]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

That is when I learnt a lesson about advertising - Mr Potato Head was not anywhere near as 'exciting' as he was portrayed in the commercials.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Some buttons, some push pins, and a real potato. That's all kids need.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

That is when I learnt a lesson about advertising - Mr Potato Head was not anywhere near as 'exciting' as he was portrayed in the commercials.

Very few things are ever as exciting in reality.

When I was 5, my Slinky never did the things it did on TV, then it got snarled up and I was scarred for life.

It was the toys I never got that had the most appeal

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I never got the race car set. Or the air rifle or the walkie talkies or any of the wonderful items seemingly welded to the other gender. And I'm still mad.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I used to like it when I got a packet of chalk bought for me. So many uses. I made sure it was a staple in my children's Christmas stockings along with such things as tennis balls, colour pencils and drawing paper.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

That is when I learnt a lesson about advertising - Mr Potato Head was not anywhere near as 'exciting' as he was portrayed in the commercials.

That's what Ralphie found out when he finally got his Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The best thing about chalk is drawing all over the outside of your house. Murals.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

That is when I learnt a lesson about advertising - Mr Potato Head was not anywhere near as 'exciting' as he was portrayed in the commercials.

That's what Ralphie found out when he finally got his Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU

What a disappointment.

My nephew Joe was very upset when he got a 3D dinosaur colouring book. The advert on TV had the dinosaurs looking very lifelike and Joe's dinosaurs weren't at all exciting when he coloured them in . My sister actually took him back to the store and got a refund.

The best thing about chalk is drawing all over the outside of your house. Murals.

Including drawing people with naughty bits and then drawing clothes on them before our mother saw our nude pictures.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I never got the race car set. Or the air rifle or the walkie talkies or any of the wonderful items seemingly welded to the other gender. And I'm still mad.

I guess I was lucky because I had a younger brother and he got all those things and I got to use them. I used to even suggest to him what he might like for Christmas i.e. his walkie talkies were my idea.

 

[Kestra]

I could see the ATM being fun in a "let's pretend we are grownups" sort of way, like with kitchens and all. Less uses but as a part of something maybe. I don't really remember being bored with any toys. I took the dolls that my sister never wanted in the first place but got as gifts.

 

[Gov Kodos]

That is when I learnt a lesson about advertising - Mr Potato Head was not anywhere near as 'exciting' as he was portrayed in the commercials.

That's what Ralphie found out when he finally got his Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU

What a disappointment.

My nephew Joe was very upset when he got a 3D dinosaur colouring book. The advert on TV had the dinosaurs looking very lifelike and Joe's dinosaurs weren't at all exciting when he coloured them in . My sister actually took him back to the store and got a refund.

The best thing about chalk is drawing all over the outside of your house. Murals.

Including drawing people with naughty bits and then drawing clothes on them before our mother saw our nude pictures.

I ordered sea monkeys as a little kid from a comic (they're brine shrimp as I recall) they were nothing like the packaging, that was very disappointing. The coolest toy was just sticks and the remains of an old coastal fortress in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The fort is gone, but the old cannons are still there. Kids can spend summers endlessly entertained especially with fire works on a Fourth of July.

 

[Mary Ann]

Teacake, I agree that outdoor chalk is awesome stuff. Hours of fun. Sandboxes are excellent, too.

I have 3 older brothers and my mother bought me several dolls, but I never played with them. I played with Barbie dolls when I was a bit older, mostly just doing their hair (all my Barbies ended up bald because I'd inadvertently pulled the hair out) and drawing makeup on them. Never did a thing with "baby" dolls, though. I was too busy playing with my brothers' Lego.

I coveted the Mousetrap game, but friends who had it told me it was really boring. Apparently it took forever to set up and then never worked properly anyway.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Half of Mousetrap would be lost within two playings of it. There were just that many pieces.

And I actually loathed dolls and never had one. I had small steiff bears that I played with constantly and did all the doll stuff of making clothes and furniture with. I still have polaroids I took of them on their camping trips. I think I always had a huge preference for fantasy and dolls were boring because they were people and people were real.

 

[Mary Ann]

That's a good point. I was the youngest child in my extended family, to the point that there was no baby in the family 'til shortly before my 20th birthday. That's probably why baby dolls had no appeal to me, as I didn't have regular contact with actual babies during my childhood.

 

[Tiberius]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

You will find, after a time, that having a thing is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have a friend who went out and bought one of these

when she has a perfect area in the backyard that her daughters could draw hopscotch on with some chalk. My friend thinks the hopscotch toy is cooler.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

You will find, after a time, that having a thing is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

You know Stonn did look kind of like Mr. Potato Head..

 

[Finn]

I coveted Mr. Potato Head when I was very little but when I got him I found he repulsed me.

(I think there is a lesson in there..)

That is when I learnt a lesson about advertising - Mr Potato Head was not anywhere near as 'exciting' as he was portrayed in the commercials.

I didn't have one, but i used to use someone else's potato head and tried to find odd stuff to stick into it, instead of usual items that came with it.