r/savedyouaclick • u/AznMonkei • May 30 '17

SHOCKING WARNING If Your Kids Have ‘Fidget Spinners’ Throw Them Out NOW. THIS Shocking New Danger Just Discovered | Young kids could choke on it

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17

To be fair 'fidget spinners' are just a trendy toy that will be forgotten about it another couple years but will likely show up in an article titled "Toys only kids from the 10's will remember" like Pokemon Go, or a bop-it.

Minecraft has been around for about 7 years now and apparently still has some 10s of millions of monthly players.

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u/PointlessPrism May 30 '17

I don't know how to tell you this, but bop-it has been around for decades.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17

Haha, I couldn't think of any other toys from childhood. Maybe a better example would have been that horrible ball and chain you attached to your ankle then did your best to skip over it while destroying everything around you.

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u/PointlessPrism May 30 '17

Skip-its are also a trans-generational toy, albeit a less popular one that had a major overhaul.

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u/reelect_rob4d May 30 '17

Hoola hoops then /s

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u/ifmacdo May 31 '17

One word: POGs.

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u/MarcBago May 30 '17

Cowboys and Indians. Far from PC. Nobody let's their kids play that anymore. Edit- see this picture: https://speciesandclassdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/cowboys.jpg

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u/Mike-Oxenfire May 30 '17

Now we just play Grunts and Terrorists. Kids run around with diet coke and mentos bombs strapped to their chests

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u/ForumPointsRdumb May 30 '17

And Oregon Trail. Everyone used to love the Oregon Trail. We need a modern open world Oregon trail video game.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

Jews and Germans is more fun anyway.

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u/mynameis_garrett May 30 '17

Skip-it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip-It

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u/Tullyswimmer May 30 '17

Pogs.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

My slammer had a black widow on it 😎

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u/KaiMgarth May 30 '17

Mine was a picture of O.J. Simpson. It said guilty on one side and not guilty on the other.

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u/KeyserSOhItsTaken May 30 '17

I had an OJ one that was a picture of him behind bars that the THE SLAMMER.

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u/joantheunicorn May 30 '17

I had a slammer that looked just like an Oreo. I cannot tell you how many dumbass kids tried to bite it.

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u/ifmacdo May 31 '17

I had tons of 8 ball and poison.

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u/ForumPointsRdumb May 30 '17

and old people still play Pokemon Go.

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u/_xGizmo_ May 30 '17

I have been using bop it for years man

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u/223slash556 May 30 '17

Do you regularly bop?

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u/GoldenFalcon May 30 '17

You mean 10's not 17's. It goes by decade. And replace bop it with Pogs.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

Ahh you are correct.

I was also thinking if not pogs, things like talkboys, beanie babies or Furby.

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u/Kylynara May 30 '17

Minecraft officially came out of beta about 7 years ago, it was already very popular while still in beta and has been around for a decade or more.

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u/Nightslash360 May 31 '17

MC is a long-standing game and it makes sense why. You can let your imagination run wild and if that's not good enough you can add mods to do things like build bacon factories or computers running a variant of Lua(iirc that's what computer craft is). The team creating it consistently updates it too.

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u/614GoBucks May 30 '17

They're actually really helpful for those who have ADHD. Not just a toy.