I have become quite the Nintendo handheld console expert in the past couple of years. Now here is my moment to shine in the “cool” department. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… I wish I were that cool.ĭo you have some old Yu-Gi-Oh! cards? Maybe take a look at our list of the most rare Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and see if you are sitting on a fortune! 4. It was its own little underworld, where secret meetings were held in the back of comic book stores… and the elite battled it out for honor, glory, bragging rights, and maybe like to have first choice between grape soda or orange soda that night. But we all knew those kids who were all about anime and Japanese cards way before that ever became cool. I was more into the Marvel/X-Men type cards. I never got into anime or D&D style trading cards. When fans get not one, but two awesome collections to be excited about… everybody wins.Īnd as the top selling trading card game in the world in 2009 (made official by Guinness World Records), at over 22 billion cards… Konami clearly had a hit on their hands.
2000S BARBIE PLAYSETS SERIES
Officially launched by Konami in 1999 in Japan and March 2002 in North America, the Yu-Gi-Oh! series of trading cards were quite obviously made to compete with the likes of Pokémon.Īnd hey… no shame in the game. So anybody lucky enough to get one of these bad boys back then, especially as a kid… man, you were cool. The original 2004 model started an entire line of premium lightsabers, and fans eat them up. But 2004 saw the release of what was the coolest and most true to the film version the world had seen. From inflatable versions to those ones you can fling out from the handle. There were many versions of the lightsaber created over the years. But which toy was the toy that kids had to have after watching any Star Wars movie? That sweet lightsaber! that he retained all rights to any sequels.Īnd looking back at the franchises insanely successful history, we can see how those two things proved to be Lucas’ ace in the hole. that he would retain all merchandising rights, and 2. but it is also a MASSIVE merchandising machine.Īs the legend goes… George Lucas sold his then unproven franchise to Fox Studios for a fairly low price with two caveats: 1. Star Wars is not only one of the most popular science fiction film franchises the world has ever known. One parent’s Amazon review urging “TAKE THE BATTERIES OUT!”.īe sure to check out our best Harry Potter games articles too! 8. But I think we can all agree that you can’t sell a children’s toy that vibrates and is intended to be stuck right between your legs. How cool! I’m sure every kid who saw Harry Potter wanted to get a magic wand and a broomstick A-S-A-P.īut parents seemed to see something entirely different in this toy. One such item being the Nimbus 2000 vibrating broomstick.
2000S BARBIE PLAYSETS MOVIE
A classic movie moment, and one I will always remember.Ī popular franchise like Harry Potter is bound to spawn a ton of great merchandising opportunities. I went and saw it with my friends (we were all about 19 at the time), and I remember how freakin amazing it was when Harry steps out into Diagon Alley and a whole new world opened up to him.
The first Harry Potter film hit theaters in 2001. Speaking of cases… one family won a lawsuit against the company for about half a million dollars for the medical damage it did to their child.Ĭheck out this USA Today article about the Aqua Dots debacle. Unfortunately for them that was not the case. Needless to say, Aqua Dots were voluntarily pulled from shelves, and the manufacturer prayed that the memory of them would disappear into obscurity. A little compound made notorious for being involuntarily ingested while on dates.Īnd it turned out GHB wasn’t good for kids either.
What did that specific chemical agent do when ingested, you ask? Well, it created Gamma-hydroxybutyrate. The thing about that is that the Chinese manufacturer of the tiny liquid filled dots actually filled them with a chemical agent not prescribed by the inventor of the toy. Well, the Aqua Dots did, in fact, have something added to them.
Which is never really a good thing.īut companies do typically warn against this, and even go as far as to create deterrents (such as adding a bitter tasting coating to their toys). Just one small problem with the Aqua Dots… not an uncommon problem with children’s toys… kids were eating them. I remember going to the store with my young cousin and him begging our grandma to buy some. Insanely popular for their short lived time on the market. Little colorful dots filled with liquid that you can arrange into pictures.
0 kommentar(er)
