Remember in high school when your teacher gave you an egg and you had to take care of it for a week to simulate being a parent? Well, those eggs have nothing on the Baby Born Dolls. And that doesn’t even take into account the after effects of the ball being popped out, which left kids with a cute animal doll with a wide open mouth! Yeah, we’ll just leave that there and let you finish the line of thought. We just have to ask… Do people even play with these toys before they put them on store shelves? Or at least look at the final packaged product? Which, in this case, made it look like the animal had been rescued from Christian Grey’s Playroom instead of being appropriate for a child. The Squeeze Popper Huggables were plush animal dolls with wide open mouths in which you would insert a ball and squeeze the toy to propel the ball across the room. To simulate “flying,” you would put the broom between your legs and press a button for the special effects: sounds and vibration. Sure, it had a little curve in it, but basically it was a plastic version of something everyone had in their hall closet with the words “Nimbus 2000” on it. First off, the thing was just a plastic broomstick. While some of the tie-ins and toys were very cool, there was also the Nimbus 2000 Broomstick. There was no shortage of attempts to cash in on Harry Potter mania in the 2000s. Vibrating hands… Besides being weird, can anyone think of how this could be completely inappropriate? This brings us to 2009 and Elmo’s Tickle Hands because why tickle an Elmo doll when you can put on big furry hands and tickle other people? Kids would wear these big red Elmo “hands” (or gloves) that vibrated whenever they made contact with a surface. Well, when something is that popular, we all know what happens right? The company will run the idea into the ground in order to get as much money as they can from it. In 1996, Tickle Me Elmo became one of the biggest hits of the year, with reports of people actually getting into fist fights at stores over the plush toy. So, between dropping your sea monkeys in the water and playing with those reportedly asbestos-laced CSI Fingerprint Analysis Kits, why not leave us a little comment below?
Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Weirdest Toys from Your Childhood.įor this list, we’ll be looking at those toys that we just don’t understand or that might have seemed like a good idea in development, but perhaps should have been examined a little more closely before heading out to store shelves.
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