• What was the most annoying toy you had as a child?
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Post any toys you might have had as a child, that stand out in your mind for just how much they irritated people. This can also include any toys a sibling or a friend might have had. As a 3 year old, I had a "Sing and Snore Ernie". You would squeeze his hand, and he would become 'tired', sing twinkle twinkle, and fall 'asleep'. His chest was motorized, and would move up and down with his snoring. Once this sequence stopped and you turned him upright again, he would 'wake up' and proclaim "I feel great!". Except the sensor that detected when you moved him frequently malfunctioned, and would set that phrase off at random times, over and over again, without any input from anyone. So after he was put back in the toybox and you had gone to sleep, you would frequently hear "I feel great!" break the silence in the middle of the night. It got the point where my brother (we had bunk beds at the time) got fed up, and threw him in the closet. This made it worse, and now you heard a muffled "I feel great!" every few seconds, as opposed to every hour or so. Here's a video of one of these. Not mine; mine's probably still saying "I feel great" in a landfill somewhere. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeAwTIDYKS8[/media]
I don't know why and this is sort of related, but I always feel really sad when I think about discarded toys, especially teddy bears and such.
Probably the Bop-it and the Furby, at least to my parents they were annoying.
[t]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Es2u8xUaL._SY300_.jpg[/t] I had this annoying thing when I was a babby, my parents fucking hated it. I used to love screaming at it for some stupid reason. Then when that one "broke" my aunt bought me a new one that sung "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and did flips, but I can't be assed to find a picture of that one.
HitClips, I had a Smash Mouth - All Star one too :v:
The toy that made that Jim Carrey sound, you know what I'm talking about. The most annoying sound in the world.
I had a Godzilla puppet. It was from the 98 film and I thought it was the shit, it was Godzillas head with arms as well, you could open and close the mouth and it had a little button inside the roof of it that could be pressed and it'd play stock sounds of either crunching footsteps, gunfire, Godzillas roar or another roar. I used to run around the house with it (being....I dunno, seven at the time) and think it was the scariest thing ever to sneak up behind my mum while she was cooking, press the button and pretend to bite her knees. RAAAAAAAWR! Unless it played another sound, which was annoying.
Pretty much all of my toys were silent because I was really fucking scared of electronic sounds when I was a baby, and a toddler. The only thing I had my parents really hated was this laser kind of gun that made a random sound when you pressed it, turns out those are actually stock sounds from some toy sound chip that eventually got very widespread. Can't remember much but it flashed a lot, was silver coloured and the thing that houses the LED's was in red transparent plastic and it could make a variety of pew pew laser sounds but also explosion sounds. Can't find a picture because I cannot remember what the brand was or what it was called. Later I got one of those "chemistry" sets where you could make your own "candy" and my parents got so pissed at all the mess I made playing with it that they eventually locked it away and only allowed me to use it when they had time to sit with me, and my mom made sure I only followed the recipes included with the set and never experimented. So I never got the fun from making my completely original candy myself :( Forgot the name again but it was a pretty huge brand at least in Denmark in a period of time and it had this "mad doctor that makes monsters" kinda theme to it and there were all sorts of molds for it, I even think there was a skull thing you could eat out from. Oh yeah, it was one of those Dr. Dreadful kits [video=youtube;KJrV1Oy2icg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJrV1Oy2icg[/video] Not the one I had, I had one with a skull thing in it, but yeah it was pretty much this. How impressionable I was as a child :v:
Toy Guns. I loved Toy Guns as a kid but when a single piece of plastic or something falls apart inside the toy and it moves about when you're pretending to play it aggravated the shit out of me. Nine out of ten times I'd try and unscrew the toy or make a hole somewhere to make it fall out.
That stupid noise tube where if you flipped it vertically 180' a ball or something inside would squeeze air to make a stupid as fuck noise. Mine had those two Disney's Hercules demons on either end. Pissed my Great Uncle off so much he snapped it on his knee and popped out his patella. Good times. Didn't get a X-mas present from him that year...
[t]http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Tamagotchi.jpg[/t] this fucker right here
I had a homer simpson figurine that had a button on it that said driving related quotes because you were supposed to have it in your car. But my dad gave it to me as a toy. It's driving related quips were funny, but it was SO FUCKING LOUD that I ended up putting it in my closest and haven't pressed it for years.
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i had a little wooden crocodile that when you moved it the wood pieces would clack together making a loud noise
I had this Mr. Potato Head game that would talk to you. Late at night, you would hear "Play with me!" from the closet. It was creepy.
[QUOTE=Sashaisme;47011039]I had this Mr. Potato Head game that would talk to you. Late at night, you would hear "Play with me!" from the closet. It was creepy.[/QUOTE] Was it this?: [thumb]http://www.retro-shack.com/TomatoCart/images/products/originals/692_154_mr%20potato%20head.jpg[/thumb] If so, you heard him at night because he has no power toggle. The slightest button press will set him off again.
[img]http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/ebay/images/2011/270856429166.jpg[/img] Designed specifically to drive people insane. It's a plasatic hat with a blinking light and a siren. I don't remember where it went but I'm sure it was in the trash the moment my ADD kicked in. [img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-havlat.gif[/img]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/oxgGWBI.jpg[/IMG] I had one of these and I absolutely loved it, then my father smashed it to fucking pieces and made me watch the garbage truck take it's remains away...
Used to have Woody from Toy Story. If you pressed his chest, he'd say different things like, "You're my favorite deputy!", "There's a snake in my boot!", and if you took his hat he'd say, "Hey, gimme back my hat!" Well, much like OP, my brother and I were getting sick of it, so we tossed it in the closet. That night, from the depths of that dark hell, came the voice of a demon demanding we give back his hat. I bet that somewhere out there is a Woody doll in a junkyard still wanting only to wear his hat again. We also used to have an Archer toy from Small Soldiers. If you pumped his arm or moved a lever on his back, he would go, "I am Archer, leader of the Gorgonites.", "Prepare for battle." "DEFEND GORGONITE CASTLE!" and "ROAR!", exclusively in that order. We still like to quote it to this day :v:
[QUOTE=Exparagus;47008705][t]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Es2u8xUaL._SY300_.jpg[/t] [/QUOTE] this little fucker
[IMG]http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/w225/m/m_GblQf0DmJRrzgZWlnNOpA.jpg[/IMG] This thing. This fucking thing. You don't know terror until this thing wakes you up in the middle of the night and starts moaning and glowing. The batteries never went back in.
[IMG]http://www.mikogiocattoli.com/img/toys/yano2.jpg[/IMG] this motherfucker was a gift from my aunt and he fucking traumatized me. I'm p sure the reason I have anxiety now is because he turned on at random times and began speaking in spanish with an accent from spain and began to tell his shitty fucking story and it terrified the shit out of me making me terrified of animatronics for the rest of my god damn child life. my younger self got nightmares over this idiot toy the day I gave this asshole away when I was 9 was the day I became free of his fucking curse but I hated him, plus it was an expensive gift so my parents wouldn't let me get rid of it. fuck you llano i hate how everyone who walked into my room tried to turn you on to hear your dumbass tales this guy was like a furby on steroids i hated him
[QUOTE=Chaplin;47013076][IMG]http://www.mikogiocattoli.com/img/toys/yano2.jpg[/IMG] this motherfucker was a gift from my aunt and he fucking traumatized me. I'm p sure the reason I have anxiety now is because he turned on at random times and began speaking in spanish with an accent from spain and began to tell his shitty fucking story and it terrified the shit out of me making me terrified of animatronics for the rest of my god damn child life. my younger self got nightmares over this idiot toy the day I gave this asshole away when I was 9 was the day I became free of his fucking curse but I hated him, plus it was an expensive gift so my parents wouldn't let me get rid of it. fuck you llano i hate how everyone who walked into my room tried to turn you on to hear your dumbass tales this guy was like a furby on steroids i hated him[/QUOTE] Oh god this thing looks vaguely familiar but all I can think of is that its face looks really gross and squishy. [editline]26th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;47011167]Was it this?: [thumb]http://www.retro-shack.com/TomatoCart/images/products/originals/692_154_mr%20potato%20head.jpg[/thumb] If so, you heard him at night because he has no power toggle. The slightest button press will set him off again.[/QUOTE] That MOTHERFUCKER. Seriously, what is it with toy companies not making off buttons for annoying toys?
Some toy gun that lit up and made extremely loud noises including bomb sounds, soldiers barking orders, lasers, guns, reloading noises, all that kind of stuff. It would often go off in the middle of the night, too.
[img]https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7068/6956044637_2d8444c199.jpg[/img] Fucker haunted my night terrors for ten years.
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