Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

My kid's in first grade and they're huge.

Truly a credit to marketing....

IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

Like everything: It comes back. I was out shopping with one youngin so she could buy something for another youngin. Walking down one isle was like walking right into my childhood: a wall full of Star wars, Transformers & GI Joe.

When I was a youngster we had to carve our own tops out of bronze

Has tears in his fro over this nostalgia.

Ball in a cup anyone?

IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

My son has them. I call them "attack dreidels".

Beyblades were last year for my boys (6 and 9 this year). The year before was Bakugan. I don't know what this year is... one is getting a bike and the other is getting his own computer.

IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

Yeah I'm surprised too, I'm 25 and I remember them coming out in about junior high

Had this in the 60s...



Dizzy Dan always kicked ass!

IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

This. Are they still showing that crappy cartoon series too?


Since I'm old as dirt, I remember these when I was a kid.

Mexico's favorite toy for over 340 years!

I guess you know you're old when fads resurface that you never heard of the first time around.

Those sure were fun when they were called Spinjas:



/My lawn, get off it

Tyrosine: Mexico's favorite toy for over 340 years!

IT'S A BALL IN A CUP!!

/a-la family guy

Garcia will defend his title when he battles "Bladers" from over 25 countries at the World Beyblade Championship in Toronto in March, 2012.

All Bladers will do is skate backwards into traffic without paying any damn attention. They're easy to battle, you just wait long enough and they get run over by a car or a cyclist.

I have a little dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play

CHORUS

Oh dreidel dreidel dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play

It has a lovely body

With legs so short and thin

And when it is so tired

It drops and then I win!

CHORUS

My dreidel's always playful

It loves to dance and spin

A happy game of dreidel

Come play now, let's begin!

CHORUS

Old enough to know better: IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

This. Are they still showing that crappy cartoon series too?


Since I'm old as dirt, I remember these when I was a kid.

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Came here for the WHIZZZER Reference. Leaving fully satisfied.

I'm sure I still have a Red/White one somewhere in the house.

/I'm old as dirt too.

We had these when i was a kid in the 80s. They had the plastic arean and a little wind up shooter for the tops. We would douse the whole arena and the tops in hairspray, then light it on fire and watch them fight it out as they melted.

/still cant understand why my wife doesn't want boys.

offmymeds: I have a little dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play



Here's a little dreidel
that's small and made of clay
but I'm not gonna play with it
'cause dreidel's frinkin' gay

/Jews, play stupid games
//That's why they're lame

/Jews, play stupid games
//That's why they're lame

Courtney Cox, I love you
You're so hot, on that show.

/nichts

Yeah, it's tops coming back and all that, but the Beyblade IP in particular has been around for over ten years, and for most of that it was fairly obscure. Why is the uptick in popularity only coming now?

rxs: We had these when i was a kid in the 80s. They had the plastic arean and a little wind up shooter for the tops. We would douse the whole arena and the tops in hairspray, then light it on fire and watch them fight it out as they melted.

/still cant understand why my wife doesn't want boys.

You can't tell? The boys would use all her hair spray!


/wish I thought of that though.
// would have made for a hell of a family death match during reunions

I'm getting a jump on next year by stocking up on these.

macross87: rxs: We had these when i was a kid in the 80s. They had the plastic arean and a little wind up shooter for the tops. We would douse the whole arena and the tops in hairspray, then light it on fire and watch them fight it out as they melted.

/still cant understand why my wife doesn't want boys.

You can't tell? The boys would use all her hair spray!


/wish I thought of that though.
// would have made for a hell of a family death match during reunions

We just did that with the hair spray and a lighter or matches, playing "Johnny Flamethrower".

Battling Tops.

offmymeds: I have a little dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play

CHORUS

Oh dreidel dreidel dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play

It has a lovely body

With legs so short and thin

And when it is so tired

It drops and then I win!

CHORUS

My dreidel's always playful

It loves to dance and spin

A happy game of dreidel

Come play now, let's begin!

CHORUS

We celebrate every year. For the cats. Because they're Jewish. And we light the candles, and say the prayers, and because they don't
have thumbs to spin the dreidles, we spin the cats. With catnip. They remember from year to year the routine. They love it.

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dittybopper: macross87: rxs: We had these when i was a kid in the 80s. They had the plastic arean and a little wind up shooter for the tops. We would douse the whole arena and the tops in hairspray, then light it on fire and watch them fight it out as they melted.

/still cant understand why my wife doesn't want boys.

You can't tell? The boys would use all her hair spray!


/wish I thought of that though.
// would have made for a hell of a family death match during reunions

We just did that with the hair spray and a lighter or matches, playing "Johnny Flamethrower".

We did that also. Until someone nearly blew up the can, which was awesome.

kimwim: We celebrate every year. For the cats. Because they're Jewish.

Our cats are persians, so they've already observed Ramadan.

We had Otto and Mitzi Katz, he was in the fish business. But he passed 3 years ago, Miss Kitty (to her friends) then
married Morty (Mordecai). He's taken over the family fish business. They make a nice couple.

Any remember that other Jean Shepard movie where Ralphie got that top to fight the bully's top with? They had a hard battle that ended up with both tops spinning into a storm drain, still fighting, never to be seen again.

dittybopper: macross87: rxs: We had these when i was a kid in the 80s. They had the plastic arean and a little wind up shooter for the tops. We would douse the whole arena and the tops in hairspray, then light it on fire and watch them fight it out as they melted.

/still cant understand why my wife doesn't want boys.

You can't tell? The boys would use all her hair spray!


/wish I thought of that though.
// would have made for a hell of a family death match during reunions

We just did that with the hair spray and a lighter or matches, playing "Johnny Flamethrower".

Y'all sound like fun! I'll bring the Barbie camper for target practice.
I used to work for the company that made Aqua Net hairspray, the stiffest and most flammable hairspray known to man. Working in South Texas in the summer with a trunk-full of Aqua-Net hairspray and nail polish remover, I was always afraid that that stuff would blow up from the heat.

dittybopper: kimwim: We celebrate every year. For the cats. Because they're Jewish.

Our cats are persians, so they've already observed Ramadan.

Here is a picture of one of the little purrorists:

dittybopper: kimwim: We celebrate every year. For the cats. Because they're Jewish.

Our cats are persians, so they've already observed Ramadan.

Sure there not members of the Bahá'í Faith?

the odd thing i remember about spinjas was that that little styrofoamish bit there holding the tops themselves smelled AWESOME. wasn't young enough to wanna try taking a bite out of it or anything, but i've never run into awesome-smelling styrofoam before of after. prolly poisonous or something.

This year's Christmas must-have gift for kids: Spinning Tops. Next thing you know, those little whippersnappers will be pushing steel hoops down the pathway with a stick

With a STICK.

Miss Kitty

Morty

shtychkn: dittybopper: kimwim: We celebrate every year. For the cats. Because they're Jewish.

Our cats are persians, so they've already observed Ramadan.

Sure there not members of the Bahá'í Faith?

Who knows? I don't speak cat. They could be Zoroastrian for all I know. I'm betting Muslim, though: They don't eat pork.

Old enough to know better: IrateShadow: Beyblades are back again? I thought they went out of style 5 or 6 years ago.

This. Are they still showing that crappy cartoon series too?


Since I'm old as dirt, I remember these when I was a kid.

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Whizzers were awesome! Can a Beyblade balance on a string or draw with a pencil?

Almost as cool as:


/...Well, I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt. I mean not that fancy store bought dirt. That stuffs loaded with nutrients. I... I can't compete with that stuff.

jscart: offmymeds: I have a little dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it's dry and ready

Then dreidel I shall play



Here's a little dreidel
that's small and made of clay
but I'm not gonna play with it
'cause dreidel's frinkin' gay

/Jews, play stupid games
//That's why they're lame

Uh huh...and they steal Christian children to use in their blood sacrifices.

/your white hood
/it's showing