I remember as a kid there was a local toy company that was associated with a kid's tv channel and every once in a while a new popular show would come out and a toy for that show would come out too, and everybody would buy it, like a fad y'know. I was a victim of one or two of those schemes, I feel all those fads back then and now are great big rip off's really. If your friends did'nt have them you would'nt want to buy them. I remember one of those fads was just a normal yoyo but the company made it look special and that it had to do with this cartoon about kids with yoyo's, it was a completely normal yoyo but they made it look like it could do other things (like they had a list of special tricks with attractive names and all) and you could customize it and all that ******** and it was way overpriced, and everybody bought it.....At my school everybody brought their yoyo along and talked about it and I started to want one, but my parents did'nt let me if I remember it right, I ended it with a really cheap small yoyo (about 1$) that I stopped playing with after a short while. Really insane how fads work and suddenly everybody wants one.
