According to all the news reports (paid off mofo's) this little fuzzy piece of turd, the Zhu Zhu Go Go Hamster, is the hot toy this Christmas, but, most kids who want it are going to cry because a bunch of assholes have been buying them for $10 bucks and selling them for $150 bucks on eBay. And bragging about how smart they are on the news. It's called opportunistic theft, you asshole. And it pisses me off. It reminds me of the Cabbage Patch craze when I had to stand in the cold for hours and let a store decide if I was worthy to "adopt" one of those pieces of ugly crap. And then you finally got to the front of the line and they were out. I'm glad I'm a Grandma now. I can play dumb. Or point to BeeBee and say, play with your rat.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Fuck this thing
According to all the news reports (paid off mofo's) this little fuzzy piece of turd, the Zhu Zhu Go Go Hamster, is the hot toy this Christmas, but, most kids who want it are going to cry because a bunch of assholes have been buying them for $10 bucks and selling them for $150 bucks on eBay. And bragging about how smart they are on the news. It's called opportunistic theft, you asshole. And it pisses me off. It reminds me of the Cabbage Patch craze when I had to stand in the cold for hours and let a store decide if I was worthy to "adopt" one of those pieces of ugly crap. And then you finally got to the front of the line and they were out. I'm glad I'm a Grandma now. I can play dumb. Or point to BeeBee and say, play with your rat.
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re: cabbage patch dolls i have never forgot the news story of a grandmother being trampled to death trying to get one....
fuck companies and their 'must have' brainwashing of society....
be a good consumer and do everything possible to buy this item!
fuck 'em....
Waste of money.
I'm glad Lissa hasn't mentioned them. I can waste $10 bucks, I can't waste $150 bucks.
Half of the dingbat mothers of my daughter's first grade class are into buying these stupid things for Christmas. It's like some kind of weird competition between them. This toy is something my kids would play with for 10 minutes and then move onto something else leaving the tracks set up all over the floor. They've asked for it after seeing the TV commercials and hearing the other kids talk about them, but I can tell it's an item they'll get bored with after a day and never play with again. To combat the wacky moms, I've decided to go one better, since we are a pet friendly family, I think my two children will be getting real hamsters for Christmas. This way when half of the class is bored within a day of receiving this stupid gift, my children will be learning about caring for and loving a living thing.
I've been hearing on tv and the radio about all the stores and malls opening at midnight or 4 am to let in the greedy sons of bitches. I think I would rather be a hobo on a fucking train than work for a scum bag company (notoriously Kohl's)that pulls that shit on it's poor employees. What kind of desperate asshole do you have to be to shop these "events"? It's another reason Christmas turns my stomach. I mean the commercial aspects of it.
Thank God my kid is too young to want this or that toy. I have another year before that starts. For now I buy what is suitable for a 1 year old.
$150 for a hamster go go whatever thing is way to expensive for a toy that a kid is going to get bored of in a few days.
They list for about $10-$30 on ebay. Way to do your research...
I try very hard not to buy anything sensationlized. Last year it was that stupid Elmo Live & then people were trying to gouge you on Craigslist for it, but the stores ended up having a ton because the economy tanked. Those people got what they deserved.
4:46:00, I was just at eBay and the price was $64 dollars and the bidding was still going. And the news article on Yahoo..look it up..said prices are steady at $150 each. So bite the fuck out of me.
Naseem, how old in your child in months? I ask because my son is 13 months and I found a lot of good educational, hopefully fun toys for him on the One Step Ahead website.
I am also relieved that my son is too young yet for hype. Right now I pick out what I want and my mom and MIL buy that. I control how much he gets and how useful/educational the toys are for now. We will see how long it lasts. He also has no idea who Santa is. I just tell him he's like grandma, when he shows up, you get presents! Mostly I tell people no gifts he doesn't need all the stuff, but if you feel like you need to give him something, give money and I will put it in his 529 for college.
I totally remember being a kid during the Cabbage Patch Kid craze. I really wanted one. My best friend got one. I got a knock-off in clothes my Mom crotched (sp?) I eventually did get one when the craziness died down. I actually ended up with four and a Koosa (sp?) the animal pet version. They are all packed away.
Same thing happened with that stupid Tickle me Elmo piece of crap toy! I would never ever go and buy some stupid toy for that much money just because my kid wants it. They'll live without it. Besides, they play with toys for like 5 minutes then they're over it.
todays fad is tomorrows garage sale find! I saw a Tickle Me Elmo at Goodwill the other day. LOL...thats another one. I also remember when you finally got to get a Cabbage Patch doll you got what they gave you and you either took it or didn't. A friend of mine got a black one for her little girl and it was fine. But you didn't get to pick.
rox
my scotty dog would love this thing! She would kill it and dismember it. There goes $150! LOL...
I bought one of these on amazon for 20 bucks last week.....i refuse to buy the accessories though...the little cage is like 60 bucks. I hope my daughter gets 20 dollars worth of fun out of it......
snowbunnie (aka a sucker for the fads)
Do they vibrate?
This is the dame thing they did with the Wii systems one year. It was like crazy how people were jacking the price up to 1,000 dollars. The people that work the stores go thru the stock and pick things like this out and sell them. Its like stealing IMO...it ought to be illegal to do things like that.
Has anyone notified Richard Gere? Sorry, I just had to :)
my kid wanted this for her birthday in september. It was 10 bucks at walmart. Never played with it. It is the stupidest thing ive ever seen,its like the fake mouse cat toy you put batteries in and it rolls around on the floor. I also refused to buy the "cage" for 30 dollars.
I heard about his. Screw those people. Who decides that this stupid hamster is the "in" toy. It looks pitiful.
the only reason I would buy it is to watch my cat's play/kill it to death.
Ugh, it's starting again, the whole "MY child MUST have this toy, no matter WHAT!" phenom. Just the kind of thing I hate about Christmas. So this years' coveted toy is a fake hamster? I don't have kids but that seems like a very random toy to suddenly become so popular, since it doesn't tie-in with a TV show or anything.
The stories about people hurting or even killing other people to get popular Christmas toys turn my stomach. When I was little in the 1980s I remember my mom telling me about people beating each other up in the stores over Cabbage Patch Dolls. I was like, "That is stupid." And I still think it is. It is not worth trampling someone to death for a damn toy. What do these parents tell their kids? "Here honey, I hope you like your toy, me and a bunch of other shoppers ran over a a Wal-Mart employee and killed him in our mad rush to get to it. Merry Christmas." Heartless assholes.
"..me and a bunch of other shoppers ran over a a Wal-Mart employee and killed him in our mad rush to get to it." LMAO!!!
Isn't hording and reselling them like scalping tickets? Why isn't it illegal? Our first Cabbage Patch was a black one with a mowhawk. The goofy bitch at the store brought it out and said ''Here's your new son!!!" Like it was Jesus Christ. Cute little fucker though.
Angie, you think Gere has them hoarded? LOL.
ROFL @Crabbie. And godDAMN, these things are hideous. Just came from the official website--these things have their own SURF BOARDS and cars???? Where's the spanking horses and ball gags? ;)
10G (Gina)
Scalping is illegal only if you caught. Anon 5:35 LMAO One of my little realtive came over with one of those a while back and my golden immediately went on attack mode.
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@ MuserMommyinPA - My son just turned 1 on November 7th. I usually get educational toys by vtech and he loves it. Since his birthday just passed I will most likely get one or two more toys and put money in his college fund (same as you).
BTW...I'm from PA too!
I was thankful that my son didn't want a Teddy Ruxpin. Those things were expensive and stupid, and kinda creepy.
They're $127 for a two pack on Amazon now. How stupid is that?? I don't have any kids but if I did I would never buy them those little crappy things for that price.
Well, if he does, he's in for a surprise, because the gerbil had a long tail for easier removal...LOL
I got one of the Cabbage Patch kids for my niece when they were hot. I could never find one in the stores, so I ended up sliding around on the interstate in heavy snow, and going to a private residence to buy one for $50. I could tell the woman didn't really want to part with it, either. She knew someone who worked in a Toys R Us, and they let her know when CPK were coming in, so she could be there to buy up as many as possible. I think I remember that she had lots of them, but was picky about who got them. The doll's name was Marjorie Dot, it had red hair in ponytails. Very cute; my niece had reddish hair. She was very nonchalant about the doll when she opened it. Just said, "oh. There's my cabbage patch doll." But the doll got a lot of wear and tear--it was loved to pieces. Wish my niece had loved her actual children as much. She might still have them, instead of them being adopted out, taken by CPS, etc.
Christina
Teddy Ruxpin~LOL. My girls got one and were so afraid of it!
We had to turn it around, and never leave it in their room. It was very creepy.
If you go to Petsmart and go in the cat toy aisle, you can get almost the same thing only as a mouse. What a stupid toy for a kid. It's almost as bad as the Furbie thing a few years back.
I'm scared of Furbies. They freak me the fuck out.
Oh god, Furbies. Even my fiance stood in the rain at 3:00 am to try to get my daughter (a teenager) a freaking Furbie.
When we finally got two of them (which then became a Furby herd of six), she'd go off to school and leave them alone in her room.
I'd be doing shit around the house and hear this high-pitched, "Furby loooneleee!" from her room, all day long.
I told her to turn them off when she left out or they get gutted and tied to a tree.
lucy, oh, Teddy Ruxpin. A long story how my daughter got hers, which I'll save for now.
But through much misuse of Ruxpin, his bottom jaw dropped off. This horrible teddy bear trying to read a story with no bottom jaw would send my kids burrowing under their beds.
Good times.
I lived in England for most of the crazes. Teddy Ruxpin was offered to me used, for like $100. I declined. Cabbage Patch wasn't the rage, so I got them no problem. When there was the rage for some Japanese thing with four weird things, (the one named Poh)was the rage, I was there and bought it.
My daughter couldn't have cared less. I am sure it was burned in the bonfire of the stepmother. She burned everything that belonged to my kids. Who burns Christening gowns? Her.
Christina-wow, that woman sounded very shady. I think that is really lousy to go buy all the popular toys and re-sell them at a higher price. I bet a lot of people still do that though.
I had two Cabbage Patch Kids when I was little but they were never my favorite toys. I liked Barbies and My Little Ponies much better. I had a bunch of horribly ugly 1980s Barbie dresses with big ruffles, which I thought were soooo beautiful at the time.
Back during the Cabbage Patch craze my Aunt was searching high and low for one for her daughter for Christmas. My mother decided to help her out and made one following a pattern. The homemade doll looked horrible, but my Mom got an A for effort. lol Well, word got around our small town about my Mother making this doll and my Aunt and her quest for a real Cabbage Patch doll. My Father was a dentist and his office was attached to our house, on Christmas eve someone knocked on our front door. My father went to answer it and found a stranger there with a toothache. He begged my father to fix his tooth. My Dad really didn't want to since he was relaxing with us and had his office all locked up for the holiday. The man proceeded to show my Dad a brand new cabbage Patch Doll still in the packaging in the trunk of his car and told my him: "I hear you're lookin for one of these." It was like some crazy drug deal. lol So the stranger got his tooth pulled, my cousin got a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas morning and we still have my Mother's homemade doll which is so ugly it's kind of cute. It's a story we tell every Christmas or anytime some crazy toy comes out that has people going crazy.
Oh gwad I still remember my first cabbage patch doll ugly as hell. I guess my grandmother got the last one. She had long red hair, freckles, green eyes, glasses, buckteeth and ugly green striped dress.
I guess some guy also was in the parking lot selling them to at the local K-mart for 150 a piece that was in the 80's.
I think fads are just fads. Something that comes in fast and leaves fast.
I still have my cabbage patch doll from the 80's. I even have his birth certificate in my childhood memories book. His name was Broderick and he's bald with a tiny puff of yarn hair. I loved him so much as a kid.
I also had a "homemade" cabbage patch doll back then. Someone my mother knew, made them. They were larger then the real cabbage patch dolls and even uglier. I still have that one too in the basement.
Anyone remember the Cricket doll? That was popular for a while in the 80's too. I got her still as well. I was scared of her after the movie Chucky.
Man, I need to get rid of these toys! I am not a hoarder!
Ano:3:12:00 PM
Yup I had a cricket to with my teddy ruxpin. I remember one halloween my cousin who turned my cricket into a good guy doll. Funny you say that.
My hubs had a my buddy almost like the same proto type as chucky.
11:46 that story is so funny. It does sound like a drug deal.
My Cabbage Patch dolls were both butt-ugly, but looking back, all of them were. My sister thought hers was beautiful because it had long blonde hair but really it was fugly like the rest of them. There was a rumor at the time that the dolls were designed to look like mutated babies might look after a nuclear war, what witht he Cold War going on at the time and everybody worried about nukes. (Although Snopes says that's false.)
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