Annoying toys

There were dolls with cupcake-shaped skirts - can’t recall the name. My MIL bought my kids the full line of them, all the accessories, the furniture, etc. They had sparkly doll hair that shed everywhere and teeny little hairbrushes.

We had the FP corn popper and the annoying vacuum from Little Tikes.I also hated all children’s games. I was too competitive and I hated when I got almost to the end and then drew some card that sent me back to the beginning.

I like Candyland, but I hate and have always hated Monopoly.

Oh, Candyland… my kid actually used it as the base design for a research project poster in one of her classes. Still rolling my eyes at that one.

I thought the battery run microphone that lets the kids walk around and sing was pretty bad, then at Christmas, someone gave my kids that microphone that had an “Elf” mode that turned there voice into an even higher pitch. Ugh!

Not annoying, but delicious. The easy bake oven my sister had was really good.

Toys from the 60’s. As a small child, I liked Hot Wheels, Lite Brite, Operation, Etch-Sketch and super balls. As a slightly older child, I liked Battleship, Stratego and all kinds of fireworks. The one toy I remember asking for because it had a cool TV ad but turned out to be really stupid was something called “Kabala”.

I worked at hasbro in rhode island the summer I turned 16. I originally started on the “Lite Brite” assembly line. They were paid extra for each one completed, a compensation method called “piece work”.

I must have been terrible and cost the regulars come money.

Someone complained,because after few days I was moved from this line to a new role.

They stuck me a room filled with broken toys. I had to find usable ears and noses from piles of discarded “Mr potato head” toys.

I was essentially banished to the land of misfit toys.

But I made enough money that summer to buy my first higher end salt water fishing pole. Had it for over 20 years. Loved that pole.

I don’t have to wander down memory lane. I have grandchildren. :smile:

The game i hated was Operation and the awful noise if you didn’t do the “operation” correctly. My older daughter loved the game. Younger D wasn’t that crazy about it. I read that it was a good game to help kids with hand/eye coordination.

Jenga! My kids loved that one and still do! Our pets didn’t like it, they would scurry away the second that tower came crashing down!

My D had an easy bake oven and she liked it, but didn’t use it that much…when she got it she was kind of at the age where she was starting to become not as interested in toys like that. The mixes you’d have to buy for it really added up!

Sister gave my D a stuffed Big Bird that had sensor in his eyes, so whenever we turned the light on, it’d say “Peek-a-boo”. D and S loved to hide that around the house, perhaps under a pillow or magazine, or in a closet. Since I did most of the housework, it’d inevitably be me that would get startled and surprised by it when I’d clean up.

@Bromfield2 I agree that the Operation buzzer was horrible. I must have complained about it once or twice, and S figured out how to disable the buzzer (he was always taking stuff apart). Since the nose still lit up they could tell if they weren’t steady enough.

+1 on Operation. Plus the sound scared one of our kids. I finally just took the battery out.

We had a fake lawn mower that made a sound that was as annoying as that popper toy.

Really, I hated everything with batteries.