Fads and Obsessions

[galagr]

One Direction is another fad that will last about as long as the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, and the Jonas Brothers. Please make the boy bands stop!

 

[Hayley B]

One Direction is another fad that will last about as long as the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, and the Jonas Brothers. Please make the boy bands stop!

Oh they will. They are nothing new.

 

[D'Snowth]

Pokemon and Beanie Babies

It is amazing how well over ten years later, the Pokemon craze is still going really strong, with no signs of dying down anytime soon... I mean, I fell off that bandwagon after maybe two or three years of being as big a Pokemaniac as the rest, it just became really hard to keep up with, the constant additions of creatures, switching out human characters, all that jazz... it amazes me how some people out there can keep up with all that to this day.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Is it bad I can name all 600+ of them?

 

[Hayley B]

I adore Beanie Babies. But I never got the obsession in collecting them. Only got a baby lamb from Cracker Barrel just because I thought he was too cute. Someone also bought me a pink unicorn for my birthday. I think that's it.

 

[D'Snowth]

Is it bad I can name all 600+ of them?

Heh, I remember when there were only 151 of 'em... and I remember when they added the first additional 100 or so... but after that, it was too much. Far too much.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

They are up to 649 now with 5 generations of pokemon

 

[Hayley B]

I think I only really got into Pokemon when they were only 151. I liked a couple of pokemons back then. I also liked Ash and Team Rocket. Team Rocket made me think of a modern Boris and Natasha. I was excited for the 1st movie. I went to see the 2nd movie too. But my fandom was dying right there with the 2nd.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I have two binders of cards, a game from each generation (except gen 3), various toys, I have an Ash hat somewhere...can't really get into the show these days though

 

[D'Snowth]

I think I only really got into Pokemon when they were only 151. I liked a couple of pokemons back then. I also liked Ash and Team Rocket. Team Rocket made me think of a modern Boris and Natasha. I was excited for the 1st movie. I went to see the 2nd movie too. But my fandom was dying right there with the 2nd.

I think that's pretty much the same way it was with me: I saw the first two movies, but I've lost count of how many movies they have (it's over seven right?), I don't even know how many incarnation of the TV series there is (and what gets really confusing is I remember by the time the second movie came out, Brock had disappeared, but he seems to be back now, and Misty seems to have disappeared at one point but also came back but seems to be gone again, I don't know).

I had the first 151 almost memorized, I had trouble memorizing the next 100 or so, but I remember of that new set of Pokemon, Marill was my favorite.