I find it continually amusing how people don't realize when their chain is being yanked.

"Whoa - I never thought I'd find this!! It's really rare! It'll be worth something someday!!"

Pokemon

Just another one of those toys that involved very little thought - you can crank out more characters just by adding spots or changing it from blue to yellow. Toys like this were designed to punish parents for having children. Sort of like the Power Rangers - same figure, different color. I was at Burger King one night and this guy was holding up the line seeing if he could get extra toys with one kids' meal if he threw in more money. This is not an Iraqi market - you do not BARGAIN here. GROW UP. The guy had an over 21 driver's license in his wallet - along with too much expendable money apparently. I can guarantee he hasn't got a girlfriend to buy flowers for. Give it a year - it'll go away. If there's one thing kids can do - it's get bored with something that at one time they could not possibly live without.

Furby

These unattractive children are holding their new furbies. After they realize how annoying they are and how much batteries cost they will stash them away. When they move out and go to college, the cooing lump of fuzz that their parents got into fist fights in Toys R Us for, or bid 250 bucks for on Ebay, will be scrutinized as to whether it's even worth taking valuable box space for the move.

Beanie Babies

^Capitalizing like hookers.^
Ok. Maybe as a child I was spoiled by toys that, say for instance, were , uhh , FUN. Or maybe I had too many toys that, ohh,  DID something. But a BEAN BAG is not worth 300 bucks - or 20 , or even fucking TWO... much less a million websites, many of which have a RUMOUR section. "Did you hear - they're gonna make a BEAN BAG!!"  "REALLY ?? I'm gonna call all my friends RIGHT NOW!  - I hope I have someone on the inside who can leak me a picture for my website - I wanna be the first to showcase a BEAN-fucking-BAG!"  Get a hobby. Stop watching the home shopping network. Get a decent haircut that doesn't look like Aunt Bea. Plan your kids' college on trust funds or savings - not the projected value of an unfun toy which will eventually go DOWN in value - yes it's hard to believe that appeal for BEAN BAGS could wane, but trust me on this one.

Tickle Me Elmo

 Aren't you glad you paid 300 bucks last year for yours?  Now you can get one for $25 at any Kmart. Hot commodity indeed. This year he claps. Maybe next year they'll go out on a limb and make him dance. One way or the other, you're only going to be able to afford LAST year's Elmo, though why you would bother is still unclear.
 

All I feel I need to say to these assholes who feel like I've missed the point and am missing a great investment opportunity.....

CABBAGE PATCH KIDS

You waited at the door of the toy store for hours. You paid an exorbitant amount of money for a REALLY UGLY DOLL which looks like a child with a severe birth defect. You felt smart. You got your little slice of this cultural phenomenon. Guess what ... You're a big, fat, stupid SUCKER and Xavier Roberts is laughing his ass off at you.  Good luck selling one now. Hell , the GARBAGE MAN won't even take them.

POGS

Star Trek Pogs. I feel no need to elaborate on why Star Trek pogs are lame as that would fall under the category "Obvious and Easy."

Gee - who ever thought that little flat circles made out of cardboard could fall out of favor with kids? That's ok - I'm sure they found SOMEthing for those poor indonesian children to do besides stamping out little circles all day. I remember this one lady at my work bitching about how she had to buy this 2 inch circular chunk of  brass (called a slammer) for 40 dollars. There is this word that many parents may have forgotten..... "NO."  I hope you enjoy the 40 dollar paperweight due to your inability to utter that word.  One of my friends used to steal bags of pogs from Walmart, take them home and glue on porn images, and take the restapled bags back to Walmart and put the new "cumshot pogs" and "freakishly enormous penis pogs" back into circulation. If  people at a flea market don't want something anymore, you can bet no one else does either. They'll sell you a copy of "Doctor Detroit" but you won't see any pogs. Congratulations on your "collector's items" - all 500 of them. May they grace your house forever.