The Furby Fad - How Did This Happen?

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Taking a look back at one of the most annoying/adorable fads of the 1990s.
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@The_Alexandra_B Год назад

My uncle used to work at Hasbro in a corporate position. I remember him pulling up at our house with a trunk load of Furbies and letting my mom and I choose ours. We always got the best toys from him and we enjoyed our Furbies even if they’d sometimes freak us out at night. RIP, Uncle Ricky. ❤

@ReginaTrans_ Год назад

I think we made our parents and uncles INSANE with our millennial toys in the 90s and emo teen life in the 2000's, and how pretentious we were in the 2010's, finally everyone's getting a rest from us now that we are becoming a little more mature, but yeah, my dad had to wake up at 3 am because my tamagotchi was hungry and it made this noise that could be heard all around the house !!!! then my aunt almost fainted when cleaning my cousin's bedroom because she wanted to clean underneath her toys, the Furby woke up !!!! and they said everyone could hear her scrams in the street, LMAO

@0p1r Год назад

im so sorry for your uncle, he seems really nice

@BBWahoo Год назад

I can't believe it, the furbies slaughtered him!! Those bastards.

@selenaquiles1 Год назад

@@BBWahoo Lmfaoooooo 😂🤣😭

@WiIiam_Afton Год назад

Mad respect to your uncle I have 108 of these things I am only 10 and my dad's wallet HAS EXPLODED Yup it has Your uncle and his company has brought me A FURRY farm! Brought me into this furby fandom.. I wish I was you with a truckload of furbies! Buttt I kinda have a truckload now..

@Firawesome Год назад

In 2000, my college roommate and I decorated our apartment with Furby skeletons (removed the fur and plastic casing for the mechanism) for Halloween of that year. To this day, I can hear their faint mechanical whirring with the echos of Furbish whisperings plotting my demise.

@TenguTalks Год назад

During my HS senior class trip, I watched my friend repeat the same obscenity to the Furby for 7 straight hours, trying to override the "PG chip" that was supposed to be in there. It eventually said something that sorta sounded like it, but tbh, it was watching him try that we all remembered.

@plantyyy Год назад

theres no “pg chip”😭 theyre all preprogrammed with phrases and they cant actually be taught anything

@RubicksProductions Год назад

@@plantyyy i agree with you that they were all preprogrammed, but for some reason I feel that they were marketed as "learning". Obviously false marketing but many people including myself thought it.

@plantyyy Год назад

@@RubicksProductions they were programmed with several “stages” of development from no english to mostly english and some furbish. they unlocked these stages after a certain number of hours which gave the feeling of them actually “learning” our language

@litodat233 Год назад

Furby didn’t talk tho couldn’t teach it to talk neither

@MagnumForce51 Год назад

It was a myth that they could learn new words from the environment around them. They were preprogrammed with all the words they can say which unlock over time with certain amount of interaction. The idea they could learn words ended up making certain organizations worry that they could be used as spy tools or something. Things got a little crazy back in the day when these things were all the fad. I'm surprised the video didn't mention this. :(

@rattlehead9127 Год назад

You may have mentioned this and I didn't catch it, but Tickle-Me-Elmo was also a smash hit and it was a very cute character that was interactive. Obviously not the same as Furby, but it was pre-cursor that caused a similar craze as the Furby did. I don't know what it was about the 90s but there were so many of these crazy fads - Elmo, Beanie Babies, Furby, etc.

@sirBrouwer Год назад

that was for most in the middle of the biggest economically boom. from about the 80's until late 00's With money to spend at the same time people (children) were still very TV and physical toy focused. on the same time electronics and simple computers started to be introduced with kids toys. they were both cheap and reliable enough.

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria Год назад

I have an ex whose cousin was an idiot. She got her hands on a Tickle-Me-Elmo, got a legit offer of a million on Christmas Eve, but was convinced she could get more for it even though none had sold for anywhere near that much. So she held out, thinking the guy would meet her demand of a mil and a half. He didn’t. Thing is, back in the 90’s and 80’s, it wasn’t unusual for parents to give kids IOU’s for specific hot toy items. Given that it was Christmas Eve, that’s what the guy did for his niece. An IOU for a Tickle-Me-Elmo. For years after, every Christmas, the family dragged it up again about how Sarah should have taken that offer. The funny thing: I know it’s legit because that guy ended up connecting with my ex’s sister through that, then they ended up hitched, and involved in was in the wedding. The guy’s family was loaded. His parents’ welcome-to-the-family engagement gift to their son’s fiancee-then-wife was a custom designed HOUSE. His gift to her was a red Corvette. He maintained that the offer was legit.

@TheRedCap30 Год назад

@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria Imagine getting offered 1 million for an Elmo toy and still wanting more...

@India_And_Ivory 11 месяцев назад

Trolls dolls

@moonchildmonster1 Год назад

I love furbies! i was born a year after the first furby line came out so i wasn't part of the original fad, but the 2005 furby was my shit and i loved it so much, now i own around 50 furbies from all generations!! (Thank you again Company Man for making this one!!)

@daniyal-syed Год назад

Bruh WTH

@moonchildmonster1 Год назад

@@daniyal-syed what?

@brettvv7475 Год назад

@@daniyal-syed People collect all kinds of things, why would the furby be any different then, say, Pokemon cards?

@strawberrycherrybaby Год назад

@@brettvv7475 because furbies are the devils playthings (jk I collect all kinds of weird stuff, you go random citizen)

@billbadson7598 Год назад

_"Are they fun? Or are they annoying? Are they adorable? Or are they terrifying?"_ Yes

@SlushysSecret Год назад

Oddly specific

@Bee8467 Год назад

I LOVE furbies there is still a fandom for them to this day! I wasn’t alive in 1998 but i had a later generation as a kid I recently got back in to them and have been collecting them, i love my little guys

@emilyfredrickson9009 Год назад

My cousin and I had multiple furbies between us and we would prank our parents with them whenever we had sleep overs. My auntie was terrified them which was hilarious to us.

@sethdavis4382 Год назад

I worked at a Walmart in 1998 and just before Christmas they drew names for the chance for employees to be able to buy one and my name was drawn. I was able to buy one of the very first ones for $30 dollars. I never opened it and held on to it thinking it would appreciate in value. I think it got stuck in the attic and I have no idea where it is now, probably still in the bottom of a box in the attic. The batteries probably exploded after a while and I doubt it would be worth anything now. I regret not selling it immediately.

@Kstanimal Год назад

Bruh even with the batteries like that people pay really good money for series 1, so I've heard. Especially Mint. I doubt people would even open it so you definitely should find it imo. Really cool!

@Kstanimal Год назад

Just checked; looks like it's going for 200$ on ebay rn

@buwheal Год назад

Even if the batteries are exploded, it’s pretty easy to fix and i bet you could get a good wad of cash for it.

@Muphn Год назад

I will buy i will buy i will buy i will buy

@jadedelf11 Год назад

They weren't sold with batteries (the 98s) - so if you've never opened it then the battery compartment would be clean.

@greywolf393 Год назад

The Mitchell's vs The Machines did a funny take on the Furby. My mother worked in a toy store around the time that these were popular. I was a teenager and she bought one for herself, I thought it was annoying, but I could see it for little kids.

@spiderobert Год назад

I actually find it hard to believe that parents fought over these. At Christmas the year they came out my brother and I were gifted a Furby each by our grandparents. My grandparents were not the type of people to aggressively shop. I got a cool black and yellow bumble-bee patterned one. We thought they were cute and funny and I liked that they seemed to learn English the more you interacted with them.

@oceanelf2512 Год назад

Had an original 1998 Furby, but gave it to a friend. I've collected another few of those since for my character set. But IMO they are more robot than pet until you get to the 2005 and later models.

@noonespecial5681 Год назад

I was a kid during this time and I remember my original Furby was white with black patches, like an Oreo, and then I got a blue furby baby and eventually some limited edition one that was like an Angel with a Halo. I loved when my best friend slept over and brought hers, and they’d “talk to each other”, but yes, I remember my mother complaining about how there was no off switch and the thing would scream in the night lol, and loved flipping it all over the place to hear it scream for help! Ha! I remember my uncle telling my parents they were spoiling me for buying me three of them, but I had a lot of medical issues back then and they were gifts for having to go through painful medical testing. Plus I’m sure they didn’t pay scalper prices and were just buying the ones they found at the store for retail price.

@Rileysworld727 Год назад

My dad went to every Toys R Us in the city to find a Tickle Me Elmo for my sister before Christmas of 1996. It was such a legendary disaster that it is talked about on the wikipedia page.

@MaynardCrow Год назад

I'd love to hear his first hand account. I remember the sensationalist coverage at the time making it seem like riots and brawls were breaking out over the damn thing in even city in the country, but thinking back, I wonder if any of it was real. If the media never reported on how much everyone supposedly wanted one and how crazy people were allegedly acting trying to get one, it probably wouldn't have had any issues with shortages to begin with. I don't remember any of the kids I knew wanting or having one. I would have still been in elementary school at the time. Maybe I'm cynical from another couple decades of witnessing intellectually dishonest media shenanigans, but feels more like an advertising campaign disguised as a national news story in hindsight.

@LeeGHThomas Год назад

I loved my furby. I was in pre-k in 99-00 and we had a monthly show and tell. The furby is the only thing I remember of the 9 or so things I would have brought in to show off. I also loved tomagotchi and learned how to read playing Pokémon yellow (which was just like red/blue except pikachu followed you around like the tv show). I was all in on digital pets.

@PeachMilkPopp Год назад

I loved Furby so much as a kid, I had several and now I collect long Furbys.

@beautybard Год назад

I had one when I was 9 and I loved him. He always addressed me as Dada but I didn't care. Eventually he broke and I legit cried. We even had a little funeral for him. My mom surprised me with a replacement. He was nice and I played with him, but it just wasn't the same.

@BlocksGamingReviews Год назад

To go along with how "lifelike" they were, I think the urban legends about them contributed significantly to their popularity. As a pre-teen at the time, I first thought that these things were "girly" and didn't want them. Then, after hearing from classmates how they'd come to life at night, whisper haunting things, say your name when no one was around, the thought that they might be possessed devil dolls made the pre-teen boy in me really want one, if only for that novelty. I never did end up owning one, but for years most everyone I knew thought that they were secretly evil, and that made them somewhat cool in my eyes.

@cloudkitt Год назад

Yeah was it an urban legend or true that they were banned from government offices because the government was afraid of the "learning English" element, thinking that it was recording, instead of just a timed thing. XD Either way that couldn't have hurt.

@BlocksGamingReviews Год назад

@@cloudkitt i had forgotten about that until now, but that's exactly what I'm talking about. Kids flock to things that have some sort of "forbidden" or controversial element, and Furby's had that in abundance.

@oceanelf2512 Год назад

I despise the "evil Furby" meme.

@gingeeta_creecha3401 11 месяцев назад

I love furbys so much. I wasn’t old enough for the dad but I forgot them handed down to me or given to me about 5-7 years after they released. My grandma gave them all away at a garage sale along with most of my other toys. So I’ve been sadly without one for many years. Today for my upcoming birthday, my boyfriend gave me a mint one in Box 😍

@keithkenney587 Год назад

As a 7-year-old from a farm in the middle of rural Canada, this was the coolest thing that ever existed. I seldom got the fun, new fads (nor did I care) but we were at my cousins for Christmas in 1999 and this was all wrapped up for me from my parents. I remember hours and hours of feeding and talking and playing with it. As a kid, it was extremely fun and the technology for the late 90's was absurd at the price. I think we had a Commodore 64 at home, and 3 channels on the TV. It seems though, for a fairly large part of the population, they become more creepy than fun as people get older. I still have my OG Furby and even mentioning it to my friends, they treat it like a Ouija board. I put batteries in it for the first time in about 20 years here about 6 months ago and it wouldn't wake up :( doesn't surprise me (Although it did wake up once in the middle of the night and scared the s**t out of me haha). I'll take it apart and do some testing on it here one of these days. I'm sure it's something simple overall.

@NTMonsty Год назад

I used to make FNAF-style games on Scratch featuring Furbies. The main characters were a purple one, a green one, an Orange one, a Blue one, a Yellow one, and a Golden one. I don't really look back on them too fondly.

@feralperil Год назад

I had so many of these as a kid... I still kinda like them, unsettling as they are

@palaceofwisdom9448 Год назад

This marks the only time I have ever heard the suggestion that Cabbage Patch Kids were "terrifying". Sounds like someone thinking of Chucky and retconning it onto them rather than the My Buddy doll that inspired him.

@SilverSphereSorcerer Год назад

I had a first gen, but forgot what ended up becoming of it. Also had a baby Furby that I dropped in the snow when I slipped on some ice. A tragedy. I also thought they were adorable! I also now recall having one of those McFurbies. Man, that's a blast from the past!

@josiebfancy Год назад

I was 11 when these came out and yes I was OBSESSED with them!! I eventually got a Furby and a Furby baby. Your video just reminded me of how much fun I had with them. Only thing I hated was running out of batteries and I was always getting the cheap dollar store batteries so it was always dying. I stopped playing with them when I was 13 or 14, I thought I was too grown for toys lol. Those were the days. My older siblings called it a gremlin.

@erintraicene7422 Год назад

I was a teenager working at a local department store when these came out. The store allowed all employees to reserve one ahead of the crowd so I did buy one. And kept it for myself. No home renovations as a result of reselling here - just a pretty cool toy that I felt fortunate to have. Growing up low income getting a chance at a super popular product felt like a big enough treat to use a bit of my hard earned money on. And yes. It is cute. Ha.

@jfast8256 Год назад

Military vet here, intelligence analyst. The US military learned the hard way that Furbys weren't to be in SKIFs. Just out of the blue a Furby would repeat some TS SCI thing it overheard and a lot of people started to panic. This was before electronics in general being banned from the work place. Basically before my time as an intelligence analyst. By the time I was doing it, I never once had any sort of electronics being brought into any building I worked in.

@Mr.Septon Год назад

The other comparable one for around the same time as the Furby was the Tickle Me Elmo toy, which was incredibly massive.

@FillBar Год назад

Caleb Chung is from my home state of Idaho. It's fun to hear fellow aspiring toy makers about their encounters with him.

@patticake5311 Год назад

Furbies listed for $79.95 the year they came out, and that's what big box stores charged; they may have gone down in price later. I spent countless hours at Toys R Us stores before Christmas that year because my son wanted one. I got him one, too.

@GlennBrian Год назад

that guy was NOT installing that floor right lmao

@trystongilbert1837 Год назад

I'm still wracked with guilt whenever I think about my old Wizard Furbie sitting alone in a dark toy chest until it's batteries died.

@kiki45918 Год назад

I remember that Furby and McDonald's collab. I had a full collection of them. 🤣

@rickyrichreacts9667 Год назад

I remember I got one in the 90s as a kid and got bored with it within an hour 😂😂😂

@americanpaisareturns9051 Год назад

I had forgotten all about that hideous creature Furby. Anyways, IT’S TURBO TIME.

@joestutler6582 Год назад

Regarding any "settlement", my guess is that as long as no suit was filed there'd be no need for any settlement, that through negotiations they found a mutually-beneficial opportunity. Same result, technically different legally.

@xn--g5h6690ovb 8 месяцев назад

I brought one to show and tell in 2nd grade during 2001. It would not shut up all day and we eventually had to bury it in all of our jackets to muffle the noise. I think the teacher ended up putting it inside a cupboard. Little dude wreaked havoc

@cherubin7th Год назад

Furby was an early ChatGPT moment

@chrismathgenius Год назад

I used to own a collection of these toys from McDonald's happy meals. They were fun to play with. Good times.

@DaBeanieBaby Год назад

My uncle, who always prided himself on getting me loud and annoying toys, hated my Furby. He took it and put it on top of the car in the sunlight to kill the battery. ‘Furby needs a nap’

@disneydarling7573 Год назад

I was born in 1995, so I was too young to have the original ones. I know I got one when I was 6 or 7. And he was a big furby. I also remember getting one in a happy meal

@starzzzy22 Год назад

I remember seeing the Gizmo furby in a Wal-Mart as a kid and I kinda wish I would have bought it. I did had two Furby babies, but both broke and I returned them.

@dschlie6669 Год назад

furbies always creeped me out, my neighbor had a bunch and they spoke at us in such ominous ways. GG & good video again!

@alexkuhn5078 Год назад

one of the highlights of my childhood was setting a Furby on fire under a bridge

@hailee13 Год назад

I remember my sister and I wanting one SO BAD when they came out. We got them for Christmas and we were thrilled. Then they would just "wake up" in the middle of the night scaring the pair of us. They ended up being put on the coat closet to never be seen again

@kathrynclark1585 Год назад

Furbys were a super cute alternative to a ouija board for helping kids make contact with the devil

@sergeipohkerova7211 Год назад

My mom collects Beanie Babies. She's not American nor does she live in America, but I blame America. She is otherwise a nice lady. My dad refuses to discuss the Beanie Babies. She talks about them to him like they're her children. My sister and I feel some kind of way 😂

@Shad0wPh0enixXx Год назад

I remember getting one for Christmas in 2004 and it worked for like 2 weeks

@pineappleprincess9704 Год назад

I honestly really like furbies. The AI they have is pretty advanced. Even for the newer ones But this love for them tripled after Tattletail came out.

@ChrisSl8 Год назад

Oh man, Christmas Eve we used to have a big family gathering at my grandparents’ house (we still gather to this day too, just at another relatives house), so it’s always a big gift giving night between cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc. Christmas Eve 1998 my grandparents bought two Furbies: one for my brothers and I and one for my cousins family. I was 9 years old at the time and honestly wasn’t really interested, but it was a strange toy. The funniest thing was how we put batteries in it when we got home and it seemingly wouldn’t shut up all night while my dad was trying to watch TV, so I believe the batteries were taken out never to be replaced again 😂😂😂 would’ve been crazy if we still had it, but it’s probably been thrown out since before the end of Bush’s first term lmao

@OGStoneVegas Год назад

I still need to make a serato scratch record out of the high pitched furby voice... I always wanted to do some crude turntablism with the "WHOOOOOOA" and "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" sound

@WorldofHVAC Год назад

I was 7/8 when these things were popular. I cant explain the appeal but EVERYONE at school had to have them. They were the coolest things. Until you couldn't turn them off at night. It was creepy when those things started going off in the dark

@bunniesbunniesbunnie Год назад

Ah, my dad got me one and then got my mom one and then we had a couple extra once we realized they interacted with each other. I loved mine, but I was barely 12 when they were popular so I was in that perfect little marketing window. I hadn't even heard of them until my dad brought mine home. Regardless, furbys were pretty cool little toys for the era. I absolutely had a huge chain of gigapets and tamagotchis I'd won off other kids on the playground, too.

@DCombz Год назад

I loved Furby so much as a child I very strongly remember being one for Halloween and running around terrified at the neighborhood haunted yard/house while I myself was this bizarre round creature.

@maenad1231 Год назад

My mom says when I was a kid I was so in love with gizmo that I wanted a movie accurate plush and poster of him. I hated the way the furby looked tho. I’ll probably have to commission someone to make the plush to make my childhood dream come true

@LikaLaruku Год назад

Didn't the Furby, Beanie Baby, & Tickle Me Elmo crazes happen within a few years of eachother?

@jeffguevara5967 Год назад

I still have 4 of these originals. I got them on sale from K&B Toys for $5.00 each. :)

@shyb7847 Год назад

I have one on my desk lol. This retro store was selling them. I gave my second one to my coworker who kept asking about it

@thegooseshack2619 Год назад

There was a time when friend's brother wanted a dog SO so bad, like to the point he would ask non-stop and be annoying about it, but his parents didn't want to get the damn dog. Instead, his mom went ahead and bought him a Furby, expecting that would fix the issue lmao

@alfredolomeli8539 Год назад

When they originally sold my mom bought one, when they came out later as a reboot I bought one with my son and my wife

@SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk Год назад

Working in woolworths 1999 Christmas ohh my Every other customer, any furbys left.

@Meow-Box Год назад

My brother begged for one that Christmas and actually got it. Within a matter of minutes the excitement was gone and he was over it. So as children do, he decided that he needed to skin the poor thing leaving an extra terrifying furless black demon robot speaking random gibberish all day. Last I remember he had created some form of a noose and hung the demon robot from the balcony. Oh the joys Furby brought...

@ghost21501 Год назад

I was 8 when this came out, and we had just moved to the US from Eastern Europe. I remember asking for one, and my parents didn't want to get me the demon animal.

@Zanelander Месяц назад

*Everybody gangsta till Shelby pull up with the furbabies*

@MrCloud254 Год назад

I think I'm like a lot of people who put theirs in the closet and forgot about it. Apparently, I left the batteries in mine, and so at about 2 in the morning, this thing woke up after years of dormancy and decided to say, "Me. Hungry." Followed by that laugh. This went on for about 4 days. I genuinely couldn't find the thing. So yeah, that's how my anxiety started.

@ShockerTopper Год назад

I remember when Furby’s were crazy popular back in the day. They always reminded me of Gremlins/Mogwai’s. My mom bought like 5 different ones at one point those things were the devils creation lol…the way they’d talk to each other through their IR m sensors on their head. But yep I remember the Tamogatchi’s/gigs pet for sure because I’m not a dumb Gen-Z kid and grew up in the last good generation. We got the perfect mix of learning how to do things using our actual brains and growing up with technology proliferating allowed us to understand the foundational basis for all new crazy stuff like those “iPods” and “notebook computers” haha. Man do I not envy kids at all born in the mid 90’s to now, it was definitely not better to be born and have grown up only knowing phones as “smart phones” and only using the internet to find information. Having the best of all worlds by knowing how to live with electronics and tech but also being familiar with all of it and understanding how it works on a fundamental level. The irony is that the kids (especially gen-z’s) that 80% never deserved to have the happiness we had growing up).

@PrezVeto Год назад

A possible way to reconcile the Hasbro statement denying there was ever a lawsuit: it was a payment to convince Warner Bros not to file a lawsuit in the first place. WB could've sent Hasbro a cease-and-desist letter alleging the IP infringement, to which Hasbro responded with an offer to pay WB a fat wad in exchange for a licensing deal that forgave the past infringement, which WB accepted. No lawsuit, no bad press, just two companies pretending things had always been nicey-nice. Such pre-litigation deals happen a lot more than people realize because without a lawsuit actually being filed there's no public record that there's even a dispute. They usually _are_ called pre-litigation settlements, but that executive's statement that there was no settlement could've been "explained" with a claim that they meant there was no traditional settlement (to settle litigation) or that it was just a "routine business deal" if the deal were made public somewhow.

@Wintersoldier73 Год назад

I remember this, plus tickle me elmo & way before that, the cabbage patch kids craze. It happens every couple of years.

@bambieyedd Год назад

I remember a furby rumor where it chewed up a little girl’s hair when I was younger so they were trying to get it canceled lol 😂😂😂

@highnoon9333 Год назад

I had a furby that sat on my desk that faced my bed when I was a kid (I was 7 when it was released). How did I not get freaked out from it… staring at me in bed???

@Marinealver Год назад

Next up, The Tickle Me Elmo Doll

@jessip8654 Год назад

I had one. I still even remember the name, Toh-Lu. After a tumble down the stairs it got weird. Irratic. It would wake up and fall asleep at random. Once I left it in my parent's room overnight and it woke up in the dead of night singing and babbling. Scared the shit out of my mom. RIP Toh-Lu, you were amusing.

@ashleyharris3720 Год назад

Mine would go off during thunderstorms. Terrible child memories.

@unemilifleur Год назад

I loved my early 2000’s Furby 😆

@V1nc3n7 Год назад

I had a Furby when I was little and his name was Coco, one night he fell down the stairs and never was the same :(

@carolyn9157 Год назад

I have three Furbies I know longer play with them they are now in my collection. I also have Gizmo, Stripe and Penny I love them all.

@RyanABXY Год назад

You expect me to believe those chubby cheek CPK dolls are terrifying while the demon spawn Furbys are adorable? Idk man.

@stephaniespurling6105 Год назад

My sister had a Furby when we were kids and it would literally come to life in the middle of the night for no reason scaring everyone, including the adults. We were eventually banned from putting batteries in it. After that it sat on a shelf in hibernation for years.

@hereisdann Год назад

Why did I stop playing with it? Cause my dad threw it out the car window going down the highway cause it wouldnt shut up!!! RIP

@chadh0nkleton774 Год назад

Honestly, this will sound weirdly coincidental, but I was about 11 when these things came out, and my mother took me to visit Warner bros movie world(a theme park in Australia based on Warner properties like Batman, Wild West and gremlins) I fell in love with the gremlins films at that time and it all kinda came together, also I was away from home on vacation and had not much to do, so I bought a normal furry and a furry baby and made them communicate, it was fun for a few days at least

@mrfuzzypaws Год назад

My friends had one. I put it in their freezer to startle people when they opened the door. I guess the cheap electronics couldn’t cope and it froze to death.

@slash8915 Год назад

I still have an unopened original Furby in my closet that I bought when I was like... 7 years old. I'm now 33. Maybe one day it will be worth something... 🥲

@BiroZombie Год назад

There is a range of opinions among individuals regarding the perceived characteristics of Furby's. While some may view Furby's as entertaining, others may consider them to be unsettling. Personally, I do not find Furby's to be frightening and instead view them as a typical plaything, similar to other toys such as My Buddy and Teddy Ruxpin which have also been perceived as eerie by some. Additionally, there is a variation of Furby's known as Long Furby's which some may find unsettling, but I find these to be aesthetically pleasing.

@UndeadEggmiester Год назад

Honestly this was a right place at the right time toy. It happens from time to time. Also it didn't help that the furbie seemed alive and kids loved it. Also the whole fomo aspect helped drive it.

@EvaFull Год назад

Could you do Hollywood Video sometime? Always been interested in Blockbuster’s competition.

@mauricioibarra3643 Год назад

I recommend you do Rise and Fall of Morphee Cosmetics!

@VidWatcher01 Год назад

I 2nd that!

@BugsyFoga Год назад

Anyone else think Furbies sort of resembles Mogwais from Gremlins?

@1Gengar Год назад

I wasn't a part of the fad, but as someone who already liked robots before getting to know the furby's history better, and once i stopped believing the countless made up horror stories about them, i gotta say i really love these guys. It's a shame they're too expensive for me to get one. Though one thing that really saddens me is when people casually talk about destorying and burning them- like, geez dude, just sell the poir thing to someone else!

@tonydiebold4899 Год назад

I remember getting one for our household… didn’t last long. Super annoying. Tickle Me Elmo would be a good Fad to take a look at

@jimmyispromo Год назад

I owned the giga pet and thought it was better than tomagotche

@kevineisele2809 Год назад

You should do a video on the video game toys to life fad (Skylanders, Disney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions, Starlink, and Amiibo).

@jwrailve3615 Год назад

Bruh these things WERE THE ABSOLUTE WORST. they barely worked, would go off in the middle of the night super creepy, and trying to Teach it anything was a nightmare

@marcohavokkhaos 8 месяцев назад

Do one on Tickle Me Elmo. My grandparents won a free Furby and gave it to me, when I was a kid. I swear that thing was cursed.

@DiscoTimelordASD Год назад

My kid sister had one. It annoyed EVERYONE including her! Her friend broke it thankfully💀

@futuredirector999 Год назад

I loved my Furby! Had a Halloween one, lol

@getlosttrails Год назад

Yep. Had the furby and tamagotchi. 90s child

@fredgarvin716 Год назад

I was a 27 years old in 1997, single, and had no interest in Furbies or Gremlins. Up until this moment, I actually thought the Furby was the thing from the movie Gremlins 🤷‍♂️

@bobsmith-qu2oq Год назад

I was one of the folks flipping them. The highest I sold one for was 650.

@UrvineSpiegel Год назад

Its just like dollars. Its only valuable when its valuable to other people. We're all a part of this machine.

@krozareq Год назад

I feel some of the craze of speculating on them had to do with Ebay becoming so big at the time. Now there's a global marketplace to resell items quickly. My mom has never done the black Friday mad morning rush, but we did that year. She wanted to buy Furbys and used us all to get more of them. Sold them for over $500 on Ebay.