“It Came And Went In About A Year”: 19 Things That Were Supposed To Be “The Next Big Thing,” But Then Flopped In The Most Unexpected Way Possible - BuzzFeed
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“3D movies. ... It was a gimmick that added nothing to the moviegoing experience. I knew it would fail.”
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Note: Some responses were pulled from this Reddit thread by u/Reeceqld.
"The shops began closing down, and customers discussed taking legal action."
"Hobby shops and sporting good stores also reduced their inventories or stopped carrying them! For a few years later, there were a few vestiges of the slot car craze around, but they, too, became unable to survive."
"Zima. A better name for it would’ve been Zzzzzz…"
"Once the schools found out about them, they were banned, and we were told that they could accidentally put an eye out. Possibly true, which put an end to that craze!"
"Or the Talkboy. It's wild how much fun we had just recording our voices and playing them back, and by voices, I mean a lot of fart noises lol."
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