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Novelty Draft - better than you thought it would be (1 Viewer)

5.pa POGS (Trend)

I was already an adult when this trend started, and frankly I never understood it. Maybe the worst trend we'll see this draft, which is why it deserves a high draft pick. It's unique if nothing else! This game has the distinction of a whopping 3.8 rating on Board Game Geek, a site which is much more interesting than Game Board Geek, where I believe they simply rate game boards. There's a 500 page thread there on whether a brown and white checkerboard is superior to a black and white one. But I digress...where was I? Right, Board Game Geek gives is 3.8 stars out of 10. If you can find 24,916 games better than Pogs, you are not alone.
 
zamboni said:
Eephus said:
5.ee - The Leisure Suit - Novelty Flex

There are few things in Western culture as stable and unchanging as menswear. Except for minor changes in fit and things like lapel width, the man's business suit has been locked in a holding pattern for a century. But there was a brief time in the early 70s when the combination of cultural change and stretchy synthetic fabrics caused a fold in the space-time-fashion continuum and the leisure suit was born. The tie stayed in the closet and shirt fronts, patch pockets, pastels, epaulets, etc. were all fair game for a few years.

Big Suit regrouped and swiftly killed off the trend. Even though fashion is notoriously cyclical, leisure suits have been lying dormant for fifty years. The bad news is I was a few years too young to ever own a leisure suit (although I did have some swinging 70s clothes) but the good news is there are no pictures of me wearing one.
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One of the patron saints of the look
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Was expecting a link to this guy…

 
Psychopav said:
5.pa POGS (Trend)

I was already an adult when this trend started, and frankly I never understood it. Maybe the worst trend we'll see this draft, which is why it deserves a high draft pick. It's unique if nothing else! This game has the distinction of a whopping 3.8 rating on Board Game Geek, a site which is much more interesting than Game Board Geek, where I believe they simply rate game boards. There's a 500 page thread there on whether a brown and white checkerboard is superior to a black and white one. But I digress...where was I? Right, Board Game Geek gives is 3.8 stars out of 10. If you can find 24,916 games better than Pogs, you are not alone.
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Was going to pick this
 
Psychopav said:
5.pa POGS (Trend)

I was already an adult when this trend started, and frankly I never understood it. Maybe the worst trend we'll see this draft, which is why it deserves a high draft pick. It's unique if nothing else! This game has the distinction of a whopping 3.8 rating on Board Game Geek, a site which is much more interesting than Game Board Geek, where I believe they simply rate game boards. There's a 500 page thread there on whether a brown and white checkerboard is superior to a black and white one. But I digress...where was I? Right, Board Game Geek gives is 3.8 stars out of 10. If you can find 24,916 games better than Pogs, you are not alone.
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Millhouse: Remember Alf?

He's back, in Pog form.


Bart: You traded my soul for Pogs?
 
Don Quixote said:
zamboni said:
Eephus said:
5.ee - The Leisure Suit - Novelty Flex

There are few things in Western culture as stable and unchanging as menswear. Except for minor changes in fit and things like lapel width, the man's business suit has been locked in a holding pattern for a century. But there was a brief time in the early 70s when the combination of cultural change and stretchy synthetic fabrics caused a fold in the space-time-fashion continuum and the leisure suit was born. The tie stayed in the closet and shirt fronts, patch pockets, pastels, epaulets, etc. were all fair game for a few years.

Big Suit regrouped and swiftly killed off the trend. Even though fashion is notoriously cyclical, leisure suits have been lying dormant for fifty years. The bad news is I was a few years too young to ever own a leisure suit (although I did have some swinging 70s clothes) but the good news is there are no pictures of me wearing one.
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One of the patron saints of the look
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Was expecting a link to this guy…

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I still wear this one.
 
6.zam: Cheech & Chong - “Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces” (song)

I was going to link the video rather than the album clip, but it’s pretty non-PC. Clever song with an amazing who’s who of guest musicians:
Cheerleaders (backing vocalists)
Horny Guys (brass players)
Others
 
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6.YM - Cabbage Patch Kids - Novelty Fad / Trend

These things broke toy sales records for multiple years in a row in the early 80s. They caused riots in stores and created a lucrative black market since they were so hard to find. They had TV shows, breakfast cereal, clothing lines, even a Christmas special.

I vividly remember having to drive around town for days with my dad going to every store to try to find one for my sister for Christmas. He ultimately found a local jewelry store that had a couple overpriced ones that he had to first buy $100 worth of jewelry before he could buy that stupid doll.
 
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My mental cheat sheet right now:

Toys, songs, treats, trends: three or four pretty good ideas

Misc / flex: fifty things that would all be incredible picks
 
krista4 said:
krista4 said:
2.k4 - Pet Rock / toy

I had one. It had a leash.
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I mean, a guy became a multi-millionaire selling people rocks. Rocks! One of my favorite aspects was that it came in a box with airholes, so that it could breathe until adopted. I also loved the long instruction booklet that talked about how you could train it to follow commands. "Play dead" was my rock's best trick.

Did I mention mine had a leash?
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I had to look this up. This is awesome!

 
This is going to get tough if the picks aren't listed out anywhere.

6.pa Palm Pilots - novelty trend, pop culture

Before there were smart phones, before there were blackberries even, there was a funny little device used to organize your stuff. It even came with its own unique alphabet. It dominated, heck it invented the hand held computing market for the first 4 or 5 years it was out, before being eclipsed by the Blackberry and then of course the iPhone killed them both dead. I never had one, myself, which is why I decided that if I ever committed a heinous murder, I would write my threatening note in blood on the wall in palm pilot script - just to throw the cops off the scent. Alas, the Palm Pilot is no more. Ah, missed opportunities...
 
Psychopav said:
This is going to get tough if the picks aren't listed out anywhere.

6.pa Palm Pilots - novelty trend, pop culture

Before there were smart phones, before there were blackberries even, there was a funny little device used to organize your stuff. It even came with its own unique alphabet. It dominated, heck it invented the hand held computing market for the first 4 or 5 years it was out, before being eclipsed by the Blackberry and then of course the iPhone killed them both dead. I never had one, myself, which is why I decided that if I ever committed a heinous murder, I would write my threatening note in blood on the wall in palm pilot script - just to throw the cops off the scent. Alas, the Palm Pilot is no more. Ah, missed opportunities...
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Oh you mean a Tip Calculator
 
HomerSimpson said:
Don Quixote said:
-OZ- said:
zamboni said:
If any kind of pickle is the next pick, I’m out of here.
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Too bad I already picked today.
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I had a pickle on my X-mas tree growing up. Still hang one in my tree.
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I hang one on my tree too. Someone bought me one years ago, I assumed it was a goof. Now I know there is a story behind it haha
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We have a pickle on our tree as well
 
Eephus said:
6.ee - Chocolate-covered Banana Pops - Frozen Novelty

Sometimes less is more. Two basic ingredients that play well together and of course everything tastes better on a stick.
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My ice cream man used to sell out of these, very disappointing events in my youth. Sometimes he would also have the cherry versions which were also very good.
 
I’m having trouble keeping track of my own picks

Toy Rubik’s cube
Toy
Toy
Frozen bon bons
Frozen
Frozen
Song Scotsman
Song seagulls / bad lip reading
Song
Trend mad magazine
Trend 🦜 heads
Trend
Flex
Flex
Flex

7.oz build your own FroYo - the proliferation of places like sweet frogs, TCBY, zen berry, orange leaf, etc has been huge. Probably not Novel at this point but it was originally.
 
7.zam: Mr. Microphone (toy)

Pretty novel for its time in the late '70s, but it's all about this awesome commercial ("Hey good lookin', we'll be back to pick you up later!")

Speaking of the commercial:
 
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