# Most Unpopular and or Boring Toys of 2004 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178 "2004-12-22T17:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/41 "2004-12-29T03:34:34Z")
**X-Treme Spackling** (from the makers of **Grout-a-lympics** ) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/42 "2004-12-29T05:46:23Z")
**"Young Person’s Guide To Zoning Ordinances"** ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/43 "2004-12-29T06:21:38Z")
Actually, Crayola sells special boxes of all shades and tones and tints of brown. It’s for skin tones, because they finally figured out that nobody was really that funky ‘skin’ color they used to have and multi-cultural is a good thing. Plus, I personally order a new box of all the different grey markers Prismacolor makes every school year. Artists need some weird stuff! But nobody could possibly ever look forward to receiving **Hasbro’s Fingernail Growth Measuring Kit** ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/44 "2004-12-29T10:52:50Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > …Plus, I personally order a new box of all the different grey markers Prismacolor makes every school year. Artists need some weird stuff!.. So how many shades of grey do they offer? (And why am I not surprised that someone named **Ashes, Ashes** is into the color grey. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/45 "2004-12-29T13:44:29Z")
**Puppy Mill Tycoon** and **Budget Motel Tycon: The Patels** provided evidence that the “tycoon” PC simulation games were breathing their last. The new Electronic Arts game, **Sim Canada, Please** (flip the box over, and it’s **Simulateur de Canada, Merci** ) wasn’t even popular among liberals, according to marketing surveys. Radio Shack’s **Capacitor for Kids!** wasn’t as fun as the 150-in-one electronic kits of old. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/46 "2004-12-29T13:51:32Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **"Young Person’s Guide To Zoning Ordinances"** [It’s real](http://www.dunnfoundation.org/edu-vf.htm). [And there’s more like that](http://www.planning.org/bookservice/description.htm?BCODE=AYPC). [A lot more](http://www.planning.org/KidsAndCommunity/index.htm). elmwood, AICP ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/47 "2004-12-29T15:23:46Z")
I liked my first edition of **Lil’ Bureaucrats 1000 Really Long, Detailed Forms.** Special edition with expanded collating and filing requirements. My cousin got \*\*“Fiscal allocation request form E-2479-B and you: Kids Edition.” \*\* A 247 page guide from the Ministry of Information. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/48 "2004-12-29T19:59:53Z")
> [@Hugh Jass](#): > > Don’t forget SafeCo’s Saf-T-Dice. These dice are round to prevent eye gauges (sp?) [http://rpg.discountgames.com/product\_info.php?products\_id=11133&](http://rpg.discountgames.com/product_info.php?products_id=11133&) There’s a weight in them and there are some kind of tiny holes the weight can fall into so that you get an actual number - it won’t stop in between 1 and 2. Or you could just get a 24-sided die (Dungeons and Dragons uses such things, I guess) and say the 1-4 means 1, 5-8 means 2, etc. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/49 "2004-12-29T20:53:56Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > [http://rpg.discountgames.com/product\_info.php?products\_id=11133&](http://rpg.discountgames.com/product_info.php?products_id=11133&) > There’s a weight in them and there are some kind of tiny holes the weight can fall into so that you get an actual number - it won’t stop in between 1 and 2. Or you could just get a 24-sided die (Dungeons and Dragons uses such things, I guess) and say the 1-4 means 1, 5-8 means 2, etc. Huh. D24s do exist. I’d never seen them, but google picks some up. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/50 "2004-12-29T20:54:48Z")
**Nerf Amish Rake Fighting** was supposedly very popular in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. It’s also much safer than Hasboro’s **X-treme Amish Rake Fighting!** set, where the colorful rakes include hard plastic teeth that, if broken,c an be swallowed. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/51 "2004-12-29T22:48:23Z")
**G.I. Joe Assistant Quartermaster’s Cubicle Playset** – comes with the newest member of the G.I Joe Team – “Bill.” Primary military specialty – filling out forms. Secondary military specialty – drinking his breakfast. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178/52 "2004-12-30T00:30:10Z")
The Junior Dermatologist kit was pretty bad, I thought. Bochs: The pack-it-in-cardboard game. (Best with the Peenutz add-on) Spongebob Squarpants’ Lives of Famous Geologists book series Baby’s First Multitool Junior EPA Inspector Kit (Especially the Lead Paint Lollapalooza, and the Asbestos Avenger! add-ons.) Special Edition Quinoa Grower’s Association Easy Bake Oven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unpopular-and-or-boring-toys-of-2004/281178.md?page=2)