The Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products

FloggingMollyrox writes "UGO looks at the recent 2004 Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products. Forget about Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man, the real stuff was an art farm that grows vegetables, a pogo stick that shoots you over the moon, 'real' shrunken heads, and an educational plush toy based on an alien invasion."

Ever been to Tokyo?

[JaredOfEuropa]

A few hours browsing at souvenir shops or department stores in the Akihabara district will teach you the meaning of 'strange'. These toys are soothingly ordinary in comparison.

And don't get me started to the Tokyo fish market *shudders*

Infrared Blade Racers?

[huha]

I really wonder why the blade racers are called a high-velocity infrared racing system...
Even if they could be steered by infrared remote controls this would be utterly senseless since they'd loose contact to the remote control when doing some loops etc. -huha

Re:Jumping

[bogie]

I can't possibly see that company not being sued out of existence. Looking at their home page flybar.com shows someone like 6 feet in the air. No way you could use that toy and not break an bone every time you used it. I'm usually of the opinion to just let everyone do what they hell the want bodily harm or not, but I just do think something like this should be sold. At least with a gun once its pointed away from you at a non-human object chances are you'll be O.K.. With this thing its almost like injury for the operator was designed into the product. They should have Dan Aykroyd maketing this along with his "bag of glass".

Re:Infrared Blade Racers?

[HawkinsD]

Well, we'll never find out from their lame-ass web page [dynatechaction.com], which is a collection of Flash that beeps a little, but otherwise provides no useful information.

But we can speculate, can't we?

To be honest, I'm not sure how fun this would be. Real slot-cars are enjoyably hard to drive fast: too much juice, and they fly off the track. That's where the fun is: racing without wiping out.

But if they're in a tube... then there's no reason not to go 100 percent all the time. Or even interact with it at all.

F that.

What ever happened to playing cops & robbers?

[RogueWarrior65]

Root view?!? This toy looks about as much fun as watching grass grow...wait a tick...I AM WATCHING GRASS GROW!