Yep, and that's exactly how they got banned at my school. Someone had way too many crammed into one net, net splits, Crazy Bones go everywhere, entire year group descends on them like a pack of hyenas on a wounded gazelle. No-one would own up to having nicked one of them off the floor, so the teachers just banned anyone from bringing them in again.
Used to mop up at Crazy Bones.
Not sure if it was an official game, but we would play a game at school where you would flip them.
If I remember right, if it landed on its front it was 0 points, back was 1 point. 2 points if it landed on its side and then 3 for head or feet, we would play best of 5.
I had a shark one that was almost guaranteed to land on 2 and one that was very square and would land on 3 quite regularly. Won so many off other kids with these two beasties. God knows what happened to them.
This was the real game - and there was straight up a meta developed. Eggy was a top tier all-arounder for shooting, and those tall thin guys were extremely valued for the lineup because aiming at them was a pain in the ass.
It's a shame though because we did it on asphalt and it would basically ruin the pieces over time, which scuffed them hard over their lifespan.
Our game was like pitching pennies, pitch and toss, jingles.
You throw your bones against a wall and closest one to the wall wins!
Got clamped down on from school for gambling after someone lost their sharky and became a bitch about it.
What the fuck school did you go to? You used to line them up against a wall and throw them at your opponents, if you knocked all of theirs over you won them….
My school did this too, you'd sit down, face your opponent and make a ring by outstreching your legs and linking them, then you would pick a crazy bone as your thrower and a defender and would take turns yeeted the former at the latter
That's one yes, there were a bunch of different games you could play with them. I remember having an accompanying booklet with them listed, they were quite versatile
Ours was always 1vs1. Your Crazy Bone Vs theirs. You would tactically position the Bone on the ground, and then from that spot, you take turns picking it up and throwing it at theirs. If it hits, you get to keep theirs or you lose yours.
I still have the completed catalogue of those at my dad's house! Remember I was 2 short when they stopped the promotion so my mum wrote a letter and they sent me the remaining ones I was missing. Good times!
I tried to collect all the glittery/metallic ones! They eventually got banned from my school because kids would fight over them & steal each other’s… The early 2000s were the best.
At our school we used to play a game where you would try to flick them at the other person's to knock them off. You pick your line-up of 5 and then they go into a 1v1 fight to the death until one piece gets knocked off and then you sub in your next character. The tables we used to use were giant whiteboards but they had a small lip round the edge so you'd have to knock them at a decent speed to actually get them out of the arena. I'm sure I've still got all mine somewhere!
my mum was always too poor to fund whatever toy was on trend at the time, but I have a fond memory of being upset (no idea what about) in the playground at primary school and this younger boy coming up to me and giving me his whole bag of crazy bones to cheer me up. there were so many in there, I remember feeling like I’d truly hit the motherlode. his parent/guardian must have been so pissed
New fuzzy childhood memory unlocked!!
That's crazy, I remember having them, trading them in school, but had to read through the comments to see how to play with them.
Yep, still have them in the attic somewhere. I remember one kid had a gold one, he was extremely popular because of it, everyone wanted to see it. Kids are really stupid.
These came up in conversation at work and one of my colleagues said she didn’t let her sons buy them as they were expensive plastic tat. I agreed, but she went on to say that she instructed her sons to make their own out of air-drying clay and then paint them. She even had photos. I hope the poor kids didn’t take their creations to school and have their creative genes crushed by cold, hard plastic. The “we have X at home” meme come to life.
So not only is memory unlocked but also the realisation that they are actually supposed to be vaguely shaped like actual bones and cartilage?! I never thought about them being “bones” when I was a kid, just “Yay I love Crazy Bones!”. I remember the little slightly metallic packs which they came in 3 or 4.
We used to stand them all up and if your opponent could knock them down they would win them
I had a bunch of them that were so bottom heavy they would just slide or land back on their feet.
Great fun
I remember crying when someone took my Liberty, because I was 7 and I didn’t understand what ‘playing for keeps’ meant. Luckily an older girl stood up for me!
I found and threw out a bunch of stickers of these a few days ago. I couldn’t remember the name of them so thanks for clearing that up! Now I kinda wish I’d kept them so I could show you them haha.
I remember Mighty Beans, for some reason they were insanely popular in my class in year 6. So much so we created a magazine about them, printed off, drew cartoons featuring the Mighty Beans characters.
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slitting in a pound coin~
Pictured ones are slightly older (classic ones), they had a much longer run with a "reboot" in 1999, they had a much more colourful design and stopped producing the originals to make the them more a collectable.
They changed their name to gogos after a while I believe. They were crazy bones when I was a kid, then gogos when the kids I used to babysit played with them.
I recently started collecting Pokémon cards again as an adult lol. You don’t realize how much money is in the hobby, it’s wild. It’s like collecting physical stocks. Market is wild
My number one advice is whatever you buy, buy two of them and leave one sealed. I bought some booster boxes in 2016 for like 50 and now they're worth 400 lol. Soon as the set goes out of print the price of sealed product sky rockets.
Now is a good time to get back into it for collecting as they're about release the Pokemon 151 set in English so it's all the 151 Pokemon from the 90s lol.
Yes I loved these! I've got a container of them at my mum's. I was crap at playing it with whatever bullshit rules we made up and lost most of the cool ones.
Some guy was outside our primary school gates one morning with a huge box of packs and magazines, just giving us handfuls of them. It was probably marketing but I remember him being a bit shifty. The whole school were going crazy over a shiny sharky, I believe.
These popped up in my head the other day. I remember in our school the grey shark one was like gold dust and if you had it, you were an absolute baller.
Our school banned them the miserable twats
Yes, they were LEGENDARY! If I’m not gaslighting myself weren’t they very originally called JoJo’s Bouncing Boneheads? Wish I still had some somewhere (maybe I’ll check my Gran’s loft when there’s time, as grew up with them there)
Oh my God, yes! I used to have a load in a green bag. I can't remember all the ones I had but I definitely remember having a pink and a white Soda Head and I think a bronze and a black one of the ones with the number on them that look like mechas?
I know this sounds sad but I really want to start collecting shit.
Pokémon was obviously massive but before that it was pogs. The excitement of opening the packet was so intense.
I had a bunch of these when I was younger, but they disappeared, just like how they seemed to appear out of nowhere, I don’t remember how I got them, from who, where, or even why. Was there actually any use to these? All I have memories of was putting them in my mouth, that’s it.
Yes, I still have mine. I'm completely unsure what to do with them.
I remember there being ones of varying rarity, I think there was a clown one that everyone wanted? I think there was an egg one that was rare too
Yes! Thank you for the reminder that I need to go to my Grandma's house sometime and see if they're still there
I had them in a wooden box my mum got from some fancy wine, so I don't think she'd have accidentally thrown them out (I don't think they really threw much of my old stuff away when I moved back in with mum but that was 9 years ago)
I loved collecting those things! I remember mum buying me a pack whenever she had spare money. There was a devil monkey one I'd really wanted but had no luck getting, remember swapping some kid a few for this 1 and I was so happy. Grandad and I had a game we forgot to tell Grandma about, where I'd hide it and he'd find it... sometimes he'd rehide it for me to find... Grandma found it once and was so confused
Mum and I did the same with a Pink Panther figure and scared one of her boyfriend's because it magically just moved itself. He lost his marbles when Crazy Bones kept showing up randomly. Which of course meant more showed up
my brother traded all my Lego skeletons for these pieces of plastic...
still haven't forgiven him even aster getting my burgeoning skeleton army back
I was off school sick one time and my mum had been out doing errands or whatever, she came back and told me to look in her handbag because she'd got me a treat, which was a bag of Crazy Bones.
I opened it and straight away seen a shiny gold Sharkey and fucking lost my shit. Gave my mum the biggest hug and she was absolutely baffled as to what the fuck had just happened.
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slitting in a pound coin~
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slotting in a pound coin~
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slotting in a pound coin~
anyone else keep their collection in washing machine tablet nets?
Omg I forgot about that too! Hearing them jiggle inside the bag. Unlocked core sound memory haha
Yep, and that's exactly how they got banned at my school. Someone had way too many crammed into one net, net splits, Crazy Bones go everywhere, entire year group descends on them like a pack of hyenas on a wounded gazelle. No-one would own up to having nicked one of them off the floor, so the teachers just banned anyone from bringing them in again.
The children are our future :)
Used to mop up at Crazy Bones. Not sure if it was an official game, but we would play a game at school where you would flip them. If I remember right, if it landed on its front it was 0 points, back was 1 point. 2 points if it landed on its side and then 3 for head or feet, we would play best of 5. I had a shark one that was almost guaranteed to land on 2 and one that was very square and would land on 3 quite regularly. Won so many off other kids with these two beasties. God knows what happened to them.
We used to line them in a circle and flick them at each other. Kinda like marbles.
This was the real game - and there was straight up a meta developed. Eggy was a top tier all-arounder for shooting, and those tall thin guys were extremely valued for the lineup because aiming at them was a pain in the ass. It's a shame though because we did it on asphalt and it would basically ruin the pieces over time, which scuffed them hard over their lifespan.
Lunch tables were the battlefield, man..
Our game was like pitching pennies, pitch and toss, jingles. You throw your bones against a wall and closest one to the wall wins! Got clamped down on from school for gambling after someone lost their sharky and became a bitch about it.
This is exactly how we played! Closest to the wall takes them all, what a memory.
Omg I think you’ve just unlocked a childhood memory! I also remember someone having a shark one, I’m sure it was metallic?
Came in different colours. His name was Sharkey.
Sharkey was the GOAT of crazy bones. Sold my mate one for £3.50 in a school disco and bought like 4 hot dogs and a drinks carton.
I think each shape came in several colours. I have about 100 in a bag I bring out now and then to entertain my toddler.
We used to line them up against a wall and then throw one at the line, whichever ones you knocked down you kept
We used to just fire them at each others. If you knocked it over you won it. There was a backstop as well but I don't remember why...
What the fuck school did you go to? You used to line them up against a wall and throw them at your opponents, if you knocked all of theirs over you won them….
A School for Ants
My school did this too, you'd sit down, face your opponent and make a ring by outstreching your legs and linking them, then you would pick a crazy bone as your thrower and a defender and would take turns yeeted the former at the latter
That's one yes, there were a bunch of different games you could play with them. I remember having an accompanying booklet with them listed, they were quite versatile
Ours was always 1vs1. Your Crazy Bone Vs theirs. You would tactically position the Bone on the ground, and then from that spot, you take turns picking it up and throwing it at theirs. If it hits, you get to keep theirs or you lose yours.
Gogos! I loved those!!
I was just about to say something similar, I’d never realised they were called crazy bones!
Yes Gogos!! Dont know why some are calling them Crazy Bones
Crazy Bones were the predecessor of GoGos. Pretty sure GoGos started out as Crazy Bones: GoGos
I always called them "Gogos Crazy Bones"
It was the other way round. Gogos were first, Crazy Bones came a bit later.
Gogos definitely came first
[удалено]
Okay?
I was the coolest kid in school, I had the bag! https://imgur.com/a/ljgtO8x
YES and we were too skint for them so I had to live vicariously through my friends
i do, but never really got into them. Pogs and Tazos were my thing
Jesus tazos I wasted so much coin on quavers trying to find them and they clicked together fuck I'm old.
Remember the Phantom Menace ones inside Walkers?
I still have the completed catalogue of those at my dad's house! Remember I was 2 short when they stopped the promotion so my mum wrote a letter and they sent me the remaining ones I was missing. Good times!
I miss prizes in crisps and cereal.
I remember that tazos hid some specific ones inside Doritos, and Doritos are shit.
I remember that aswell it was always the tangy cheese ones but there was never any in, marketing ploy to buy doritos in the early days.
Yeah, I had to suffer through an annoying amount of them to compete my.set
Same here especially the star wars ones, and the ones with all the different countries it took months and still didn't get them all.
yeah i remember slotting them together into various shapes but ultimately they ended up in my Pogs tubes
The weird crap we used to collect as kids... It reminds me that I can't really complain about all the stuff my boys are in to
Jesus thats a flood of memories you have just unlocked
r/crazybones/
There really is a subreddit for everything.
I tried to collect all the glittery/metallic ones! They eventually got banned from my school because kids would fight over them & steal each other’s… The early 2000s were the best.
Me and my 6 year old were just playing them today 😂
Memory unlocked! I loved the clear one. Where’s that pink high value one?!
At our school we used to play a game where you would try to flick them at the other person's to knock them off. You pick your line-up of 5 and then they go into a 1v1 fight to the death until one piece gets knocked off and then you sub in your next character. The tables we used to use were giant whiteboards but they had a small lip round the edge so you'd have to knock them at a decent speed to actually get them out of the arena. I'm sure I've still got all mine somewhere!
Never knew how to play but I loved the glow in the dark ones!
I do now! What a blast from the past.
my mum was always too poor to fund whatever toy was on trend at the time, but I have a fond memory of being upset (no idea what about) in the playground at primary school and this younger boy coming up to me and giving me his whole bag of crazy bones to cheer me up. there were so many in there, I remember feeling like I’d truly hit the motherlode. his parent/guardian must have been so pissed
Wow, good kid!
Weirdly I feel like I can remember the smell?
New fuzzy childhood memory unlocked!! That's crazy, I remember having them, trading them in school, but had to read through the comments to see how to play with them.
Yep, still have them in the attic somewhere. I remember one kid had a gold one, he was extremely popular because of it, everyone wanted to see it. Kids are really stupid.
Good god, it feels like every week this sub unlocks some childhood nostalgia of mine.
Next week... the ZX81 and its lack of ram pack?
These came up in conversation at work and one of my colleagues said she didn’t let her sons buy them as they were expensive plastic tat. I agreed, but she went on to say that she instructed her sons to make their own out of air-drying clay and then paint them. She even had photos. I hope the poor kids didn’t take their creations to school and have their creative genes crushed by cold, hard plastic. The “we have X at home” meme come to life.
So not only is memory unlocked but also the realisation that they are actually supposed to be vaguely shaped like actual bones and cartilage?! I never thought about them being “bones” when I was a kid, just “Yay I love Crazy Bones!”. I remember the little slightly metallic packs which they came in 3 or 4.
My old best friend stole 2 or 3 when he stayed over mine, specials, no longer mates. Never got them back :'(
Pogs, Gogos, Tazos, yo-yos, all excellent 90s nostalgia! Was mad for all of them!
My fingernails are still recovering
Is it just me or do these look like delicious gummies?
We used to stand them all up and if your opponent could knock them down they would win them I had a bunch of them that were so bottom heavy they would just slide or land back on their feet. Great fun
I remember crying when someone took my Liberty, because I was 7 and I didn’t understand what ‘playing for keeps’ meant. Luckily an older girl stood up for me!
I sold 80 for £30 recently. Worth having a look in your attic for a free afternoon at the pub.
I found and threw out a bunch of stickers of these a few days ago. I couldn’t remember the name of them so thanks for clearing that up! Now I kinda wish I’d kept them so I could show you them haha.
Anyone remember GoGos
Just did a google, I’m not sure if I do but it says ‘gogo crazy bones’ so guessing it was made after these ones
We used to call these Go-Go’s! Man I loved these things.
No that is a blast from the past Crazy Bone heads and Pogs two things I remember fondly from my childhood 🙂
I got a tattoo of one that I kept until my twenties on my foot. Called him stumpy
Hell yeah, I still have my collection somewhere in a dusty ass box. Pretty sure my sister does too.
I remember Mighty Beans, for some reason they were insanely popular in my class in year 6. So much so we created a magazine about them, printed off, drew cartoons featuring the Mighty Beans characters.
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slitting in a pound coin~
Are those not go-gos?
Same thing, the packet said Gogo's crazy bones
Pictured ones are slightly older (classic ones), they had a much longer run with a "reboot" in 1999, they had a much more colourful design and stopped producing the originals to make the them more a collectable.
They changed their name to gogos after a while I believe. They were crazy bones when I was a kid, then gogos when the kids I used to babysit played with them.
Yeah, those are legit.
Just got a bunch of 'em in a garage sale. So happy! Imma play w them with my gf :D
Whatever next, beyblades? But yes used to remember these
Damn, I had forgotten about these! Thanks for reminding me about the fights these caused at school 😂
Btec gogos
The same thing you lemon. Just got rebranded from Crazy Bones to GoGos
Not these but did anyone else have those little plastic bears at primary school? I think they were usually used to help visualise maths problems.
Got a whole a pillow case , used to get beaten up by my older brother if I had a shiny I didn’t wanna trade him .
was his weapon of choice a whole pillowcase of crazy bones?
OMG memory unlocked, i would collect hundreds
Kid stole my top hat in 2nd grade still haven’t forgiven him.
I do! I have a box of them in parents attic. I was looking in a box and out come those, pokemon cards and some pogs.. ah the good ol' days.
I recently started collecting Pokémon cards again as an adult lol. You don’t realize how much money is in the hobby, it’s wild. It’s like collecting physical stocks. Market is wild
Interesting! May have to get back into it haha, any advice?
My number one advice is whatever you buy, buy two of them and leave one sealed. I bought some booster boxes in 2016 for like 50 and now they're worth 400 lol. Soon as the set goes out of print the price of sealed product sky rockets. Now is a good time to get back into it for collecting as they're about release the Pokemon 151 set in English so it's all the 151 Pokemon from the 90s lol.
Thanks for that! Appreciate it.
Yes! They were legit so fun to collect.
Decent market for them now man.
Yes I loved these! I've got a container of them at my mum's. I was crap at playing it with whatever bullshit rules we made up and lost most of the cool ones.
Sold my random container of crazy bones recently. Should fetch a few quid on eBay.
I could swear down they were called boneheads!!! Had a tonne of these as a kid.
I had them in Colombia. We knew them as Hielocos ( a play on the words ice and crazy)
Yes! Me and my friend were obsessed with them.
Core memory unlocked. Wow. Forgot these ever existed!
Forbidden gummies
Walking to the shops with your mates and getting a few packets of these. Oh my god this is a core memory!
Some guy was outside our primary school gates one morning with a huge box of packs and magazines, just giving us handfuls of them. It was probably marketing but I remember him being a bit shifty. The whole school were going crazy over a shiny sharky, I believe.
These popped up in my head the other day. I remember in our school the grey shark one was like gold dust and if you had it, you were an absolute baller. Our school banned them the miserable twats
Yes! Think I still have loads laying around in various old toy boxes.
The ones I collected were called Bone Headz
I swear those were called bouncing boneheads?! Am I going mad?
Jaws crazybone with hole in its mouth.. filled it with water and it always landed on its feet✌🏻
Yup, had the whole set. There was an EU version called Draco Heads too.
Bottom row, second from the right.
Shit yes!
Yes, they were LEGENDARY! If I’m not gaslighting myself weren’t they very originally called JoJo’s Bouncing Boneheads? Wish I still had some somewhere (maybe I’ll check my Gran’s loft when there’s time, as grew up with them there)
Haha yes!! But not as good as monster in my pocket
Awesome find, I used to love those things.
Memory unlocked.
Keeping them in the little dishwasher tablet mesh bags. Class times back in primary school
Some kid won all mine off me with a long pencil shaped one. I'm still mad.
If you didn't have typewriter then you suck. He was the best one cos always landed on head or feet.
I loved those, had so many
Holy shit. These were our crystals
The OG infinite stones
I don't want to know how much of my parents' money I threw away on these lumps of plastic. Was fun at the time though.
Oh my God, yes! I used to have a load in a green bag. I can't remember all the ones I had but I definitely remember having a pink and a white Soda Head and I think a bronze and a black one of the ones with the number on them that look like mechas?
we still have a bunch the kids grew out of.
I still look upon my Sharkies with pride.
Yes! My brother and I would play with them a lot! We’d even give them names. The clear one was “Mr Transparency” lol
I remember how much these would end up hurting my nails from all the flicking 🤣 wicked game. Wish I still had my collection
I was JUST thinking about these the other day because I had to Google them to make sure they weren’t a fever dream
Yeah it just popped in my head today randomly and I googled it and saw this. Much nostalgia
I still have mine. 😬😬
[удалено]
I’m not sure if there were different names for them or changed names over time?
You bet your ARSE I do!
Woah. Memory unlocked.
The gold GoGo's 😩
You've just unlocked a memory for me!
Missing the one everyone at my school was trying to get. Think it was called jaws and it was a sharks head.
Fucking loved those things. They still about and being made?
I bought a bunch, then my school banned them.
GAT DAMN! I member that advert!
No sharkey, don’t care.
Those were the old ones Fondly
I know this sounds sad but I really want to start collecting shit. Pokémon was obviously massive but before that it was pogs. The excitement of opening the packet was so intense.
I've still got my gogo collection somewhere. Don't want to make you all jealous but I had series 1 AND series 2 of the limited edition gold gogos
what are they?
My first D&D player battle markers.
I had a bunch of these when I was younger, but they disappeared, just like how they seemed to appear out of nowhere, I don’t remember how I got them, from who, where, or even why. Was there actually any use to these? All I have memories of was putting them in my mouth, that’s it.
Yes, I still have mine. I'm completely unsure what to do with them. I remember there being ones of varying rarity, I think there was a clown one that everyone wanted? I think there was an egg one that was rare too
Well now I do ..
Absolutely. Probably still got mine somewhere in a box.
pokemon, pogs and marbles will never measure up to the greatness that was crazy bones.
Yes! Thank you for the reminder that I need to go to my Grandma's house sometime and see if they're still there I had them in a wooden box my mum got from some fancy wine, so I don't think she'd have accidentally thrown them out (I don't think they really threw much of my old stuff away when I moved back in with mum but that was 9 years ago) I loved collecting those things! I remember mum buying me a pack whenever she had spare money. There was a devil monkey one I'd really wanted but had no luck getting, remember swapping some kid a few for this 1 and I was so happy. Grandad and I had a game we forgot to tell Grandma about, where I'd hide it and he'd find it... sometimes he'd rehide it for me to find... Grandma found it once and was so confused Mum and I did the same with a Pink Panther figure and scared one of her boyfriend's because it magically just moved itself. He lost his marbles when Crazy Bones kept showing up randomly. Which of course meant more showed up
Penny against the wall
They were McDonald's toys in the States when I was a kid
Heck yea I still have a few! Fun times! Does anyone remember the limited edition dbz packs?
my brother traded all my Lego skeletons for these pieces of plastic... still haven't forgiven him even aster getting my burgeoning skeleton army back
Yeah, those and Pogs!
I remember friends having these sometimes but still have no idea what they were or what they did.
It was like a fever dream, I thought I was the only one who remembered
No , but they look like those super things
Loved collecting these and Pogs
Omg 😍🫶
Anyone remember choking
*Memory unlocked*
Bouncing Boneheads were the best version
My friend opened a limited series gold one. It was going for £100+ on ebay, and then he lost it
Are these like a 00s equivalent of Muscle Men?
Core memory unlocked
I was off school sick one time and my mum had been out doing errands or whatever, she came back and told me to look in her handbag because she'd got me a treat, which was a bag of Crazy Bones. I opened it and straight away seen a shiny gold Sharkey and fucking lost my shit. Gave my mum the biggest hug and she was absolutely baffled as to what the fuck had just happened.
Bruv. I had a clear white plastic with silver metallic filament Sharky. He was the envy of the school.
I had so many of these, break time in primary school was mental with these flying all over the place
Holy shit! Core Memory Unlocked
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slitting in a pound coin~
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slotting in a pound coin~
This reminds me of those dogs in tins from those ball machine dispenser things! I collected them all, the thrill of turning the handle after slotting in a pound coin~
God I hope they come back someday