#Trading

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Video thumbnail — Crazy Bones Commercial 1998
Toys 1996–2001

Crazy Bones

Tiny plastic chunks with names like 'Mosh' and 'Cyclops' that you flicked at one another across playground asphalt. Crazy Bones were the pogs that came after pogs — just as collectible, just as fiercely traded, and just as likely to get you banned from school.

Video thumbnail — Wits End Giftique - "Silly Bands" TV Commercial
Toys 2008–2010

Silly Bandz

Colorful silicone rubber bands that snapped back into animal and letter shapes when stretched and released, worn stacked on the wrist as a trading currency. Silly Bandz sparked a playground economy so intense, schools across North America banned them to restore order.