Hula-hooping has enjoyed a comeback this year. What other trends have you spotted making a resurgence?

Question

This is the real Jamie Theakston, the Brighton 1985 Hula Hooping Champion, who is asking these questions on Yahoo! Answers on behalf of Heart.

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Answer 1

Roller Skating the old skool way at Roller Disco at what used to be Bagley's Studios in Kings Cross.....except now I'm old enough to have a beer at the same time as being on 8 wheels.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - new film due to be released next year. Cowabunga!

Hello Kitty - grown women going crazy for it. What is that all about?

80's influenced music - Razorlight are the new Roxy Music, Girls Aloud in leg warmers

Musicals - after the West End musical flagging for the last 10 years, a new breed of musical such as Avenue Q and Wicked are breathing new life into the genre. 'How do you solve a problem like Maria?' won't have hurt either

Clubbing is starting to move away from it just being about the music, and moving towards it being an entertaining aural and visual experience from the burlesque tradition - this could just be a 'London thing'.

Answer 2

Hi Jamie, just saw you in a Poirot series, I know it was awhile ago but well done.

Two things really - All the old computer games from when I was a kid (I am now 33) are making a resurgence, and being released in plug straight in to TV consoles or as packs of games on newer systems.

Also ironically magnets.. They might call them dragons eggs now, but at the end of the day they are just strong magnets...

I want them to bring back acid drop sweets though and those tiny tiny little pellet sweets as well as kola bombs...

I could never do the hula hoops very well, but my stepkids can and my partner (who is a teacher so probably picks up the techniques in the playground!!) does too. If you want to add me as a myspace friend I am down as jamesb99_1999 I am going to try and create a list of things that were about when I was a kid.. And even try and get hold of all of them, so your suggestions would be welcome!..

Cheers
James

Answer 3

Yeah I've noticed board games have been creeping back into the top games list for awhile. Plus all those retro games from the 70s and 80s like Kerplunk, that Donkey one where you put as many items on the donkey's back - yeah Buckeroo. Frustration has made a new comeback with a digitised thingy, digitised Mastermind, Operation (I loved that game!). And so much more, my head is hurting for going back that far in time!

And also there's a new website dedicated to the glories of the Commodore 64... now if that's not a comeback I don't know what else is!!

Answer 4

Rubik cubes - the flippin things are always been advertised on the TV (thank u sooooo much Xmas commercials !) they drove me mad when i was a kid, and i, like many, resorted to having to peel the stickers off to get all the coloured sides to match ! also, there's that hopeless game 'mousetrap' that was another popular game from when i was a kid. i never owned one, but my cousin had it, and i remember it taking AGES to set up, then if u breathed too close to it, the whole thing just used to fall down. now i have a 4 year old son, and he's just discovered 'pester power' and is constantly asking for the mousetrap game.... and as much as i love him, there is no way that I'm buying it just so that i can spend the entire Xmas day trying to fix it every time it collapses. sometimes i think that trends from the past should stay in the past. i did always love my hula hoop though, even though i wasn't that great at it !

Answer 5

Hello! Nice to see you here! Yes; the hula craze makes a reappearance as has the good old fashioned exercise push; people qualifying what they eat a lot more, and a general awareness of the consequence of ones own actions, in the direction of health!!
Add to that, bike riding, skate boarding, surfing, power-walking (the esplanade here just down the road is teeming with people all age groups, all walks of life, power walking, skipping, cycling, jogging, etc! Not to mention just enjoying the fabulous 360 view of the ocean! Meanwhile, it's so nice to meet you; enjoyed your appearance on Little Britain!!
Keep winning!

Answer 6

I remember having hours of fun on the stairs playing with my slinky. Saw a few on sale recently :D Cant believe you was the Brighton hula hoop champion!!!

Answer 7

My brother is 5 and I'm 25 - it's really weird how the Turtles have come back in, I had loads of turtles stuff and now wish I'd kept it for him.

Also Top Trumps in school, I used to do all that when I was 7.

Why or why have the Chuckle Brothers remained on TV all these years though - they were rubbish back then!!!

Answer 8

And this is the real Amsterdam, ok ?

Yesterday in the Holloway Rd, teenage black guy, sportswear, baseball cap, wearing outside his sweatshirt, a bright pink plastic rosary. Did a double take, because it looked so - unlikely.

Today, different part of Holloway Rd, different teenage black guy, but same type, almost certainly a student at City and Islington College. Wearing outside his sweatshirt, a baby blue plastic rosary.

Strictly speaking, this is not a resurgence, since plastic rosaries in pastel colours were never fashionable before now. I would have noticed ! I have heard about kids sucking dummies though - is this part of the same trend ?

Answer 9

The large hooped earring circa late 80s has been around for a while but this year I (sadly) spotted those large plastic multi-coloured earrings such as Daphne in Neighbours used to sport.

Really fashionistas, there's no excuse.

Answer 10

Julio Eglesias