I remember as a kid there was a local toy company that was associated with a kid's tv channel and every once in a while a new popular show would come out and a toy for that show would come out too, and everybody would buy it, like a fad y'know. I was a victim of one or two of those schemes, I feel all those fads back then and now are great big rip off's really. If your friends did'nt have them you would'nt want to buy them. I remember one of those fads was just a normal yoyo but the company made it look special and that it had to do with this cartoon about kids with yoyo's, it was a completely normal yoyo but they made it look like it could do other things (like they had a list of special tricks with attractive names and all) and you could customize it and all that bullshit and it was way overpriced, and everybody bought it.....At my school everybody brought their yoyo along and talked about it and I started to want one, but my parents did'nt let me if I remember it right, I ended it with a really cheap small yoyo (about 1$) that I stopped playing with after a short while. Really insane how fads work and suddenly everybody wants one.
