Most annoying toy

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Anonymous wrote:That damn ball popper! Fortunately my son likes to stick lots of other things in it (socks, blocks, spoons), so it gets "broken" on a regular basis.

LOL! My son is addicted to this toy. I have a love/hate relationship with it. Love it bc it keeps him busy for sometimes 1/2 hour and I hate it bc the sound is soooo loud and those DAMN balls and he sticks his pacifier in it. Also I hate it when I am watching tv - it is so overbearing. It seems the more annoying for us the more they love it.

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Anonymous wrote:Leapfrog phonics: "A says A, and A says Ah, every letter makes a sound, A says A and Ah" combined with pushing the song button over and over and over so you hear the beginning of the "A B C D..." song over and over and over and over

And I can't get rid of it because it's "educational" and my kids love it...

Nooooooooooo! just reading this gives me hives. Our fridge one finally died and our nanny gave us the little truck that does the same thing. HATE it but don't want to insult her...

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This is 20:39 again -- one noise making toy that we loved was the caterpillar that makes letter sounds -- not b/c my daughter liked playing with it...because mature adults that we are, we used to press the letter combinations of curse words to make it curse. Oddly, we could get the caterpiller to say "fuck" and "ass," it drew the line at "shit" and would say something like, "uh oh" or "oooops" instead of "shit." Sad. We used to be quite interesting before our child was born.

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I have laughed out loud more than once reading this thread. And I totally agree about Elmo ruining Sesame Street.

I'm pretty new at this (one kid, she's one and a half) so I'm actually enjoying most of her toys right now, or at least, her reactions to them. I think the ball-popper is kind of fun, and I love the way she dances holding her hallmark jinglebell dog. But we're on kind of a strict budget, so I don't spend much money on toys that won't last (developmentally speaking).

However, I hate hate hate anything that's based on TV or movie branding. I want to kick every Hannah Montana toy guitar I pass in Target. If someone gave my kid an animatronic Elmo, I'd do like the PP and drop it out a window. (Thanks for that image, by the way. In my neighborhood, there would almost certainly be a bum in the alley, wondering why in the heck the cat on my back porch was giggling like a pint-sized psycho.)

Hey, for those of you dropping off the annoying toys at Goodwill... which Goodwill? Maybe I need to check it out!

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VTech's Speak N Spin Top (or whatever it's called). "I'm a bear. I'm a bear. I'm a lion. I'm a monkey. Touch the monkey. I'm a... I'm a bear." Really annoying.

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HA - reminds me of when the "D" batteries for my Operation board game "disappeared". That game drove my mother nuts...looks like a never-ending cycle!!!!

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we have one of those ride on buggies...with the built in keyboard (?) AND, the gift giver (sister in law with no kids) was kind enough to give us the "princess" model ---pepto pink! NO on/off, button at all, and one volume level, loud as all get out. So we took the batteries out the first week, and now it's ok. I can't wait to give presents to her kids!

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V-tech talking globe. Doesn't shut up till it is turned off and my kids always forget to turn it off - it just keeping going and going...

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Anonymous wrote:We have a whole host of Hallmark animatronic animals, ranging from the shivering Halloween frogs to the dancing Xmas snowman. All courtesy of my MIL, who most recent visits have unfortunately coincided with our Goodwill runs.

What is it abot MILs and Hallmark?!?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Any toy that makes a noise and doesn't have an off switch. I swear Congress should pass a law mandating off switches!

My MIL bought some such toy for my child and while she was trying to get it free from the packaging she was complaining about it was making too much noise. I told her if she could not find an off button it would have to go back home with her. She laughed. I didn't find it funny. It didn't have an on/off button but I didn't push the issue, but it now lives at goodwill.

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The talking dog, hands down. My son will sit with it and play "head, shoulders, knees and toes" on repeat for up to an hour. I think I am about to give that toy away.

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Anonymous wrote:V-tech talking globe. Doesn't shut up till it is turned off and my kids always forget to turn it off - it just keeping going and going...

We hate this one, too! Even worse, what it does say is idiotic and not at all educational! I'm going to have to get rid of this one like I did with the Daddy Hugs (or maybe kisses) book (hid it under the couch, where it may remain a year and a half later).

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We also had the Elmo potty book that has buttons that make sounds, including on that sounds like the toilet flushing. Imagine hearing that 40x in a row....

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I agree, the Learning Puppy is awful!!! Was so relieved when the batteries ran out...

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The harmonica.