Found these while clearing out sister-in-law's storage space.. any ideas what they are? The top row are all solid metal, and the OJ one has two sides, as seen in the second photo. All the others are just cardboard.

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luxtabula@reddit

Pogs. Probably the biggest fad in the 90s along with Furbies and troll dolls. The funny thing was people were saying Pokemon were going to be the next pogs only for them to go gangbusters.

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Potato-Engineer@reddit

In 1993, I was at the Boy Scout Jamboree, and they were handing out pogs for various things.

I had no slammer. I had no idea what the game was. And I wasn't terribly interested, so by the time I figured it out, the fad was over.

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Late-External3249@reddit

Was a Boy Scout as well. By the time BSA picks something up, it is no longer hip. Don't get me wrong, I loved scouts and was a camp staffer for many years. Just that it has never been 'cool'

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As much as scouts was straight up nerd shit, some of my best memories are on scout trips. I grew up in Southern California and my troop actually went on a bunch of great trips. Backpacking through Yosemite, white water rafting on Kern River. We even took a trip to Hawaii, where I looked like a big fat dork while seeing some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my life. Scouts was awesome.

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Late-External3249@reddit

Agreed. I did Philmont. Our troop did a lot of whitewater rafting trips. So much cool stuff

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drainbamage1011@reddit

You forgot about Beanie Babies. People went to court over those dumb things.

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luxtabula@reddit

Beanie babies are still a thing though. I saw they rebooted Furbies but they didn't last.

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drainbamage1011@reddit

Yeah, my son wanted a Furby after they showed up in Mitchells vs. the Machines.

Neither is really the cultural phenomenon they were back in the 90s though.

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luxtabula@reddit

No but I wouldn't be able to tell you what is at this point in my life. Everything is all app related so it feels like all that energy went into Snapchat and tiktok for the youth.

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drainbamage1011@reddit

I don't know that there's an equivalent these days. There are still collectible things like Legos, Pokémon, etc, but the scarcity isn't really there. Otherwise, it's electronic content like Minecraft and Roblox.

But also, with everything online, culture is so fragmented compared to the 90s. People aren't watching the same shows and movies, listening to the same music, or playing with the same toys. There are still megastars like Taylor Swift, but otherwise it's pretty easy for everyone to get immersed in niche interests, so there isn't the same kind of environment where everyone is rushing to get the same stuff.

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Commercial_Room6961@reddit

82 also and these were very popular in my age group

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colar19@reddit

They are called flippo’s in Dutch 😍

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Esc1221@reddit

I was born in '80 and remember these being a fad in middle school for a year. It might have been 7th or 8th grade, so 1993'ish.

But wasn't this game just a commercialized version of milk caps played in the 1930's?

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seivad9@reddit

Those are solid gold! Loved pogs so much but I collected more of the slammers than anything

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Voluntary_Perry@reddit

Bruh.... How can you be a Xennial and not know exactly what these are?!?!?

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OkPlantain6773@reddit

Is this more of a millennial thing? Google tells me it was the hot toy of the 90s. I (1978) started high school in 1991 and was far more interested in boys than toys in the 90s.

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CRT_SUNSET@reddit

I agree this is more millennial than Xennial. I was too old for pogs, just as I was too old for Pokemon and Power Rangers. But I definitely knew what all three were.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

82 here. Pogs and slap bracelets in third grade

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CRT_SUNSET@reddit

Interesting. I’m 81, and remember the pog craze didn’t come around until I was in junior high. And I was in LA with a huge Hawaiian population.

Wiki says the revival didn’t happen until 91 and didn’t spread to the continental US until 93.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

That would have been fifth grade. Perhaps my memory is all wrong and it was middle school or perhaps it was 5th grade, which would have still been the playground I remember them in. I can’t imagine it was middle school cause I was on to skateboarding and gansta rap by then.

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CRT_SUNSET@reddit

Lol same, skating and gangsta rap was exactly why I never got into pogs.

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Nadathug@reddit

Graffiti pogs were the only reason I gave them a chance.

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homerj681@reddit

Perhaps more millennial than Gen X, but I'd argue it fits in the xennial window.

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Voluntary_Perry@reddit

Well, I mean, I was born in 82, smack in the middle of the Xennial years... I single handedly got them banned from grade school in 4th grade. They were basically gone from the zeitgeist after that as well. By the time I was in HS, no one had a pog left. But in gradeschool, literally everyone had a stack.

I would say that millennials probably don't know what they are or vaguely remember their older siblings (us) having them.

My brother was born in 86 and he didn't have them like I did... Pokemon took over after that.

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Few-Cable5130@reddit

I wasn't into them ('82) but identified them immediately. The fact they are on a 'what is this' sub like a true mystery is making me feel the oldest I've ever felt.

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

It’s an old millennial thing. I’m an ‘85er and I was in elementary school when they got big (I wanna say third or four grade), but they fizzled out pretty fast.

My school banned them as a form of gambling, but all that did was teach us how to run underground gambling rings behind the big tree past the tire swing.

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Opening-Reaction-511@reddit

83 and I def played with pogs. Maybe 6th grade

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guitar_stonks@reddit

‘85 as well, third grade was peak Pog era, had a couple sweet Poison slammers too.

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blove135@reddit

I think this was more of a younger Xennial thing. I was born in 79 but I do remember these being popular with kids a few years younger (still Xennial) but I was just a little too old for them. It might be a regional thing too. Maybe they became popular in some areas before it spread everywhere.

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BatFancy321go@reddit

i'm in the middle of Xennials, we had them in 4th grade. the millenial kids were just louder about it. the way they're louder about everything.

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mystiqueallie@reddit

‘81 and I was into them for a hot minute, but then they were all the rage at school until too many kids were playing for keeps and wiping out younger kids’ collections.

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mezlabor@reddit

I was born in 79, I remember pogs, but I never messed with them.

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lilecca@reddit

I saved up my Christmas money to get an official POG game board. Came with a ton of pogs too. Of course by the time I went back to school from the break with my fancy game board and new pogs no one was playing it anymore :(

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

79 and I remember seeing them in middle school. 6th grade specifically.

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OkPlantain6773@reddit

What year were you in 6th grade? For me, it was '88-'89. I found pogs were invented in 1991.

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

91-92. The things that stand out the most for me in 6th grade are Nirvana, Freddie Mercury dying, the LA Riots and pogs.

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ProLicks@reddit (OP)

I just cross posted it, probably should have changed the title…

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Nadathug@reddit

I remember when it was called skelly before pogs. I might be Gen X

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OneWhoWonders@reddit

"Remember /r/Xennials? They're back, in Pog form"

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Nadathug@reddit

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guitar_stonks@reddit

You traded my soul for Pogs?!?!

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derek4reals1@reddit

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Eh-I@reddit

OJ Pogs!👍

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98nissansentra@reddit

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derek4reals1@reddit

the OJ slammers are worth a little money.

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PlaneLocksmith6714@reddit

POGS!!!!

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-Hyperstation-@reddit

PAWGs?

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BatFancy321go@reddit

those are worth money, sell them on ebay

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IAmNotMyName@reddit

Those sweet, sweet slammers. Just felt right in your hand.

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CayseyBee@reddit

Lmao I’m so old

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Imfrom_m-83@reddit

We’ve come full (cardboard) circle. Pogs are now back in pog form.

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Lucky_Louch@reddit

The OJ "Slammer" could be valuable lol, I have a larger one with his mug shot but he is behind bars.

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ButtBread98@reddit

Remember OJ? He's back. In Pog form.

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_jjkase@reddit

I had that OJ slammer!
My wife still has 2 tubes of pogs

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Orang3Lazaru5@reddit

Pogs bro

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delveccio@reddit

Dang I suddenly feel old

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Recent-Baker-2058@reddit

It's a sweet collection too!

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IsThataNiner@reddit

I remember that OJ slammer for sale at the dollar store. Even again 9 years old I clocked it as like a museum level piece of pop culture history 😂

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MustardSperm@reddit

Pogs with some slammers! Hell yeah

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Marmom_of_Marman@reddit

Milk caps, or pogs. I’m a 1983 and kids in my small area didn’t get into these, but my cousins a little younger from the big city did.

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Transplanted_Cactus@reddit

I've (1982) never seen a pog in person and not sure I'd recognize one if I did. It apparently didn't catch on much where I lived (I don't even remember seeing an ad on TV?), but my first husband (1981) remembered them because his older sister (by...three years, I think) had them. Literally not one person I knew had them. Could be that I missed it because I had to homeschool for fifth and sixth grade 🤷🏼‍♀️

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IrisInside@reddit

I remember those Lion King ones! I got a set for free when we went to see the movie.

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pilates_mama@reddit

Not an OJ slammer 😭😭

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kennyofthegulch@reddit

POGs!!!

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Pogs! I had a gold version of that 8-ball slammer.

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ryannelsn@reddit

With a slammer, sometimes less is more.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

I actually had a couple of those enormous slammers that were shaped like an hourglass and were super heavy. They were cool to own but basically worthless for actually playing with.

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guitar_stonks@reddit

Those were the slammers you got just to flex. I had a couple status symbol slammers, but I had one that was my go to.

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flat_four_whore22@reddit

I had the gold black widow slammer. It was my favorite.

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pmcg115@reddit

Bad ass

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firepan@reddit

OMG pogs

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Zerostar39@reddit

Man I had the coolest slammer for my pogs. It was all psychedelic

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PlagueDrWily@reddit

You traded my soul for OJ Pogs?!?

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dimsumallyoucaneat@reddit

How many of you had an OJ Free the Juice slammer?!?!?!

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CaligoAccedito@reddit

POGS

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LeonardSchmaltzstein@reddit

I used to make slammers in shop class and sell them to the pog nerds for 50 cents

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Bertybassett99@reddit

Poggs.

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M3L03Y@reddit

I still have mine, most in protective sheets.

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OnEwEiRdBeArD@reddit

POGS. Got my first ones on a trip to Disneyland in the 90’s. They came on a sheet I had to pop them out. I never seen them before but a few weeks later they were everywhere.

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majorjoe23@reddit

Remember Pogs? They're back, in u/ProLicks doesn't know what they are form!

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lsp2005@reddit

Pogs and I am calling sus on you being an xennial.

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Munchkin531@reddit

I still have my POGS in a box somewhere. Just as they were getting popular in school, they got banned! I'm still mad about that.

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Signal_Iron_5634@reddit

Pogs, these are pogs. The thick ones are slammers.

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SickSticksKick@reddit

Dude I had the coolest slammer, was textured and had a hologram scorpion

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Rude_Man_Who_Shushes@reddit

Fucking loved Pogs. 8 ball slammers was where it was at too.

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-Gravitron-@reddit

SHHHHHHH!!!

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Beneficial-Finger353@reddit

this photo collectively sums up my 5th grade elementary school year

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GoatGoatPowerRangers@reddit

I really thought pogs would have made a come back at some point. They're so wildly customizable, cheap to produce, and have "into my veins" sort of nostalgia to our generation that the ingredients were all there, but they never did.

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ryannelsn@reddit

The fact that your collection represent your winnings was so badass.

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OptimusShredder@reddit

Pogs! Man that takes me back to the early 90s! We would sort through metal troughs full of pogs at Michael’s and I had some heavy bad ass slammers too!

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Edge_USMVMC@reddit

That OJ slammer is epic.

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simononandon@reddit

in 1994, Rocket From the Crypt re-issued their Boychukker 7" picture disc as a regular 7" record with RFTC pogs on the cover: https://www.discogs.com/release/871190-Rocket-From-The-Crypt-Boychucker

I always preferred Drive Like Jehu, but goddamn did John Reis really know how to market RFTC to the punk record collector types.

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themoonhasgone@reddit

oh no. this gets me right in the feeling old bone.

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Hefty_University8830@reddit

Wow

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srobbinsart@reddit

I remember having an issue of Cracked magazine with an insert of six POG stickers. Cracked, being the poor man’s MAD, thought they’d be cute by calling them “phlogs.” MAD, on the other hand, just called them POGs like normal people. MAD’s answer was stickers to put on actual POGs, which made light of the OJ Simpson trial. One in particular had Alfred E Neuman as Judge Ito, which, yeah. Judge Ito was instrumental in making the trial a huge farce, regardless whether or not you thought/think OJ was guilty or innocent.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

I was too old to be interested in pogs, but did know what they were, and had a few that arrived with my Nintendo Power subscription one time.

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arcxjo@reddit

Fuckin' kids, man. Get off my lawn.