Found my Klutz Foxtail from the early 90s

I still have mine too, though it's nowhere near as faded. I somehow convinced my mom to buy it for me from a museum gift shop (no idea why it was sold there, lol).

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jordosmodernlife@reddit (OP)

Klutz toys were ‘smart kid’ toys. lol

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hambergeisha@reddit

That looks fun! So did you use it like a softball?

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The "official" way to through it was to swing it in a vertical circle by the tail and then release to launch it upwards. There were points assigned to each color band for catching it with your hand in that band on the tail. Of course you could make up plenty of games with it too.

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

I spent soooo many hours of my youth playing with this thing and I am only just now hearing that there was an official way you were supposed to play with it.

This is like when I found out dominos weren't really meant for the thing we all did with dominos.

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

Born in 80s and I've never seen this before. Feel like I missed out on something

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AshDogBucket@reddit

Omggggg never really figured out what we were supposed to do with it but we had one!!!

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Szeth_Vallano@reddit

I've still got mine as well. I always take it with me anytime I am going to a beach.

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Electronic-Bake-4381@reddit

We had a pair of those for camping.

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TheGhostofChuckPyle@reddit

My classmates in elementary school and I would play football during recess, but we would use a foxtail as the ball. It always made for pretty wild games.

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Seattle_Lucky@reddit

Still got mine too!

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Channelten@reddit

First week of having mine it got stuck on the basically the tallest roof at my school. I died a little inside that day.

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docwatsyn@reddit

Anyone wanna play 500?

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jordosmodernlife@reddit (OP)

Exactly!!!

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