Crazy Bones
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Crazy Bones are small, plastic figurines that became a popular fad during the 1990s and 2000s.
Crazy Bones were inspired by a game played in Ancient Greece called astragals, where children played with sheep's knucklebones. This ancient pastime is also known as Tabas. Crazy Bones is a modernization of this game that is made of characters moulded from plastic. There were hundreds of individual characters, each character had a unique face and name. The different shapes of the figures caused them to bounce in different patterns, making some crazy bones more advantageous to own.
Crazy Bones, like the earlier M.U.S.C.L.E. Men and Pogs, were banned in many schools, because of being the start of many playground arguments and being a distraction during class.
During the mid 1990's, Cola-Cola of Mexico released a similar brand of toys named "Hielocos".
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[edit] Marketing
The CEO and co-founder Scott Harris launched Crazy Bones after witnessing the success of GoGos, which had sold over 350 million packs from its inception in 1996 to 1997. Harris formed Toy Craze in December 1997 with his partners Bill Flaherty and Peter Gantner. Crazy bones first launched after a manufacturer in Barcelona agreed to provide him with inventory for no money down in return for 50% of all profits. This deal was later renegotiated, and the manufacturer is now paid a royalty.
A small company at the time of inception, Crazy Bones became a popular fad in the late 90s. The product was aggressively marketed to children, and promotional events took place in scout meetings, club groups, fairs, and shows. Toy demos have also taken place in SkyDome. In these demos, children were given free packs and taught how to play Crazy Bones. Nearly four million free packs have been distributed. Eventually, McDonald's agreed to give Crazy Bones in their Happy Meal. However, these Crazy Bones were signifigately larger than the normal toys, possibly to reduce risk of choking among young children.
Within two years, the company's revenues had grown to nearly $17 million. By favouring tours of scout meetings and the like over television and print advertisements, Toy Craze has also kept its marketing costs to around 10%.[1]
There are three types of Crazy Bone pieces that are very rare. These pieces include Whistlers, Metallic Gold, and Metallic Bronze.
Eggy is considered to be the rarest and most popular Crazy Bone piece.
There have been 11 different sets of Crazy Bones released since its start: 1. Original GoGos's 2.Things 3.Sports 4.Aliens 5.Mutants 6.Buddies 7.Toy Story 2 (no longer on sale) 8.Dragonball Z 9. Sean Soltys' 10.New Generation 11.Marvel Heroes
[edit] Games
The following is the official list of games that can be played with Crazy Bones, printed on all Crazy Bones packaging:
- Traditional game: Player tosses a Crazy Bone into the air. Points are scored depending on which side it lands on, with less likely sides (for example, landing straight up, or upside down) receiving more points.
- Battle: Two players arrange their Crazy Bones in parallel rows a distance apart. Players take turns trying to knock their opponent's Crazy Bones out of the row.
- The Bomber: Players take turns throwing a single Crazy Bone into a circle containing all player's Crazy Bones, attempting to remove them from the circle.
- Airborne: Identical to jacks.
- Basket: Players try to get their Crazy Bones into a shoebox by bouncing it against the floor and into the box.
- Wall: Flip a coin to decide who goes first. The person who goes first rolls, not throws, a Crazy Bone towards the wall. The person with the Crazy Bone closest to the wall wins.
[edit] Crazy Bone Names
The following is a list of the Crazy Bone categories and the characters that fall under them:
- The Orignals
1. Music
2. Smiley
3. Eggy
4. Hippy
5. Vampire
6. Day Dreamer
7. Weirdo
8. Wow
9. Biker
10. Menance
11. Punk
12. Junior
13. Baldy
14. Funny Bone
15. Heavy Metal
16. The Fly
17. Rocker
18. Top Hat
19. Rapper
20. Sweetie
21. Grumpy
22. Ghost
23. E.T.
24. Goodie Goodie
25. Bone Jour
26. Long John
27. Big Mouth
28. Chef
29. Reggae
30. Babe
31. Four Eyes
32. Cowboy
33. James Bone
34. Jaws
35. Scared
36. Frankie
37. Screamer
38. Dummy
39. Clown
40. Monster
41. Cool Dude
42. Pig Tails
43. Dreamer
44. Sly Boy
45. Joker
46. Speedy
47. Fang
48. Nice Guy
49. Teachers Pet
50. Tubby
51. Scarey
52. Brains
53. Freddie Frog
54. Sleepy
55. New Wave
56. Bad Boy
57. Dopey
58. Angel
59. Chubby
60. Miss Froggy
- Sport
1. Champ
2. Flash
3. Fan
4. Play by Play
5. Cry Baby
6. Scarfo
7. Yikes
8. Hooray
9. Coach
10. Banger
11. Commish
12. Ball
13. Net
14. Stretcher
15. Cleats
16. Corner Kick
17. O.T.
18. Horn
19. Handy
20. Footskills
21. P.K.
22. Free Kick
23. Winner
24. Mr. Cool
25. The Kid
26. Center
27. Rookie
28. Header
29. Dynomite
30. Keeper
31. Trash Talk
32. Hacker
33. D-Rex
34. Cheap Shot
35. Wheels
36. Head Case
37. Nut Meg
38. Striker
39. Silly
40. Shag
- Aliens
1. Salad Head
2. Brutus
3. Broom Head
4. Bikini Baby
5. Kanga
6. Fish Stick
7. Koalien
8. Tux
9. Nordic
10. Ar Ar
11. Chachee
12. Java
13. Pancho
14. Karate
15. Dragon
16. Duba Duba
17. Thinker
18. Gorbie
19. Boris
20. Kicker
21. Tropic
22. Bird Brain
23. Prince
24. 4x4
25. Bongo
26. Tarzelien
27. Statue
28. Squawk
29. Venus
30. Knight
31. Napo
32. Mona
33. Liberty
34. Super Go Go
35. Rudolf
36. Shnoz
37. Cleo
38. Sphinx
39. Mumma Mia
40. Tut
41. Lips
42. Fido
43. Beard
44. Cyclops
45. Bone Dog
46. Claws
47. Stinky
48. Cyber
49. Rad Racer
50. Martian
51. Tri-Clops
52. Bug Eye
53. Brain
54. Moo
55. Space Frog
56. Creature
57. Lucas
58. Floss
59. Lagoon
60. Attila
- Mutants
