What is the most annoying toy you've seen or recieved?

[kaismom]

For christmas this year my son recieved a sit and spin - I was excited since I fondly remember my own - but this one is unbelievable. Lights and the most annoying toy music I've ever heard -imagine acid rock meets carousel meets dance club- go off as my child spins himself dizzy and there is no on off switch . Forget environmental contaminents this toy could be directly responsible for the rise in ADHD.

[momatheart23]

I have one of those, or at least I think it is the same, but I have just never put any batteries in it. In fact I don't even know what it sounds like, and ds has no idea it has the potential to make noise, so I am happy with it. We have this Leap Frog caterpillar letter thing and it makes noise even after the kid has stopped playing with it. I know there are more annoying ones, that is just the worst we have. I have debated throwing it out, but my MIL bought it for his B-day and I know she is so poor that I feel bad since I know it was a stretch for her to buy it financially. At least he barely ever plays with it.

[mamaley]

my mother bought my 3 month old daughter a winnie the pooh toy that sings. it's one that you're supposed to hook up to the crib (which we don't use) and it has a remote control, so that if you're out of the room you can still turn the music back on.

[mamaroni]

ohhh, we have that sit n spin too! ds likes to play the music and just dance. but it is quite annoying.

The worst, though, has got to be anything Mcdonald's-themed.

dh and I went through ALL the kids' toys today and weeded out anything they haven't touched (including some x-mas gifts) and took batteries out of a lot of stuff. It's going to the resale shop tomorrow. good riddance!

[MamaBug]

Hands down the plastic city set up that had horrible instructions, made of the cheapest plastic and many too tiny parts for a 3 yr old. If there is anything I like less it is a toy with choking potential:

[mirthfulmum]

As the mom of a toddler anything Sesame Street is huge in our house. And right now ds just LOVES Ernie. He has a really nice soft plush Ernie that my MIL gave to him a while ago and DS brings Ernie to bed with him, snuggles up close and whispers good night to Ernie every night.
Since Ernie is so popular at our house a friend of mine thought that her daughter would like to have Ernie as a friend too, and put it on her Daughter's x-mas list. But unfortunately what arived under the Christmas tree from my friend's MIL was the most annoying toy imaginable: Baby Ernie.
This toy is hard plastic, not nice to hug and kiss and snuggle up with in bed. And the worst part is that it makes these horribly annoying fake baby cries when it is touched. The toy also comes with a pacifier sewn onto its hand so that when ever this toy errupts in a cacophony faux baby noise you can put this pacifier in its mouth to have Ernie happily kick his legs and coo with electronic delight. YUK!
This toy isn't even in my house and I hate it!

[jayayenay]

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[jayayenay]

Sorry, double post.

[TexasSuz]

When my sister and niece were living with us a few years ago she had this Big Bird that would start talking when the lights were turned on in the room. More than one morning I went in to wake up my niece and got scared to death my Big Bird talking to me! One morning I almost peed in my pants! Somehow Big Bird got "lost" after that!

[DreamsInDigital]

A Harry Potter magic wand that makes 867 &$%&%#*% SOUNDS that my 4 year old loves. ARGH CLAWING MY EARS OFF

[kofduke]

Well, I just hate that chicken dance elmo. My DS is scared of it as well, so luckily we didn't receive one!

[eilonwy]

We have a family friend who has no children of his own and a gift for picking out the most annoying toy within a 50 mile radius. He once brought home a doll from Chinatown in NYC; it was a super-cheap plastic doll torso and the bottom was a hoop-skirt type thing. When anyone made any noise, it would play the begining of that Aqua song "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world! I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world!" very loudly over and over again while it "danced". Of course, my niece loved it. Luckily, her younger sister (the Elizabeast of the Apocalypse) destroyed it on one of her rampages. That was definately among the most horrible toys I had to live with.

This same friend also mailed a toy called "Harvey Megillah"; another dancing doll, only he danced to Hava Nagillah and the music got faster and faster as you went along. He was easier to turn off, but once the batteries started to die it got really awful.

He also bought my niece a puppy that barked and flipped and was super annoying the 350 millionth time...

Then there was the bouncing Tigger-- my sister bought that one..

And the Evil Easter Bunny. My sister thought it was cute, and brought it home for her daughters. "Easter bunny! Easter bunny he go hop! Hop! Hop!" Very loud, super obnoxious, and difficult to turn off. My nieces' father put it on top of a shelf that no one else can reach. :LOL :LOL :LOL

Not one of these toys has made its way to my Elibean. SIL, who is a classic old maid, also has a gift for picking out the worlds most annoying toys. I pointed this out to her at my baby shower (where she presented my nieces with frog-shaped keychains that made horribly creepy "ribbit" noises and could not be turned off). She was very proud of it, and personally enjoys them, buying herself one new loud and annoying toy each year at x-mas (this year, it was singing dogs; one sang in words while the other two barked. : )

Early on, she saw how Eli was terrified of overstimulating, loud toys and I was very pleased to see that for his first birthday, she bought him a truck that was not only age appropriate and sturdily constructed but battery free. When she discovered that part of it can be a dump truck and it can be opened, she asked before she gave it to him if I thought it'd be safe for his little fingers . So even though she likes those obnoxious toys for herself, I'm confident that she'll ask Mike or myself before she purchases anything like that for our kids. Hooray for considerate people!

[Mom4tot]

Funny thread! Anything that doesn't put itself away these days is annoying to me! There is a tie in our house for most annoying..."Screwey Louie" being one. It is a screw driver that makes terrible noises including hideous laughter while screwing plastic screws in the case. The second is actually from a good friend ...a plush frog that is supposed to dangle from someplace, and makes loud crazy noises while raising his legs. The worst part is that he is MOTION ACTIVATED! We put him in the back hall and he scared the you know what out of dh and I when we turned the bathroom light on or off.
You wonder...what are people thinking??

[mamaofthreeboys]

Hulk Hands!

This Christmas my x-hubby got my two sons (4 1/2 & 3 yo) Hulk Hands for Christmas......they brought them home Christmas morning......boy was that fun until the next weekend they saw their Dad! They're loud and I feel they encourage hitting!

We (my hubby & I now) don't allow hitting, swords, guns, knives of any kind in the house.

[Dakota's Mom]

I remember that barking flipping dog. My neice got it a couple of years ago. Our worst gift this year is this tv like screen thing that has Dora the Explorer on it. I don't even know what it's called. Each page has a different activity on it. DS is not old enough to figure it all out. It also has a microphone attached. You can pull the caartridge out and replace it. Which we have no intention of doing. The people who gave it to him are coming over next weekend. The following Monday it goes on EBay. (DH says we have to let them see him playing with it at least once.) The most annoying thing is that it comes on by itself.

Kathi

[joyfulheart]

This is hands-down the most obnoxious, nasty gift ever received as a gift at my house -- my ds got a McDonald's play drive-thru window! It came with plastic nuggets and fries and a burger box and some McDonald's stickers. Even more blatantly marketer-driven is the card for a free "real happy meal" it came with...I can't believe someone paid money for this marketing nightmare o' plastic!

Joyful

[sadie_sabot]

dancing elmo, yep, got that one. bouncing tigger? yep, that one too. fake cell phone with four different songs and six different rings? uh-huh, got it.

I had considered sending relatives letters about what we considered appropriate, like in the pre- xmas issue of Mothering, but didn't get arond to it. i wish I had. now we have these totally annoying fur covered robots and I really dislike them but dd kind of likes them...as the batteries wear down theya re getting wirder and weirder. Today a fiend suggested that we take off the fur and thn they would be these wild weird robots. Probably will suggest it to dd when she's 5, if we still have them then.

With the money people spent on those we could have gotten something dd could have earned from, you know?

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[memory maker]

my vote is for any type of truck with a siren. My IL's are the best at buying these for our nephews, which my SIL doesnt mind. The big joke in my husbands family is to get a drum set. We have a drum and I would much rather have it than a siren. My friend who is single and has no kids bought DS 2 trucks with sirens when DD was born. You dont buy loud toys like that with a newborn :

[CerridwenLorelei]

still have to think on this one

BUT did want to throw in my boys response when they saw and heard the new sit and spin ( they had the old originals)
and at 5 and 6 they said this
"that is just scary"
LOL

[sweet tea]

The sing along care bears...we got four for christmas..and they all sing along together.....*cringe*