28 Toys, Activities and Competitions You’ll Never See in the Olympics
Wait! Somebody out there actually thought these would be fun?!?!
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Hey there, toymakers and game-makers of the world — know your audience! If the old cliche is that kids can have more fun with the box a toy comes in than the toy itself, that means a kid can find the fun in anything.
Well, it looks like “almost anything,” since you somehow found a way to screw up fun. Maybe you were desperate to pump out any kind of product so you greenlit the rough draft of an idea. Maybe you got a little cocky and thought you knew what kids like. Either way, you were way off the mark.
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