CRAZY BONES

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".

Contents

Marketing

Games

Crazy Bone Names

References

External links

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 alongside Sharkey, which is pictured on the front of many packets with the caption "Have you found Sharkey?"
There have been 11 different sets of Crazy Bones released since its start:
1. Original GoGos's - Discontinued
2.Things
3.Sports
4.Aliens
5.Mutants
6.Buddies
7.Toy Story 2 (no longer on sale)
8.Dragonball Z
9.New Generation
10.Marvel Heroes

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. This is often the most popular game for school crazes as it can be played quickly and easily without much need to set up and without such a high chance of Crazy Bones being stolen.

★ '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': Throw youre bone as high as you can being able to still catch it.

★ '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.

Crazy Bone Names

The following is a list of the Crazy Bone categories and the characters that fall under them:

★ 'The Originals (GoGo's)'

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

★ '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

★ 'Things'

61. Crazy Bug

62. Snippy

63. Inky

64. Ma Kettle

65. Artist

66. Pssst

67. Bootz

68. Spinner

69. Jammer

70. Edison

71. Graham Bone

72. Twist

73. Carmen Boneranda

74. Surpris

75. Toasty

76. Veggie

77. Can Can

78. Java

79. Bone Bag

80. Corked

81. Mac

82. Flash

83. Champ

84. Comfy

85. Giga Bone

86. Nutty

87. Sandy

88. Chester

89. Snooze

90. Miss T.

91. Frenchy

92. Webster

93. Bone Cone

94. Type-O

95. Sprinkles

96. Swirly

97. Petals

98. Ringo

99. Shady

100. Pouch

101. Topper

102. SOS

103. Weighty

104. Ole

105. Combo

106. Slurp

107. Fudgy

108. Vendo

109. Planet Go GO

110. Piggy

111. Nautilus

112. Screwy

113. Nimble

114. Orby

115. Squeeze

116. Octo Bone

117. Rubbish

118. Cable Guy

119. Melon Head

120. Nitro

★ 'Buddies'

1. Tin Man

2. Robo

3. Rosey

4. Stewie

5. Shades

6. Squat

7. Overbite

8. Oink

9. Grad

10. Pudge

11. Puck

12. Eel

13. Stash

14. Wooley

15. Jester

16. Hard Hat

17. Bows

18. Telebone

19. Razz

20. King Bones

21. Sheriff Bones

22. Rascal

23. Big Foot

24. Stinky

25. Baby

26. Orbit

27. Skipper

28. Zowie

29. Nag

30. Sharkey (The most popular and well known crazy bone, as it is pictured on the front of many of the newer packs with the text "Have you found Sharkey?")

31. Tenacle

32. Slack

33. Matey

34. Time Out

35. Fly Boy

36. Rock star

37. Siesta

38. Blades

39. Rat Fink

40. Bone Boy

41. Prep

42. Liberty

43. Stretch

44. Timid

45. Handy

46. Florence

47. Puppy

48. Buck

49. Chatter

50. Tye

51. Barney

52. Grammy

53. Fish Bowl

54. Hunch Bone

55. Slick

56. Hiss

57. Hulk

58. Book Worm

★ 'Mutants'

These are Certain crazy bones' mutations. They have the same name as their original form.

59. Teacher's Pet

60. Music

61. Scared

62. The fly

63. Monster

64. Joker

65. Jaws

66. Dreamer

67. Chef

68. Sweetie

69. Top Hat

70. Froggy

71. Grumpy

72. Ghost

73. Vampire

74. Rapper

75. Scarey

76. Frankie

77. Cool Dude

78. Eggy

References

http://www.crazybones.com/games/Bone_Types/color_guide.htm
1. http://www.inc.com/magazine/20000801/19753.html

External links

★ Crazy Bones website