30 Times “The Next Big Thing” Turned Out To Be A Flop

Perfect example of a fool and his money.

To be fair, the Windows phone was actually excellent (I owned two) but it came to market too late, so that no one wanted to develop apps for it.

I think it was the awkward design that killed them. Electric scooters are basically the same concept but are much more user friendly and scooters are freakin' everywhere now.

Maybe it could have, if it had the same functionality. But it didn't. It was pretty bare-bones.

1. They are very expensive. 2. 3D video gives a lot of viewers motion sickness. If you watch a 3D show and look at parts of it without the glasses you will see that not everything is 3D. They do that to minimize the motion sickness. Also, 4 - as it relates to movie theaters, I'm sure the glasses were extra hassle and expense for the theaters.

Tastes more like steak, really nice, lean, tender... haven't seen it in the supermarkets for ages.

It wasn't about price, just the bigger manufacturers forming a cartel to push VHS instead.

Lets not gloss over the fact they DO NOT hover.

Smell-o-Vision.

This had nothing to do with middle class Indian families not wanting a stigma of the world's cheapest car. Tata made this car cheap by getting rid of most safety features. This is also why it never came to US or Europe markets. It couldn't meet any of the import safety regulations. This is like driving around in folding chairs. You don't want one.

The MP3 player wasn't what led to the downfall of the MIni-Disc. It was due to Sony not learning from past mistakes and using a proprietary format that they refused to license to anyone else. The MD was introduced in 1993, and lost out to cheap , mass produced CD-R's, which cost a fraction of the price and could be played in any portable CD player (many of which cost under $50, while the Sony MD Walkman cost $400

Maybe it was the dorky hats.

Also, replacing Brandon Fraser and Rachel Weisz unmatched chemistry with Tom Cruise and I don't even know the female leads name wasn't the brightest move

''Rimmer: Holly, as the Esperantinos would say, "Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, laushajne estas rano en mia bideo." I think we all know what that means. Holly: Yeah, it means, "Could you send for the hall porter? There appears to be a frog in my bidet." ''

Stop trying to make Fetch happen!

Second Life beat them to it by many, many years

It's headed that way, don't worry.

What makes something valuable is craft and rarity. Don't get sucked into obvious bubbles for items that have neither. I'm sure thrift stores will be overflowing with those Stanley mugs in a couple years too.

Define submarine tourism. Nearly every beach resort I’ve been to in North America has an Atlantis sub tour.

No wonder it failed, the text is unreadable.

You don't really sit close enough to a TV for it to improve the viewing experience. Curved montors on the other hand... currently sitting in front of two of them and love them.

Not gonna drink anything that looks like windshield washer antifreeze

It failed because people discovered you could just cut the pods yourself and squeeze the juice in a glass and get the same result without needing an expensive machine that only worked off wifi and phone app. Even got to the point that the company owner was telling people on Twitter to stop hand squeezing the pods.

Never even heard of it.

Our area amusement park has a water park where every 100 yards is a Dippin Dots kiosk. It’s a family tradition that once we settle into a little cabana by the wave pool, we go grab our Dippin Dots.

Great uncle had one of these. The quality was great, but only as good as the CRT TV's of the time. And they were HUGE and you needed to swap/flip them to get through an entire movie. So a bit ahead of their time I would say, to their detriment.

It's still a thing in the UK... But you have to wait 30 years

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I had one of those. Had to sit super still in front of it for entire game gave me neck cramps and headaches. Kinda cool anyway.

I remember reading about it. I thought it was a nice idea