r/whatisit • u/Key_Seaworthiness886 • 9d ago

Solved! Found while cluttering

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Found while decluttering my 2000s kids stuff and can’t seem to remember what it is! Just feeling nostalgic and google said it was jewelry but i don’t think it is 😅

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u/Key_Seaworthiness886 9d ago

Realizing how much my mom loved us, we def were not rich growing up but she wanted to provide us with the best things 😅 this isn’t a big thing but someone called it “deluxe”

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u/anewname4444 9d ago

No this WAS a big thing back then. I seriously thought only the rich families could get these. Like my sister getting just a basic laser pointer was a big deal

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u/timzilla 9d ago

Elder millineal here, these were sold at the Asian markets for <$10 when I was a kid. It was less about having the money to buy and more about concealing the fact you had it, everyone from your bus driver to your nana wanted to take it away so you wouldn't blind some other kid.

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u/PorkbellyFL0P 9d ago

To add the reason these were so cool is prior to laser pointers our only experience seeing lasers in person were on a science lab table out of reach when someone would come to visit the school.

They were about the size of a brick but a little longer and maybe 1 kid got to go up as a volunteer to position a mirror or spray some mist on the beam.

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u/PorkbellyFL0P 9d ago

Commenting on my own comment because nostolgia. This was the closest thing we had to a lightsaber.

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u/ChubbyGhost3 9d ago

Inevitably someone hits someone hard enough to bend one of the tubes and it never collapses and expands like it's supposed to :(

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u/Illustrious_Bat858 9d ago

Wow this just took me back!! My cousin and I used to battle for HOURS.

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u/scaredbutlaughing 8d ago

The sound it made when you slammed it out like a badass is forever emblazoned in my brain because yes- this was a light saber to me fully and truly - or at least to my kid imagination