What toy did you really really want as a child, but never got?

[Lavender Brown]

For me, it was the Easy Bake Oven. Did you have one? If you did, why didn't you invite me over to play with you? :cry:

[TrogL]

1. Race track

Bought one for myself when I was 30.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

56. You mean slot cars? Me too. Only I never bought one.

Doesn't look that fun now that I grew up.

On the other hand, I still buy vintage Matchboxes whenever I get the chance.

[Speck Tater]

2. A plastic space helmet I wanted.

Mom wouldn't buy it because kids were getting cut up when they fell and the plastic visor shattered.

[Trailrider1951]

3. A SCHWINN Bicycle

Now I have three, all bought at my local bike shop before Schwinn went bankrupt, and started selling walmart junk. Too bad, as they made some excellent bikes before yr. 2002. I have two mountain bikes, a custom-built Homegrown that I used to race, a full-suspension Rocket 88, and a SCHWEEEEET Fastback Pro road bike. Love em.

[BootinUp]

4. That helicopter

it was on a cable and you had this control that could make move forward or backward, up or down, :) Basically it moved in a circle.

This was before radio control toys were common.

[Khephra]

6. You don't want that

I had it and almost everyone ended up cutting themselves on the blades. ;-)

(My version of "you'll just shoot your eye out with that gun" story.)

[TrogL]

8. You mean a Marx-a-copter

I had one. It was my favourite toy for years.

It finally had to be thrown out when leaky dead batteries rotted through the battery compartment.

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. Vertibird!!!!

I killed at least five of these things as a kid.

[BootinUp]

28. that's the one!!

I never ever got ta play with that! :cry:

[bif]

5. An electric guitar

Boy would the face of music be different today if I had gotten one!

[Lars39]

7. A pogo stick.

Just as well; I was such a klutz I would have done some serious damage. :)

[No2W2004]

9. That air-driven Evil Knevil crap.

I wanted to lauch the rocket-cycle over the snake canyon-type ditch in front of the house.

[arwalden]

10. Red Ryder BB gun

[Red State Rebel]

11. I'm with you, I wanted that darn Easy Bake Oven...

but I was denied!!!

[Tom Kitten]

52. For all of you who wanted one

here is your very own Easy Bake Oven!



Ho! Ho! Ho!

[Richardo]

12. A Stingray bicycle.

:( <-- still pouting 40 years later.

[johnnie]

18. I remember staring at that thing in the catalog and wanting it

I ended up having to get a girls bike. I was a very little person when I was young and I guess my father thought it was safer for the family jewels if he got me a girls bike.
It was used, pink and had a huge sissy bar in the back. Good thing I am not mentally tortured easily.

[Richardo]

29. You poor kid!

Not many boys could survive a used pink girl's bike with a sissy bar...your Dad's lucky you ever got to USE the family jewels after a trauma like that. ;-)

[Twillig]

39. Now I'm ashamed for bitching about getting a "typhoon'

instead of the stingray.

Better you than me though. Hey, maybe I'm sterile, though....

[Twillig]

38. Me too.

I was an uncomplaining kid, but I learned the lesson that just because you only have eyes for a Stingray in the shop, you end up with a typhoon if you don't become the squeaky wheel. So to speak.


I think I'm scarred for life. Good thing father's day is coming up.

Oh the cheap card I'm gonna get him. Muahahahha.

[Sequoia]

13. A Cowgirl outfit

with red boots

[stopbush]

14. Horrible Hamilton...a giant bug that you fought off with Army men.

I was sure I was getting it for Xmas around 5th grade. Didn't happen (sob!).

[Tom Kitten]

53. I remember the commercial for that one...

Still remember part of the jingle..."The Spooky Spider! The Brutal Beetle! Weird Horrible Hamilton,too...(Sung to the tune of "When the Saints Go Marching In")

I never got one either (it was only around a couple of years), but then I never asked for it ...I was lucky, though...I did get the toy I wanted more than anything...KING ZOR !!!

I had it for years until it got so busted up it was thrown out...I saw one for sale on eBay a few years ago...the bid was at $1400 and the reserve had not been met!

[sangh0]

15. A younger sibling

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[Lavender Brown]

17. Awww. Me too, actually.

I was the baby and my siblings were a bit older than me.

[SheilaT]

16. What I wanted

was to be allowed to play with my brothers' Erector set (no lewd jokes, please!). Back in the 50's gender roles were sufficiently rigid that I was not allowed to touch it.

[Lavender Brown]

23. That's so wrong!

Even these days it happens. My bro in law doesn't like when my nephew plays with his sister's toys.

[havocmom]

25. I would've settled for tinker toys, but same gender bias prevailed.

Went on to score highest in mechanical reasoning and aptitude in California state tests but couldn't get into a shop class due to dick deficiency. They kept trying to convince me to go into more 'lady-like pursuits' despite clerical aptitude being the only thing I ever scored low in!

But Havocdad has been buying lots of cool power tools and we do fun stuff together in the shop. Just shows ta go ya that it's never too late to have that happy childhood.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

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[gWbush is Mabus]

20. a GO-cart

[donco6]

21. A train set.

My brother got one. He absolutely refused to allow me to even watch him play with it. Selfish prick.

[johnnie]

24. I had a train set when I was 5

I went to school and when I came home my brother had played with the train. I smelled something...and it was the transformer burning up. He had the train half on the the track and the transformer on. End of my train set. Maybe that's why your brother was a selfish prick.:D

[donco6]

31. Ha!

But I KNOW I would have been so very careful with it! Honest!

Sorry about your set, man.

[Richardo]

41. I had a train set when I was one month old...

...at least that's what my Dad told my Mom when he bought it "for me" for Christmas. (The Christmas that came 33 days after I was born.)

I was a spoiled little first-born, wasn't I? I guess I let Dad play with it for the first 4-5 years. :eyes:

[Lars39]

22. I had an Easy Bake Oven.

I was happy as can be until I ran out of mixes. Got a few more mixes, then my lightbulb went out, never to be replaced. Feel better now? ;)

And for anyone that has an Easy Bake Oven and want to make their own mixes....Here's the motherlode(in miniature):

http://www.thefunplace.com/recipes/00604.html

[eyesroll]

26. Another Easy Bake-less person here!

My parents wouldn't get it for me -- it was too dangerous. They thought I'd set my house on fire or something.

I'm pretty good with the regular oven now, though.

[Misunderestimator]

27. Here's a story with a good ending...

I went to our local kid's TV show (Bozo's Big Top) when I was about 5 or 6... In each show, Bozo randomly chooses a few boys and girls to come down to the stage to get a prize. The prizes were divided into girls' toys and boys' toys. I went straight to the boys' section and grabbed the box of Hot Wheels with the new 360 degree loop track. Bozo came over to me and told me that I was in the wrong section and that I had to choose one from the girls' section. I sat down and cried my heart out... and ended up with my Hot Wheels. :)

I still hate dolls. :bounce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

57. This Matchbox nut's heart is happy to hear that story! MORE...

:bounce:

The network may still have the tape of that show... have you thought of contacting them to get a copy?

[underpants]

30. Flamethrower

and I'm STILL upset about it :grr:

:bounce:

[slutticus]

32. Voltron!!!!

I really really wanted a die-cast Voltron set (from the 80's, not the new shitty voltron) but I never got it. Now their like over 100 freakin' dollars on Ebay.....way to go mom.....

[Xithras]

40. Same here

I had two of the cats, but never managed the whole set. Are they really worth $100 now?

[slutticus]

43. Yeah....

I've seen some of the mint-contition die-cast ones from 1984 go for more than that.

You can get other versions for much cheaper...but I wan't the one that I couldn't have in the first place!!!

[BlueJazz]

33. A 3 1/2" Questar Telescope. My Dad said he would think about it....

...but after he saw the price tag ($3,750) he said "Good joke, Son!"

On Edit: He did buy me some 8" glass Blanks and I ground one of the blanks to a reflecting scope and my Father bought the tube and eyepieces, Etc....

[Exgeneral]

34. Flamethrower

but living in the Washinton woods, mom decided against it.
Damn, I was gonna show that mean guy up the street what for.

[MsUnderstood]

35. A big wheel

you know the plastic tricycle that had a hand brake so you could spin around. . .sigh. ..

[CrownPrinceBandar]

36. I was robbed of a Big Wheel as well.........

I guess we were deprived.

[SOteric]

37. I wanted a Barbie that my brothers ~didn't~ mutilate in perverse ways.

When I moved away from home I bought one and put her on my bookshelf. I didn't want her to play with, I just wanted the victory on principle.

It’s a little vigil I’m holding folks, nothing to see here. Move along.

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[Hoping4Change]

42. Barbie. I would have died to have a Barbie.

[denverbill]

44. A telescope.

My biggest Christmas disappointment ever was when I thought I had gotten one after wanting one for several years. A long thin heavy box. I was positive. Turned out to be a chin-up bar that you mount in a doorjam.

However, 30 years later, my SO finally got me one:)

[mitchum]

45. Julie Newmar...

and I'm still waiting!

[Iris]

46. Barbie Dream House.

I did have an Easy Bake Oven, though. You didn't miss anything; the cakes were gross!

[Piltdown13]

54. Oh, I remember that house!

I got that for Christmas when I was about 6 or 7. You have never seen so many tiny little pieces of plastic! My mom apparently tried to put it together the night before Christmas and gave up after a few hours...it then took the entire next day to get it assembled! I guess it was worth it, though; I didn't put my Barbies away til I was 12 -- I just loved making up stories about their lives (opera singer Barbie, archaeologist Barbie...).

[Iris]

64. My cousin

just told me a story about playing Barbies with my cousin. It seems she always wanted to play but her sister didn't like the characters she made up, particularly Wheelchair Barbie, whom she created because they had a plastic chair that made a perfect wheelchair. Several years later, Mattel got all pc and actually created Wheelchair Barbie(but they didn't call her that!), so she bought one for her sister, but it was appreciated!

[SarahB]

47. A Light Bright

I had an easy bake oven though. :D

[flamingyouth]

48. An electric train

I wasn't really into traditional "girl" toys. My favorite toys were my microscope and my chemistry set. I really wanted a train too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

61. Another pet peeve of mine. Brainy toys are gender-neutral. Period. (nt)

[daligirrl]

49. A Hot Wheels racetrack. . .

My grandparents thought it was too unfeminine. All my male cousins had one and they would never let me play with theirs. I lusted after those for years.

[LDS Jock]

50. a boyfriend.. instead of playing straight

even as a little boy I wanted a boyfriend. Not really a toy, but you can play with it.

[mede8er]

51. I got......

Everything I ever wanted.........:hi:

[Piltdown13]

55. Hot Wheels racetrack

The kind with the loop in them. I had plenty of the Hot Wheels cars, but the track was always too expensive or something. Fortunately my folks didn't have the strict gender separation of toys thing going; the criteria were always safety and cost, rather than "sex appropriateness."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

59. I have a deep conviction...

...that car toys should be considered gender neutral. Two or three Christmases ago I bought a shitload of cheap toys and made neat gift bags for the many children in my wife's family. There were yo-yos, crayons, animal figures, little electronic things that made noise -- and a 5-inch die-cast New Beetle for each one. The girls LOVED the Beetles more than any other toy in the bag.

Best money/child-happiness ratio, EVER.

[MrsMatt]

58. Not only did I OWN an Easy Bake Oven

when I was a mere child, but my everloving husband bought me one off of e-bay about 8 years ago so I now have TWO. Neener neener.

But, I was cruelly denied the pleasure of owning the "Julia" doll that was for sale at the Hector Hardware Store - she was so exotic (especially since my rural community was completely WHITE). I still lust after Julia in her pristine white nurse's uniform. Someday . . .

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

60. I did have an Easy Bake Oven

And I loved it. I always wanted a piano and piano lessons (not really a toy, I guess), but never got one. I always said as a child when I grew up I would have three things: a cat, a telescope and a grand piano. I have 2 cats and a telescope, but the piano is sadly missing (not that I can even play!)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

62. The robot from "Lost in Space".

[geniph]

65. Definitely slot car racing setup

People just didn't buy those for little girls in the early 60s. Pissed me off something fierce. Used to steal my nephew's Hot Wheels every chance I got. I wanted Lincoln Logs too, but again, people didn't think that was appropriate for a girl. :mad: