Is there a toy you always wanted as a kid, but didn't get.

I always wanted moon shoes super bad, but my mom was afraid I’d kill myself.

I always wanted a nintendo, but my first console was an x-box, I bought it when I was 20, now I’m trying to find one :)

I always wanted Lincoln Logs.

:(

Of course – a BB gun!

I wanted moon shoes too! I never ever got a pair. And I can’t tell you how long it took for me to get a pair of sneaker slippers put out by the New Kids.

I wanted an easy bake oven. Never got it. This is why i can’t cook today. lol

Wow. I had a Green Machine. And Lincoln Logs. And a bb gun. And moon boots. And my sister had an Easy Bake Oven.

No wonder we lived in a trailer park with no a/c.

When I was shot at the age of eight, I had to take some big horsepill, and it was so hard to get me to take it because I couldn’t swallow pills, that every night was an epic battle to get the medicine in me. So my grandmother bribed me with a Nintendo. I got my Nintendo. I feel really bad about it now.

gi joe sky hawk . Now that I look at it, it’s not as awesome as I remember it to be

I had one of those robot Maltese dogs. The HUGE ones before they developed smaller parts…they had pink leashes that had a forward and back button. That’s all they ever did. Mine broke and I gave it green highlights with a marker… I always wanted a new one same size, but they stopped making them.

And now even with the internet at my fingertips I cannot find evidence it ever existed.

I really wanted that dog. But, I guess I did eventually get one.

I always wanted a chemistry set, my mom was afraid I’d blow myself up

in her defense, she may have been right

I always wanted a toy rifle. Then I turned 18 a friend of mine bought me one. It didn’t quite have the same effect.

An easy bake oven. My mom was afraid I would burn myself but had no problem with me running around bonfires with no shoes on. That’s the 80’s parenting for ya.

My sister was 10 years old than me. She had this very large bridal doll that i adored. I used to sneak it and play with it, but always got into trouble. She STILL has it to this day…and won’t give it to me.
I like dollys.

a lot of the toys i buy today (i’m 22) are things i didn’t get as a child, stuff like transformers

I wanted a lot of Toys when I was younger that I didn’t get. I have them all now though or have had as I own my own vintage toy and collectibles store.

@happylady – Lucky! If you see a Sigmund and the Sea Monsters lunch pail come through there, let me know! :)

@Iwamoto
I do exactly the same thing! I’m trying to get all the things I couldn’t get when I was a kid/teenager, like cds and videogames and weird action figures, like knights of the zodiac, neon genesis evangelion and that kind of stuff, it’s pretty hard to get them, but I looooove the challenge :)
I remember my friends had micro machines and gi joes and thundercats and teenage mutant ninja turtles, and the matchbox color racers (I had one, and the starscream af, my aunt used to work I a big toy store and she paid that like a year out of her paycheck) I still remember the one that had the “pizza throwing” feature and all the nintendo games…
I didn’t have many toys when I was a kid, I remember I used to play soccer a lot with the kids in my neighborhood, I was talking to my mom the other day, she complains that I buy a lot of non-sense stuff, like toys for example now that I am older, then she recalled that when I was a kid, I was not the kind of kit that would ask for toys every birthday or xmas, that I never gave her a hard time, she smiled and then, she kept complaining :)

Not really a toy… A pottery wheel. I got one, but it never worked =(

I, too, was a girl who wanted an Easy-Bake oven. We couldn’t really afford anything like that.

The other day my husband and I were walking around in the toy section of a big store and as we passed the Easy-Bake ovens, I told him about my childhood dream. He offered to buy me one, but I have a real oven now, heh.

Although it is tempting to take it to work. Mmm, fresh-baked personal cakes, right in my cubicle!

I had one of those plastic pottery wheels, too, and always wanted a real one. The “toy” I wanted was a piano and piano lessons. We could never afford such a thing, but it didn’t stop me from wanting it!

When I was a kid I was “trained” by my mother not to ask for toys that had a ten dollar price tag or higher. And I didn’t.

When I was little I usually never asked for toys.
Wasn’t trained per se, I just realized that we were poor.

The only thing I ever asked for was a Transformer toy.
My parents scraped together some money and got me Voltron instead.

They tried.

@Nimis: Same, sorta. I had a pretend Christmas, twice. Don’t knock Voltron I have equal love for Transformers, Voltron and Thundercats. I’ll hurt you.

Voltron is indeed awesome. But regardless of their kickassery,
it’s always a bit disappointing when you’re expecting something else.

@Nimis: Word.

an erector set

@ forestGeek – shout out to the GreenMachine
bb gun
a storm trouper rifle

@laureth: You may have started a BAD THING. Scamp and I work in the two back corner cubicles, next to each other. And we like cake.

Definitely not. For every toy I wanted, I got 25 related toys in addition to it.

Being a spoiled only child was effing great.

hmm i wanted the muzzy videos and never got them :( i guess that’s why i’m addicted to foreign languages now.

Easy Bake Oven….

This is a rather flashback inducing question. I was pretty much a spoiled kid and do not remember ever not getting something I wanted except for one time. But my memories are way off on how old I was. I thought I was around 16 but do to the wonderful search power of the internet time machine I had to be 18 because the toy in question did not come out until 1979. Micronauts Rocket Tubes. link They were the coolest looking things. I guess my parents thought I was to old for toys :(