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For years I wanted a ‘were bear’ it was like a teddy bear you could turn into a scary bear. Anyways, at the grand age of 14 I won £50 on the premium bonds and bought one for myself. I still have it and I’m 40 now 😂
Easy Bake oven. I asked for it repeatedly and my mom said no, if you want to bake, use the oven in the kitchen 😢 I’m 65 and even now, if I see one in the store, I feel a pang
Barbie. I was a gay boy. I started begging for Barbies at around 4 years old. Used to get my ass beat and was always given a truck or a sports thing or a toy gun. My sister got tons of Barbies but I couldn’t touch them or risk getting smacked by my dad. Keeping me from dolls didn’t stop me from being gay and I eventually ran away at 17 and never looked back. Now I live in Manhattan and am retired. Didn’t speak to my parents for decades before they died. I have a huge vintage Barbie collection now, though.
I wanted a Spirograph. An older cousin had one and sometime he let me use it, but of course, thats not the same.
I saw a smaller version several years ago and got it.
Also wanted a banana seat bike, but I already had a bike when they came out so I couldn’t get one.
My younger brother did, and I regularly rode his. They were so much cooler than a regular bike.
I can afford to buy one now, and I have my Millennium Falcon on display from my youth, but it wouldn’t be the same since the AT-AT wasn’t from my youth.
Or, more truthfully, I likely wouldn’t be able to stop at buying just that and would end up with all the Star Wars toys I wished I had as a kid and we’d then have to kick a child out of our house so I could use his room to display the toys but then my wife would get pissed and likely leave me so then I’m stuck living in a shed with all my Star Wars toys and then I would be sooooo happy because that’s all I really wanted and I know I can survive off of beans and ramen (not together) and okay you’ve convinced me and I am now heading to eBay. I have no regretttttttssssss….
EDIT: I just bought the Snowspeeder off eBay. I lost mine at some point in the last 20 years but I still have the Luke Skywalker action figure for it. And so it begins….
Peddle operated mini car. They didn’t have the battery-operated ones then. As soon as my son was old enough, I bought a battery operated one for him, and it was just another toy to him.
Johnny 7 OMA one man army. I was the smart sibling so I always got science kits and books. My brother was the dumb one and always got the cool stuff and yes, even a Johnny 7.
Not me, but my brother who’s ten years older than me. My parents had more spending money when I was a kid so I had Tonka trucks. My 16 year old brother would play with them because they couldn’t afford them when he was a kid. Then he’d threaten to beat me up if I told anyone. That was back in the early 1970’s.
An Atari, then a Nintendo. I did not have video games at my house until I bought myself a Sega in college. I had to go to my friend’s house to play. They could play all the time so they were always better than me and I could never get good at any game.
“Dangerous” toys like pogo sticks or those bucket sticks or a skip toy. Now that I’m older, I know what my parents did at the time. I’m clumsy and those are not made for me. 😂
Back in the 60s the Sears catalog always had a ventriloquist dummy. I wanted one every Christmas and never did get one. I did however get some great gifts as a kid. I had an easy bake oven and a Magnus chord organ
I actually got one that I wanted. It was called mighty Mo. It was a huge plastic Canon that actually shot tennis ball size plastic balls via spring action. Can’t remember what happened to it. About 20 years ago I decided I want another one for nostalgia so I went to eBay and the stupid things were $350!
I wanted a Maybell Get Well doll. Later I found out it was a Madam Alexander doll. She was 14”, had a beautiful head of comb able hair. She wore a satin pink shorty night gown and came with leg and arm casts, spots for measles and chicken pox. There were crutches and band aids. She had pink slippers with little pom poms on the toes. Every year I found her in the Sears catalog. Finally got her when I was too old. Had to give her away during a move to a new home when my Dad retired from the Air Force.
My best friend had a child’s vanity. I wanted one very badly, but I never asked my parents for one because I knew they couldn’t afford it. I did buy an adult vanity once I graduated college and could afford one. It makes me happy.
Barnum and Bailey circus flash light with a strobe on top. My Dad was cheap when it came to souvenirs or food at events. I purchased one off of EBay. My dad saw it at my house and asked what it was. Told him it was the flashlight he would not buy me. Also freezed dried ice cream. I became the opposite of my Dad. My kids could almost buy what they wanted at Disneyland etc.
Every Christmas of my childhood I asked for that Barbie head where you could put makeup on her and fix her hair. My parents would laugh at my list and ask why I kept adding such a stupid toy to my list. I also wanted a Chia pet when they came out and got told that was stupid too. A friend bought me one when I was in my 20’s after I told her that and it made me cry. I kept him alive for ages.
Just more Barbie stuff. I only had a Ken and a Barbie which was more than some kids had. But I had lots of clothes because they were cheap then and my mom would also make some. I still have the patterns. I always meant to make some for my own daughter or the grandkids but I didn’t and I don’t think they’d care that much.
My little brother had a Tonka truck. I wanted my own Tonka truck. My parents would not gift me my own truck, and my brother did not always let me play with his. only 17 months older than him.
Barbie dream house. I would have settled for the Corvette, but my poor white trash Barbie had to ride in the tissue box car I made her. She did eventually secure a country camper so she moved up a bit in the world.
I always wanted one of those doll houses you sometimes read about. The kind with lots of furniture and electricity/lights, where you could close the back so it looks like a real house from the outside.
None, I read like a mf’er as soon as I learned, and never stopped. All that reading as a kid made me a fuck of a lot more competitive later in life, and also attracted the kind of people I like around me.
Not a Big Wheel, but I always wanted a Krazy Kar. Kinda like a low rider wheelchair, I guess. You sat between the wheels and propelled yourself with the handles forward, backwards or in circles. My friend had one and you could go super fast because of the wheel size.
I wanted a tea set and cabbage patch kids. My Mother was all no way am I getting you these things as it is just a phase. So I saved my allowance got my tea set and 2 cabbage patch dolls. They have been through a house fire but be damned if I am getting rid of them simply just to show my Mom (RIP) it was not a phase! I think this was 40 or so years ago haha.
Not having had any toys as a kid – or any chance to play except when hiding in the forest – I don’t understand playing with toys. So no, there aren’t any I wish I’d had. I did make sure my kids had plenty.
My adult intellectually handicapped son returned from a holiday with a soft toy shark for me and I rejected it, knowing how much he loved sharks and not wanting to take it off him. A few years later he managed to get across to me that he’d bought it specially for me with the pocket money he’d saved, because he noticed I had no toys – and I’d really hurt his feelings by not accepting it. So now I have one toy that means so much to me, and I cuddle it every night.
Yup easy bake oven. I baked with the regular oven, but that seemed magical somehow. I baked all my life but cakes are not my favorite. I love baking bread and cookies.
I wanted some of the characters of Toy Story, Woody, Jessie, Buzz.. Never got any. Now I have a son who loves Toy Story and I got him Woody for his birthday and Buzz for Christmas ❤️
Power wheels. I actually stopped believing in Santa when my mom told me that Santa didn’t bring me a power wheels because our neighborhood didn’t have sidewalks and he was concerned for my safety.😂
Here’s a few that were circled in the Sears Wish catalogue year after year: the motorcycle (and Jeep) that runs on a battery that you could ride around on (in); drum set; punching bag; electric guitar; Lego castle.
I’m a girl.
The only thing I got was a knock off “Lego” castle, it was pastel colors. That was when I realized Santa wasn’t real.
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A big wheel
A Pollyanna doll
Green Machine. I had the Big Wheel but the Green Machine was much cooler
Cabbage patch kids. Always asked for one but my little sister got one.
Suzy shopping cart
I always wanted Rock’em Sock’em robots but my mom thought it was too violent.
For years I wanted a ‘were bear’ it was like a teddy bear you could turn into a scary bear. Anyways, at the grand age of 14 I won £50 on the premium bonds and bought one for myself. I still have it and I’m 40 now 😂
Easy Bake oven. I asked for it repeatedly and my mom said no, if you want to bake, use the oven in the kitchen 😢 I’m 65 and even now, if I see one in the store, I feel a pang
6th kid….a new anything
Drums
Lego. We couldn’t afford it.
Model motoring.
Rock ’em Sock ’em robots
i was incredible spoiled. Most toys I manage to get.
I wanted the Barbie boat.
A Chrissy doll.
A Rocky doll. You could kick it and you could beat it. Took a terrific beating 💪
Easy Bake Oven
Mentalo. In Doug Heffernan voice.
https://www.theoldrobots.com/MrMachine.html
Teddy Ruxpin
Big Wheel! I wanted one so bad. We were poor when i wad in that age range
Hot Wheel’s Sizzler.
Barbie. I was a gay boy. I started begging for Barbies at around 4 years old. Used to get my ass beat and was always given a truck or a sports thing or a toy gun. My sister got tons of Barbies but I couldn’t touch them or risk getting smacked by my dad. Keeping me from dolls didn’t stop me from being gay and I eventually ran away at 17 and never looked back. Now I live in Manhattan and am retired. Didn’t speak to my parents for decades before they died. I have a huge vintage Barbie collection now, though.
A Lionel electric train.
Snake Mountain.
I had Castle Grayskull, but Skelator’s hideout was cooler.
A baton
Baby Alive, Easy Bake Oven
I wanted a Spirograph. An older cousin had one and sometime he let me use it, but of course, thats not the same.
I saw a smaller version several years ago and got it.
Also wanted a banana seat bike, but I already had a bike when they came out so I couldn’t get one.
My younger brother did, and I regularly rode his. They were so much cooler than a regular bike.
Lego 928 / 497
I always wanted a My Pet Monster. I kinda still do.
I wanted a trumpet and got a plastic one. It sucked.
The AT-AT Walker from The Empire Strikes Back.
I can afford to buy one now, and I have my Millennium Falcon on display from my youth, but it wouldn’t be the same since the AT-AT wasn’t from my youth.
Or, more truthfully, I likely wouldn’t be able to stop at buying just that and would end up with all the Star Wars toys I wished I had as a kid and we’d then have to kick a child out of our house so I could use his room to display the toys but then my wife would get pissed and likely leave me so then I’m stuck living in a shed with all my Star Wars toys and then I would be sooooo happy because that’s all I really wanted and I know I can survive off of beans and ramen (not together) and okay you’ve convinced me and I am now heading to eBay. I have no regretttttttssssss….
EDIT: I just bought the Snowspeeder off eBay. I lost mine at some point in the last 20 years but I still have the Luke Skywalker action figure for it. And so it begins….
In 1960 when I was 8 it was Mr. Machine
Legos
Big Wheel
Star Wars action figures (each sold separately)
Mr Potato Head. I still think about getting one, from time to time.
I always wanted a Stingray Bike
Crocodile Mile Slipnslide
Peddle operated mini car. They didn’t have the battery-operated ones then. As soon as my son was old enough, I bought a battery operated one for him, and it was just another toy to him.
Johnny 7 OMA one man army. I was the smart sibling so I always got science kits and books. My brother was the dumb one and always got the cool stuff and yes, even a Johnny 7.
I wanted the book penny had in inspector gadget.
Not me, but my brother who’s ten years older than me. My parents had more spending money when I was a kid so I had Tonka trucks. My 16 year old brother would play with them because they couldn’t afford them when he was a kid. Then he’d threaten to beat me up if I told anyone. That was back in the early 1970’s.
Sit-N-Spin
I wish they would make an adult version…..lol
An Atari, then a Nintendo. I did not have video games at my house until I bought myself a Sega in college. I had to go to my friend’s house to play. They could play all the time so they were always better than me and I could never get good at any game.
A Samantha doll
Evel Knievel wind-up motorcycle… My parents thought it was cool to get me the Snake River Canyon rocket bike version instead and I hated it.
“Dangerous” toys like pogo sticks or those bucket sticks or a skip toy. Now that I’m older, I know what my parents did at the time. I’m clumsy and those are not made for me. 😂
Back in the 60s the Sears catalog always had a ventriloquist dummy. I wanted one every Christmas and never did get one. I did however get some great gifts as a kid. I had an easy bake oven and a Magnus chord organ
A Schwinn Orange Krate bike with a sissy-bar. Never got one.
Mr. Machine. I’m dating myself badly.
Mattel Vac-U-Form
I actually got one that I wanted. It was called mighty Mo. It was a huge plastic Canon that actually shot tennis ball size plastic balls via spring action. Can’t remember what happened to it. About 20 years ago I decided I want another one for nostalgia so I went to eBay and the stupid things were $350!
A Barbie Dream House. Ugh!
All of them. You could never have too many toys.
Easy. USS Flagg
Chatty Cathy
I wanted a Maybell Get Well doll. Later I found out it was a Madam Alexander doll. She was 14”, had a beautiful head of comb able hair. She wore a satin pink shorty night gown and came with leg and arm casts, spots for measles and chicken pox. There were crutches and band aids. She had pink slippers with little pom poms on the toes. Every year I found her in the Sears catalog. Finally got her when I was too old. Had to give her away during a move to a new home when my Dad retired from the Air Force.
An official Red Ryder carbine action, two-hundred-shot, range model air rifle.
I wanted a Baby Alive. So badly
dream phone. but i would’ve needed friends, too.
A pogo stick.
My best friend had a child’s vanity. I wanted one very badly, but I never asked my parents for one because I knew they couldn’t afford it. I did buy an adult vanity once I graduated college and could afford one. It makes me happy.
Electric powered Formula One car. Page 172 in the Sears Wish Book
Barnum and Bailey circus flash light with a strobe on top. My Dad was cheap when it came to souvenirs or food at events. I purchased one off of EBay. My dad saw it at my house and asked what it was. Told him it was the flashlight he would not buy me. Also freezed dried ice cream. I became the opposite of my Dad. My kids could almost buy what they wanted at Disneyland etc.
A lemon twist
Mini bike! Prohibited.
I always wanted a Lite Brite and a toy kids sized kitchen
Every Christmas of my childhood I asked for that Barbie head where you could put makeup on her and fix her hair. My parents would laugh at my list and ask why I kept adding such a stupid toy to my list. I also wanted a Chia pet when they came out and got told that was stupid too. A friend bought me one when I was in my 20’s after I told her that and it made me cry. I kept him alive for ages.
Bigwheels.
They came out when I was too old to ride one, but always thought I wish I had that when I was younger.
Just more Barbie stuff. I only had a Ken and a Barbie which was more than some kids had. But I had lots of clothes because they were cheap then and my mom would also make some. I still have the patterns. I always meant to make some for my own daughter or the grandkids but I didn’t and I don’t think they’d care that much.
1950s for me… I always wanted an erector set, but they were too expensive. We got “Lincoln logs” instead.
Barbie Dream House that was over $100 in the late 70’s early 80’s
Lite Brite. Not the crappy one they have now. The original one had glass bulbs. It was so cool.
Major Matt Mason toys. One of my friends had some of them and I was always jealous but somehow never ended up with any of my own.
Cut Your Hair and Grow it Doll
Large Tonka green U.S. Army tank.
A big wheel lol
GI Joe. Every kid had one and my dad said my son doesn’t play with dolls.
Also a mini bike. Any time I asked for one he said some girl in California ran into a telephone pole and died.
Of course he had no problem driving while he was drunk
My little brother had a Tonka truck. I wanted my own Tonka truck. My parents would not gift me my own truck, and my brother did not always let me play with his. only 17 months older than him.
Teddy Ruxpin 🧸
Mongoose bike
Nicer parents.
Mr Frosty machine. Every year that Argos catalogue came out and I’d add it to my Christmas list.
Light Brite
Evel Knievel stunt cycle. There were soooooo many things that needed jumping!
A dollhouse
SSP Smash-up-Derby.
Asked for a set every year for several years, but my mother always shot it down. Finally got a set around 25 years ago.
A verti-bird. Had one as a kid; can’t find them now.
Another Easy Bake oven fan here. I thought they were so fancy.
Barbie dream house. I would have settled for the Corvette, but my poor white trash Barbie had to ride in the tissue box car I made her. She did eventually secure a country camper so she moved up a bit in the world.
All of the Voltron toys
Jello jigglers. Was too afraid to ask.
One of those rideable inflatable ball-things. They look like fun, but I don’t know if my crumbling adult spine would agree …
A PJ doll… Barbie’s groovy girlfriend ! Came with the coolest round, purple sunglasses, and a flowery dress!
RC car
The Snoopy Snowcone Machine.
USS Flagg. Hands down, no question.
I always wanted one of those doll houses you sometimes read about. The kind with lots of furniture and electricity/lights, where you could close the back so it looks like a real house from the outside.
None, I read like a mf’er as soon as I learned, and never stopped. All that reading as a kid made me a fuck of a lot more competitive later in life, and also attracted the kind of people I like around me.
Star wars at-at. Still hurts.
Not a Big Wheel, but I always wanted a Krazy Kar. Kinda like a low rider wheelchair, I guess. You sat between the wheels and propelled yourself with the handles forward, backwards or in circles. My friend had one and you could go super fast because of the wheel size.
Barbie Dreamhouse
I wanted a tea set and cabbage patch kids. My Mother was all no way am I getting you these things as it is just a phase. So I saved my allowance got my tea set and 2 cabbage patch dolls. They have been through a house fire but be damned if I am getting rid of them simply just to show my Mom (RIP) it was not a phase! I think this was 40 or so years ago haha.
Not having had any toys as a kid – or any chance to play except when hiding in the forest – I don’t understand playing with toys. So no, there aren’t any I wish I’d had. I did make sure my kids had plenty.
My adult intellectually handicapped son returned from a holiday with a soft toy shark for me and I rejected it, knowing how much he loved sharks and not wanting to take it off him. A few years later he managed to get across to me that he’d bought it specially for me with the pocket money he’d saved, because he noticed I had no toys – and I’d really hurt his feelings by not accepting it. So now I have one toy that means so much to me, and I cuddle it every night.
Always wanted a pump action BB gun but got a daisy lever action instead
Yup easy bake oven. I baked with the regular oven, but that seemed magical somehow. I baked all my life but cakes are not my favorite. I love baking bread and cookies.
I wanted some of the characters of Toy Story, Woody, Jessie, Buzz.. Never got any. Now I have a son who loves Toy Story and I got him Woody for his birthday and Buzz for Christmas ❤️
Gee I wish I had the Beatles bobble heads that my friend’s sister got! And I wish I had them now!
A Barbie with accessories. Never had one.
When they were first new, I wanted an Etch-a-sketch so badly it was almost painful. Finally bought one as an adult.
A Honda 50
Power wheels. I actually stopped believing in Santa when my mom told me that Santa didn’t bring me a power wheels because our neighborhood didn’t have sidewalks and he was concerned for my safety.😂
Trampoline or pool. The ultimate toys
Lego Star War Millennium Falcon.
My wife got it for me for my 40th birthday many years ago.
Here’s a few that were circled in the Sears Wish catalogue year after year: the motorcycle (and Jeep) that runs on a battery that you could ride around on (in); drum set; punching bag; electric guitar; Lego castle.
I’m a girl.
The only thing I got was a knock off “Lego” castle, it was pastel colors. That was when I realized Santa wasn’t real.
Big Jim Sports Camper, he’s the king of the road then you help him unload.
A Green Machine
Creepy crawlers set. I didn’t have to think for even a nanosecond to answer this one.
My own bike 🚲
Rock em Sock em Robots. I think I asked for them 3 years straight, but my parents thought they were junk.
As I read the contents, it’s reinforced the love I have always had towards my parents and how truly blessed we were as kids. Thank you mom and dad