The Toy You Really Wanted and Then...
 

So all the Christmas ads are coming out and I saw an Etch-a-Sketch in one and I remembered how much I wanted one as a child. In the TV ads the kids were drawing wonderful things with them but in real life (unless something has changed in the past few years), you can't make a curve with one! I was heartbroken to realize that I was confined to straight lines and I'll always wonder how they faked those pictures back in the day.

BTW, the kids in TV toy commercials--then as now--appear to be having just too, too much fun with their toys.

I wanted a paddle ball in the worst way!!!

You know, one with a rubber string and a rubber ball on the end.:D

Well, I did get it and was happy as hell. Well, Until the band broke and the paddle was used for other things!:(

Back in the olden days Toys were something to wish about and not get becaus of Money in the 40's.

Damn, How My Dad knew I was hidden behind the couch Christmas Eve trying to catch Santa Claus was always beyod Me!:eek:

$1.50 was big time back then!

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I felt the same way. I could make the same things over and over but the commercials made you believe you could Etch a Sketch the Sistine Chapel if you wanted to, lol.

I wanted a mybuddy doll SOO bad. Well, I got one, and I got him real dirty really fast. So my mom washed him, which was a bad idea. It made his hair go from brown to bright red, and on accident I had recently seen the movie Chucky. Well, that doll was never the same

I wanted an Easy-Bake Oven and I never got one. Nowadays, there are all these cool new toys like McFlurry maker, Peeps maker, Slurpee maker, S'mores maker, SnoCone maker, ice cream maker, chocolate fountain, popsicle maker, cotton candy maker, root beer fountain, etc. I am so jealous of all the kids nowadays that get to play with this stuff.

I am so with you there! I kept hoping for an easy-bake oven, but I never got one:( Sis did...wouldn't let me use it though!

Big sisters suck. :P

Did anybody see the episode of "Arthur" where he really, really wanted this game and finally got it but he kept losing so he started cheating? And he thought the game would be so much fun because of the commercials?

I can remember thinking that Mousetrap must be so much fun because the kids in the commercials, when they would win, would throw their hand up and scream, "Mousetrap"! And then we got one and tried to do that and we reeaaallly felt stupid.

Anyway, the game was frustrating--a lot of the time, the structure you built wouldn't stay up and the parts were so easy to lose.

Just about any board game. It's tough being an only child sometimes!

Add me to the list of little girls that wanted as Easy Bake oven so bad........but never got one. :(

I remember the commcerial for this 3 ft tall doll that said if you held her hand, she would walk with you. PSYCH! I could never get that heifer to walk. She would always fall over! :mad:

Another one for the EZ bake oven...

Note to self: get one for my niece so I can piss my neat freak bitch sister in law off

i wanted a chatty cathy doll-never got one.

LOL at everyone who still has "I never got an Easy Bake Oven" trauma. I used to say to my mom anytime anything went wrong that it was because I never had an Easy Bake Oven. She knew I was kidding, of course. I did have some generic type thing that didn't heat and the cakes were disgusting as you may imagine.

The thing I got that was a complete disappointment was the Mouse Trap board game. It was supposed to do all those Rube Goldbergian things and didn't, so back to Sears it went.

My mommy had one, it was her only present one year. But she still exists in our basement sitting out. :)

I wanted an easy bake oven too! But my parents I think thought I was too stupid and would burn down the house.

One year we were really poor b/c my dad got layed off. So I wanted a Nintendo. Everyone got one in school but me. Then Super Nintendo came out and had been out for several months...and that's when I finally got a Nintendo. I was sooo behind. :( None of the kids would come over and play b/c they had "super nintendo".

Ditto. I wanted Fireball Island (board game) in the worst way -- and I GOT IT!!!!!

And never once played it with anyone. :(

I wanted a My Pretty Ballerina doll when I think I was roughly 5 or 6. It was supposed to dance somehow. Anywho, my parents instead got my some ballerina doll that you would wind up in the back and she would "dance." And by "dance," she would do this vibrating deal and turn in a circle.

I actually had an Easy Bake oven. They're cute, but the few times I actually used it, it took almost an hour for the food to bake. I ended up giving it away after using it not even five times.

I always wanted Mousetrap. I had a friend with it when I was little, and everytime I went to her house I wanted to play it. But she wouldn't play with me because she said it took too long to set up and take down.

I am another one of those who wanted an Easy Bake oven but never got one :( I remember asking my parents why they thought the rollerblade Barbie (whose skates REALLY sparked and was a totally firehazard) was a good idea but I couldn't have the oven :(

Oh and porcelain dolls werent as exciting once I got them. I remember I was so excited that I got 7 one year so I could start "collecting them." The problem was I just wanted to play with them and my mom thought I should really "collect them" which mean I couldn't carry them around and play with them they just sat on shelves.....

We had an Easy Bake Oven. The cakes were gross and the light bulb made it really hot so we could get burned.

I got racing cars which seemed so cool until they kept jumping off the track. Then one day it stopped working.

We had a Barbie House which was cool until a jealous neighbor sat on it and broke it. It wasn't a dream house, but a vacation house. :cool:

I begged, cried, & became a total angel to get a Cabbage Patch doll as a kid. Instead, I got clothes. My little sister got the Cabbage Patch doll & I still haven't forgiven my mom & older sisters for that slight.

My younger sister and I got Chatty Cathys. One day my youngest brother washed my sister's doll's hair and forevermore after that, she went, "AROOOOrrrrrrr," when you pulled her string. He also fed her Kissy doll some pancakes and she did nothing but make an urping noise after that.

Chalk up another one for the easy bake oven. My next door neighbor Nina had one and I was SO jealous.

Yet another victim of EBO-deprived. My parents said that if I could cook with an Easy Bake Oven, I could cook on the real stove - so I got a stool. Guess who's been cooking at least one meal a week since she was seven?

I also wanted the Easy Bake oven and never got one.

I wanted a Cabbage Patch doll but I got a home made one instead.

I never wanted an easy bake oven....

my younger sister got one for christmas on year. The other younger sister got a "Suzy Homemaker Candy maker"

Both had a 100 watt bulb used to bake or melt as the case was needed.

My sisters loved them.

I wanted a doctor kit. Didn't get that ;(

I wanted an Easy Bake Oven too and never got one. Wow, we can form our own support group. :D

The other thing I wanted and never got: The Millennium Falcon. I had a huge collection of Star Wars figures and accessories but never got that.

The ironic thing about the fact that I didn't have an Easy Bake Oven as a kid was that my mom had always wanted one as a kid but never got one. Aren't you supposed to buy your kids the toy the you always wanted but never got?!?

All I know is, my potential future daughters WILL play with American Girl dolls. Not that I am bitter or anything...

I wanted something called an "Ice Bird". If I recall, it was a rectangular mold where you would freeze water into a block of ice then shave off the ice with this bird-shaped thing. I guess it had some kind of blade in its little bird-butt. Then you would put the shaved ice in a cup, add syrup and, voila! A snow cone.

Never did get one, although my spoiled rotten cousin got one. Not that she let me play with it...

To add to the Nintendo post.....I wanted a Gameboy when I was 11 or 12 (early 1990s), but my mom thought the screen was too small for me to constantly stare at. She also didn't like the fact that it was it wasn't a coloured monitor

I had the snoopy sno cone machine.....it was time consuming and the sno cones sucked ass. I also had an easy bake oven...I don't remember how long I had it but I remember baking stuff in it.

I really wanted the imperial walker and millenium falcon as well...had tons of SW figures (even the ones you had to send away for) but never had the big toys. Just the x-wing and y-wing.

Speaking of nintendo, does everyone remember having to blow on the back fo the cartridge to make the game work? Ahh good times. I loved the legend of zelda.

I had the snoopy sno cone maker......your right took forever

Had the easy bake oven after begging and pleading and whining i finally got one....was afraid i would burn down the house

I got plenty of cabbage patch kids when i was 12 because my dad had a patient who owned stock in the company so i got three one yr.

BUT........BUT i always wanted and NEVER EVER GOT and still to this day have issues over it

the barbie dream house ......ok i had the barbie friendship plane and the corvette i even had the barbie townhouse ( elavator that went up on the side of it) but i never got a dream house



i had a my buddy doll.......my older brother one yr noosed it to the garage door opener so when my mom and i got home from the dr one day she opend the door and he was dangling by a rope.

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Every girls I ever dated . . sigh.

Damn I wanted them until I got them, played with them for a while and then was like . . ok now do some new tricks :p

Surely I am not the only one?

Okay, so I was spoiled :) because I wanted and actually got my very own Easy Bake Oven one Christmas. Mom never let me use it though. Why buy a kid a toy and NEVER LET HER USE IT? Just saw a clip about EBO's on Unwrapped recently which was most cool.

I always wanted a slot car track though. DH & brothers had one when they were kids and he always wanted one. So, we finally surprised him last Christmas with his very own track.

Add me to the list of wanted but never got an Easy Bake Oven. I wonder if anyone has ever used a deprived EBO defense in court.

There is a Peeps maker?!?!
I want that for Christmas this year!!!!

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Huh? You can totally make curves with an Etch-a-Sketch! Just turn both knobs at once. I made some really cool drawings with mine (it was from the late 70s BTW).

Carnation, I suggest you run out and get an Etch-a-Sketch and try it for yourself.

Jeezuz! I totally remember having to do that to get the game to work. LMAO! :D

If you haven't sniffed or tasted the electronic part (the piece of the cartridge that goes into the nintendo system) of those nintendo games you're missing out.

-Rudey
--I was an inquisitive child.

::has an old skool NES currently hooked up to her TV::

Walmart has had their Peeps makers on sale the past couple of months. We got a bunch for $4 each and have been using them for birthday presents...I suppose we're getting predictable ("Yeah, that present over there the Carnations brought is probably a Peeps maker.")

I've seen them on eBay too.

Thank goodness for large families!!
 

Wow, do I feel lucky now. My parents had our gifts down to a science each year. We would each get one "put togther" gift, some clothing, a board game, and a fun random toy. Since there were four of us, chances are ONE of us would get the coveted gift from the year, so we'd all be able to play. Of course we never got everything we wanted. No Nintendo or fancy game equipment until one of us would buy it. A family gift one year was a Coleco Vision though, which was pretty sweet.

As I read through the posts, I realized how good I had it. I did luck out and get an Easy Bake Oven and the My Little Pony castle on consecutive years. Mousetrap was a family gift game one year, and one brother got Fireball Island too. My family and I still play the random silly games when we go to our vacation house. We're such nerds I know. :p

For this year gifts though, I did see a Slurpee machine for sale this year though....and I do enjoy the Slurpees....(I know, I know...I own a blender, but there's something about the name.)