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!

Re: The Toy You Really Wanted and Then...
 

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.