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airckarc@reddit

I desperately wanted a Green Machine. I had a big wheel but the ad for the green machine made it look so fun.

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csdirty@reddit

Yeah, I would have taken either. There was one kid in the neighborhood who had one and never let anyone try it. Fuck you, Trevor.

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ProduceOk9864@reddit

I never did like the look in his eyes, or the way he walked…..fuck you to hell, Trevor you cunt

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Shastafazzool@reddit

I wanted one of those too, Fuck Trevor.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

Always the Trevors...why are they such d___s?

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GumRunner0@reddit

I also had a kid down the road who wouldn't let anyone have a turn on it, Fuck you Aron and Fuck you also Trevor

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browncoat47@reddit

NGL, it was one of the best toys of my youth. I wore the front tire off two of em…

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WillieDoggg@reddit

But seriously. It was peak childhood. Hehe.

If it makes you feel any better my dad accidentally backed the Nova over mine smashing it into a million pieces.

I don’t know if I’ve ever fully recovered from the trauma.

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ArcherHealthy6324@reddit

Wow!! My dad always had a Nova! He had a 1974 or 75 blue one and a 1979 maroon one.

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WillieDoggg@reddit

A dark forest green coupe for my pops. Blended in with the Green Machine maybe. 🤔

I just realized something right now. That’s been my favorite color since I can remember.

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kwman11@reddit

Same age. I’m still mad at my parents.

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JoeSicko@reddit

Sounds like you're in the market for a drift trike.

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ThatCoupleYou@reddit

Yea the green machine was such an improvement over the big wheel.

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NoahsKnob3202@reddit

Loved mine so much, I got one for my kids who wore theirs out too.

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browncoat47@reddit

In my defense I never got the GI Joe Havoc. So therefore I had to play outside… a lot…

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cacecil1@reddit

You can get one of these for grown ups. Razor DXT Drift Trike https://a.co/d/gRUg33K

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Grand_Admiral_Theron@reddit

Yes! Take my money!

"Maximum weight-198 pounds" Goddamnit!!

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yoko000615@reddit

Not the same by any means. The brake is on the handlebars and should be on the tire for slick drifting

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cacecil1@reddit

I didn't say it was the same. But there are few adult sized options for these kinds of things. It drifts just fine, let me assure you. Razor DXT Drift TRIKES Down a Mountain Road in 4K

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yoko000615@reddit

Ok I totally take back what I said. Thanks for the link!

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Kaa_The_Snake@reddit

I had one and I loved it!!

I’m sorry, if you’d lived in my neighborhood I totally would have let you ride it.

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rboller@reddit

Green Machine is the correct answer. Stretch Armstrong a close second.

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rbp183@reddit

My little brother had one, I was too big for it but dam that thing looked like fun. Wish they made one a little bit bigger.

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typhoidtimmy@reddit

It was the ease of the spin outs in the commercials. I still remember one had a kid do a full 360 and keep going and that hooked me like a fish.

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Anansi3@reddit

That’s the exact reason I wanted one. I only had a big wheel and could never get a full spin even after throwing sand on the ground

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airckarc@reddit

Right. I was playing 2D big wheel and you were 3D green machine. I so badly wanted to work those levers.

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Wm_of_Orange@reddit

I never knew anyone who had a Green Machine, so I never tried one, but I assume it could never live up to the picture 8-year old me had in his mind. Kudos Green Machine marking team.

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DetroitWagon@reddit

The ad said "for guys who really know how to ride"

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I'm a girl, and I asked for a Green Machine too one year. I got the most girly looking big wheel ever. My parents didn't know me that well then as a tomboy, and still didn't have a clue when I grew up. I wanted that Green Machine so badly!!!

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Bartghamilton@reddit

I had the Incredible Hulk branded green machine that was such a blast.

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karen1676@reddit

I wanted the big wheel so bad but no, never happened.

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Life-Unit-4118@reddit

Ok ok, I’m bitter that you had one. But the Big Wheel = freedom and fun in one orange and blue death trap.

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Greatone5150@reddit

I had the Batman version. It was awesome and I won every neighborhood race due to the low center of gravity.

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stametsprime@reddit

A friend of mine had one and let me try it. It was kinda cool, but I preferred my traditional Big Wheel for the ability to do side wheelies.

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nrith@reddit

The local park had a bike and trike race every year, and those of us poor folk who only had Big Wheels got smoked by the rich kids with the Green Machines every damn time. The resentment haunts me to this day.

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noldshit@reddit

Yay! Had one!

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anillop@reddit

Seriously they were AWESOME. They were made for spinning out on concrete.

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Acrobatic_Ocelot_461@reddit

Had one.

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freddyg_mtl@reddit

Same here, that would have beem the holy grail for me

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JohnnyGSTi@reddit

Came here to say the same thing, but growing up with immigrant parents meant money was tight. I could have never expected anything like this as a kid, it's just the way things were.

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badgerpunk@reddit

Same. I had one friend that had one and I was so jealous.

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minnesotawristwatch@reddit

HOLY SHIT I’d forgotten I had one of those! I raged on that bitch.

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CapeManiak@reddit

Had one. Envy of the street

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Moonsmom181@reddit

I wanted one, too. ☹️

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Why-did-i-reas-this@reddit

And a little real BMX bike when I got older. Never got either.

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chealey21@reddit

My cousin had one. It was fucking sick.

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RedditSkippy@reddit

Oh wow, yeah I remember those. I got to try one once and then I was trying to describe it to my grandmother so she could get it for me for Christmas and I failed.

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NerdyComfort-78@reddit

YES.

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Long_Night3907@reddit

Rodan.

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redryder74@reddit

Optimus Prime

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DBBKF23@reddit

Barbie Dream House

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MadPiglet42@reddit

Same. I got the Barbie Town House instead, which was actually way cooler because it had the elevator.

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DBBKF23@reddit

That was the one I wanted! And the bubble bath. I didn't even play with the dolls much, but I LOVED the accessories and building houses out of stuff around the house.

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JLlo11@reddit

I had that bubble bath thing - so fun to pump the bubbles. It was a good patio toy!

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lukeoo7@reddit

That's right, thumb finger pump for bubbles......

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Barbie had ALL the cool stuff

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

I used empty banana split trays (probably from Baskin Robins) for the Barbie bath tub. They were the perfect size!

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I had the townhouse. I wanted Star Wars stuff! Dolls weren't my jam. They knew that.

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cleo_wafflesmack@reddit

I loved the townhouse!

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minikin_snickasnee@reddit

Yes! I wanted that fancy Dream House, but saved my allowance and got the Town House instead.

I did have the yellow motorhome, all the horses, and the bubble bath, too. Motorhome was Xmas of 82's present from Santa.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

I had no house but I had the motorhome and a horse.

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MCMaude@reddit

My Barbie Townhouse was my most treasured toy. And I had lots of blow up furniture. Several awesome Barbies and clothes. But my poor Ken never had anything but swim trunks.

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UnplannedProofreader@reddit

Same but the elevator was not enough to make me think the dream house wasn’t better.

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katiegirl-@reddit

I had that one too! Man that elevator ATE batteries.

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MadPiglet42@reddit

Ooh yours was motorized? Mine was a string you had to pull.

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Dreamr_in_LB@reddit

The elevator was really cool!

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lwillard1214@reddit

My friend had this. This is how I got most things I wanted.. by having a couple friends!

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lukeoo7@reddit

My sister had the house, pool, vr, sports car, perfume maker, barbie head with make-up etc.

Night before Xmas, My job as big brother assemble all barbie toys over the years while sister slept,

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nutmegtell@reddit

Same. My parents didn’t like Barbie so they got me the Big Jim camper instead. Not the same, dude. Not the same.

https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/diefenderfer/08/688508/H2796-L233118467.jpg

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CarlaQ5@reddit

Seriously?

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nutmegtell@reddit

Yeah I think it’s still in the garage lol

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beanzerbunzer@reddit

100% scrolled down for this. It was my dream, never received.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I would've given you mine in a heartbeat!

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jenorama_CA@reddit

I did t have the Dream House, but I had the Dream Cottage. This was in the mid-80s and it was really well-made with a ton of accessories. I feel pretty sad when I see what passes for Barbie housing now.

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necessaryfarts@reddit

It’s now Barbie Studio Apartment she shares with Skipper because nobody can afford housing anymore.

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rwphx2016@reddit

Isn't it the Barbie Auxiliary Dwelling Unit?

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DBBKF23@reddit

How are the transportation options? Helicopters? ATVs? Did you watch the Dreamhouse remodel show? I got a kick out of the designs.

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FuturamaRama7@reddit

Yes!! I wanted one too.

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ivfmumma_tryme@reddit

Too far down to find mine

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UsedCan508@reddit

I never got the Barbie Dreamhouse, but I had the Barbie shopping center with a working escalator😂

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Ok I am jealous!!!

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m24b77@reddit

Same. And the Valentine/sweetheart Barbie. I did have the spa and my sister had the convertible. Also I had twirly curls Barbie.

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laurellestlaurent@reddit

Hi had a Sindy house. I was satisfied. But I did have the yellow Barbie camper!

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karen1676@reddit

I wanted a Barbie horse so bad!!

My best friend had 2 horses (Dallas and Dancer) and one day the front leg broke on Dallas the Palomino.

When we would play with them she became the vet and I had to bring Dallas to her all the time.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

Yes!! That was out of my parents’ budget, I think, and I’m pretty sure they knew we’d fight over it, so my dad built a dollhouse and we got to decorate it. I loved decorating that thing and finding cool miniatures for it. It may have been what inspired me to be an interior decorator when I was older.

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platypus5709@reddit

I wanted the Barbie Town house and got the knock off Sindy town house. Just wasn’t the same.

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John082603@reddit (OP)

My was that helicopter that flew in a circle and you could pick up stuff with its landing skin things.

I still want own.

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Miata_GT@reddit

I loved mine...but my home at the time was full of deep pile shag carpet.

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HapticRecce@reddit

I may be jaded, having had one (Star Ship Enterprise) but the shine came off it by the March school break iirc. The mechanicals were a type of nylon cord I think and wore out fast too I think.

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Elegant_Marc_995@reddit

Vertibird!

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ScrewWinters@reddit

We made one out of their clothing storage cases. 🤣

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Honest-Western1042@reddit

I never got even one Barbie. My sister did AND the dream house.

Yes, I’m in therapy lol.

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yabbobay@reddit

My dad built us one. It was a pretty dope wooden house - we loved it and decorated it, but I still wanted that pink plastic and cardboard dream house.

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knintn@reddit

Same. They always got me Barbie stuff but never the house.

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GenXray@reddit

We had the Barbie Townhouse with an elevator as it was 3 floors. Was it supposed to be Park Ave? No Ken though.

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katiegirl-@reddit

Who needs Ken when the elevator goes down?

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SomethingHasGotToGiv@reddit

Barbie didn’t need Ken. She is a bad b*tch. 😆

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doobette@reddit

Ugh, yes. This was mine, too. It was the version that looked like a "contemporary" home with early '80s diagonal panel siding, and a pink roof.

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abczoomom@reddit

Heck, anything Barbie. Most of my childhood where I would remember wanting specific toys my parents were split, and my dad was…..not great. Mom and I lived on a teacher’s salary and didn’t have a lot of extras, but she managed to get me a cabbage patch kid, I had a bike and roller skates, aside from the latchkey of it all it was a pretty good gig honestly. But her one line, which was prejudicial rather than monetary, was Barbie. She didn’t like her so couldn’t have her, and therefore of course that’s what I wanted.

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Legitimate-Annual-90@reddit

Me too, but I got the Townhouse instead.

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mmsiv@reddit

I came here to say this.

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Voodoocat-99@reddit

Atari

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WriterGuyCan@reddit

Snoopy snow cone maker

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Voodoocat-99@reddit

I had one and it was epic… until the syrups ran out and my parents refused to buy any more

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southernrail@reddit

I understand the desire, 💯💯💯💯, but as someone who had one....I want to tell you that you missed nothing really. tons of WORK for maybe a small cup of love. don't get me wrong, I ate that shiz, but regrets on Christmas Morn were had.

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lonely_nipple@reddit

Yeah they were not great.

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LAgator77@reddit

I legit thought I would open up a little snow cone stand and make some money. I gave up on that dream quickly.

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Frinkiac7DontTouchIt@reddit

I tried to sell the snow cones and people would stop to buy one and after 5 minutes of watching me crank the handle but barely scrape ice off a koolaid ice cube, people would just give up and give me the money and leave. I quit after two customers - it was one of the most humiliating days of my small child life

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southernrail@reddit

that IS a tough lesson and it's not fair. I still have hard feelings toward a toy I got over 40 years ago. it messed me up me good. lol.

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Disastrous_Second166@reddit

I had one and it was horrible

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

“A small cup of love.” That really got me in the feels. 🤣

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actin_spicious@reddit

cup of love

Is that a euphemism for a semen sample?

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Rey_Mezcalero@reddit

Just drink the syrup was the lesson learned 😂😂

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Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit

This is the truth. Aside from a lot of work for a little bit of joy, when we ran out of sugar water the moms all used orange or grape soda. just completely underwhelming. You can buy a shaved ice machine if you want shaved ice. I do miss the cute little shovel and I wish I still had the snoopy top/ice pusher part lol.

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soonerpgh@reddit

We made our own syrup using koolaid and ungodly amounts of sugar. It worked, but again, the effort you had to put in for a tablespoon of ice was stupid.

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IceCreamMan1977@reddit

They sell them new at Target now, a reimagined version. Maybe it works better.

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Cowboywizzard@reddit

I got one for my kids. That is exactly the experience we had 😅

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Common_Moment6006@reddit

Exactly 💯😎

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xAlice_Liddell@reddit

My mom got me one. It was really cool until I made a mess using a kool aid packet to make some flavor. Still got my snow cone!

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DanteQuill@reddit

Target still carries them over by the toys!

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Paisleyfrog@reddit

I wanted one, got a SnowBird instead. It was a little unsatisfying.

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GrumpySnarf@reddit

I WANTED IT SO BAD. I mean to have snowcones whenever I wanted? My life would be complete.

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mamawoman@reddit

I got one, but we could only do it in the bathroom bc my mom was worried about the mess. I know I know, can't complain, but it did ruin it some for me 😆.

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BFIrrera@reddit

$20 at Wal-Mart

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memphlee@reddit

I’m buying one. I don’t care 🤷🏻‍♂️

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soonerpgh@reddit

If you can figure out how to mount an electric motor instead of that hand crank, you'll be set!

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wolfysworld@reddit

Not a snoopy snow cone machine but I had a friend who made margarita blenders from garbage disposals (new of course) and man did it make a mean margarita!

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

That’s genius!

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wolfysworld@reddit

He used something like a half whiskey barrel but much smaller. He even had it tapped! He was/is a genius at making just about anything; super talented guy. This was one of our favorite inventions of his for sure!

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

Ok, now I want this!

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jtphilbeck@reddit

Yep! No fucks given.

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C-ute-Thulu@reddit

We had one that was broken by my older siblings by the time I came along. I had a lot of hand-me-down toys broken by my older sibs :(

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crobertdillon@reddit

You mean like this? 😉

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specialsteph74@reddit

OMG Snoopy Snowcone machine. I begged .y parents for this and was overjoyed when I finally got it

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cool_side_of_pillow@reddit

Omggggggggggg nostalgia central!!

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

Yesss that was a Cool toy . 😂

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SingerBrief8227@reddit

My friend brought her childhood Snoopy Sno-Cone maker and used it make vodka sno-cones.

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LushAndSexxy@reddit

The Snoopy snow cone machine was the childhood equivalent of an arm day workout. And it took forever to make the smallest snow cone on Earth.

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greenrock7@reddit

Unlocked a core memory. I had one in the 80's.

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UserName9982@reddit

Same here

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F0xxfyre@reddit

Any kind of snow cone maker.

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Sunribbon@reddit

I was so mad as a kid, my grandparents got one for my cousin for Christmas and I got underwear. We are the same age, they just didn't like me as much.

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Mrs_Laktash@reddit

I loved mine. I still think about it all the time.

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shaggin_maggie@reddit

I forgot about this! Wow I never got this either.

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RVAblues@reddit

I had one. It was every bit as good as you could’ve hoped.

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Cword76@reddit

AKA ant farm

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Most-Lengthiness3127@reddit

Same!!! I loooved the commercial and can still hear the song!

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Weak_Ad6116@reddit

Same!!

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jauntmag@reddit

They still make them!

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OkIntroduction5150@reddit

Really?? I need one.

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Competitive-Push-715@reddit

Got it for my child and they did not care!!!🤬

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monkeyswithknives@reddit

I just bought one for my wife for Christmas.

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iono777@reddit

My sister had one! We loved it

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

Same

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MizLucinda@reddit

I had a friend who had that and we played with it. SO disappointed that it was hard to use.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

This was on my unrealized dreams list too

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mutnik@reddit

AT-AT

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Nice_Rope_5049@reddit

What is this?

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mutnik@reddit

A Star wars toy. The big walking thing from empire strikes back. I wanted it so bad that it was all that I asked for. It's still a running joke in my family.

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Nice_Rope_5049@reddit

Aww I wish you had gotten it!

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mutnik@reddit

A Star wars toy. The big walking thing from empire strikes back. I wanted it so bad that it was all that I asked for. It's still a running joke in my family.

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Britpop_Shoegazer@reddit

Cabbage Patch kid

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haircritter@reddit

Omg. That first year they came out, I wanted one so bad but knew they were impossible to find. A coworker of my parents somehow got a hold of one - and it was THE craziest surprise ever. I cried. Cornelle Libby ❤️😂

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Vast-Government-8994@reddit

1982 Christmas Somehow, my mom got one for me! All the pictures i have are of a blurred me! Alexander Scott - still have him!💚

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Britpop_Shoegazer@reddit

My snotty cousin had one and she always showed it off when we came to her house to visit.

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Eulers_Constant_e@reddit

Same! Only the “rich” kids had them.

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lonely_nipple@reddit

I assure you, my poor ass got one - my parents just had to make Karen's out of themselves. In hindsight idk if that's better. They really are good people.

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FeralFemale_@reddit

Us poors got the knock offs and then got the real cabbage patch kids only after they weren’t cool anymore.

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FuzzyScarf@reddit

Fellow poor here! My mom sewed a couple of knock offs for me. Then when I was in 5th grade I got a real one for Christmas.

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

I never got any of the above. We had a big family and we each got one present for Christmas. I got a Jenga game. Our kids got so many presents compared to us!!

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Eulers_Constant_e@reddit

I didn’t even get a knock off, and I never got a real one, despite telling myself when I’m an adult and have a job I will buy myself one. (A cabbage patch doll was just one of many things I was convinced I would buy once I grew up 😂).

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ClassicOutrageous447@reddit

I had the knock off version

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debinprogress@reddit

Same. Sister and I got “Storybook People” dolls.

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Feeling-Resident-857@reddit

i had a knock off too. my best friend got TWINS. the jealousy nearly ate me alive.

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New-Anacansintta@reddit

My mom refused to buy them and said they were ugly. I kind of agreed.

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tkyang99@reddit

Intellivision and Colecovision. We already had a 2600 and there was no way parents would get another frikin console lol.

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DDean95@reddit

Chemistry Set

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goingloopy@reddit

I wanted one so badly, but my parents said it was “dangerous.”

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

I asked for one of these for years. I was really spoiled, but this was one my mom gave a firm NO to. I’m pretty sure she just didn’t want to clean up the mess.

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DDean95@reddit

Interesting. Did you end up studying science in college?

My parents (teacher and attorney), both loved English and History. They never even considered that one of their children might love science instead. They missed all the signs! SMH

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

Kind of. I started in medicine, then switched up to psychology. Apparently having trypanophobia is not favorable for a medical professional. lol

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GenXstasy@reddit

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lukeoo7@reddit

Aarrr, I had this as child....

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

For some reason in 5 years of birthdays and christmases my parents bought my brother and I dozens of Star Wars figures, various vehicles and features, but they never bought us a stormtrooper despite our begging. Their explanations that they could never find any didn’t add up. How can you not find a stormtrooper? We had a snow trooper, biker scout, tie fighter pilots and AT AT drivers, even the Death Star gunner. But not one single stormtrooper.

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Enough_Jellyfish5700@reddit

Perhaps if they didn’t have the exact same name that we use as the translation for Nazi soldier SS, you might have gotten your toys

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GenXstasy@reddit

Haha! I was just lucky that my neighbor friend had all the cool Star Wars toys! 🚀

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ComprehensiveAd8815@reddit

Mr Fosty… wanted it for years, cousin got one and I watched in horror as it broke on the first go as the ‘ice was too hard’ mother said.. see told ya so.

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bobbyboblawblaw@reddit

An Atari gaming system.

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Dazzling-Walrus9673@reddit

My sister and I convinced my dad to buy one as a Christmas present for mom 😇

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TangeloGrand2511@reddit

I got GoBots ,when I wanted transformers

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mofototheflo@reddit

I guess I was spoiled- I had most of the toys mentioned here. My mother died when I was six years old, and people showered me with gifts for a couple of years. Therapy wasn’t really a common thing yet so that’s how they communicated their sympathies and stuff I guess…

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arabrab12@reddit

A real cabbage patch doll. I got a knock off from a Kmart parking lot in Monroe , LA while visiting family with my grandparents

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SevenBlade@reddit

The first day they were released, somewhere in 1982, we (mother and I) were in line at the local store waiting to pick mine up.

Forty-two years later, I sill have mine sitting in the closet. Minus his original clothes and "birth certificate".

The plastic-faced dolls came out a few years later, and it's funny to see the reaction of those who think the plastic-faced dolls were the original when they see the soft-faced dolls.

Unless I'm mistaken, there is a group that will clean and refurbish the original dolls if you send them in. I can't recall the price for the service, but I'm planning on sending mine in for a good clean - if they're still servicing the dolls.

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lukeoo7@reddit

I remember my father came home from the pub with huge dolls he claimed were Cabbage Patch dolls, so much hype, he was so proud to have them, few weeks/months later we get a glimpse of a real Cabbage Patch doll, he he he turns out father was sold complete dudes looked nothing like them.

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SevenBlade@reddit

"Panty-hose" and nylon stuffing!!

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lateballoon@reddit

I thought the soft faces were a fever dream!

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thanx_it_has_pockets@reddit

I was not a babydoll person - I preferred stuffed animals, so I am still shocked how much I wanted a Cabbage Patch. I ended up with a handmade one. I loved her, but it wasn't the same.

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Girl_with_no_Swag@reddit

I didn’t get one until 1985. I got the Cabbage Patch World Traveler China in the red Chinese pantsuit. Unfortunately, she was burned in the church bonfire in Baton Rouge a year later because supposedly she could cause demon possession and cancer in children.

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Alice_600@reddit

You can go get a new one at the BabyLand General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia

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Lanky-Owl6622@reddit

I had a world traveler from Scotland. She came with a passport. And she wore a kilt and full Scottish attire. She was my second CP doll. My first one, my Dad won in Vegas at Circus Circus playing a ring toss game. He got a wooden ring on the neck of a coke bottle and they had a bunch of CP dolls. It was a high dollar item and a really good prize, it was a hard game to beat!

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iteachag5@reddit

Lmbo!

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splendid_trees@reddit

Woah! That must have been really traumatic, sorry to hear that.

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Some_Concert5392@reddit

I got one named Freddy Lila. You could change their name when you adopted them, but I felt like Freddy Lila wanted to keep her name. I still have her but even my daughter has outgrown playing with dolls. I'll keep her for the next generation.

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park2023mcca@reddit

I grew up in Atlanta. My brother and I were dragged to Babyland General Hospital to get my sister one...we were not amused.

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vermarbee@reddit

I also had a knock off. It was made by a lady at my dad’s office. She SIGNED the doll’s bottom and everything.

I took it. But it was not the same.

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bmiller218@reddit

My sister also got a knock off but it was hand made and not in a factory. she loved it just as much

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WeekendJen@reddit

I have pattern books for the og cloth faced dolls from the early 80s. I pulled them from my grandmoms sewing stash. Handmade might not have been a knockoff / used original pattern design.

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OkArmy7059@reddit

"My buddy. My buddy. My buddy and meee"

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

I really wasn't into them But one of my friends and only child had two !! She was a bit of a little B with an itch to me so I really hated those dolls 😂😂😂

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avidinha@reddit

My mom still has a cabbage patch kid in its original package with the K-Mart layaway tag still on it.

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NeedanewhobbyKK@reddit

Wow I bet that’s worth a bit now?!

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luna_noir@reddit

They really aren’t. Checking sold in box on eBay $55 or so seems the max.

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NeedanewhobbyKK@reddit

Oh I’m surprised, I thought they would be worth more than that. Maybe they’ll come into fashion again one day.

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drfuzzystone@reddit

Some lady my mom worked with made her own, and I got one. Thing was ugly as hell and I hated it. Never got a real one.

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Prestigious_Chard597@reddit

My mom made mine. I finally got one at 13 because my mom's friend got it for me. I still lived her so, even at that age.

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cheen25@reddit

My wife still has a couple of them. Now our daughter plays with them.

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EnoughMeow@reddit

lol, we have ours still but my wife’s head got all spotted looks like a disease haha

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cheen25@reddit

This is Bernice, one of the original preemies.

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TheGoodSouls@reddit

I have two preemies but I don’t remember their names. One came dressed in a Christening gown.

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NassCeary@reddit

I also got a knockoff. How did we know they were fake? Why did it matter? No idea but IT DID.

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Taminella_Grinderfal@reddit

I can mail you mine, my mom refused to throw them out and they are in a closet somewhere. I can’t remember what I did today, but I still know their names, Alex, Christina Marie and Victoria Lucinda. 😂

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Katsaj@reddit

My knockoff was sewn by my mother with a plastic head from the Ben Franklin craft section.

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rolledtacos74@reddit

I too never had a Cabbage Patch doll. The lingering trauma is what made me line up at like 4am one year for a TMX Tickle me Elmo for my own kid.

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mizz_eponine@reddit

I never got one either. My mom was apparently of the opinion that if it was popular I didn't need it. Same goes for Strawberry Shortcake, etc. She tried to make up for it later when she gave me a "vintage" Strawberry Shortcake blow kiss doll for Christmas one year. I was in my 30s!

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NeedanewhobbyKK@reddit

I got an extremely ugly fake too, eventually I got a real one and it was amazing.

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LoremasterLivic@reddit

Lettuce Patch Doll

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SerenaHall@reddit

So jealous. I didn't even get a knock-off CP doll.

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

Me neither… I wanted one so badly!

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Pristine_Effective51@reddit

Yep, me too, on all counts but Monroe.

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CosmicStallion@reddit

My twin and I got homemade cabbage patch dolls. Could have been knock offs, but the heads were sewn onto a DIY body.

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LamingtonGodess@reddit

I still look lovingly at them if dragged to a toystore, and wonder if it would be too weird for a late 40s woman, with real human children, to buy one for herself

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Mzjulesaz@reddit

I didn't get a real one or a knock-off :(

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

But why … from the parking lot … and not the store?

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mcsangel2@reddit

Because someone was taking advantage of the huge demand and selling knockoffs in the parking lot. Waiting for disappointed parents coming back out empty handed.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

Lettuce Head Tots

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seigezunt@reddit

Hugo, the master of disguise!

Whyyyyyyyy

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randomquirk@reddit

That gatdamn Snoopy Snowcone maker. Makes me mad every gifting season

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Ordinary_Advice_3220@reddit

Duuuuude. I'm still waiting for that motherfucker.

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Dazzling-Walrus9673@reddit

My friend had one. You weren’t missing out on anything. 😆

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Givememy2dollars@reddit

My Little Pony Show Stable. My sister got it and I was so sad. Fast forward to a few years ago when we saw one at a flea market. I reminisced how sad I was when she got one and I didn’t. She said she never remembered having it. My soul dropped.

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Dazzling-Walrus9673@reddit

My sister also got all the cool my little pony stuff. And she had the Barbie corvette too. But I had the McDonald’s. So that evened out the score.

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CreatrixAnima@reddit

Shrinky dinks. My mom was afraid of the fumes.

Pretty much the same issue with the easy bake oven. Although then, I think it was fire she was worried about.

Also, those toxic AF bubballoons? I think my mom was right on that one, although they are still sold.

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Dazzling-Walrus9673@reddit

I never got those straw balloon things either. My mom prob saw some news exposé that said they were dangerous. 😇

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Natural_Towel4894@reddit

This is exactly what I was looking for ….the six million dollar man figure. Always wanted to have it. A couple of friends and my cousin had it….i never got it. I still want it after 45 years . lol.

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Mapi_Birthday@reddit

Tin Can Alley.

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foofighter1@reddit

big trak

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Right-Eye-Left-Eye@reddit

Barbie McDonald’s and Barbie swimming pool

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Dazzling-Walrus9673@reddit

The Barbie McDonald’s was awesome! You can come over and play with mine. ❤️

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ClasslessKitty@reddit

See I always wanted the dream house but ended up with the McDonald's. Even though I was disappointed at first, let me tell you that McDonald's was the shit! It had all the little trays burgers, drinks, and fries, swinging garbage pail door, and cash register. I forgot all about the dream house haha.

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minikin_snickasnee@reddit

Ohhh, the swimming pool! A friend of mine had that, and I was SO jealous. She barely played with it, too.

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group_project_@reddit

Remote control car like Punky Brewster had

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Azzhole169@reddit

Is it weird that I was never really a traditional toy kid? I mean , I had some toys , but mine were RC toys, erector sets , steel works, lab kits , or any I have to spend time assembling and creating. I never did the imagination fake playing toys.

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Passamaquody@reddit

Mousetrap. Sit and Spin. Star Wars play set.

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Comfortable_Map6887@reddit

ez bake oven

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bloodyqueen526@reddit

Teddy ruxpin

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LagerGuyPa@reddit

Today's generation will never know the sheer joy of putting an Ozzy Osbourne tape in a Teddy Ruxpin.

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lonely_nipple@reddit

I managed to put both a Metallica tape and a Denis Leary comedy tape into my Ruxpin.

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downonthefarm77@reddit

Or a vulgar stand up comedian. That's one thing living in my head forever that I do not regret at all, it was hilarious

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LydiaBrunch@reddit

The apocryphal story near me was someone sneaking a Venom tape into a Teddy Ruxpin at a local mall.

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efflexor@reddit

I got my neighbor’s Teddy Ruxpin to play tapes backwards. It was freaky af.

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F0xxfyre@reddit

"I don't know why grandma cried about the demon doll, Mommy. Thats's just Teddy Ruxpin."

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bloodyqueen526@reddit

My dad would have had a cow lol when I was 10 I got the george michael Faith tape and he took it from me, I was so devastated, but I understand now why he did

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

😆😆😆

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KrispyAvocado@reddit

My dad got one. For himself!

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BornTry5923@reddit

🤨

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HauntingRegister1840@reddit

Same. I always saw the commercials and wanted one.

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drunkbettie@reddit

The Transformer Blaster.

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Roopie1023@reddit

That damned Barbie/GI Joe full kid-sized jeep that was always on the back of the Sears toy catalog.

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WinnerTurbulent3262@reddit

Game watch. Apparently it was only for boys.

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HaloInR3v3rs3@reddit

Never got Lego's.

Probably explains why I'm now surrounded by built and non built Lego kits.

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grantyboyalba@reddit

At At walker😥

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False-Society-7567@reddit

Atari

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Realistic_Pizza_6269@reddit

Rock’m sock’m robots

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Hyperocean@reddit

I had an amazing report card once, and found out there were no more Kenner Millennium Falcons to be had.. I wound up with a 255 Computer Command, one of those black Corvettes with a sequence programming keypad in the engine bay.. 😢

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useless_rejoinder@reddit

Lucky bastard. The ads for the 255 were amazing. I can actually still remember the words.

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Hyperocean@reddit

Puts the power of driving in the palm of your hands …

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useless_rejoinder@reddit

Wow. I’m old.

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FutureMany4938@reddit

A Green Machine.

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housevil@reddit

A big wheel. I just have tricycles, but the big wheel always looked cooler.

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Ill_Community567@reddit

The full sized Voltron with the 5 lions.

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Common_Moment6006@reddit

Omg 💯👍

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DC1010@reddit

Two of the kids in my class had the full set. A couple of other boys had a couple of lions each. The rest of us

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Ill_Community567@reddit

Man I loved the Go-Bots.

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ClasslessKitty@reddit

I wanted this so bad!!! Finally got it for Christmas but it was a joint gift for my brother and I which was weird because I'm a chick and five years younger than him so sharing didn't work. I was often noogied and forced to hit myself until I handed it over.

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RVAblues@reddit

Yes. I asked for it for Christmas one year. There was a big box under the tree. I flipped out with excitement. I tore it open only to find that my mom had gotten the stupid one with the cars for feet.

I could tell she had no idea that there was a difference and that she’d spent a bunch of money on it, so didn’t say anything, but I was very disappointed.

I still had fun with it, but obviously I’m still a little sad about it.

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38826@reddit

Oh man. This same thing happened to me. I asked my parents for Voltron for Christmas too. We were to the swap meet and they also bought the vehicle one. I was like…thanks? Another year they also got me Go-Bots instead of Transformers. Lol. They tried.

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grandmofftalkin@reddit

Lol I also got a vehicle Voltron at some point but I loved it. It's insane that 15 people had to operate a Voltron like what does the guy who forms his left shin do?

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RedJerzey@reddit

I had a tantrum during my 1st communion party in 1st grade until my mom took me to the store to buy voltron with the money in my gift envelopes.

I still have it, with the original box after 40 years.

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PerracaAmor@reddit

my little brother had one and it was so fucking cool i put my cabbage patch kids down to play - i think it even topped his castle greyskull

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Dandy-25@reddit

I feel seen. Fun fact: when Legendary Defender came out on Netflix, I pretended like my son was super into it and at 45 years old or whatever, I took great joy in purchasing a full set. When he grew out of most of those toys, we donated or sold most of that stuff.

I wouldn’t let my wife sell MY Voltron.

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JustVisitingHell@reddit

I had a smaller version but it was mostly cast metal as opposed to the plastic giant version. Just no action figures to drive them.

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Automatic-Stretch-48@reddit

“Full sized” was a lot different back then, but I can also hear the theme song clear as day and remember the toys in the aisle at the store.

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bk2947@reddit

I bet you can buy a better one today.

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elitistjerk@reddit

With the real lead paint from China!

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Cword76@reddit

I got that one year and I never asked for it, I guess my mom heard it was all the rage for gifts that year. I wasn't a Voltron fan. It was pretty cool, though. It took me weeks of playing with it to accidentally discover all the little movable parts.

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therealgyrader@reddit

Respect, but the Voltron made up of the dozen land, air and sea components was the one I coveted.

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mndsm79@reddit

I had that!

It got taken away because lead paint.

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5lashd07@reddit

Wasn’t there a die cast metal Voltron about 2-3 feet tall? Vaguely remember seeing that in Hawaii.

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elder_o_the_internet@reddit

Came here to say this

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Jealous-Review8344@reddit

I wanted one and finally got it three years after I wanted it. But I had it for a while! It was still pretty cool!

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EastYouth1410@reddit

Oh man I forgot about that! I wanted that thing so bad.

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THEspaceZOOtrashman@reddit

Because it’s awesome!

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credible_expendable@reddit

A cool chemistry set. Not the toy one I received lol

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bbseddit@reddit

The Melenium Falcon!

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Major-Discount5011@reddit

Atari, " You'll just stay in the house all day"

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I had one, and no, we didn't. My sister had ice skating, roller skating, tennis, volleyball, her job, her friends, and the mall. I had hockey, soccer, my friends and my bike.

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Finbar_AU@reddit

Megatron. The one that turned into a gun, with all the accessories.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Atari 2600 in about 1980. I was told I was too young and that it was a boy toy! GRRR!

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Curious-External-7@reddit

I wanted Atari but got Colecovision instead. Sad.

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Spiritual-Chameleon@reddit

My mom found some console at RadioShack that was far worse than Colecovision, with poor graphics and ease to master games (3 of them IIRC).

But yeah, we would have wanted Atari not Colecovision.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Oof.

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NerdyComfort-78@reddit

I got a lot of those “it’s only a boy’s toy too”. BULLSHIT.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

Really? I got train sets and army men, a tonka truck and race car tracks. I guess my dad realized he was never going to have a son, so at least he still got to play with the toys. 🤷‍♀️

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NerdyComfort-78@reddit

Well, as my dad’s “only son” I learned to use a lot of tools and fix stuff so that was a plus.

My grandma had two boys so I got a lot of stereotypical girl things.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

Same. I learned how to mow the lawn and change the oil in a car before I learned how to cook rice.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

Those are useful skills.

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Scrumpilump2000@reddit

Does that ever suck.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Completely! Boy toys... hmpf!

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CarlaQ5@reddit

Oh, please. My sister and I got one from an uncle.

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Hitshardest@reddit

I got one in like 1986 but the only game I ever had was ET.

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snappa870@reddit

Luckily I have a twin brother so I got to play with all the “boy toys” and the Atari was both of ours to share. I loved all his Star Wars shit!!

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cleo_wafflesmack@reddit

Ugh. So glad my parents didn't believe in gendered toys. My sister and I played the crap out of ours.

Her favorite game was Pitfall and mine was Joust.

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futsalfan@reddit

Had Atari, but Intellivision was way too expensive. Also only had a mono boom box, never a stereo one.

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drumorgan@reddit

I got the Sears version

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Torggil@reddit

Me too. Man, we had pong. The original pong. The we got intellivision. My friend had the Atari. It was better.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

My parents had Pong, but I was like... four or five? I was not allowed to touch it. Could only sit and watch them and tgeir friends play.

Huh... Now that I think about it, that's gotta be like the OG version of watching YouTube Let's Play videos.

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Wm_of_Orange@reddit

I never thought of it as a Boy Toy. That sucks. Still have mine.

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kaylakin@reddit

Ughh.. A boy toy? They use their d*** as the joystick?? C'mon!! Grr is right .

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cgund@reddit

Not too long ago at Target, I saw a daughter looking at Legos and her mom said no, let's go find the girl Legos instead. I about lost my mind.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Whoa! That's not cool! Dang...

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Odd_Campaign_307@reddit

My mom bought my brother and I a Commodore 64 for Christmas one year. My brother and I have always been close so she didn't even have to tell him it was for both of us and to let me play or else. Your mom deserves a lump of coal in her stocking for that!

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Hah! 44 Christmases worth of coal! Yeah! 😈

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minikin_snickasnee@reddit

Oh my god, a boy toy? I got mine in 1981. Still have it, too!

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

So awesome! I might be a little jealous... 😄

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ShaiHulud1111@reddit

I went on this two year tear where all I wanted for gifts was “Big boy toys”!

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Same! I'm the girliest girl who ever girled, but from about 8-10 years old, I had slot cars and Atari 2600 and walkie-talkies and nerf guns all over my letters to Santa!

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OkIntroduction5150@reddit

I got lucky. My sitter had sons so I got to play with things like Castle Grayskull, Voltron, etc.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Love it! The boys I babysat regularly when I was 12 had all the He-Man stuff and the Fisher Price parking garage. I maybe possibly might have let them stay up past bedtime a few times just so we could play a little longer... shhhh!

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cheen25@reddit

My brother and I had one and it was awesome!

Still pissed that our parents threw it out after we stopped playing it so much when we got our first computer, a Commodore 64.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Aw man! That hurts! We eventually had a C128. I mean, that was cool and all, but I would have traded it with a quickness for that darn Atari 2600.

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Sea-Roof-5983@reddit

Same. I mean i loved Barbies and stuff but I immediately took to my neighbors atari. I made up for it now. Have a nice gaming pc with pretty lights and 3 monitors. Getting ready to upgrade it.

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

I loved my Barbies, too, but... oooh, video games were so slick and amazing! We did a roadtrip in... 1980 or 1981, it must have been. One of the motels we stopped in had two big cabinet machines and a pinball in a little room off the lobby. I was glued to the Pacman one!

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Punkrockpm@reddit

Grrrr! Come over and let's play video games!

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Adventurous-Topic-54@reddit

Heck yes! 😘

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ethan__l2@reddit

Boy toy. Like Mat-Donna.

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whalesurfer8@reddit

Sit and spin. Would still like one.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I bought my then-toddler one! He loved it, too.

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ToothpickIntheOcean@reddit

Me too! And my mom bought one for my daughter and I was all, wtf mom?

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grandmofftalkin@reddit

Hey dad how did you entertain yourself before there was the Internet?

Me:

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Background-Goose2523@reddit

That's my go to for two year old birthday gifts to this day!

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F0xxfyre@reddit

Oh yes, I have envy over this!

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LemonBumblebee@reddit

I bought one for my niece’s daughter. She LOVED it and played with it non-stop.

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gypsymamma@reddit

I wanted a house and furniture for my Barbie, and a Ken so she’d have a boyfriend.

I never got them so I made furniture out of stuff from around the house. I remember the bathtub I made with aluminum foil, I was pretty proud that it held water. And for the boyfriend I used this historical doll that I had that was a Chinese man in full regalia. They kissed a lot. Barbie was ahead of the times in my house lol.

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Realistic-Explorer69@reddit

I made my barbie house out of cardboard boxes that I cut and stapled together. We were creative kids weren't we 🤣

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eejm@reddit

Hungry Hungry Hippo.

Dammit.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

That was cool.

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ToothpickIntheOcean@reddit

I bought one for my kids years later and it was so satisfying putting that thing in my Toys R Us cart. And I sat on the floor and played it with them until they got tired of it.

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KrispyAvocado@reddit

I loved to play that game at my friend’s house.

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SunshineofMyLyfetime@reddit

I got one, but I’m an only child and never had anyone to play with me. And my Mom never felt like playing.

It wasn’t very much fun playing by myself. 😭

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OccamsYoyo@reddit

That’s easy: original Kenner Millennium Falcon. It was a rich kid’s toy.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

jealous

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

My neighbor had one. I got Han and Luke though. Kinda still kicking myself for trading my Nolan Ryan rookie card for Leia.

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Automatic-Stretch-48@reddit

Kenner was the OGs.

Bring back the Firehouse you cheap bitches. I bought everything else and have it shelved with my originals.

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

Pretty much anything I actually asked for. I’d usually get a generic version or something completely different because it was on sale.

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NoRoomForAPony@reddit

Yes. I wanted a Pound Puppy. Instead I got a Kennel Kuddle.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I still have mine. His name's Brownie.

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wildcat_abe@reddit

Oh man I forgot about pound puppies! So cute.

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Honest-Western1042@reddit

So sorry but that made me giggle.

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Fair-Kaleidoscope113@reddit

Same!!

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

Kennel Kough?

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ihavemytowel42@reddit

Isn’t that the expansion set for the Puppy Mill play set ?

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

More popular than the Euthanasia Veterinary Fun Kit. Burlap sack sold separately.

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ihavemytowel42@reddit

Oh yeah ,that sold next to the My Little Pony glue fun factory.

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Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit

I have family that demands i keep an amazon wish list so they can use it to buy a cheaper, not quite the same, "equivalent" and I can only imagine how much more upsetting this would be for a child :(

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fothergillfuckup@reddit

A Bigtrak. I was 42 before I finally got one for Christmas!

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NoRoomForAPony@reddit

Rainbow bright and my little ponies (my mom thought they were satanic or something).

Also easy bake oven (“the cake is terrible” she said) and snoopy snow cone machine. Instead I made dirt tacos in the front yard.

I think I need to go to therapy.

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oddreplica@reddit

little fun fact: my mom went to high school with the women who invented my little ponies. their 50 year hs reunion printed a booklet of everyone with pics and bios, except the inventor just submitted the original sketches she made in high school classes.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

That's impressive!

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AbjectPromotion4833@reddit

I was lucky and actually got the oven. I loved it. But once my cake packets ran out, I was sol. They wouldn’t buy me more.

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ahsokatango@reddit

I used bisquik in it to make biscuits

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Dry-Drink-9297@reddit

I wanted the My Little Pony castle. I had ponies (have 300+ now, hehe) but never the caaaastle... Now I collect them.

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Okpepita@reddit

My mom also refused to buy my pretty ponies. When I asked her about it as an adult, she admitted that she just thought they were so dumb, she couldn’t bear it. Sigh.

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mybloodyballentine@reddit

Ha, my mom said the same thing about the easy bake oven!

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Beneficial-Ad-4563@reddit

Game and watch. I just want to play the Chef without being interrupted.

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Pitiful_Country_9861@reddit

Barbie’s dream house

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LeeHutch1865@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I wish!

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FirstChurchOfBrutus@reddit

Kid in my neighborhood had it, along with every other awesome toy none of us had. Pretty much the reason we went over there.

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jacked_up_jill@reddit

I totally wanted this too, and if I had been a boy, I might have gotten it.

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cleo_wafflesmack@reddit

F that. I'm a woman and my sister and I had a ton of Star Wars toys, including the Falcon.

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katmc68@reddit

My Uncle & my boy cousin came over to my house to pick up my two brothers to go see it. My Uncle told me he didn't invite me because he thought an 8 year-old girl wouldn't like a sci-fi movie.

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Fiver43@reddit

Same. I was told it was a boy’s toy. 😠

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

Ahh the misogyny of Our childhood 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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F0xxfyre@reddit

Me too, but since I was major tomboy, there was no other pleasing me.

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Easy_Key5944@reddit

Ugh, same!!!

Fwiw, reading "Before the Awakening" (2015) actually healed a bit of my soul that was hurt as a little girl Star Wars fan in the 80's.

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imposgirl@reddit

I had it. I loved it. My older sister's asshole boyfriend stole ALL of my Star Wars toys in the early 80s and sold them at the flea market. I'm still salty about it.

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psionic1@reddit

My parents had rich friends. I played with their kids. The boy child had every Star Wars toy, including a millennium falcon. I, meanwhile, made my Star Wars toys from paper towel tubes and tape.

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the_real_darkrock@reddit

I wanted it so badly as a kid. I did end up getting gifted one as an adult though, so I can’t complain!

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LeeHutch1865@reddit

Same! I bought myself one back on my 40th birthday

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dontchasethehat@reddit

I wanted that or a tie fighter. My mom did the math and realized she could get an entire no-name safari set instead, complete with jeep, tiger, it's trap and an elephant. Needless to say I was an ungrateful 7 year old and not too happy about it. Now I'm a 54 year old still bitching about it.

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Iknowyaplannedit@reddit

Me too, and bought my own off eBay as an adult.

When I was a kid, I saved all my allowance and bought the Death Star, which was super cool. I was very bummed when my parents threw this out along with a bunch of my childhood toys while I was at college.

I’m lucky that my parents supported me and my sister in buying us “boy” toys. We may have been girls, but we were all in on Star Wars, and never owned a Barbie. I still have my core group of Star Wars action figures.

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Doozer1970@reddit

This would be my pick. Along with all the action figures.

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VividFiddlesticks@reddit

My cousins had this, and a whole bunch of other Star Wars toys. I loved spending summer weekends over there. We "played Star Wars" for hours on end.

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Plastic-Sentence9429@reddit

Still have mine.

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BongoTheMonkey@reddit

Same!

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Electrical-Low-5351@reddit

Got it for Christmas 78 or 79

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Ascot_Parker@reddit

This was it for me, but my parents couldn't find it! Apparently they searched a bunch of stores but all were out. As I said in the reply to another comment, they got me the AT-AT instead so I'd forget about the Falcon. I recall a discussion in the schoolyard about whether Santa was real, I and I considered the fact that Santa had brought me something as expensive as the AT-AT to be evidence against it really being my parents!

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It_is_me_Mike@reddit

Sames. So much sames.

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mywomanisagoddess@reddit

Got mine at my 8th birthday party. I mention it because I just found a picture of me opening that at the party and explained to my kids just how meaningful that was to us Star Wars fans. How it was a seminal GenX moment. Thank you Mom and Dad.

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Felon73@reddit

Atari 2600. My mom did me kinda dirty on this one. She actually got me one for Christmas but sold it to a friend of hers two months later because I wanted to play video games instead of homework. Well, no shit. 8 year old me was devastated.

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GoldenPoncho812@reddit

GI Joe Aircraft Carrier

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Glass-Squirrel2497@reddit

The Micronauts Battle Cruiser

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BrokenRanger@reddit

GI joe , USS flag

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R0gu3tr4d3r@reddit

Stretch Armstrong

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PembrokeBoxing@reddit

The millennium falcon.

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Hitshardest@reddit

True story I have an uncle that is 10 years older than me and had a shit ton of Star Wars stuff including the big Barbie size action figures and a bunch of GI Joe’s. In probably 1983 or 1984 he gave them all the me and my brother. He was around 14 or 15 and I think was trying to outgrow them. We fucking destroyed all of it. Burned blew up buried whatever. Would have been worth a pretty penny if we weren’t 8 year old idiots.

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OriginalKnobby@reddit

An Atari…never did get one. I bought a used, first-gen Nintendo in college after the Super came out. Came with a bunch of games. It was too late to quell the lifelong itch, but…

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Realistic-Explorer69@reddit

This Barbie Dream House. A friend of mine had it so I at least got to play with it 🩷 *

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brngckn@reddit

Lite Brite - my mother offered to buy it for me a few years ago but it's far too late. The emotional damage will forever remain.

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CaptainPeachfuzz@reddit

My friends older sister had one and would never let us play with it. I wanted one so bad.

I got an etch-a-sketch instead. Not the same thing Dad!

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CarlaQ5@reddit

That sucks!

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LeoMarius@reddit

I don’t blame her. Organizing those pegs took a long time.

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in-a-microbus@reddit

We owned a Lite Brite! But we were not allowed to play with it because some of the light up pegs were missing.

I was in my 20s when I realized my mother might have OCD.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

Whaaaaatt? I lost those all the time. You could get replacements.

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FuzzyScarf@reddit

I had a Lite Brite but I didn’t like to play with it because once you punched the holes in the paper with the pegs, it made it difficult to recreate that one again. So I was saving the papers for….something?

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Andsoitgoes101@reddit

I played with my friends litebrite because she had all the toys and never really cared. Then we would have sleep overs on her waterbed! Lol 😂

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

This is how we were raised - to save every little thing “in case.” Our parents’ parents lived through the depression. That shit went hard for generations.

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Drearydreamy@reddit

Oh my mom was all about saving everything, including the lite brite papers. I remember getting (fancy to me) Body Shop Products and my mom chewing me out for actually using them. She would tell me to savour what I had. 40 years later, I found so many old products still wrapped in plastic. It was painful to find this stuff and hard not to get resentful.

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BigWoodsCatNappin@reddit

Hello fellow saver of Nice Things. What psych diagnoses do you have? Crushing anxiety over here!

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WellWellWellthennow@reddit

I played with it and loved it.

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Alh840001@reddit

Me too :( I never used my good colored pencils either.

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Aggravating_Cut_9981@reddit

I was many years younger than my sister. I had to use her already-punched papers because she made patterns and I just put the lights anywhere. I hated the bright spots where the holes were, so I just filled those in. Really killed the fun and creativity for me.

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

This was me as well, lol

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wolfysworld@reddit

My mom took mine to my grandparents, where my play-dough toys and easy bake oven also lived. Anything that could make a mess was a grandma’s house toy.
She could not stand any play-dough colors mixing and that was an early indication she had some OCD issues.

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Whsky_Lovers@reddit

Had a light bright and didn't want to use the papers because it would mess them up and kept track of all the pegs.

I was in my 30s when I realized I might have OCD.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

I loved mine.

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thanx_it_has_pockets@reddit

In the late 90s, during a thanksgiving with friends, a holiday toy commercial for Meijer came on TV. One of the toys it advertised was Lite Brite. I announced to the room that I never had one as a kid, and I still wanted one. A few others confessed that they too never had one. At this point, it was decided that we were going to Meijer right now. And we did. 7 lite brites were purchased that night. :)

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downonthefarm77@reddit

I wanted a Lite Brite so much, but my mother would never spend money on something like that (we weren't poor, she was just cheap) after I grew up and got married, my husband's sister got one for her kids and it took every ounce of my willpower not to grab it away from them and run off to play with it myself when we visited them!

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pandorumriver24@reddit

We had one! But we were only allowed to play with it on rainy days. (Southern California so that was rare) and now that I’m older I realize my mom was a genius. That thing kept us quiet and out of her hair for several hours on rainy days

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Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit

I had one and it was my favorite toy.. once I ran out of papers I went rogue with construction paper. I bought my kids (the newer version) one but none of them really had any interest in it and I was sad.

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candyrocket40@reddit

Are you me? All same, including the construction paper DIY and buying one for my kid who wasn’t into it

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RothkoRathbone@reddit

Lol. Does she still hear about how you never got one?

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brngckn@reddit

Definitely!

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mhfc@reddit

We loved ours. Hours were spent playing with Lite Brite. However, two caveats:

Lite Brite pegs and bare feet are not compatible.

Lite Brite pegs easily get trapped in 1970s shag carpet...until your mom finally loosens them with the vacuum cleaner. (RIP hundreds of Lite Brite pegs.)

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TMVtaketheveil888@reddit

Same, I did get one for Christmas, but it was broken when I opened it, we tried to exchange it, they were out. I guess I got something else instead, but I'll never forget Lite Brite.

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SpookyBeck@reddit

I just bought my 4 year old grand son an updated version last month!

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Important-Pain-1734@reddit

Does he play with it? I have a 4 year old granddaughter and I looked at it but wasn't sure if 4 was too young

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SpookyBeck@reddit

Yeah he sticks the pegs in but does not really do designs yet.

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

I had one Never played with it much and my older Sister I think broke it.

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JoyousZephyr@reddit

I'm so sorry. My Lite Brite was one of my all-time favorite toys, and I kinda regret selling it at the garage sale.

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twirlybird11@reddit

They've been modernized, but right now at Lowe's they have some as one of the weird things we get to sell for the holidays. $14.99. I think I may have to aquire one myself.

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_danigirl@reddit

I still have my Lite Brite from 1967. It's still working perfectly, and has been enjoyed by 3 generations so far.

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vaughnbee@reddit

Same! I really, really wanted one and never got it. To make up for my childhood, I bought one for my daughter when she was little. She played with it like 3 times lol

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LeoMarius@reddit

I lived my Lite Brite!

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Classic_Profit8377@reddit

I had a Lite Brite at my grandparents house. My mom wouldn’t let me play with it either because she didn’t want the pegs all over. But I was a careful child. I guess that’s why I, along with the rest of the Lite Brite crew here, have OCD. DO NOT touch anything in my formal dining room! 😂

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Low_Cook_5235@reddit

Sorry. I f-ing loved and played the shit out of my lite brite. My Mom took a tie box (ie a long thin cardboard box) and taped spacers in it so that each color could have its own section. Then we’d make design with it turned off, then when finished turn off the room lights and turn Lite Brite on. Magic!

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Wonderful_Judge115@reddit

Our pegs were kept in an old tea tin.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

It hurt so much to step on the pegs! I loved mine though.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

I still have mine. I pull it out once or twice a year to play with it.

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inkydeeps@reddit

My parents got me one in my early twenties to make it up to me.

And also I made a 8 foot tall scaled up lite brite out of cans to raise cans for a food bank.

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dead-as-a-doornail-@reddit

My sister stuck one of the red pegs up her nose and our doctor made a house call to pull it out. I want to say 1980. I don’t think we even had a Lie Brite tho!

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Euphoric-Proposal-42@reddit

I never had one either!

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OkIntroduction5150@reddit

I had one. One it was awesome. 😊

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Pickles_McBeef@reddit

Same. I wanted one so badly.

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Pro_Ana_Online@reddit

We had a lite brite in the closet for years but my mom wanted to save it to give it as a gift and eventually my cousin got it. #neverforget

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IceNein@reddit

It is never too late to have a perfect childhood. You should get one.

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PowerUser88@reddit

I totally would’ve said yes to that! My sister surprised me last year with an old metal style (like the OG was), Slinky. Favourite silly gift I’ve gotten in years!

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siouxsian@reddit

I can’t remember ever not getting something I really wanted for a holiday or birthday. I wasn’t spoiled and I really never asked for a lot actually. The only 4 toys I remember really wanting were Steve Austin, stretch Armstrong, 2XL and Atari 2600 and I got all of them.

My dad was blue collar and didn’t make much but My Moms mom worked in a factory in a generally technical position as a supervisor and made bank in the 60’s up to the mid 70’s. I’m guessing she contributed to the larger dollar items.

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CarlaQ5@reddit

A Rolling Stones pinball machine!

We had the space and the $, but it never happened. :/

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Big-Significance3604@reddit

Sea Monkeys. Man, I wanted those things. I just knew they were real and we’d be best friends!

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New-Anacansintta@reddit

I bought some around 10 years ago. I had one who just spun in circles…

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

You missed nothing 😂 bought myself some out of the back of a comic book …

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

You missed nothing 😂 bought myself some out of the back of a comic book …

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Background-Goose2523@reddit

Those and Magic Rocks!

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F0xxfyre@reddit

Well, they had the whole family! They were trying to make the child imagination run wild.

When the Snorks TV show was on, my brother turned to me and said "is this the Quisp alien and Sea Monkeys in a sandwich together."

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CherryChipwich@reddit

Baby Alive

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New-Anacansintta@reddit

There are so many of us!

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corvidlover13@reddit

I got one when I was 4, the same year my brother got a pocketknife. I wanted to know what happened to the food and convinced him to help me perform surgery.

I never got another doll, which was fine with me! I would have preferred the pocketknife!

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flygrrrlsc@reddit

Me too

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PrognosticPeriwinkle@reddit

Easy Bake Oven. Baby Alive.

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New-Anacansintta@reddit

My mom told me that Santa said it was a bad gift!

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kitschywoman@reddit

Same re: Baby Alive. My mom said she was gross.

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ToothpickIntheOcean@reddit

She's not wrong. The "food" got all crusty around the mouth and inside.

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jennief158@reddit

OMG, your mom so like my own. She could be surprisingly squeamish and was icked out by a baby that "pooped." She refused on those grounds though it may have been out of our price range as well, I don't remember.

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kitschywoman@reddit

Mine was literally a registered nurse. Who had been pooped on by babies. WHY DENY ME THAT???

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platypus5709@reddit

I had Baby Alive and my older brothers cut it open to see how it worked. We then named it Baby Dead. I will say it was a pretty cool doll!

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LotsaLottie@reddit

I really wanted a doll house. My parents ended up buying one for me one Hanukkah, but they left it in the car while we were out in NYC and their car was broken into and my gifts were all stolen. Never did get a doll house.

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stupid-username-333@reddit

is that what they told you?

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RidgetopDarlin@reddit

This used to happen a LOT in NYC in the 70s and 80s.

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LotsaLottie@reddit

Yeah, but I was with them the night the car was broken into, so I can confirm there were presents in it. Or maybe it’s so long ago, I’m misremembering and they lied. Oh well…

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jeffster1970@reddit

Pretty sure it was the Pac Man digital watch.

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smoked_retarded@reddit

Pitfall

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kCanIGoNow@reddit

I had it on the Philips Videopac/Oddyssey 2!

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musicmidget@reddit

That game was the shizz. So many hours of my childhood spent getting Pitfall Harry through that jungle.

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SnooRevelations3603@reddit

That green inch worm ride on toy.

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New-Anacansintta@reddit

Baby Alive. I never really got over it.

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Great-Tical-Returns@reddit

USS Flagg, Millennium Falcon, AT-AT. I bought the last two for myself as an adult.

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Difficult_Chemist_78@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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No_Equivalent_3834@reddit

The Barbie penthouse. I had the Barbie beach bus, a Barbie convertible and tons of Barbie clothes but never had the penthouse ☹️

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they_are_out_there@reddit

Mongoose, GT, or Redline BMX bike. Now that I’m older, I have GT, Redline, and Race Inc bikes.

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dangerclosecustoms@reddit

I wanted Optimus prime and boba fett. Never got them. But of course my spoiled friend did.

When I became an adult I bought a shit ton. Every toy I ever wanted. Did this for about 15 years until I no longer wanted them.

I sold off half but still have a shit ton of toys still. So much work to Sell them.

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Crivens999@reddit

Big Trak. Still hurts…

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ElGrandeRojo67@reddit

I wanted a real Pachinko machine. Wouldn't settle for a cheap plastic one. I wanted a real one. Never got one. I will though. Mark my words.

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Purple-Haze-11@reddit

Green Machine Big Wheel

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Specialist-Box4677@reddit

Castle Greyskull. Envied my mate who had one. Caved in a few years ago and bought one, for the same price (adjusted for inflation). Look, I just wanted it bad mum, ok?

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WichitaTimelord@reddit

I had Castle Greyskull and Snake Mountain.

My wife says I was upper middle class

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LAgator77@reddit

I lived in a trailer and I somehow had both as well…

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FirstChurchOfBrutus@reddit

My baby sister had one, and she LOVED it.

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Automatic-Stretch-48@reddit

I bought one for a buddy a few years ago in a thrift store…. For about the price they retailed for new lol.

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

My husband still has his…his mom kept it all these years! It is pretty cool old plastic haha.

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WinGoose1015@reddit

My little brother had one and it was awesome! I think I played with it as much as he did and I was about 7 years older than him 🤣

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Mistergardenbear@reddit

Ha I asked for one for the 20th anniversary of my 8th birthday. Didn't get it...

Did get a buttload of He-Man comics that year.

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yeahcoolcoolbro@reddit

THE GI JOE AIRCRAFT CARRIER THAT WAS LIKE 7 FEET LONG

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Dutch1inAZ@reddit

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JZN20Hz@reddit

The Evel Knievel Stunt motorcycle. My sister got one but I didnt 😔

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xAlice_Liddell@reddit

Can I just say that I had a single parent in the late 70’s when I was super young and never felt like we had very little until I looked back. I had so many things in this thread that I bet my mom sacrificed so much to get me. Gotta hug her extra tight next time I see her.

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Icaras01@reddit

Sega Megadrive! Tho if you want an actual toy...it'd be the main guys flying car from M.A.S.K

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Sloan430@reddit

Barbie Dream House.

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TwistedOvaries@reddit

Not a toy but I wanted the box of 64 crayons with the sharpener. My mother didn’t feel I needed it and even though we could afford it she wasn’t going to get it for me. She did buy me expensive dolls I did not want.

I now have one plus a box with over 200 and tons of smaller packs like Colors of the World.

I also wanted Hot Wheels. Not allowed because my “feminist” mother said those are for boys. I made a deal with my brother. He got to use my blanket for a road since it had stripes and I got to play with his cars.

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ToothpickIntheOcean@reddit

Somebody is selling a tin of "crayons" with Warhol colors. I can't remember where or who.

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TwistedOvaries@reddit

I’ll have to see what I can dig up in a search. I’ll buy boxes just to look at the colors. At this point I can’t claim I don’t have the color. lol

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dudetellsthetruth@reddit

A Sirius Modulus robot

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HavBoWilTrvl@reddit

Weebles. Had to make do with Fisher Price.

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trebizondsun@reddit

Weebles are epic. I still look them up on ebay.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down.

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YesYouTA@reddit

We had hand me down Weebles, so not a full set, but was fun.

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WilllbrownSATX@reddit

GI Joe aircraft carrier

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Dutch1inAZ@reddit

I just wanted the skystriker

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affemannen@reddit

My friend got one, he was spoiled and got everything he wanted. So even if i would never get one at least i got to play with all the cool stuff i didn't have, because he had it all. He even had a big toy Millenium Falcon.

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typhoidtimmy@reddit

One kid in my neighborhood had one….

ONE.

We thought he was kid Jesus.

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TampaTeri27@reddit

I do believe I heard some gratitude for your raising. I hope your next surprise is a great one!

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Mistergardenbear@reddit

Wow did you live in my neighborhood? And was his name Ritchie?

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Zestyprotein@reddit

Ronnie

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Mistergardenbear@reddit

Ronnie is close enough to Ritchie, sounds like a right bastard.

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Zestyprotein@reddit

He was a shitbag kid, who grew up into a shirbag adult.

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redbanner1@reddit

Was his name Ben? Did we live on the same block?

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borkborkbork99@reddit

I had a play date with a kid that had the Flagg in his bedroom on the floor. That thing took up the entire floor, and you had to inch your way around it to move from one side of the bedroom to another.

Really cool, but not the most practical play set!

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GrimaceMusically@reddit

Was his name “Greg”?

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Aggravating-Alarm-16@reddit

How do I justify having a 7ft long toy in the living room to my wife?

I got it.

She's always wanted a doll house

If anyone owns a 3d printer

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1449634

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Repulsive_Client_325@reddit

Holy shit. Replied first, scrolled 1/2 a page and found this… yes!

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

My friend blew his up with M80s and then melted it. It was so awesome to witness.

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UncleOdious@reddit

I would have been happy w the hovercraft.

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DDXdesign@reddit

me too! the biggest Joe vehicle I ever got was, sigh, the freakin Bridgelayer.

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Z_Opinionator@reddit

I had that. And the F-14. And the Cobra hydrofoil. And the Chinook. I had literally everything I needed… except the aircraft carrier. I’m still bitter about it.

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DarthGuber@reddit

I had the hovercraft and it was sweet

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Blue_Max1916@reddit

I still have my hovercraft .

And warthog

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TIMBURWOLF@reddit

That one was awesome as well.

Best vehicle I ever had was the SR71

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XaxiusShadowspire@reddit

This is the first answer I expected to see and Reddit delivered.

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WilllbrownSATX@reddit

I feel seen

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

That’s what it’s all about.

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diopsideINcalcite@reddit

You’re the voice of an generation of kids who had to settle for the Cobra Water Mocasin

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lordvanduu@reddit

Delivered

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Kind-Designer-5763@reddit

totally wanted and I think it came with not one but two action figures, but in all honestly we didnt have a whole lot of room for it and I couldnt sleep on top of the thing

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grandmofftalkin@reddit

I came here to say either the aircraft carrier or the Defiant space shuttle/crawler

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FirstUnderscoreLast@reddit

This is the only correct answer and Reddit delivered

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snow1868@reddit

I also expected the USS Flagg to be the top comment.

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crucial_geek@reddit

My mom was the nth caller into a radio station and won $500. She gave me $100, and I bought that aircraft carrier. It was 6' long and practically took up my entire bedroom floor. Honestly, as far as GI Joe went, the aircraft carrier was a let down and I regretted blowing the entire wad on it. It really didn't do anything except sit there; no wheels, didn't float, and one entire side from top to bottom was open. The Hovercraft was far superior.

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Natural_Board@reddit

Goddamn, first post

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BeautifulAvailable80@reddit

I never even seen one lol

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blazeronin@reddit

This is the answer.

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Marjorine22@reddit

And we are done here. So badly wanted one. It was like bigger than I was. Come on, man.

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COVFEFE-4U@reddit

This

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Ok_Robot88@reddit

Holy hell! This was my answer and I never expected to see it here.

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ArtisticDegree3915@reddit

This is what came to mind. A friend had it. His family was pretty wealthy. He had a whole toy room to himself. Nearly every GI Joe and He Man you and I don't remember what else.

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withomps44@reddit

Had a friend who had one. After messing with it I was glad I didn’t have that fucking thing in my room. Haha.

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jtphilbeck@reddit

I earned the A-10 Rattler.

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Funky-Cheese@reddit

I got this one year. My mom was very good at finding deals because there is no way we could have afforded it. I think she lucked out and found it at the Sears outlet (same way I got a Nintendo). Thing is, I never got to use it. It was too big and so it stayed in the box in the garage. It was kind of tortuous because I had this holy grail of a toy but couldn’t play with it. I did pull out the jet and action figure it came with though, and played with those. I also got the Cobra Command base the same way, but it suffered the same fate. Ultimately my mother wanted to give us lots of toys because she went without as a child. We were too poor to be spoiled proper, but she sure tried.

I did know one other kid who had the aircraft carrier. It was set up in his room but literally took up all the usable space so it was kinda dumb. Truth be told, I don’t think any of y’all missed out on not getting the aircraft carrier. It was a monkey’s paw wish of a toy.

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Prestigious-Box-6492@reddit

Got mine and my nephews have it. Was literally hours on Xmas day doing decals.

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jskisrq@reddit

I still have mine. I saved it for my kids

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Icy_Equipment_953@reddit

Bless your soul, as a kid of a gen x’er that LOVES transformers I would absolutely adore a metroplex (or any old transformer). My dad made me watch the 1984 cartoon instead of modern kids show and I thinks its the best decision made in my childhood

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SelectPresentation59@reddit

Exactly what I wanted to say too. 😆 damn there are a bunch of us disappointed kids.

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Financial_Coach4760@reddit

You beat me to this one. I wanted that thing so badly. They had one on display at the KB toy shop in the mall. God that thing was sweat

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JulzVern@reddit

This 1000%. My brother and I always remind our mom how incomplete our childhood was because we never got one. A few years ago she came across 2 USS Saratoga’s at a garage sale and gave them to us for Christmas. Well played on her part but we still remind her it doesn’t count plus can’t make up for lost childhood time.

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Anansi3@reddit

This was my answer too. My cousins had it though and it was fucking amazing. It was so sturdy that I could lay down on it.

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UnitedLink4545@reddit

Hell yes!

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WangDoodleTrifecta@reddit

Fuck right off the bat

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odinsbois@reddit

Same

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HandBananan@reddit

I only collected the COBRA figures and vehicles. They looked so much more badass.

One of my childhood friends had the carrier. I wasn't impressed. It's so huge and just sits there.

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mukwah@reddit

My parents did not allow the gi Joe war stuff. But I could have any toy gun I wanted. Was weird.

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baconcheeseburgarian@reddit

This!

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bobroscopcoltrane@reddit

My buddy Jim had that and we bust his ass relentlessly for it.

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Stinkydadman@reddit

I feel like 99% of men our age are gonna have the same answe

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CaptnInsaino101@reddit

Yup. I inherited almost all of the Joe toys from my siblings, but never had the carrier.

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jastanko@reddit

I remember staring at that page in the Sears Christmas catalog for hours just dreaming about it…

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veRGe1421@reddit

I just saw one unopened for $50k on eBay. Wtf

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MoveToSafety@reddit

And a dedicated bathtub.

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soonerpgh@reddit

Just about any G.I. Joe vehicle was on my "most wanted" list. The aircraft carrier probably wouldn't have fit in my room.

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Positive-Attempt-435@reddit

I never even got to see one in real life. All my friends were as poor as me.

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lifegoals45@reddit

Came here just to say this

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MNUFC-Uber_Alles@reddit

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116028880794?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=FS_cydhuSmO&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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spackletr0n@reddit

There’s an episode of Comic Book Men where one of the hosts gets a chance to buy one and build it.

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Cake_Donut1301@reddit

Ok I never had one but a kid from school did. It was kind of underwhelming because it didn’t move or anything. It was more of a display case than an actual toy.

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EMDWatson@reddit

This

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Awesome_hospital@reddit

I still have mine. It's in pretty rough shape though.

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Weatherbeaster1993@reddit

Yep ONE kid I knew had that shit! I was so jealous. My man had a whole room of the house devoted exclusively to his GI JOE stuff and his Mom was hot

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Snortyclaus@reddit

Well, now I know you weren’t talking about me.

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Snortyclaus@reddit

I had it, was the coolest thing ever. Was mine for a glorious 3 years. My parents business went under and we had to sell the house and all my toys that wouldn’t fit in the much smaller space that we had to move to (in grandparents basement). I was very fortunate but man, that yard sale was really tough.

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listenwithoutdemands@reddit

Came her eto say this. Had a buddy that had it and the thing was huge.

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Middle_Chain_544@reddit

Yes!

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chapaj@reddit

This

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Savage_hero@reddit

You beat me to it. Knew 1 kid who had it

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MaximumPear1@reddit

Came here to say this. I told a friend I was getting one, he told his mom, who told my mom, and I was grounded for a week for lying. Lol

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wierdomc@reddit

This is the only answer if you are a boy

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elbyl@reddit

This is the only answer

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Toyworldstar@reddit

Got one as an adult and it was worth the wait.

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ThatCoupleYou@reddit

My brother got one for Christmas. And it went back to Walmart the next day they were open. It was too big for our bedroom.

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FanDorph@reddit

I got that one but didn't get any star wars stuff. I had a terrible child hood!

On a side note, in my 9 year mind, putting baking soda and water in the deck cannons would produce a "poof" didn't work though just made a mess.

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Bubbly_Positive_339@reddit

This is the correct answer and I never ever saw one. I didn’t think they existed.

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Donmexico666@reddit

Friend had cobra lair and the aircraft carrier.. Family still lacked live so perfect gen x

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IceWarm1980@reddit

I remember reading a book about toys from that era. The writers joked that a kid would have to choose to have this or a bed because the thing was massive.

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DunkinEgg@reddit

Yep. My cousin had it. Damn thing took up so much space.

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naazzttyy@reddit

🏆 for the one and only true answer

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JJDiet76@reddit

I had to go with my grandmother to Toys R Us to show her what it was so she could buy it for my cousin. She got me a pack of baseball cards

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TIMBURWOLF@reddit

Came here to say this exact thing.

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steamOne@reddit

Came here to say exactly this

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Facelesspirit@reddit

This was the top comment. No need to read further.

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pickleperfect@reddit

The USS Flagg for those who don't know.

I wasn't lucky enough to get that but my brother and I did get The Command Center

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jimb575@reddit

I knew two kids who had one. I’m from Rhode Island. One of the kids dad worked for Hasbro. The other was just spoiled…

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Cascade-Regret@reddit

I had one! The USS Flag! Also had the SR-71.

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

This has got to be the most common answer. Suggested retail on the thing was already $110, but no one could find the thing for less than $200, which was a princely sum back then.

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EmirikolChaotic@reddit

I still get envious when I see pictures of this monster.

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pegboy4691@reddit

Amazing. I came here to see this and it was the first item on the list.

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Apprehensive_Glove_1@reddit

This. Wanted it so badly. Damn near bought it at 25 years old in an antique store but decided against it.

Now I'm addicted to Lego, so maybe that would have been the more financially safe move.

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mhoner@reddit

I tried making one out of wood scraps we had. It was awesome. But never made it out of the basement.

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evilpercy@reddit

Still do not know why lego has not re released this.

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Dio-lated1@reddit

Came here to say this.

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SettleDownAlready@reddit

My cousin got that, only child and all of the big transformers like Metroplex.

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creeva@reddit

Always this

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pondo13@reddit

This, this is the one.

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JJGIII-@reddit

I came to say exactly this.

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WilllbrownSATX@reddit

Wanna go halfsies on one I found on eBay?

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JJGIII-@reddit

😂😂😂….well, yeah.

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sickiesusan@reddit

I wanted ‘Girls World’ so badly! It was a plastic head of a girl and had make up that you could put on the dummy. I understand why my parents thought it inappropriate. But did it have to be so serious all the time?

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Armitage_Soulshroude@reddit

Power wheel and a Teddy Rukspin.

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Little_Dawg_1988@reddit

Easy Bake Oven.

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furie1335@reddit

The USS Flagg

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HURTBOTPEGASUS9@reddit

Any G1 Transformers.

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motormouth08@reddit

An easy bake oven. I asked for one for years and never got it. At my bridal shower, my mom wrapped one as a joke (it was something she bought for a niece's birthday) but I got so excited because I thought it really was for me that she let me keep it and bought another one for my niece.

Turns out that easy bake ovens suck. I have been married for 24 years, and I think the brownies are almost done.

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Altruistic-Target-67@reddit

I really wanted one as a little girl, but my mother straight up told me that it would take forever to cook anything with a lightbulb, and then her and my grandmother taught me to use the oven and the stove. I said the same thing to my daughters and now they can both cook too. Sometimes I even get random cookies midweek! 😊

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LastAcrossFinishHare@reddit

I was so excited when I opened my easy bake oven as a child. Then my mom never had time to help me open and use it and didn’t want me playing with it on my own. I’d rather not have gotten it.

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Weird-Response-1722@reddit

Every year I circled and starred the heck out of that thing in the Sears catalog and never got it. My niece, who was only a few years younger and lived with us at the time, also wanted it and my mom did not get it for her either. As an adult, my niece made sure to buy it for her own daughter because regrets.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

I got a Holly Hobby oven as a kid, but never used it because my mom made my grandma take it back. I think she thought I was too young for it. I bought one for my daughter and it was fun using it with her, until you have to buy more mixes for it all the time. We saw a cookbook for the Easy Bake oven, but it was more geared towards adults and has some interesting recipes in it.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

I tried to make an artichoke in mine 😂 cooked it under that light bulb for 2 days …

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LydiaBrunch@reddit

My mom thought they were a waste of money and taught me to bake in the real oven instead. I was annoyed but she was totally right.

I bought one at a thrift store as an adult. It sucked. It barely warmed dough.

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apearlmae@reddit

My mom always finished mine off in the oven because it took so long.

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Odd_Campaign_307@reddit

That's better than what happened to my cousin's. Hers got so hot it melted. It was a good thing their contractor hadn't installed their new flooring or the house would've burned down. I bet the scorch marks are still there under the tiles.

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grumpybitch65@reddit

So my mom was right! She never let me have one because she was afraid the light bulb would burn the house down!

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KrispyAvocado@reddit

This was what i was looking for! I really wanted that!

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Decent_Ad9760@reddit

Barbie town house , dream house, baby alive,

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Lightarcfox@reddit

I think I was the only kid in my school without a Transformer or He-man. But I had GI Joe and WWF so my tears were saved.

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GrassachusettsOG@reddit

GI Joe USS Flagg

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SquirrelFun1587@reddit

Ken doll to play with Barbie. I had my brother’s Star Trek dolls instead. Barbie dated Spock in sad childhood haha.

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thanx_it_has_pockets@reddit

Mine dated Luke Skywalker

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Mine dated GI Joe.

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MN-Glump@reddit

Castle Greyskull

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Zestyclose_Wing_1898@reddit

Green slime in a can. Mom said no because it would get in the shag carpet. Slime with worms ? Dad said go play in the dirt and get worms for free. Yeah😂

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Multiverse_Money@reddit

Proper attachment to other humans

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SchuckTales@reddit

Lawn darts

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Aggravating_Onion300@reddit

I've never owned any, but I've been told they get played with, like, once.

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Strong-Fill1425@reddit

Steve Austin Rocket Ship. I got it for Xmas but it was missing parts when we went to exchange it they were sold out. That was it, never saw one again…

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KelsarLabs@reddit

Stretch Armstrong.

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Sufficient_Space8484@reddit

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thanx_it_has_pockets@reddit

I will say that this is one of the few toys from my childhood that actually lived up to the hype. We played with that thing for hours.

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FirstChurchOfBrutus@reddit

Oh, I had this, and it was fun AF.

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NiteBloomer@reddit

My brother got one and Evel's head popped off all the time. Lol

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camelslikesand@reddit

They sell these now. I got one a couple years ago, giving it to the grandson for Xmas. Favorite toy as a kid, run over by a car the ONE time I let my neighbor give it a go. Still fun today.

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second_tyme@reddit

Definitely one of my favorite toys as a child. That thing would take a beating!

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crobertdillon@reddit

I wanted the stunt cycle but received the crash car instead. Not a happy camper that year - the crash car was hard to put back together

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bmiller218@reddit

I had both :)

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

Show-off. (Just kidding 🤣

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UsedCan508@reddit

My brother had one of these back in the 70s and funny enough in the 80s. I used to hang around Evel Knievel and party at his house in Arizona Arizona.😂😂😂

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Alh840001@reddit

That was the most fun toy ever! I still have the full costume and everything last time I saw it. It was well loved and used.

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Wm_of_Orange@reddit

I had the one that made sparks. My favorite toy.

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snugglebandit@reddit

This was one of the very few cool toys my parents bought me and my mom says that at the time I kept saying over and over how I couldn't believe they actually did it. I have a recently made one now but I still have the original Evel action figure with wires sticking out of the arms and a threadbare outfit.

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Honest-Western1042@reddit

I still have Evel, but sadly no motorcycle

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therepairman@reddit

I had one of these. At the time my older sister was a bully. So I wound that thing up as fast as it would go and stuck it in her waist length hair. Got my ass beat. Worth it.

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Sexy_bi_mom_friend@reddit

Oooo my sister and I had one of these each! They were so awesome!

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badgerpunk@reddit

One of my earliest memories is getting this for Christmas. 1976, I think? It was the coolest.

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OffspringOfHoyle@reddit

I didn’t get one, but this Christmas my nephew is! He has no clue about Evel Knievel. He will learn.

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La_Mano_Cornuta@reddit

Had one, jumped many a Tonka truck in the driveway during summer.

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AntArmyof1@reddit

WWF Wrestling Ring

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spicy1sweet@reddit

Mr. Potato Head :(

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MisterEvilBreakfast@reddit

Castle Greyskull

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Usuallyinmygarden@reddit

Barbie dream house!

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Sherbo1965@reddit

And Easy Bake Oven.

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MoggyBee@reddit

Me too!!

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Former_Balance8473@reddit

I had a neighbour with all the solid-metal ships and cars from Thunderbirds. I wanted them as hard as anything I've ever wanted in my whole life.

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

Basically any rock record. My parents took them away if an Aunt gave me any. Yes, I'm still bitter. Fuck religious cults. It's not like I wasn't at my friend marks house listening to his Kiss records ffs.

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a_passionate_man@reddit

Who knows the Playmobil Pirates Ship? I wanted it so badly. Year after year it landed on the top spot of my Christmas wishlist but I never got it.

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divinerebel@reddit

I never felt like that, bc there were a bunch of kids on my neighborhood. Sometimes, I can't even remember who owned what toy- we got to play with everything!

I would have moments where I wanted like the Barbie Townhouse, but tbh, if I had it, I wouldn't have played with it much. It was better to go play Barbies at Kirsten's house- she had all the Barbie goods and never lost a shoe!

I wanted a Green Machine, but I got to use my older brother's when he wasn't around. I wanted a pool, but Mark across the street had one, and so did my cousins. I got a lot of my own toys. No LEGO, bc my mom didn't want to be picking them all over the house, but that's ok. We all played LEGO at Craig's house.

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ClassicOutrageous447@reddit

Simon and Merlin

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Background-Goose2523@reddit

I loved Merlin!!

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fsutrill@reddit

Merlin and Split Second and all those handheld games.

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Beauphedes_Knutz@reddit

The Green Machine was the first toy I Jonesed for. Then it was the GI Joe aircraft carrier, the USS Flagg. From there it was an NES.

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dacutty@reddit

The game Operation. Also, never got that black and chrome Huffy BMX bike.

Never did get the golden license plate in the Honey Combs to go on a shopping spree at Toys R Us.

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Repulsive_Client_325@reddit

The millenium falcon.

Also, the GI joe aircraft carrier.

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LeLaBoBo@reddit

Armitron

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GrumpySnarf@reddit

Castle Grayskull set.

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boymom9295@reddit

Lite Bright. I did buy one for “my kids”. Ended up playing with it more than they did!

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riverjewel@reddit

I really wanted a Rainbow Brite doll, and more than one My little pony and Care Bear.

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fascistreddit1@reddit

Omnibot

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fsutrill@reddit

The game of Mousetrap.

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Remarkable-Car5714@reddit

Romper Stompers! My dad (silent gen) made homemade ones from coffee cans and rope

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Bouche_Audi_Shyla@reddit

Mine, too. My brother was fine on them, but I always fell.

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ChroniclyCurly@reddit

A Spirograph.

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fsutrill@reddit

The smell of ballpoint ink is etched in my brain…

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Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit

for some reason I remember my dad liking my spirograph much more than I did haha.. I used to think he was amazing because he used ballpoint pens with it. I wish I could have a real one now.

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Bouche_Audi_Shyla@reddit

You can still get the real ones on eBay.

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Magerimoje@reddit

They still make them. I bought one for my kids last Christmas

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Bobloblaw2066@reddit

I bought one off eBay years ago for my daughters. It’s out at the cabin collecting dust now.

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m24b77@reddit

We played with a really old set that was at my grandparents’ place.

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KrispyAvocado@reddit

I always wanted that too!

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OsaPolar@reddit

My family resentment that I will take to my grave is that my older sister got a Spirograph while I was stuck with a Spirotot, it's dumbed down little kid version. 😤

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karen1676@reddit

I had one, it was one of my favorite things to play with using different colored pens.

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necessaryfarts@reddit

I always wanted this in the worst way. I realized only a couple of years ago I was a grown-ass lady and could buy one, and did!

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primitive_thisness@reddit

They still make them!

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theforkofdamocles@reddit

There’s a guy on TikTok that just does Spirograph drawings.

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Squigglepig52@reddit

I bought one a couple years ago, lol.

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Picmover@reddit

GI Joe USS Flagg

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lateballoon@reddit

Any name brand doll/stuffed animal, especially A Glow Worm or a Care Bear. I had a knock off Cabbage Patch doll but I did get a real Gem doll. She was totally outrageous, obviously.

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Astrochef12@reddit

I had transformers on my Xmas list, my grandfather called my mother... "What voltage does he need?"

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Bouche_Audi_Shyla@reddit

He tried!

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oddreplica@reddit

ah! this is great - I laughed so loudly and abruptly I startled myself

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Mediocre-Tap-4825@reddit

Millennium Falcon. I think it was $149. I remember it being huge- and it could fit all of my Star Wars characters.

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wesweslaco@reddit

Yes, the Millenium Falcon was awesome! I rarely got to see one in person. But I had the Death Star.

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gl2w6re@reddit

This Barbie Dream House

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ArrowOfTime71@reddit

Tamiya Hot Shot

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CalmChestnut@reddit

Derry Derring, female version of Evel Knievel motorcycle stunt windup toy, but I really did enjoy the Sunshine Family I received instead

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ShitShowcase@reddit

255 Computer Command

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Virtual_Bug5486@reddit

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FuturamaRama7@reddit

Cozy Coupe.

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Embarrassed_Music910@reddit

A pair of real roller skates.

So now, I have a lot of roller skates lol.

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brianwhite12@reddit

The U-Drive-It

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prudent-nebula3361@reddit

A Mongoose bicycle.

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pdm2002@reddit

Crayon play cosmetics (late 70s, early 80s)

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m0nkeypox@reddit

I did not have toys when I was a kid. After school and on weekends, I sold lemons on a street corner.

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FreshResult5684@reddit

Suzy shopping cart

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JellybeanFernandez@reddit

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Beginning-Mud9676@reddit

Oh man. A vacuum machine motor? Boyslife mag? I was so curious.

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JellybeanFernandez@reddit

I knew it was black magic, and I knew I needed it!

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hemmingnorthcutt@reddit

THIS 100%

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wyohman@reddit

Big Trak

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thejake1973@reddit

Tamiya Hornet. I ended up with the Striker instead and it was garbage.

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wisdombabies@reddit

Optimus Prime!! I begged for several years in a row and I was certain that I would get him for Christmas but ended up receiving “Poochie” instead. I think my parents were concerned that I wanted a “boy toy”. I ended up with an unhealthy obsession with Optimus and now have him tattooed on me!

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Alice_600@reddit

Hi i am a fellow female transformer fan and have you seen the new optimus primes that they got out now and the new figures and the new movie?

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SunshineofMyLyfetime@reddit

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bananachow@reddit

Fisher Price gas pump. I mention it every Christmas. I’m still salty about it.

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Chateaudelait@reddit

We had the Parking Garage with the helicopter landing pad, multi story car park and elevator for the cars. It was a shared gift between my 3 siblings and I and we danced and cheered we were so happy to have it. We played with it every day and never fought while we played with it. It was our best holiday gift of all time.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

I had the school house, and one that was a house, but was only one level. We had the parking garage at the daycare center I went to, though. Those Fisher Price toys must have been made with siblings in mind, because they were so easy to share with other kids, but you could play by yourself, too.

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ASTERnaught@reddit

I remember playing with that toy. Thanks for describing it. That memory hasn’t surfaced in probably 45 years. Huh.

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Chateaudelait@reddit

3 girls and we had Tonka Trucks also. The parking garage brought us so much joy. It had a lift for the cars, a petrol pump and a car elevator. We designated a day where parking was free of charge because we wanted to do something for the community. 😀 And once we decided the helicopter landing pad landing was a medivac so we didn’t charge for that either. We were pretty benevolent and still are.

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Lou_Mennatti@reddit

Original Lasertag for me. I even considered shoplifting a set at the mall on multiple occasions, but luckily I would always chicken out.

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KiKiSStarr@reddit

All of the Star Wars toys and an Easy Bake oven. I realize now why my mother always refused to buy an Easy Bake oven when I bought my daughter one. Eww.

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AdministrativeFlan62@reddit

Skateboard

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Melissaschwart@reddit

Cabbage patch doll

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jaredjc@reddit

Optimus prime.

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MonsterKidRadio@reddit

For me, it was this:

https://youtu.be/P9QMEto4mZs?si=1ayoBe84ig3JamKI

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meta-abuse@reddit

Shogun Warriors

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

My brother had either a Raydeen or Mazinger.... it's been aaaaaggggges since I've even thought about Shogun Warriors!

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meridianbobcat9@reddit

Yes! I always wanted the Gai King

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Lopsided-Work9989@reddit

I had the Gaiking Shogun warrior.

My brothers had Raydeen and Dragun Shogun Warriors

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skeebawler4@reddit

they were the heat!!

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Rootin-Tootin-Newton@reddit

Stretch Armstrong

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pinotJD@reddit

I was too old for a furby, but as a linguist, I was dying to get one. Even to this day I drop hints and people think I’m hilarious and vintage.

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Tasunka_Witko@reddit

Pretty much all GI Joe toys. I was able to get a few figures, but the vehicles were a no go.

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Ok_Huckleberry_45@reddit

Barbie motorhome

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lichahere@reddit

Lite Bright

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mr_potrzebie@reddit

I wanted this so bad when I was a kid.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Creepy!

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Ravenonthewall@reddit

Digger the dog🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️. Why I have NO idea, but I still remember to this day the name of that toy. LOL

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Florianemory@reddit

The kit where you had moulds to make monsters like Frankenstein monster or the wolf man.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Oh man!!! I wanted one sooo bad

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Mud-Room-33@reddit

were they those rubbery ones? My best friend had something like that which made spiders and stuff, we loved it so much.

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VoodooKittyS197@reddit

Aw yeah!

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Early_Tax_9812@reddit

Visionaries!

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KatJen76@reddit

I was a huge dollhouse lover. In my town, there used to be a store called The Doll and Dollhouse Shop, and its offerings were in stark contrast to the utilitarian name. I remember it as a true house of marvels. I don't think the things in there were exactly toys, but holy fuck did I want every single thing in that store. The three-story Queen Anne style dollhouse mansions. The little china service for 30. The stained glass lamps that actually work. The cats. Just wall to wall cool.stuff.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

One time, my 6th grade teacher took me to a dollhouse store that had all these wonderful dollhouses and miniatures. She knew I loved miniatures and making little things like that, so it was a real treat seeing it.

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frumperbell@reddit

I wanted one so bad. Instead I got a Barbie Dreamhouse. I can just hear my dad at Toys R Us going "Dollhouse, Dreamhouse, same fucking thing".

I'm not saying I condone Debbie Jallinsky's actions... but I "understand*.

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AbjectPromotion4833@reddit

I’m into miniatures. I’m in Savannah and drove down to Florida to pick up a Victorian that’s in great condition, but needs some styling. I packed it into my VW Beetle. I’m hauling that thing with me when I move back to the West Coast next year. There’s lots of us out here. Join the dollhouse sub here. Lots of accounts on fb & instagram too. I browse a lot of Pinterest too.

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WritingRidingRunner@reddit

I went through a dollhouse obsession, too! I still have a few little accessories from our local dollhouse store (although nothing quite on that level).

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BandOfBroskis@reddit

Green machine

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freemindjames@reddit

Frogger Game Watch

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StardustSue@reddit

Ah jeez!! I was born in 1971, and I have no idea how I missed this! Frogger was by far my favorite and everything! NOW I want one!!

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charlie-claws@reddit

I had one, sad to say it wasn’t easy to play and died in a couple of months

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BananoVampire@reddit

yo, that's amazing!

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MommaEarth@reddit

I have a Pac Man watch like that to this day!

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NassCeary@reddit

Operation. I'm still convinced that I would have had much better hand-eye coordination if I'd had it.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Nope. I can attest to the fact that it didn’t help. Bzzzzttt! Bzzzzttt! You just killed the patient again …

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CWhisper@reddit

A Green Machine

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SouthernCategory9600@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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Dirt_Girl_1269@reddit

Cabbage patch kid

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CharlotteTypingGuy@reddit

Godzilla with the flying fist. Also Rock em Sock em Robots.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

My mom wouldn’t let me have rock em sock em robots because she said it promoted violence 😖

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crucial_geek@reddit

Toys R Us used to sell a motorized ride on train, I think Little Tikes or something like that. I really wanted one, and a bunch of track. I fantasized about laying out miles of track and riding the train around all day.

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Small_Tiger_1539@reddit

Barbie Dreamhouse. Wanted that so damn badly.

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Happy_Armadillo_553@reddit

The Barbie perfume maker

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EpicDeepDave@reddit

Big Trak, might be UK specific, kind of a programmable tank. You could plot a route around your house and it would deliver a beer to your Dad if you bought the optional trailer module and programmed it right. Probably less exciting than I imagined but ahead of its time.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

U.S. and my brother got one for Christmas. It was fun for a while. It took a lot of batteries, though so that limited our playtime as well.

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mywomanisagoddess@reddit

You didn't miss much. It was as advertised but the novelty wore of real quick. I felt bad for asking for it and then not using it as much as I should have.

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theforkofdamocles@reddit

Same. I practically begged for it one year and we were poor. I put in some codes and watched it roam around, but after not long, I was bored of its slow speed, and figured I needed the trailer for real fun. 🙄

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mywomanisagoddess@reddit

Thank you parents! I did years later.

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zeprfrew@reddit

That's it. I could not remember the name. I wanted one so much. I imagine now the novelty would have worn off fairly quickly had I had one.

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bmiller218@reddit

I had a corvette a few years later that was the same idea. Problem is as the batteries died down the paths got shorter and it didn't work.

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catfish206@reddit

I had one of these too! Same for me with the battery life, it was terrible. Here's a video of one in action.

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z44212@reddit

Big Trak was a great toy, ngl.

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OlDirtyBassinet@reddit

I’m in the US and i was painfully jealous of my neighbor’s Big Trak. The same neighbor also had a Starbird Avenger, which I also coveted.

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therepairman@reddit

I had both of those. They were the last of my great Christmas presents and they were pretty awesome. It was pretty much clothes and socks after that year.

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swisstype@reddit

Had one, in USA. It was pretty cool.

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Bobloblaw2066@reddit

I had one too (Canadian). It ate batteries like me downing Bottlecaps candy. We couldn’t afford to keep replacing the batteries so it wasn’t used a ton after that. I saw one in a vintage shop here in my city. And it had the trailer as well. Both even had the boxes. I watched it sit for a long time as the price fell. Couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger even though I could afford it. Comfortably retired but it am worried it would be a disappointment if I played with it again.

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jenilyntx1@reddit

we loved ours! the cats did not

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Suitable-Gap-8789@reddit

I actually still have mine, and it works. Didn't get the trailer...

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gloomflume@reddit

A Big Wheel. I eventually found one at the local dump, but was a bit too big for it by then.

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Stardusk_89@reddit

The Barbie head. I wanted it so bad.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

I had this!!! I gave her a haircut and drag queen makeup 😂

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User47B@reddit

Me too! I desperately wanted that thing …

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bottle_of_bees@reddit

I had the Barbie head and felt stupid because I couldn’t come up with any creative hairstyles. I got it for my birthday in 6th grade and thought about it all day long, then got home from school and it was like that scene at the end of The Graduate where they look at each other like “OK… what are we supposed to do now? WHY DID WE WANT THIS?”

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bunkie18@reddit

Barbie dream house.

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BamaZaddy@reddit

A rock tumbler.

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Sko0byD@reddit

Atari 2600 console, remembered playing Asteroid on a friend's. Poor family, pretty sure not gonna get it at the time. Eventually spent my own money for a Sony PS II, GranTurismo is way more better anyway

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Sea-End-4841@reddit

Atari 2600

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onesummernight-@reddit

Atari.

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psionic1@reddit

The Green Machine. It was the Big Wheel on steroids in the 70s.

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mndsm79@reddit

I never had a big wheel. Specifically the knight rider one.

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LeibolmaiBarsh@reddit

I had one. Drove it forever. Even after real bike came along I handdrilled a wooden shield and battering ram on it to knock over a neighborhood bully snow fort. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) a friend squealed about my plan and the neighborhd bully didn't make the fort that year.

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

Dude this is a sick memory. 👍🏼

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LastAcrossFinishHare@reddit

My mom hated how loud those bikes were and refused to get us one. At least I had a regular bicycle.

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

Dude same

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FuzzyScarf@reddit

My mom hated the clicky noise they made so she broke the clicker thing on the back wheel of our big wheels.

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avidinha@reddit

I had a Dukes of Hazard big wheel. The neighbor kids broke it in half.

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mossbrooke@reddit

A Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle.

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DistributionDizzy241@reddit

You'll shoot your eye out...

How am I the first to reply to this properly???

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bobthenob1989@reddit

Old Blue

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IdolL0v3r@reddit

The Constructicons Transformers toys. They combine together to form a giant robot named Devastator.

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Dan-68@reddit

An RC car.

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rockjones@reddit

Hell yeah I wanted this dude!

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CaptainSnarkyPants@reddit

Oh heck that was my first one! I got cars because dad was deeep into RC planes. And I was an only.

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an_on_y_mis@reddit

Oh me too

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OkIntroduction5150@reddit

Same! But I never got one since I was a girl.

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dofrogsbite@reddit

Big wheel.

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Gooncookies@reddit

Snoopy snow cone machine

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Feeling-Ad-2490@reddit

(He-Man) The Fright Zone.

The commercials really sold it.

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itchynipz@reddit

Linda Lovelace

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QueenPeggyOlsen@reddit

It's not a toy, but I would like an old-school Trapper Keeper.

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Sufficient_Video97@reddit

Walmart had them this year. I couldn't persuade my daughter....🤣

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ElvisFlab@reddit

They’re making them again, and you deserve one.

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wishmachine007@reddit

You can still get them! They actually make new special edition ones that come with slap bracelets! I got one a couple of years ago with a unicorn on it to relive my younger, more optimistic days 💜

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LemonBumblebee@reddit

I had one in high school. Haven’t thought of this in years!

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Goldbera1@reddit

I think the brand of sled was kombi? It had three skis and the front one could steer. Had to settle for an aluminum toboggan …

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Haunting_Banana_8478@reddit

Max ray centurion

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BootyMcSqueak@reddit

I always wanted one of those miniature Pac Man arcade consoles. I know they sell them now, but it’s just not the same desire as when I was a kid.

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A_Fox_Named_Mulder@reddit

The 1975 Ballerina Barbie, & the original Strawberry Shortcake Berry Happy Home doll house.

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jkhamme@reddit

Barbie Dream House

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joecarter93@reddit

A Power Wheels Jeep. When I showed one to my parents in the Wish Book and said I wanted one , they laughed at me (laughed at the dreams of their own son!) and flat out told me it was too expensive and I was never getting one. At least they did do a good job of keeping my expectations in check as a kid, I guess.

I bought my oldest son one when he was three though to make up for me not having one. Tbf though they were pretty expensive in the 80’s. They were only slightly cheaper than they are now and that’s before inflation.

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ZoeyPorg1908@reddit

The Barbie Dream House with all the accessories. I can still see it in the Sears Catalog.

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neon_tictac@reddit

That Nintendo glove 🧤

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PrestigiousWriter369@reddit

A Cabbage Patch Kid My mom thought I, at 12-13, was too old for one. Stereotypically she was probably right, but I wanted one anyway.

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JeezusSqueezus@reddit

Stretch Armstrong

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SavageArtist9999@reddit

Don’t Break The Ice

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Tex_1230@reddit

Spirograph. We had one at school and I fucking begged my mom for one. She thought it was stupid.

And the Lego Death Star.

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InternationalDuck879@reddit

A trampoline.

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Drearydreamy@reddit

I always wanted the family treehouse. My mom said I didnt need one, as the neighbours (with the 4 kids) had one. I loved it so much and even had dreams about it.

Family tree House

My gf gave me her old one when I had my kids. They were uninterested. I go visit the treehouse once in awhile and admire it.

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winoandiknow1985@reddit

Barbie’s 3-story dream house. My cousin had one but she was spoiled!

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Yojimbo78@reddit

My Pet Monster.

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guitarsean@reddit

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Life-Finding5331@reddit

I actually got one of these.

It still worked years later.

It was pretty incredible for the time. I particularly enjoyed the serving tray with rotating slots, and the programmable route feature.

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grandmofftalkin@reddit

My brother got one of these it was broken and stuffed in a closet after three months

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Adventurous_Angle632@reddit

I really wanted a Sooty puppet. Found one left when I was 5, had his wand, I went to find mum to show her and ask to buy it and by that time it was gone and I was so upset.... Crushed! I Found one 30 years later and had to fill that hole in my childhood. Glad I did because there was Sweep too and he was my favourite.

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BornTry5923@reddit

A power wheels car 😥

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Positive-Froyo-1732@reddit

Any Play-Doh set. Mom never let us have Play-Doh.

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Icy-Bedroom9380@reddit

My mom hated play-doh. If we ever got some as a present, it was gone after 1 play. The top always managed to not stay on properly and it would dry out.

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k3stl@reddit

We had a recipe for homemade play-doh. I just remember it had a lot of salt in it..

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YesYouTA@reddit

1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup water, 1 tsp. Cornstarch, heat in a pan altogether until it thickens, schlock it out on foil so it can cool. We added food coloring then.

There are better recipes, but yeah… “we can make play doh at home” that will turn rock hard in a day.

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Positive-Froyo-1732@reddit

Yes! Mom was fine with salt dough, as long as it wasn't colored. She was convinced we'd grind colored Play-Doh into the carpets and permanently stain them. 😭

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HurtsCauseItMatters@reddit

Does saving my own money so that I could buy the thing that mom and dad wouldn't buy me count?

If so, My NES. I got most of the money from a garage sale but some of it was chores or just saved up allowance.

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Troutmandoo@reddit

I wanted an erector set and a Stretch Armstrong. Got neither.

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natedogjulian@reddit

All of them. My parents were immigrant. We were poor af

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roadsterdoc@reddit

Feel you. I was always amazed how other kids had all the toys I saw on television commercials.

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SoWest2021@reddit

Barbie Dream House

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park2023mcca@reddit

I had an Atari, my best friend had the Intellivision and I was envious.

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Salty-Pack-4165@reddit

1st gen Honda Civic hatchback .

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simianlovedoc@reddit

My first car was a silver 1982 Honda Civic 1500 GL. I loved that car.

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Background-Goose2523@reddit

My first car was a 1976 Honda Civic. Bought it in 1985 with 69k miles on it. Kick myself all the time for not keeping it.

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DrEnter@reddit

We had a 1975. I think that was technically 2nd Gen, but it was the first widely available in the U.S. My dad ended-up buying second one a couple years later. He loved those cars. I later owned a 1980, then an 85’ CRX. I loved that CRX. Put damn near 300,000 miles on it before I sold it to a friend in 2000. He put another 100k on it.

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ShadowDancerMar2023@reddit

Not 1st Gen but I had a 1988 fire engine red Honda hatchback 5 on the floor. I freaking loved that car and drove it over 200K, bashed in right passenger door. Had my first child in 93 and my parents told me that Cherry Bomb had to go. I miss that car

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stretchxray@reddit

Karate lessons.

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alkaidkoolaid@reddit

A Cabbage Patch Doll. A goddamned real one. My mom bought me a fake one, I pierced its ears and then left it for dead.

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Such_Confusion_1034@reddit

GI Joe Sgt Slaughter tank thing. And the headquarters set too! Oh, and of course... The Aircraft Carrier!

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rikemomo@reddit

green machine; colecovision; the race cars that let you switch lanes. not in that order but pretty close.

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TXteachr2018@reddit

Trampoline (mom said it was a death trap)

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Markaes4@reddit

I was very lucky in that I got the majority of the toys I wanted. I had a pretty big collection for the time...

But the Gimbels department store by us had imported Japanese toys, like the original Transformers (diaclone)/Voltron (Golion)/Robotech (Mospeada) etc. I really wanted the diecast transforming Cyclone Armor set or Alpha fighter. But they were pretty expensive for that era and I did not. I got a pretty cool diecast Dougram robot though.

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Markaes4@reddit

I never had the matchbox Voltron either... I had the little ones and the crappy panosh place one instead.

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Markaes4@reddit

Sigh... and these bad boys... Thats it. I think.

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Harmony407@reddit

The Barbie Dream House. My mom did get me a knock-off version that was fine. But I still secretly wanted the true Dream House.

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armonde@reddit

Real Transformers.

No, Mom, Go-Bots are NOT the same thing!

Extra salt? Same Christmas my sisters both got a REAL Cabbage Patch Kid.

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ElvisFlab@reddit

I just answered the same thing and saw your reply. My little brother got a real transformer because they “didn’t realize there was a difference.”

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HistorianCM@reddit

At some point Hasbro bought tonka so gobots could technically be transporters...

And they made a Transformer named "Gobots"

https://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g2-color-changers-gobots/3910/

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TMOverbeck@reddit

In 1994 they made an entire “GoBots” subgroup of Transformers, which were basically Hot Wheels that could turn into robots.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

Go Bots were not as good as transformers but they were respectable toys.

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External_Cantaloupe@reddit

I honestly loved my Go Bots

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armonde@reddit

Answering as a 10 year old? Shut up stupid head...

Answering as a 50 year old? Those things are still around and my kids played with and enjoyed them as well... but Star Scream was so cool and sounded a lot like Cobra Commander

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TMOverbeck@reddit

True story: I saw GoBots commercials before Transformers and so for a brief moment I thought the Transformers were the also-rans. 😅

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tlc916@reddit

Lil' boss

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kunduff@reddit

I wanted a big wheel till I got too big for one. Wanted the millennium falcon...still do.

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ElvisFlab@reddit

A Transformer. I begged my parents for one for Christmas all year. On Christmas morning, my little brother got one, and I received a couple of Gobots. They “didn’t realize there was a difference.” The hatred in my heart for the two of them still lives on. 😂

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Kaa_The_Snake@reddit

Easy bake oven!!

Wasn’t it just hot light bulbs? Don’t care, I wanted one!

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j-lulu@reddit

Snoopy's soft house

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MCMaude@reddit

Lite Brite EZ Bake Oven Seawees Spirograph Play-doh Fun Factory

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Liakinsrotz@reddit

I was just taking about Seawees the other day! We actually did have a couple of those. I never got the ez bake I wanted when I was little though so when my son asked for one a few years ago I jumped on it. My brother from another mother never got one either, so when he came to visit later that year we busted it out and lived out our deprived child dreams. The results were disgusting but so worth it.

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katmc68@reddit

I LOVED Seawees. They are so impossibly cute!

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jazzbot247@reddit

I never heard of Seawees, but I remember really wanting Sea monkeys and never got them.

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FuzzyScarf@reddit

Sea Wees

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flygrrrlsc@reddit

Another one deprived of an EZ Bake oven. Then my younger sister got one. Still bitter after all these years.

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schroobster@reddit

Oh, to bake mini-cakes with a weak lightbulb......

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LemonBumblebee@reddit

I also longed for an EZ bake oven. I still think about it.

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Limelight1981@reddit

Stolen childhood!

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JaneFairfaxCult@reddit

EZ Bake Oven was mine. I still look at them wistfully.

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Odd_Campaign_307@reddit

I wanted an Easy Bake oven too but my mom just couldn't afford it. She taught me to bake in our real oven instead. How any of us survived to adulthood is a mystery.

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4gotoldacctinfo@reddit

I, too, pined for an Easy Bake… bought one for my daughter when she was about 6 - it was such a disappointment…

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SadAd1232@reddit

A Barbie dream house.

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apearlmae@reddit

The Barbie Dreamhouse that had the elevator.

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SMBamberger@reddit

A Barbie Make Me Pretty. I saved up my allowance for months but it was sold out when my parents took me to buy it.

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whatiftheyrewrong@reddit

Oh god. That’s awful! You must have been so upset.

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SMBamberger@reddit

I was devastated.

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sanctuarymoonfan@reddit

All of them.

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slade797@reddit

Came here to say this. Hello, fellow poor!

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sanctuarymoonfan@reddit

My 14yo daughter asks me what I used to do as a kid. I said I stared at the trees a lot 🤣😫

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slade797@reddit

I swear to god, my grandfather showed me how to twiddle my thumbs when I told him I was bored, and he was fucking serious. “When you get bored going in one direction, you can switch!”

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sanctuarymoonfan@reddit

🤣🤣 now I miss my grandpa 😭❤️

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FletchWazzle@reddit

Some destruction derby cars where a bunch of pieces would come off

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Bongomadness69@reddit

A green machine.... I had a big wheel but the green machine was next level

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Irishpanda1971@reddit

There was this board game called Dark Tower that had this cool looking electronic tower in the middle. It had buttons and lights, and I think sounds. I had no idea what the game was about, but it looked so COOL.

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Square-Section-8418@reddit

ColecoVision

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Wide_Designer5561@reddit

Go Cart in the Richard Petty nascar blue with sponsor badges!! Had a cousin who was spoiled into the stratosphere. We both arrive to a family gathering for Christmas. I got a new bike and expected the same for him so we could go riding together. Expected him to get a special edition bmx, but instead a freshly waxed fiberglassed stallion of a go cart pulled into the drive way. Still traumatized in awe of that gift.

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Sheila_Monarch@reddit

Easy Bake Oven.

Damn near brought my mother to tears in my late 20s when she overheard me say that at a gathering at my parent’s house. She came rushing around the corner from the kitchen, “I didn’t know you wanted one of those! I’m so sorry! I would’ve gotten you one if I’d known! I didn’t know!…”

It should be noted here that I was NOT the spoiled child that makes it sound like, she was in the worst throes of menopause and in her feels about everything all the time. I knew I had to create a diversion before she started weeping hysterically in front of a houseful of people.

“Well then where’s my fucking pony, Mom? Because I KNOW you knew about that one!”

Laughter ensued. Her included. That was a close one…

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THEREALSTRINEY@reddit

A Mongoose, Red Line, or GT BMX bike. Preferably a GT! I had an AMF piece of shit.

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Beginning-Mud9676@reddit

Yeah - GT was flashy, mongoose was OG, but Redline was super cool I think.

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Mammoth_Mixture_2090@reddit

When I graduated from college in 1994, I bought a $800 GT mountain bike! Which I still have!

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Accomplished-Leg2971@reddit

GameBoy

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Beccajo19@reddit

Barbie dream house with the elevator and the Barbie camper. I did get a Cabbage Patch though!!!

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NassCeary@reddit

Operation. I'm still convinced that I would have had way better hand-eye coordination if I'd gotten it.

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Beaglebeaglechai@reddit

I had Operation and played with it all the time. My hand-eye coordination is still shite.

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NassCeary@reddit

So wait -- you're saying that the lack of this toy didn't change the course of my life? Everything I thought I knew was wrong. 😅

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NerdyComfort-78@reddit

A Sony Walkman Sport.

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F0xxfyre@reddit

Was that the yellow and black Walkman?

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NerdyComfort-78@reddit

Yes it was

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F0xxfyre@reddit

I bought that one for myself with job money. It was massively expensive if I recall correctly. Maybe 110? Even 150?

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anosmia1974@reddit

I was just thinking about how fun an adult one would be! I know there’s be a lot of grunting and groaning getting in and out of it, but I think it’s be worth it.

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NerdyComfort-78@reddit

We would look SO BADASS!

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camsacto@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin

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Okay_NOW_WhatSTP@reddit

Pretty much any of the larger Transformers toys. Funny enough, a friend of mine now has a huge Transformers collection and no one gets to touch them.

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LongjumpingAd5317@reddit

No toys, but i desperately wanted Guess jeans and an Izod polo with the alligator logo

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metengrinwi@reddit

Atari

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Livid_Refrigerator69@reddit

I wanted Chrissy or Velvet, a Doll with Hair that “ Grew”, you pulled the hair out of a hole in the top of the head to make it grow & wound a button in the dolls back to make it short again. I particularly wanted Chrissy, she was the only Red Haired doll on the market ( I’m a ginger). I ended up getting a cheap knock off one, Chloe I think it was called, it had black hair, I was happy to get anything .

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painter222@reddit

My older sister had a Chrissy that I got as a hand me down I loved her.

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Secure-Implement-277@reddit

70s - Barbie dream house 80s - Atari

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grandmofftalkin@reddit

The Matchbox SDF-1 from Robotech that could transform

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MamaFen@reddit

Merlin.

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KrispyAvocado@reddit

This was the best toy i ever got, hands down, as a kid (not a toddler or teen). Hours and hours of fun!

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zeprfrew@reddit

I had one and loved it as well. Many, many years later I was given one of the small reissued ones. Playing it again I was astonished to see how much enjoyment I was able to get out of something so absolutely minimal. Ten lights off, on or blinking. That is it.

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Loudeli@reddit

Green machine

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KatherineHennesy@reddit

Oh snap! We were a poor immigrant famiily and couldn't afford gifts. Parents made us all go to special church services and didnt believe in the American tradition of giving gifts. I recall the anxiety of first day of classes after NYE and having to come up with a story of what I got from Christmas and hoping people didn't ask too many questions. I was content in listening to the stories of what my friends good and was in awe when one of them brought a Star Wars action figure with him as contraband to the school. I asked if I could hold it and was told no.

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GamblinGambit@reddit

A real transformer or the handheld sega game system.

I knew a few people with them and was so envious.

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ellewynn_martha@reddit

Easy Bake oven.

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Surprisebutton@reddit

I wanted a radio controlled sailboat so bad. And i wanted to build a radio controlled sailplane as well. My dad didn’t think i could build it. Jokes on him though because i figured all that stuff out on my own without kits. Also wanted an ant farm. So fascinating.

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carverjacks@reddit

We weren't rich by no means but my parents gave me the Death Star, the X-Wing, the Tie-Fighter, the Landspeeder, the big Darth Vader doll, and a bunch of other smaller action figures to populate my Star Wars fantasy.

But what I really really wanted was the big Godzilla doll with the flame tongue. Nope. Never happened. Looking back, I don't blame them. I was lucky enough.

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librarytalker@reddit

Strawberry Shortcake. Got a knockoff one with no scent. So disappointed.

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chocoreader@reddit

Happy Fun Ball

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Due_Statement9998@reddit

This. Only this…

Still want it!

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Admirable_Music9571@reddit

From 1993-1996 I asked for a CD player “boom box” for either Christmas or my birthday. It wasn’t a money issue- my parents spent far more money on other gifts.

They gave me one in 2007. Once I had an iPod. 🤣

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Lanky-Owl6622@reddit

My Little Pony stable. GOD DAMN IT!

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Lemosopher@reddit

Inever got the first nintendo. Wanted it so bad, friends hated having me over to visit because I was glued to their console. We eventuly got the snes, and we already had a ti99, an atari 130xe and an atari 800xl, and a tandy 8088 hooked up at all times in the mid 80's so we had plenty of gaming. Kids are never satisfied sometimes.

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hickorynut60@reddit

I always wished I could have tried this me of those big wheels. They came out too late for me.

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HatesDuckTape@reddit

Optimus Prime. The 5 Voltron lions.

But the most unobtainable - GI Joe aircraft carrier

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Old-Metalhead@reddit

Shogun warrior. Absolutely. It shot missiles from its hand

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-clawglip-@reddit

Jetfire, lovely Macross ripoff that he was

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midnightbizou@reddit

Gobbles the Goat.

They were discontinued though, and my mom couldn't find one anywhere.

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beta_karentene@reddit

One more for Easy Bake Oven.

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an_on_y_mis@reddit

Slime. Came in a green garbage can. Wasn’t allowed to have it in case I spilled in on the carpet

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Just_a_guy_named_Mat@reddit

The G.I. Joe Aircraft Carrier.

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Suns_AZCards@reddit

Voltron with the five lions. Always dreamed of having that.

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HatesDuckTape@reddit

Great pick

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GenX_Survivor_70s80s@reddit

At-At Walker from Empire Strikes Back.

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BarisBlack@reddit

Big Trak.

My friend had one, and he hated it because he wasn't interested in programming it. It would fascinate me and he got mad because "I was better at it than him" so he blew it up with an M80.

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wailana94@reddit

A Cabbage Patch doll. I got a generic one.

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andracccc@reddit

Garfield Telephone

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HeavySkinz@reddit

Voltron. (The lions)

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lmlewis06@reddit

Monchichi doll

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bouncy_bouncy_seal@reddit

I always wanted an Easy Bake Oven.

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kwman11@reddit

The Green Machine

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seymour5000@reddit

Same

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SirGriffinblade@reddit

Tonka Dump truck from 1972 and the SSP Smash-up derby.

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Gunteacher@reddit

An Intellivision. Way cooler than the Atari at the time.

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decaffdiva@reddit

I still have the iou i received one year for a pair of roller. Skates

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crcc1972@reddit

USS Flags! GI Joe Aircraft Carrier

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PositionBeneficial12@reddit

Such a massive toy. I wanted it in a bad way.

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MidnightMarmot@reddit

Optimus Prime transformer and the Millennium Falcon

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mori2791@reddit

Easy bake oven

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nickyglasses71@reddit

Drums

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TheThirdShmenge@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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bottle_of_bees@reddit

I don’t know how my mom did it, but somehow she managed to get me almost everything I really wanted. Malibu PJ (I think I wanted the Miss America Barbie that year, but PJ was great), Quick Curl Kelly, Sweet Sixteen, Dawn and a couple of her friends, one of the Rock Flowers (Lilac?), Growing Up Skipper (who I mostly made fun of, but she was FASCINATING), a bunch of very specific K-Tel albums, Nancy Drew books, a bike she got with Green Stamps because that was the year my dad left for good and we had no cash… I know there were some other things I really wanted and didn’t get, but honestly, the things she must have had to save up for and then somehow go out and find—after work, I guess—are the ones I remember.

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AuntBBea@reddit

Always wanted a Quick Curl Kelly doll

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kulathecat@reddit

Lite Brite is on sale on Amazon. Totally buying one now after reading all these comments and reminding me of my yearning desire for one. This is called adulting! 🤣

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hamma1776@reddit

Yard darts

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kabo7474@reddit

EZ Bake Oven. Now that I know it was just a light bulb in a box, I'm no longer upset.

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Look_Up_Here@reddit

Voltron with the 5 lions.

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-Ailynn-@reddit

Ghostbusters Fire Station & the TMNT Technodrome

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ToothpickIntheOcean@reddit

Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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painter222@reddit

Cabbage Patch Doll

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pinkspatzi@reddit

Barbie Dream House

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ActuallyCausal@reddit

Optimus Prime

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trollcole@reddit

Pow-Pow Power Wheels.

I also remember going to a friend’s home who had them and they wouldn’t let me play with them.

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Honeybee71@reddit

Easy bake oven

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Subject-Cash-82@reddit

Doll house

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DVWhat@reddit

TCR Jam Car Speedway.

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danielcs78@reddit

This toy came to my mind immediately!

I had a friend whose older brother had one and the prick would not let us touch it!

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TheHandofDoge@reddit

an Atari game system. My dad took a gamble and went intellivision and we only had about 5 games to play.

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TiffM2022@reddit

Huffy pink bike. My friend had one and I wanted one too

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anythingaustin@reddit

I wanted a Baby Alive in the worst way possible but I was never allowed to have one because my mom had enough “poopy diapers to deal with” and didn’t need a doll that needed diaper changes as well.

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missjo1908@reddit

I was just talking about this. A Lite Brite.

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Leecypoo@reddit

The gold girls Schwinn 10 speed from Sears.

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Psychiatricnurseprac@reddit

Cabbage Patch Kid

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Dirtymac09@reddit

Oh I know!! I wanted all the Star Wars micro shit. It wasn’t enough to have almost ALL the regular size Star Wars toys. No no, I NEEDED the mini ones.

Another one was when I got a little bit older, maybe 11 or 12. I wanted a mongoose bike. They got me a fkn huffy instead. I finally got that mongoose though. Police auction. Looked like shit but rode like a Cadillac! And then skateboards became a thing and I HAD to have a Powell Peralta. I actually got that though after much whining and begging. Sure they tried to buy me off cheap with “hammerhead” board. It net an untimely death shortly after its maiden voyage.

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PinkTangie@reddit

I wanted one of those too. Forgot all about that thing.

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Free_Help2342@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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betsytrotwood70@reddit

Lite Brite and a Barbie Salon head

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WellWellWellthennow@reddit

I don't think there was ever a toy I really wanted that I didn't end up with somehow. My mom even managed to find me the rare Simon the Christmas that they were sold out everywhere.

I loved all the toys I had and played with all of them – the Rock Flowers and Dawn dolls, various Barbies including growing up skipper, Chrissy, Velvet and Mia, Fisher-Price wooden little people, games like Operation, Who Done It? Clue. The trolls and the stupid red dunking bird. Ice bird. Lite bright, E Z bake oven (yuk!) etch-a-sketch and Springbok puzzles. Paint by numbers. A Schwinn Varsity ten speed. We were good. And fortunate.

I guess the thing I really wanted I didn't get was piano lessons.

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aimzzzzz90@reddit

Barbie dream house

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carlosdangertaint@reddit

I really wanted a Mongoose dirt bike but my parents opted for the Schwinn Sting Ray since we lived in the city it was a more “practical” choice. Granted, I rode that bike everywhere and loved it but still longed for the Mongoose. In the early 1990s I got into mountain biking and was saving money up for a decent bike. I took my savings to the bike shop and there was a brand new Mongoose IBOC “hot lips” aluminum frame mountain bike with Shimano XT components. I bought it on the spot and still have it to this day!

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PinkTangie@reddit

I wanted a Wonder Woman doll & her invisible jet. I think I was 6..1976. And when I was 8 I wanted that Merlin & the Simon Says toy. 🙈

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Impressive_Fee2737@reddit

Barbie swimming pool. (Too messy)

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Capital-Cheesecake67@reddit

Easy Bake Oven.

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hop123hop223@reddit

Lite Brite

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drewcandraw@reddit

Nintendo. Didn't get one until 1991, after Sega Genesis had come out.

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aluminumnek@reddit

Radio Shack had this remote controlled Sherman Tank. Asked for it for years but never got it. Maybe one day

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Awesome_to_the_max@reddit

Like this?

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AbjectPromotion4833@reddit

I’m a firm believer of getting ourselves toys we missed out on. Get it for your inner child. ❤️

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BumbleBeezyPeasy@reddit

I wanted a My Buddy. I got a My Buddy doll for my third birthday (I also got chicken pox that day!! So fun!). Annnnd, then!! [insert gender bullshit] my grandparents said "no! She can't have a boy doll!" Took it out of my hands and gave it to my younger brother. A few weeks later I received the girl version Kid Sister. She was... Fine 🤷 😮‍💨😞

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TisSlinger@reddit

A fucking god damn gum ball machine! I tell my parents I’m messed up because of that egregious shortcoming.

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Stunning-Channel2166@reddit

Kick and go

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Proprietor@reddit

that huge GI Joe aircraft carrier. So dope

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Expensive_Fennel_88@reddit

An AT-AT. It was too much money but I still had a great Christmas that year. I appreciated and understood my parents frugality later in life after they paid fully for me to go to college, the best gift I could ever ask for.

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belinck@reddit

The only Star wars vehicle I got was the damn Bespin cloud city defender... So effing lame.

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SmashEmWithAPhone@reddit

That Bespin Cloud vehicle was an abject lesson that some toys look good but are not actually fun

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Sandmandawg@reddit

I had the Ewok village. That was about it. I remember going over to a kids' house, and he had all the Star Wars toys. I was so amazed.

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touringaddict@reddit

Oh man same here!! I might have had a Luke Skywalker fig as well. But no cool vehicles 😭

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fusionsofwonder@reddit

My Dad didn't get me an AT-AT, he got me an AT-ST and said he would buy me the back half later. I tried to explain why that wouldn't work.

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meggatronia@reddit

My husband wanted one of these so very much as a kid. I bought him one for Christmas when we had been together a couple of years. To say he was excited about it would be an understatement lol

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Ascot_Parker@reddit

I got this but only because I really wanted the Millenium Falcon, but my parents couldn't find it anyway, so they splashed out the extra for the AT-AT in the hope that it would make me forget about the wanting the Falcon (which I think was fairly effective).

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tirch@reddit

We had the Millenium Falcon. Wanted the AT-AT but that was too much $. Also had the land speeder and still have it, Luke, 3PO and R2D2 are sitting in it on my shelf right now.

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FaceMaulingChimp@reddit

My friend had one. He was my close friend but a few of us went to his house just to play with his epic Star Wars collection. Another friend had the Death Star scene with the foam pieces in the trash compactor. Man I wanted one of those !

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eejm@reddit

My husband’s grandfather made him one out of a bunch of old scraps and bits. He still has it in his office. It’s pretty impressive!

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It_is_me_Mike@reddit

So much $$$😂 Same boat

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AntaresBounder@reddit

I’m a ‘75 X’er, so we got all the SW stuff at yard sales as older kids parents pitched it all.

We had stacks of stuff: Millennium Falcon AT-AT X-Wing Snow Speeder Tattoine land speeder

Most of it was damaged in some way or missing parts, but man… they gave us hour and hours of fun!

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Revolutionary_Pin761@reddit

I asked for this toy 7 years straight…I still think it’s an awesome toy.

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skeeterbmark@reddit

Hell yes. This right here. Desperately wanted this.

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AntiSnoringDevice@reddit

Atari, like all my friends, but no...our parents bought is the Intellivision, with an existential dread game about an astronaut forever lost in space...

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mama_lyon00@reddit

Easy Bake oven. Those tiny cakes were so cute! I also really wanted the Barbie Dream House. Never got either one. 😥

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AngryCustomerService@reddit

Chemistry set.

I keep telling myself that I'm an adult and I can buy myself one now, but it feels frivolous.

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Krautmeister21@reddit

The Millennium Falcon.

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According-Ad5312@reddit

A pony

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BeyondTelling@reddit

Atari forever

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theChosenBinky@reddit

Matchbox City, Matchbox Country, Strange Change

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Important-Pain-1734@reddit

Shrinky Dinks. My mother said I would burn the kitchen down shrinking them in the over. I actually did burn the kitchen down but no Shrinky Dinks were involved

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Dirtymac09@reddit

I wanted so many things. The thing I remember really wanting was a Swatch. They were fkn THE THING in like 5th or 6th grade. I wanted one sooo bad. What did I get, a fkn Sassoon! I wanted Nike Airs, what did I get- Kmart sneakers. Can’t remember the brand now but they had a fkn zipper pocket for popcorn money. A FKN ZIPPER POCKET! yes I have issues…

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Dr_Overundereducated@reddit

I wanted a GEM and the HOLOGRAMS “Barbie” (though I was really too old for one), not so much for the doll, but for the music tape that came with it. It was truly, truly, truly outrageous.

Yep. The dorkiest person on this subreddit today.

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lynxmouth@reddit

It sounds like you’re talking about Barbie and the Rockers.

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lynxmouth@reddit

Damn that Strawberry Shortcake. I specifically wanted her friends Lemon Meringue, Raspberry Tart, Orange Blossom, and Apricot and Hopsalot. We didn’t have a lot of money so toys like that were out of the question. I sure yearned for them.

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street_parking_mama2@reddit

Atari

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Arch27@reddit

I can't think of anything but looking at the responses I feel bad -- I had most of these things. Never had the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier but a friend did. TBH it wasn't all that cool to me... My dad was in the Navy and the toy was kind of underwhelming with the features I'd seen on a real aircraft carrier.

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Mumchkin@reddit

Snoopy snowcone maker, of course I now know it wasn't really a toy.

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Zealousideal_Lab_427@reddit

Lite Brite and Easy Bake oven. I wasn’t allowed to have battery operated or plug in toys.

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DreadGrrl@reddit

I had the Easy Bake Oven and a Holly Hobbie sewing machine. They taught me “life skills,” apparently.

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SilanceDoGood@reddit

A Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock …and this thing which tells time.

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jtphilbeck@reddit

Castle Grayskull.

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Strict-Square456@reddit

I was a lucky kid. I got rockem sockem robots, gi joe, bigwheel, stretch armstrong , electric football set, afx slot car set, bmx bike. It was awesome and my parents were not well off.

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ovr4kovr@reddit

Castle Gray skull Omega Supreme Any Spiral Zone or Robotech Tony Hawk or Powell Peralta skateboard Redline bicycle

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EtherealHeart5150@reddit

Rock Em Sock Em Robots. I was a girl, and I gotta nope.

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Fun_Flamingo_4238@reddit

Power wheels

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DreadGrrl@reddit

Any Star Wars toy. They were “boy” toys, and I was only allowed to have “girl” toys.

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One-Photograph-4845@reddit

Barbie dream house

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mrmyrtle29588@reddit

Green Machine

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AltMom-321@reddit

Inchworm. The disappointment started very early over here.

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Fury161Houston@reddit

I remember those.

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AltMom-321@reddit

My parents got me a knockoff that didn’t go up and down like the real one. I was not fooled.

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Imcluelesstoday@reddit

After watching King of queens, kinda want mentalo.

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bimmer4WDrift@reddit

Mattel Big Wheel

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Eastern-Ad-5253@reddit

Baby Alive!! I got "Baby-Thattaway " instead 🥺😂😂😂 Oh instead of Raggedy Ann doll ...I got Andy...🤷🏿

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ASTERnaught@reddit

Gnip gnop

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biblybobbla@reddit

Intellivision

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Candid_Resolution908@reddit

Fisher Price Children’s Hospital

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dmbmcguire@reddit

Easy bake oven, play do, anything that could make a mess was a no no in my house. Remember the doll that you could actually feed and it “pooped”, not happening in my house. That one I kinda understand though.

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wishmachine007@reddit

Was that called “Baby Alive” or something like that? I also didn’t get one.

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narcowake@reddit

Voltron , like the large size one you can assemble ☹️

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kendoka69@reddit

An Atari. Got this instead: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/s/hqv58tQa5R

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biblybobbla@reddit

Green Machine

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0811_devildog@reddit

Martell Electronic Football handheld game.

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skyef77@reddit

Pound puppy. Barbie caravan and the fancy house

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greenblue_md@reddit

Snoopy Sno Cone maker.

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abbey_kyle@reddit

I SO wanted a Cathy Quick Curl doll which was odd since I was somewhat of a tomboy and not that much into dolls. I think it might be because a friend got one. I expect my mother knew I would never play with it since she ended up getting me the Sunshine Family instead, which I LOVED—I had the treehouse and everything. I still have the dolls, btw.

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Ctrl-Alt-Dad@reddit

Optimus Mother Fucking Prime.

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dprzano@reddit

I have him in my attic right now, still in the box. I hope the heat from the attic over the years hasn't turned it to dust. Bumblebee is what I never got.. sad face

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unicornsparkle86@reddit

I wanted an Atari so bad, but my dad would spend hours typing in code so we could play crappy video games on the PC and I just didn’t have the heart to tell him they sucked. I’d go to my friend’s house to play on their Atari.

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TMOverbeck@reddit

Same. I knew a couple friends (and an uncle) with an Atari 2600 so I’d visit their houses all the time to play it. I didn’t get my own until 1985 when they were out of fashion.

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Lucy1967@reddit

inchworm

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Reeberom1@reddit

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rokken70@reddit

Micronauts! I kind of still want them today!

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Prestigious-Box-6492@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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bcslc99@reddit

Rock-em sock-em robots

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hippiechick12345@reddit

Easy Bake Oven- dad said if I wanted to bake something, there was a perfectly good oven in the kitchen

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TMOverbeck@reddit

The biggest Transformer Fortress Maximus.

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ashtal@reddit

I desperately wanted the Charlie's Angels dolls and spy van.

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mcardie@reddit

Optimus prime

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PowerComfortable9493@reddit

The ones I currently collect: Cobra action figures. Only cobra.

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Better-Task-4979@reddit

Millennium falcon

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jayseventwo@reddit

Tamiya Grasshopper (or any Tamiya RC). My mate did get the cheaper Jethopper (I think it was called) but Tamiya was what everyone wanted!

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BuoyGeorgia@reddit

I wanted that jumbo-sized barbie doll-ish doll that when you twisted the crown of her head, her hair color changed to dark brown or blond. I can’t remember what she was called.

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Radiatethe88@reddit

I never did get my Millennium Falcon.

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redditmostrelevant@reddit

The Thunderbirds Dinky models including FAB1

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ASTERnaught@reddit

Legos. My boy cousins had legos and other building toys (what was the name of the one with wooden circles and sticks?) and multiple sets of Lincoln logs but we (both girls) just had one Lincoln log set. However they were jealous of our easy bake oven.

When I got pregnant with my first/only kid, I started buying legos—first the giant ones (duplo?) then when he was still a toddler started buying sets when I could find deals on ebay (back then deals could be had). Still love lego!

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BattyBantam@reddit

POW-POW-POWER WHEELS! 🚗

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Klutzy_Yam_343@reddit

The Barbie Dream House. While I realize it would have ended up a dusty heap in the garage within 3 or 4 months I’m still bitter about not getting it.

I can’t complain though, I got everything else I ever asked for and by the time I was 13 my Barbies and Cabbage Patch dolls were suspended by chains from my ceiling with Alice Cooper makeup. My mom must have seen what was coming.

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1234RedditReddit@reddit

Atari

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Ok_Experience_8194@reddit

70s kid, and I really really wanted a big wheel. But my Dad didn't like the noise they made one the pavement 🙄

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Background-Goose2523@reddit

My parents would remove the clicker lol

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calebm77@reddit

Voltron

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Green-Walk-1806@reddit

The Giant ghetto blaster with the turntable 😄

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FongYuLan@reddit

Baby Alive!

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Bloodless-Cut@reddit

Kenner Millenium Falcon or X-wing.

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tnova2323@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin.

My parents got me the Mother Goose instead.

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FawnLeib0witz@reddit

Atari. But then we later got a Colecovision which was 1000x better.

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2Pow@reddit

Colecovision and Intellevision were both awesome.

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mtlaw13@reddit

We had the Intellevision but I really, really wanted Colecovision. Its Donkey Kong was awesome.

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cantcountnoaccount@reddit

Burgertime 4evah.

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GuyFromLI747@reddit

Did you get the Atari expansion module too? The best of best worlds ..

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Apprehensive_Tap7317@reddit

I wanted to watch “Charlie’s Angels “ and I wanted the toys too. My parents would not allow me to watch the show.

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shattered_kitkat@reddit

I was named after a character in the show. My mother watched it too damned much.

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arinryan@reddit

I think my mom thought Barbie and Cabbage Patch dolls were low class or something. My parents could afford them, and I asked soo many times, but we were never allowed to have them. I had forgotten til this reminded me

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Which_Reason_1581@reddit

Gosh. I guess I was abused. We weren't allowed to watch tv or ask for toys. We got books and clothes for Christmas. I dont celebrate Christmas now. Haven't in the last 15 years.

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SomethingHasGotToGiv@reddit

You could actually turn it around for yourself and enjoy it.

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Which_Reason_1581@reddit

Nah. Kids are grown and moved far away. It's just my husband and myself. With our 3 cats.

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Nem-x13@reddit

A Catra Doll from She-Ra.

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artguydeluxe@reddit

AT-AT. It was $50. An unattainable sum.

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Prestigious_Chard597@reddit

An Atari or Nintendo. We had a pong game my mom bought at a yard sale. Also cable. We lived in the sticks, so no cable and my parents wouldn't buy the 10 ft diameter satellite that cost 2500 dollars.

I did get a black and white TV and VHS player.

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shattered_kitkat@reddit

Optimus Prime.

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WichitaTimelord@reddit

AT-AT Walker

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Someone-Rebuilding@reddit

Meccano..! Girls got other stuff instead tho..

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Apprehensive_Tap7317@reddit

Clackers and jarts

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snickerfoots@reddit

Easy bake oven 😔

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filledoux@reddit

That damn Barbie dollhouse.

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Sonoran_Eyes@reddit

BMX bike - parents wouldn’t get me one because it was a “boys bike”. I was so bummed.

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Necessary-Ad-2031@reddit

I had almost every Star Wars toy so no complaints there. Not exactly a toy but at five years old, I wanted a pair of wax lips and my mom wouldn’t get them for me so stole them. My mom found out and turned me in to the manager at Thrifty drug store and he wouldn’t do anything so she called the cops and at five years old I was placed in the backseat of the police car crying my heart out. I learned my lesson. 😂

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efreeme@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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SmooveTits@reddit

Tyco race track

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MetalicRobot@reddit

Meccano

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T-TownDarin@reddit

Evil Knievel

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Purple-Construction5@reddit

Can't remember what it was called but it was like a bottle rocket with water pressure. Also had a range of it in car version.

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SimkinCA@reddit

A race car track that worked a) at all b) more than a day!

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cuntshine68@reddit

One of those Barbie mannequin heads that you could do hair and makeup on.

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F0xxfyre@reddit

I was looking for something like that to get for my niece and reminiscing about it. I was such a tomboy, but for some reason, I wanted this sooooo badly! I got something similar, but it wasn't a Mattel product.

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sconni503@reddit

That Evil Kanieval wind up motorcycle

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Tsujigiri@reddit

Millennium Falcon. We were poor. Commence with the yo momma jokes.

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coordinatedflight@reddit

As a 90s kid, let me say... yall go fuckin buy these things. Life is short and you're statistically closer to death than me, so go get it.

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ghost77911@reddit

Voltron. Really everything. I didn’t get much as a kid. That why I buy everything now!

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Starshine2977@reddit

The strawberry shortcake trolley. I wanted it so bad! I had a bunch of the dolls, but none of the accessories.

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ZingingCutie45@reddit

Easy Bake Oven and Tinkerbell perfume

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Unique_Beat5789@reddit

Dollhouse

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GrapefruitSpaceship@reddit

A Mongoose

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DisastrousAd9267@reddit

Baby Alive.

I begged for that doll, but never got it. The worst part is, 8 years later, guess what my younger sister got for her birthday?

I was FURIOUS.

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Fast_Courage_2934@reddit

An invisible dog.

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dontfearthellama@reddit

Dark Tower

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Invisible_Xer@reddit

A Sit N Spin.

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LazarusMundi4242@reddit

80s robot

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PollutionQuick140@reddit

I really wanted a Strawberry Shortcake doll but got some kind of Apricot nonsense

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seriouslyfluffy71@reddit

I feel your pain, I got Angel Cake with a purple skunk

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slambrosia@reddit

An EZ-bake oven. Although my parents were always like, “You know you can just make cookies in the real oven. We trust you.”

That said, for my 20th birthday my friends bought me an EZ-Bake and we made shitty little cakes together in our dorm.

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funmaster320@reddit

I just wanted a horse! No horse was ever acquired…

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Big-Degree1548@reddit

Oooo do yall remember Spirograph? High art,dude.

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Big-Degree1548@reddit

Meh sorry I see this territory has been covered lol.

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RabbitsAteMySnowpeas@reddit

In kindergarten there were these big wooden blocks, hollow and made out of plywood. I’m still kinda sour that I never got on the “rotation” to them of the various other crappy toys we had for play time, to build whatever it was I had grandiosely envisioned I was capable of making… (yes this was also over 45 years ago)

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General-Asshat@reddit

Roller Racer sit and skate

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Greysheep68@reddit

I really wanted one of those three speed bicycles where the shifter looked like console shifter in muscle car. Later I wanted a BMX bike. Never had either one.

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COskiier-5691@reddit

Barbie Dream House

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retro_lady@reddit

I wanted a bike with a banana seat!

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Sandmandawg@reddit

Mom got me one for my 8th birthday. I was so disappointed. If I had known you back then, I would have given you mine. All the kids I rode with had dirt bikes for tricks.

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Torggil@reddit

Atari 2600

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TicnTac21@reddit

Barbie dream house

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msomnipotent@reddit

I wanted an Armatron because I was a science dork. My parents said it was useless, so I pointed out that the advanced chemistry lab they bought me (that I was way too young for) had acids that would burn right through to the bone. So the chemistry set was taken away.

I also really wanted the blue BMX bike with the gold accents in the JC Penny catalog, but I was a girl and it was a boy's bike, and they couldn't afford it anyway.

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Andiamo23@reddit

Full Voltron

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removable_disk@reddit

I always wanted an easy bake oven. But what I did get was Petster the robotic cat. That more than makes up for the stupid oven. That robot cat was the best toy I ever got.

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Betchinboots@reddit

My Buddy

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moew4974@reddit

Easy Bake Oven
Chemistry set
Barbie’s Dream House

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Isiotic_Mind@reddit

The GI JOE headquarters.

My parents even said they were going to buy it for me. I remember being so excited as a kid when they said we'd be able to pick out a toy cause they were getting a good tax return. I had a storyline, and everything worked out in my head and was telling them all about it at dinner one night. Still remember that night.

Never got it.

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CarlatheDestructor@reddit

I wanted a sit 'n' spin

Also a 12" Princess Leia doll that you could style her hair.

Didn't get eiither.

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Pinknailzz69@reddit

https://youtu.be/FojzXSa6bxk Vertibird from Mattel. But it’s ok. I got my real chopper license in the end!

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wendy1105@reddit

I always wanted a Barbie Dream House and an Arti….

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Drillerfan@reddit

Evel Knieval stunt cycle

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earplugsforswans@reddit

Boba Fett with the rocket that actually fired. I had enough proof of purchase seals to get the mail-in figure but by the time I got everything mailed off, some kid had choked on the projectile and Kenner put the kibosh on that version of the figure. My mail-in arrived with a permanent rocket.

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Duke_of_Brabant@reddit

The Millennium Falcon

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EntrepreneurMain7833@reddit

Return of the Jedi Ewok forest playset. (probably not what it was called).

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ghostguessed@reddit

The She-Ra castle. I still give my mom crap about it.

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SweetnSalty10@reddit

Snoopy Snow Cone Machine

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SmellsLikeFigs@reddit

A paint by numbers set. My mom always said no, that it would be too messy. She was a neat freak and didn’t want anything in the house that involved liquids, gels, etc…

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rrhunt28@reddit

A robot that was remote controlled.

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ErnestBatchelder@reddit

Grow your own crystal garden kit & a cabbage patch kid.

I was very alienated with my hand-me-down, brown-haired, knock off barbies that my grandmother crocheted weird outfits for.

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Nematode_wrangler@reddit

I always wanted one of those race car sets with the really complicated tracks that you could change up yourself and went on for miles.

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SweetnSalty10@reddit

Snoopy Snow Cone Machine

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stevenmacarthur@reddit

Tiger electronics handheld football game.

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schooliepro@reddit

Stretch Armstrong

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Fury161Houston@reddit

I had Stretch Armstrong and Stretch Monster and they were boring as hell.

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procrastinatorsuprem@reddit

Barbie Dream House, Hammond Organ.

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mimi-d175@reddit

Sit and Spin

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debinprogress@reddit

Polly pocket. My cousins had them but wouldn’t let me play with theirs.

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DMFD_x_Gamer@reddit

I'm a fortunate son. If I asked for it, my dad delivered.

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Electrical_Fishing81@reddit

When I was young, a real Cabbage Patch doll. 8 and up would be LEGOs. Which is why I buy myself LEGOs now 😂.

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Big_Imagination3038@reddit

Yeah but the sad thing about buying them ourselves now is that I understand maybe where my parents were coming from as a lot of the sets i’m like “get fucked” for the prices.

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labdogs42@reddit

Baby Alive

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Spectre7NZ@reddit

All of them. Never got a single one.

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MysticKei@reddit

I wasn't allowed to collect the Garbage Pail Kids cards because they were vulgar

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RPJ050529@reddit

Easy bake oven

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toodamnhotout@reddit

Demolition derby

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Congo404@reddit

Table top donkey Kong

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F0xxfyre@reddit

I had the pac Man one. My mother's boyfriend stole it.

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TotallyDissedHomie@reddit

I got one after a lot of begging, like that’s all I wanted so I could practice for the real arcade game. Biggest letdown of my life.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

At first I thought you mention the cocktail table arcade game and I’m like … wow. You set your expectations a bit high, didn’t you? And then I remembered the mini personal arcade games.

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karen1676@reddit

I really wanted this as a young kid.

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mukwah@reddit

A big wheel or green machine.

I also really wanted one of those blow up clown punching bags. Asked my pops and he came home with a speed bag.

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SodiumH2ojunkie@reddit

Like how much did a green machine cost that my parents couldn’t get me one?

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SatansWife13@reddit

I just did some looking around, and found this site it says it was $17.77. Or, $85.66 in 2024 dollars.

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SodiumH2ojunkie@reddit

Wow, thanks for looking that up. That’s hilarious.

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Glittering_Estate_72@reddit

TCR (Total Control Racing) but I was a girl and no one would buy it for me.

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pineapplesailfish@reddit

Snoopy Sno Cone Machine

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Pigeon_Jones@reddit

Green Machine Trike or a Mongoose BMX

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bald_eagle_66@reddit

Go cart

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TheRabidBadger@reddit

I always wanted a pogo stick. There was literally no place i could have used it, but my "mean" parents said no.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

Stretch Armstrong. My parents bought me trains, matchbox cars, army men and Tonka trucks, but somehow Stretch was “a boy’s toy”.

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Classic_Profit8377@reddit

The light bulb to the Holly Hobby Oven. My mom wouldn’t let us use it because she thought it would get too hot and burn the house down.

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Sandmandawg@reddit

Not so much a toy, but Fat Boy shoestrings. I lied to this kid and told him I had some. He came over to my house and wanted to see them. I fumbled through my drawers and had to tell him I lost them. He didn't buy it.

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josiedosiedoo@reddit

Easy bake oven. My neurotic mom was afraid of fire, so she bought me the “warm bake oven” you tried to cook a cake with hot water. It was effing gross

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lifeat24fps@reddit

Pogoball

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HumanMycologist5795@reddit

Voltron

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Tinkertailorartist@reddit

A Rock tumbler. I asked for one every year, but it never came 😪. I still consider buying one for myself, but I already have far too many art supplies.

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Big_Imagination3038@reddit

Can’t say it was this set specifically but Lego set 6080. It was a castle set though that was at the home hardware store and every time we would go there I would stare at it. I also think wanting this so bad but never getting it is one of the reasons why as an adult when it gets into my head that I want something it will bug me until I buy it and if I don’t buy it I get very upset when I can’t get it later on.

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NihilsitcTruth@reddit

Rc remote car from radio shack. It was all terrain off road.

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WritingRidingRunner@reddit

I was raised an only child, so I was blessed in that I had many cool toys but I never had:

A Barbie Dream House (I had Sindy, not Barbie, I think my mom thought Sindy was a more appropriate doll for a little girl).
The Easy Bake Oven (mom was very anti-sugar).
Light Brite (mom too concerned about my father stepping on the tiny pieces and having a fit).

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

I had a LiteBrite. If I had a quarter for every time my mom yelled at us that we were going to ruin her Kirby vacuum with those pegs…

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F0xxfyre@reddit

Ez bake oven. My family got me everything else girly!

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Dobercatmom65@reddit

I don't really remember wanting anything that badly. I figured out Santa Claus fairly young, and was always aware of our financial situation (I was the quiet kid who noticed everything, including my parents stress over money). so I never really allowed myself to dream. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I got what I got and was happy to have it.

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Key-Struggle-5647@reddit

Scalectrix In fact I still want a set

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YourHooliganFriend@reddit

Luke Skywalkers X-Wing Fighter

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irishwolf7578@reddit

A Nintendo. I have never owned the original. My mom didn't believe in video games.

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Bodine12@reddit

I wanted the Nintendo so bad. And then the moment finally came, and I unwrapped the gift my parents had gotten me: a used Atari 5200.

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ShaChoMouf@reddit

An AT-AT.

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Typical_Internet_730@reddit

Barbie Dream House, I have collected Barbies since I was 8 but never got the house. Asked for it every Xmas and birthday till I was 15, but no. Why the parents and grandparents didn't combine the cost is a mystery. I would get 3 or 4 dolls and accessories, which probably got close to the same price, but the adults always said it was too expensive 😔 I'm 52 now and still collect, but cannot find an original now. Just the 90s or 2000s, but they are not the same.

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orbitalgirl@reddit

I always wanted a Dallas Cowboys football uniform - helmet, shoulder pads, jersey, the whole deal. Had no one to play with and my dad didn't think it was something girls should have so I never got it. But I circled it in the Sears catalog every year.

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Unlikely_Pack3172@reddit

GT snow racer

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bleedingdaylight0@reddit

Easy-Bake Oven

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2nd_Pitch@reddit

Matchbox cars and a track. My traditional boomers believed if I played with cars I’d turn into a boy. That wouldn’t be ladylike.

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BeerWench13TheOrig@reddit

This must have been a thing. My parents bought me all the cars, trains, trucks and “boy toys” I wanted. I think it’s because I didn’t have a brother.

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CaptnInsaino101@reddit

The Star Wars AT-AT. I had quite a few sets, but was constantly a case of not today for the AT-AT.

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Bake_At_986@reddit

Power wheels

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jadeblackhawk@reddit

light brite

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EconomyStunning@reddit

Easy Bake Oven!

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BurnesWhenIP@reddit

GI Joe USS FLAGG... End of poll 😜

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AlphaTitan420@reddit

Castle Greyskull playset

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GarionOrb@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin

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greytgreyatx@reddit

Cabbage Patch Kid. We just couldn't afford it. I wanted the little boy with the curly hair.

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j33@reddit

A Green Machine

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myownlittleta@reddit

A dual shock absorber bike with a fake gas tank to take some sweet jumps

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Automatic-Stretch-48@reddit

Growing up yes, as I got older hardtail only please, now gimme that dual shock back.

Harder to bunny hop with dual suspension, not that it can’t be done just takes more effort.

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Negative-Language595@reddit

AT-AT. I saw one at the big community yard sale back in the 1980s, but it was something like $50! I did have the Death Star, and it was awesome.

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Shell831@reddit

Barbie Powerwheels

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stonemadcaptain@reddit

The original Transformer Grimlock.

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DifferentWindow1436@reddit

Probably super niche, but I was so jealous of my friend's collection of Micronauts

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Kauffman67@reddit

USS Flagg of course

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MNUFC-Uber_Alles@reddit

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116028880794?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=FS_cydhuSmO&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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Buffaloslim@reddit

Wow 50k??????

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evilpercy@reddit

Lego should licence this and bring it out.

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bambam1317@reddit

That would have to come in multiple boxes because of the size and weight, but would also be totally rad.

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HammerT4R@reddit

I had the Mattel Flying Aces Aircraft Carrier. Was never sure if I was lucky or ripped off by my parents.

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Bobloblaw2066@reddit

I had this too. I loved that thing even after the planes were long gone. I have even looked for it on eBay.

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WiseQuarter3250@reddit

The giant Voltron that transformed into the lions.

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splotch210@reddit

Speed skates.

Boobs.

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green_dragonfly_art@reddit

Toy fire truck, because I was a girl.

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AppleFan1994@reddit

A rock tumbler.

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beanzerbunzer@reddit

Me too, friend, me too. It’s the one thing I’m still a little bitter about.

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AppleFan1994@reddit

I have been tempted to buy one just for shits and giggles.

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Mud-Room-33@reddit

I always wanted one so I got one for my kids. Boy is that shit noisy.

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SomethingHasGotToGiv@reddit

I did get one and was left with so much disappointment. I put the rocks in the container, did everything I was supposed to do, and set it to tumble. We could never get the container to open again. My rocks were lost.

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TheRogueRook@reddit

This was the "centerfold" if you will when the Sears catalog came out. Lots of drooling kids dreamed of this. *

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DullDistribution3073@reddit

An atarti never got one. I even saved up 400 for one by working but we needed other things.

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Much-Chef6275@reddit

Easy Bake Oven! I never got it.

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shiggins2015@reddit

The wooden train set with the bridges and curves. Never had kids, would still play with one if given the chance!

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

The Snoopy snow cone maker and a Snoopy plush doll.

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1984nycpunk@reddit

Green machine

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SirLouisI@reddit

The blue he-man

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Potential_Camera1905@reddit

A Barbie Dream House. I got the camper van 😒

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Enough-Attention-430@reddit

This kind of thing explains a lot, doesn’t it?

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schmearcampain@reddit

A legit Morey Boogie Boogie Board

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YesYouTA@reddit

Ughhhhh I feel this in my bones.

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I_like_to_know@reddit

Barbies. My mom didn’t like the image they portrayed.

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Leftstrat@reddit

I wanted that huge slot car track, that was either in the Sears or JC Penny wish books.......

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bobthenob1989@reddit

The thing looked like it’d take up 1/2 the house!

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Leftstrat@reddit

It probably would have taken up our living room and kitchen. :)

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Eyeroll4days@reddit

I wanted the Barbie dream condo so bad

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AccomplishedBed1110@reddit

Gi Joe Aircraft Carrier. It was roughly 35 ft long x 18 ft wide x 1o ft high. It was incredible!!!!!

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DarthGuber@reddit

I'll tell you what I did have that made me a cynic at a very young age - Bulletman. The commercial went "Bulletman the human bullet" and had him flying down a string line between one kid and the other. He was awesome! I begged and begged and begged and finally my dad got me one. We tied a string on a doorknob and...nothing. He wouldn't slide, he would hardly budge if you pulled the line spring tight and facing the ground. Nothing could make the little bastard work.

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touringaddict@reddit

Millennium Falcon!

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bobthedruid@reddit

AT-AT

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Mrs_Laktash@reddit

Rock tumbler

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TwoAmoebasHugging@reddit

A Mongoose BMX bike. I always had a frankenbike of different parts I scavenged.

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Top_Raise_2590@reddit

An Atari

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jellybeanbopper@reddit

Air rifle

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Mrs_Laktash@reddit

Cabbage patch doll

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charliekwalker@reddit

The Millennium Falcon.

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Bobby_Globule@reddit

My friend had it, and his cat peed in it and they threw it away. It sent a wave of shock through our neighborhood.

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KikiStLouie@reddit

Malibu Barbie.

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soonerpgh@reddit

I wanted the Lone Ranger and Tonto action figures with the horses and everything.

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protonicfibulator@reddit

What I wanted: Mongoose BMX bike

What I got: shitty Montgomery Ward bike

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PieCareful9605@reddit

What I wanted: Quicksilver Helium

What I Got: even shittier Madison

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viazcon78@reddit

A Cabbage Patch doll. 🥲 They were crazy expensive for my parents to afford.

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Eofkent@reddit

Matchbox Voltron.

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tallulahgti@reddit

That weird cow that you could actually milk. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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kitschywoman@reddit

Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow. I still have mine because it was bitchin’.

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Mud-Room-33@reddit

This. I wanted this and never got this! I had forgotten all about it until I saw your comment. MILKY!

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Luvsseattle@reddit

I just wanted to play Ms.Pacman for REAL. With quarters. At a young age, I thought the long intro on the tabletop version was the real deal. My parents saved LOADS of quarters.

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fusionsofwonder@reddit

Never got the GI Joe F-14. But I did get the headquarters.

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JumpReasonable6324@reddit

I really, really wanted a Baby Alive doll. It "ate" and "pooped" (with some kind of mixture and water) and it freaked my mother out. She said it would be impossible to clean. I never got one. A few years later, I discovered my friend had one. She dug it out of her closet, and it was infested with mold. Right again, mom.

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Mud-Room-33@reddit

We dissected an old one when we were 12 or so. The whole tubing was black, disgusting!

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ActionMan48@reddit

The Green Machine😭

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FesterSilently@reddit

Those Tyco(?) slot car race track sets. 🏎️

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autogeriatric@reddit

Cher barbie

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Lost-Negotiation8090@reddit

Oh, I had Cher AND her dressing room play set. Best Christmas ever!! Should have hung onto that…

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Mud-Room-33@reddit

I had Cher too! She was bigger than Barbie so you had to get different clothes. The brochure had all her outfits from the show. I believe I had a Cheyenne outfit as one of mine.

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Beneficial-Cow-2544@reddit

The Cricket doll!! 😫😫😫😫

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Dark-Cloud24@reddit

Barbie motorhome 😫

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Tmac11223@reddit

I was poor as heck and all I wanted was a he-man action figure.

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kaycole69@reddit

Barbie Dream Home. I put it on my wish lists for Christmas and birthday for several years

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Intelligent-Win-5402@reddit

Easy bake oven

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Big-Degree1548@reddit

I wanted one of those horrific life size Barbie heads that you could smear lipstick on and poke plastic earrings into and all that Barbie hair to snarl and tangle.

I hope my parents were sorry they didn’t get me one when I just started doing it to myself in the mid-80’s.

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trashtrucktoot@reddit

Redline bike

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youdontlookadayover@reddit

I wanted a Big Wheel in the worst way, but my dad thought they were "too noisy". Like, Dad, we're not riding them inside.

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eanglsand@reddit

Stretch Armstrong or the octopus version. I remember seeing it in the sears catalog

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bachelorette2020@reddit

A cabbage patch doll :(

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BellaDingDong@reddit

An Easy Bake Oven!

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WesternSpinach9808@reddit

Autobot city and the ghost of optimus prime figure

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PieCareful9605@reddit

Stretch Armstrong Stretch

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PatrolPunk@reddit

All the Voltron lions.

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Greatone5150@reddit

Colecovision. Played it every time I went to sears.

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linkedit@reddit

Big Wheel.

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shaggin_maggie@reddit

Barbie’s Town House my mother said it was made like crap. She was right.

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jennie1723@reddit

A little tykes cozy coupe car.

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SatansWife13@reddit

Man, y’all are making me wanna spend my adult money on a shopping spree for toys I never got!

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Astro_dragon24@reddit

The treehouse toy

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Justlikeheaven8717@reddit

Glo Worm

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Top-Wind-9575@reddit

Cher styling doll

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chickenella@reddit

Easy Bake Oven and Lite Brite. My parents must have thought I'd burn down the house with them. Also Shrinky Dinks (another fire hazard). Super Elastic Bubble Plastic! I got that once but they took it away after hearing some kids got high from it. I didn't even know what high was!

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NeedanewhobbyKK@reddit

Barbie dream house. Got one ‘for my daughter’ eventually

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activelyresting@reddit

When I was about 8, I wanted a Tonka truck. Really really wanted one, asked Santa and everything.

So then Christmas morning rolls around and we wake up and there's 3 identically wrapped boxes under the tree from Santa. One for each kid.

My excitement was way up.

Of course my little sister, who was 2 got to open hers first because she's the youngest... Tonka bulldozer!

I was so excited!

Then my little brother who was 4 got to open his... Tonka dump truck?

My anticipation was through the roof!

I opened mine... FUCKING MALIBU BARBIE JEEP

😭

It was the same size as the Tonkas, but it was plasticky and it didn't do anything. I was so mad, but my mum just said "you're a girl, girls don't play with trucks". I protested that my sister got the Tonka I wanted, and mum just said, "well she's a baby so it doesn't count".

It's 40 years later and I'm still mad

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Cathalbrae@reddit

Anyone remember zoids?

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CoatNo6454@reddit

easy bake

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TheGreenLentil666@reddit

Green Machine, I had a broken old Big Wheel that sucked.

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GenXella@reddit

1986 Heart To Heart Bear! My husband ended up finding it in 2007 on eBay and gifted it to me the morning of our wedding!

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

Aww that’s so thoughtful! I wanted that one too.

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Euphoric-Proposal-42@reddit

That is so sweet!

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mikillbeorn@reddit

I still have mine. It was a Xmas gift from my Gramma and I still love the hell out of it

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GenXella@reddit

That's so cool you kept it! I still have mine too 🧸

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EducationalEffect397@reddit

Omg that’s so thoughtful and sweet 🥰

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GenXella@reddit

I was 10 in 1986 and watched the commercial every night. When I asked why D

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atcshane@reddit

Mustang gt 5.0

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YourMomThinksImSexy@reddit

Darth Vader Action Figure case.

I wanted it soooo badly, but we were dirt poor, and I only had four or five action figures anyway, two of which were missing a limb, lol.

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Huggyboo@reddit

A Barbie camper when I was 8. My mom decided I needed a musical instrument instead. I fucking hated that damn organ with a passion and never played it. Both my brothers got what they asked for. To this day, I hate 'surprise' gifts. She repeated this multiple times while growing up.

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Sassy_Bunny@reddit

Cabbage Patch doll

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almostalwayspleasant@reddit

Intellivision. I remember sitting in my friends living room on the brown shaggy carpet playing his intellivision. It looked so good compared to the 2600. My dad said it was a luxury we couldn't afford, but that I was welcome to try and save up for it. By the time I had enough money saved, its time was long past. Upside was that I used that money to start saving for a computer!

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

Cabbage Patch Kid… my dad convinced me they were lame, but I still really wanted one.

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Servile-PastaLover@reddit

Electric AFX/Tyco slot car set.

My older brother left his set behind...but Dad & I couldn't figure out how to get the track powered.

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stiggs13@reddit

Trans-Am

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inkydeeps@reddit

Lite-brite. My parents thought the little pieces would be a nightmare. They bought me one in my twenties to make it up to me

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Jewelieta@reddit

Teddy Ruxhin, Cabbage Patch Doll, Easy Bake Oven, snow cone maker

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RandoCreepsauce@reddit

The big Voltron. I think I had one foot.

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Much_Substance_6017@reddit

Fashion Plates. I still want it.

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baadkitteekittee@reddit

I loved fashion plates ! You can find the vintage sets on eBay. I know because I looked - I still love them and want them too! Lol

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keirmeister@reddit

The Millennium Falcon. I had pretty much every other Star Wars toy, including the AT-AT, but not the Falcon.

(Now I’m bitter all over again.)

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december116@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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Sheshley@reddit

Stretch Armstrong

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marythegr8@reddit

Came here to say this.

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xTiredSoulx@reddit

Atari or any video gaming thing.

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SwaggeringRockstar@reddit

Castle Greyskull, it never made it to my collection.

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CamelCheap9898@reddit

Malibu Barbie Dream House. I’m 47 and still search eBay for one. They’re out there!

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moonflower311@reddit

Chemistry set.

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Playful_Stand_677@reddit

Ghostbusters Firehouse. Back then every kid was into the cartoon just like I was. But only the elite few could afford the coveted Firehouse playset.

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SouthwestRose@reddit

Smaller Homes and Gardens dollhouse.

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Cake_Donut1301@reddit

X Wing Fighter

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bobthenob1989@reddit

A go cart or minibike from the Sears catalog. Freaking badass. I still want one at 53.

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NeedleworkerCivil534@reddit

The Barbie Dreamhouse. I got the townhome that had the elevator in it but I really wanted the house😢.

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Altered-BeastOG@reddit

Bigfoot

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Minimum_Intention848@reddit

Lol, was taught pretty early not to want too much.

Just scrolled through 50 or 60 posts and literally had none of them.

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Tater72@reddit

We couldn’t afford fancy toys but to be fair we didn’t have a television anyway so I didn’t get why others were into all the things they were. Without the marketing gods to tell me what I wanted I must have been lost

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Ok-Reputation-6297@reddit

A Rainbow Brite doll

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Left-Cry2817@reddit

Any remote-controlled airplane.

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WabiSabi0912@reddit

A replacement Big Wheel. My older brother’s friend sat on ours & broke it. I was only 4yo and had barely been allowed to use it after my brother outgrew it.

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18dsf@reddit

A slot car track.

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sir_culo@reddit

Yes! I had lame TCR. "Total Control" my ass.

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etreydin@reddit

AFX!

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PBJ-9999@reddit

That big bouncy red ball with the handle on it

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neverendum@reddit

Evil Knievel stunt cycle.

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schnookums13@reddit

Play-doh Mop Top Hair Shop. Not receiving this was how I found out there wasn't a Santa Claus

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jennyplayswithfire@reddit

A Cabbage Patch doll. I was the only kid in my 4th grade class without one. Damn I wanted one of those dolls so bad lol. I bought myself a few on Ebay as consolation when I grew up:)

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Aightball@reddit

Castle Greyskull and a He-Man doll. But all I got was She-Ra. Why? “She’s a girl…she can’t have He-Man toys”. A few destroyed Barbies later and I finally at least got the army men and Tonka truck I asked for 😂🙄

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conjas11@reddit

I wanted a Barbie doll clothes luggage thing. I got the cancer doll Hills special

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Noodnix@reddit

Taco mini bike. I actually bought one from a neighbor kid, but my dad said “Hell no!”, and made me give it back.

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snugglebandit@reddit

Atari 2600

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throawa25@reddit

Peaches and Craam Barbie 🍑

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punkolina@reddit

Baby Alive and Barbie motor home

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beachmonkeysmom@reddit

Lite Brite, Spirograph & Kerplunk were all things that I asked for multiple times but never got. Would have liked to have kept my Barbies after the age of 9; mom got into a new relationship and none of my girl toys made it over to the new house.

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Front-Enthusiasm7858@reddit

Strawberry Shortcake bike, with basket and training wheels.

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sweetsourpus@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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redditoramatron@reddit

The AT-AT from Star Wars. Asked for it for Xmas when I was 5.

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toooldforlove@reddit

That little oven thing.

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MrTheHim@reddit

That damn Bigfoot power wheels. Poverty sucks.

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calrammer@reddit

The one with the yellow and red shifters on top? That thing is still cool.

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Expensive-Tutor2078@reddit

Emotionally mature parents

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CantIgnoreMyTechno@reddit

Heathkit HERO 1 robot.

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dotplaid@reddit

Never had a Commodore 64

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Brading105@reddit

Millennium Falcon - I had the X-wing and the Tie fighter, among others, but never could afford the Falcon

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stametsprime@reddit

The Tonka Hand Commander Turbo Prop.

We weren’t poor, but also not GI Joe Aircraft Carrier rich. I got some nice gifts as a kid, but for whatever reason I asked for this like three Christmases in a row and never got one.

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Mylastnerve6@reddit

Battery powered car. And yes we got my kids one when I found it at a resale shop

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Independent_Ad_5664@reddit

I think I wanted a cabbage patch doll but also was too much of a tomboy to admit it.

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the-godpigeon@reddit

Big Trak

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Original-Staff-8245@reddit

I Vant to Bite Your Finger. A vampire game in which a vampire “bites” your finger with a red ink stamp lol

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LivingEnd44@reddit

One of those miniature table top packman games. Wanted one so bad. I would have accepted donkey Kong or even asteroids.

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bickel89@reddit

Baby Alive. She POOPED! I hit a Rub a Dub Dolly instead. So disappointing

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CreatrixAnima@reddit

Yeah, I got a baby that-a-way instead. It crawled.

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Herself24@reddit

a walkman

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abby-rose@reddit

Begged for an Easy Bake Oven, never got one

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Whsky_Lovers@reddit

Comador 64, but I got the Vic 20 instead.

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Signal-Upstairs-9319@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin.

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Muzmee@reddit

Not even a toy, but I desperately wanted a metal lunch box and the chance to bring a cold lunch. We were poor and my mom was like why would we send lunch when you get it for free at school?

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Cattle-egret@reddit

Ghostbusters firehouse. It was $40. And as a pipe dream a Nintendo. It was $100.

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random321abc@reddit

Not a toy, but when I was in middle school and about to go to high school I really wanted a two-tone Seiko watch. Not only did I never get it until I was an adult and bought it myself, but my brother was gifted one when he graduated from high school from my parents, at the same time that I wanted it.

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pumkinut@reddit

A transformer, any one of them would've been nice

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Capt_MoMorg@reddit

A Big Wheel.

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johnnywheels@reddit

The video camera that recorded on audio cassettes. Was that a real thing?

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Quirky-Pie9661@reddit

I was like most boys with parents who thought, “Where in the hell are you going to put a 6’ long GI Joe aircraft carrier?”

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CarpenterHot3766@reddit

One if those green machine big wheels

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jwezorek@reddit

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aspertame_blood@reddit

None- and it was well worth the trauma /s

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JosephLimes@reddit

Snake Mountain

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Miata_GT@reddit

BigTrak

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cdsfh@reddit

Cobra Terrordrome

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MrsAussieGinger@reddit

Barbie. I wanted Barbies so badly. I begged my parents, and instead I got two Sindy dolls. I was desperately ashamed of having Sindy, not Barbie.

20 years later I travelled to the UK, and stayed in a delightful B&B in the countryside. The wife took a shine to me, and we sat by her Aga while she told me about her arsehole husband. She had busted him in a 20- something year affair with his secretary. He begged her not to leave him, so she let him stay, but he slept in the granary.

He was a small broken man, sitting miserably in the corner, living off scraps of his wife's attention. Turns out he was also the inventor of the Sindy doll. Karma's a bitch.

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overmonk@reddit

Star Wars Death Star play set.

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afriendincanada@reddit

Everything Evel Knievel

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RuralEnceladusian@reddit

AT-AT

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PlinkPlonkFizz@reddit

Operation

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Practicenotperfectfl@reddit

Barbie dream house. When I was raising my son I explained that I survived even though I never got that dream house as a child. Fast forward to when he was in middle school we were Christmas shopping and there it was and he was like Mom you can afford it now! What a great kid.

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somePig_buckeye@reddit

Barbie Malibu Dream House.

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ReignOfTheRain@reddit

coleco football game. I still want it.

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serial_triathlete@reddit

Atari

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principaw@reddit

A real BMX bike. All of my friends had one and I was stuck on the “swing bike” my mother thought I would enjoy more, despite the fact we were surrounded by all sorts of off road biking environs.

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keekeegeegeedobalina@reddit

Cabbage patch doll. I got the homemade version. I still have my homemade version, it's beautiful. But not the same. And don't get me started on the Barbie dreamhouse.

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Pantokraterix@reddit

I wanted the Barbie motor home.

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cserskine@reddit

Easy Bake Oven. 😟

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imagine966@reddit

Coleco handheld football game

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OdinThePoodle@reddit

My Pet Monster

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AncientGuitar9254@reddit

Spider-Man web shooter

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Got_Bent@reddit

G.I. Army jeep kit. There was none left at the store for Christmas the bought the G.I. Joe Adventure Team Jeep and Trailer. Jeep was tan. It didn't have the bazooka but it did have the trailer and camp fire.

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Rhalellan@reddit

Ouija board-my parents freaked when I asked for it and my father paddled me.

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ValiantThor1974@reddit

Omega Supreme. So badass.

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Simple_Sound_3831@reddit

My friend had one it was sweet but I was afraid to break it, or I’d still be paying it off

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Butch1212@reddit

The Walkman

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RetroactiveRecursion@reddit

That spinning disc with the paratroopers.

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GrimTragic@reddit

A Big Wheel

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AhhGramoofabits@reddit

Power wheels

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postprandialrepose@reddit

Transformers - Omega Supreme.

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Simple_Sound_3831@reddit

This is the way

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gettinglooseaf@reddit

Nifty Fifty!

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Weak_Ad6116@reddit

Easy bake oven and a rock tumbler

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MediumAd2354@reddit

Almost all of the boys section of the Sears Robuck catalog. I wanted the Navarone Mountain base for Army men.

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PiperPeraboo@reddit

Real Care Bear, I had a homemade pillow version.

I bought a giant Bedtime bear early 2000s reissue, it was 100% worth it.

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cyclepoet77@reddit

Transformers Fortress Maximus

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WatchOut4Sharks@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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Least-Enthusiasm7239@reddit

Sit n' Spin and Strollin' Bowling.

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Original_Musician103@reddit

This. https://micronauts.fandom.com/wiki/Astro_Station

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xjeanie@reddit

I wanted the creepy crawler maker. But it was a boy toy. 😢

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Snoringdragon@reddit

The Barbie Dream Camper. But that was a tight year, so my ever-thrifty Mom found a GI Joe camping set all in pressed olive green plastic. A tent. A green fire. Cooking utensils. And a semi-automatic rifle and handgun. I was nice about it, 'cause you can't say she didn't try. And I actually loved it, my Barbie was a bad-ass gun toting woman of the land, dammit. My younger cousin got the camper, and I was less than impressed overall. Her brother got the giant Star Wars 1 playhouse (with garbage worm), and it beat out all the other presents anyway!

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crackersucker2@reddit

A skateboard.

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Mindless_Travel@reddit

The Evel Knievel action figure with bike and ramp. Received a really small version that had no moving parts.

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Pleasant-Parsley-816@reddit

Teddy Rukspin. My cousins had one and I was very jealous.

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Icy_Ability_4240@reddit

Atari

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Difficult_Cake_7460@reddit

Easy bake oven, Barbie dream house.

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towniediva@reddit

I couldn't have an easy bake oven because my mom thought they were too dangerous 🙄

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Bergenia1@reddit

The Barbie pink Corvette

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notjewel@reddit

Cabbage Patch. Actually thought they were grotesque, but I wanted to fit in with the other girls. Parents were a hard no. It was the beginning of my path to punk rock and debauchery. Regrets? No idea. I am who I am. Because of cabbage patch? Will we ever know?😈

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Ernie_Munger@reddit

Operation board game

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Packermule@reddit

Optimus Prime ,Megatron ,and Omega Supreme

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mongo1976@reddit

U.S.S. Flagg

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tfly212@reddit

The GI Joe aircraft carrier

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JustYourAvgHumanoid@reddit

The Cabbage Patch Doll with the pacifier & white shoes

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anothercynic2112@reddit

A little different version. I wanted the Starbird so much but it was like $40. There's no way my parents would spend that much.

But I got it, and was bored with it before the end of Christmas day. I never asked for an expensive gift again.

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dgarner58@reddit

This is easy. Millennium Falcon - the big one.

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barn_burner@reddit

Anything from the Sears Christmas Catalog

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SparklyRoniPony@reddit

Easy bake oven. I got everything else I wanted, except that.

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Just_Me1973@reddit

An Easy Bake Oven!

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MaybeUNeedAPoo@reddit

A Veritech from Robotech

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BabyGorilla1911@reddit

Yamaha Banshee.

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Liakinsrotz@reddit

A Speak and Spell. My husband knew how much I wanted one and bought one on eBay for my 40th birthday.

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emmsmum@reddit

I mean….all of it..my neighbor had everything so I played with his crap. I don’t think my parents felt toys were necessary.

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Ldghead@reddit

Most of them.

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TheQuadBlazer@reddit

Stretch or the monster version of stretch.

But I'm pretty sure my mom knew I would open it up to see what was inside.

And I would have after a day.

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dangerfielder@reddit

A big wheel. We lived on a dirt road and we had a two-track driveway so it made zero sense. I had really cool bicycles. But I always wanted a big wheel.

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SaltyDogBill@reddit

All of them. While my friends got the x wing or tie fighter or snow speeder…. If to the be spin cloud city pod ship…. Fucking sucked. Not Traxx. I got go bots instead of transformers. Metal generic hot wheels. Sucked.

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jayhawkeye2@reddit

Maskatron!

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WhyLie2me18@reddit

Barbie Dream House

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Sparta1999@reddit

The Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine

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TideWaterRun@reddit

A BB gun. Was one of the first things I purchased for myself when I turned 18.

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Kickedmetoe@reddit

Battlestar Galactica Cylon Raider

Space 1999 Eagle

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Mzjulesaz@reddit

Cabbage patch baby

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nochickflickmoments@reddit

Castle Grayskull. I love He-Man but my mom said no because I was a girl. I could only play with it when we went to her friend's house who had a little boy.

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Upbeat_Try_1718@reddit

The game of life

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Uncle_Alice@reddit

Personally, I always wanted the 5-bot Lion Voltron. Not the plastic one with the canopies that opened for figures to sit inside. No. I wanted the die-cast metal one.

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velveetqhead@reddit

Easy Bake Oven. My mom told me if I wanted to bake a cake I could use the real oven.

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TARYN1777@reddit

Barbie head, you could do it’s hair and everything

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TigerGrizzCubs78@reddit

Megatron

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NeedaApologized@reddit

GI Joe USS Flagg aircraft carrier with full complement of SkyStrikers.

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h3m1cuda@reddit

Yep. One of my neighbors had it. Thing was huge. It definitely wouldn't fit in my room.

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jjhart827@reddit

The Millennium Falcon. I had just about every other Star Wars toy, but that one was always elusive.

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logie68@reddit

Rock um sock um

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Fair-Kaleidoscope113@reddit

A Pound Puppy.

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remembers-fanzines@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin. I was told I was too old. (I think I was ten.)

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h3yd000ch00ch00@reddit

Barbie dream house and Barbie make me pretty head. I got a Barbie townhouse and I was happy. I just recently saw a nostalgia post on the Barbie dream house, showing it was 90 bucks. So I totally get why I got the town house lol

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AllyCat5309@reddit

Fisher Price castle with the dragon.

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Ineedlunch72@reddit

Boner head Ted!

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mysissy72@reddit

The first year cabbage patch came out my mom couldn’t get one so I ended up with one of those fake ones. I was so sad. I got the real one the following Christmas but by that time I didn’t really want it anymore. But that initial devastation taught me a lesson on how to pretend to be happy.

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Mammoth-You7419@reddit

Easy bake oven

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lemon-rind@reddit

Barbie Dream House.

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dgson90@reddit

I wanted a Millennium Falcon so damn bad

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Randomwhitelady2@reddit

X wing fighter. I did get a huge transformer

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This-Bug8771@reddit

You did not miss anything. I got the x-wing and it was a gyp

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

What? It was amazing. I got tie fighters, brother got X wing and Y Wing.

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This-Bug8771@reddit

It was far more impressive on TV. I remember it cost like $30 1980 dollars or something like that. That was a small fortune for us.

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mkarr514@reddit

Easy bake oven

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brumsk33@reddit

I wanted Transformers Fortress Maximus. My parents bought me the Gobots Mobile Fortress instead.

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requiemguy@reddit

The Defiant

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GreaseSlitherspoon@reddit

🗡️💀Castle Greyskull 💀🗡️

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

M.A.S.K. Boulder Hill. Don’t judge, haha!

https://retrotoyquest.com/playset-boulder-hill-alex-sector-kenner-1985-mask/

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rich4pres@reddit

Nothing. My parents were great. Honestly, I always got what I asked for. I didn’t ask for much but they always delivered.

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Ellabee57@reddit

A Sit 'N Spin!!!! I would actually buy one now, if they made adult size ones.

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phoenixliv@reddit

Pow Pow Powerwheels!

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jonzin@reddit

Big Wheel or The Mean Green Machine

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Scrumpilump2000@reddit

Kenner’s ‘Millenium Falcon’. My dad couldn’t justify the price of what he thought was just a piece of moulded plastic. He would have bought me a new bike but I already had a good bike. I wanted the Millenium Falcon.

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ZeroScorpion3@reddit

Not a toy, but I really wanted Nike sneakers. I remember going to school after the holidays and so many kids got Nike sneakers and all I wore was Sears Winner 2

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ezgomer@reddit

EZ Bake Oven

My bf had one so I at least got to touch it, but never got one of my own.

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AbjectPromotion4833@reddit

The fashion plates you can swap out to make different designs.

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shinyshannon@reddit

Barbie Townhouse.

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NCSubie@reddit

Mongoose BMX bike with those sweet mag wheels. Tried to find a pic, and saw that they’re selling on eBay for $2,900… 🤣

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philiptherealest@reddit

I just retired from Japan and while I was there I bought an 80s Optimus Prime and a Blue Voltron Cat. I will not let my child play with them.

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lokinori@reddit

Baby Alive, Betty Crocker Oven, Sit and Spin. Hubby says, Mongoose or Diamond Back bike.

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likeadollseyes@reddit

Cabbage Patch Kid

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Music19773@reddit

My Dad still tells the story of how he braved the 1983 riots to get me a Cabbage Patch doll. He said it was pure chaos with people running, shoving, and almost coming to blows over a $25 stuffed doll.

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likeadollseyes@reddit

You are a lucky girl!

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IndoorPursuits@reddit

The Millennium Falcon. The big one.

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witchywoman628@reddit

Easy Bake oven.

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0331-USMC@reddit

Mongoose

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Plague_doctor11@reddit

The camera that recorded video onto audiocassette tapes.

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leftcoast98@reddit

Snoopy Snowcone Machine!!

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ezgomer@reddit

Don’t feel so bad. It is a literal torture device.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

I can still hear the song in my head.

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leftcoast98@reddit

https://youtu.be/lMXqRlAcbOo?si=qgfXrSGyc4gIXS4D

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leftcoast98@reddit

Totally! I have to check YouTube now 😂👏🏼

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Waughwaughwaugh@reddit

A damn EZ bake oven and one of those yellow and red ride on cars. Not that I’m bitter about it or anything.

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MrSpoopinRD@reddit

Atari 2600

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bonesthadog@reddit

Cabbage Patch Kid

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Girl_with_no_Swag@reddit

Barbie anything. My mom said Barbie was a floozy.

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JenNtonic@reddit

Some robot in the JC Penney’s catalog that probably did nothing more than a remote control car but I thought it would be the George Jetson level robot at the time.

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JagerAkita@reddit

Autobot city metroplex

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elseman@reddit

Ez bake oven

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bmiller218@reddit

Not really toy but I saw Godzilla vs. Megalon in the theater and in the opening shot there's a boy riding a dolphin that is powered by two smaller dolphins, one on each side. In hindsight it's probably a terrible paddle boat. But I have never felt more envy in my life.

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ZeroScorpion3@reddit

I'm the only one to Upvote you, but man did I want that too!!! Plus it was one of the best Godzilla movies when I was a kid!!

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Haunting_Bottle7493@reddit

EZ Bake Oven

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Pale_You_6610@reddit

Quiz Whiz

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DNSGeek@reddit

A 2XL learning robot. I wanted one so badly.

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Blue_Max1916@reddit

Original Voltron w the lions

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Dragonfly95815@reddit

A Light Bright or a Big Wheel.

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polishprince76@reddit

I had 2 friends that had all the GI Joe toys, and it made me so jealous. I never even cared about the Aircraft Carrier, because it was so ridiculously huge. But having ALL the characters and vehicles? That, I wanted.

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Moni6674@reddit

Barbie dream house. I bought a mini one for my desk. It made me happy.

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ohwhataday10@reddit

Monopoly! Never did get it! lol

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WanderingWhileHigh@reddit

Barbie Mansion and Cabbage Patch Kid. My saint of a mother bought me a knock off doll that was made by some little old lady at her church. I was so disappointed. lol. She has more than made up for it since.

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acutomanzia@reddit

Duke's of Hazzard Barn Busters (and I'm still pissed!)

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liquilife@reddit

Voltron. The entire collection of all 5 lions. I wanted that so fucking badly. I was almost willing to steal it. Never got it. Still want it. Wife doesn’t understand.

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Music19773@reddit

There were 3 of us and together we got one complete set. My brothers each got 2, and I got the one girl pink lion. It definitely made us learn to share and play together more often lol

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S1159P@reddit

An EZ Bake Oven

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fake-august@reddit

Barbie Dreamhouse. I got the townhouse instead.

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Ethernetman1980@reddit

Honestly only my Dad worked and both my brother and I had epic Christmas’s. I had almost every M.O.T.U figure at one time. I do remember my mom used that lay away at Hills though. I don’t recall ever not being happy when it came to gifts. I had a lot of older Aunts and Uncles as well though. Times have changed I make like 3x what my Dad earned and my wife makes good money and doesn’t go as far. We didn’t ask for 1k IPhones either though 😅

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Wetschera@reddit

My dad had a college degree in chemistry but chose to work as an appliance delivery person and later as an auto mechanic at the same company.

The average IQ of an auto mechanic is 85.

I definitely wanted a Millennium Falcon and a better foundation in life.

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Gen7Malibu@reddit

Atari Lynx

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MonctonCaper@reddit

Devastator

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Smooth_Beginning_540@reddit

The Cobra plane that resembled an A-10 Thunderbolt II—straight wings, twin engines mounted near the tail. I had Cobra Commander and Destro and the Baroness, just not the plane.

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OkIntroduction5150@reddit

A Teddy Ruxpin. Wanted one so bad!

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fifthdementia@reddit

Shogun Warrior, Raydeen. I really wanted that one.

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likewhenyoupee@reddit

Transformers and vultron

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JLlo11@reddit

Omg I had a lot of toys growing and am now a massive Vintage Barbie collector. I guess I never stopped playing!

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bonborVIP@reddit

Hmm, there were a lot, but Mall Madness is the first thing that came to mind!

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shifty808@reddit

Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Fisher-Price Adventure People diving boat, PlayMobil pirate ship

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SomethingHasGotToGiv@reddit

Big Wheel. My birthday is the end of November so there wasn’t a gifting time when there wasn’t any snow outside. That was always the reason. BTW - Anyone else only get gifts for their birthday and Christmas and never any other time of year?

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pickleddresser@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin, Easy Bake Oven, TMNT van, green jeans

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Kallidon865@reddit

I never did get a NES. My buddies had one, so I played alot of their place so I went with a Sega Master System instead. It definitely items had some spectacular games.. and was cool having something different. I eventually did get one later in high school.

Along with that.. God damn I wanted the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier. I'd see it setup at the Bay for a fee years around Christmas and stare at it for hours

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Non-Intelligent_Tea@reddit

Electronic Battleship.

My parents never bought it because my sister already had the regular, non-electronic version. I loved anything electronic, so I thought it'd just be SO MUCH better with entering in the co-ordinates and seeing the hit/miss.

In retrospect... my parents were probably right. It was just a gimmick, and didn't really add much. Also, Battleship was sort of a dumb game with little strategy.

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Feeling-Resident-857@reddit

one of those ride-on bouncy horses (wonder horse?) with the springs that would pinch the hell out of you if you weren’t careful.

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digital@reddit

Star Wars Millennium Falcon including all the action figures of Luke, Han, Leia, Ben, Chewbacca, R2D2 and C-3PO 😀

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marcincan@reddit

The Blue Comet Lionel steam train

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mikedorty@reddit

Millennium Falcon. My grandpa got my older cousin one and I got a Darth Vader tie fighter. Im still salty.

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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

Laser Tag. I'm still annoyed that I didn't get it.

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SoFlaSun@reddit

One of every single model horse - full size and miniature - made by Breyer.

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ElectricTomatoMan@reddit

Not a toy. A mini bike.

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Bobannon@reddit

I'm an only child and generally got whatever I asked for.

The two exceptions: piano lessons (we had no piano and no one had electric keyboards yet) and a Baby Alive.

My dad wouldn't buy that because he figured the food she eats would just stay inside and rot and end up a maggoty mess.

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fancy_underpantsy@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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F1ForeverFan@reddit

Tyco RC car!

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flyingsolo943@reddit

Easy bake oven, Barbie dream house

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merford28@reddit

The stuffed cat with the radio in its belly that lies on your bed.

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The1Ylrebmik@reddit

Mego 2 XL Talking Robot. My mom still brings it up to this day that that is the one present she regrets not getting for me.

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PurpleMonkeyPoop@reddit

A cabbage patch doll. My mum wouldn’t even let my Nonna buy one, and we were in China/Hong Kong for a visit and would have been cheaper there. Nonna ended up getting me one, when I was in my 30s LOL

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NoGur1165@reddit

Redline by Kenner. Saw it in Kaybee toys at the mall. There was a crowd of kids around it at all times. I’m sure my parents didn’t get it because of the annoying noises it made. Haha

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ForswornForSwearing@reddit

X-Wing. Or Millennium Falcon. I was born just a touch too early. By the time I saw the movies, it was all Empire toys on the shelf. The twin-pod Cloud Car just didn't have quite the same zing.

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SpawnPointillist@reddit

A Millennium Falcon that could fit Star Wars figures, and an AT-AT.

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Mythicwoe2026@reddit

Roller skates 🛼

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glueintheworld@reddit

Weeblea Treehouse

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trashytasting@reddit

A magic 8 ball. Strict “no witchcraft” policy in the house.

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DedInside50s@reddit

Easy Bake oven. I bought a used one for $10 when I was 49 yrs old. About the time we played with it, the old hot light bulbs, were going to led, rendering it useless. But, my kids and I had fun for a month, before I gave it away.

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Horror_Purple1867@reddit

Teddy Rexpun - My cousin got a Teddy Rexpun, I would bug him to let me spend the night, so I could play with Teddy.

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fuxxwitclowns@reddit

Glow worm :(

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Yasashii_Akuma156@reddit

I wanted an NES, my parents couldn't understand technological progress, "you already have a goddamned 2600 and 5200!".

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Electrical_Book4861@reddit

Transformers Constructicons. Only Transformers I ever asked for

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beezerweezer@reddit

The Barbie head with a little tray…you could put makeup on her and do her hair. I wasn’t even into that kind of thing when I was little so I don’t know why I wanted it so badly. My mother was like, no it costs too much. You know what, she was right.

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Earfaceear@reddit

Not a toy but I always wanted a red line bicycle but was too expensive

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Yarg2525@reddit

Easy Bake oven

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pruplegti@reddit

Green Machine.

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Calliesdad20@reddit

Atari 2600

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Curious-Theory131@reddit

Baby Alive

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crazyindixie@reddit

Literally anything except underwear and socks.

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AuntieMeridium@reddit

Any Radio Shack remote controlled vehicle ever made.

Apparently, they weren't for girls...🥺

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JuracichPark@reddit

A rock tumbler!! Every year, I asked for a rock tumbler. And in the early 2000s, my parents got one-- for one of my little sisters. I'm 50 now, still no rock tumbler.

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phoonie98@reddit

My friend had all of the Transformers that could combine to form an even bigger Transformer and man, I was so freaking jealous

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Firm-Loquat-7956@reddit

Tygra action figure from Thunder Cats. Was always sold out, everywhere. I'm 5 calling every toy store every week. Never got it, to this day. I made one out of cardboard. My younger brother got Panthro and the tank but I never got my favorite...

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nopeofnopenope@reddit

An NES with Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Mega Man. Instead, dad got me a Sega with Sonic the Hedgehog, and never another game.

Guess it’s time to get on FB marketplace and buy one.

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MorteDagger@reddit

All the transformers and gi Joe stuff along with all the jem and the holograms stuff.

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ice1000@reddit

Gobots. They disappeared and the Transformers took over.

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oracleofnonsense@reddit

Atari.

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susitucker@reddit

I always wanted the action figures and ships from Star Wars. Didn’t Luke’s lightsaber come out of his arm? And Vader’s too, I would guess.

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coldoldduck@reddit

The Barbie Dream House. I wanted one so badly.

My friend had one, and my cousin got the huge RV for Christmas one year and I was green with envy.

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Nice_Rope_5049@reddit

Digger! The dog that walked with you. My dad told me to go walk our real dog, LOL

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JJDiet76@reddit

There was like a toy dog, looked like a Bassett if I remember correctly and you rolled a ball to it and it would catch it. I think I was five so it was 81 or so but man I wanted that thing so bad one year and never got it

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avidreader202@reddit

I received it but now want for my kid, Gun it and Go Chopper.

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almeath@reddit

Optimus Prime

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eat_a_burrito@reddit

Voltron. I still want a Voltron.

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bigstrizzydad@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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mafuman@reddit

A bicycle. Promised to me by my Uncle Alfresco

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LucksMom13@reddit

The evil kneviel motor cycle that you wound up on the platform thing

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artsy7fartsy@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

Mom said I could use the real oven any time I wanted but it’s not the same

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TotallyDissedHomie@reddit

Go kart, motorcycle, anything to go fast.

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Hateithere4abit@reddit

My father was a huge stoner who loved Star Trek, and he had the Enterprise set. I remember being forbidden to even go in his office because, well, I was a kid. Never played with it..But the way they did the Transporter( put the doll in this spin around section, spin it and stop it outside the set) , I found fascinating…

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emgyres@reddit

Mousetrap and Operation

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Ice_princess50@reddit

Cabbage patch kid

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0hheyitsme@reddit

Captain Kirk action figure

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Dismal-Meringue6778@reddit

EZ Bake Oven and Snoopy Snow Cone Machine. I still can remember jingle for the Snow Cone Machine.

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Son0faButch@reddit

Easy Bake Oven. I'm a guy. With a sweet tooth.

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FaceMaulingChimp@reddit

My local Kiddie City had a special promotion for the Star Wars bar scene set with 4 action figures and I put it as the #1 item on my Christmas list . Bring a 6 year old , I snuck a look under my parent’s bed for presents and saw the set! But Christmas came and no bar scene set . I asked my mom about it and she said they opened the set and it only had 2 action figures so they returned it because they thought they got ripped off and there were no more sets left by Christmas week . And that is why I became a serial killer.

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GloriaToo@reddit

Everyone got ataris and I got an odyssey.

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CBTprovider@reddit

I had a Big Wheel, but I wanted The Green Machine! It had two handles instead of a steering wheel, IIRC, but the ads convinced me that I needed one that I didn’t end up getting.

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DollChiaki@reddit

Malibu Barbie. My mother thought they were an offense against women.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

But you were a girl, not a woman.

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RoninRobot@reddit

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Helorugger@reddit

Lawn darts. Parents gave that an immediate veto…

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Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit

we were spoiled AF.. the only toy I remember really wanting and them not buying us was a NES... no reason given. We eventually did acquire one, but we only topped out at two games, and one of them was E.T. hahaha.

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BizarroMax@reddit

That Construx set that makes a huge dinosaur.

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arthurjeremypearson@reddit

Die cast macross plus robot that turns into a jet

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Agodunkmowm@reddit

Matchbox car racetrack. We were solidly middle class and I always had a haul at Christmas but had that shit on my list for years. I raised 3 boys and bought more tack and more cars (the xv racers were awesome). We had racetracks down the stairs outside, along the deck back into the house. It was awesome!

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deedeejayzee@reddit

Easy bake oven

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RAWR_Orree@reddit

The Mego Baron Karza and Force Commander (Micronauts) figures...

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iono777@reddit

Super Nintendo. My mom's reasoning was we had the OG NES, we didn't need the SNES.

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SnarkyGenXQueen@reddit

Barbie Dream House, but I did get the dream cottage.

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thereverenddirty@reddit

Voltron. My mom bought me the knock off at JCPenney‘s called googolplex or something like that

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SteelMagnolia941@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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Whazzahoo@reddit

I wanted Barbie’s Dream house.. I got the townhouse instead. I wanted the EZ bake oven. I got a snoopy snowcone maker instead.

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AshS1694@reddit

One of those red and yellow cars by Little Tikes…a Cozy Coupe

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StalyCelticStu@reddit

Big Trak

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stomperxj@reddit

A hobby grade RC car. Parents got me the small cheap stuff a couple times and I had a Radio Shack Audi quattro that took 6 fuckin C batteries and 4 AAs that would last maybe an hour. Finally bought myself a used Tamiya Frog in about 87. Been hooked ever since.

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skeebawler4@reddit

The Shogun Warriors, quipped with all the missile launchers that the creators intended, before people got all "safety conscious." The kind of toy to make lawn darts look like a puff ball.

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HumpaDaBear@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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ruka_k_wiremu@reddit

Casio MG-880 game calculator

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tireworld@reddit

I was never allowed to have Masters of the Universe toys thanks to my mom thinking it was satanic. I always wanted a castle greyskull..

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socgrandinq@reddit

A giant Tyco racing set

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Impossible-Key-2212@reddit

Mongoose BMX bike.

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Weak-End8864@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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MyriVerse2@reddit

I had some Lego, but never enough Lego.

The Green Machine was the first toy I was jealous about because I was too old for it.

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

Please refrain from using Lego as plural. It’s Legos and everyone knows it. “I got some Legos.”

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CptBronzeBalls@reddit

I really wanted an Apple II, or at least a C64. I ended up with a Vic-20. Not nearly as good, but I still used the hell out of it.

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fruitless7070@reddit

The Oopsie Daisy doll.

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Dynamo_Ham@reddit

I always wanted a BB gun, but the closest my folks ever let me get was a wrist rocket.

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Greentigerdragon@reddit

70s: Barnstormer/s (game)

80s: - He-Man figures & playsets - Centurions toy line - Transformers - basically any toy based on the saturday morning cartoons.

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notoriginal59@reddit

Clash of the titans Kraken and AT-AT

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GarySparkle@reddit

We got Clash of the Titans Kraken... It was amazing.

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trexhatespushups42@reddit

Snoopy snow cone machine

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Extension_Case3722@reddit

Barbie townhouse with the elevator

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maddmattg@reddit

Optimus Prime

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Hateithere4abit@reddit

Star Wars Death Star

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Turbulent-Cake8280@reddit

Daisy airsoft

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IceNein@reddit

As a kid who loved both Transformers and Robotech, I really wanted Jetfire, which was just a rebranded Macross toy

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MissDisplaced@reddit

I wanted a rock tumbler but my mom never got me one as that was considered a “boys” toy.

Last year I bought myself one for xmas.

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novelist9@reddit

An AT-AT.

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noneckjoe123@reddit

Vectrex video game system

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jerk1970@reddit

Star Wars comforter. I got one 35 years later for my son.

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I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha@reddit

The big Voltron set

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Empty_Divide153@reddit

Also wanted this Tiffany Taylor doll, so versatile in her wannabe Bob Mackie disco dress!

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Whitey1969SC@reddit

Big wheel with the power slide brake

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BigDaddy420-69-69@reddit

A Nintendo & the Lego Milineum Falcon

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Significant-Spite-72@reddit

Barbie town house with working elevator 😂

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gino_rizzo@reddit

The GI Joe aircraft carrier.

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Important-Jackfruit9@reddit

Snoopy sno-cone maker

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mlemon2022@reddit

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haircritter@reddit

Strawberry shortcake. My dad found out it was scented and banned it from existence. My mom tried to make it up with coloring books and a lunchbox.. but 😞

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

Snoopy Sno Cone Machine

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Generny2001@reddit

The original Star Wars AT-AT toy. 🤘🤘🤘

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ratteb@reddit

The BIG Tyco race track in the last few pages of the Sears Wishbook.

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helena_handbasketyyc@reddit

I wanted a little play kitchen so bad.

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Jealous-Review8344@reddit

Optimus prime transformer. Still want it, but it's WAY out of my price range now

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SuzyQ93@reddit

The Mousetrap board game. I thought all the moving pieces were so freaking cool.

I actually did get a Cabbage Patch, and a Care Bear - but years after their high points, and I know I paid for the Care Bear myself (I believe it cost $13 from Venture), and I'm *fairly* sure I bought myself the Cabbage Patch as well. I feel like those things ran about $30 when they were hot? I must have gotten one on a super-sale, because I'm sure I didn't pay anywhere near that much. Probably $17-20 or so.

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LDawnBurges@reddit

Barbie Camper

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paulabear203@reddit

I wanted a Suckerman by Mattel.

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ratteb@reddit

Big Wheel

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FooPlinger@reddit

Capsela

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Empty_Divide153@reddit

A Gidget, and if someone knows what that is, kudos. :)

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beanzerbunzer@reddit

Yes!! And I did have one, but I believe that I bought it myself with money my mom gave me for a science museum field trip.

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Empty_Divide153@reddit

So cool. It was definitely not a mainstream toy.

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mybloodyballentine@reddit

Loved this. Would play with it for hours.

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Empty_Divide153@reddit

Aww, you lucky! I’m not even sure if I had one or no (and have forgotten) but I certainly remember it. I think it was made from the same materials as Mood rings lol

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0range-You-Glad@reddit

Easy bake oven

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MizLucinda@reddit

Barbie dream house. Still would play with that.

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HadynGabriel@reddit

Man I wasn’t allowed to have any he-man figures so I had to trade for a couple and hide them in my room. I wanted to USS Flagg GI Joe carrier, but I knew we couldn’t afford it. We also couldn’t afford cabbage patch kids (I’m a young gen X) so my mom sewed some for us. Also as someone else said - we got go-boys instead of transformers.

It wasn’t all that being poorer than the other kids on the street, but at least back then we could take a nerf ball and make our own fun.

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cnation01@reddit

The green machine big wheel. We were so broke man, there was no way I was getting that.

One of the kids in my neighborhood had one. He let me ride it on a few occasions. I was thrilled !

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lordjohnworfin@reddit

A BMX bike. Never got one.

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TurdMcDirk@reddit

The GI Joe USS FLAGG

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NoPoliticalParties@reddit

Easy bake oven Light bright

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LtLemur@reddit

NEO GEO

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cartoonchris1@reddit

Any of the Star Wars, GI Joe, MOTU, Transformers, Super Powers playsets. All my playsets were just the styrofoam inserts from everyone’s Christmas presents. They made for great Hoth rebel base and landscapes. For years you’d find a random styrobead stuck in some nook in my room no matter how many times you’d vacuum.

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CitronTechnical432@reddit

Commodore 64

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It_is_me_Mike@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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d0chd0ch@reddit

A real skateboard, not the high plastic one I had

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michyb71@reddit

Commodore 64. Got a Vic 20.

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funkcatbrown@reddit

My own Green Machine. Had to borrow neighbor kids ones. And let me tell you I was a badass and could beat anyone on it.

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jeepney_danger@reddit

I really wanted to have the MASK toys.

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u16173@reddit

Green Machine

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jollytoes@reddit

An Atari or ColecoVision game console. My parents refused to get anything like that because too much tv could rot my brain.

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7of69@reddit

I always wanted the HERO robot kit from Heathkit, but they were way too expensive for my family.

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cowtownman75@reddit

A Bigtrax. Maybe I’ll now buy myself one for Christmas!

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Opposite_Ad_1707@reddit

Six million dollars man walker talkies

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Doc_Spratley@reddit

I love my old era Star Wars die-cast ships,, I had the x-wing, vaders' tie, snow speeder, land speeder, y-wing, and falcon,,, but,, never was able to get the Star Destroyer. It had a little hatch on the bottom that would open to let loose Leias' ship....

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ResponsibleFly9076@reddit

Spirograph

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jskisrq@reddit

Matchbox car track that went up the way to defy gravity

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michyb71@reddit

Cabbage Patch Doll. 😭

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ReadRightRed99@reddit

Imperial Walker and Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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Intelligent_Grade372@reddit

Stretch Monster!!

I got a similar size, hard plastic Hulk doll instead. Tbf, my parents didn’t have a fucking clue who tf Stretch Armstrong or Monster were.

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Chrispr30@reddit

All of em. We were broke as fuck. 😂

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Barragin@reddit

All 5 original Dinobots

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nanspud@reddit

Barbie Townhouse and blow up furniture.

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BlueMoon5k@reddit

Cabbage patch doll

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Mr_Zizzle@reddit

Green Machine

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theotherdude@reddit

The entire line of M.A.S.K toys. Too poor to even buy the smallest one, Condor.

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Dangerous_Abalone528@reddit

Easy Bake Mini Wave Oven.

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Why-did-i-reas-this@reddit

That really well made wooden train set. The giant tyco race track that I see posted here a lot.

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cacecil1@reddit

Lite Brite and Easy Bake Oven

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fungusamongus8@reddit

i wanted the Barbie swimming pool, got the dreamhouse with an elevator so i was still happy.

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Cryptosmasher86@reddit

Voltron

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PositiveCelery@reddit

Millenium Falcon

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RavishingRickiRude@reddit

USS Flag

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rockjones@reddit

Tomy Omnibot 2000

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Free_Village_4836@reddit

Rainbow Brite

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lazygirlapproved@reddit

Easy bake oven. Now I have a dual basket air fryer 😁 I cooked choc chip cheesecake bagel bites in it last night. So good.

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VeeLund@reddit

Cabbage Patch Doll. Mom said so was too old. I was born in 72

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New-Arachnid-9265@reddit

Barbie dream house and an Atari.

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MadMatchy@reddit

The giant Alien figure

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Senior_Arugula5896@reddit

Lite Brite!

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StopSignsAreRed@reddit

A big wheel. My stupid brother got a Green Machine, but did I ever get one? Nooooooooo!

To be fair though, I’m pretty sure my father stole that Green Machine like he did my first bike. Which I named The Duster.

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Mysterious_Luck7122@reddit

Easy Bake Oven

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LibertyMike@reddit

The Millenium Falcon.

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teacherlady71@reddit

Canbage Patch doll.

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BadBadgerBad@reddit

Optimus Prime! I was after the Constructicons set too.

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Puzzled_Meeting9987@reddit

Big wheel and stretch monster… and ALL of the Star Wars figures.

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OnlyGuestsMusic@reddit

God, so many. My neighbor had the whole Super Friends line up. I only had Superman and Robin. One evening we went home for dinner after playing with his figures outside. He left them in the grass. I took them. lol his sister came to my house that night to get them. My family didn’t have much cash. We had toys, but not like other kids. My buddy had every GI Joe. I was envious.

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Outlander_@reddit

A stable for my Breyer horses. I built one out of cardboard. It was lame 😒

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mtempissmith@reddit

A Blythe doll. My neighbor's kid had one and I was fascinated with her changing eyes.

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Interesting_Whole_44@reddit

I wanted a good bike like a legit mongoose or haro, every bike I had growing up was a used hunk of shit from a garage sale.

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Professor_Grift@reddit

A Big Track

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evilpercy@reddit

Here is a Christmas I have done. Find out your partners favorite childhood toy and get it for them for Christmas.

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Dry_Inspection_4583@reddit

I wanted a turbo hopper. Instead my parents bought one for my older brother, and no he didn't share.

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SereniteeF@reddit

Atari

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Greedy-Parsnip666@reddit

A Schwinn Mag Scrambler, the red/chrome frame with big black mag wheels.

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thebunhinge@reddit

Barbie Dream House.

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gloriosky_zero@reddit

Playstation

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mtrap74@reddit

I believe the standard answer from the rich kids is the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier. The rest of us blue collar kids just wanted transformers but got Go-Bots.

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EastYouth1410@reddit

Millennium Falcon

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SlaveToCat@reddit

A cabbage patch doll. Everyone else had one but poor ol’ me. At least that’s what it felt like. We were desperately poor so it was just out of reach for us.

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SettleDownAlready@reddit

I wanted battle cat but my mom wouldn’t buy me He-Man toys. I could have bought it since but she says she would get it this year for Christmas.

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DirectorBiggs@reddit

A Green Machine

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Empty_Tea_7283@reddit

Atari

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IamSwoop@reddit

An AT-AT

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Imverystupidgenx@reddit

Omni-Bot

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ackack9999@reddit

The blonde Cabbage Patch Kid and a dirt bike

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Justinterestingenouf@reddit

Cabbage Patch dolls. My mom wouldn't tell me for years why she refused to buy us one. Then when I was bitching sometime in my 20's like "Yeah and you never bought us that doll we wanted!" (Said very much in jest, we had a wonderful childhood, wonderful toys, wonderful vacations)... my mom finally answered... she said " those dolls were so GD ugly and they whole idea was that they were adopted. Well you Girls were adopted and I didn't want you to think you were ugly! So no, I didn't want to buy you those dolls!"... love my mom!

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far_out_son_of_lung@reddit

Seems like everyone wanted an At-At or Millennium Falcon. Not me, I wanted the Snow Speeder.

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h7q3nx@reddit

Easy Bake Oven!

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EducationalEffect397@reddit

Those strategic commercials between Saturday morning cartoons had us in trance, like, “Wow! I’m going to have to get me one of those!!!!” 🤣

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clarencenino@reddit

Rainbow Brite doll! And a She-Ra figurine.

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Princess_Jade1974@reddit

Castle Grey Skull and Barbie's camper van.

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OrbAndSceptre@reddit

Optimus Prime.

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thesweetestberry@reddit

Little Tykes playhouse.

If you had one, you were living my dream life.

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Mercury5979@reddit

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99laika@reddit

The Star Wars early bird figures. “I’m not buying you a piece of cardboard!” 😭

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TheRedGiant77@reddit

Optimus Prime. I was a huge Transformers fan and that’s all I wanted for Christmas 1984. I got some, but never could get my hands on Optimus Prime.

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yountvillwjs@reddit

AT-AT

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DreamerofDreams67@reddit

The Lego Millennium Falcon

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model563@reddit

ROM: Space Knight. I loved and still love the comic. Its a lame toy, but its ROM.

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AshDenver@reddit

Cabbage Patch Doll

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Fair-Comfort7705@reddit

Easy-Bake Oven.. my neighbour had one, so of course I wanted one.

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IndependentPuddin702@reddit

A cabbage patch kid. I'm childless, there's probably a direct correlation.

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Educational-Heron691@reddit

Barbi dream house, convertible and dog

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Original_Read_4426@reddit

Always wanted a schwinn bike

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whatchaos@reddit

Big wheel.

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nekkid_farts@reddit

Nearly all of them, we were super poor. I was lucky enough for a couple things. A few he-mans, go joes, etc.

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Particular-Safe-5557@reddit

Cabbage patch kid. Everyone had one. I daydreamed I’d find one someday somewhere in a park or something. Never got one. Now I think they’re so weird 😂

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Keefer1970@reddit

Atari 2600

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RedditSkippy@reddit

Hmmm. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of blocking this out.

Ohhh, I know. A toy drum set.

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TheHobbyWaitress@reddit

Mr. Microphone

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Smilneyes420@reddit

I never got a big wheel and never understood why. Later on in my teens when my friends and I discovered beer and weed we used to borrow the big wheels that the kids in our neighborhood left out and race down this steeeeep hill at the end of our street. I think I understand why I never got one now. 😂 And yes we did return said big wheels afterwards.

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