What toy or item did you want as a kid, but never got?

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Alternative-Bee2962@reddit

Mr Frosty and I asked for every Christmas and birthday throughout my childhood in the 80's and never got one

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Some_Ad6507@reddit

My brother bought me one as an adult. The design was terrible and I can only imagine how disappointed I would have felt as a kid

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Fluffy-Fly-6021@reddit

Also mine haha. As an adult, I now realise mum was probably right in not giving in and getting me one, they're pretty crap aren't they!

I'd quite like the adult one though, the ninja slushie thing for slushie cocktails

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newbornunicorn25@reddit

Me too! A friend did buy me one for my 18th birthday though and to be honest it’s not very good so you’re not missing out at all

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Munchkinpea@reddit

My friend and I were the same, so I bought her one as a housewarming gift when she first left home.

Years later she married her second husband and didn't ask for specific gifts so I bought them a posher, more adult ice crushing machine.

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Hamsternoir@reddit

Be grateful you didn't. My wife wanted one in the 80s but never got one.

I got her one several years ago for her birthday.

It's been used twice.

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BeingOtherwise7829@reddit

Saaame except late 90s, although, my parents finally caved and got us a Mr Frosty in like 2000 and it was honestly not very good haha. Think we only used it about 4 times haha.

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One of those wood labyrinth mazes. I pestered my mum so much for one of those. Never got one as a child. As an adult I made the mistake of buying one. Fun for about ten minutes then I realised my mum knew right all along. Sat on the shelf gathering dust then off to the charity shop.

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DeflatedDirigible@reddit

My grandparents had one and I would play for hours every time I visited. Helps that they had no tv or much else besides magnets and pickup sticks.

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bzzklltn@reddit

I put a bread maker in my Christmas list one year and my family ripped the shit into me for years afterwards. I would have been 6 maybe?

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DarthScabies@reddit

Tin Can Alley.

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jinny7@reddit

My little pony diary I think with the lock or any diary with a lock

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GTasker92@reddit

Tracey Island from Thunderbirds

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Lance_Operazole@reddit

Ewok treehouse and gearshift garage.

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Crimson__Fox@reddit

Pedal car

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MissKLO@reddit

Oh I wanted one of those too! My parents friends had one in their garden from when their kids were small, and every time we went over there I spent the whole time in the bloody thing.

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MissKLO@reddit

Dreamphone

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LJ161@reddit

The Bournville dispenser :(

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glytxh@reddit

Prolly Pocket.

But it was never a ‘boy’s toy’.

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remmy84@reddit

Power rangers morpher. From the original series. They were £9.99. When I bought a crappy beat up one they were over £100

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JimmyBallocks@reddit

Lego castle

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pinkdaisylemon@reddit

Born in 61 but I still remember a girl at school who had converse all star trainers, or bumpers as we used to call them. Then she had the Scholl sandals that were the in thing. Then she came in with a belt that had the inches marked along it like a tape measure. And finally she had a pencil that looked like a pen and the nib came up when you twisted it! I didn't have any of these things and wanted them so badly. I hated her with the power of a thousand suns🤣

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toriatain@reddit

Nerf gun (Mum thought this was a taser gun? Wtf Mum?)

Scalextric/remote controlled cars (Mum said these were for boys and I wasn't allowed. My brother wasn't interested in them so we never had one 😔)

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Icy_Knowledge5004@reddit

Mine was a Sabrina doll. Kinda looked a bit cartoony and EVERYONE had one.

My mum and dad really did do their best but we were definitely the poor family. When everyone moved over to a portable CD player, I'd just been bought a cassette player 😂

Ohhh and not a toy per say, but does anyone remeber the jelly shoes? I wanted a pair of those SOOO damn bad. I used to trade shoes with my next door neighbour so I could wear hers. God love her, she was a year younger than me and wore my "Mrs Trunchbull" shoes for weeks through the summer of 1999.

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HesitantBrobecks@reddit

You weren't missing out there lol. I wore those jelly shoes on a holiday in like 2010ish and they just rubbed my feet horrifically. Fairly sure we ended up having to buy me new sandals. Definitely didn't (couldnt) continue wearing those awful rubber things 🤣

I've also heard other people saying this was a known problem with them!

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tokyokween@reddit

I can still remember the pain of wearing jellies on the beach and getting sand stuck between skin and jelly... It was like wearing sandpaper shoes. Yet I know I wore them for multiple summers?!

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Wormella@reddit

I had a pair, and lost one snorkelling in Malta - because it was see through no one could find it. I remember the horrible feel of sweaty feet sliding around in them to this day

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Itsmeladyt79@reddit

Barbie dream castle. I asked for it every year. Never got it.

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YoNoHuckleberryDude@reddit

Operation. Was obsessed with it.

Bought myself one as an adult. Obsession cured in 5 minutes.

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MyAlt4WomanyStuff@reddit

I had Operation and loved it! Didn't like the constant anxiety for the buzz though 😅

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YoNoHuckleberryDude@reddit

I think kid me wanted it so much that adult me enjoyed buying it.

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TheNotSpecialOne@reddit

Hot wheels cars and racing track. Now I'm a dad, I got my son a decent collection of hot wheels stuff. But in all honestly I bought it for myself, my son is my assistant.

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MyAlt4WomanyStuff@reddit

Mr Frosty. I mostly just wanted to use the cute little shovel to scoop out the ice. It was on every Christmas list throughout my childhood, I felt so deprived 😂

Also Magic Sand - it looked fascinating.

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richboyadler@reddit

i wanted one of those kitchen play sets .. my dad always cooked for us, i would watch him and wanted something like that to copy him. I can’t complain as my parents got me good stuff growing up ( what they could afford anyway ) but the kitchen playset was number one on the list

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Marion_Ravenwood@reddit

One of those electric cars you could drive around in and those kiddy laptops. Every time we went to Toys R Us I'd go straight over to them. They were bloody expensive so I understand why!

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paddyton@reddit

Lellie kelly shoes! Gross magic too.

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No-Club3690@reddit

At the risk of showing my age, a Mr Frosty. It looked so cool on the TV Since heard they were disappointing so perhaps mum was right enough

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helloilikefoodxoxoxo@reddit

Toy post office. Asked every year. They still sell them but they are not the same at all.

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CraigTheBrewer12@reddit

I always wanted a scalextric but we couldn’t afford one. Mum and dad eventually picked one up from a carboot sale and wrapped it up for my birthday, was dead excited when I opened it only to find most of the track missing and the cars didn’t work.

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ScaredCrowww@reddit

A sticker maker factory! I still have an unhealthy obsession with stickers..

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sneakylithops@reddit

My brother had this and I often think that I’d still regularly use it as an adult

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sneakylithops@reddit

Pokémon cards.

My mum wouldn’t buy them for me because they were “trendy”.

Bought a job lot on eBay as an adult now I’m not sure what to do with them.

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RodJaneandFreddy5@reddit

I really wanted those playdoh people where you pushed the playdoh up their bums and they grew hair and beards that you could cut off or style.

I did receive a drum kit when I was 5 which was taken off me after Christmas Day and never seen again ☹️. Something similar happened to my Sindy house.

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newbornunicorn25@reddit

I was never allowed Pokemon cards as they were too expensive. I also wanted a pair of the adidas joggers with the press studs all down the sides but they were also too expensive. I recently bought myself a pair at the age of 35 though and I love them!

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PretendPop8930@reddit

A skateboard. Wasn't allowed one because our house was on a small hill...

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civil_blinger@reddit

A Slinky - a (then) metal coil that 'walked' down stairs.

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BombeBon@reddit

Doodle bear.

It... Was bought but, we got burgled and it along with several other things were taken. Being breadline, it wasn't easy for my parents to get another.

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Amonette2012@reddit

Who steals a bear!!!

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BombeBon@reddit

People who had absolutely no qualms about stealing wrapped up Christmas presents...

We'd gone out for a treat with family. My parents came back and... In the time we'd been gone, we got hit.

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Amonette2012@reddit

Assholes!!

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DixieRouge@reddit

Me. Frosty

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Wormella@reddit

Sylvanian Family Windmill Nursery - it was always just out of birthday/Santa's budget

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Vespa_Alex@reddit

Big Trak was the coolest looking thing ever, but with hindsight I’m glad I didn’t get one as I’d have been bored quickly and the batteries would have cost a fortune.

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TheBristolBulk@reddit

One of the big plastic briefcases full of Crayolas!

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Atarisrocks@reddit

The usual Mr Frosty.

Hydro strike but looking at the pictures of the cheap plastic I don't think it would have soaked my opponents and more just dribbled on the table

Cadbury dairy milk dispenser moneybox

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BeingOtherwise7829@reddit

I actually always wanted one of those little tikes red and yellow cars!

I really can't complain at all, as we were extremely privileged kids with loads of great toys so I'm extremely grateful for that, but I always wanted one of those cars but I feel like because we were girls we never got one. Also wanted a Scalextric set and was very jealous of my cousin's one!

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beernon@reddit

Etch a Sketch

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PuzzleheadedHospital@reddit

Teddy Ruxpin. I remember seeing it in Woolworths and begged for it

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jaynemonroe@reddit

I still have mine I’m 41

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spittingparasite@reddit

Me too.

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Alternative-Bee2962@reddit

My friend had one and it was amazing and Santa never bought one for me lol.

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genetic_nightmare@reddit

We were never allowed things like the Cadbury vending machine, or cooking things as getting refills was a nightmare. I missed out on so many toys 😭

We also were banned from buying the balloons with flour, the original stress ball. I had one once and it burst all over the living room, never again!

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Onlyfangz@reddit

Aqua beads, got myself some for my birthday and have made so many random things I love them

Also a lava lamp, beanbag and one of those inflatable chairs

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kitknit81@reddit

An alacarte kitchen. Still gutted I could never bake a cupcake with a lightbulb hahaha. I was fortunate enough to have an and a Mr Frosty though so I can complain really.

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mhoulden@reddit

I remember an advert where a girl used one to serve her parents a plate of Swiss roll with baked beans. Sounds like a good reason not to get one.

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RebeccaCheeseburger@reddit

I had the al a carte kitchen but never got a mr frosty, gotta pick your struggles 😆

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SdanoG@reddit

A computer, spectrum, bbc, oric one, vic 20…….. any of them would have done but my parents said theres no future in computers

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Amonette2012@reddit

I hope you remind them of this when they ask you for help with tech.

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SdanoG@reddit

🤓

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spittingparasite@reddit

A BMX. I got my Dad's old bike that he'd bought second hand. I got laughed at a lot.

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SdanoG@reddit

I washed card, cut peoples grass, and other chores to save up for my bmx, got half way and parents gave me the other half (should have saved for longer as: I got a piranha and it was heavy as fook) ciludda waited for a redline or tuff goose

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Evieveevee@reddit

Fisher Price Family Tree House. And a Girls World. Mum said I’d just cut her hair off in five minutes and it would be ruined. She is right, I would have. My Sindy doll was almost bald.

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spittingparasite@reddit

I got a Girl's World from the church jumble sale. I cut all its hair off.

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ambergriswoldo@reddit

The playmobil mansion

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jackloveslatinas@reddit

Definitely heelys

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D0wnInAlbion@reddit

I wanted the Pink and Yellow Ranger dolls as they came with two outfits: their civilian clothes and their Power Ranger suits. It used to bother me on the action figures that the only way you could morph the Rangers was by pressing a button to switch from their face to the helmet. I never got the dolls because dolls were for girls.......

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ClericalRogue@reddit

There was a Barbie horse (from google I think it was the "Highstepper"). I only wanted the horse, and only because it was articulated at each joint, whilst all the other toy horses I'd seen at the time were fixed models. I never got it because it was expensive, but my parents got me a non-articulated knock-off, which was alright.

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