Toys you DIDN'T have as a kid and you STILL feel a craving for?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

To the point that you WILL buy one if you find it even though you're 40 or more?

Here's mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_toys

It's an unassuming, cheap toy -- but when I was a child and wanted one, you couldn't find one to save your life.

[LynneSin]

1. HAHAHAHA - I had tinker toys. But I wanted a Betty Crocker Bake Oven

I wanted to make my own cookies

[Sheltiemama]

21. Me, too.

I tell my parents that I wouldn't hate cooking today if they had bought me that stinkin' little oven.

[1gobluedem]

2. I wanted this vanity more than anything

It was hard plastic and the seat was tufted to look like velvet. I thought it was the most glamorous thing ever made but my mother thought it was cheap and tacky and flatly refused to get me one.

[Lars39]

5. I actually had that!

I played with it for years. One of the few memorable toys that *I* got....most of my toys were hand-me-downs. :D

[edbermac]

3. Model rockets.

[DS1]

4. I had those, and the 2nd degree burns to prove it

Of course, hacking a D-class engine to pieces and throwing matches at the fuel component was not in the instruction manual :D

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. What what what!?

Yer lucky you survived!

I manage to build and fly that Saturn V as well as the Klingon craft and the Vergeltungswaffen 2. The V2 made quite a show and didn't go very high; the Saturn V went pretty far up, and the Klingon ship went up, then flat for a while- nice silhouette.

[DS1]

13. Yeah, dumb and lucky

I had a Comanche 3 ( I think ) that was 3 stages. That also went flat, and then burned through the next two engines. Probably landed about 3 miles away.

[jpgray]

9. Not to make it worse... but I had those, and they were the fucking coolest things ever

:P

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. It's OK

I'm not envious. Not at all.

[reyd reid reed]

25. We have a whole garage full of 'em...

And the pieces all over the house. Have you checked out the ones they have now? VERY cool.

[bac511]

6. Easy Bake Oven and the Barbie Dream House...

My parents wouldn't even buy me barbies, but I wanted that damn house. Actually I wanted to LIVE in that damn house!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Whoa. Do they still make those things?

My 7yo is ga ga over everything Barbie. If she sees that she'll experience a sensation she's not supposed to for at least 6 years.

[mainegreen]

10. Radio controlled flying-anything. Blimps especially though....

[panhead1961]

12. Scuba G.I. Joe

With kung Fo grip

[LanternWaste]

14. Train sets and Habitrails...

Train sets and Habitrails. I'd always wanted to place both in tandem in a serious layout (with matching mountain dioramas) throughout one or two rooms and have races-- the trains versus the gerbils. :)

[FloridaJudy]

15. Electric trains

Oh course, I really wanted to engineer spectacular crashes ala Gomez Addams. But everybody always gave me dolls because I was a girl.

A budding sociopath nipped.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. I see that story a lot.

Girls who want some cool toy but nobody would give them because it's not "proper" for girls.

It sucks major ass.

[MorningGlow]

18. Yep. I always wanted STP (or SST) cars

The ones that had a plastic rip-cord type thing to rev them up. The boys played with them in kindergarten. I asked if I could play too, and they told me to go play with dolls because I was a GIRL. Thirty-five years later, I can still get :grr: when I think about it.

Of course, I always wanted an Easy-Bake Oven and a Barbie Dream House, but my parents never got me those either... :(

[Westegg]

16. "Light-Bright, makin' things with light"!/NT

[DeepBlueC]

19. I got the Fanner 50 (finally) but without the holster...

Sheesh. How the hell was I supposed to practice my quick draw without it? It killed my Mom to give me that revolver ... she said I was too old. Really it was because she thought it was no toy for a girl. Actually I wasn't too old when I started asking but I kept it up year after year until I finally said I wanted only one thing for Christmas and that was the Fanner 50 revolver (with replica bullets that could be loaded with caps). So I got it.

If she wanted me to play with girls' toys she should have got me the Barbie when I asked for her one years earlier when they first came on the market. She refused on the grounds that the Barbie was just the latest fashion and wouldn't be of interest in a few months. Yes, Mom? When that didn't materialize I gave up dolls entirely.

I found out that she kept the god damned dolls (not one of which I was allowed to choose myself) and got rid of my Fanner 50. I did look into buying one online and I may still but I was deterred by the realization that the holster would no longer fit. If it did I'd have one and I would be wearing it this Friday. And possibly on my birthday too.

[Sequoia]

20. Ice skates.

I so wanted to be Peggy Fleming. This other girl at school wanted them only because I wanted them and of course her mom could afford it so she got them at Christmas and made sure I knew it. She was the type who wanted what others wanted, not that she actually wanted them. Oh well, the lake only froze once a week during the year anyway so it would've been a waste of money.

[DarkTirade]

22. I was the only kid in suburbia who didn't have a Nintendo

or later, a Sega or Super Nintendo.

Most of the kids I knew didn't just have one or the other... they had BOTH.

[Initech]

23. Baby's First Beer Keg

[reyd reid reed]

24. Oh, I had tinker toys...lincoln logs...all that stuff...what I *wanted*

was a Betty Crocker Easy Bake Oven so's I could bake cakes all by myself.

Wasn't completely content until I bought one for my daughter, at which point I realized why my mom was so hesitant to get me one.