A toy you wanted...

[Tora Ziyal]

Up to age six or so, I used to play cowboys and Indians (hey, this was the 1950's) with the boy next door, and I desperately wanted an Annie Oakley toy rifle. Never got one.

My Toy wish was the Chariot from the Jupiter II...I was 7. My Mom looked high and low, no dice. I cried.

Fast-forward to 2007, my 50th Birthday. My Mom's gift? An Original Chariot from the Jupiter II.

I cried

Awesome story, awesome mom!

 

[Smellincoffee]

The TMNT Sewer Headquarters. I had Shredder's Technodrome, though I lost the dome part and it ended up being an odd...truck.

 

[DrCorby]

I always wanted a TOS communicator, phaser and tricorder since I was a kid. A few weeks ago, I splurged and got the Diamond Select set.

Yes! I used an assortment of items as stand-ins through my childhood years, including a communicator I made from the old Tog'l bricks. When the AMT model kit set of the phaser, communicator, & tricorder came out, I used those to play sometimes, but they were too small and too fragile to play with much. Over the last few years, my wife and daughters have gotten me the Diamond Select props one at a time. My daughters sometimes ask to play with them (with me), and the TOS communications panel from Think Geek is an awesome addition!

I also really wanted one of the Eagle toys from Space: 1999 made by Corgi. Too expensive (and hard to find) back then, and more than I'm willing to spend now...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

One of these when I was young

And a dirt bike when I was a little older.

 

[HIjol]

Up to age six or so, I used to play cowboys and Indians (hey, this was the 1950's) with the boy next door, and I desperately wanted an Annie Oakley toy rifle. Never got one.

My Toy wish was the Chariot from the Jupiter II...I was 7. My Mom looked high and low, no dice. I cried.

Fast-forward to 2007, my 50th Birthday. My Mom's gift? An Original Chariot from the Jupiter II.

I cried

Awesome story, awesome mom!

You bet, and she still is! You are very kind to say so!
<searching e-Bay, et al., for an Annie Oakley toy rifle>

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^I had Major Matt Mason, the Space Station and the Walker. They were a lot of fun.

I had the space station, the walker, and the glider. The glider lasted about a week before it ended up on the roof; it stayed there for about a year until a windstorm blew it down.

I was the kid who always got what I wanted, and I wasn't greedy. MMM was my thing and I had everything BUT Captain Laser, because he wasn't in scale. Scale was also the reason I was able to get all of the colorform aliens, and my mom got me the Dawn dolls, because the astronauts had to have wives. She got me a 6 tier display tower from a local grocery store that my space station sat on top of which became my base, the biggest playset ever.

Lucky. I loved the Colorform Aliens, too, and I had most of them. I still have my Martian.

 

[cultcross]

Bridge playset

I really wanted one of those! I had the figures and at one point I had the shuttlecraft, I think. But I never had the bridge. A friend of mine did and I thought it was brilliant.

 

[HIjol]

^^I had Major Matt Mason, the Space Station and the Walker. They were a lot of fun.

I had the space station, the walker, and the glider. The glider lasted about a week before it ended up on the roof; it stayed there for about a year until a windstorm blew it down.

I was the kid who always got what I wanted, and I wasn't greedy. MMM was my thing and I had everything BUT Captain Laser, because he wasn't in scale. Scale was also the reason I was able to get all of the colorform aliens, and my mom got me the Dawn dolls, because the astronauts had to have wives. She got me a 6 tier display tower from a local grocery store that my space station sat on top of whicttth became my base, the biggest playset ever.

Lucky. I loved the Colorform Aliens, too, and I had most of them. I still have my Martian.

I remember Colorforms! I played with the girl next door; she had the "Barbie" ones. Later, there was Star Trek, G. I. Joe and a bunch of others. Wow, take me back!


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[LordMudd]

I am referring to the Colorform bendie alien figures in scale with MMM, like those being done by the 4H in 4" scale now, i.e. Colossus Rex, Astro Nautilus, etc. Each week we would go grocery shopping at FoodTown and my mom would get me one in the toy aisle until I had all of them.


CCC.

 

[auntiehill]

Up to age six or so, I used to play cowboys and Indians (hey, this was the 1950's) with the boy next door, and I desperately wanted an Annie Oakley toy rifle. Never got one.

YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!

 

[BillJ]

I remember Colorforms! I played with the girl next door; she had the "Barbie" ones. Later, there was Star Trek, G. I. Joe and a bunch of others. Wow, take me back!


http://s5.postimg.org/h9lelimif/image.jpg

I bought Stuck on Star Trek and it just wasn't the same.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Up to age six or so, I used to play cowboys and Indians (hey, this was the 1950's) with the boy next door, and I desperately wanted an Annie Oakley toy rifle. Never got one.

YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!

Darwinism says "if you can shoot your eye out with a rifle, good luck with that"

 

[Velocity]

Maybe not so much toys, but I wasn't into dolls and the like. I wanted a microscope and a chemistry set. I had to use my much older sister's chemistry set even though the only thing i could make was a skunk stink because she used up most of the other chemicals. I did get a decent microscope to look at pond water, ditch water, and other fun stuff.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My favorite toys as a kid were Micronauts and anything derived from them. I collected them voraciously. Figures, spaceships, you name it. Those were always my favorite. I could never get enough of the damn things.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

My favorite toys as a kid were Micronauts and anything derived from them. I collected them voraciously. Figures, spaceships, you name it. Those were always my favorite. I could never get enough of the damn things.

Micronauts were cool. I used to have the construction set where you could build the city or whatever it was. I remember that it had domed windows. I would play with it now if I still had it.

 

[Timewalker]

One year someone gave me some Easy Bake mixes. Problem was, I didn't have an Easy Bake oven. So my mother used the regular oven for the mixes, reasoning that if she got me an Easy Bake oven, I'd do one or more of the following:

1. Burn myself.
2. Burn the house down.
3. Eat too much cake.

I never did get one. I also never got the Hands Down game I asked Santa for.

But years later, my grandmother and great-aunt indulged me in my love of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Cosmos (got the original hardcover edition for Christmas).

 

[HIjol]

I am referring to the Colorform bendie alien figures in scale with MMM, like those being done by the 4H in 4" scale now, i.e. Colossus Rex, Astro Nautilus, etc. Each week we would go grocery shopping at FoodTown and my mom would get me one in the toy aisle until I had all of them.


Oooops! Guess I am showing my age! Did not even know about the "bendie alien figures"

Good Mom! .

CCC.

Up to age six or so, I used to play cowboys and Indians (hey, this was the 1950's) with the boy next door, and I desperately wanted an Annie Oakley toy rifle. Never got one.

YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!

Ha!

When I was a kid in the late '50s early '60s, there were only 4 things you could do that were bad/danger:

1. Fall down
2. Break your neck
3. Poke someone's eye out
4. Catch pneumonia

 

[auntiehill]

^In my house, it was always the same: "You'll fall and crack your head open!"

That always spurred my imagination to conjure up some fairly gruesome images.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The toy I want the most these days is one that I actually had for most of my life, but got rid of about 13 years ago because I was moving and couldn't take everything with me.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gKGW8lVLQPQ/hqdefault.jpg

I thought I could part with it because it wasn't in very good shape as it missing a lot of parts--and because I didn't know at the time there was this place called eBay where I could buy eventually all those missing parts.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I am referring to the Colorform bendie alien figures in scale with MMM, like those being done by the 4H in 4" scale now, i.e. Colossus Rex, Astro Nautilus, etc. Each week we would go grocery shopping at FoodTown and my mom would get me one in the toy aisle until I had all of them.

Indeed, these guys. You can find a lot of cool information on them at this site, including the second series, which never happened. Although I also had a lot of the Colorforms packages that HIjol is talking about. Those were pretty cool, too. But the Colorforms aliens and Major Matt Mason were the best.

Maybe not so much toys, but I wasn't into dolls and the like. I wanted a microscope and a chemistry set. I had to use my much older sister's chemistry set even though the only thing i could make was a skunk stink because she used up most of the other chemicals. I did get a decent microscope to look at pond water, ditch water, and other fun stuff.

I had a chemistry set when I was a kid. It's a miracle I didn't kill myself.