What's your 'Holy Grail" toy, the one you always wished you had received at Christmas or your birthday, but somehow never did?
Mine was the "secret sam" briefcase, a spy attache case loaded with firepower and surveilance devices that any kid would die for!
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As a child of the 80s, I remember seeing a game in the late-70s/early-80s called "I Vant to Bite Your Finger" that I wanted SOO BADLY . . . the parents weren't really overly interested in their child having a game that would "bite" him, so it never happened.
Now I'm thinking I need to go to eBay . . . excuse me . . . :)
THE "Holy Grail" in my childhood was , of course, anything to do with BARBIE. I wanted the TOP gown in the catalog. It was a pale, shell pink ball gown, worn with a white fur stole, crystal jewelry and long white gloves. The skirt was draped, with a train....and looked like something Grace Kelly could have worn. I never DID get it... It cost $5.00, and with a 7 year old's take home pay, was the equivelent of a Ferrari.
Surprisingly, I got SOLO IN THE SPOTLIGHT....I won't elaborate except to say black glitter spandex, with tulle from the knees down and a pink rose....
I also got GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES, and the rest was history.
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THE GREAT GARLOO - I recieved a SON OF GARLOO, which was really cool, but I really wanted the big guy!
I always wanted a Close N Play record player. Every time I saw the commercial, I would scream like I had been electrocuted- AGGHHHHGGGHHHHH!! I want a CLOSE N PLAY!!!
I got a Show N Tell for my 5th birthday, so I should have been happy with that record player ( I have a picture with me posing with it), but I had grown out of it by the time I was 7 or 8 years old, and I "needed" a Close N Play! Not to mention the 2 other record players we had in our house......
Needless to say, I never got the magical record machine of my dreams. hahahaha!! But I did get a little blue record player with blue speakers for my 12th birthday! It was awesome enough......I guess...but still- not a C.N.P!
LOL, charp13! I recieved a little turquoise record player when I was 12!
Yay!!! We were rockin' out!! Mine was a royal/sapphire blue color. I remember playing Philadelphia Freedom (the single) over and over on it! :)
My folks were wonderfully generous on Christmas. I always got multiple presents -- Aurora kits among them. I don't know how they managed to give so many gifts to my brothers and me on my dad's teacher salary. That said -- I wouldn't have minded too much if THIS sweet number had shown up under our tree back in '66.
http://tomztoyz.blogspot.com/2007/02/ideal-1966-official-batman-justice.html (http://tomztoyz.blogspot.com/2007/02/ideal-1966-official-batman-justice.html)
MEGO Planet of the Apes....
Those were a great Christmas gift...
Mego Planet of the Apes dolls commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objzif2dW7g#)
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When I was a kid (late 50 early 60s) there was far less advertising of toys on TV so often I got stuff I didn't know existed. They knew I loved Dinosaurs so I got a Mark Prehistoric playset WOW! But the one thing one of my friend's had I REALLY wanted but never got was a toy cockpit that projected images of other planes on the wall and you could fire dart "missiles" at them as they moved. It might have had a helmet too but maybe I'm merging two toys in one...
I was raised like an only child, my sister being 18 and already married, and my brother being 16 when I was born. So, I was pretty much spoiled rotten as a kid! I can't remember not getting anything I really wanted for Christmas. And, if it came out after Xmas, there was the cash in the Xmas cards from aunts and uncles. Plus, my birthday is in May, so if it was something pricey, I'd get it then.
Everything Planet of the Apes and a Omnibot!
I had the Apes figures and the kids across the street that I played with had the Treehouse, more figures, and a huge backyard. So, that worked out perfectly.
I do remember wanting the Zeroids Command Center, getting it, but the electronics didn't work, so we had to return it. Then, they stopped making the toys, so I never got a replacement Command Center.
There was a bicycle with a fake green gas tank that I wanted------no dice.
Yeah, My parents never failed to please at Christmas time either...I was a very lucky kid!
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Though we were really a pretty tightly budgeted family, Mom really made the Holiday for my sister and I - partly by way of Monkey Ward's Christmas Club.
So I got stuff like GI Joe, Captain Action, Viewmaster, Mego Secret Identity, etc. But this coveted one, I missed:
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-Craig
Quote from: Gasport on November 16, 2011, 12:49:47 AM
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Show-off...
;D
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I got one of these for Christmas once.. I wish I still had it.
Quotetoy cockpit that projected images of other planes on the wall and you could fire dart "missiles" at them as they moved
That would be Deluxe Readings Jimmy Jet (1961).......or Ideal Toys Electronic Fighter Jet (1959). Both are consoles with screens, and fire darts......Jimmy has a half steering wheel and Fighter Jet (1959) has a joy stick. No helmets, but any kid of the day would have to have an Ideal Steve Canyon Helmet (Ideal 1959) to wear while flying. Also in the airplane cockpit toys was the Remco Flying Fox Jet-prop Airplane (1960) ; a cool 4 prop plane atop a full cockpit that controlled it's functions, and one of my favorites, Remco's B-52 Ball Turret (1961). 1955-1965......the greatest 10 years in toy manufacturing! And the greatest time to be a kid! IMHO. Love, Buddy
Gasport! Always great to see those photos of you on that Christmas! What exactly are you holding in the first one? And what is it that sets underneath the Wolfman model kit? Almost looks like an Ideal Astro Base box. AND.....what is the box to the right of Wolfman that looks like a Marx playset box?......Too cool a pic! Buddy
I hesitate to show this again....I caught such grief last time for my spelling....EVEN THOUGH I WAS A LITTLE KID WHEN I WROTE IT! Anyway, it fits the discussion. I got some other cool toy instead of Robot Commando that Christmas. Mom told me later that she just couldn't find one at any store. We were seriously broke most of the time, but Mom always came through with the greatest of Christmas gifts! Buddy
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Quote from: bigbud on November 16, 2011, 09:29:24 PM
Gasport! Always great to see those photos of you on that Christmas! What exactly are you holding in the first one? And what is it that sets underneath the Wolfman model kit? Almost looks like an Ideal Astro Base box. AND.....what is the box to the right of Wolfman that looks like a Marx playset box?......Too cool a pic! Buddy
Hey Buddy! Thanks for the compliments...that would be King Zor i am thrusting toward the camera. Can't for the life of me remember what is under the Wolf Man box, but to the right of it is a Rocky & Bullwinkle Sparkle paint set and in the extreme lower right corner you can just make out part of the Ideal Haunted House game!
I just want you to know, "Stanta" Claus made my day!
I picture a guy in a red-and-green bowling shirt, with a gray crewcut and a big, stinky cigar. He's got a Schlitz in one hand, and a great, big, sliced-Polish-sausage-on-a-kaiser-roll-with-sauerkraut-and-spicy-brown-mustard sandwich in the other.
Two thihgs I had and lost, then wanted agian were a toy M-1 Rifle and a Mego Human Wolfman. I did not even know the Mad Monster castle exsited or that would have been on the list too!
QuoteI just want you to know, "Stanta" Claus made my day!
I just knew someone would chime in on that. Lest it wasn't Scatter. Buddy
Quote from: bigbud on November 17, 2011, 10:34:28 AM
I just knew someone would chime in on that. Lest it wasn't Scatter. Buddy
At least you guys didn't mis-spell "Christmas"! ::)
QuoteAt least you guys didn't mis-spell "Christmas"!
Ha! Yea.....I think we all saw that! That's forgiven if Stanta is forgiven.......Buddy
My parents never went overboard with gifts at Xmas so there were many toys I would have liked that I never got. If I had to narrow it down to one though, it would be a Lionel HO train set like one of these two:
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One of my buddies had a Lionel HO set and I always coveted all the sets and cars pictured in the little catalogue he had. But you know I never even thought to ask my parents for one. For whatever reason I just assumed I wouldn't get such an elaborate present even though we weren't poor or anything since my father had a very good union job at Labatt Breweries.
:(
Hep, You and I grew up in the time of some great Lionel sets! Do you remember the missile firing boxcar with exploding bunker? And the flatcars with helicopter or submarine on them? Those were great! Buddy
Quote from: bigbud on November 18, 2011, 01:33:10 PM
Hep, You and I grew up in the time of some great Lionel sets! Do you remember the missile firing boxcar with exploding bunker? And the flatcars with helicopter or submarine on them? Those were great!
Yes, yes, I do! And I now have a M.I.B. missile and exploding boxcar set, and a M.I.B. helicopter boxcar as well! I'll take pics of these when I get a chance.
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Quote from: Gasport on November 16, 2011, 09:59:43 PMHey Buddy! Thanks for the compliments...that would be King Zor i am thrusting toward the camera. Can't for the life of me remember what is under the Wolf Man box, but to the right of it is a Rocky & Bullwinkle Sparkle paint set and in the extreme lower right corner you can just make out part of the Ideal Haunted House game!
Let me take a quick inventory here. In one Xmas you received:
Great Garloo
King Zor
Ideal Haunted House game
Aurora Wolfman model kit
Kenner Presto Sparkle Rocky & Bullwinkle paint set
and more....
Oh man were you spoiled rotten. I'm just totally in awe!
:o
Quote from: Hepcat on November 18, 2011, 01:56:05 PM
Let me take a quick inventory here. In one Xmas you received:
Great Garloo
King Zor
Ideal Haunted House game
Aurora Wolfman model kit
Kenner Presto Sparkle Rocky & Bullwinkle paint set
and more....
Oh man were you spoiled rotten. I'm just totally in awe!
:o
WOW! Best Christmas ever! I'm sure you would have invited us all over to play with your stuff! I might have even changed out of my P.J.'s before coming over! ;D
Quote from: Count_Zirock on November 17, 2011, 12:58:33 AM
I just want you to know, "Stanta" Claus made my day!
I picture a guy in a red-and-green bowling shirt, with a gray crewcut and a big, stinky cigar. He's got a Schlitz in one hand, and a great, big, sliced-Polish-sausage-on-a-kaiser-roll-with-sauerkraut-and-spicy-brown-mustard sandwich in the other.
Ironic.........You just described Buddy to a "T".
Quote from: bigbud on November 17, 2011, 10:34:28 AM
I just knew someone would chime in on that. Lest it wasn't Scatter. Buddy
I'm always looking for new material. But classics like "Stanta" endure forever. ;D
Not a toy but I always wanted a pony just like this one ..
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I wished for a lot of toys that I never got but THE gift must have been the My little Pony castle..never happened.
My parents only gave me things for my birthday and for xmas..and my bday is 4 days before xmas so I would often get combined gifts..as in ONLY ONE GIFT :o
I always made things myself..amongst the things I made was a Punky Brewster doll, Popples, the Gummibear figures, the plant from little shop of horrors, a whole bunch of dinosaurs & a Frankenstein lab and played mad scientist.
Anyway..as soon as I got myself a job at 14 I started to buy all the toys I ever wanted, now I have a massive toy collection ! >:D
Quote from: Mrs Frankenstein on November 19, 2011, 02:35:31 PM
My parents only gave me things for my birthday and for xmas..and my bday is 4 days before xmas so I would often get combined gifts..as in ONLY ONE GIFT :o
Booooo!!! Very sad.
:(
Quote from: Mrs Frankenstein on November 19, 2011, 02:35:31 PM
I always made things myself..amongst the things I made was ... the plant from little shop of horrors, a whole bunch of dinosaurs & a Frankenstein lab and played mad scientist.
Well you've found the right place. We really like both real and imagined mad scientists on this board. This was my favourite toy as a kid:
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Quote from: Mrs Frankenstein on November 19, 2011, 02:35:31 PM
Anyway..as soon as I got myself a job at 14 I started to buy all the toys I ever wanted, now I have a massive toy collection ! >:D
Well we want to see pictures of your toy collection! That's what we're all about on this board. Post them in this thread:
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=2696.0 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=2696.0)
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I'll never quite forgive my parents for not giving me this set for Christmas:
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I just like how Buddy accepts that Santa (or Stanta) has developed reindeer that fly and has solved the logistical nightmare that is 'how to deliver toys to every good child in the world in 1 night with a sleigh that can maybe hold a street's worth of toys at a time'-------------yet feels Stanta needs a clue as to WHERE the return 'adderess' is on the letter. ;D
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And WHAT is that on the envelope above the mailing address??? A hairy turd? :o
Quoteand my bday is 4 days before xmas so I would often get combined gifts..
My own Mom had it bad too.......her b-day was Dec. 25th! You can guess how that worked out for birthday gifts........Buddy
QuoteAnd WHAT is that on the envelope above the mailing address??? A hairy turd?
Sean! You beast! This is no less grief than last year when I posted this letter. I think I'll post it every pre-Christmas and take my yearly abuse! Then I will feel truly humble for that which I am about to receive (under the tree on the 25th).
What you are referring to above the mailing address is a very fine interpretation of a raindeer. One of Stanta's raindeer. At the time I was under the artistic tutelage of Spiderman's Steve Ditko ( I was working hard with trace carbon-paper to be like him). But to capture the true essence of raindeer I laid the trace paper aside and created that which you behold...........an original.......MASTERPIECE! Love, Buddy
Quote from: Hepcat on November 19, 2011, 03:18:15 PM
Booooo!!! Very sad.
:(
Well you've found the right place. We really like both real and imagined mad scientists on this board. This was my favourite toy as a kid:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4380924008_65d19d44e0_b.jpg)
Well we want to see pictures of your toy collection! That's what we're all about on this board. Post them in this thread:
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=2696.0 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=2696.0)
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Sad indeed at the time but..hey..I became I creative crafty little nut, and I'm am very happy with that arrangement.
I would love to show off my crazy collection but it is mostly stuffed away in boxes at the moment..I live in a tiny old lumber cabin in the woods and I need the space for..eeerrm..my Colin Clive collection..I'm such a pack rat.
I have my Monster High dolls in my bathroom tho..yes, Monster High..I am almost 35 and I have kids toys ;D
And I would have LOVED to have that Mad Scientist kit!!!!!....*running to Ebay*
Quote from: bigbud on November 19, 2011, 09:17:05 PM
Sean! You beast! This is no less grief than last year when I posted this letter. I think I'll post it every pre-Christmas and take my yearly abuse!
I insist. ;) Buddy, you're a good egg and great fun to kid with... I think you already know that. A GREAT addition to this board.
I always wanted Rock 'em Sock 'em robots, but sadly they never appeared under the tree. But I had a lot of great gifts, so I can't complain. My Christmas memories are filled with having fun with my brother and cousins, and the wonderful aroma of the turkey cooking all morning!
Quote from: Mrs Frankenstein on November 19, 2011, 09:34:56 PM
I have my Monster High dolls in my bathroom tho..yes, Monster High..I am almost 35 and I have kids toys ;D
That makes you one of the youngsters on this board. We all know that you're never too old to have a happy childhood!
Your bathroom pics with your monster high collection belong in this thread:
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=106.1905;topicseen (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=106.1905;topicseen)
Quote from: Mrs Frankenstein on November 19, 2011, 09:34:56 PM
And I would have LOVED to have that Mad Scientist kit!!!!!....*running to Ebay*
Not that easy. I believe my father gave the one I had away to the snot nosed kid down the street or disposed of it otherwise when I went off to boarding school in grade nine. I've been trying to find another one for more than 25 years.
:(
Quote from: Sean on November 19, 2011, 09:52:27 PM
I insist. ;) Buddy, you're a good egg and great fun to kid with... I think you already know that. A GREAT addition to this board.
Amen to DAT!!
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Man, I have got to tell this story! In high school I was making alittle money, so at Christmas time I decided, without telling anyone, to buy my little brother a horse. Found one in the paper, rented a trailer, even was able to sneak the horse into the small barn we had in back of the house. On Christmas Eve I took Mom, Dad, and the little brother out to the barn with a flashlight. They were truly amazed! Brother pronounced it the greatest gift ever! Well, turns out the horse was quite young, and didn't like being away form Mom horse and liked even less the idea of being rode. The gift turned sour within days. So Pop put it up for sale. Some lady comes over to see the horse and sticks her head through the fence. Horse reaches down and pulls her wig off and goes racing out of the barn with it into the outside pen. We were all floored and didn't know how to react. Luckily the lady says "I'll take him, that horse has spunk!" Don't think I got too complicated with gifts after that one. I think horses are cool, long as someone else has to take care of em......Buddy
Quote from: bigbud on November 23, 2011, 10:03:37 PM
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Man, I have got to tell this story! In high school I was making alittle money, so at Christmas time I decided, without telling anyone, to buy my little brother a horse. Found one in the paper, rented a trailer, even was able to sneak the horse into the small barn we had in back of the house. On Christmas Eve I took Mom, Dad, and the little brother out to the barn with a flashlight. They were truly amazed! Brother pronounced it the greatest gift ever! Well, turns out the horse was quite young, and didn't like being away form Mom horse and liked even less the idea of being rode. The gift turned sour within days. So Pop put it up for sale. Some lady comes over to see the horse and sticks her head through the fence. Horse reaches down and pulls her wig off and goes racing out of the barn with it into the outside pen. We were all floored and didn't know how to react. Luckily the lady says "I'll take him, that horse has spunk!" Don't think I got too complicated with gifts after that one. I think horses are cool, long as someone else has to take care of em......Buddy
I've got one I have to share as well lol. Me and an old high school buddy used to stop by the store during college. We both had part time jobs so we had some disposable income but tried to hold onto it for something to really make us want to buy it. We kept seeing this record album on an end cap that had a great SF cover (Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill). We thought if the music was half as good as the cover, it would be worth buying. But we kept waiting for the other to buy it first. Finally, Xmas came along and I decided to buy it for him as a Xmas present so I could see if I wanted it for myself. Two days before Xmas, I went to the back porch and found a box for an old Ouija board game I could put it in and hide the fact it was a record. Dropped it off on the 23rd and they opened the presents on Xmas morning. I didn't know it but that box I chose had a bee hiding in it and hibernating. It had two days and nights to warm up and come to life. By the time Xmas morning came along, it was more than ready to get out of that box and more than a little angry. My buddy opened the box and saw the album cover, threw the box down on the floor and admired the Barney Bubbles artwork. The bee flew out of the box and proceeded to sting his sister on her nose! After that, they were very careful to open anything I brought over as a gift and that still remains to this day the only gift I ever got his sister.
Wow! Great stories guys!
;D
My all-time top ten wish-I-had received toys:
10. Castle Greyskull, 1984. Only wanted it for my D & D action figs--no interest in MOTU.
9. GI Joe Aircraft Carrier Playset (1984)--so massive, who didn't want it??
8. Shogun Warriors Godzilla-(1979)...begged and begged Santa for him, never got him. :(
7. AHI Worlds Greatest Super Monsters Creature From the Black Lagoon...oh he would of looked so cool in my stocking!! (1978?)
6. Big Jim Camper Playset (1974)
5. Mego Wayne Manor playset...sheeyah like that was gonna happen!
4. Stretch Monster (1978)
3. Mego Planet of the Apes Treehouse (1975?)
2. Kenner Star Wars Death Star Playset (1978)
1. Kenner Star Wars Millenium Falcon (1978)...my Holy Grail of Toys--now I own three!!! :)
But, my parents didnt let me down all the time...
The Top-Ten Best Toys I ever received at Christmas:
10. Parker Bros. Jaws..the Game (1977)
9. Mego Micronauts, Acroyear (1978)..absolutely loved him!!
8. Marx Safari Adventure Toys (Safari Joe, croc. gorilla, etc...)..damn near wore these toys out!
7. Mego Captain America, Worlds Grreatest Superheroes (1976)
6. a Godzilla bendy action figure, maker unknown, (1980) I think...my all time favorite toy..many adventures with him!
5. Mattel Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, (1979)..yknow, the one who's biceps could flex--looked nothing like the Filmation Tarzan but twas cool!
4. Mattel Rodan, 1980--awww yeah, I nearly died when I unwrapped that toy...still one of my faves
3. AHI Worlds Greatest Super Monsters Frankenstein (1975)...damn wish I still had him!
2. "Monsters..Who's Who", a book I received in 1979...i literally wore the pages out in that book..had it memorized
1. AHI Worlds Greatest Super Monsters Count Dracula (1978 I believe)..my all time favorite action figure..many a Mego in my collection joined the undead that year!
Thanks Mom and Dad for one of the best childhoods ever!!
Quote from: themadghoul on November 25, 2011, 03:00:58 PM
But, my parents didnt let me down all the time... Thanks Mom and Dad for one of the best childhoods ever!!
Yes, my parents were very good to me as well. They were the ones who got me my first monster model kits though I think my pleeding and begging had something to do with it. :laugh: I also got Bats in the Belfry and The Green Ghost among other things. I think they could tell from a young age I had a macabre streak to me.
Great stories!
I'll always remember when, as a toddler, my mum would take me to the toy department in the upstairs of our local (and at the time only) supermarket. We were a large family and relatively poor so my mum bless her could never afford to buy me a toy but I was quite happy just having a look around.
I became obsessed with a small plastic toy of a Chimera type creature which I called 'the Lion with horns'. There was a few creatures in the range, a three-headed dragon and a Pegasus but for some reason the Lion with horns did it for me and I became obsessed with owning it.
The following Christmas I opened my presents hoping to unwrap the Lion but it wasn't to be, until my parents proclaimed that I had one more 'special' present and led me with my eyes closed to the hallway. I opened my eyes and there was a magnificent BMX bike with blue ribbons round it which must have cost my parents an arm and a leg. "It's not a Lion with horns!" I said, much to my mum and dad's confusion. It was the first my mum had heard of the toy, I had been obsessing over it in my my mind and had assumed that Santa could hear everything going on in my head!
Every Christmas I dreaded getting clothes as gifts, and would always separate the soft parcels from the boxes knowing they would contain a pair of PJ's or some socks. Then one year I opened the final soft present and it contained - a werewolf mask! It was a lesson learned and one of the best Xmas presents I ever had.
Quote from: long live kong on November 25, 2011, 03:50:35 PM
It was the first my mum had heard of the toy, I had been obsessing over it in my my mind and had assumed that Santa could hear everything going on in my head!
So you never got the horned lion I take it?
Quote from: long live kong on November 25, 2011, 03:50:35 PM
Every Christmas I dreaded getting clothes as gifts....
I agree. Gifts of clothes are a very cruel trick to play on a young boy indeed!
>:(
Quote from: long live kong on November 25, 2011, 03:50:35 PM
Every Christmas I dreaded getting clothes as gifts, and would always separate the soft parcels from the boxes knowing they would contain a pair of PJ's or some socks. Then one year I opened the final soft present and it contained - a werewolf mask! It was a lesson learned and one of the best Xmas presents I ever had.
We unintentionally did that to our son. We got him a Playstation and wrapped it up with a cardboard to coming out of the top. I didn't realize it at the time but he was obsessing about a bass guitar which this was similar to. Next year, we had to get him a bass guitar so we dressed it up as a long old flat box with a huge sweater in it. He still calls it his sweater.
Quote from: Hepcat on November 25, 2011, 07:49:04 PM
So you never got the horned lion I take it?
I agree. Gifts of clothes are a very cruel trick to play on a young boy indeed!
>:(
Nope. I've looked for it a few times on google but no cigar.
Quote from: Zombiology on November 26, 2011, 02:55:29 AM
We unintentionally did that to our son. We got him a Playstation and wrapped it up with a cardboard to coming out of the top. I didn't realize it at the time but he was obsessing about a bass guitar which this was similar to. Next year, we had to get him a bass guitar so we dressed it up as a long old flat box with a huge sweater in it. He still calls it his sweater.
Refreshing that he'd prefere a guitar over a playstation!
Quote from: long live kong on November 26, 2011, 04:38:50 AM
Nope. I've looked for it a few times on google but no cigar.
Refreshing that he'd prefere a guitar over a playstation!
Most definitely. Musical instruments, over mind-numbing video games, any day.
We'd have alot more great musicians if half the time kids spent on games went to learning an instrument!
Very nice stories, everyone :)
That bee story sounds like something that would happen in my home! Wow!
QuoteI also got Bats in the Belfry and The Green Ghost among other things.
Zombiology! Weren't those great games! Remember the large monster claws you used to catch the bats, and the super cool spooky castle the bats popped out of.........Buddy
Quote from: bigbud on November 26, 2011, 11:34:00 PM
Zombiology! Weren't those great games! Remember the large monster claws you used to catch the bats, and the super cool spooky castle the bats popped out of.........Buddy
Yes!! I played infield in little league a the time and I imagined myself fielding the little plastic bats as infield pop flies. In a ballgame, I imagined the little bats flying at me. I guess I wasn't normal :o
Quote from: Dr. Madd on November 16, 2011, 02:12:36 PM
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I got one of these for Christmas once.. I wish I still had it.
How rare are these?
I know where I can get one this spring.
QuoteRefreshing that he'd prefere a guitar over a playstation!
Long Live Kong! Please note that he prefered a BASS guitar. Not just a guitar, a BASS guitar! The specifics are important to us BASS players........Buddy
When I was about 10 years old my brother was 5. On that Christmas of his 5th year his enthusiasm for Christmas and the gifts overflowed. He snuck one of his packages under the lower bunk bed and tore it open. Turned out to be a wallet from our Aunt. In his obvious disappointment he left the wallet and it's torn Christmas wrapping where it had landed. I found the mess, and with extreme Christmas glee I ratted on him! He got a pre-Christmas whooping! Aw......justice at Christmas.....just what little brothers deserve! Buddy
MEGO's Wayne Manor. I have always wanted that, as a kid and adult.
Quote from: bigbud on December 20, 2011, 08:26:56 PM
Long Live Kong! Please note that he prefered a BASS guitar. Not just a guitar, a BASS guitar! The specifics are important to us BASS players........Buddy
My son is the same way. He wanted a bass for Xmas. He now has bought himself two more.
The Great Garloo and BIG LOO !! :)
I didn't even know this existed until I got internet access, but I desperately wish that I had gotten a Tomy Spotbot for Christmas as a kid. One of the very first robot dogs. You'd put a battery in and he'd run around changing direction each time he hit a wall or obstacle. He was also sized perfectly to take part in action figure battles as well. My Spotbot would have been the guy who made Skeletor and his flunkies crap their pants whenever he showed up. Basically Spotbot enters the fray and asses WILL be kicked. The villains would fear him and the heroes would worship him.
Quote from: Tom Smith Monsternut on December 28, 2011, 12:20:38 PMThe Great Garloo....
Me too! The Great Garloo was probably the first toy I really coveted after I saw one at the downtown Kresges store.
;)
Quote from: bigbud on December 20, 2011, 08:41:40 PM
When I was about 10 years old my brother was 5. On that Christmas of his 5th year his enthusiasm for Christmas and the gifts overflowed. He snuck one of his packages under the lower bunk bed and tore it open. Turned out to be a wallet from our Aunt. In his obvious disappointment he left the wallet and it's torn Christmas wrapping where it had landed. I found the mess, and with extreme Christmas glee I ratted on him! He got a pre-Christmas whooping! Aw......justice at Christmas.....just what little brothers deserve! Buddy
GRINCH!! GRINCH!! ;D ;D
Quote from: marsattacks666 on December 21, 2011, 09:55:09 AM
MEGO's Wayne Manor. I have always wanted that, as a kid and adult.
ME TOO!!
Scatter....... if you had been my little brother I'd have saved the wallet story till Pop got home and made sure you got a DOUBLE whoopin'! Ha! Love, Buddy
Quote from: robodog on December 29, 2011, 05:13:59 PMMy Spotbot would have been the guy who made Skeletor and his flunkies crap their pants whenever he showed up. Basically Spotbot enters the fray and asses WILL be kicked. The villains would fear him and the heroes would worship him.
How can you be so sure that he wouldn't be Skeletor's dog and thus aligned against He-Man and She-Ra?
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