Toys you wish you had received at Christas

[Hepcat]

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.

[Hepcat]

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!

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!

[Pauspy]

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!

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! 

[Scatter]

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".

[Scatter]

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. 

[Flower]

Not a toy but I always wanted a pony just like this one ..

[Mrs Frankenstein]

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   
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 ! 

[Hepcat]

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   

Booooo!!! Very sad.

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:

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 ! 

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

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

I'll never quite forgive my parents for not giving me this set for Christmas:

[Sean]

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.   



And WHAT is that on the envelope above the mailing address???  A hairy turd? 

[bigbud]

and 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

[bigbud]

And 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

[Mrs Frankenstein]

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:



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

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 

And I would have LOVED to have that Mad Scientist kit!!!!!....*running to Ebay*

[Sean]

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.

[Moonshadow]

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!