Toys you wish you had received at Christas

[Hepcat]

I have my Monster High dolls in my bathroom tho..yes, Monster High..I am almost 35 and I have kids toys 

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

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.

[Scatter]

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!!

[bigbud]

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

[Zombiology]

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.

[Hepcat]

Wow! Great stories guys!

[themadghoul]

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!!!

[themadghoul]

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!!

[Zombiology]

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.   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.

[long live kong]

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.

[Hepcat]

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?

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!

[Zombiology]

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.

[long live kong]

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.

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!

[marsattacks666]

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.

[jimm]

We'd have alot more great musicians if half the time kids spent on games went to learning an instrument!

[charp13]

Very nice stories, everyone     
That bee story sounds like something that would happen in my home! Wow!