Your Wish Toys of Christmases Past

[jynxxxedangel]

Think back to when you were a small child, when the holidays were still full of wonder and possibility (and you paid a lot more attention to the toy commercials interspersed with cartoons ).

Which toys (or other gifts) did you wish for Father Christmas to bring? What were the best gifts you received, if you were so lucky?

This is not for modern toys and gifts-- this is a childhood nostalgia thread. If need be, we will start yet another thread for "toys you would want NOW, if you were a little kid."

I remember really wanting these two fashion dolls, and getting them.

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[jynxxxedangel]

This one one of my fave Christmas toys ever received, when I was very little (shades of gothiness, maybe?):

Weebles Haunted House

I remember wanting this so badly, and having it sent to me from my Michigan grandma. It sure takes me back through the years, seeing this commercial! I was amazed when the toy I was thinking of came up on the first search!

Even when I was a little one, I wanted Halloween stuff for Christmas!

I also wanted this Hot Wheels parking garage and town set, but I didn't get one until it was handed down from an older cousin.

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[jynxxxedangel]

I also loved this toy I received as a child:

The soft little log house was like a carrying case. The three little beavers were finger puppets, and they squeaked if you squeezed them. There were all sorts of little accessories, and a storybook was included.

..and what kid in their right mind didn't want THESE?

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[jynxxxedangel]

Did you all grow up in Sombertown??

No one wants to share any of the toys they wanted or got????

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[Head Wreck]

i was odd.

i wanted books on the SAS and army gear

[jynxxxedangel]

G.I. Joe Defiant Space Shuttle

I really wanted this, but didn't get one until I was an adult. I purchased it at a convention. It was one of my favourite pieces in my long-lost vintage toy collection.

In my imaginary childhood world, Ken was too foppish for Barbie. She liked real men, so I always had a few Joes around.

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[Mean Salley]

This one one of my fave Christmas toys ever received, when I was very little (shades of gothiness, maybe?):

Weebles Haunted House

I remember wanting this so badly, and having it sent to me from my Michigan grandma. It sure takes me back through the years, seeing this commercial! I was amazed when the toy I was thinking of came up on the first search!

Even when I was a little one, I wanted Halloween stuff for Christmas!

I also wanted this Hot Wheels parking garage and town set, but I didn't get one until it was handed down from an older cousin.

I had the mickey's castle weeble wobble playset and Dumbo's circus. I still have the blonde chick that shoots out of the cannon.

I owe a week's grounding to weeble wobbles. My sister insisted on calling them egg people, and when I got frustrated with trying diplomatic measures to gain them the sort of respect and dignity they deserved, I resorted to more aggressive means of social justice. My mother was not pleased however with my humanitarian efforts when she found out that I forced my sister to experience first hand that weeble wobbles do not in fact taste like eggs.

For me every year it was Star Warsez. I still watch them every Christmas time because it's pretty much a tradition.

And d00des, check this out

I loveded me Ollie the Octopus. When I first opened it, I was like "mom... wtf?" But when I started stretching it and wraping it around my dad's big bald nugget, my mind was flooded with the possibilities.

My sister had Olivia the octopus, which was pink. She kept it until she was about 15 and then the sophomore class nymphomaniac insisted on paying 50 bucks for it. Never figured out why though.

I got a lot of lincoln logs too. That same christmas I also got a toy air rifle which I cleverly modified to fire lincoln logs at a high rate of speed. I could hit the back of my dad's big bald head at 30 paces. Best Christmas present I ever had for all of 4 hours. Now if my brother hadn't spilled egg nog on my dad's new tool set, he probably would have just snapped the gun over his knee and not my brothers new "Irvin the Inchworm" ride.

"'Tis the season to be merry!"

"That's my name!"

"No shit?"

[Mean Salley]

G.I. Joe Defiant Space Shuttle

I really wanted this, but didn't get one until I was an adult. I purchased it at a convention. It was one of my favourite pieces in my long-lost vintage toy collection.

In my imaginary childhood world, Ken was too foppish for Barbie. She liked real men, so I always had a few Joes around.

speaking of GI Joes, the Rolling Thunder was the proverbial shit.

IF you took out the rockets in the internal launch bay, you could totally fit a small puppy inside and when that little snausage muncher leaped out and attacked, it spelled d00m for the forces of COBRA. ( It also meant several hours of re-assembling your COBRA soldiers.

BTW in a crash-up-derby, Rolling Thunder> Barbie camper van

<--- lol weak

my sister still brings that up every Christmas. And I still bring up the fact that Ken would still have a head if only he had worn his seatbelt.

[TheGimp]

TONKA TRUCKS!!! NINJA TURTLES AND POWER RANGERS!!

[hunhee]

I never got one.. but I am thinking about buying one now.. *eg*

Edited November 19, 2008 by hunhee

[Guest greyhalo]

I never got one.. but I am thinking about buying one now.. *eg*

I wanted one of those for YEARS. My parents finally got me one when I was 18 during my freshman year of college. I made some of those pasty brownies for my roommies in the dorm.

[jynxxxedangel]

:rofl:

I'd quite forgotten about those stretch octopi, they were a lot of fun!!

Another of my favourite toys I received was a "Camping The Smokey The Bear Way" playset, by Tonka. I remember it had a green tent, a shovel, a canteen, a compass, a book, a Smokey the Bear plastic figure, and some other stuff which is lost to my memory. Try as I might, I CANNOT find a photo of this toy set on the internet!!! I've found a few mentions, but no pics.

P.S. Easy-Bake Ovens RAWWWKKKK.

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[Guest greyhalo]

This was the oven I REALLY wanted back in the late 70s:

[Guest greyhalo]

Stretchy toys were great, as long as you didn't cut them open like I did. They're full of smelly syrupy stuff that's not easy to scrub out of carpet.

I had this guy when I was 5:

[hunhee]

Stretchy toys were great, as long as you didn't cut them open like I did. They're full of smelly syrupy stuff that's not easy to scrub out of carpet.

I had this guy when I was 5:

Holy crap! are you looking at my google images bot?!?!?

I was just thinking about posting Stretch Armstrong.. that stuff inside stretch tasted like Bit-O-Honey.

[Guest greyhalo]

Holy crap! are you looking at my google images bot?!?!?

I was just thinking about posting Stretch Armstrong.. that stuff inside stretch tasted like Bit-O-Honey.

You tasted Stretch's insides?

[jynxxxedangel]

Maybe that's how we ended up weird. We ate Stretch Armstrong goop.

Edited November 19, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[Dollardave]

Holy crap! are you looking at my google images bot?!?!?

I was just thinking about posting Stretch Armstrong.. that stuff inside stretch tasted like Bit-O-Honey.

You ate your strect armstrong doll is what I am taking this as. All I wanted was a toy call "the magical musical thing" its was blue and white and had a keyboard. May have been the starting of my bass playing in skinhead group called corporal punishment my head was shaved on my 18th bday. A little history about me

[Dollardave]

OMG found a picture of it its from 1978

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Lego

[hunhee]

You tasted Stretch's insides?

Yeah..he was tasty..

[hunhee]

Maybe that's how we all ended up weird. We ate Stretch Armstrong goop.

I'm weird?

You ate your strect armstrong doll is what I am taking this as. All I wanted was a toy call "the magical musical thing" its was blue and white and had a keyboard. May have been the starting of my bass playing in skinhead group called corporal punishment my head was shaved on my 18th bday. A little history about me

Yes, stretch was tasty.. I'm not the only one who thought this, I ate him with a friend.. haha same friend who sat in some big tires with me in first grade while we tasted dirt.. ahh... first love..

Which Incidentally.. I don't know if anyone's tried the stuff.. tastes like africola..

Or Ginsing..

But back on topic.. I wanted wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid..

[Guest greyhalo]

Did anyone else have this?

[hunhee]

These were cool too.

[Destroit]

I wanted one of those for YEARS. My parents finally got me one when I was 18 during my freshman year of college. I made some of those pasty brownies for my roommies in the dorm.

Really? Mine was the model that only burnt down the whole fucking kitchen and got us grounded for a year or so.

And for the record, everything that I wanted when I was six is what I still want now. Instead, some where along the way, I must have fucked up and been naughty (which big, fat, toy-hostage man is privy to, apparantly) because right after I turned 18 I started to not get that stuff anymore, I got other boring shit, like frying pans and socks....wtf...? What the hell did I do to deserve this?

Edited November 19, 2008 by Chernobyl