Age: 34
Books: **Superman vs. Muhammad Ali ** on eBay, to replace the copy I lost when I moved. Charles Schulz Happiness is a Warm Puppy, one of the first books I learned to read on my own. Stand Back! Said the Elephant, I’m Going To Sneeze! Which I read once in my doctor’s waiting room and couldn’t put out of my head for 20 years. All from Amazon.com
Movies: Watership Down, Bakshi’s **The Hobbit ** and the first three Muppet movies. Also: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, first movie I got to third base watching with a girl.
Toys: Rubik’s Cube, the Snake and the Pyramid and a collection of 213 Garbage Pail Kids cards, from neighborhood garage sales.
Music: Nothing I can’t fileshare – although there’s a copy of a non-beatboxing ‘La Di Da Di’ with Slick Rick and a real woman singing the ‘Sukiyaki’ hook I can’t find anywhere.
What I’d like to buy: a complete set of Encyclopedia Browns, and all the **Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators ** books, maybe the McGurk Mysteries.
I’m currently on a search to find a pink plastic whale bathtub toy that I had as a child. My daughter managed to break it 21 years ago (I shouldn’t be too hard on her, it was at least 30 years old at the time…but I’ve never forgiven her ) My sister recently got a new Chatty Cathy doll to replace the one she claims I lost (this not forgiving thing seems to be a trend). I still have most of my childhood books and games, but I’m collecting miniatures of some of the Little Tikes toys my kids had: we just don’t have room for the turtle sandbox anymore!
I replaced some of the X-Men comics I bought new (and now worth $1,000’s - dammit) with reprints. They didn’t read quite as well now that I am grown up, but holding them reminds of when I first read them.
I collect 1st edition books - some are super valuable, but there is nothing like holding a book that meant a lot to me as a kid - like Dune, say - and remember how it felt to read it the first time…
Toys: View-Master reels; specifically, Superman (vs. the Computer Crook); Batman (“The Purr-fect Crime”); Micky Mouse, Goofy & Donald Duck in The Clock Cleaners; among a few others. I found all of them on eBay. But as a little kid, I remember Walgreen’s having these elaborate little display racks with View-Master packets on them.
*I been lucky enough to nearly all the comics I had as a kid. I’ve replaced the beat-up copies with ones in better condition.
I’d love to have a complete set of *Encyclopedia Brown * books and Charlie Brown Encyclopedias for myself. I read a ton of other things when I was a kid (especially miscellaneous mythology books) but those’re the two things that jump immediately to mind that I have especially fond memories of and that I can remember the titles of.
Maybe some Bearestein Bears, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and *Fudge * books too, for any eventual kids? I don’t think I’m quite nostalgic enough to actually read those again though.
And I will eventually own all the seasons of Saved By the Bell, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and all the Star Treks if or when they’re released on DVD.
Ooh, and I want a Pound Puppy too. A talking Cooler to replace the one I had as a five year old if at all possible. I loved that thing.
I don’t have to buy anything! I’ve kept everything I’ve ever had!
Actually this aint far from the truth, unfortunatly. I have junk from 30 years ago. It turns out one of the few things I did give away, my Hotwheel cars, is now the toy of choice for my little guy. He loves them and cant get enough of them. I regret giving them away and now wish he had them to play with. :sad:
Just as well. He’s kinda rough on them and it would break my heart to watch them get torn up. Besides, all the ones I had are now worth about $50 each! :eek:
And I guess its not too bad. I’ll be passing along my Fiat, which was my dad’s, so he’ll have a real car to motor in someday.
I finally bought a hardcover copy of Watership Down, even though I still have the paperback copy I had when I read it the first time.
Recently I bought the Challenge of the Superfriends DVD’s, which were about as good as I remembered it.
I also bought the Starblazers DVD set, and wish I hadn’t – I remembered it being just the coolest thing ever, and was heartbroken to discover that to a jaded 33-year-old, it’s just poorly animated, tedious, and boring. Captain Avatar is still a major bad-ass, though.
I’m slowly reconstructing my Marvel comics collection from the mid '60’s. Mostly Fantastic Four, Spiderman, and **Strange Tales ** (I loved Dr.Strange!) at this time. I had a huge collection spanning 1964 through 1969, but sold it in the '80’s.
From 1983-1985 my family lived in England (Pateley Bridge, for anyone familiar with that part of North Yorkshire). While there, I started buying the then-new Now, That’s What I Call Music double cassettes: I had #s 1-4 when it was time to move back to the States, but the movers lost the box that contained #s 2 & 3! After the move I acquired #s 5-9, but 2 & 3 quickly went out of print and became impossible to obtain.
Impossible, that is, until the time of eBay.
It took a while to find them, even on eBay, but several years ago I finally did and now I happily own a complete retrospective of British pop from my early teens. It’s quite the trip down memory lane to listen to this music now, 20 years later, but I still love it!
I’m 59, and I’ve been looking for a playset my brother and I used to spend hours with.
It was painted tin, a western “town” - connected buildings – the sheriff’s office, saloon, I think a hotel, stable, and there were plastic cowboys, horses, watering troughs for the horses, the whole shebang.
I had lots of inflatable toys when I was a kid. Beachballs, Gumby, Godzilla, etc., but there’s really only one I want to replace. It was a two-chamber Easter bunny with ears that went all the way to the ceiling! They came out around '85 when I was in high school. I managed to get a single-chamber version of this bunny via eBay but it’s a bit smaller. I’d love to have the bigger version again.
I want two things: The elephant who liked to smash small cars by Jean Little, one of the greatest picture books ever written (The elephant sings, “Smashing cars! Smashing cars! How I love to smash small cars!”), and a particular hardback edition of Diana Wynne Jones’ Witch’s business which is a light dusty purple with the title stamped in gold on the front. It was the first DWJ book I ever read.
I forgot to add that the Jean Little picture book now goes for nearly $200 on used book sites, and so I’ll have to wait until it comes back into print (probably never). I once almost got the DWJ book.
I bought A.A. Milne’s children’s books while I was still in college, and the boxed Beatrix Potter set shortly after I was married. As my kids get older, I buy books that I loved at their ages to add to the books they select for themselves. Most recently, I bought Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time tetralogy for my 11 year old son.
) My sister recently got a new Chatty Cathy doll to replace the one she claims I lost (this not forgiving thing seems to be a trend). I still have most of my childhood books and games, but I’m collecting miniatures of some of the Little Tikes toys my kids had: we just don’t have room for the turtle sandbox anymore!
