Here’s the rules: find something on EBay that you had in your past and wish you had again. It has to be something that is no longer made and can no longer be bought new.
I was six or seven when I got my Spiderman Bust Bank. Spiderman was my favorite super-hero.
I wish I still had my Spiderman Bust Bank. Alas, the one on EBay is not MY Spiderman Bust Bank; it’s just not the same as having the one I got for Christmas and cherished until the day I wanted some money that Spiderman was holding for me and I had to cut his head open to make a withdrawal.
Mine was just like these two, only it was WAY BETTER because mine was not red or green or black like the typical Suckerman figures. No, mine was Glow-in-the-Dark! That’s right, I could fling my Suckerman against the sliding glass door in complete darkness and watch him hang with an eeire yellow-green glow.
I loved the Suckerman TV commercials. I used to try to imitate them, hanging Suckerman in a kitchen cupboard and waiting for mom to open it and jump back from fright.
I don’t recall whatever became of my glow-in-the-dark Suckerman. I guess when I became a know-it-all teenager I thought I was too cool for such things and carelessly discarded him. So long, glow-in-the-dark Suckerman. You are missed.
I used to play the original 1960 version of Milton Bradley’s “The Game of Life” when my family vacationed at grandma’s cottage in the late 1980’s. I’ve seen updated versions in stores, but come on. Life tiles? SUVs? I’ll take a six-seat landyacht and a $12,000 doctor’s salary any day, thank you.
OMG, Rodd…
Major Matt Mason… I was telling my wife about having that as a kid. I believe he was the only “Action-Figure” I owned. I wasn’t into G. I. Joe, or the lot. I haven’t seen that space station, which I had, in like 30 something years. Durn thing is going for 89 bucks
right now, so I won’t bid, but just the fact that such things ARE availible on Ebay is amasing. I will keep my eyes out for another.
Oh the things people have in the attic, and are selling…
Yeah, I was never into the GI Joe thing either, DrMemory, but had every damn space toy going, I think. Had the Matt Mason Space Crawler, too. Scared the bejeebus out of our otherwise valiant German Shepherd. Gave all of it away when I was about 12 or so…should have double-bagged everything; could have bought a new car!
I have an old copy of Life somewhere, with Art Linkletter’s picture on the big bills, no less. The only problem with it is that it’s missing one tooth on the spinner. I haven’t played it in years.