# Most longed-for toy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808 "2004-11-27T00:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/1 "2004-11-27T00:27:23Z")
While watching _A Christmas Story_ tonight I remembered the two toys I would gleefully have sold my brother to own: A genuine Baby Alive and an Easy Bake Oven. How about all you Dopers? What’s your own personal Red Ryder BB Gun? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/2 "2004-11-27T00:30:43Z")
I actually did want and received a Red Ryder BB Gun with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time. That was when I was 8. The thing that I wanted the most ever was a Commodore 64 computer with a 1541 floppy disk drive. I got that for Christmas the next year. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/3 "2004-11-27T00:42:58Z")
A Lite Brite…I never got one ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/4 "2004-11-27T00:58:08Z")
I wanted a microscope. What? I was a nerdy kid! ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/5 "2004-11-27T01:05:27Z")
I really wanted a race car track. I was born in 1966 and by the age of 10 they had some great ones. I think the coolest one was a glow in the dark one that had a track that would go up the wall. I wasn’t allowed to have one because it was a toy for boys. Can you believe that? I then brainwashed my brother into asking for one. Only thing is my brother has cerebal palsy and couldn’t really operate one. Mom knew what I was doing. I did have a lite brite and it was a very cool toy. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/6 "2004-11-27T01:06:48Z")
I wanted the HUGE GI mobile Battle Fortress. Never got one. Probably best, since the thing would need a lot of room to move around. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/7 "2004-11-27T01:15:14Z")
THat should be “GI JOE Mobile Battle Fortress”. As seen here. [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/90/general/](http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/90/general/) ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/8 "2004-11-27T02:10:55Z")
The one toy I always wanted but never got was the Easy Bake Oven. So I feel your pain! I also might have to pop in _A Christmas Story_ tonight - love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/9 "2004-11-27T02:45:52Z")
You’re all going to hate me. I had an easy bake oven. I loved it. It made the best brownies. I had (and have again) a Light Bright. In fact, Glory, if you’ll pay shipping, you can have it. Serious. It’s super light, so it shouldn’t cost much. I also had a cool slot car race track and an Apple 2GS. I wanted a collection of Cabbage Patch dolls. I got one, and I loved it to pieces. I wanted more, but I didn’t get any. I was spoiled, yes. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/10 "2004-11-27T02:52:55Z")
1. The GI Joe Adventure Team Headquarters, circa 1970. Never got one. 2. King Arthur’s Castle playset, circa 1971 (plastic castle with moving features and a horde of plastic knights and horses). Got an ersatz substitute. 3. Planet of the Apes Mego Ape City playset, circa 1974 or so. Weirdly enough, not only got one, but got several gorilla soldiers to go with it. 4. A car I didn’t have to be ashamed to drive, circa 1980. Got that one, but had to work for it. 5. A pound of marijuana, circa 1983. Didn’t get it, but wasn’t actually crazy enough to ask anyone for it, either. 6. A new VCR, circa 1985. Got it. 7. A CD player, circa 1989. Didn’t get it. 8. A girlfriend who was worth a damn, circa 1992. Got one, but had to wait until the following year. 9. A vacation, circa 1996. Didn’t get it. 10. A new job, circa 1998. Didn’t get it. 11. A new job, circa 2003. Got it. 12. Man, these days, I’d settle for the latest Terry Pratchett book in hardback… ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/11 "2004-11-27T03:00:04Z")
I got everything I wanted and more when I was a kid, except one thing: I wanted one of those big factory machines that made little stars on _Rainbow Brite_. “Those don’t exist in the real world,” cried my parents - and they did not - but Bah. If they _really_ cared… ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/12 "2004-11-27T03:50:41Z")
I wanted a Little Red Riding Hood Topsy Turvy doll. I actually thought one Christmas I was going to get it because my Mom opened the trunk of her car and there it was! I was thrilled and couldn’t wait until Christmas. Christmas morning comes and there’s no Little Red Riding Hood Topsy Turvy doll. My Mom later admitted that she knew I had seen it so she returned it but it didn’t matter anyway, she bought it for my sister not for me ☹ [http://firstgift.com/redrihodo.html](http://firstgift.com/redrihodo.html) ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/13 "2004-11-27T05:01:56Z")
When I was 6 I wanted a fairy. I thought it would be like Tinkerbell and I could keep it in a little cage. I dreamed of being able to keep a collection of fairies, devils, and demons. Luckily I grew out of that stage (then again, maybe I didn’t, since later I got pet birds.) Later I wanted an Etch-a-Sketch but my mother shrieked “I heard there was poison in them!” when I asked for one. (Did she think I was going to rip it open and suck the contents out?) I also wanted a habitrail for our gerbil but for some reason best known only to herself my mother wouldn’t buy one. My sister and I built one out of cardboard boxes and toilet paper tubes, but since it was cardboard we could only let the gerbil play in it once in a while rather live in it. (The gerbil did seem to enjoy it.) Other than that I got plenty of toys–probably more than I knew what to do with, especially considering that my mother and her sisters had grown up during the depression and were lucky to get even one toy for Christmas. I still wouldn’t mind a video camera, though. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/14 "2004-11-27T05:29:05Z")
When I was 6, I wanted one of those “Little Tykes” plastic cars - the one with the yellow top and the red body and the little shelf in the back “window” for a stuffed animal or two. Dad said that he wouldn’t buy such a thing for me unless it had pedals. I did finally get a car with pedals 12 years later. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/15 "2004-11-27T05:29:14Z")
The spotted elephant on Rudolph. He’s a misfit toy and every year he’d say, “No one wants a spotted elephant,” and I’d start crying “I do! I do!” I wanted that spotted elephant. I still do. I think I am unwell. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/16 "2004-11-27T06:19:24Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > A Lite Brite…I never got one ☹ I had one when I was a kid and now, several decades later, I’m thinking of asking for one again. I just went looking for prices and found this [online version.](http://www.sfpg.com/animation/liteBrite.html#) scroll to the bottom and click on one of the colored pegs and then click onto any spot in the black area. It’s kind of fun but I still want a real one. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/17 "2004-11-27T06:31:08Z")
A Nintendo circa 1991. I was 8 years old and wanted one so bad. Plus I was so sure I was getting one since there was a present under the tree that was about the right size and what I thought was the right weight. It turned out to be a set of encyclopedias. I was not pleased… 13 years later, I’ve still never owned a **functional** video game system. (I bought a broken Dreamcast off eBay, hoping to replace the lens and get it going again. Now it’s gathering dust in my closet, along with the 4 controllers and 4 memory cards. Money well spent.) Finally, I’ve hit the 400th post. Time to go to bed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/18 "2004-11-27T16:13:12Z")
A wanted a furby the Christmas they were really popular. I got one too! Turned out my Grandparents made phone calls and queued outside shops at ridiculous hours of the morning. Not only did I get a furby, but it was the much sort after _white_ furby. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/19 "2004-11-27T16:29:42Z")
A big wheel. Never got one. but one of my kids [did](http://groups.msn.com/TheFauxFamilyDavidandPrajna/summerdays.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=111) for his 4th birthday 3 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808/20 "2004-11-27T16:39:57Z")
I wanted the die-cast replica Batmobile (from the TV series) so much! There was a store in our little town that had one. I used to go there all the time, and just drool over it. I was obsessed by it. I drew pictures in the most exacting detail of the Batmobile, and the Batcave… never got it, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-longed-for-toy/276808.md?page=2)