# What "lost" Christmas present would YOU like to find, years later

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 7, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lost-christmas-present-would-you-like-to-find-years-later/955643 "2021-12-07T14:35:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lost-christmas-present-would-you-like-to-find-years-later/955643/41 "2022-02-01T19:35:19Z")

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> [@TRC4941](#):
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> My friend had a Thingmaker. When she ran out of the goop, we used chocolate chips!

I missed this post back then - I like this idea!

I had an official Willy Wonka Candy mold set, back when the movie came out in 1971. I used the molds a lot, but never wrapped the bars, because I knew I’d run out of wrappers and then I couldn’t get any more. Som I still have all of them. The molds have gotten brittle in the last 51 years. Don’t think I can use them anymore.

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**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lost-christmas-present-would-you-like-to-find-years-later/955643/42 "2022-02-20T16:21:29Z")

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Oh yes, I always wanted a pedal car too. Mind you, we lived out in the country on a hill with not much in the way of flat surfaces it could have easily run on. Oh well, a bit later I got a chemistry set, which evolved over the years as real apparatus and reagents were added, so I can’t complain…

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lost-christmas-present-would-you-like-to-find-years-later/955643/43 "2022-02-22T02:27:42Z")

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Thanks for the link. Based on that I found in the 1978 book the present of my dreams as a kid “[The Micronauts mobile exploration lab](http://www.micro-outpost.com/pictures/vehicles/mobexps.jpg)”. I asked Santa for it every year for probably 3-4 years in a row but he never came through. Given the price (some $60.00 in today’s money) and the fact that I probably would have tired of it after a bit, I think he probably made the right choice.

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