What was that "Must-Have" Christmas toy of your childhood?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Creepy Crawlers! We got that for my mom!

(My mom is so fun to buy stuff for, she likes cool, cool stuff. Recently she told one of my friends she was getting old. He looked amazed, “You are not, Marti!” She answered “Yes I am…I’m almost 50” with the same wide eyed look and voice you would expect a four year old to think of being fifty. This was the day after she bought a new pair of boots. Mid leg, black leather, platform. “Your mom’s not old, she’s 18 or so.” was my friend’s reaction to seeing those.)

My toys? hmm…only brand I can remember was My Little Pony. I was dead serious about my My Little Ponies. (I was serious about pretty much everything, though) Other than that, I wanted about what I want now. Books I haven’t read and stuffed animals.

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Tyco Slotless Racing!

Oh, man. It’s all I wanted when I was a kid. It came with two racing cars and an ambulance that went around the track slowly, creating an obstacle that you had to pass. No slots! Why, this must have been the greatest invention since the wheel! I don’t remember the cars lasting very long, though. But it was fun while it lasted…

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Rubik’s Cube. Didn’t get it. Got The Missing Link instead.

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The Fisher Price Airport. When I was small, all I wanted for Christmas was the Fisher Price Airport. I lived and breathed for that thing. It was all I wanted. No other presents would be necessary; no other presents would do.

It was hard to come by. While visiting family in Indiana (we’re from Michigan) mom was lucky enough to find one in a Toys-R-Us. She brought it home and felt very pleased with herself.

On Christmas Eve, when she was getting ready to set it out (Santa didn’t wrap presents at our house, either), mom thought, “Gee, I should open this to make sure all of the pieces are in there. If they’re not, I’ll be prepared with an explanation for the rugrat and then I’ll get replacements from the company later on.” It was then that disaser struck.

The box was full of rocks and garbage. Someone had bought the toy, taken out all of the stuff, and returned the box with weights inside. It was December 24 and the family was on the verge of a Genuine Christmas Disaser ™.

Mom called every toy store in southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio. No one seemed to have the Fisher Price Airport I so desperately longed for. It was a popular toy, after all. Finally, a toy store about two hours north of us said, yes, they had the airport, but there was only one left and they couldn’t hold it. However, the extremely understanding lady on the phone said, it might wind up misshelved behind the Pampers in asile 3. Just by accident, of course.

Mom raced to the store and had that damned airport back in time for a very happy Christmas. And I played with that thing until the little red radar antenna fell off its roof.

I love my mommy so much for doing that for me.
psycat90, you’re kidding about the computer version of Merlin, right? Because that was my favorite car toy (must have driven my parents NUTS) and I would roast an infant to be able to play with it again.

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Star Wars toys were big for about one year for me but as soon as I figured out that they were not poseable I went back to the one true love of my life when it came to action figures “Micronauts”. I has almost every one you could get including the big ones and a couple of playsets. Problem was they stopped making them so I ended up getting into GI Joes for a little while, at least they had the Kunk-Fu grip thing going for them and plenty of accessories like the Micronauts.

I also really wanted an Easy Bake Oven and a Snoopy Sno-Cone machine because my mom never cooked and I wanted something to eat.

when I was about 12 or 13 my aunt Julie gave me the big Alien doll and pissed my mom off really bad. That doll was cool as hell but too big to play with any of my other stuff. I still have him and he is worth a lot (more if I hadn’t lost his miniature jaws).

I hated board games when I was a kid because I was an only child and lived in a tough neighborhood so I didn’t get to play with too many kids and adults never want to play board games with you.

The toy I remember having the biggest fit over wasn’t really such a big deal but I wanted to lord over one of my friends from school: The GI-Joe “Whale” was a hovercraft and for a Joe toy it was pretty neat. I didn’t play with it all that much though and within two years I was completely over action figures so I ended up giving my large collection of GI Joes and Star Wars figures away. I kept my Micronauts and still have them today on a shelf (minut a few parts here and there that I have lost).

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Merry Christmas Juniper! Don’t say I never gave ya anything! :wink: