As a kid at Christmas, What toy did you want so bad it kept you up at night? (and did you get it?) 4 4

[FoggyNelson]

I always wanted a BB gun pistol , air powered , I had a rifle but could only shoot one bb at a time 

My mom an dad never bought it for me🤷‍♀️😤😩😢

[ADAMANTIUM]

9 minutes ago, FoggyNelson said:

I always wanted a BB gun pistol , air powered , I had a rifle but could only shoot one bb at a time 

My mom an dad never bought it for me🤷‍♀️😤😩😢

I always wanted an air pistol as well  what I ended up with was a Daisy BB rifle gun, that kind of cocked like the rifleman, (insert comic book meme cover here), I loved to shoot it etc but my parents kept it in their room when I was young.... as I lived in the city, it was better safe than sorry, they thought I'd get in trouble....

[kav]

1 minute ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I always wanted an air pistol as well  what I ended up with was a Daisy BB rifle gun, that kind of cocked like the rifleman, (insert comic book meme cover here), I loved to shoot it etc but my parents kept it in their room when I was young.... as I lived in the city, it was better safe than sorry, they thought I'd get in trouble....

We had kids in our neighborhood that would go around shooting birds so we'd go around hunting them.

[BitterOldMan]

31 minutes ago, FoggyNelson said:

I always wanted a BB gun pistol , air powered , I had a rifle but could only shoot one bb at a time 

My mom an dad never bought it for me🤷‍♀️😤😩😢

As Santa said to Ralphie, "You'd shoot your eye out, kid!"

Edited December 24, 2018 by BitterOldMan
Corrected grammar

[BitterOldMan]

Two toys that I never got, but dreamed of owning are

1961 Robot Commando from Ideal

1965 James Bond Road Race Set from Gilbert.  This set sold for a whopping $35 in 1965,  In the rush to meet Sears demand to get the set out by Christmas, most sets were defective and returned, causing Gilbert to go bankrupt.

 

[topofthetotem]

3 hours ago, jsilverjanet said:

Me too. Got a Tuan Tuan instead 

I don’t remember what I got that year I musta been so traumatized with disappointment I wiped it from my memory. 

 

[Ride the Tiger]

[BriD.]

Really wanted one of these. Never found one under the tree but I can't complain. There was always other fun stuff!

 

[kav]

15 minutes ago, BriD. said:

Really wanted one of these. Never found one under the tree but I can't complain. There was always other fun stuff!

 

I had no problem getting these they were always distributed around neighborhood on lawns-

[Larryw7]

18 hours ago, Philreal said:

Wanted 'em = yup!

Got 'em = nope! 

Auroras had groups like NOW picketing their offices because of these kits. There were newspaper articles denouncing them. Very controversial, and was the first nail in Aurora's coffin.

[kav]

11 minutes ago, Larryw7 said:

Auroras had groups like NOW picketing their offices because of these kits. There were newspaper articles denouncing them. Very controversial, and was the first nail in Aurora's coffin.

Funny how they didnt picket hollywood that made the movies these type kits were based on.  selective outrage.

[Larryw7]

2 minutes ago, kav said:

Funny how they didnt picket hollywood that made the movies these type kits were based on.  selective outrage.

True. Probably because they were marketed to kids. The ad didn't help.

 

 

[kav]

Just now, Larryw7 said:

True. Probably because they were marketed to kids. The ad didn't help.

 

 

the movies were marketed to kids too tho

[Larryw7]

1 minute ago, kav said:

the movies were marketed to kids too tho

The older Universals were, but I don't know about Hammer in the seventies. Lots of blood and naked breasts. Of course the kids saw them anyway.

Edited December 24, 2018 by Larryw7
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[kav]

1 minute ago, Larryw7 said:

The older Universals were, but I don't know about Hammer in the seventies. Lots of blood and naked breasts. Of course the kids saw them anyway.

plus mostly the kids watched the old movies on TV and the commercials were directed at em.

[kav]

Everything fun for male kids the old biddies like wertham ruined.

[Scrooge]

Don't know if I asked for it but I know I played with it for hours and hours -

That and this -

[Azkaban]

If you have seen my Journal, you have already seen these. But they're some of my prize Christmas toys that I still have that I keep displayed at my office. Johnny West action figures, Star Wars, GI Joe and Viewmaster

[Norrin_Radd]

Han Solo's blaster.  Never got it. 

[kav]

I asked a kid who's birthday was on christmas if it sucked he said no its great!!!