Childhood Christmas Gift You Never Got

[Mike Taylor]

The G.I. Joe Hovercraft.
Y-wing starfighter
My brother and I spent every christmas drooling over the toy catalog but those two are the ones that I still wish i had gotten.

Oh, I made SURE I got the G.I. Joe WHALE hovercraft. My brother got the Bridgelayer and the Wolverine that year, too.

[draggar]

Let's see. In July of 1982 I was a HUGE Star Wars fan and one of the things I'd had my heart set on for months was the AT-AT Walker.

[*]G.I.*Joe U.S.S. Flagg Aircraft Carrier playset

You two nailed my two on the head - the AT-AT and the aircraft carrier. Luckily I now have a Lego AT-AT.

[*]Star Wars Millennium Falcon. Han Solo was my favorite character, but my parents thought the Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy was too expensive to buy me one. I was devastated. My favorite science fiction spaceship, and I couldn't even have one to "fly" my figures around in. [/list]

I had both of those. I wish I still had them - I had the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader where the light sabre came out of their arm.

[Mike Taylor]

Over the years, I had pondered getting the AT-AT on my own, but the re-releases were insanely expensive.

[Plaidman]

I always wanted a Barbie. My grandmother, bless her, bought me a Barbie knock off type doll and I broke down in tears and threw the ugly thing across the living room.

It was a bratty thing to do, but I really wanted a real Barbie. I never got one.

So strange. I hear that alot of woman are a little screwy in the head simply for the fact they didn't get a barbie or only got knockoffs.

Not saying your screwy in the head. I'm quite afraid of you really. But I also love ya! So... confused.

[Mike Taylor]

So strange. I hear that a lot of women are a little screwy in the head simply for the fact they didn't get a real barbie or only got knockoffs.

Not saying your screwy in the head. I'm quite afraid of you really. But I also love ya! So... confused.

The response isn't all that strange. Kids are sharper than adults often give them credit for, and can tell the real deal from a knock-off.

[Plaidman]

The response isn't all that strange. Kids are sharper than adults often give them credit for, and can tell the real deal from a knock-off.

Oh I'm not talking about her response. I did the same thing when mom got be duplex instead of Legos. I knew the difference.

I was more on remarking that Misanthropical is just another to a long list of people I know that hated that, and alot of them blame their problems on the fact they didn't get a real barbie doll.

[Lace Neil Singer]

A PONY.

Dammit, I so wanted that pony when I was a kid, and never ever got it.

[cinema guy]

I had it pretty good as a kid. I don't recall not getting anything I really wanted.

Got a Millenium Falcon, got an AT-AT, and a bazillion other Star Wars vehicles and figures.

The only toy I can recall shedding tears over was an Action Man WWII fighter pilot outfit. I had set my heart on it and was going to buy it with birthday money. We had a family trip to London and we went into Hamleys (one of the biggest toy shops in the world) and they didn't have it. So we went in search of it. After spending several hours traipsing round London toy shops and department stores, we found one. Only it was a much higher price than expected and I couldn't afford it. So tears were shed. But my parents paid the difference.