I wanted a Chatty Cathy doll..now I am one! I also wanted a set of kids table and chairs..instead I got a baby sister! 
What did you want (more then anything!) for Christmas, when you were a kid?
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i remember really wanting a teddy roxbin (sp?) now my son wants one and i think they are creepy lol, i also wanted everything strawberry shortcake because it all smelled like strawberries, i can still remember that smell
That's a hard question Ms. MK... At 7 really wanted my own hardback set of Lord of the Rings. That one sticks out the most...
This is really going to date me.....
Anybody remember these.....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Mechanical_sankyo_pachinko_machine.jpg
Or one of these....
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:...TjOFEeVn_DKjXqLV-Sa_1S12fJMXtXBW6Y16u25w8E3kA
After spending a summer in Hawaii riding my cousin's skateboard I really wanted one of these. Back then a skateboard on the mainland was basically just that, a board with some metal skate wheels on it. The Makaha was one of the first plastic boards with a raised tail on it, adjustable wide trucks and polyurethane wheels.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtn1Z4jDQa38KN2ubQpoMS9L1Jrl0jiUWfRQmRqBL4kLY6LkW_nQ
Anybody remember these.....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Mechanical_sankyo_pachinko_machine.jpg
Or one of these....
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:...TjOFEeVn_DKjXqLV-Sa_1S12fJMXtXBW6Y16u25w8E3kA
After spending a summer in Hawaii riding my cousin's skateboard I really wanted one of these. Back then a skateboard on the mainland was basically just that, a board with some metal skate wheels on it. The Makaha was one of the first plastic boards with a raised tail on it, adjustable wide trucks and polyurethane wheels.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtn1Z4jDQa38KN2ubQpoMS9L1Jrl0jiUWfRQmRqBL4kLY6LkW_nQ
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Harmony acoustic guitar in the holiday Sears catalogue, $19.95. Anyone remember that annual 10-pound literary opus? Was fun for kids drooling over the latest toys. Yeah Plark, I was just like Ralphie only dreaming of a guitar.
Did get that crummy guit one Xmas, which somehow still led to the lifetime of performing and recording and groupies I've enjoyed so much. Thanks, Mom & Dad.
Did get that crummy guit one Xmas, which somehow still led to the lifetime of performing and recording and groupies I've enjoyed so much. Thanks, Mom & Dad.
Ahahaha....
We had a pachinko machine growing up.
I don't know what the second item is... a kitchen timer?
I made a skateboard in shop class using laminated oak and walnut ... basically a 15lb chopping block on bad-... slalom trucks and wheels! LOL Skateboards were just coming into vogue in Dallas in the early 80s'.
P.S. I made a motorcycle service stand in metal shop... to lift a dirtbike by its center frame. Out of bar stock and plate armor steel. The thing must have weighed in at <40lbs! Might have lifted a car, if my crappy welds weren't so, uhm, crappy.
We had a pachinko machine growing up.
I don't know what the second item is... a kitchen timer?
I made a skateboard in shop class using laminated oak and walnut ... basically a 15lb chopping block on bad-... slalom trucks and wheels! LOL Skateboards were just coming into vogue in Dallas in the early 80s'.
P.S. I made a motorcycle service stand in metal shop... to lift a dirtbike by its center frame. Out of bar stock and plate armor steel. The thing must have weighed in at <40lbs! Might have lifted a car, if my crappy welds weren't so, uhm, crappy.
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Red Ryder aside....
I'm too young to remember, but I'm told I really wanted one of those plastic ponies on a stand... the type that had 4 springs on each corner that would pinch a finger ten-ways to Tuesday. I got it.
I remember wanting a wood burning kit. Basically a soldering iron and some hunks of plywood.
I also remember wanting money... so that I could buy:
1) elton john's "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road" 2 LP set
2) a dissection kit and a subject in formaldehyde to dissect.
I got #1 at "Peaches Records & Tapes" and #2 at the local/corner drugstore... a pickled perch to be exact.
I remember watching Star Trek (the original series) between rounds of PONG.
Yes, I recently celebrated my 3rd Annual 45th birthday.
I'm too young to remember, but I'm told I really wanted one of those plastic ponies on a stand... the type that had 4 springs on each corner that would pinch a finger ten-ways to Tuesday. I got it.
I remember wanting a wood burning kit. Basically a soldering iron and some hunks of plywood.
I also remember wanting money... so that I could buy:
1) elton john's "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road" 2 LP set
2) a dissection kit and a subject in formaldehyde to dissect.
I got #1 at "Peaches Records & Tapes" and #2 at the local/corner drugstore... a pickled perch to be exact.
I remember watching Star Trek (the original series) between rounds of PONG.
Yes, I recently celebrated my 3rd Annual 45th birthday.
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I wanted a die-cast 3 foot tall Voltron figure that would separate into the individual lions. I got it for Christmas & I wish I still had it because it would have made an awesome collectible.
I wanted one of those bikes that had the banana seat and butterfly handle bars , I thought I was the coolest kid on the block .
Easy Bake oven think i got another version but it did work ! and some kind of doll cant remember which one ...but Mary Kay if it was chatty cathy i am sure i was quite enough chatter for my parents who already had two teenage boys when i was born lmao
think i got another version but it did work ! and some kind of doll cant remember which one ...but Mary Kay if it was chatty cathy i am sure i was quite enough chatter for my parents who already had two teenage boys when i was born lmao
Ooh! Ooh! I loved that Sears Christmas Catalogue!! I remember scurrying downstairs to the family room with it every year, and lovingly going through every page, wide-eyed with all the possibilities!!
(And yes, it did feel as if it weighed as much as I did! 
)I don't recall wanting specific toys (other than a beautiful big plastic Black Stallion), but I do remember two of my all-time favorite presents (and they were both surprises -- YAY SANTA!
): a miniature China tea set, and a little-girl "life sized" blackboard that flipped over on its stand (one side was black, the other dark green), complete with a big set of colored chalks!! 
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I DID get one of those and was SUPER COOL with it until I slid sideways into the mailbox. 
still have a scar on the side of my knee 
It was Purple with a white seat and streamers off the handle bars 
I really wanted a Lionel train set - but those were for "boys"
Then I wanted a Matel Matchbox car track, again for "boys"
Then I wanted a 10-speed with ram handle bars - got the goofy upright handlebars - but rode it to death anyway
Then I wanted a Matel Matchbox car track, again for "boys"
Then I wanted a 10-speed with ram handle bars - got the goofy upright handlebars - but rode it to death anyway
Anything Star Wars. (the orignal, not the new, unimproved stuff). I was nuts for anything Star Wars. Star Wars toys, Star Wars action figures, Star Wars sheets, Star Wars drinking glasses, Star Wars wallpaper. Stamp Star Wars on it and I loved it!
I remember asking my parents one year for a washer and dryer. I dont even remember why i wanted them, cause my family already had a washer and dryer. I still get crap for it from my family. lol
I got a lionel train set no plastics all cast..My little sister played with it to.I thought that was neat..I showed her how to set it up..
I wish you were my brother - at least then I could play with a real Lionel train!!!!!!
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