They said they'd make me run faster and jump higher. They did not.

Regardless, we didn’t stop trying to run faster and jump higher

thanks

And getting higher... well, that came later

I was never that fast and never that high.

And continued racing, in real life the just crashed.

My sister got Barbies—including the new one with bendable legs--and I got a damned Skipper with stiff legs. We used mum’s high heels as sportscars and poor Skipper couldn’t fit properly with her leg sticks.

I don’t remember really asking for anything specific for gifts, though. I think it was so tiresome seeing my older sister whine and get everything she asked for that I resolved just to take what I got and be happy with it. That worked out pretty well because I usually got cool art supplies instead of toys.

dirty. Your idea for a car made from a show is great. I was into art also and got coloring books the 64 pack of crayons and water colors.

After the first "wetsy" episode, she lost her appeal.

When I gave Betsy water it went right through her. Thank you radical noodle for sharing.

was a doll that talked on the phone. I don't remember what the name of the doll was. I just remember it wasn't at all like the commercial.

But, I loved the little cakes baked with a lightbulb.

Did u have one ?

luck, cooking in the adult oven.

... we were old enough for the real thing.

My siblings and I all can cook, one loves to cook and has done it professionally.

I don't really like to cook. Give me a rice cooker and a big bag of rice and I'm happy. Give me an electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee and I'm ecstatic.

I'd say an Wham-O Air Blaster was the most disappointing toy, not because it didn't work, but because it broke too soon. The die-cast metal mechanism inside didn't survive all the use it got from me and my siblings.

Sea monkeys never hatched and magic rocks never grew

goes down the stairs. so what

Suckered in by that great song!

steps getting all tangled up. Tried to untangle, that was impossible so threw it away.

I couldn’t get it to walk down the stairs. It was basically a just big floppy spring. No fun.

What was the purpose of that, anyway? Never had another Slinky toy after bad experience with the first one.

Game itself was boring. After a few times building the Rube Goldberg contraption, I lost interest.

It seemed great until you actually tried it, and realized that the players all just wander off in random directions every play.

remember correctly, you had to plug it in.

And yeah, the "players" always just wandered off in all directions. So we just decided that the last "player" to remain upright in-bounds scored a touchdown

The straight up and and horizontal left right was fine - but turning the knobs at the same time in certain combinations to get diagonals was hard, And circles were a no go!

Can't think of anything else off hand.🤔

And don't get me started on the "X-Ray Specs" and "learning to throw your voice kits"

Alone to do any action moves. Do not tell me Santa brought you the X-Ray Specs.??? They with the swimming monkeys, and growing crystals were always in the back of comic books.

Silly Putty and Slinky.

cartoon. Slinky was a disaster. Only used once. Set it on the steps. it tipped over and arrived at the bottom steps in a tangled mess.

They were entertaining for about ten minutes. Then, of course, banned from school.

Ah, the good old days when toys were deadly weapons.

The cardboard didn't hold up.

I had an Easy Bake oven and was using it, but forgot about it when I was called to dinner. Halfway through the meal, we smelled burning plastic and we discovered that it was coming from the Easy Bake oven. My dad was so mad he unplugged it then cut the cord in half.

My career as a baker came to an abrupt end at the snip of a pair of scissors.

fail, Any thing I cooked was not cooked in the center. Your post about your Easy Bake Oven is funny.

was my failure. It's a miracle we never got hurt.

I don't remember any fails.

Maybe I just blocked it out. That was a long time ago.

My clackers cracked and flew apart. I was so lucky as a stupid kid…. Us young one played army in the fields behind our houses…. With real rocks as grenades..😳😆, Evil Knievel had nothing on us…. Ramps of old 2x4s and thin assed plywood, banana seat bikes, no helmets, knee pads or sometimes shoes…🤔… so yeah… watching my clackers cracked and chip away was my crappie Toy Story.

clackers I hit myself in the check. Never told anyone then. Never played with them again.Ty. Abstractartist.

Yup high handlebars… knobby tires… and these tires were tough too. I don’t remember ever changing my tires on the bike because of wear. I had a flat or two due to nails, screws, etc. Now. I have a mountain bike… and have changed the back tire 2 times in 5 years….. cheap tires now….

Yeah we did

I got a snow cone maker, you put ice in, turn the handle around a while and got snow cone ice coming out. Unfortunately little bits of plastic from the machine went into the "snow" too. I didn't tell my Mom at first, I loved the thing, but got tired of the plastic bits and finally told her that it was grinding itself up. It hit the can at that point

About a week after Christmas it was shaving off pieces of plastic into my snow cones! Had to toss it out and mom refused to get me a replacement.

My biggest toy disappointment though was a set of Wilkins and Wontkins puppets. They were characters (early Muppets tho' not called that) used in commercials and then offered as premiums by Wilkins coffee. My family enjoyed the commercials and parents drank the coffee, and my mom sent away for a set of the puppets. I was so excited, thought they would be like what I saw on tv. But they weren't. Instead of being made of flexible and expressive fabric, they were each just a piece of molded stiff vinyl. They were hollow so you could stick your hands in them, but you couldn't manipulate them in any other way.

Still bitter after over 65 years, LOL!

Here is the real thing.

What a bummer to get the plastic ones. I did the Etch a Sketch. Could only make squares and rectangles---small ones and large ones. Making circles was impossible for me.

She came with her own shopping cart and grocery store, she had magnetic hands that could pick up "cans" of food. I cried bitterly when she didn't come at Christmas in 1971, so my parents got her for me for my birthday in January. I was SOOOO happy!! Played with her for about 10 minutes and then never really played with her again. The longest lasting memory from that toy was the little shopping cart. When I got a hamster a few years later, I gave it rides in that shopping cart.

https://www.angelfire.com/art/dollmemories/shoppingsheryl.html

goods. Agree, it seem boring.

Which were basically large styrofoam Legos with Fred and Barney on the box. Santa brought the small set (which could make 1 or 2 things) and the kid across the street got the much better large set. Santa was always a cheapskate at my house.

I did get it to go down my grandma's steps one time, out of 100 tries.

understand - the Depression Era kid making up for the toys he didn't have when he was little.
He would buy me toy cars and then get down in the floor and play with them with me. That was fun, but the erector set turned into a single player thing - I was probably a bit too young for it.
I didn't understand back then how terribly impoverished Dad's family was in the '30s.

blessing to you.

My god was that trash. Saved all my paperboy money to get a $60 game that was just the worst. It didn’t look like Pac-Man. It barely played like Pac-Man. We were all taken for a ride.

I got it, but could never throw it so it would circle back for me to catch it.

Reminds me of the joke, What do you call a boomerang that doesn't return?

A stick.

We weren’t a rich family by any means but those three things must have been a Christmas present for 3 years

The chem set had actual toxic chemicals in it! Copper sulfate, potassium manganate… and you could use an alcohol burner to heat up chemicals, and create a pink fountain with phenolphthalein inside an upside down flask.

Loved that set! Caught my mom’s dining room table on a fire a few times (but nothing serious).

Now, the chem sets for kids are SOOO lame!