Best toy you NEVER had

[onthebusesfan]

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Evel Knievel toy

[Advent]

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Johnny 7 all in one weapon system.....
I was to old for one so my parents kept telling me

[victorbrunswick]

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London Cabbie (1971)

A friend of mine had one when I was a kid and I remember wanting this game. Over thirty years later I finally got it on eBay!

[shilton dipper]

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Best toys i never had were

Mousetrap
Kerplunk ( actually we have this at school where i work so in a way i got it just had to wait nearly 40 years )
Spacehopper

[victorbrunswick]

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The one I'd always wanted was the Hot Wheels Road King Mountain Mining set (circa 1974-76). The truck alone from that set is now worth £400!





I also wanted the Corgi Green Hornet car.

[Jooly]

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The best toy I never had was a wind up Evil Knevil. My friend up the road had one, he had everything! I coverted it from the John England Catalogue, glancing longingly at the page and watching the TV advert with envy. In reality it didn't actually Work like they pretended on the TV and had loads more great stuff. Most of which I have!

[Jooly]

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I still have my Haunted House game! It was my favourite! "Glendale throws the whammy ball down the chimney" was the moment you knew you had won. You drop the huge ball bearing down the chimney and it came out of a fireplace and knocked down one of the opponents witches! It was such a great game it even had stairs. An actual staircase! Awesome!

[battyrat]

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The main thing I always wanted but never got was a Chopper bike.Every body else had them but I was robbed of that dream when parants eventually got a sappy horrid green commando bike from somewhere.All my dreams and childhood ambitions destroyed almost overnight.Scarred for life and never really recovered from the shock,lol.

[nuttytigger]

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I always wanted a Mr Frosty, Scaletrix, a Werebear, Lego. I never got them

[daddymac]

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Every year me and my brother would ask for Hungry Hippos and Mr Slushy and every Christmas, after the initial delight of opening our toys, we'd realise that again these two requests had fell on deaf ears for another year. We always got what we had asked for yet these two remained on the wanted list for more than a few years.

I never quite understood why are parents never got us these, especially as we asked them for them for about 4 years in a row, being a parent myself I understand and appreciate that at this time of year we can get a little forgetful as parents but if my daughters asked for something 4 years in a row, I'd like to think that at some point, Christmas or B/Days there request would be granted.

That's patens for you I suppose.

[Trickyvee]

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Wow I'm jealous! That car looks amazing. I was properly obsessed with wanting something four-wheeled and when I got older I moved onto wanting a bogey (the homemade car thing, not a snot) but pram wheels etc were scarce by then so I had a long wait. Eventually dad managed to knock one together when I was 12. I still loved it even though I was soon too old for it. Still, how many 12 year old girls would ride a bogey down the street now?

[Richard1978]

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I remember 1 or 2 people who had those police pedal cars in the early 1980's.

About the same time I had a Tri-ang pedal racing car, which was good fun until I got my legs got too big to pedal it.

For a time I used to get friends to push me around on it, but eventually the steering broke & it was disposed of.



Here's my sister giving it a drive.

[Trickyvee]

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A remember a police pedal car being very popular when I was young. White and boxy with the orange stripe and a bent metal rod (i think) for pedals. Wanted one of those, or any sort of go-cart/pedal car really. Parents always said I'd be too lazy to use the pedals so I couldn't have one!

[schemical]

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A mate got one of these one christmas and a few of us played it to death, always wanted one of my own....Had a look on E-Bay not long ago and a boxed one was for sale from America at about £80...sooo tempted but my wife would have killed me

[Trickyvee]

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Can anyone remember those toy TVs you could get with the two knobs on the front that you twisted to get a scene moving across the screen? Wanted one of those too.