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My sisters shared a room and a Barbie DreamHouse. One of them had the remote control Pink Corvette, too. For years, shopping for her was easy because you could always just get her more Barbie shit. The other one rebelled a few years into Barbie-mania and started playing with My Little Ponies. I think it was because she wanted toys of her own instead of the hand-me-downs from two older sisters.

I had a few Barbies. But they didn't hold much interest for me, as I prefered to play outside with my best friend than stay indoors with dolls.

I spent a lot of time entertaining myself as a kid (I'm sure this has nothing to do with my overuse of the internet today). My sister was 5 years older and from age 8 on I didn't live in a kid-friendly neighborhood*, so I didn't get to play with neighborhood kids outdoors. I was never crazy about Barbies, but they were good to play with on my own. My absolute A Number 1 favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I also got extras of those as hand-me-downs. Other than that, most of my time was spent reading or (this is the most pathetic part) playing board games with myself. I loved games of all kinds but typically couldn't get mom or sister to play with me. Dad would happily play, but he was not home during crucial game-playing hours. He was also The Most Competitive Person Ever, but that didn't bother me.

*Prior to age 8, I had amazing great fun playing with the neighborhood kids at all hours of the day and night. Tag, red rover, hide and seek, riding bikes, neighborhood "band", etc. Those were the days.

ThurgreedMarshall

11-12-2009 12:18 PM

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All the other kids liked to play at our house--we had a trampoline, 2 Honda Odysseys, a go-cart, two 50cc motorcycles, two 75 ccs and a lot of other whacked sh!t that I can't recall at the moment. We crashed those things a lot. a lot. And once an Oddyssey ended up in the swimming pool. My parents didn't have any spare children (that I know of) but the two of us survived.

Adder, you should focus on this post. It explains a lot.

TM

greatwhitenorthchick

11-12-2009 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 406404)

I was curious why people go on the hunt for latest fad toy. To me, it's a weird (repeated) phenomenon and I was interested in how it came about for the several posters who seemed to be participating in it.

Jesus, stop playing the naif and accept that most of the time, human beings act like human beings.

evenodds

11-12-2009 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 406403)

Please to provide photo.

I can't link to the image, but you can find the watch here on the company's website.

greatwhitenorthchick

11-12-2009 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 406410)

I loved Lego too. Loved it. And Meccano.

Barbies were banned in our house and I destroyed all my other doll-like things (cut off their limbs and head, performed major surgery), so Legos were a good bet.

Did you just call me Coltrane?

11-12-2009 12:23 PM

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We call the TRU near our house the Pit of Despair (POD). It's really one of the worst shops I've ever been in more than once.

Are you talking about the one on Western? That place is a hole.

ThurgreedMarshall

11-12-2009 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 406387)

best present ever.

http://blog.media-freaks.com/wp-cont...re-games-2.jpg

I got the green one one year. Holy crap did I love that thing. It was awesome until I stretched it so hard the green stuff inside came out. I still played with it for years after.

And one year my mother and grandmother bought me He-Man, Skeletor and Battle Cat. Fucking fantastic since neither my mother or grandmother could afford such extravagant gifts.

TM

sebastian_dangerfield

11-12-2009 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 406407)

Not a whiff. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what those letters stood for. But the R wasn't backwards, so it's not my fault.

I steer clear of all big toy stores if I can. But when I was really little, and FAO Schwartz was on the second floor of the building across the street from where it is now, it was the single greatest place in the world. I remember going there with the brother of one of my mother's friends. And he bought all these wonderful electric trains and train sets. He said they were for him, but I just knew he was going to give them to me before he went back to wherever he came from. Turns out he was a fucking loser who played with trains. Thanks for the character building!

TM

Totally off the mark, but whatever... My MIL buys my son everything imaginable. We've a house full of crap and he breaks most of it soon after getting it. But this one toy she got is fucking awesome. It's a Mercedes SLR remote control car she got at some going out of business sale, and I swear - the thing must go 150 mph, scale speed. I got a headful of gin on last Friday and played with the thing until my wife finally demanded I shut it off. You can get it ripping down an expanse of tile and then throw it into a fishtail spin on a dime and the damn thing moves so fast if it hits you, it hurts. Thing's powerful enough to push the living room doors open if they're just a bit ajar.

I'd have lost my mind if I had something like this as a kid. I actually won't let my son play with it unless I'm around because I don't want him to break it. All of this is, of course, a long way of suggesting, if you still like trains, go see what they have at the toy store now. For $100 you can probably pick up a bullet train set that'll go around your house faster than a 911.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-12-2009 12:26 PM

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Charla Nash.

TM

I had to google to figure out who this was.

How much Oprah do you watch?

Did you just call me Coltrane?

11-12-2009 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 406387)

I don't remember any particular must have present that I ever wanted. I think I might have asked at some point for a Cabbage Patch Kid, but they were ridiculously expensive and impossible to find. I don't remember being crushed when I didn't get one. I did get a Care Bear the year they were popular. I did get a pink "My Heart Belongs to Bo" nightshirt with Bob Schneider's picture on it when I was seven or eight. I thought it was the best present ever.

I think I've told this story, but I woke up one Christmas morning to find a coveted Tyco slot car track already set up near the tree. After a close inspection, I asked "why are the pads already halfway worn down?" My parents responded that Santa must have tested it after setting it up.

Of course, in reality, my dad and uncles drank gallons of beer and raced the cars until 3 AM Christmas Eve.

PresentTense Pirate Penske

11-12-2009 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 406324)

Adder, I don't think less of you because you choose to buy something, dress a certain way, or chat up (or not) the para down the hall.

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Irl, I judge everyone based on such shallowness. Its how I roll. Because. I. Am. That. Good.:cool:

sebastian_dangerfield

11-12-2009 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 406415)

That reminds me, I have to get another bag of those really big Legos. Building Lego skyscrapers is another thing I must have somehow missed as a kid. Turn on some tunes, get a little baked and start constructing the Sears Tower. Ahhh, the suburbs...

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

11-12-2009 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 406410)

I was lucky, but didn't have any toys.

We had lots of open space, expansive nearby forests, a dozen neighborhood kids, and every one of those dozen had a couple balls of some sort, whether big round basketballs or small hard baseballs.

We also had lots of farm animals to keep us entertained.

But very few "toys" in the sense of stuff from Toys R Us (I don't even know where one was anywhere in the country).

But Hank would have loved it.

PresentTense Pirate Penske

11-12-2009 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 406331)

No kids, no scotch. You're going to end up old and alone drinking bad booze.

What are you saving your money for? Recreational borium enemas?

Agreed. Money is only good if you can enjoy and I get very little pleasure out of reviewing weighty bank or investment account statements.

If I hadn't had my name bamboosled onto several birth certificates I'd be drinking pre-1990 first growths 247/365, iykwim. As it is very little less fine than pre-2000 fifth growths pass my lips, and that's mainly because I have a soft spot for Lynch-Bages.

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