I myself wanted one of those remote controlled air planes. I thought that’s the coolest thing ever. Once I grew up and had the money, I never bought it.
One memory that kept popping up occasionally over the years is of my mother lending my neighbor my favorite matchbox car. By the time I’d gotten to him, he’d crushed it. I don’t think he meant anything by it, and I don’t have bad feelings to either one of them, I just know how much that sucked. I do remember that nobody gave a shit, and I never got it replaced.
Late last year I decided I was gonna get it back, so I’ve spent a few hours spread over some months when I was bored at my pc looking at matchbox size red Dodge Vipers from the 90s. Most had the wrong color, or extra decals, or the wrong wheels, etc. Eventually I found it, ordered a copy, and it got delivered about a month ago. I don’t play with it, but it sits on my desk at home as a sort of fidgeting toy.
I’m sure it says some bad shit about my psyche but to me it’s a nice reminder of a time when I was much happier. Maybe I should get some beyblades.
Hey just wanted to say I think it says good things about your psyche that you’re being kind to you.
Thank you
Your story is why I always donate my old matchbox cars and stuff that isn’t precious to me. It might bring maximum joy sitting on someone’s desk, rather than in a drawer I am ignoring.
I think this says some good shit about your psyche.
Thank you
Fuck yeah brother. I’m glad you God that perfect itch scratched. Also. Buy all the beyblades!
After years of my family saying I’m too difficult to buy gifts for, and me saying, “What the hell are you talking about? Just get me LEGO!”, one of my kids got the message and has been getting me LEGO sets for Christmas every year.
It might have started when I bought myself the Cinderella Castle set.
The only problem I have is I’m 53, not 13. Sitting hunched over a pile of LEGO bricks for hours leaves me in pain. I need to come up with a space where I can play without injuring myself.
A standing desk is magic. You’ll spend the day on your feet, playing with legos!
Always thought LEGO is just a perfect toy. Children like letting their imagination go wild, while adults enjoy assembling gorgeous dioramas with instructions to put on a shelf immediately making that shelf a 1000 times cooler. The only reason I’m not buying LEGO is that my rented apartment has no shelves and it would be a bitch to pack when I inevitably move somewhere else.
Perhaps a low table or an office chair without arm rests to get a closer to waist level
Actually, now I’m thinking I’ve forgotten how it’s supposed to work. I’ve been trying to sit in a chair and use a table.
Maybe I should be sitting on the floor.
Might need some help standing up again.
Good, you got the clue! Now you gotta be his new best friend and get him just that.
Sitting hunched over a pile of LEGO bricks for hours leaves me in pain. I
I have the same issue, so I recruit younger family members to do parts of my build while I get up and stretch.
But I give them very specific instructions what page to stop at and come get me, otherwise the whole build is done without me.
Not exactly a toy.
Wanted the black toyota pick up from back to the future when i first watched the movie as a kid.
Ended up buying a version of it without remembering how much i wanted that truck as a kid.
When i saw it the first time after buying my truck i thought holy shit adult me bought child me his dream vehicle without realizing it
(It was not the exact same but might as well have been)
Best. Toy. Ever. I am both proud and so very envious of you
I miss that truck
Theres a new electric truck that is inspired by the same black truck. Not sure if it will ever reach production but man that would be wild to get one and make my dreams come true in a whole new but like the same way
Check out that four by four!
Meanwhile I went out and bought a hoverboard
I loved Transformers when I was a kid. My parents never worried about putting food on the table but we didn’t have a lot of disposable income, so I never had the Power Wheels or the Action Figures, or whatever when I was growing up.
One day in my late 30s I realized I could just buy Optimus Prime. So I did. He’s hanging out on a shelf in my office.
My girlfriend has an unopened original Optimus prime. I told her how fucking awesome that was, she gave it to me as a "dowry’. I fucking love that woman. Yes I’m going to marry her
Yeah, my parents didn’t have money for expensive toys either. I had a small transformer that I swapped off a kid at school for all my marbles (including the large steel bearing). It transformed from robot into tape cassette and I thought that was just cool as fuck.
I wanted a Tyco RC car as a kid. My parents actually got it for me after waiting nearly a whole year for my birthday, and it was one of the most expensive birthday gifts I’d ever received.
Turns out it uses a proprietary battery that wasn’t even included in the package! We’d have to go out and buy that separately, which made the thing like 50% more expensive.
We couldn’t afford that so I agreed to return the RC car and pick something else.
I’ve decided to boycott them for life. Stupid Tyco for running my birthday with a stupid toy that doesn’t even include the battery.
Yes, this apple puzzle. I wanted it sooo bad and I got it in my late 30s and it’s awesome. And they make a bunch of other ones now. I’ve done the skull, shark and pirate ship too. But the apple man… the apple.
https://3dcrystalpuzzle.com/products/apple-red
No… but thanks to emulation I could play all the games I couldn’t play as a kid because we couldn’t afford consoles or VGA colour screens.
I always wanted one of those little cars kids can drive. Nearly 30 and almost done saving up for my first car. I’m very excited!
Jep, I bought a Furby when I first moved out. After about 2 months it stopped working (didn’t even drop it). So I cut it open, the cheapest piece of electronics I ever saw for that price tag.
Foreshadowing for what I would soon learn about the adult world in general.
I just want to say thank you to OP. I am going out and treating myself to all the stuff little me wanted
When the 3ds was relatively new, I saw one being sold at a garage sale for $20 bundled with Pokemon. Clearly just some old person who didn’t know its value. I wanted it so bad, but my dad said no. I didn’t have a game console until the Wii, and never had a handheld. I’ve always been a huge gamer, but I was basically forced onto PC lol.
No. I always wanted steel battalion but it’s even more expensive now and I still don’t have an original Xbox to play it on. If yall don’t know it’s a 400usd game that comes with a super big controller for a mech suit. You have to use that controller for it and if you don’t eject from your mech before it explodes the game permanently deletes your save file.
I remember seeing the controller in the glass case at the used game store and thinking how awesome that would be. I do still have a working OG Xbox but was finally considering selling it since most of my favorites are backward compatible now.
If I had the money I would 100% just buy one but if I have that kinda money to burn I would get a new macro lens or just keep saving for a better camera.
The one toy I wanted more than anything as a kid was the Jurassic Park Compound.
I see them on Ebay going for $100-200, but that’s just for the building itself. It’d be pretty pointless to have a big fence with no dinosaurs in it, so I’d have to buy some dinos too. And I need action figures to sit in the watchtower and watch over the dinosaurs, you gotta have that.
And then the realities of adulthood set in: I wouldn’t enjoy this toy as much as I would have when I was a kid. Kid me would probably spend hours with this thing crafting big elaborate stories about wrangling dinosaurs and stuff like that. Nearly-40 me would set up the toys, make sure everyone’s in cool poses, and then it would probably sit on a shelf. I’m not really sure it’s worth it.
So while I’m sad I never got the toy as a kid, I think going back and buying it nowadays would be kind of an expensive hollow victory.
Nearly-40 me would set up the toys, make sure everyone’s in cool poses, and then it would probably sit on a shelf. I’m not really sure it’s worth it.
I gave in, and made that shelf, and I was pleasantly surprised how much joy it brings me. Each time I glance over, a get a little dopamine hit. It feels right that I kept a promise I made to myself when I was little.
Edit: I don’t touch the shelf much, but I know that I could, and that makes me happy.
My Grant figure lost his glued on hat and he always had an ugly boxy cone bead underneath 😭All I wanted was a new hat.
Oh yeah! I wanted a small RC helicopter, quite simple thing, never got one. I remembered that a few years ago & really got into pov drones. Another consideration was the factual impossibility for me to get a real pilots licence. So I took the cheap road. My wife’s opinion may vary.
I did get one. You know how drones have a buttload of sensors and computers to make them fly level and straight? Well what RC helicopters do instead of technology, is that they crash. A lot.
I always wanted these little cube things with an LCD on the front that had a stick man on it. There were various different cubes each with a different character, they basically went through little actions on the screen, and you stick the cubes together and sometimes they’d travel between them. I bought them as an adult, it was amusing very briefly lol
I still have mine from when I was a kid somewhere. Don’t know how those batteries are all still working but last I checked they were.
