What was the earliest toy you can remember begging your parents for and did you get it?Pic related was mine and no I didn't get it
>>11527672Earliest i remember is tessek from the power of the jedi toyline in 2001. I was a weird kid whos favorite toys from star wars were the weirdo aliens, and i kept seeing him on the back of the card of other figures for ages but never saw him in person. When i went up to new york in 2001 (before 9/11 BTW) and went to the toysrus in time square they finally had tessek. But my mom didnt want to get it for me at the time and dragged me out crying. But the next day i managed to convince my dad to take me there instead and he bought it for me. One of the most magical memories i have from my childhood was that experience. I told myself id return to that TRU someday but they closed it down in the mid 2010s before i could ever return unfortunately...
>>11527672I remember having to get my mom to buy a couple Jurassic Park figures.
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>>11527672Furreal frens, this cat, but it scared me when the voice box came on and I cried a lot it was back in the early 90s
>>11528412how pissed where your parents at you?
>>11527672My grandma lived near an FAO Schwarz and had early intel on Furby being the next big thing. She sent us an FAO Schwarz toy catalogue with the first sneak peak at Furby in it and I knew I had to have it. I was convinced it was some advanced android pet creature created in Tiger Electronics' laboratory that was going to run around the house and I'd have to train it like a dog. I don't remember exactly how purchasing one worked but my grandma had to send in a money order or something to pre-order one and you couldn't choose which color, they would just send you a random one. I got the white one which was my least favorite. I still have it and my sister's in a box somewhere.
>>11528614That's the furby I had, I love that color lol
>>11528614>>11528641There was a lone furby themed easter basket at walmart a few years back that was on deep clearance despite it being easter season. It came with a regular plush furby sans electronics and i love that thing more then any regular 100$ electronic furby because i can actually hug it and it isnt just an electronic novelty.
>>11528482Oh I’d say that was the beginning of the end, because then I asked for the aristocats on vhs and it was a big deal to go out at night in winter to I think sears (maybe JCPenney) to get it. I also was terrified when given an American girl doll, but that’s because my older sister thought it was funny to play the movie dolls for us. Life was rigged from the start, also I was terrified of flabber from beetleborgs, he didn’t seem trustworthy
>>11528412scaredy cat...
>>11528733>also I was terrified of flabber from beetleborgs, he didn’t seem trustworthyNigga has a phobia of bruce campbell
>>11527672Ive got memories of he man but gi joe was the toy i i truly remember. I guess by kindergarten i was deep into gi joe, i got in trouble for drawing boobs on a baroness coloring book page while my friend cut a stalker out of the book to play with. I think the moccasin was first vehicle and then i got the oil rig playset with that small flying vehicle, the hornet i think? Great christmas since everyone got me gi joe stuff. Didnt hurt that gi joe was pretty cheap so it was affordable at the time.
>>11528795>i got in trouble for drawing boobs on a baroness coloring book page Based gooner child, did you ever get a baroness figure when growing up?
I honestly can’t remember. it’s been to long unfortunately. Probably some power rangers/beetleborg shit from the 90s or some Pokémon crap. I miss my dad a crazy amount every day (died last year) but in the last year of his life (none of us knew anything was wrong with him) I’m glad I told him how much I appreciated him always trying to make me happy when I was a kid. I have a lot of fond memories of him taking me to toysrus, KB toys, or even just getting me crap from the toy section or target or Walmart. he was always bummed out that toysrus went out of business and KB as well because he was kind of a big overgrown kid himself and he genuinely enjoyed just looking at random cool shit. I bought him one of those old 2000s invader zim figures for over 100.00 a few months before he died because he still enjoyed watching the show and he used to have a bunch of them but they all broke over time. Was planning on getting him more since he still liked the show so much.I remember when I was a kid his office had a shit load of the “ahhh!!! Real monsters” figures when he took me to his work a few times. Even in his 60s he never fully lost the spark of enjoying fun simple shit that made him happy and that’s what I miss the most about him is the older I get the more I realize how rare that is. Sorry to blog post. Sure some of you guys relate to some of what I’m talking about especially if you were lucky enough to have a cool parent.something he and I would make fun of and laugh about over the years even up until he passed was how obsessed my younger brother was with bakugan when he was a kid and how bad it was. Any time my dad took him to the store my brother would start tweaking out over bakugan. He probably ended up with over like 200 of those things. Still has them today.
>>11528823Your dad sounded rad as hell, especially cool he loved invader zim. Most boomers found it annoying. Im sorry that hes gone anon. Im myself am terrified of my dad dying every day. Hes the only real friend i have anymore
>>11527672TMNT. They were basically all I wanted as a kid. I remember one Christmas I got two of them instead of 1 and it was a dream come true.I will say though I think this was the coolest one I asked for, Sgt. Savage Warhawk. This was definitely when I was older. My nephew plays with it now and it's still such a cool toy.
>>11528747>>11528771Ples no more bully
>>11528482to be fair, it's probably healthy for children to be scared of a man who looks like this
>>11528831Yeah, in a weird twist of fate I never would have expected it, but during the last few years of my life my dad became my best friend. I have had many friends in my life and was fairly popular at points when I was younger. But many friends come and go, or just get weird or change or whatever. Or are just fun to be around but not really good people. The older I got the more I realized my dad was not only the best guy I ever knew but we were also extremely similar in a number of ways I would never have expected. But if you believe the whole, nature vs nurture thing, I’m thinking a lot of my interests and hobbies growing up were probably stuff I inherited from my dad on some level. Found out when I was younger he had a lot of the same ambitions/interests I did, which are varied, made a lot of the same mistakes I did, just never got to know him like that until later in life. he was one of the only people I knew interested enough in various topics that I could just chill and drink a beer or wine or whatever and we could theorize or speculate about random shit for an hour or whatever. Just an enjoyable guy to be around. when he died I lost my best friend too and I’m just explaining that I get it, because while I have a lot of friends still none of them really are as easy to talk to or chill with or on the same wavelength as I am. (For better or worse) so when you lose that it sucks. You can’t really replace it.just make the most of what you’ve got while you’ve got it. I’m trying to bond more and take care of my younger brother now. all I can do at this point. My dad also liked courage the cowardly dog a lot. like a lot a lot. also was a fan of rockos modern world. was a big fan of of tv show workaholics. Had a good sense of humor right up until the end. Gonna watch the original aeon flux animated series soon. He kept asking me to watch it but I never did. watched an episode or two of it with him a week before he passed though.
>>11527672I was completely obsessed with this figure
>>11528823Btw to bring it back to /toy/ one of the interesting toylines he was a big fan of was a mid 2000s “urban vinyl” line called smorkin mongers or whatever by kozik. a blind box series of things like fruits/foods/everyday objects with frowning face on them smoking cigarettes. Bizarre premise but kind of cool. Kind of tells you the sort of humor he had. I remember when I was like 20 or something he bought me a giant one which was like a foot tall which was a giant cigarette smoking another smaller cigarette. Kind of funny. My mom wasn’t a fan of em.
>>11528886It looks based that’s why. Kind of looks like something from a fallout game.
>>11528668Yeah I also got some of these plush beanbag furbies and I had more fun with them than the real ones.
>>11528883>just make the most of what you’ve got while you’ve got it.Thats what im trying to do. Im realizing now that its wrong to want to kill myself because it would leave my dad alone. So if i ever do kms its gonna be after he passes. But again i love him to death i hope he lives for a long time still.>My dad also liked courage the cowardly dog a lot. like a lot a lot. also was a fan of rockos modern world. was a big fan of of tv show workaholics. I genuinely love all of those shows too. God, i always associated workaholics with the early 2010s because when id get home from a shit day of highschool id turn on comedy central and watch that.
>>11527672Not really a toy, but i threw a home tantrum for picrel
>>11529206Not a /v/ fag so ive never heard of it, is it a precursor to a gameboy?
The yellow engine in pic related. I told the story about this little guy, some years ago.>and did you get it?Yes, but not by my parents. I managed to find an ebay listing in 2022 and went for it.
>>11529210Before Gameboy/Gear started the handheld trend, Nintendo made a line of their own LCD games. LCD games in general still pretty much lasted into the 2000's
>>11529232>I told the story about this little guy, some years ago.QRD? >>11529235>LCDLike those cheapo things youd get in kids meals years back?
>>11529237Yes, like that. Nta but he's right about lcds into the 2000s. I had one you held up to your face like binoculars called Sub Commander or something and you torpedod lcd submarines. Fishing rod games were also popular. LCD felt niche even then, but they were all over. I think yahtzee is still going strong.
>>11529237>https://archive.palanq.win/toy/thread/8886168/#8892017
>>11529237>Like those cheapo things youd get in kids meals years back?The very same. They pretty much died as soon as the DS had traction, but Tamagotchi still thrived while other LCD games were reduced to bootleg gifts your grandma would buy at a Chinatown
>>11527672This was one of my earliest toy gift memories. Got it for Xmas.
>>11529253Thats cool anon, glad you finally got your train
>>11529237Not sure about happy meals, but it's those primitive handhelds that had the figure shapes already formed in the display instead of having a full pixel grid. They were significantly cheaper than real handheld consoles, so they stood around for a while.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNnQgCkc6g
This. Not so sure about box art, since it was ~30 years ago, but I remember the 3mg4e on the box and the fact that it has three engines fascinated me. Bought it later when after saving for several months.
>>11527672RID 2000 Optimus Prime. I got it for christmas, surprise was kinda ruined by cousins since they ripped the wrapping like a month early. Still have it to this day, but i also bought another a couple years ago because my old one was beat to shit and miissing parts of the trailer.
hard to say since i always just got loads of hand me downs. think its this guy from six flags, warner variant
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>>11527672I had that>piikaa piii
>>11528733To be fair, American Girl dolls are pretty spooky looking.
>>11527672I'm sure there may have been some He-man figure I begged for before this, but this was the one that I remember because my mother wouldn't buy it for me, but instead taught me about layaway and made me get it that way by paying it off with my pocket money over the course of a few weeks.
>>11528383I'm literally selling one right now if you want it
>>11530135It’s the eyes, like the books they came with were great and fun but if you sleep in a room with dolls and the light catches their eyes it makes them look soooo terrifying, like don’t eat my skin, similar feeling around gnomes >>11530187>>11530085both of you are sick
>>11529269Fun fact about those trains. They actually cameo in an episode of "Gumby".
This guy and I did not get until a couple years ago.
>>11530186man that just reminds me of the toy I really wanted but never got.
>>11529256Wow. Teddy Ruckspin. I had forgotten about that. I had one too. Was amazing for it's time. Does anyone else have fond memories of watching tv with him and following the stories?
>>11527672There are quite a bit of things i've strongly hinted at (begging was not an option in our household), especially leading up to christmas. Irwin DBZ figures, a pikachu plush figure as well.But the one that's somehow etched into my mind was the figure of captain mifune in his mech from the matrix reloaded. That thing was clearly out of my own pocket money buying budget at the time, and I remember I just kept emphasizing how cool i found the figure for weeks. Got it that christmas and it was epic
>>11531455Is that the third one? I think that mech was in the second but i only saw the first and second. The second one sucked so much i couldn't stomach watching the third
>>11527672I had that thing it was annoying as hell
Very possibly that exact Pikachu. I have it in a box in my wardrobe, right now. I think it still Pi-ka's if I change the batteries.
that’s the talking electronic pikachu plush from tiger, I got that when I was 13 years old in 1999, my mom and dad surprised me with it for christmas that year, I miss it, I gave it to a mentally retarded girl at my highschool and she got it dirty and ruined it, both my parents are dead now, and I’m 39 years old, boy the years really have gone by so fast
>>11527672>fatchuI miss this nigga
I got really into Thundercats when repeats started on Toonami and I begged my parents for toys. I had a lot of hand-me down 80s toys but some how my siblings never got Thundercats toys as kids. My parents really, really tried but even in the 90s used Thundercats toys were hard to get your hands on I guess because we never found them at any of the flea markets or comic stores we'd go to. I started collecting the Ultimates stuff recently to make my childhood dreams come true but I'd still really like to get the original line some day, even if those figures are really over priced for what they are.
>>11532816As a zoomer Im still mad the thundercats 2011 show failed because the toy company was too lazy to get new waves of figures out in time to support the show
So nice to see so many oldfags in this thread. Made me want to contribute. I threw lots of tantrums for toys, my parents nearly never got me what I was fighting for, so it literally never worked. I still kept doing it. I don't remember what the first time was for, but one of my most memorable ones were for Hook action figures. I just wanted Peter Pan and Hook from the movies, but I grew up in a shithole and none of the stores had them. I was totally obsessed with the movie that summer it came out. One day we were on vacation when I found them in a big department store. I was begging , but as soon as I opened my mouth, my parents made their mind not to buy them. It was weird, because I asked nicely, I haven't been misbehaving so I didn't understand why I couldn't have them. It evolved into a tantrum of course, but didn't start as one. It's not like they were expensive either... and I remember my dad buying me stuff I didn't even ask for from that store, like ACDC CDs... but I couldn't get Peter Pan and Hook. Never actually got them as a kid. Bought myself a few figures off of ebay much later. I even have boxed versions now, so that I can relive that horrible memory of holding them in my hands and having to put them back. Thanks mom and dad.
>>11540593No offense but your parents sounded like dicks
>>11531360I can still close my eyes and remember how those gummy bugs tasted. That gelatine mix was not great.
>>11531360They made this line up to the 2000s and then it kinda died off. I remember commercials for it growing up in thebmid 2000s
>>11531360i remember being really freaked out by this after seeing it in stores as a kid lmao
>>11532758A girl i had a crush on in highschool always joked about how pikachu got anorexia after the 1990s
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>>11527672>begging your parents forI didn't want to stay at my grandma's for a week, so as a bargain they bought me this set.
>>11540593>>11540639They could've at least raised you with the sense of earning them. We already ask for too much as a kid, outside of toys even. But even just having one toy should already be enough to cope, in my experience
>>11541702I'm still mad 15 years later
Can’t remember what it was specifically anymore, but the earliest memory I have was seeing a Happy Meal toy commercial on tv and asking my parents if we could get it. It’s a really hazy memory and apparently I was 2 at the time (I found the commercial on yt over a decade ago and I was 2 when it aired), so I wonder if I was even properly able to ask my parents for the toy at such a young age. I didn’t get the toy, so maybe not?
probably some TMNT toy. usually my parents would buy me random toys but i think once i started watching TMNT and saw that kids from school and neighbors were getting them as well, I actually had to specifically beg to get these toys.i did actually get them. other stuff i remember begging for were big toy playsets and legos. didnt get those unfortunately.
