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submitted 10 months ago by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] 108@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I always wanted the Decepticon Soundwave and all the tapes. I wound up getting a masterpiece of him and all his tapes. Got him set up on a shelf in my room.

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Soundwave superior, autobots inferior!

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yes! I love this one.

[-] Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Good news - you still can!

Seriously, open a new tab on your browser NOW and jump on eBay or whatever and buy it. Even if you aren't surprised by how much fun it still is (which you probably will be), you'll be able to stop regretting NOT having it. No downside!

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

My wife/kids recently got me Kirby's Dreamland for a Gameboy that I've had since about 1990 and never had any decent titles for.

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] Truffle@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ETA: I know a horse is a living being and not a toy.

Fuck yeah! I always wanted a horse even though I don't ride and never have aside from a couple of times. Nothing professional. Did not grow up around farms or horses. City folk through and through.

Now my kid is an equestrian and I will never forget their face when we got their horse! It felt so good to be able to do that for them and they take such good care of their animal.

[-] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Nah, my memory's not that good

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wanted the RC car kevin (i think his name was ) used from home alone but now i realised that kinda car isn't real amd the closest thing you could have is an internet connecting camera strapped to a big ass 4*4 and a computer to watch it through but that doesn't even come to close as what it is depicted as in the movie and i have lost interest . Also still not that rich to spent that much on toys nor interested to be fair .

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

I got a Bank Shot unit (electronic pool game by Parker Bros) and played the shit out of it.

Later I'd be seduced into PC pool games that featured a robust physics engine guaranteed to improve your game!

I wasn't obsessive enough to play it to improve my game, though.

[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago
[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No because I’m sad and broken and all the things that gave me joy as a kid only remind me of our rampant consumerism in this capitalistic hellhole

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

In my 20s I bought an NES because I never had one, despite it being the hottest toy ever during my childhood. It was just too expensive for my parents to get me one, back in the 80s and early 90s.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Kind of. I bought a SNES mini loaded with ROMs for about 10 different retro systems. Now I can play the games I didn't get a chance back in the day.

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[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I didn't buy it, but my wife got it for me as a Christmas present one year. The Lego Star Wars imperial star destroyer. It was gigantic and amazing and took maybe 8 hours of building. It would have taken meweeks as a child.

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[-] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Yep. And it was great. My wife and I married young - only in our early twenties. Because of reasons both us had grown up a little too fast and as young adults we mourned the fact that we'd never really gotten to enjoy our childhoods.

So we decided to hunt down all the crap we wanted as kids. We hit antique shops and thrift stores, eBay and garage sales. We found a ton of the things we'd always wanted.

Popples and Rainbow Bright dolls.
Kenner Star Wars action figures.
Video game consoles.
Transformers.

We bought the crap our inner children still wanted and gave ourselves permission to enjoy it - and then let it go.

Ultimately, we didn't keep much of it - though we've still got a box of a few favorite dolls, games and action figures somewhere. A few toys even got passed down to our own kids.

I don't regret a moment of it. Giving ourselves a belated childhood was fun - and it helped us move on and say goodbye to that part of our lives.

[-] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm getting Hot Wheels and Transformers whenever I see a good one nowadays. But the issue is, they don't make them as good as they used to.

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