Holy Grail of Toys You Never Had

[Smokey McTrees]

The big Kenner Alien figure. There are/have been so many figures out now, including remakes of the first one, but as a very little kid that toy blew my mind!

[Goldenbane]

The big 3 things that I never got for my Masters of the Universe collection: Eternia, The Sorceress, and Snake Face. God, I wanted those so bad!

[crash1984]

My grandmother worked at Goodwill for years and then my dad worked there as well until I was 8 (that is how my parents actually met). Anyway I had a lot of things to play with until a flood got most of it. The one thing I guess I really wanted was one of those K'nex roller coasters. I guess it wound up being for the better. When I was 11 we moved to a new smaller house because of the previously mentioned flooding. If I would have had one of those K'Nex coasters I don't think I would have had anywhere to put it.

I do remember wanting some Gak but my mother never would let me have it because she said it reminded her too much of snot. I finally did convince her to let me have some. I actually got another thing of it a few months later from a friend.

[brody]

I didn't have a great amount of any 80's toy line because my parents were lower middle class and I heard "no" alot. That being said, the toy I distinctly remember wanting pretty bad were MOTU's Monstroid, Bashasaurus and the Dragon Walker. I don't really even recall much of the latter toyline being advertised, so I may have gone all in on WWF guys by then.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Being an only child and only grandchild on one side of the family I was lucky and had almost every toy I ever wanted.

Ewok Village,Millenium Falcon,USS Flagg,Cobra Terrordome,remote control R2D2...... had it all at one time or another.

But one toy has eluded me for years.There was a KITT that came with a GI Joe sized Michael Knight. And if you pressed the tag on KITT it talked. For some reason the year it came out that X-mas no one could find one so I never had it.

Sucks I never got it. But I had so many other great toys I don't think it was that big a deal.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Apr 18, 2017 19:59:40 GMT -5 Smokey McTrees said:

The big Kenner Alien figure. There are/have been so many figures out now, including remakes of the first one, but as a very little kid that toy blew my mind!

Those things hung around in toy stores for years in clearance bins. I got one in 84 or 85 for 3 bucks at Circus World. Sold it off 11 years ago when I sold off most of my action figures.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

the Technodrome.

that saidm we were pretty poor when I was a kid so my dad made me a cardboard box sewer playset for my ninja turtles. it was way better than a plastic one.

then the damn cat sat on it

[Alexander The So-so]

Not sure if this counts, since I got it eventually, but for a while: Fort Legorado, the cavalry fort building set which was the largest from Lego's Wild West line that they had in the '90s.

I'd see it in toy stores or in the Lego catalog, and instantly point it out to my mom and tell her it looked cool and I wanted it. My mom, though, was hell-bent on making it a sentimental surprise and waiting until my birthday or Christmas. So she'd wait to order or pick it up until around either of those times...and end up having to come back and tell me that in the time she waited, it had sold out of all the stores and was out of stock from the catalog. It kept building and building; the longer and harder it took to get it, the more sentimental and determined my mom got to make my getting it a special surprise moment, and so she'd postpone getting it, and...gone. Repeat, so on and so forth. When I'd see it in stores every now and then in the interval, I'd beg her to quit thinking about sentimental timing and, if she really wanted me to have it, just grab it right then before it once again got out of her reach, even if she insisted on hiding it for a year. But she'd wouldn't have it.

A couple of years passed and I had started to forget about it, until it finally showed up as a birthday present. I was happy and I enjoyed it of course, but I wasn't as passionate as I think it would've been if getting it hadn't been such a bothersome process.

[Chainsaw]

For me, it was Omega Supreme and Metroplex. They were just too pricey to ever have those. But y'know what? Considering what I did have, in a lower-middle class family with 4 kids and only one parent working, considering how many Transformers, Star Wars, GI Joe, MOTU, and various other figures we had...I was one lucky, lucky kid. I don't consider that often enough how much my parents sacrificed for us.

[Chainsaw]

Apr 20, 2017 5:13:42 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

Being an only child and only grandchild on one side of the family I was lucky and had almost every toy I ever wanted.

Ewok Village,Millenium Falcon,USS Flagg,Cobra Terrordome,remote control R2D2...... had it all at one time or another.

But one toy has eluded me for years.There was a KITT that came with a GI Joe sized Michael Knight. And if you pressed the tag on KITT it talked. For some reason the year it came out that X-mas no one could find one so I never had it.

Sucks I never got it. But I had so many other great toys I don't think it was that big a deal.

We actually got the Dukes Of Hazzard General Lee one of those. It was a pretty sweet toy, but I would have killed for the Knight Rider one. The KITT dashboard, too.
My favorite part of the Dukes toy was that we also got a knockoff one that was essentially an plastic orange Pinto with a 10 on it!

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

Apr 20, 2017 5:29:48 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

the Technodrome.

that saidm we were pretty poor when I was a kid so my dad made me a cardboard box sewer playset for my ninja turtles. it was way better than a plastic one.

then the damn cat sat on it

My dad once built me a wrestlng ring for my figures. A square board, 4 cylnder cut pieces of wood for the post, three long strings, and some screws with loop holes for the post that put electrical tape on to make turnbuckles. I've gotten actual toys rings before, but that was special. I watched him build it. My childhood wasn't perfect, but you can't forget stuff like that.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Also never really did get Ectoplasm. I was super sick in the hospital and one of the nurses brought me some in a little pill bottle. Can't recall what happened to it. Since it's likely just cornstarch and food colouring not sure why they didn't whip me up some and let me get bored of it in 15 minutes anyway.

[brody]

I was at C2E2 this weekend and I'm already regretting not buying some rare Thundercats (Jaga, Berserkers) that were priced around the same as ebay. They also had a full slew of most of the hard to find MOTU figures, but I have previously snagged all of those (minus the overseas exclusives). I did snag a short haired Andre and a One Man Gang LJN doll, so I left happy.

[Boy Bakal]

Mine were originally Transformers G1 Metroplex, Optimus Prime, and Fortress Maximus. I eventually got them all when they were reissued in the "Encore" line from Japan, which avoided US safety law issues(also means that Fort Max can never be reissued in the US). Funny thing though the first thing I did with my Prime was to scrap it to repair my US safety law-neutered G1 Ultra Magnus(swapped smokestacks) because I prefer Ultra Magnus as a character.

One I'll prolly never ever have? I'd say the big Centurions toys.

[pegasuswarrior]

Apr 20, 2017 22:29:43 GMT -5 "Magic" Mark Hurr said:

Apr 20, 2017 5:29:48 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

the Technodrome.

that saidm we were pretty poor when I was a kid so my dad made me a cardboard box sewer playset for my ninja turtles. it was way better than a plastic one.

then the damn cat sat on it

My dad once built me a wrestlng ring for my figures. A square board, 4 cylnder cut pieces of wood for the post, three long strings, and some screws with loop holes for the post that put electrical tape on to make turnbuckles. I've gotten actual toys rings before, but that was special. I watched him build it. My childhood wasn't perfect, but you can't forget stuff like that.

I made a ring out of Tinkertoys that was totally functional and serviceable. I feel ya.

[ERON]

I pretty much got all the Transformers, Go-Bots, Ghostbusters, and G.I. Joes that I wanted as a kid. It helped having two younger brothers who liked all the same stuff I did. We'd share all our toys, so it didn't matter which one of us got what, as long as one of us got it.

That said, for whatever reason, even though we all liked Masters of the Universe, we hardly had any MotU toys. We had to go to our friends' houses to play with their He-Man toys. I really wanted the He-Man and Skeletor figures with battle damage armor, Scare Glow, and King Hiss. But if I had to pick one Holy Grail, it would be Castle Greyskull. I still want to get one eventually to put on display.

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Apr 20, 2017 22:29:43 GMT -5 "Magic" Mark Hurr said:

Apr 20, 2017 5:29:48 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

the Technodrome.

that saidm we were pretty poor when I was a kid so my dad made me a cardboard box sewer playset for my ninja turtles. it was way better than a plastic one.

then the damn cat sat on it

My dad once built me a wrestlng ring for my figures. A square board, 4 cylnder cut pieces of wood for the post, three long strings, and some screws with loop holes for the post that put electrical tape on to make turnbuckles. I've gotten actual toys rings before, but that was special. I watched him build it. My childhood wasn't perfect, but you can't forget stuff like that.

My dad made me a ring, too. He was a carpenter, so it was really sturdy and looked awesome (not that it takes much to make a ring...). I actually still have it to this day. I can't bring myself to throw it out.

[Alucard]

Really just the top tier CPS Super Soakers. Never got them, but had a friend who did.

There was a Godzilla: King of the Monsters playset I always wanted too but never got, but I'm sure it would've been fairly underwhelming anyhow honestly.

I was huge into Ghostbusters and had all of the RGB stuff one could possibly want, when Extreme Ghostbusters hit when I was older...THAT WAS MY JAM. I had all of the figures, the Ecto 1, and the proton pack. I never got the trap but I definitely wanted it...(I had the RGB trap but I think the air pump mechanism had finally broken by then). There were also some figures from that series I wanted but couldn't get as they never actually got released (like Garrett and Eduardo with a motorcycle).

[metylerca]

Maybe not a rarity, but any Shawn Michaels JAKKS figure from the late 1990's that didn't have a t-shirt or weird articulation. I know the first two series had the red attire and the SummerSlam 1995 one, but once the Attitude Era kicked in, there was a bitchen' DX green attire I'd see in the Toys R Us ad that I never had. We had Commissioner Michaels and a weird blue one with a plastic piece on his back you'd hold to spin him.

Same goes with a wrestling attire Steve Austin. The only ones me and my brothers would see had different t-shirt designs.

By the time they moved to Titan-Tron live figures, I didn't care as much and was more into the video games by that point.

[brody]

I took another piece off my "Holy Grail" list by securing a Jaga the Thundercat on ebay this week.