Things you really wanted as a kid (but never got)

[MontyVeda]

i wanted one of those too... ended up buying an Ultra Burner for £15 complete with Skyway wheels, which i sold for £20... the bike was crap though.

 

[Shrim]

I always wanted a Stretch Armstrong toy but my parents kept telling me that if it burst the liquid inside was dangerous.

 

[JonnyBlade]

Taller

 

[Fnaar]

A Raleigh Chopper.

Got one decades later, for my daughter - which I have recently sold as she has grown out of it now.

Me too. I really wanted one, but never got one.

I also wanted to break an arm or leg, just so I could have a plastercast on, but despite years of throwing myself out of trees and off rocks I didn't break anything.

 

[ColinJ]

I wanted an imaginary friend, but all the friends I had were real ones ...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

or the electrified version of the lego train set.

I always just wanted a Lego or Playmobile Train, never mind an electric one!

My parents said it was too expensive and, fair dos to them, when I saw them for sale in the likes of the Jolly Giant (remember them?) they were about £100

I also wanted to break an arm or leg, just so I could have a plastercast on, but despite years of throwing myself out of trees and off rocks I didn't break anything.

Ah yes, that old one, OR for the School to burn down. It never did.

 

[Headgardener]

A Raleigh Chopper as they had just come out when I was nine or ten and my mate had one which I coveted greatly.

 

[Intelligenthamster]

I always wanted a Grifter, although I did like the Strika I was given instead.

Like Mad Doug I wanted my school to catch fire. It did... we all had two weeks off

 

[biggs682]

at the age of 13 i wanted a Viscount Aerospace that would have cost around the £95 mark at the time from then lbs in locking road , weston super mare , i rode home and declared to my father that i knew he could afford it as it was less than his weekly wage at the time !!!!!

for some strange reason it was another couple of years before i finally got one .

 

[Adasta]

Scaletrix.

 

[Arch]

A Brio trainset.
Mousetrap.
A Brittains farm tractor and haybaler

The last two were owned by the girls in the flat downstairs, and sometimes I got to borrow them, but never owned them.


I don't think I ever thought to actually ask for them though. I didn't ask for things for some reason. Maybe I just knew money was tight. I saved up £10 in my moneybox (this is late 70s), for an Action Man.

 

[smokeysmoo]

A Brother I'd have traded my Sister in return when I was 9

 

[furball]

When I was about three my best friend had a red wheelbarrow which I thought was the best thing ever. I really wanted one. My Dad went to woodworking classes and made the body of the barrow and he acquired a wheel but the wheel didn't get put onto the barrow. We moved home and the barrow and the wheel were consigned to the attic.
On my 25th birthday I was presented with the completed barrow, wheel attached and painted. It's something I will always keep.