Your biggest Childhood toy disappointment

[seieienbu]

After what seemed like forever for a 5 year old, I'd finally gotten the 6th and final Decepticon to form Devestator.  I got Hook, the crane who sat at the top of the mighty villain on a Saturday morning.  I got home, opened him up, and broke his foot off the very first time I was transforming him.  I told my mother and she was rather annoyed at me "You just broke your NEW transformer?"  In the end, I learned to just play with him without the leg.  I still have him, broken foot and all.

Some years passed, however, and I was at a nerd-y convention at one point and there was a guy with a booth selling old Transformers.  He had a complete Devestator for, iirc, $100.  I asked how much Hook cost alone, he informed me that he was half the price, $50.  When I asked why he responded "Because every kid in America broke the foot off right out of the package."

I was disappointed as a youth thinking that I broke him.  As an adult, I'm miffed at Hasbro for selling me a product made from inferior construction. 

[wildfruit]

I wanted a game boy. My dad got me this pos lcd game.

He eventually relented and got me a real one.

[in99flames]

Lol game child!!! I dobremember rattle me bones. Never player it...def remember that commercial.

[Zero_Gamer]

I wanted a game boy. My dad got me this pos lcd game.

He eventually relented and got me a real one.

Ha ha! Did it only play Wisdom Tree bible games? [emoji13]

[esteban]

After what seemed like forever for a 5 year old, I'd finally gotten the 6th and final Decepticon to form Devestator.  I got Hook, the crane who sat at the top of the mighty villain on a Saturday morning.  I got home, opened him up, and broke his foot off the very first time I was transforming him.  I told my mother and she was rather annoyed at me "You just broke your NEW transformer?"  In the end, I learned to just play with him without the leg.  I still have him, broken foot and all.

Some years passed, however, and I was at a nerd-y convention at one point and there was a guy with a booth selling old Transformers.  He had a complete Devestator for, iirc, $100.  I asked how much Hook cost alone, he informed me that he was half the price, $50.  When I asked why he responded "Because every kid in America broke the foot off right out of the package."

I was disappointed as a youth thinking that I broke him.  As an adult, I'm miffed at Hasbro for selling me a product made from inferior construction.

My brothers and I "only" had 3-4 of the dudes for Devastator...I am happy to report that *not one* of us three kids broke Hook (whatever his name was).

Fluorescent green-yellow? I wonder if they are still in my parents' attic?

Cap guns and Alleyway on this list?  You guys are nuts.

So you have THOUSANDS of caps left to shoot, because you convinced your nana (grandma) to get some EXTRA AMMO (she just wanted me to be distracted for as long as possible!) and the gun breaks after 1-3 rolls of caps...

So, you have to get a stone (or if you are lucky, a hammer/wrench) and manually smash the rest of the caps.

Sure, this is fun for a bit, but it gets pretty tedious... Since you are stuck in one spot....I WANTED TO AROUND AND SHOOT CAP GUNS, not hunch over the sidewalk.



...I wanted to shoot the sky...

[TheClash603]

I wanted a game boy. My dad got me this pos lcd game.

He eventually relented and got me a real one.

Unlike the real Gameboy they decided to take away one of the action buttons and instead add 2 more shitty little grey buttons?  Horrible design choice.

I never saw this thing until now.  I assume it had built in games and not cartridges?

[wildfruit]

It had one built in game. Some mech dodge the obstacles type thing. I think.

[Necromancer]

I don't remember anything too disappointing.  The worst was probably getting some Go Bots when I really wanted Transformers.

As for videogames, there were a few that weren't as fun as I had hoped they'd be, but I was just happy to have something new to play.  You can learn to enjoy most anything when your options are limited.

[Medic_wheat]

I don't remember anything too disappointing.  The worst was probably getting some Go Bots when I really wanted Transformers.

As for videogames, there were a few that weren't as fun as I had hoped they'd be, but I was just happy to have something new to play.  You can learn to enjoy most anything when your options are limited.

As a kid I got go bits and transformers mixed up. At one point I thought go bots were the prequel to transformers.  So I didn't mind getting go bots as a kid. Mostly because I thought the motorcycle villain was kind of cool.

[ccovell]

So, you have to get a stone (or if you are lucky, a hammer/wrench) and manually smash the rest of the caps.

Naah, if you have the paper cap strip, you can just let 'em off with your thumbnail and startle your friends.

[Otaking]

Or wrap the caps round an old coin or something similar, and when you throw it and they come in contact with something they bang!
We called them exploding ninja stars. 

[Lost Monkey]

For toys it was Big Jim Olympic Ski Run

Impossible to put together and even if you did get it together you were rewarded with suck.  The dude couldn't get down the hill - would usually fall over as soon as you took your hand away. 

For  video games it was Atari Pacman.  I saved up my pennies to get that game and as soon as I flicked on the Atari I was heart crushingly disappointed.  My parents talked me out of trying to return it. 

[csgx1]

I remember my parents buying me a RC boat from Gemco when they were closing down in the '80s.  The boat was a clearance, open box item with no returns.  The second time I played with the boat in a swimming pool it sank, filled up with water and stopped working.  I was showing it off to my friends, so it was an embarrassing and disappointing moment. 

[Desh]

I can't remember regretting any toy I got as a kid.  Typically if I wanted something it was because I had already played with it at a friends or played with a display at a store.  Also, my parents weren't rich but would spoil us for birthdays and Christmas.  For that reason we had to be damn sure the list of items we would want was only top notch.  My toy timeline was basically Transformers, Ghostbusters, TMNT, and Jurassic Park with Hotwheels mixed in.  I also remember getting some Incredible Crash dummies stuff back in the day which I also loved.  That's all pretty good stuff so no complaints.

I do remember saving up lots of grass cutting money to buy MK Mythologies Sub-Zero.  How could I go wrong with Mortal Kombat, a franchise that I had owned every game to up to that point?

[wildfruit]

Actually my biggest disappointment was something I didn't get. It was a couple weeks before my 14th birthday. My mother asks me what I would like. We walk past a shop called poundstretcher. I see in the window a robot play set that is obviously for a younger child, but I really like the look of it. It has a sort of base and some small figures. It was about £15. That's all I want, I tell her. Birthday comes round, no robot play set. I probably got a couple of mega drive games and some other stuff that was surely nice, but it really was all I wanted. To this day I mention it every year to make her feel bad.