[bgill]

1. wanted but didn't get

2. brother had some

3. wanted but didn't get

4. wanted but didn't get

5. wanted but didn't get

6. '68 Hot Rods - brother had some

7. '69 Chemistry Set - got one when I was 5 and had no idea what to do with it at that age so didn't want one when I was old enough.

8. '70 Lite Brite - wanted one but didn't get

9. '71 Space Hoppers - guessing that was a bouncy ball thing. Didn't want.

10. '72 Uno - wanted a set but didn't get. Bought one decades later for our kids.

11. '73 Walkie Talkies - didn't want them but bought them decades later for the preps.

12. '74 Tonka Toy - cool well built trucks back when.

[Reno89519]

Am I so old that they don’t have history for my birth year? No toys back then?

[Calvin Locke]

12. '74 Tonka Toy...

Just came across a reference to a snowplow/salter toy in a usenet group. "Only two left..."

[Parley Baer]

The year I was born is not listed. It is way before 1963. Hehehehe

[arthurus]

1946? Was there a 1946?

[lysie]

I wanted a Slinky, but never got it.

[laker_dad]

For us really old kids...

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1955toys.html

[bert]

I didn't get one till 1949

[Obadiah]

One of my favorite toys as a wee little lad.

[Calvin Locke]

31. 1993: Talkboy Fun Fact: The Talkboy was originally conceived as a non-working prop for the 1992 movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It was released the same day as the movie.

Never heard of it. Did catch the movie the other week, though. Trump had a cameo.

[Gasshog]

Had all the top ones but Easy Bake...as a boy I opted for Incredible Edibles or the Plastiform gadget

[Pilgrim's Progress]

1953 - A newspaper cut and shaped like a diamond glued to balsa strips - a spool of grandma’s string.

The bestest kite.

[WayneS]

Great. I’m a G.I. Joe guy.

[dfwgator]

I was obsessed with planes when I was a kid, so this was at the top of my list in 1970....

[Menehune56]

Thanks for making me feel older than dirt. Hee hee.

[FrdmLvr]

Toys hadn’t been invented until 1963?

[SolidRedState]

I feel so spoiled because I had almost every toy listed through my youth, some of them after adulthood and before kids, and we bought our kids almost all the rest at some time.

And we were and are not rich. Apparently very indulgent though.

:)

[Pontiac]

[pgkdan]

Doesn’t go back far enough for old farts like me.

[Impala64ssa]

1973, Cabbage Patch Kids. My wife worked at a Toys R Us then, They had Clarkstown, NY’s finest patrolling the parking lot to break up the fights. It really got crazy after the Holiday when they released the Black Cabbage Patch Dolls, and it was White people fighting over them. Our Black friends thought it was hilarious.

[Impala64ssa]

1983, Cabbage Patch Kids. My wife worked at a Toys R Us then, They had Clarkstown, NY’s finest patrolling the parking lot to break up the fights. It really got crazy after the Holiday when they released the Black Cabbage Patch Dolls, and it was White people fighting over them. Our Black friends thought it was hilarious.