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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat toy did you really, really want for Christmas, and when you got it, it was a dud?
Commercials make things wonderful and great to a kid. I'm going to ask Santa for that! So you put it on your list. Christmas morning, you open the box, oh so carefully as not to break. you try it and it is nowhere like the toy in the commercial.
My EasyBake Oven was like that. I swear when making a brownie, I developed the first lava cake. I t never cooked what you put in. And the Walking Dolly that always tipped and fell over. What was your dud of a toy?
bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)debm55
(23,584 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)Creepy Crawlers was released a year or 2 before I think. Maybe I was just getting too old for such stuff.
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gab13by13
(20,867 posts)debm55
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yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)I thought she would be more fun.
This took some serious memory searching because I always preferred books and games after I was 6 or 7. It is hard to remember toys.
spooky3
(34,303 posts)debm55
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I wonder how did they do that?IjustDontlikeRepugs
(629 posts)debm55
(23,584 posts)Chainfire
(17,308 posts)from the front. Then, of course, my sister picked it up and shook it for me...I 'cudda strangled her. In fact, is is amazing that either of my sisters lived to adulthood...
debm55
(23,584 posts)Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)I got fizzles and color changes. Never really liked chemistry since then - around 1956.
debm55
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explosives on cars, huge boulders,etc. Made a commercial for the 4th of July and safety. It all started with a chemistry set. Made his own beer and wine too when he was older.
pandr32
(11,447 posts)In the movie "Home Alone" it was used to throw voices and my son wanted desperately to use it to trick his sisters. It looked like a kid's dream come true.
It was an ordinary tape recorder--cheap at that, and with decals all over it. It had no special functions at all. It also cost around a hundred bucks and was heavily promoted--falsely.
Elessar Zappa
(13,650 posts)I got that gift when I was 6 and was very disappointed in it.
iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,598 posts)It was this doll whose hair you could change from short to long and back to short, by, get this, inserting a key into her belly. The hair, no matter what, always looked awful.
Easy bake oven. Cooked with lightbulbs and the included mixes tasted terrible. I graduated to oven baking almost instantly.
debm55
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out, leaving her forever with short hair and a hole in her head. Rather large one at that. Yes, I looked inside my easy bake oven and found it was a light bulb.Diamond_Dog
(31,669 posts)They neglect to tell you the hair only comes out of a hole on top of her head, not all over her head (like I thought it would) or maybe I was just too young and didnt understand the ad. It was disappointing to say the least!
debm55
(23,584 posts)2naSalit
(86,068 posts)It took a while for me to pull her hair out but I didn't like her because wore different sized clothes than Barbie.
PXR-5
(522 posts)You spend time building them, then launch them and watch them land in trees or drift away onto private property.
However, 40 years later I still mess around with them lol
debm55
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PXR-5
(522 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)My mother thought Barbies were too sexy for children.
I finally got a Barbie at 13, when I was too old for one.
Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)debm55
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The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)I still have that toy. It is on display in my cave.
I wanted that toy so bad.
Conjuay
(1,300 posts)after taking forever to get it to fire up, I dont think it made a complete revolution before nosediving.
Done.
Chainfire
(17,308 posts)It was a major disappointment. My father couldn't even make a round with it.
MuseRider
(34,060 posts)She said one thing and after that it was all a garbled mess. The adds were so appealing to a little kid like me. Wow, someone to talk to! I cried for days after that and I never took her out again making things really nice with my mother and me. LOL
marble falls
(56,359 posts)... that was it for Mr Machine.
It took two uncles, one a civil engineer, one an electrical engineer, to put it together the first time and a piece disappeared in a week. It made it till the week after New Years.
debm55
(23,584 posts)it says you can take him apart and put back together. More than likely the dad of the kid put it together while the kid was in another room.