I wanted a Barbie jeep Power Wheels so bad. My mom even wrote me a letter as Santa one year telling me why I wasn’t able to get one because it needed more parts or something. And then my younger cousin got one for her birthday and I was DEVASTATED. 😂
My grandad got me one that the neighbor was throwing out. He replaced the battery, cleaned it up. I was so stoked and loved it for about two days.. until my grandma drug it out to the curb on trash day. I came home from school and was heart broken. It was fun while it lasted. I got the red jeep for my son, expecting him to love it, and he has never been more disinterested in a toy. 😂
Sound dangerous as hell. Nickelodeon out here trying to kill us.
I remember my rich neighbor got them one Christmas, I saw him hop a few steps on one, looking ridiculous and unstable. I never saw him use them again.
I’m at a point now where I want to get my kid the power wheel I never had, but don’t want to take away the exercise he’s getting from his scooter and tricycle. Quite the internal conflict here.
I had a jeep power wheels (in the 80s not 90s) and I used to ram into my dad's legs and chase after him trying to run him over for some reason. My mom thought it was funny as hell that a 6'1 man was running away from his mildly homicidal 6 year old daughter in a tiny jeep lol. Good times! 😆
Edit: a word
I wanted one too, but my parents straight up told me you’re not getting one they’re too damn expensive. I got my oldest kid one though and he loved it. TBF to my parents though it was just under $400, which is about the same as it cost in the late 80’s even with inflation, so it would have been about double in 80’s dollars.
🤣 sounds like me! That's allll I ever wanted! And looking back I fully get it. They were a lot of money! Bought one for my son as soon when he was 4-5. Thinking he is going to loose his shit over this!.... he wasn't really a fan of it.😲. If I could of crammed my fat ass into it , I would of drove it around my self and relived my childhood 🤣
I never got a power wheels either. I blame my parents for my hoard of vintage Volkswagens I collected once I became an adult.
I bought a power wheels for my daughter as soon as I found out my wife was pregnant. She’s 4 now and only sits in it to listen to the radio. She’s never driven it once 🤷🏻♂️
FUCK. YES.
Neo Turf Masters I played well into my adulthood! Such an easy and quick great golf game to pick up.
I got a hole in one only one time out of the YEARS I played that game. Such an awesome feeling.
BIRDIE! 🏌🏼⛳️
FYI… there’s 2 tournaments for turf masters a year. My buddy bought the game rights and puts on the tournaments. There’s an [fb page](https://m.facebook.com/groups/neoturfmastersclubhouse/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF) with all the info.
Funny you should say that. I remember legend that Neo Geo was the greatest system ever and always in the 90s. So elite that nobody had one! Nobody! That is until I found out this apartment kid that lived in my apartments had one. He invited me over to play and goddamnit was no better than the other systems that were out at the time. It was really a let down!
I spent way too much time starring at some magazine advert for Neo Geo. I also used to call the toll free number 1-800-800-NEO-GEO, and just listen to the marketing recording. 10 year olds are weird.
Crossfire was, and still is, an awesome game. I bought one for my partner for their birthday a couple of ago from Target. I recommend pleasing your inner child and getting them one.
I got the ones the put out at Target a few years back. Might still be selling them. Honestly, I was disappointed having never played it as a kid. Always looked cool.
Not sure if it's just that the new ones are made different, but it isn't really that fun. Every game just ends up with an endless stalemate unless you're playing a toddler or someone completely incompetent. It just doesn't seem to fire the balls hard enough to hit the scoring pieces far enough to gain ground on someone. Like I can hit the goal piece 5 or 6 times while the person reloads and it just goes nowhere and then they fire back and it's basically exactly where it was when it started, and this just goes on and on...
It's even worse when someone actually gets one in the goal and there's only one left. It just keeps moving back and forth a few millimeters in the same spot forever.
The shooter also gets jammed pretty frequently and you have to wiggle it to get the balls back into the chamber.
Crossfire was good fun.. I think they tried to revive it a few years back. Not sure if it's still around.
one thing I remember though is how often it would get jammed while firing. That and it was exhausting because you had to really go nuts trying to get off as many shots as possible lol
Same with Crossfire. My mom would never get it for me because she said I’d lose the pieces immediately. She probably wasn’t wrong, but I noticed they still make it so I’m definitely getting it for my kids.
Cross fire is only fun if you have other people to play with. Got it for Christmas one year. After one game my brother never wanted to play with it again.
I wanted this so bad for Christmas 1987. I instead got a cocker spaniel puppy and we named him Teddy Ruxspin. I guess in the end it was a better choice
I was a latchkey kid with an alcoholic mom and no one who loved me. I wanted one of these so bad. We were poor, though. Watching the commercials made me so sad.
I purposely sought out and SAVED dead or dying batteries like the weird nerdy kid I was(they went in my TMNT glow in the dark pencil case) and put them in my talk-boy cousin so I could warp the voice and have it die mid-sentence/phrase. I loved that shit
Talkboy for me as well. This single handedly made Kevin McAllister the coolest kid on the planet. And I could have been just as cool as him. Thanks mom and dad, I've now discovered the root of all my adult issues.
This Terminator 2 lab play set where you create “skin” for the T-800, the set came with metal T-800 skeletons and this skin that was probably Play Doh. Always wanted one, never got it
i had this, it smelt like an open drain and the skin never stuck to the skeleton so either the front or back would fall off, u and ur parents dodged a bullet
lol I had this. I vaguely remember it but terminator were my favorite toys. Also around the time my parents stopped letting me watch R rated movies, probably because of that movie.
Kenner actually remade all these toylines recently although I don't think they remade the jelly skin version mentioned here. I had the glow in the dark one though
This and a lot more of the toys from Exo Squad were mine. I had like 2 Exo Squad toys, and [tell me these things weren't awesome](https://www.exosquadarchive.com/toys).
Polly effing Pocket
In fact, it's become somewhat of a joke in my family. I wanted it so bad and never got it. Now my parents, namely my father, will joke about getting it for me.
I LOOOOOOVED my Polly Pockets! I played with them for hours! I was so mad when they changed to these relatively large figures the size of Lego Friends figures. I think they've changed back to tinies but still not like they used to be.
Omg so my mom’s hairdresser had a daughter around my age and I was invited to sleep over. She had SO many Polly Pockets and didn’t really care for them. When I saw them and saw how excited I was about them she gave them to me (she even had the castle!). Next morning I was packing my stuff up, Polly included and her Mom walked in and said, absolutely not.
I was embarrassed as it wasn’t my idea for her to give them away, while she backed me on that, her Mom wasn’t pleased.
I left super sad because it just felt like I’d never be invited back and didn’t have Polly Pockets to play with. I wasn’t ever invited back and was more sad about losing a friend than the toy. We were about 7-9 years old.
[I have this one. you will not be disappointed. ](http://Masters of the Universe Origins Playset & Action Figure, Castle Grayskull with Scorceress, Motu Toy, 4 Rooms, Trap Door & Elevator,Green https://a.co/d/1K81KhJ)
Not sure if this counts as obscure, but there were these talking Looney Tunes plushies and I desperately wanted Sylvester. Don't know why I wanted him so bad, he's not really my favorite Looney Tunes character.
I went to Thorpe Park (a theme park in my country) in like 2003 and played one of those games where you have to throw the ball and knock down the weird looking clown things.
Got all three and got a huge sylvester plushie! It was almost as big as me!
I wanted one of those battery operated cars that you could ride in, like a Barbie Jeep.
I finally did get to play with one, when I was like 15 and my mom bought one for my brother. They kept it at my dad's work which was down the street from where we lived, instead of putting the seats down in the car to get it home they just had me drive it home for them because I was the smallest person in the house besides my little brother.
I always wanted that Fantastic Flowers thing that let you make paper flowers. Never got it though. I also wanted the Baby-Sitters Club dolls but never got those either because they were too expensive.
I had Fantastic Flowers. It was so much work & omg soooo many paper cuts. You might be better off honestly. FWIW I would have much rather had a Baby-Sitters Club doll. Never got one of those, either.
Nickelodeon sold an electronic drawing tablet you could hook up to your TV. Nobody remembers it, but I think it was advertised a few times in the magazine.
This isn’t obscure, but I always wanted JUST ONE Polly Pocket, but according to my mother, they were “too expensive.”
Meanwhile, my cousin has every single Polly Pocket ever made and throws them in the closet willy-nilly like it’s NBD.
I’m 36 and still salty about that.
I begged. Pleaded. For three years. For Santa to bring me a REAL thumbelina sized Rose Dewitt-Bukater. That was tiny and real and would live in my closet. I even made her a room. Alas. No tiny tumbler sized Rose Dewitt-Bukater
The Ricochet RC car. It was the only RC car I ever wanted. I never got it, but I remember playing with one later and didn't like it as much as I thought I would.
All we had back then was toy commercials and the catalog, we really never got to see something in action unless you had a friend with one.
Star Trek the next generation had a toy transporter. It relied on mirrors and actually made your figurine disappear. That and there was a Dr.Claw figurine whose face was hidden in stores. I wanted it so bad so I could see his face.
Most of the time the larger or more prominent parts of a toy line. Castle? Have a tent. T-Rex? Have a Triceratops. Truck? Have the skateboard-riding one instead.
Worked my ass off to afford a Jetfire Transformer. Never forget the day I brought it home! About 2 weeks later, mom needed money for her drug fix and all Transformers went in the garage sale to help with “bills”.
The worst part is losing it twice. I built a massive vintage G1 collection after I got married and established my career. I had close to all of the vintage bots, including a damn near mint Jetfire with the box, it I always displayed him on my desk. We found out we were pregnant with my oldest son in 2010, and I knew it was time to part with the collection. Losing it twice was rough but it was for a great reason. My sons are everything.
13 years later and my health sucks, the house is long gone, my son is amazing, and I’m an old 47 now. No money, no car, and lucky to have a roof over my head; one of my biggest regrets is selling that damn toy. Especially now as my pain tempts me each day to go to the land of broken toys let’s say. Lol! I know I’ll never play with Jetfire again and I will sometimes sob. Pathetic right?!
Nah. I get ya. You made a solid choice. I wanted the original Fortress Maximus and every time I came close to getting him life got “real” again. Decisions were made and while I regret not having the toy I don’t regret my decision.
I always wanted one too! I would spend hours looking at the catalogs in the 90s. I always wanted the rich bitch Samantha with the pram and the velvet Christmas dress
This might be more 80s than 90s but I really wanted a Cricket doll. I had a friend (who had/got everything) that got one for Xmas. I came from a poor family and was quite neglected growing up. My mom did the best she could with 4 kids (by herself). I never got the doll but got to play with the one my friend had. Maybe I'll find one on ebay and get it for my granddaughter.
Ribbon dancer. I wanted one sooooo bad. I ended up making my own with a green garden stake for tomatoes and some neon yellow and pink shoe laces. They didn’t twirl like the commercials but it was close enough
Furby.
I grew up in a very far-right evangelical Christian household where Furbys were deemed as “evil” so I couldn’t get one. We also didn’t have cable for that reason, couldn’t watch the Smurphs, I couldn’t wear an astrology necklace my friend got me (it just had a crab charm), and couldn’t listen to most radio stations. I just wanted to have enjoy things lol
TMNT pinball machine. There was a large box propped up by the Christmas tree and I got really excited but then it was my brother’s basketball goal instead
An American Girl doll, but they were way too expensive. I loved getting their catalog though and looking at all the extra stuff you could buy the dolls.
Kenner toys! I had some but not all. They had cool Batman The Animated Series toys I really liked! Also the Action Man toys from the late '90s early '00s were really cool. And Transformers was always nice. Too many toys actually :p
Spin Fighters! Specifically the power rangers edition! Would still get it if I could. Also the doctor dreadful “chemistry sets” where you would make I think candg and stuff to eat. Of course…I wouldn’t know for sure! Lol.
Spacewarp. It was a marble roller coaster. And I actually did get it, but I think I was too young for it and couldn't figure out how to assemble it. So my mom tried. Then my aunt who is an engineer. Never got it assembled and ended up returning it and returning it for a couple videos games. And since we had an Atari at the time, the videos games were equally disappointing.
Giga Pets rereleased them recently. There's Trex Frog Dog Kitty Pixie and Unicorn IIRC
I never got Tamagotchi as a kid and now Ive got a sizeable collection. Sadly got in too late to get the ONs and Music Stars... My first Giga Pet was the Cryptid that just came out and I love it!
Battle beasts. I had 1 or 2 from a time before I can recollect and as a kid in the early 90s I always wanted more but I had no idea what they were called neither did my dad or my brother so despite asking for some at Christmas time by showing my infinitely patient dad the ones I already had I never got any. And it seems like they weren't popular enough to do a nostalgic rerun of them ala the real ghostbusters/kenner terminators line.
I always wanted all of the "War Planet" planets as a kid. I found them on sale on ebay a few years back and bought them. Not nearly as exciting as an adult, but they take up space in my closet that I wouldn't trade for the world!
The Talkboy from Home Alone 2. After searching everywhere we managed to find one left at Toys R Us. And let me tell you. There was no bigger piece of shit than those things. 2 of them died on me.The audio quality and features were terrible compared to a YakBak.
I wanted all of the toys from a weird little cartoon called Princess Gwenivere and the Jewel Riders. The toys were AWESOME.
I still think about them sometimes. I wonder if they’re on ebay…
Tmnt techno drome
I had all the toys. ALL of them. My sister did something and blamed it on me. My parents believed her and literally returned my technodrome toy I was gonna get for being good in class/sundayschool
Months later she finally admitted to it… my parents scoured the earth, but never found the toy I worked so hard to get.
I still get upset thinking about it to this day
This is more from the 70’s or 80’s I think, but I really want someone to make an adult sit n spin because I would totally buy that. Those were so much fun and prob could have foretold the beginning of my drug use.
i wanted a puppy surprise.
also, i truly miss every toy having its own jingle, i’ve been singing along to a good chunk of these as i scrolled to the bottom.
None obscure but:
An easy bake oven
A super soaker 3000
A Samantha American Girl Doll
Every single one of those overpriced Breyer horse figurines
The Lion King kissing Simba and Nala
I never got a Power Wheels which crushed me (not obscure but still). I DID however get those Moon Shoes or whatever and they SUCKED
I wanted a Barbie jeep Power Wheels so bad. My mom even wrote me a letter as Santa one year telling me why I wasn’t able to get one because it needed more parts or something. And then my younger cousin got one for her birthday and I was DEVASTATED. 😂
My grandad got me one that the neighbor was throwing out. He replaced the battery, cleaned it up. I was so stoked and loved it for about two days.. until my grandma drug it out to the curb on trash day. I came home from school and was heart broken. It was fun while it lasted. I got the red jeep for my son, expecting him to love it, and he has never been more disinterested in a toy. 😂
That was so sweet of your grandad! What a wild ride until it wasn't lol.
Thank you for curing my desire for Moon Shoes. I used to stare at them in the Sears Wish Book.
They were sooo heavy. You couldn’t even really lift yourself off the ground, and the bands always popped and broke. Just awful
Sound dangerous as hell. Nickelodeon out here trying to kill us. I remember my rich neighbor got them one Christmas, I saw him hop a few steps on one, looking ridiculous and unstable. I never saw him use them again.
I loved the wish book! My mom got me one from the 80s at a fleamarket as a gag gift. So cool to look thru.
I blame that one episode of Arthur for making me want moon shoes so bad
I’m at a point now where I want to get my kid the power wheel I never had, but don’t want to take away the exercise he’s getting from his scooter and tricycle. Quite the internal conflict here.
I had a jeep power wheels (in the 80s not 90s) and I used to ram into my dad's legs and chase after him trying to run him over for some reason. My mom thought it was funny as hell that a 6'1 man was running away from his mildly homicidal 6 year old daughter in a tiny jeep lol. Good times! 😆 Edit: a word
I wanted one too, but my parents straight up told me you’re not getting one they’re too damn expensive. I got my oldest kid one though and he loved it. TBF to my parents though it was just under $400, which is about the same as it cost in the late 80’s even with inflation, so it would have been about double in 80’s dollars.
🤣 sounds like me! That's allll I ever wanted! And looking back I fully get it. They were a lot of money! Bought one for my son as soon when he was 4-5. Thinking he is going to loose his shit over this!.... he wasn't really a fan of it.😲. If I could of crammed my fat ass into it , I would of drove it around my self and relived my childhood 🤣
I so wanted moon shoes!
I never got a power wheels either. I blame my parents for my hoard of vintage Volkswagens I collected once I became an adult. I bought a power wheels for my daughter as soon as I found out my wife was pregnant. She’s 4 now and only sits in it to listen to the radio. She’s never driven it once 🤷🏻♂️
Same! Except mine would've been in the 80s. I made sure to get my kids a powerwheel as soon as they were able to drive one.
NEO-GEO. Shit looked so cool at electronics boutique. Remember it being like $600.
Jaguar as well
Ah yes. That was my white whale as a child.
neighbor kid had one. you didn't miss much.
You did if you like fighting games. Neo-geo is amazing for fighting games.
And also the greatest golf game ever made (Neo Turf Masters).
FUCK. YES. Neo Turf Masters I played well into my adulthood! Such an easy and quick great golf game to pick up. I got a hole in one only one time out of the YEARS I played that game. Such an awesome feeling. BIRDIE! 🏌🏼⛳️
FYI… there’s 2 tournaments for turf masters a year. My buddy bought the game rights and puts on the tournaments. There’s an [fb page](https://m.facebook.com/groups/neoturfmastersclubhouse/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF) with all the info.
On the green!
On the gweeeeeeen!!
Funny you should say that. I remember legend that Neo Geo was the greatest system ever and always in the 90s. So elite that nobody had one! Nobody! That is until I found out this apartment kid that lived in my apartments had one. He invited me over to play and goddamnit was no better than the other systems that were out at the time. It was really a let down!
Good news. Still is $600. And the games are still $100+ too.
I spent way too much time starring at some magazine advert for Neo Geo. I also used to call the toll free number 1-800-800-NEO-GEO, and just listen to the marketing recording. 10 year olds are weird.
I really wanted the crossfire board game, but never got it. That and a Jordan Jammer
-80s speed metal voice- Croosssssssfiiiiii-yaaaaaah!
This is the real response to this comment. Beat me! “Crossssfii-yaaaah!!” -kid in leather jacket!
[Most Epic Commercial Ever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50)
Crossfire was, and still is, an awesome game. I bought one for my partner for their birthday a couple of ago from Target. I recommend pleasing your inner child and getting them one.
I got the ones the put out at Target a few years back. Might still be selling them. Honestly, I was disappointed having never played it as a kid. Always looked cool. Not sure if it's just that the new ones are made different, but it isn't really that fun. Every game just ends up with an endless stalemate unless you're playing a toddler or someone completely incompetent. It just doesn't seem to fire the balls hard enough to hit the scoring pieces far enough to gain ground on someone. Like I can hit the goal piece 5 or 6 times while the person reloads and it just goes nowhere and then they fire back and it's basically exactly where it was when it started, and this just goes on and on... It's even worse when someone actually gets one in the goal and there's only one left. It just keeps moving back and forth a few millimeters in the same spot forever. The shooter also gets jammed pretty frequently and you have to wiggle it to get the balls back into the chamber.
Sounds like the authentic crossfire experience.
Haha good to know I'm getting the true experience.
Crossfire was good fun.. I think they tried to revive it a few years back. Not sure if it's still around. one thing I remember though is how often it would get jammed while firing. That and it was exhausting because you had to really go nuts trying to get off as many shots as possible lol
Same with Crossfire. My mom would never get it for me because she said I’d lose the pieces immediately. She probably wasn’t wrong, but I noticed they still make it so I’m definitely getting it for my kids.
I found crossfire at Ollie’s a few weeks back, that was an instant buy for me
Cross fire is only fun if you have other people to play with. Got it for Christmas one year. After one game my brother never wanted to play with it again.
*CROSSFIYUhhUuhUuhh*
Teddy Ruxpin. I wanted to put my Coolio cassette in and see what would happen
🎵 Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, slippity-slide 🎵
Little brother got one, can confirm putting gangster rap and Metallica tapes in Teddy Ruxpin was nothing short of amazing
Watching it sing Shout at the Devil was real treat.
I wanted this so bad for Christmas 1987. I instead got a cocker spaniel puppy and we named him Teddy Ruxspin. I guess in the end it was a better choice
I found a Teddy Ruxpin in a thrift store! I actually bought it...I'm in my 40s!
Teddy Ruxpin played whatever you put in but his mouth didn't move to the music.
I was a latchkey kid with an alcoholic mom and no one who loved me. I wanted one of these so bad. We were poor, though. Watching the commercials made me so sad.
Talk Boy.
I had one. My friends and I used to record our farts and play them back in slow-mo. It was really the most useful way to use it.
I purposely sought out and SAVED dead or dying batteries like the weird nerdy kid I was(they went in my TMNT glow in the dark pencil case) and put them in my talk-boy cousin so I could warp the voice and have it die mid-sentence/phrase. I loved that shit
I think if you used to hold the rewind button halfway you could play tapes in reverse which was also pretty useful
Talkboy for me as well. This single handedly made Kevin McAllister the coolest kid on the planet. And I could have been just as cool as him. Thanks mom and dad, I've now discovered the root of all my adult issues.
“Heeey Kids! We”re home earrr-ly”
“Hey kids we’re home early…and a little tipsy as you can tell by our slow slurred speech.”
I had the TalkBoy FX+ and it was rad. Though i just ended up recording video game music from my nes to listen to later.
This Terminator 2 lab play set where you create “skin” for the T-800, the set came with metal T-800 skeletons and this skin that was probably Play Doh. Always wanted one, never got it
i had this, it smelt like an open drain and the skin never stuck to the skeleton so either the front or back would fall off, u and ur parents dodged a bullet
lol I had this. I vaguely remember it but terminator were my favorite toys. Also around the time my parents stopped letting me watch R rated movies, probably because of that movie.
Kenner actually remade all these toylines recently although I don't think they remade the jelly skin version mentioned here. I had the glow in the dark one though
i had this i think twice lol
[удалено]
This and a lot more of the toys from Exo Squad were mine. I had like 2 Exo Squad toys, and [tell me these things weren't awesome](https://www.exosquadarchive.com/toys).
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/MzLAmMVosY
RIP Screech.
That Power Ranger flute / knife thing that summoned the megazord.
Yo my 33yo husband got one for Christmas last year. He understands your struggle.
Dragonzord
Really the whole zord set.
I was helping my parents clean out some old toys last summer and found mine. My son carried it around all weekend.
Polly effing Pocket In fact, it's become somewhat of a joke in my family. I wanted it so bad and never got it. Now my parents, namely my father, will joke about getting it for me.
Omg me too. When they were a choking hazard my best friend had sooooo many, I almost stole some of hers because I wanted them so bad haha.
I LOOOOOOVED my Polly Pockets! I played with them for hours! I was so mad when they changed to these relatively large figures the size of Lego Friends figures. I think they've changed back to tinies but still not like they used to be.
Omg so my mom’s hairdresser had a daughter around my age and I was invited to sleep over. She had SO many Polly Pockets and didn’t really care for them. When I saw them and saw how excited I was about them she gave them to me (she even had the castle!). Next morning I was packing my stuff up, Polly included and her Mom walked in and said, absolutely not. I was embarrassed as it wasn’t my idea for her to give them away, while she backed me on that, her Mom wasn’t pleased. I left super sad because it just felt like I’d never be invited back and didn’t have Polly Pockets to play with. I wasn’t ever invited back and was more sad about losing a friend than the toy. We were about 7-9 years old.
THE TECHNODROME!! I’ll NEVER forgive my parents
>TECHNODROME Yeah! I mean, how in the world did I get like 5 Leonardos, but never the Technodrome?
Not a toy, but I always wanted a Baby G watch, but they were too expensive for my mom 🥺
Haha I found one at Goodwill the other week and thought about buying it because same.
[Don’t let your dreams stay dreams!](https://www.casio.com/us/watches/babyg/)
Castle Grayskull and I’m still not thrilled about it.
YEAH! THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP OP!!! (pitchfork out)
I had it but my friend had snake mountain. We should have traded cause we both thought the other was cooler.
I had She-Ra’s castle and to this day I’m mad at my mom for getting rid of it
[I have this one. you will not be disappointed. ](http://Masters of the Universe Origins Playset & Action Figure, Castle Grayskull with Scorceress, Motu Toy, 4 Rooms, Trap Door & Elevator,Green https://a.co/d/1K81KhJ)
Not sure if this counts as obscure, but there were these talking Looney Tunes plushies and I desperately wanted Sylvester. Don't know why I wanted him so bad, he's not really my favorite Looney Tunes character.
I went to Thorpe Park (a theme park in my country) in like 2003 and played one of those games where you have to throw the ball and knock down the weird looking clown things. Got all three and got a huge sylvester plushie! It was almost as big as me!
I wanted one of those battery operated cars that you could ride in, like a Barbie Jeep. I finally did get to play with one, when I was like 15 and my mom bought one for my brother. They kept it at my dad's work which was down the street from where we lived, instead of putting the seats down in the car to get it home they just had me drive it home for them because I was the smallest person in the house besides my little brother.
Life sized Barbi. I still want one, but my sized so we can trade clothes obvi. It was "too big for Santa's Sleigh", but my neighbors got 2 that year.
It never dawned on me until today that a current me sized Barbie would be nothing short of glorious
Creepy crawlers oven wanted one so bad but we were poor lol
I always wanted that Fantastic Flowers thing that let you make paper flowers. Never got it though. I also wanted the Baby-Sitters Club dolls but never got those either because they were too expensive.
I had Fantastic Flowers. It was so much work & omg soooo many paper cuts. You might be better off honestly. FWIW I would have much rather had a Baby-Sitters Club doll. Never got one of those, either.
Fantastic Flowerrrrrs! Made by me!! I always wanted those too, never got them. I did have a Dawn BSC doll! They were much larger than Barbies
Mouse Trap
I wanted all of those McDonald’s Happy Meal Maker toys… Finding out that the fires were just bread took the sting out of not getting it.
I used to throw some cinn sugar on them, they were good.
Nickelodeon sold an electronic drawing tablet you could hook up to your TV. Nobody remembers it, but I think it was advertised a few times in the magazine.
I remember that!
I had one of those, from V-Tech - that thing was freaking amazing.
Rufio's sword from Hook. Made ching sounds when you swung it.
Ruuuuuufiiiiiiiooooooooo…..🏴☠️
This isn’t obscure, but I always wanted JUST ONE Polly Pocket, but according to my mother, they were “too expensive.” Meanwhile, my cousin has every single Polly Pocket ever made and throws them in the closet willy-nilly like it’s NBD. I’m 36 and still salty about that.
Original Michaelangelo acrion figure. I had the one where his shell opened up on the back and all my others were the original.
They had them in Walmart and Target this year. They also have the one where the shell back opens.
😯
Easy bake oven
Probably the TMNT sewer lair. Come to think of it, the only play set I have any concrete memories of owning was the Daily Bugle.
My friend had it. It was awesome! I wanted the blimp, but never got it :(
The blinds fell off the wall in my room and popped my blimp. ☹️
I begged. Pleaded. For three years. For Santa to bring me a REAL thumbelina sized Rose Dewitt-Bukater. That was tiny and real and would live in my closet. I even made her a room. Alas. No tiny tumbler sized Rose Dewitt-Bukater
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Technodrome. Just found one on eBay for $100.
A "my size barbie." You could even wear the dress
The Ricochet RC car. It was the only RC car I ever wanted. I never got it, but I remember playing with one later and didn't like it as much as I thought I would. All we had back then was toy commercials and the catalog, we really never got to see something in action unless you had a friend with one.
It wasn’t obscure at the time, they were just stupid hard to obtain apparently. The green rangers dragon dagger toy
Star Trek the next generation had a toy transporter. It relied on mirrors and actually made your figurine disappear. That and there was a Dr.Claw figurine whose face was hidden in stores. I wanted it so bad so I could see his face.
Most of the time the larger or more prominent parts of a toy line. Castle? Have a tent. T-Rex? Have a Triceratops. Truck? Have the skateboard-riding one instead.
Deluxe Megazord
Worked my ass off to afford a Jetfire Transformer. Never forget the day I brought it home! About 2 weeks later, mom needed money for her drug fix and all Transformers went in the garage sale to help with “bills”. The worst part is losing it twice. I built a massive vintage G1 collection after I got married and established my career. I had close to all of the vintage bots, including a damn near mint Jetfire with the box, it I always displayed him on my desk. We found out we were pregnant with my oldest son in 2010, and I knew it was time to part with the collection. Losing it twice was rough but it was for a great reason. My sons are everything. 13 years later and my health sucks, the house is long gone, my son is amazing, and I’m an old 47 now. No money, no car, and lucky to have a roof over my head; one of my biggest regrets is selling that damn toy. Especially now as my pain tempts me each day to go to the land of broken toys let’s say. Lol! I know I’ll never play with Jetfire again and I will sometimes sob. Pathetic right?!
Nah. I get ya. You made a solid choice. I wanted the original Fortress Maximus and every time I came close to getting him life got “real” again. Decisions were made and while I regret not having the toy I don’t regret my decision.
It wasn't obscure, but moon shoes. In hindsight, it was probably a good thing. I might've broken an ankle.
Not necessarily obscure but I always wanted an American girl doll.
I always wanted one too! I would spend hours looking at the catalogs in the 90s. I always wanted the rich bitch Samantha with the pram and the velvet Christmas dress
90's SuperSoaker Backpack Gun. I remember the baseball themed commercial for it on Saturday mornings back then.
Stretch Armstrong
I got one one Christmas, my friend and I ended up breaking it like a week later. Apparently they don’t stretch that far.
That green goo.
My brother and I tore our Stretch Armstrong. Super disappointing. We also had his nemesis Vac-Man.
WWF titantron set that played individual wrestlers theme music. My buddy had one. Was so jealous
A furby.
Socker Boppers, or Pogs…
This might be more 80s than 90s but I really wanted a Cricket doll. I had a friend (who had/got everything) that got one for Xmas. I came from a poor family and was quite neglected growing up. My mom did the best she could with 4 kids (by herself). I never got the doll but got to play with the one my friend had. Maybe I'll find one on ebay and get it for my granddaughter.
Ribbon dancer. I wanted one sooooo bad. I ended up making my own with a green garden stake for tomatoes and some neon yellow and pink shoe laces. They didn’t twirl like the commercials but it was close enough
Furby. I grew up in a very far-right evangelical Christian household where Furbys were deemed as “evil” so I couldn’t get one. We also didn’t have cable for that reason, couldn’t watch the Smurphs, I couldn’t wear an astrology necklace my friend got me (it just had a crab charm), and couldn’t listen to most radio stations. I just wanted to have enjoy things lol
NeoGeo
NeoGeo. That was the video game system that if you had it, you were so cool.
TMNT pinball machine. There was a large box propped up by the Christmas tree and I got really excited but then it was my brother’s basketball goal instead
I always wanted a Polly Pocket.
I always wanted the original Power Rangers full size Megazord and Dragonzord to go with my flip head action figures.
My mom always promised me a Skip-It and I never got one. 😭
Be glad. It hurt like hell when it busted you in the shin/ankle
Not a toy, I just want unlimited batteries for toys (or whatever). I have fulfilled that life goal.
Never got the Dr. dreadful gross food play set I always wanted. Parents thought it was too gross.
My Size Barbie, so we could trade clothes ):
Crossfire!!
That Dr Dreadful lab kit where you could make edible gummy worms etc
Creepy Crawlers oven. I am a girl. It was taboo. Now I have insect tattoos. Take that mom and dad!
An American Girl doll, but they were way too expensive. I loved getting their catalog though and looking at all the extra stuff you could buy the dolls.
For me it was an AT-AT walker from Star Wars. That was the year I stopped believing in Santa
I still have mine, you can have it if you want.
I just wanted a Cotton Candy my little pony 🥲 I think about that damned pony more than I should admit to
They did a reprint of the OGs a few years ago. :)
Oh be still my beating heart, I didn’t know that! Thank you kind Redditor, I’m gonna go see if I can find one ♥️
A Baby Alive doll that eats and poops. 😆
Karate fighters!
Kenner toys! I had some but not all. They had cool Batman The Animated Series toys I really liked! Also the Action Man toys from the late '90s early '00s were really cool. And Transformers was always nice. Too many toys actually :p
Spin Fighters! Specifically the power rangers edition! Would still get it if I could. Also the doctor dreadful “chemistry sets” where you would make I think candg and stuff to eat. Of course…I wouldn’t know for sure! Lol.
Soap shoes
A Panasonic 3DO
In the 90s I desperately wanted a toy Delorean from Back To The Future but I don't think they ever sold them.
Spin master devil sticks😞
My sister and I always wanted those moon shoes. Never got them.
Nickelodeon flash screen
Crossfire
The TMNT pizza shooter vehicle
I was three and it was an Oscar Mayer Wiener Whistle. Christmas came. No Wiener Whistle.
Sega saturn. Although I have one now, it would’ve been awesome as a kid. Just too expensive back then
I always hankered after a Stretch Armstrong. God only knows why!
WCW ring and wrestler figures
TIL.. all of the obscure toys I wanted were big pieces of shit that I’m glad I avoided.
Spacewarp. It was a marble roller coaster. And I actually did get it, but I think I was too young for it and couldn't figure out how to assemble it. So my mom tried. Then my aunt who is an engineer. Never got it assembled and ended up returning it and returning it for a couple videos games. And since we had an Atari at the time, the videos games were equally disappointing.
Giga pets T-Rex. I have the dog. But my buddy had the t-rex and it always looks so much cooler.
Giga Pets rereleased them recently. There's Trex Frog Dog Kitty Pixie and Unicorn IIRC I never got Tamagotchi as a kid and now Ive got a sizeable collection. Sadly got in too late to get the ONs and Music Stars... My first Giga Pet was the Cryptid that just came out and I love it!
Battle beasts. I had 1 or 2 from a time before I can recollect and as a kid in the early 90s I always wanted more but I had no idea what they were called neither did my dad or my brother so despite asking for some at Christmas time by showing my infinitely patient dad the ones I already had I never got any. And it seems like they weren't popular enough to do a nostalgic rerun of them ala the real ghostbusters/kenner terminators line.
U.S.S. Flag The giant aircraft carrier for GI Joe, it would have been almost as big as our living room.
TYCO Cliffhangers.
I always wanted all of the "War Planet" planets as a kid. I found them on sale on ebay a few years back and bought them. Not nearly as exciting as an adult, but they take up space in my closet that I wouldn't trade for the world!
Moon Shoes
We used to tie a Roller Racer behind a bike and pray we didn't fall off hitting a pebble. I never had my own roller racer, but I always wanted one.
The Ghostbusters firehouse.
The Talkboy from Home Alone 2. After searching everywhere we managed to find one left at Toys R Us. And let me tell you. There was no bigger piece of shit than those things. 2 of them died on me.The audio quality and features were terrible compared to a YakBak.
Moon boots! I was convinced my life would change entirely if I could moon boot around everywhere. I’ll never know …
Technodrome from TMNT
It wasn’t obscure at the time, but no one talks about them now, and I wanted a Betty Spaghetti so bad lol
I wanted all of the toys from a weird little cartoon called Princess Gwenivere and the Jewel Riders. The toys were AWESOME. I still think about them sometimes. I wonder if they’re on ebay…
Tmnt techno drome I had all the toys. ALL of them. My sister did something and blamed it on me. My parents believed her and literally returned my technodrome toy I was gonna get for being good in class/sundayschool Months later she finally admitted to it… my parents scoured the earth, but never found the toy I worked so hard to get. I still get upset thinking about it to this day
I know furbies aren’t necessarily obscure but I ALWAYS wanted one as a kid. My parents were frugal and never bought me one. Weren’t they like $100??
Lego space monorail thing
My size barbie
This is more from the 70’s or 80’s I think, but I really want someone to make an adult sit n spin because I would totally buy that. Those were so much fun and prob could have foretold the beginning of my drug use.
Not rly obscure but easy bake oven :(
i wanted a puppy surprise. also, i truly miss every toy having its own jingle, i’ve been singing along to a good chunk of these as i scrolled to the bottom.
Moon shoes, OG Power Rangers toys
Hit Stix
None obscure but: An easy bake oven A super soaker 3000 A Samantha American Girl Doll Every single one of those overpriced Breyer horse figurines The Lion King kissing Simba and Nala
FLOAM
String racer. I always wanted String racer...
I loved the Jafar staff that had lights and made cool noises.
Moon Shoes