Most disappointing toys from your childhood

anncoates · 18-04-2014 3:35pm

Das Kitty wrote: »

My Tiny Tears never cried, she just pissed herself.

You were just holding her upside down.

monkeysnapper · 18-04-2014 3:40pm

I always wanted a Star Wars speeder , I never watched the films but a lad in school had one and it could fall apart and you could re build it.

Sorry I seen thread title properly now . O well

Maphisto · 18-04-2014 4:08pm

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I always wanted a Star Wars speeder , I never watched the films but a lad in school had one and it could fall apart and you could re build it.

Sorry I seen thread title properly now . O well

That's probably another thread but in a similar vein. I visited cousins one year as a kid and they had this warship, it was huge took up half the wall of their bedroom, it's guns fired real plastic shells(that hurt when they hit you), it made sounds it was fantstic - we are talking nearly 50 years ago - I've always wanted one but know if I saw it again, I would think it $hit.

cactuspaw · 18-04-2014 4:08pm

This yoke...

It smelt weird and ruined my clothes.쳍

dan1895 · 18-04-2014 4:41pm

I never expected the turtle blimp to actually fly but I was disappointed it didn't float at least.

B Rabbit · 18-04-2014 7:50pm

I could never get my yoyo to work

jimmy180sx · 18-04-2014 7:56pm

Mr.Frosty slushy maker...what a load of ****e

shamrock55 · 18-04-2014 8:19pm

I got the star wars AT-AT when i was ickle but it was nowhere near as good as i thought it would be, i thought it could walk for one thing:rolleyes: also i always wanted mousetrap but never got it, so this xmas i got it for one of the kids, my god what a dissapointment, we set it up once and half it didnt even work, itsback in the box now where it will stay, cos it takes about 4 yrs to set up anyway:D

Stavros Murphy · 18-04-2014 8:40pm

My old lad bought me an electric fencer as a gift. Not much craic tbh. When I got bored with it, he took it off and connected it up to a fence. I'm still suspicious that he had a cunning plan on that one..

MS.ing · 18-04-2014 8:46pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Boomerangs that didn't come back, basically a stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydHZQDWoDU

Johnnythefox4 · 18-04-2014 8:53pm

A toy Batman that came with a parachute. Absolute piece of crap. In the ad he really floated, but not for me he didn't. I spent ages out in the garden throwing him up into the air only for him to come down quicker then he went up. Threw him off the roof and everything to get him to float. The dog eventually ran off with him, and I couldn't be arsed chasing him.

MS.ing · 18-04-2014 8:55pm

Temptamperu wrote: »

I wanted mask figures and cars... lame ass fall apart pieces of shizzle.

they were awesommeness personified, take that back you clearly clumbsy dextrous as a fish on a bicycle woman on shoulder carrying caveman

Rosy Posy · 18-04-2014 8:58pm

As a kid I lusted after a Mr Frosty- ice crushing yoke for making slush puppies. Finally got one in my early 20's for my student gaf with dreams of making frozen cocktails and the bloody thing is manually operated with a crank handle that's ridiculously hard to turn. It was a Herculean task for an adult to produce a martini glass sized amount of ice, no way a kid could operate it. I'd say there were a lot of disappointed kids who got that one.

SparkySpitfire · 18-04-2014 8:59pm

Dónal wrote: »

I never got one but I always wanted a Mr. Frosty. Was it as disappointing as I now expect it was?

cloud493 wrote: »

Candyfloss machine. Never did get it working.

Those food making toys were the worst things EVER. I had Mr Frosty, candy floss maker AND an easy bake oven.

Mr Frosty as aforementioned was a little Bstard that was much more effort than he was worth. Same thing with all those toys. My oven just became a play thing for when I had a wendy house and was "cooking the dinner" despite the fact it actually worked. And don't get me started on the candy floss maker. 8 hours charging for 10 minutes of making a cotton ball sized portion of ****ty white candy floss. Disappointed.

Das Kitty wrote: »

My Tiny Tears never cried, she just pissed herself.

I had a Baby Born that you fed "formula" to and she was meant to wee into her nappy. My baby born was just constipated and smelled funny.

MS.ing · 18-04-2014 9:07pm

so many with so little imagination in this thread, sort of feel sorry for them with their 'childhoods'

the sort from that vauxhaul ad with kids acting like adults, called jeremy/bernard/dorris

Vincent Vega · 18-04-2014 10:21pm

Temptamperu wrote: »

I wanted mask figures and cars... lame ass fall apart pieces of shizzle.

I had the Snake Oil Tanker.
I thought it was pretty cool. You could do some proper damage with the weight of the rockets from that cannon.

BetterThanThou · 18-04-2014 10:29pm

Two things spring to mind. When I was younger I had a remote controlled robot. I had always imagined it would be my robot pal, it ended up being pretty much a slow remote control car with a robot casing. I also got an RC plane, one of those ones that you need to throw for them to fly. It never got much air time, and the remote barely effected the flight at all.

beauty101 · 18-04-2014 11:50pm

A rubix cube...still trying to figure it out nearly 20 yrs later!

Sky King · 18-04-2014 11:56pm

A rubix cube...still trying to figure it out nearly 20 yrs later!

You just twist the sizes of it to move the squares around.

You're welcome.

pickarooney wrote: »

Meccano is bollocks. Even when you do manage to get the screws to stay tight enough everything you build just looks like a crane.

Agreed... also... spending your free time painstakingly following some stupid fking engineering drawing??? That's what real life is for!!

_Whimsical_ · 19-04-2014 12:24am

jimmy180sx wrote: »

Mr.Frosty slushy maker...what a load of ****e

I remember this one and the painful disappointment.
The flavour mixes they gave in the box were horrible and useless. A spoon of sugar over a poor crushed cup of ice would have been nicer.
Don't think it ever saw Steven's day... or any other day after Christmas day in my house.

peewee_44 · 19-04-2014 12:32am

I always wanted a barbie, after seeing all it could do in the ads. I got one and um it just sat there

Zaph · 19-04-2014 12:39am

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Subbuteo. The ads made it look like you could capture the atmosphere of a FA Cup Final. The reality was a crumpled pitch, complex rules flicking plastic players with your finger, and punching your brother in the face after playing it for 5 minutes with him.

Definitely Subbuteo. I remember saving up for ages to buy one of the bigger sets that had a stand, floodlights, etc. It took feckin' ages to set the whole thing up for a game, and then the game itself was crap because the pitch kept bunching up. Got my mother to put an ad in the local paper about two months later and sold it to some other sucker. I lost a few quid on it but learned a valuable lesson about not believing everything you see in ads.

The Royal Scam · 19-04-2014 12:43am

My oul man was such a bleeding cheap skate. He once bought a snooker table for Christmas. , he thought he was a great fella saving a few bob. I sh↑t you not. , the snooker table was square..... im suprised it even had 6 pockets

padd b1975 · 19-04-2014 1:06am

Twister.

Same problem as Subbuteo, the mat kept crumpling up.

Most disappointing toys from your childhood

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