What toys did your parents, say "NO WAy"

AskMyChocolate

Okay,

I'm an elderly man. (Show some respect you young whippersnappers.)


They didn't want to spend their free time in A&E.

So, Bows+Arrows were out. Likewise Spud guns.

Chemistry sets seemed educational, until you saw what iron filings could do to a baby's skin.

And no parent wants to spend Christmas day, hunting for batteries for a potter's wheel while also trying to save the youngest child from burns that could only have come from an Air-Strike on Gaza.

So, younger AHers, what's off-limits in this day and age?

Edit: Scaelectrix will always be cool. (stop trying to get a buzz by putting your tongue on the connection.:pac:)

Choco

Creamy Goodness

Super soakers and nerf guns spring to mine.

Chuck Stone

Sex toys

Joey the lips

The only toys i was not allowed was the ones my parents could not afford.

As for a potters wheel. I came from the northside of dublin. Not a hope would i use this and a chemistry set was used to make heroin by the big boys.

Edit. Super soakers were not out when i was young but we did use to soak babys nappies in water and fire them from the top of the flats.

stovelid

Wanted a crossbow but they said no.

phasers

I got everything I asked for. I liked art sets and stuff though, never asked for weapons.

Creamy Goodness

phasers wrote: »

I got everything I asked for. I liked art sets and stuff though, never asked for weapons.

Yeh but that's cause you're a girl. You's don't inflict physical pain like us boys, only emotional :pac:

Pherekydes

My parents were not well off. I just got used to not asking for specific toys. To this day I don't ask for stuff for Christmas or birthdays.

Mrs Garth Brooks

I wasn't allowed boys toys. One christmas i wanted a fire engine lego set. What did i get? A girly box of lego to build my own home, (cause obviously girls should grow up to be in the home).

Another christmas i wanted a blue/black bike. I got the most girliest pink bike. I hate pink.

I had alot of sad christmases.

o1s1n

The year I asked for a Sega Mega CD was the year I found out the truth about Santa

greenybaby

I'd ask for a barbie and end up with a cindy :mad:

mackg

Pherekydes wrote: »

My parents were not well off. I just got used to not asking for specific toys. To this day I don't ask for stuff for Christmas or birthdays.

Once I had a little bit of cop on I basically asked for a few things each a bit cheaper than the last one, they went as high up the list as they could afford. Never was the kind of kid that wanted something just cause everyone else had it though and in fariness I got an insane amount of mileage out of lego.

Mrs Garth Brooks

greenybaby wrote: »

I'd ask for a barbie and end up with a cindy :mad:

What's the difference?

Seachmall

After an incident with a scalpel and my face I was no longer allowed science sets.

Other than that, not much. Made a sweet Bow and Arrow once but my dad insisted on putting corks on the end.

DoesNotCompute

big-ass Optimus Prime truck. Too expensive.

They gave me Smokescreen instead.

stovelid

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

What's the difference?

I never put the latter in simulated sex positions with Ken (or at a push, Action Man) to shock my sister.

Pherekydes

mackg wrote: »

Once I had a little bit of cop on...

Ah well, you see I never had any cop on...

RachaelVO

mackg wrote: »

Once I had a little bit of cop on I basically asked for a few things each a bit cheaper than the last one, they went as high up the list as they could afford. Never was the kind of kid that wanted something just cause everyone else had it though and in fariness I got an insane amount of mileage out of lego.

It's MAD the mileage you can get out of building blocks! My son not quiet on lego yet, but he loves all the duplo blocks! He's only 2 and he will play with them for hours!

BengaLover

Dont think anything is off limits to todays 'yoof', but in my day we werent allowed guns, tv or anything that we could have fun with..:(

emeraldstar

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

What's the difference?

HardLuckWoman? :eek:

Cindys just could not compete. Barbie's cheaper, crappier cousin, if you will

BOHtox

"but she said there was no way!"

Biggins

Early computer stuff, Chopper bike and Lego sets (got basic stuff, not special stuff).

Tim the Enchanter

Atari Jaguar, way too expensive at the time.

WindSock

Mr. Frosty.

Or Fr. Frost should I say.

Kevin Duffy

stovelid wrote: »

I never put the latter in simulated sex positions with Ken (or at a push, Action Man) to shock my sister.

Little girl goes to see Santy;

Santy: "What would you like from me at Christmas?"

Little girl: "A Barbie and Action Man set"

Santy: "But little girl, Barbie comes with Ken"

Little Girl: "No Santy, she comes with Action Man....she fakes it with Ken!"

OT, I got pretty much everything I wanted and a bike every couple of years. Sweet. Then I was banned off the bikes and given no more, for my third concussion in three years, when an experiment with homemade chopper forks went badly wrong. Hitting the ramp was probably a step too far in hindsight

wild_cat

WindSock wrote: »

Mr. Frosty.

My friends and I wanted him so badly but sadly my mother said "its a gimmick" and got me a soap making set. None of my friends were allowed it either what was so bad about an ice crusher?



I wanted to buy a trampoline with my own money when I was 17. I was barred as they thought and still think that they are complete death traps. This from a family that would let you walk through fields full of bulls.

carbsy

Black Widow catapult! Got a friend to buy me one in the end but it was taking off me lol

JohnMarston

Back in the mid-90s i wanted a talkboy . Never got one

NoDice

My parents would only say no if the toy was too expensive, but I had a bit of cop on so would rarely ask for anything like that.

I was big into art and craft kits when I was younger, as another poster said, so it wasn't too hard to keep me happy!

The only thing I asked for every Christmas for about 5 years running was a Mr Frosty. You know, that snowman you crush ice in and add a flavouring to make a drink? "Mr Frosty he's such fun - he makes drinks for everyone!" (Still remember the ad..) My parents always forgot or just ignored my requests - not too sure why I didn't get it when I was a kid! But to my absolute delight, I got one for my 21st birthday!! :D:D

kfallon

Anyone make their own peg gun???

phasers

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Yeh but that's cause you're a girl. You's don't inflict physical pain like us boys, only emotional :pac:

Oi! I had lego and used to scatter it around my brothers' beds at night. :cool:

playstation or game boys... absolutely not...
I got a bit hooked on street fighter back when we rented (when you could rent them!) some kind of PS, and that was that :pac:

mackg

wild_cat wrote: »

My friends and I wanted him so badly but sadly my mother said "its a gimmick" and got me a soap making set. None of my friends were allowed it either what was so bad about an ice crusher?



I wanted to buy a trampoline with my own money when I was 17. I was barred as they thought and still think that they are complete death traps. This from a family that would let you walk through fields full of bulls.

We had trampolines in our school gym that were never used, one day they took them out for one class in kind of a might as well give them a go spirit...two students were promptly sent to casualty. These were leaving certs btw.

WindSock

WindSock wrote: »

Mr. Frosty.

Or Fr. Frost should I say.

oh yes!!! this too!!

minidazzler

kfallon wrote: »

Anyone make their own peg gun???

Yeah had a whole arsenal of them, I was the king. Long, short, different elastics. I made some sweet peg guns, I always thought I would grow up to be a weapon designer I was so good. Alas, now I just shank people.

ScumLord

For the longest time I wanted a gun and a motorbike, so every Christmas I'd get a toy gun and or a toy bike. No! I'd scream, I want a real gun and a real bike I have crime to fight. The only way they could stop me on about the bike and gun was to tell me santa didn't exist.

this is arse

a rampant rabbit

adocholiday

Every year new super soaker came out OH MY GOD SUPER SOAKER 6000 WITH 20 NOZZELS AHHH

Then the mother would say no way you are gettin that you'll put someone's eye out. Every year the same argument and I've never owned one!

Monkey61

Mr. Frosty... I am sensing a pattern emerging here. Was it clearly the most advertised toy in Ireland for a certain age group? I always thought it terribly unfair that I couldn't have one, but thinking about it now I didn't actually know a single person that did have it.

Hungry hungry hippos as well. (Or is it called Hungry Hippos?...google has not cleared this up for me)

emeraldstar

^^^ Me too. I requested Hungry Hippos from Santa several years in succession but they never made an appearance. I still don't understand why.

pickarooney

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

I wasn't allowed boys toys. One christmas i wanted a fire engine lego set. What did i get? A girly box of lego to build my own home, (cause obviously girls should grow up to be in the home).

Anyone who had any understanding of basic construction would just have built a fire engine out of the house bricks, surely? The wheels might have been square but it would be a roomy motehr****er.

Orando Broom

Air Rifle and a catapult. slapped down with both requests.

What annoyed me about the air rifle is that the Oul Fella really wanted to buy it. Mam vetoed the purchase. I'd actually have ceded ownership to him in return for supervised usage, no bother. When I move to the US of A I fully intend to join a gun club for target shooting. Did it in college, loved it.

Orando Broom

pickarooney wrote: »

Anyone who had any understanding of basic construction would just have built a fire engine out of the house bricks, surely? The wheels might have been square but it would be a roomy motehr****er.

It would be pink, with drapes and a Laura Ashley floral dashboard.

emeraldstar

Orando Broom wrote: »

Air Rifle and a catapult. slapped down with both requests.

When my dad was ten, some kid shot a stone from a catapult, accidentally hit my dad and permanently blinded his right eye.

Needless to say we were NEVER allowed these!

pickarooney

Orando Broom wrote: »

It would be pink, with drapes and a Laura Ashley floral dashboard.

A most pleasant way to fight fires, I should think. It would do wonders for Dennis Leary's disposition.

Noodleworm

I had a mr. frosty,
It was pretty bad, the ice crusher as plastic and hand turned, a kid would never get it to break ice. I used to scrape ice out of the freezer to make slushies. apart from that it just little ice-lolly moulds.

Ash.J.Williams

A bmx

Noodleworm

Noodleworm wrote: »

I had a mr. frosty,
It was pretty bad, the ice crusher as plastic and hand turned, a kid would never get it to break ice. I used to scrape ice out of the freezer to make slushies. apart from that it just little ice-lolly moulds.

you've just made us all feel better now :D

Orando Broom

emeraldstar wrote: »

When my dad was ten, some kid shot a stone from a catapult, accidentally hit my dad and permanently blinded his right eye.

Needless to say we were NEVER allowed these!

Even as a kid I understood why I couldn't have a catapult. I accepted the decision. I actually wanted the catapult for chumming lake water for fishing . I could get a great spread with a catapult.

The rifle did annoy me. I would happily have used it only under my father's supervision and at no other time.

Funkfield

I used to tell everyone that asked that I wanted an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

But everyone just told me I'd shoot my eye out.

citizen_p

I got everything I asked for...if they could afford it and wanted to spend the money....

Had one aunt who used to take my slingshots off me though.

I'd spend 2 pound on my slingshot and she'd take it off me a month later, then I'd buy another one..