Toys that didnt work ! Grrrrr. . . .

[TrueDave]

I'm SURE you guys have done this before.

I'll start with Mangloids.

[mego73]

The toy soda dispenser (the one I got was 7-Up, I really wanted Coke but they didn't have it in the Catalog)

In my naive mind, when they said "working dispenser" I figured on something more complex than hooking up a bottle of pop to a nozzle and placing it inside the thing. And the nozzle leaked a lot, and I thought it would be bigger.

It didn't blunt the nostalgia though, a couple years ago I got a MIB 7-Up dispenser from Ebay.

[Marvelmania]

Every electric race track set I ever got! Ok, so I only got 2 of them but neither worked.

[Jason73]

The Trailer for Big Trak. Mine never worked properly.

[johnnystorm]

Electric football...all my guys did was vibrate around in circles like they had St. Vitus Dance.

[Mikey]

Those free baking soda submarines that came as prizes in boxes of cereal.

[Nostalgiabuff]

Sea Monkeys. I never got any live ones in my sand.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I went through two non-working MOTU Attack Traks until I finally got one that worked. And even then it didn't work very well.The real bummer was that I got my first one for Christmas. Nothing sucks worse than a non-working Christmas toy...

...or a non-working birthday toy. My wife and I bought our son the Mattel RC Flying Superman from Superman Returns. That thing was the biggest waste of plastic ever made. It would NOT fly at all. It didn't even glide. My son was beyond disappointed. Luckily TRU took it back and he was able to buy a cool Lego Batman set with the money.

Chris

[mike binion]

Nerf boomerang, trying to get it to come back to catch it, they had three blades, mine was orange

[Toy Talk]

We purchased three sticker maker machines in a row for my daughter and none of them worked.

[TrueDave]

Nerf boomerang, trying to get it to come back to catch it, they had three blades, mine was orange

Oh I had one of those . I found it. It was green. I carried it everywhere. No it didnt work.

[Toy Talk]

I have never got any boomerang to work. Apparently I do not have the Australian touch.

[mike binion]

Oh I had one of those . I found it. It was green. I carried it everywhere. No it didnt work.

Lol, if you found it, it sounds like it didn't return to it's original owner either

[Duncan]

- Ice Bird (made snow cones). Also, the Snoopy's dog house snow cone maker. We were never able to shave or crush ice the way we expected.

- Anything with clay or modeling clay. I had a little plastic potter's wheel, but the clay was too hard.

- Agreed on the electric race tracks & vibrating football. I had a friend with a perfect vibrating football table, and his pieces worked great, too. Mine was garbage. Doubly frustrating.

[captact]

- Ideal Power-Mites,..man,..i remember my dad bought me three and none worked!
- Ideal Zeroids,..mines never ran by itself,..so i had to push it around,..you could hear the motor,..but nothing happened,...Bummer!
- Gilbert James Bond Road race set! Never worked,..cars would just stop, go to fast and/or de-rail,..beautiful set but a piece of junk! Still remember that Christmas morning,..with horror and frustration!