Your "Begging Mom for a toy" story here:

[TrueDave]

I am ashamed to admit I once begged my Mom at a close out sale for a boxed Mego Aquaman.

Aquaman. You know the guy who was always bumming rides in the Batmobile or Invisible jet on Superfriends. The only they always had a token water disaster for.

Sheesh even his Hasbro Silver age toy stinks.

[Werewolf]

A plush Gizmo from the movie Gremlins. Found it at a grocery store of all places. I just had to have it. I didn't want to leave the store without it. I begged and begged. It was probably a little embarassing. But I did get it and I still have the little guy.

[AAAAA]

maskatron

[Joe90]

Summer, 1967...

A Mountie Window Box at the Hudson's Bay Store here in Edmonton...



I begged my mother to get it for me as an early Birthday present. I was at her like a Cat on a Side of Beef for well over a week.

..



She finally caved in, but by then the Mountie was sold out...

I got a GI Joe Fighter Pilot as a Consolation Prize.

But it took me close to 25 years to finally get a loose Mountie...

[kennermike]

its 1978 and I saw The Tarzan and Giant ape set by Mattel in the Sears Catalog. went nuts based on the Filmation series .never got it!

[pmwasson]

Once my older brother was playing with my Micronauts Space Glider and accidentally dropped it, breaking the wings. I cried so much that my Mom took me to the toy store to get a replacement, but this was when Mego was shutting down and the only Micronauts toy we could find was the Battle Cruiser, so she bought me that. I was ecstatic at the time, but felt embarrassed about it later.

[dr_cyclops]

It was the Monster Scenes Vampirella kit. If ever a kid wanted a christmas gift, that mothers didn't want their kid to have, it was the vampirella monster scene kit. Even worse my older brother wanted one as well. But we a had a battle at hand. In 1971 Monster Scenes were joining Red Ryder and his trusty BB gun in the most mother blocked gifts.
In the end we both got a Vampi and a couple of others. I don't regret it. When my mom saw how happy we were, I think she realized that her concerns didn't compare to the joy.
Six months later, I lost my left eye. Red Ryder and Vampirella had nothing to do with it.

[starsky]

begging never worked. it made things worse...

[TrueDave]

Werewolf, was it the one that made the creepy sound when you shook it? i hung my Gizmo out the attic window on a broom set it on fire and chased teh dog with it like a fishing pole.
Joe 90 I just got a Mountie set from the Action man 40th line. I never realized how sharp it is but the boxed set you posted is really fine!

Dr Cyclops I'm sorry but as soon as you said you lost an eye ( and I don't believe you are joking) I had a flash in my head of the Bionic Man head. Sorry. Plastic on the brain

[dr_cyclops]

Dr Cyclops I'm sorry but as soon as you said you lost an eye ( and I don't believe you are joking) I had a flash in my head of the Bionic Man head. Sorry. Plastic on the brain

I'm not joking. I tell many different stories on how I lost the eye, but that story is true.
No reason to apologize. I used to tell my friends that I lost my eye in a Rebar accident. "Yup, went clear through my head. If you lift this patch of hair back here, you can see clear through. Just like the Six Million Dollar Man......by Kenner." Got the same figure when it came out.

On that note: Couple of years ago a regular client of mine tells me a story about finding a lost gift from his childhood. Years after his father passed away he was looking in his mom's attic and finds a wrapped x-mas gift that had long ago fallen behind a piece of furniture. The tag said it was for him from his father. He open it to find a Six Million Dollar Man MIB. He went on to say his kids won't leave him alone about opening it.

I explained that kids and vintage toys do not go well together. If he hoped to one day sell this treasure for the most he could get, it would be best for him to store it away in a more than safe place.
His responce was: "I'm not worried it's on a high shelf where they can't get it."

[deputypowell]

I was a quite kid that did not say much but when I saw the 1979 Kenner Alien...I begged for it. It did not work as I think he was too high priced for my low income mom. I have some loose ones but I still want a boxed example because I remember how well he looked sitting on the shelf.

[toys2cool]

I never begged, but i did one time for a Mike Powers bionic Joe at a toy show in 1990 for $25

[TrueDave]

I'm not joking. I tell many different stories on how I lost the eye, but that story is true.
No reason to apologize. I used to tell my friends that I lost my eye in a Rebar accident. "Yup, went clear through my head. If you lift this patch of hair back here, you can see clear through. Just like the Six Million Dollar Man......by Kenner." Got the same figure when it came out.

On that note: Couple of years ago a regular client of mine tells me a story about finding a lost gift from his childhood. Years after his father passed away he was looking in his mom's attic and finds a wrapped x-mas gift that had long ago fallen behind a piece of furniture. The tag said it was for him from his father. He open it to find a Six Million Dollar Man MIB. He went on to say his kids won't leave him alone about opening it.

I explained that kids and vintage toys do not go well together. If he hoped to one day sell this treasure for the most he could get, it would be best for him to store it away in a more than safe place.
His responce was: "I'm not worried it's on a high shelf where they can't get it."

I have yet another thing to confess. I know online chat forums arent suppossed to be group therapy but all the things I have to say here I cant say anywhere else and no one would understand.

When you just told the " By Kenner" story I was reminded of a girlfriend who had tatoos and I thought I was going to have to get one myself. Just to show I was Okay with it. I decided I wanted a brand on my butt that said " Copyright 1964 Hasbro" We broke up before it happened. I go to the Ymca anyway and that would make me nervous having my butt read in the shower.

The lost Christmas gift story made a tear swell up. Did he open it immediately? Good thing it wasnt socks.

[Bizarro Amy]

I'm sure I've begged for plenty of toys in my life, but there's one that stands out right now, because I just watched a rerun of the "Princess Unicorn" episode of the Office and because of this, I knew exactly how it was going to end(regarding the doll Toby bought from Daryl).
When I was little, there was this doll called "Baby Skates." I don't know why, but I desperately wanted one. And at some point, she was ridiculously hard to find. One day, we walked into the toy section, and they had her, but only the African American version. I don't know if they still do that-recast the same doll in brown plastic for black children. Anyway, I begged my mom to get me one, and she refused, because it just wasn't something parents did, buying a doll of another race for their child. I didn't really get that. All I knew was that here was the doll I wanted and I didn't care about anything else. I lost that battle, but I'm pretty sure that for Christmas or a birthday, I got one(the Caucasion version).

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I'm sure I begged for plenty of toys, but the one that mainly comes to mind is the Mego KISS Ace Frehley figure. I had received Gene for Xmas 1978, and it was my pride and joy. For whatever reason they never got me the other figures for the following Xmas (probably had too much WGSH and Star Wars toys on my list to contend with!) During 1980, I managed to find Paul and Peter at closeout prices. I still get lightheaded thinking about the giant metal container at American Sales filled with Peter and Paul dolls for like $2 each.....
Anyhow, after that I became determined to have the Ace doll, especially as by that point he'd replaced Gene as my favorite KISS member. I got a bit obsessed with it, begging my mom to find me one at any given opportunity. And to her credit, she tried like mad to find me one, even driving to toy stores over an hour away, and calling around to every TRU and store in the area to find one for me. But by that point the figures had already long since been discontinued and being that I was so young and didn't understand those sorts of things, I persisted to ask for it every year at Xmas, birthday, etc.
Finally when I was about 12 and had pretty much given up on ever getting one, I made friends with a new kid at school who had the entire set of KISS figures. He was kinda "over it" by that point and didn't really care about them, but he was a SW fan. I had just gotten the Speeder Bike and he offered to trade me his Ace for my brand new speeder bike toy. Needless to say it took about 2 seconds for me to agree. And I still have that Ace figure to this day.

Sorry it was a long story but man, my poor mom got driven crazy by me begging for that figure for YEARS, and she tried so hard, I feel bad now thinking about it.