Do you remember your best/worst toy meltdown?

[Karen-bionic-fan]

What a great story and great post loved hearing that great pics

[kerowack]

I was a straight A student and since my parents were divorced, my dad always had me on the weekends and it was ALWAYS an automatic trip to TRU (after Howard Johnsons or a diner) and I was always allowed one bad guy and one good guy. Same for my brother....this was awesome because we ALWAYS had new figures coming into our stories/wars.....

But I did have a meltdown one time while clothes shopping with my mom. She insisted on checking the zipper of my pants, I got embarrassed (I was in 1st or 2nd grade) and screamed CHILD ABUSE! My mom turned beet red and didn't say a word until we got home.

Then I learned the real meaning of child abuse and I still don't look at wooden spoons without a shiver running down my spine.....


But yeah, happy memories, thanks for making the thread!

[bp1701a]

I never really threw a fit, my parents always bought me a toy when they could, and I have about 90% of them today, from VEXTREC video games system, to the 33/34 mego start trek enterprise bridge, to mego,LJN ,SWAT,APES, etc.you name it, i probably have it,, except 12" GIJOES,,,
I do not think I ever had a "bad" toy,, they were all AWSOME,, even by todays standards.

[pepi]

Tantrum?! Never...there was definitely that respect your elders thing going on in my house...healthy "fear" I guess -

Tantrum? ipso facto belt whipping or slap in the butt.

THAT SAID, my brother and I were a pretty spoiled duo during the Christmas season, spoiled but definitely NOT brats! Our family hosted the Christmas party so the rule of course was to gift the kids as you walked into the house.

Mountains! I mean mountains of gifts!

One Christmas season we didn't host the party and there were hardly any gifts to be seen under the tree. In fact the mother-load of gifts - from the parents, were also no where to be seen! We were used to seeing them under the tree for AT LEAST two "agonizing" weeks (of waiting) before the actual day.

We looked EVERYWHERE, and found nothing - my brother and I FREAKED out! We started sobbing...I mean heavy body moving up and down kind of sobbing. Until my mom along with our dad took us to the boiler room to show us a treasure trove of gifts they had hidden behind the heating boiler (I swear we looked there). It was all pretty embarrassing, I still cringe to think of it.

BONUS THOUGH! Scored ALL OF THE IDEAL SHOGUN WARRIORS that Christmas woohoo! - tinged with shame of course

PS- I think there are a few pics of me and my friends blowing these shogun warriors up with M-80s during one 4th of July. OH! the fun. I'm sure there's something symbolic in this.

[kingdom warrior]

I never had Tantrums I knew better. My father was a black belt in ASSWOOP and My Mom was a 7 degree "chancleta" master

I behaved and was rewarded rather nicely especially during Christmas.

That Evel Kneival stunt cycle was one of my many christmas presents

[toys2cool]

naw I was always the good boy, my little brother on the other hand he has to have been the worse kid in the world ,my god was he bad ...he always got what he wanted in the end

for example, we walk in a Zayres in 86, I was 6 he was like 3 or 4....my mom says to get one toy that wasn't to expensive, he gets like 7 gi joes and I get 1!! I pick the Sci-fi which was the only one in the store..as we're driving home, he see's how happy i am with mine and he throws a fit cause he wants it..My mom says please just give it to him, I say no! he's mine...his dad then turns on me and says, give it to him!! I'll buy you one now,i say you can't it was the last one left..he says don't worry,I'll buy you 2.... so i had no choice but to give it to him...he drops them off and takes me back, when I get there every single Joe had sold out!!!! I start to almost cry, he looks at the toys and picks the cheapest **** he could find, like one of those pharmacy cheap guns little police set...and he tells me, you'll take this and be happy and if you complain when you get home, you'll never get anything again

I get home and my mom says what happened? and he says, no he wanted this instead, and to make things worse, my brother had broken my Sci-fi
I cried in the bathroom for hours trying to fix the Joe

[Eric]

I remember seeing the Colorforms Outer Space Men for sale and insisting that I have them. I was told, "No, you're not getting them, and that's that!" I started kicking and screaming, whining and crying ... but to no avail.

And my wife hardly spoke to me for a couple of days.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

naw I was always the good boy, my little brother on the other hand he has to have been the worse kid in the world ,my god was he bad ...he always got what he wanted in the end

for example, we walk in a Zayres in 86, I was 6 he was like 3 or 4....my mom says to get one toy that wasn't to expensive, he gets like 7 gi joes and I get 1!! I pick the Sci-fi which was the only one in the store..as we're driving home, he see's how happy i am with mine and he throws a fit cause he wants it..My mom says please just give it to him, I say no! he's mine...his dad then turns on me and says, give it to him!! I'll buy you one now,i say you can't it was the last one left..he says don't worry,I'll buy you 2.... so i had no choice but to give it to him...he drops them off and takes me back, when I get there every single Joe had sold out!!!! I start to almost cry, he looks at the toys and picks the cheapest **** he could find, like one of those pharmacy cheap guns little police set...and he tells me, you'll take this and be happy and if you complain when you get home, you'll never get anything again

I get home and my mom says what happened? and he says, no he wanted this instead, and to make things worse, my brother had broken my Sci-fi
I cried in the bathroom for hours trying to fix the Joe

It must have been pretty hard growing up in that kind of environment Damien.

[chalwa]

I'm so ashamed. My older brother had come to spend the night for Christmas. I got up that morning to find several megos and my coveted Batcave!
I actually threw a tantrum because it was flat and not put together! Slid it out and just freaked! I guess I thought it was going to pop into shape or something.
This is the only time I remember throwing a tantrum so I must have not gotten any sleep or some such.
I did get a lot of play out of that bad boy.

[alex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa2Kv...eature=related

and Im certainly investing in this stuff, if I ever have kids, bloody amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Gje...watch_response

[RG]

the one and only time ... Original He-Man

my home town of Silverton Oregon never had much of a selection of toys, the local sprouses had figures time to time but were like Ram Man, Many Faces etc. cool but not He-Man

Well, I looked for He-Man for well over a year ... I got Prince Adam and Battle Armor He-Man but never the Original He-Man ... of course Original was where it was at, since that's the one that was on teh cartoon! Well, one day about a week before Christmas 1984 I had just turned 8 years old. There before me was the one and only Original He-Man ... I was in heaven ... at last I found the figure that I wanted ... only to have my parents tell me NO I couldn't have it ... now what was so odd for my mind is that they would have bought it for me it was like a unwritten agreement, sincetime and time again they took me to stores to look for this figure ... at last I found it and they said NO ... I had never cried for a toy before in my life, I was happy with what I got .... even when I couldn't get the super cool cobra commander .... that I never saw on the pegs again, I didn't cry ... but I wanted that darn original he man, and I just let loose with the tears I cried off and on for pretty much the rest of the week until Christmas ... turned out the reason they said NO was due to the fact they had found him for me and he was going to be a gift from Santa ... of course I was happy I got it when I did ... but still the way they said no kind of messed with me ... and to this day I make them feel bad about how they went about the whole thing, and how bad I wanted the figure and how they knew I looked and looked with them right by my side looking for him also ... only to at last find him and have them turn their backs on me.

It got to the point where it was more of a childhood quest to get that figure ... and as goofy as it sounds ... it left me with trust issues with my parents until I found out the full truth about a year later and how they were really santa.

it was over a year looking for that one figure ... so that's like a life time for a kid lol lol I mean I like drew pictures of this figure and cut them out and played with paper cut outs of him with my other he-man figures.

[Mego Superboy Prime]

A Hulk toy childhood tantrum moment:

Age: 6 years
Date: 1979
Store: Osco Drugs
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts.

The Osco Drugs in my town was awesome! It always had great superhero toys and at this time in my life, for some reason, I wanted the Hulk roller skates. I loved how ugly they were and how horrible the commercial was for them. I was so obsessed to get them, at any cost!! And when I'm obsessed, I can't think of anything else!!! I would rather die than live without it (stupid I know, but hey, I'm stupid)!!! First time I saw those roller skates in person I was alone in the toy isle (it's the 70's and nobody watches their kids). I actually took the skates out of the box and took the box to show my mother (who was grocery shopping at Star Market next door) what I wanted. As I was walking outside I got stopped by a man who was an undercover security cop. I told the guy that I was just showing my mother the box so she would come back and buy it for me. The guy actually let me go to find my mother with the empty box. But I never went back to Osco's that day and kept the box (I have no idea why my mom let me get away with it). So for the next few weeks I pretended that I had those skates (because I had the box) and I put my other Hulk toys in it just to make it "official" (in my head anyway).

Eventually, I went back with my mother to the Osco and when we went together in the toy isle. I showed her the skates I wanted and for some reason she wouldn't get them for me. Even to this day, I still don't know why she wouldn't get them for me. I started to cry and beg and cry and beg and cry and beg, but she continually said no. She said I had to pick something else and I picked the Hulk Clay Modeling Set from Coloforms, but I wasn't happy about it. I was complaining the whole time while my mother continued to shop. Finally in the checkout line, my mom blew a gasket!! She went nuts on me and said I couldn't get anything!! I started saying, "No mom please!! I want the Hulk Modeling Set, I'm sorry!! Please mom, please!!!" She threw the toy and her other items in a basket near the cashier and stormed out of there holding my hand and pulling me out of the store (can you imagine that scene to the people around us? We had to look like friggin' crazed freaks). When we finally got home I went to my room and packed up my toys and clothes and told my mom I was running away (I'm s-i-x y-e-a-r-s o-l-d). She didn't say a word, I was shocked that she didn't care. So then I locked myself in my room for a few hours. Later she knocked on the door and told me the Hulk television show was on (with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno) and I came out and watched it with my mother and brother. Things went back to normal and I never got those Hulk roller skates until 20 years later and they never worked as good as they did on that blasted commercial...

Hulk roller skates



Hulk modeling clay set

[MIB41]

Sadly I did some heavy moping over, of all things, Duke Dog. It was a new low for me too. When I was a little kid, I always like to "feel out" my folks for what I was getting for Christmas. So I would ask what I probably thought were "cleverly" disguised questions to see if the toy sounded familiar to them. If it was, that typically meant they had gone out and purchased it. So this one year I kept asking them if they would get that for me and they seem to always dust me off like they were not thinking about it. Well two days before Christmas I was "forced" to take drastic measures...I pulled out some heavy moping. I would walk around my mother and sigh heavily. I often wonder if God will play that tape for me when I stand before him in judgment. Anyway she got the message and conceded, "Okay what is this thing and where do you get it?" I still have it to this day... I know. Pathetic form of life I was. Some may argue I still am.

[beartex2000]

A variation of this thread is my dreadful story: In the early 70's I wanted the Action Jackson jeep more than any other toy. My parents told me it was too expensive and I couldn't have it. One day I was hanging out in Motts with my friend Billy and we saw the "prized" jeep in the toy section. Some how we got the bright idea to change the price sticker to $1.00. (This was before bar codes). I was able to buy the jeep and get it out of the store, (looking back-the cashier was some high school girl and could probably care less!). Anyway, as soon as I got home my mom figured out what happened because their was no way I had enough of my own money to buy the jeep. After being yelled at by both my parents my dad took me back to Motts and explain to the store manager my sad crime. He yelled at me..then he yelled at the cashier!!! I also was BANNED from shopping at Motts for 2 whole months. When i got home i was yelled at some more..and grounded from hanging out with my buddy Billy!!! To this day I still do not have the AJ jeep...........

[MIB41]

WOW! That store manager was rough on you beartex2000. I would think he would have appreciated the gesture since he got his product back and you fessed up. Jeez! I think you've paid your dues there buddy! May I pronounce you 'forgiven' by all at the Mego community. If I had a spare one to give, I think you would be entitled to it.