What kids toy do you secretly still want?

Can be current or past vintage.

This one appeals to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pyzOkTiAU

I also still want the "Guns of Navarone" playset I never got as a kid.

My kids are getting Lego Mindstorm for xmas and they don't even want them. Missus GPS is getting a TIG welder and maybe a mill/drill if she is good.

Millennium Falcon... I made one out of cereal boxes as a kid but it just wasn't the same.

Legos. All of them.

Tell me that isn't cooler than the other side of the pillow.

I seriously wanted to get one of these:

All the "whoosing" noises might be disturbing to other people though.

It's got Mecury (Atlas and Redstone), Gemini and Apollo!

Any of the big Lego Technics kits, but mostly I want this back. Technically I suppose I still have 90% of it mixed in with my collection, but still...

Or...

DaveEstey wrote: Legos. All of them.

This.

Woody wrote:

my younger brother had this car - we spent a lot of time messing with it.

going to get me started here?

Always wanted a chemistry set.

I was (still am, really) a model rocketeer. I always wanted an Estes Cineroc. It was a flying movie camera, carried a few feet of 8mm film.

Too expensive for me in 1972, and surviving examples are too expensive for me in 2012. I don't care that there's cheaper (and digital) ways to take onboard video these days, I'm just pissed that I never had a Cineroc. Whoever "Gary" is, he had one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_90XW6OuMY

aircooled wrote: I seriously wanted to get one of these: All the "whoosing" noises might be disturbing to other people though. It's got Mecury (Atlas and Redstone), Gemini and Apollo!

Now that's something an old curmudgeon would enjoy.

There were these COX .049 powered drag race cars that ran along a wire, you had to pound a nail in the asphalt at each end then the car had these hooks under it so it would follow the wire.

friedgreencorrado wrote: I was a model rocketeer. I always wanted an Estes Cineroc. It was a flying movie camera, carried a few feet of 8mm film.

I spent hours going through the Estes Catalog and building/shooting rockets.

Last Saturday we stopped at Hobby Lobby and I walked my 9-year and 21-year old through the basics of Estes Model Rockets. I forgot about the camera.

Sadly I saw you cannot buy "fuse" anymore and are required to use the electronic ignition only. I spent a lot of time messing with fuses.

Secretly? Not that I can think of... I'll happily admit to wanting all kinds of kids' toys; some I had when I was a kid, others that I just wanted...

Of course, it mostly turns out I don't seem to have time to play with things these days. Even my "grownup" toys don't get the exercise they ought to...

I never play with my Tamiya AA-powered Unimog, or maybe I'd let myself go find one of these from my youth:

Datsun310Guy wrote: Sadly I saw you cannot buy "fuse" anymore and are required to use the electronic ignition only. I spent a lot of time messing with fuses.

Wow... I've only ever done rockets with the electric igniters, and that was ~30 years ago when I started...

growing up in the late 1960's/early 1970's - we wanted these things for our bicycles

steering wheel

Sissy Bar - you'all know what these are

Wheelie bar

Datsun310Guy wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: I was a model rocketeer. I always wanted an Estes Cineroc. It was a flying movie camera, carried a few feet of 8mm film.

I spent hours going through the Estes Catalog and building/shooting rockets. Last Saturday we stopped at Hobby Lobby and I walked my 9-year and 21-year old through the basics of Estes Model Rockets. I forgot about the camera. Sadly I saw you cannot buy "fuse" anymore and are required to use the electronic ignition only. I spent a lot of time messing with fuses.

You can make fuses with gunpowder, candlewax, and some string.

Fire was one of my favorite toys when I was a kid.

ransom wrote:

Datsun310Guy wrote: Sadly I saw you cannot buy "fuse" anymore and are required to use the electronic ignition only. I spent a lot of time messing with fuses.

Wow... I've only ever done rockets with the electric igniters, and that was ~30 years ago when I started...

I used to buy a package of red colored fuse (5' long? 6'? 10'? 12'?) and cut it into shorter 4" pieces and light them with a match. I don't even see "fuse"sold on the web either. Odd.

Tyco Typhoon Hovercraft:

e_pie wrote: Fire was one of my favorite toys when I was a kid.

ha ha ha - I remember going on bicycle outings into the local woods and guys would bring out a jar - "hey, I brought some lighter fluid - did you bring a lighter?"

I miss 1970. And 1968, 1973, 1976-1980.

Matt B wrote:

Had these. Loved them.