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I always kinda wanted an EasyBakeOven (or QueasyBakeOven to get around the annoying gender stereotypes)
Also had the Baskin' Robbins Ice Cream maker but my stupid mother wouldnt let me use it for some reason. Like she made it seem like she needed to be involved for me to use it and she wouldnt make herself available for that -> defacto unusable by fiat
#3: Metal Voltron
This guy was heavy enough to knock out your little sister. In an era of plastic Gobots and G.I Joes the die cast metal Voltron was the king of the toybox. I had the inferior plastic Voltron lions but knew a kid with the metal version and there was no comparison. Well I guess there was a comparison the metal one was much cooler.
#2: Omnibot 2000
I got a few toy robots over the years but the most control they would usually have is a single wired push button to make them roll or maybe move an arm. The Omnibot 2000 ads made it look like a freakin’ R2D2. I was convinced he would be my ultimate playmate and companion and probably help me with my homework. I never got to see one in person.
#1 U.S.S. Flagg
The G.I. Joe aircraft carrier was a legend. They didn’t really bother putting ads for this thing in the Sears catalog, to this day I have no idea how much the Flagg cost and at the time was never sure if it really existed. You would hear about it through the grapejuice vine though. Half believed tales from friends of friends claiming to have seen one at a cousins house in Vermont. A beat up used Skystriker plane from goodwill that would land on this thing was the closest I ever got and that was the biggest toy in my box, dwarfing the Kenner X-Wing fighter. Truly a grail of the day.
Reminds me of Robo-Sapien
https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/11hld6f/how_much_did_the_uss_flagg_retail_for_when_it/
According to this and this, it came out in 1985.
Accounting for inflation, that'd be $342.42 in 2026 dollars.
O god, those 😋
That aircraft carrier is absolutely unhinged, what a crazy-ass fucking "toy"