re: What are some expensive toys you wanted but never got as a kid.

Saw one of them on the ferry coming from galveston last time we went.

It was completely restored.

I don’t remember ones I did not get, but I remember my favorites that I did get.

Best gifts were a dirt bike, go-kart, and paintball gun. All between grades 5th - 8th.

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What are some expensive toys you wanted but never got as a kid.

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a realistic sex robot, it was just invented too late for my time

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As a kid I really wanted a 3DO console. I recall playing on the 3DO arcade and my mind was blown by the graphics. I had an 8 bit NES and the 3DO was 24 bit. I remember it was around $600 so about twice what we paid in rent at the time. I was scared of bringing it up to mom and dad because I would've gotten a sound scolding. Of course, they eventually went out of business.

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I remember this very well. But do you remember the Neo Geo just a couple years earlier?
It came out at $600 and the cartridge games were like $250 each. But as the first home console that was on par with arcade games, it was attractive to rich kids and arcade enthusiasts. But none of my friends in village St George had one of these consoles.

Both the 3DO and Neo Geo were doomed by 1994 when Sony dropped the PSX for $299. It was $100 more than Genesis and SNES but 3D graphics and titles like Toshinden and Ridge Racer made it a must-have by hs and college kids with a job.
By the time Resident Evil and FFVII came out, Sony had essentially changed the home console industry forever and never looked back.

I only ever saw a neo geo in my cousins video game magazines. We were poor and luckily we got video games... a generation or two behind. I remember getting crappy used NES games from the store that shut down on Jones creek. My mom bought a bunch for $1 and milked those for a few years. I did get to play the good stuff because my cousins weren't poor and a lot of my life we lived with my grandparents who lived in a nice area so the kids around there had good stuff to play with.

I wanted that dirt bike that had 3-wheeler tires. Think it was called a Fat Cat. My dad was a Consumer Reports' nerd and that bike had like a one-star or whatever the equivalent was back then mid-80's. No fat cat for me.

Eta: Manco Fat Cat

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love

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Everything makes sense now

The aircraft carrier is the first thing that comes to mind

An NES or SNES when they came out.

I had a heads up though and had saved up for the PS1 the day they were released in North America and bought it myself. I played the hell out of the demo game disc that came with it. Also picked up a NEO GEO AES.

But I wanted shite I couldn't have, like a gas powered 3 wheeler/dirt bike, my own big screen TV or some shite like that.