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Yep. And it was great. My wife and I married young - only in our early twenties. Because of reasons both us had grown up a little too fast and as young adults we mourned the fact that we'd never really gotten to enjoy our childhoods.

So we decided to hunt down all the crap we wanted as kids. We hit antique shops and thrift stores, eBay and garage sales. We found a ton of the things we'd always wanted.

Popples and Rainbow Bright dolls.
Kenner Star Wars action figures.
Video game consoles.
Transformers.

We bought the crap our inner children still wanted and gave ourselves permission to enjoy it - and then let it go.

Ultimately, we didn't keep much of it - though we've still got a box of a few favorite dolls, games and action figures somewhere. A few toys even got passed down to our own kids.

I don't regret a moment of it. Giving ourselves a belated childhood was fun - and it helped us move on and say goodbye to that part of our lives.

No because I’m sad and broken and all the things that gave me joy as a kid only remind me of our rampant consumerism in this capitalistic hellhole

Finding a functional Armatron has been difficult.

I didn't buy it, but my wife got it for me as a Christmas present one year. The Lego Star Wars imperial star destroyer. It was gigantic and amazing and took maybe 8 hours of building. It would have taken meweeks as a child.

No... but thanks to emulation I could play all the games I couldn't play as a kid because we couldn't afford consoles or VGA colour screens.

I still don't have a Lego star destroyer (though the one I really want is the Venator), so no

Yes, this apple puzzle. I wanted it sooo bad and I got it in my late 30s and it's awesome. And they make a bunch of other ones now. I've done the skull, shark and pirate ship too. But the apple man.. the apple.

https://3dcrystalpuzzle.com/products/apple-red

Yeah! I think I still have the exact same tastes as when I was a kid. I always wanted a dirt bike and now I have one, and I always wanted a fast computer with a good sound system, which I now keep relatively up to date. Maybe my kid self would be disappointed that I don't have a fast car though!

I got myself a Gameboy colour yesterday. I posted about how expensive they were a bit ago on reddit and I got spam downvoted by a bunch of Scalpers lmao. Another reason not to use Reddit. I got a blue teal one and grabbed some games today and it felt so amazing to feel and see in real life, a gameboy game.

I always wanted these little cube things with an LCD on the front that had a stick man on it. There were various different cubes each with a different character, they basically went through little actions on the screen, and you stick the cubes together and sometimes they'd travel between them. I bought them as an adult, it was amusing very briefly lol

I just want to say thank you to OP. I am going out and treating myself to all the stuff little me wanted

I loved Transformers when I was a kid. My parents never worried about putting food on the table but we didn't have a lot of disposable income, so I never had the Power Wheels or the Action Figures, or whatever when I was growing up.

One day in my late 30s I realized I could just buy Optimus Prime. So I did. He's hanging out on a shelf in my office.

legos

ETA: I know a horse is a living being and not a toy.

Fuck yeah! I always wanted a horse even though I don't ride and never have aside from a couple of times. Nothing professional. Did not grow up around farms or horses. City folk through and through.

Now my kid is an equestrian and I will never forget their face when we got their horse! It felt so good to be able to do that for them and they take such good care of their animal.

Not exactly a toy.

Wanted the black toyota pick up from back to the future when i first watched the movie as a kid.

Ended up buying a version of it without remembering how much i wanted that truck as a kid.

When i saw it the first time after buying my truck i thought holy shit adult me bought child me his dream vehicle without realizing it

(It was not the exact same but might as well have been)

I'm getting Hot Wheels and Transformers whenever I see a good one nowadays. But the issue is, they don't make them as good as they used to.

I got a Bank Shot unit (electronic pool game by Parker Bros) and played the shit out of it.

Later I'd be seduced into PC pool games that featured a robust physics engine guaranteed to improve your game!

I wasn't obsessive enough to play it to improve my game, though.

Good news - you still can!

Seriously, open a new tab on your browser NOW and jump on eBay or whatever and buy it. Even if you aren't surprised by how much fun it still is (which you probably will be), you'll be able to stop regretting NOT having it. No downside!

When the 3ds was relatively new, I saw one being sold at a garage sale for $20 bundled with Pokemon. Clearly just some old person who didn't know its value. I wanted it so bad, but my dad said no. I didn't have a game console until the Wii, and never had a handheld. I've always been a huge gamer, but I was basically forced onto PC lol.

Jep, I bought a Furby when I first moved out. After about 2 months it stopped working (didn't even drop it). So I cut it open, the cheapest piece of electronics I ever saw for that price tag.

Foreshadowing for what I would soon learn about the adult world in general.

I'm working on it, slowly.

I used to love all kids of weapons as a child. As in, from kindergarten on up. My mom was very anti-gun, didn't like the idea of me having knives and swords, etc., and my dad went along with it. I know that I put an AK-47 on my Christmas wish list at one point.

I got my rifle, shotgun, and archery merit badges my first year at summer camp, when I was 13.

Now I'm... A little bit older. And I'm still adding to my gun collection. I don't have as many knives as I want because my wife doesn't like knives, but she's fin with guns. I just competed in a match last weekend--I didn't do very well, but I had a lot of fun, and didn't do anything dangerous!--, and I've got another one coming up in 3 weeks.

I still don't have an AK-47 (or any other Kalashnikov variant). But that's mostly because it turns out that they're not really very good.

EDIT - I took longsword classes for a while, and loved them, but the closest HEMA to me now is about an hour and a half. Oh well.