Disappointing...

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What did you always want as a child that was a major disappointment when you finally got it?
 

I wanted a Triang scooter, red and yellow like all the other kids, I got my scooter but it was a different make and colour, ungrateful little minx that I was, I can remember being very disappointed ! :confused:
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An AM/FM radio, which I thought would open up new worlds to me, and make me a cool and hip person. It didn't, and there wasn't a lot on the fm band in my area that I wanted to listen to...mostly foreign language programming, talk radio, and classical music dispensed among seas of static...

...also, "Sea Monkeys!" These tiny crustaceans were portrayed in advertising as being endlessly entertaining, and I'd be their king! The first group never hatched, and the second replacement group were barely visible, with the brine shrimp living about a day. A "bowl full of happiness," hah! :(

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I didn't have much as a child, and I always wanted a doll whose hair grew at the press of a button ...

I was delighted when a neighbour gave me her old tressy doll as she'd got lots of other dolls, but I can remember being very disapointed that the reason she gave it away was because the hair growing mechanism was broken. Still, I had great fun with that doll, I made ,lots of clothes for it, and even took it into history class dressed in clothing of the victorian era, as a project...
 
Me three, on the Sea Monkeys !
Back in the early 1950’s, almost every comic book had a picture of a tiny squirrel monkey for sale, and only $19. I wanted one of those squirrel monkeys more than anything, but my mom said no monkeys.
Then, I discovered the sea monkeys, and thought those were the answer to my monkey prayers. Obviously, they were NOT teeny tiny monkeys......... and mine did not live very long either...... big disappointment !
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Me three, on the Sea Monkeys !
Back in the early 1950’s, almost every comic book had a picture of a tiny squirrel monkey for sale, and only $19. I wanted one of those squirrel monkeys more than anything, but my mom said no monkeys.
Then, I discovered the sea monkeys, and thought those were the answer to my monkey prayers. Obviously, they were NOT teeny tiny monkeys......... and mine did not live very long either...... big disappointment !
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I wanted the "chick hatcher", but they wouldn't let me have it.
 
Besides the "sea monkeys", which I believe disappointed an entire generation of kids?

Well, there was the bag of "inflatable dinosaurs" that I sent off for that ended up being small balloons with pictures of dinosaurs printed on them.

Probably the biggest one was the noisy thing wrapped up in a blanket that my mother carried through the door after having been gone for a few days. YAY! She was finally bringing me the long-awaited puppy! Nope, it was just another baby. BUMMER! I really wanted that puppy. I shouldn't count that as a true disappointment, though, as "disappointment" turned into "delight".
 
A dolls house. Just before Christmas one year, I saw a wooden one in a shop window. It was fully furnished and had little standard lamps. I asked for one for Christmas, thinking I would get the one I'd seen.
I got a cheap plywood one, which came in a kit and my dad had to put together. I never played with it.
 
We ordered an inflatable, Sinclair Gas, Dino The Dinosaur. I always loved that logo. I was so excited, as a five year old, waiting the "6-8 weeks for delivery" (remember those days?). The day it came, we inflated it, and headed for the beach. It was cheap garbage. As soon as the sun warmed it up, it deflated and never held air, again. It went into the garbage the next day.
 
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