Poll Vault: Best toy you ever received for Christmas or Hanukkah?
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The Easy-Bake Oven was introduced by Kenner in 1963. File photo |
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Now produced by Hasbro, the Easy-Bake Oven has been updated several times and remains a popular toy nearly 50 years later. File photo |
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The little red wagon is a classic gift. File photo |
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Baby boomers, their children and their grandchildren undoubtedly have played with an Etch-A-Sketch, which is a member of the National Toy Hall of Fame. File photo |
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Aunt Mary and Uncle Carl Brandon gave Michelle Holdway this dollhouse for Christmas in 1979. They made it themselves, and she played with it for years. Courtesy of Cathy Brandon |
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The Furby toy created a frenzy in 1998. Associated Press |
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Kenner’s Death Star Space Station thrilled countless “Star Wars” fans in the late 1970s. |
The Internet certainly makes holiday shopping for kids less of a challenge. These days, it seems, nothing is unavailable.
But when I was a kid, every year there was a must-have toy in short supply that threw shoppers into a frenzy.
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The floor model was the only one left, and the manager was reluctant to sell it because it lacked a box and the trash compactor monster was missing. Ultimately, though, Mom won out. My brother was ecstatic on Christmas morning. (We wrote to Kenner to obtain a replacement trash compactor monster.) A few years later, he was just as excited to receive the G.I. Joe command center.
What Christmas or Hanukkah gift put you over the moon when you were a kid? Was it a Cabbage Patch doll in the early '80s, or perhaps a Pac-Man game during the Atari craze? How about a Big Wheel, Barbie's Dream House or an Easy-Bake Oven?
