As a child name the toy you got that did not live up to the commercial. My was Easy Bake Oven.

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[XanaDUer2]

1. My ez bake was ok

I don't think i used it that much? I didn't have playmates in my neighborhood so my mom had to get toys you use alone

[debm55]

2. Thank you XanaDUer2.

[radical noodle]

3. Betsy Wetsy doll

Yeah, it did "wetsy" but it wasn't nearly the fun it was hyped up to be.

[debm55]

5. I agree.Thank you radical noodle

[surfered]

4. The Hula Hoop. I just couldn't do it.

[debm55]

6. Yes it was hard to get started. I agree. thank you surfered.

[2naSalit]

9. ...

I was going to be a wise ass and say jump rope!

[debm55]

11. HAHAHAHAHAHH. Did you ever try Double Dutch Jump Rope? That was hard.

[2naSalit]

15. Yes...

And I loved it!

[KarenS]

7. I had a Betsy Wetsy,,,,

remember when it said she could also blow bubbles?? Well after I had mine blow bubbles, then she pee'd bubbles for a long long time,,,,

[debm55]

8. I remember. Thank you KarenS.

[2naSalit]

10. Mine too!

[debm55]

12. Thank you 2naSalit.

[The Blue Flower]

13. Keds shoes were supposed to make you run faster and jump higher

Mine didn't.

[debm55]

14. Mine either. We were ripped off.

[SheltieLover]

16. Skippy Scribbles, a stuffed bear that was supposed to be able to write

By inserting a cassette tape in the bear's back & activating it.

Pure junk, although cute bear.

Not mine though. A gift I'd purchased for my daughter.

[debm55]

17. Thank you SheltieLover. Sounds like a winner but was a dud. Sorry

[SheltieLover]

18. I was very disappointed & she was heartbroken

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$50 in 1990. Fairly pricey toy for such a dud.

[mwmisses4289]

34. Ah

1900?

[SheltieLover]

35. 1990

Sry. Fixed.

[Diamond_Dog]

19. Etch a Sketch

I could never figure out how to draw a picture with it. Just lines that looked like a set of stairs. ☹️

[debm55]

20. Same here. I could never draw a circle. I got bored real fast with that one.

[JoseBalow]

21. Anything from the back of a comic book

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27. I had the sea monkeys. Always wanted the see through glasses. I ordered from the back of a comic book.

[Niagara]

22. Baby Skates

She couldn't skate on her own without tipping over even on perfectly flat surfaces.

[debm55]

25. That's funny. In the commercial , she skates better then I do.

[okaawhatever]

23. Slinky..........OMG it didn't come close to going down a set of stairs. I think

I’m beginning to understand how the trump voters were so easily duped.

[debm55]

24. Thank you okaawhatever. I always started mine in the middle of the top step, It would do one of three three things. ---

1, go to side. hit the wall and come rolling down the steps.
2, Tip over sideways and come down the steps sideways.Still useable.
3. Tip over and get tangled up. Unuseable.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Mr. Machine

And Barbie. (Why did girls spend hours dressing and undressing her??)

[debm55]

29. Hey. I loved my Barbie and even made clothes for her.

[applegrove]

30. You did soap operas with them. Lots of getting ready for dates

and things like that. I didn't have a Ken. I also had short hair myself so Barbie was a chance to do hairdos.

[debm55]

31. Excellent answer. applegrove.

[Sneederbunk]

28. Fire eating kit from Johnson Smith

[FullySupportDems]

32. The Sudsy Doll hair that didn't grow back

I was sad the pull out hair ponytail didn't grow back. After I cut her hair. That poor doll.

[debm55]

41. I had a doll similiar. She had a pony tail that you could pull her hair any length , L pulled ti too long and the pony

tail came out of her head. . It left a round whole in her back of her head

[FullySupportDems]

47. Oh that must have been worse

I was a confused child, thinking her hair would grow back. But I still loved her shaggy head and all. You were a strong little kid.

[LisaM]

33. Spirograph.

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It drew the designs okay but the paper was full of pin holes and the pens ran out of the colored ink.

On the other hand, I have to give props to a company that essentially got away with selling a product to small children that mostly consisted of long sharp pins.

[debm55]

37. I agree, I forgot who made. Was it Kenner?

[LisaM]

43. I had to look it up, but that's right! n/t

[dem4decades]

36. 1963 Fly-Over Chicane racetrack by Gilbert

On the commercials the cars would fly through the air and land on the track and take another lap. In reality, they would fly through the air and crash, and had to be put back on the track to do it all over again. Pretty disappointing 😞.

[debm55]

38. Thank you dem4decades. There are commercials and then there is reality.

[Runningdawg]

39. Crissy doll

There was a knob on her back that was supposed to make her hair longer/shorter. It worked a few times and then got stuck so I took the animal clippers and gave her a mohawk.

[debm55]

44. That's funny. thank you Runningdawg.

[if..fish..had..wings]

40. Absolutely none of them

Every toy of that sort ended up being a disappointment.

[debm55]

45. Thank you , I have never seen a toy like that.

[LSparkle]

42. The Thingmaker by Mattel

It was a hot plate that cooked plastic into shapes (dinosaurs, snakes, flowers) but if you didn’t cook the piece long enough — and I was an impatient kid — then you’d try and pull it out but part of your creation was stuck in the mold. I ended up with a lot of one-armed dinos! Plus I’m sure the smell was toxic ... but of course I loved that too, just like Ditto copies!

[debm55]

46. HAHAHHAAHAHHHA. that's funny. thank you LSparkle.