DO you still have feelings of bitterness and resentment at not being bought certain highly desirable toys as a child? Read this list as a form of therapy.
Action Man training tower
Unbelievably impressive and your friend Iain had one. If your parents didn’t buy it for you they must have hated you. On the other hand, all you could really do was send an Action Man down a short death slide, and it came with odd stuff like tiny spoons. Discuss this with your therapist.
Tickle Me Elmo
Plush, cute and packed with cutting-edge toy technology, the 1990s Elmo sold out instantly everywhere. If you didn’t have one to teach you conversation, empathy and tactile skills that’s why all your relationships have failed and you will die alone.
Sindy doll house
These were massive, and much nicer than the crummy flat or two-bed semi you live in now. If you could somehow shrink down to tiny size and live in a three-storey Sindy house, all your property problems would be solved. It might be a good idea to install a toilet, though.
A skateboard
You should have had a skateboard. Ignore the fact that when you did actually try skateboarding, you just wobbled a bit and fell off. Still, it’s your parents’ fault that you don’t have a multi-million dollar skateboard franchise like Tony Hawk.
Millennium Falcon
An expensive but superbly designed toy. Okay, the chess table didn’t literally generate holograms, and the quad-cannon just made a clicky sound. But if you did not have this as a child your parents must have rued the day you were born. Maybe you were ‘unwanted’. At least they didn’t put you in care.
Palitoy Family Treehouse
If your parents were too tight to stump up for this, at least you don’t have dreams of living a life of perfect conformity inside a giant spring-loaded plastic tree.
