If you don’t like bad language, look away now….bollocks. Bugger. Damn and blast. Bloody hell. I am *such* an idiot.
Big has expressed one desire for Christmas this year, apparently having been convinced by my rants against tv advertising that if she moans on about things she will NOT get them (this comes from her sitting watching nick jr and throughout the entire ads, all day every day, saying “I’d like that. I want that. That looks nice. I need that…” and so on.)
Anyway, she has now said that the one thing she wants is Barbie as Rapunzel. I didn’t buy it a couple of days ago from mailorderexpress as we hadn’t finished discussing what else we wanted from there. Gone there tonight to order it, and they’re out of stock 🙁 Can’t find it anywhere online except Ebay, and there’s only a couple on there.
I can remember one year as a child, when all I wanted was this bizarre robot truck thing (can’t even remember what it was called now) which pulled a little trailer and could be programmed to move forward, backwards and turn in succession. The advert for it involved small child programming it to drive through the house, shoot the dog in passing, and then tip an apple into the waiting hand of a parent. Couldn’t have been done – it wasn’t strong enough to tip up the truck with an apple in.
Anyway, I digress. It was all I wanted, and my parents spent ages trying to dissuade me, eventually realised that it wasn’t going to happen, and my stepfather drove to Bolton the last shopping day before Christmas to get the last one in stock in the nearest store. (We lived in Meltham at the time) They also bought me a ZX81 (which dates the whole proceedings) which had far more play value – I only stopped programming it when it became apparent it was *never* going to save to tape – gets a bit disheartening to spend three hours tapping in a program and then have it wiped out when you have to turn the thing off.
Please let me find a Barbie Rapunzel doll somewhere online. I promise I’ll be ever so good…
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9 responses to “Aargh…”
she definitely doesn’t mean the princess and pauper dolls does she? I’ll keep a look out for you anyway.
I’ve seen one around here somewhere in the last few days. Got to go to TRU in the next couple of days, shall i look out for it?
Or what about Argos online?
I managed to get the outfits for Swan Lake and Nutcracker at Asda, I’m not sure if they had a Rapunzel outfit. But maybe if they had old stock they might have it. Anyway, I’ll check tomorrow when I go.
oh – just found this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/kids/B0000C8RML/qid=1102893362/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/026-4693078-3152410
not sure if that price is way over the odds. i don’t buy Barbie much!
argh, hope you find one. My lot don’t ask for stuff like that cos they know I won’t listen, rofl!
I had a ZX81 … and a Commodore 64 … how old are we?!
Yep – we had both those computers too – used the C64 until we got an Apple Mac – ThAT was a culture shock!
Jax, are you referring to Big Trak? I so wanted one of those, and a Simon.
We had a commodore Pet!!!
That’s it! (goes off into nostalgic reverie…) Was a simon the round thing with about four lights round it where you had to follow the pattern? I think we had one of those. I had a wonderul hand held game thing called a Merlin that you could play noughts and crosses, a sort of mastermind and a couple of other games too.
after the ZX81 I had an Acorn Electron, which is probably still in a box *somewhere* in my parents loft, unless my sister sold it at a car boot last time they moved…
The Merlin looked like a phone didn’t it.
Some pictures of stuff here:
http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/