OT: Christmas or Hannukkah Present / Gift You Always Wanted But Never Got.

I actually got very lucky in this regard. Only present I ever hardcore wanted was a top-of-the-line sax I got freshman year of high school. Parents probably didn’t have the cash for it, but Santa came through perfectly. That was years ago, obviously — but it made me thankful for life.

Teddy Ruxbin

Recently, although prior to Christmas - a win against OSU. You know....maybe ONCE in five years would be acceptable at this point.

A real light saber

A Lexus. A December to remember as the commercial states

I wanted a real computer, like a Tandy or an Apple IIGS, instead of my bullshit Commodore 64.  

 

In the early 70's I wanted a Honda 80 because three of my friends had one.  After my friends suffered through multiple broken bones, I'm probably better off having not gotten one.

I think I always got what I wanted. Most expensive thing I ever asked for was game consoles. And I never asked for anything my parents would have been offended by.

Fully armed and operational.

The three foot one at the MDen. On my Christmas wish list for years yet my wife won’t go out and buy me it.

I wanted Zero Gravity Cliff Hangers racing cars.  I put it on my Christmas list for years when I was a kid. 

As a joke I put it on my list when I was 21 and my mom finally bought it for me.  I told her she was about 10 years too late with this gift.  Just for fun, as a 21 year old I took it out and raced them around the track only to find out they would not stay on the track and flew off everytime.  

sanity.

K2 fatty pro roller blades. I was suggesting it for months. Ended up getting a mounted jackelope head because they saw me laugh at one on the wall of a restaurant 6 months earlier. The only time I've ever been openly ungrateful for a gift and I'm still not over it. Sigh.

and have a killer three point shot and low post game. Alas, Santa has nothing to do with genetics, which is interesting, because he manages to deliver toys on time every year and still look the same. 

Neo Geo 

Man you were cool if you had this - because you could pass on it as opposed to the Mattel original.  I remember it was tough to find for awhile.

I wasn't stupid enough to ask for one, but I did send for their catalog a couple of years.

Five-year old Sleepy would'vd lost his goddamn mind over this thing.  Sadly, his parents felt that his broke-ass Huffy bike was good enough.  Sigh.

The USS Flagg from G.I. Joe

 

They had a mess of them in the Sears catalog, all with lawnmower engines. I wanted one in the worst way, but nope.

When I was a little kid there was a cool Caterpiller bulldozer in the Sears catalog that I circled year after year but never got.

Bubble hockey.

I've been putting her on my Christmas list for Santa Claus ever since Friends debuted in the '90s. St. Nick still hasn't come through.

Greys Sports Almanac and a time machine to go with it.