Unfulfilled Christmas Wishes. - Power Wheels

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I always wanted a Power Wheels, anyone really. My mom and Dad said no because we live on a steep hill and there was only one way they would go, down!

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[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I wanted one, too. Any style as well EXCEPT for the pink, Barbie type.

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Same here, all though I would take a pink one today, hehe.

[marmaladeginger.livejournal.com]

Oh how I hated watching these commercials as it seemed like they played them over and over. I was fifteen in 1986 and well past power wheels .

[opalgirl28.livejournal.com]

I'm younger than this ad--born in '89--but I wanted one of these so badly in the early/mid '90s. I remember being heartbroken when my mother told me that we lived in an apartment and I couldn't (also, she probably couldn't have afforded one).

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Same, along with the steep hill I mentioned, my parents would not have been able to afford one. Its okay, my grampa was secretly letting me drive a real car!

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

I remembered the jingle before I even pushed play. I would have loved one of these as a kid too, but by the time they came out I was too big. I remember that they were super expensive - I didn't know anyone who had one. Looking at them on Amazon right now, they seem to be mostly in the upper $200s...I think they cost at least that in the 80s! The little girl who lives next door to us has a Barbie jeep one now. This being western Pennsylvania and our street being at a >20% grade, she's constantly getting the thing stuck and then grinding and grinding, trying to turn it around with her very limited driving skills before fetching Dad to extricate her from her jam.

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Same here, but the hill is like 40% and long. That little car would never have the juice to make it up the hill. Plus we lived in downtown Boston. lol not to many places to play with it.

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

haha I always wanted one and my parents' sound reasoning was the same as yours! My parents' neighbors is nothing but hills :(

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I remember those, though I was far too old for them! So cool, and fodder for so many awkward family videos! I love this. <3

My parents bought my nephews a Little Tykes car-- no brakes, no motor-- when the boys were small. They, too, lived on a very, very steep hill. I don't know why my sis and BIL let mom & dad DO that, because of course the car didn't stay inside for long. My sister remembers Brian going down the drive (which had a dogleg turn), his feet "going like Fred Flintstone's". Jesus.