A complete Darth Vader outfit
my own arcade game in the basement(I *am* serious)
a VCR
a canopy bed
a trip to California to meet all the young stars
a swimming pool


Chris

John Taylor from Duran Duran.
Ok, so I set my goals high! Very high!

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1">[ May 28, 2001 03:00 AM: Message edited by: ImSoooSure ]</font>

When I was younger I wanted a bass guitar of my own. I played one in Jazz Band in school, but the guitar belong to the school. My Mom would always say, "I bought you a saxophone already." I played that in regular band. So, I ended up when I became an adult getting one. My ex-husband bought it for me.

The other thing is I want to go to England. I'm still waiting to go there.

Mine was a framed picture of Prince on his purple motorcycle. It was a prize you could win at local fair. I spent some 20 dollars trying to get it. <img src="eek.gif" border="0"> My friend, who was with me, won it herself and would'nt give it to me! b**ch <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> hehe I don't even like Prince now <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

I always wanted to meet Limahl. I used to make my parents take me to London all the time just to look for him. This German music magazine 'BRAVO' was doingan annula contest where you get to vote for your fave and you could pick a material prize or a meeting with your fave if you got it right. Limahl won three years in a row I think or at least two times and I never got picked. Of course being eleven and twelve didn't exactly help. But I remember having a first class fit when I found out. And they say hell knoweth no fury like a woman scorned. Try replacing woman with preteen. Boy did I give everybody grief for days.

Chris

I wanted to dance on American Bandstand!!! It was one of my ambitions in life, kind of like in that movie, Hairspray... Sadly, the show was canned in 1989, and I never got to boogie on down in front of the nation. I never even got to "Rate a Record"..."I'll give it an 8, Dick... it's got a good beat and I can dance to it..." <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

The Winds of the 80s (http://www.SwiftSite.com/80sdude)

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1">[ May 31, 2001 09:57 AM: Message edited by: MDC ]</font>

A Swatch Watch! I always wanted one, but never got one. My dad always said..."IF I'm going to pay that much for a watch it better have diamonds or be able to dance." So, just recently, I won a bid on E-Bay for a 1987 Vintage Swatch! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> Oh, meee sooo happppy!!!

As we were poor in the 80s, (food stamps and all... Reaganomics was just a bad joke for us!) there were a lot of things I would have liked to have, but didn't. I tried not to spend too much time thinking about it, and appreciate what I did have, but kids are greedy by nature. It's biologically programmed, I think. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

My list:

A pony <img src="frown.gif" border="0">
A Benetton rugby shirt (I hated them but I wanted one anyway)
A Swatch watch (me too, Myst!)
My own phone

That's actually it. Huh! Thought there were more.

An endless supply of the latest fashions!! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I went to three different high schools, this was at the turn of the 80s (I am afraid I might be a speck older than some of my fellow 80teers) and styles were changing so fast. If I managed to scrap together a passable wardrobe (military brat = no money <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> ), it changed at the next school. <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

That and my own stereo would have been so cool.......and Bono to sing me to sleep every night in person!

Did I want too much? Well, of course, I WAS a teenager. <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

Wow, what a great topic!

Lemme see now (rubs chin)...

*a drum set
*a Coleco-vision (missed that boat entirely)
*a computer (obviously, I've taken care of that one)
*a four album record deal
*a real, live smurf (I'll take care of it, mom, I swear!)

Well, other than these paltry knick-knacks, I was a very contented child. I think now that I have kids, I realize that I wasn't lack as much stuff as I thought.

What did you absolutely have to have but never got?

*SIGH* That would have to be Phoebe Cates... <img src="confused.gif" border="0"> Other than her though, I would have to say maybe a dirt bike. Never got one of those (although I do have nice street bike now - That I bought myself - The folks hate motorcycles).

Hey congrats Myst on winning your bid on the Swatch.. I have a bid right now on a vintage 1985 Swatch still in the package... doing well so far but I know they are going to wait until the bidding is getting ready to close and outbid me... but I will have to try the same strategy!

I had three Swatches ... they were my all-time favorite thing to wear!

I always wanted those baggy flourescent sweatshirts but my mother said that they weren't nice enough for school... but everyone else was wearing them!!! So my friend, Nikki, who had lots of them would bring me one to school and I'd wear it for the day and give it back before I went home... seems silly that Mom would fret over something silly like that when a little later, I was allowed to wear mini-skirts and lace tops... anyway...

I also wanted Andy Taylor from Duran Duran.. was always my all time favorite, all my friends liked John or Simon.. Mom DID get Andy on my birthday cake for three years, though.... Not the real deal... but some things you can just never have!

Well I wanted a pet Gremlin myself, and a Delorian. (If you're gonna make a time machine, might as well make it with a little style) And for just a few minutes couldn't my freinds have shut up about the damned New Kids and let me listen to this Billy Idol song? Please?

I also wanted barrettes, the little colorful cheap plastic kind! I had a ton but couldnt get enough!

Hmm and I wanted to move to castle Duckula or live with the Snorks.

I always wanted a really good stereo. I used to have one of those all-in-one deals with the phonograph on top, an 8 track player and the radio on the front. Then it had two speakers that weighed nearly a pound apiece, and had these tiny little wires coming out the back.

A big wheel, sit and spin and a canopy bed too!

I hope i wont get yelled at for this but in the 80's i wanted MIchael Jackson. I loved that man, i wanted to meet him so bad. I collected purses, key rings, magazine clippings everything i could get my hands on. I had my whole room made of Michael Jackson clippings. I prayed that i would meet him. I wanted him to show me how to dance.
<img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Madonna <img src="frown.gif" border="0">

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1">[ June 21, 2001 08:02 PM: Message edited by: ReagansRenegade ]</font>

Milani knows this answer. <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

still waiting for that ride I thought I was promised in the Millenium Falcon by Han S...
let the wookie drive for awhile <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Lita Ford
Joan Jett
Pat Benetar
Heather Locklear
And A Turbo Graphx 16(The Only Video Game System To Date I've Never Owned)

Damn I Forget Some
Doro Pesch
And Janet,Jan,Share, & Roxy From Vixen
hehehe <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I want Carol Alt, and Molly Ringwald. If she was still alive, I would want to be friends with Wendy O. Williams. Something I actually yearned for in the late 80s/early 90s was the opportunity to watch MTV. My mom eventually let me watch it, but all the good music was gone by that point (1993, to be precise). I guess I also want both Julie Browns. Oh, I nearly forgot Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark.

Yep, 'round these parts, I'm called Little Johnny Horndog <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

Sincerely,

John "outofplacechild" Kilduff

I also want the Go-Gos, Jane Wiedlin and Belinda Carlisle in particular. I'd go on a vacation with this group at anytime <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

Sincerely,

John "outofplacechild" Kilduff

I didn't want too much as a teen in the eighties (I always worked and had money for what I wanted from the age of 13)But what I can remember wanting that was just too damn expensive or just not practical includes:

Atari 520ST computer
Christina Amphlett (Divinyls lead singer)
Lamborghini Countach (I will own one, oh yes, I will own one)

Originally posted by Poison PJ:
<STRONG>Lita Ford
Joan Jett
Pat Benetar
Heather Locklear
And A Turbo Graphx 16(The Only Video Game System To Date I've Never Owned)</STRONG>

Dude! You are the luckiest man in the world for never owning a TG-16. That would the most horrible system...NEC hates America or something! Imagine a NES but ALL the games SUCK. I mean they converted Bonk (the TG-16 "flagship" or should I say "fagship" game) as a NES cart and it just oozed with inferiority.
NEC actually took the WORST games from their horrendous PC-Engine and punished a segment of the American population that can never forgive...never forget.
Alien Crush was kind of cool but $60? I should have filed a damn lawsuit. Sorry everyone, it's like a personal Pearl Harbor for me.

I wanted Rainbow Brite's belt, and Starlite. I wanted to go through my mirror to HuggaBunch land. I also wanted to meet the Care Bears and ride in their cloud cars with them....and a canopy bed. oh well, c'est la vie... <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> -Sarah &gt;^._.^&lt;

1.I wanted Cable T.V. so I could watch Mtv. *I would sometimes sneak over to my Uncle Terry's house after school to catch some music videos.*
2.I also wanted a pair of high top Reebok shoes & a swatch watch. *Would sometimes borrow a friends swatch watch during school hrs. <img src="tongue.gif" border="0"> *
3.Always wanted to wear black nail polish, but mom thought it was a lil "too much." <img src="mad.gif" border="0">
**My shrink says I'm on my way to recovery** LOL <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Pat Benatar...but Neil Giraldo got her. But at least I got to meet her a few times the last couple of years...still a hottie!!!<img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Cheryl Tiegs... The hottest model in the 80's, and still a hottie!!!<img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Pulling my head out of the gutter now! <img src="redface.gif" border="0"> <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Black nailpolish is scary. When I get a wife, all she's gonna wear is glitter. Colored glitter.

What a question to someone who was (and sometimes still is) greedy kind of guy... <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

1. Enough money to buy all those cool 12"...I´ve spent my whole allowance on records, but it never was enough - today I spend even more money to get my hands on them (current record: 85$ for one LP)

2. An 80cc-motorbike...my mom was absolutely dead against them, and the insurance was killing you - the companies raised the fees from 70$ to 500$ within a year. So, I had to tune up my 50cc moped...and was faster than the guys on their 80cc but also a very prominent target on police controls...

3. All the girls I was after...seemed that I was always looking for love in the wrong places (like Larry Laffer), since the girls I set my sight on wasn´t too fascinated by the sight of a boy who was styling himself in a quite "eccentric" way... <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

4. To look like Dave Gahan! Whoa, I´ve tried everything, but all the people just called me "Elvis"...kind of stupidity around me...

I´ve noticed that everyone is kinda fascinated by owning a Swatch - I hated those watches!
They were quite expensive, uncomfortable to wear (all plastic...even after one week you could see where the watch was), and the loud ticking was driving me nuts at night. Even my girlfriend has complained about it, so I got rid of this thingy by giving it to her... <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I was pretty spoiled or should I say lucky growing up!! The only things that I wanted and never (til' this day) have gotten are:

1. a puppy dog!!

2. a chance to be on "Star Search"

well, i wanted to be the girl friend to everymember of New Kids On The Block if that counts, but I somehow knoew that one would never come to pass!! LOL now, I probably have about a 50/50 shot! <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

Being a typical during the 80s all I wanted was:

Cool hair <img src="cool.gif" border="0">
A record deal
Every girl I laid eyes on <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

Stiil do <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Freedom. I thought I was the only one who did not get to go running around. Now I am glad cause boy I would have been trouble.

The only time in my life that I was actually well off was when I turned 13 and went to live with my dad and step-family. I went from Food Stamps and holy shoes in a hick town to Designer Jeans and mall bought clothes in a big city. Once I was on my own at 18 I could no longer afford the good life. But it was nice while it lasted. The only thing I never got was a pair of Ray Bans. (but my step-sister did and I would always borrow hers.

I always wanted a lot of things. But the main thing I wanted was that famous poster of Michael Jackson with the yellow sweater and pants on. I remember BEGGING my mom for it. I got real happy one day when she came in the house with it all wrapped in a nice big frame and everything! Turns out it was for my cousin for her birthday. <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> Oh yes, I threw a big fit! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

i never got to go to the last kiss concert that came to michigan i swore i was gonna go but i didnt quite get to.

yea,
KISS came to Lexington on their tour, also. That would have been fun. Some friends of mine went, but I missed it.

(love the nickname, by the way! <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

Man 'o man, did I ever want a Commodore C64 Computer. All the cool kids had one of those.

I also always wanted a BMX and a dirt bike, but I never got them.

*sigh*

oh god I will forever be haunted by the fact that I NEVER GOT A CARE BEAR! *sobs*

I *desperately* wanted one..and everyone in my class had one. Oh the pain I suffered.

other things:
* rainbow brite plush doll (I wish!)
* canopy bed (good call dj)
* Ken doll (aparently ken was a bad influence..yet I was allowed to have countless barbie dolls that only aided to the poor self body image of millions of girls around the world..go figure! <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">)
* invisible dog (remember them?)
* My child (oh how I begged...and to no avail)
* cow girl leather jacket with fringe!

I wished that I had an Atari-I was very good on my cousins Asteroids game. And, I could not get enough Vans sneakers-but, for all of you that wanted Swatches-I had ALOT!-I had a watch fetish and I worked all thru jr. high and high at the local surf and skate shop-(I'm originally from Maryland-only one shop in town!)so, I would buy swatches all the time. I had shopping issues way back them-am recovered now! this is fun! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by soundofherwings:
<STRONG>oh god I will forever be haunted by the fact that I NEVER GOT A CARE BEAR! *sobs*
</STRONG>

Oh! Poor Wings! I will send you Cheer Bear (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/1864/CareBears.html) to cheer you up... (That was the only one I had, and ironically my least favorite! My fav was Grumpy...)

oh, that's a cute page, Mary <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

thanks for posting it.

(aren't they almost just a Little too happy?!) i want what they're on..

my favorite was and still is
Tenderheart bear.
he's just so sweet!!

(i bet the guys love this talk, huh?)

Vilji, I am sure most guys have either played(secretly) with a Care Bear or watched the cartoon! I know they have a favorite! LOL <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

haha
you're probably right, Topcat!


(but getting the he-men to admit which one they like is another story.)
how drunk would we have to get them?..
<img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by Vilji:
<STRONG>(but getting the he-men to admit which one they like is another story.)
how drunk would we have to get them?..
<img src="tongue.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

He-men don't get drunk <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

oh, sorry, i didn't realise today was "opposite day", bogie. <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

so are you going to be the first he-man on here to admit which carebear you like?

come on..
be a hero

<img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Okay, okay. I'll admit it.

It's green and it's got a four-leaf clover on it's chest. That's right, Good Luck Bear.

<img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

aah..that's just too cute.

(see what we women do to you?)

a good luck bear for Bogie

(where's that bear's Irish beer?
-oh, that's why he's smiling so big..

Originally posted by Vilji:
<STRONG>(where's that bear's Irish beer? -oh, that's why he's smiling so big..)</STRONG>

LOL!! I'm glad I could raise the level of the room and encourage sharing of feelings... heh!

The Care Bear Stare always really bothered me... I posted something a while back about the unsolved mysteries of 80s cartoons, maybe I'll bump the thread so you can read it again. :snicker:

Really Deep Questions about 80s Cartoons (http://www.80sxchange.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=000151)

I guess I hadn't posted it before... I could have sworn I did! Anyway, have fun <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

oooo I absolutely *loved* cheer bear! the little rainbow on his tummy was soo cute!

thanks mary! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

I wanted much music very badly and the movie channel when it first came out in 1983. My father refused to pay more when we had 20 perfectly good channels (lol 20). So I discovered if you tape the channel between 13 and 1 (old TV) you got a grainy picture. I also found that with the cable hooked up to the stereo the sound was on one of the channels so I had pirated Much Music for the first two years :)

I had a canopy bed (I was lucky)
I wanted clothes and lots of it!
I wanted a motorcycle but my parents threatened to kick me out. Instead my best friend go one so we had to pull a lot of sneaking around to go riding until we went for our big slide. Lots of explaining to do then ;)

Originally posted by Savage Lucy:
<STRONG>Well I wanted a pet Gremlin myself, and a Delorian. (If you're gonna make a time machine, might as well make it with a little style) And for just a few minutes couldn't my freinds have shut up about the damned New Kids and let me listen to this Billy Idol song? Please?

I also wanted barrettes, the little colorful cheap plastic kind! I had a ton but couldnt get enough!

Hmm and I wanted to move to castle Duckula or live with the Snorks.
</STRONG>

I'm afraid DeLoreans are no longer made. They came in only ONE color (as far as I know): SILVER--but that doesn't really matter much.

Saddle shoes. I really wanted some but, thank heavens I never got them. They are sooo dorky.

:lol: Saddle shoes!?! That's too funny. Those are the black and white ones with the little holes in them right? I do remember a lot of kids wearing them. I had forgotten all about those!:D

An Atari.

I would really had loved to get my own drum set , but as I lived in a small appartment with my mom it wasn't going to happen. Later I found out (years after I had dropped playing the drums) that my father had had plans to buy me a set, I could have played when I was visiting him. But when he found out I was losing interest in playing them, he had backed off. Buuu-huuu :cry:

Originally posted by ReagansRenegade
Black nailpolish is scary. When I get a wife, all she's gonna wear is glitter. Colored glitter.

LOL!! Black nailpolish was just about all I wore my last two years of H.S.! Even to graduation! :eek: Sometimes I even wore the colored glitter over the black. ;) I was the nail polish Queen!! :D

Voltron action figures. Dad said that they were too boyish for me.

Uh,,,,

Joe Elliot
Ozzy(damn that Sharon O.)
a Mustang 5.0 (that's not too bad though, cuz I got a new Firebird Turbo in the 90's)
Steven Shareaux (sp?) from Kik Tracee

The lead in the school play.
A night with Dave Gahan.

My one on one question and answer session with Madonna! :thumb:

Samantha Fox:wildthing :vibrator: :licky:

Snoopy Snow Cone Machine (or was that in the 70s?) NEVER got it. And I wanted that stupid Adam computer because a friend had it and it kicked ass over my C64 (which is somewhere in my cellar).

For years, all I wanted was to be able to stop buying my jeans at Li'l Folks. When I finally hit the five foot mark, sometime in high school, I was able to get real Levi's, but we had to get them at this one store that would shorten them for free.

I wanted Rob Lowe, Richard Gere, and this guy who drove around town in a gold "57" chevy...he resembled Eddie Van Halen!

I didn't want for too many material things..I was a spoiled brat! LOL

Being an animal lover , I always wanted as many pets as possible. A stray tabby adopted us in '77, and my parents finally gave in and bought 2 springer spaniel puppies in '81. I never got a horse though:( I wanted a black or bay Morgan or Paso Fino!

Glenn Gulia has my first idea. Second I would have to say Pia Zadora.

Since I wasn't there, I'll tell what I want.

- FIRST OFF (what do you expect from me) BILLY IDOL!!!!!!!!!
- the Flock of Seaguls do :D
- CC Deville and Bret Michaels :o
- BILLY IDOL
- BILLY IDOL (more, more, more!)
- a Gremlin
- some of the clothing

Originally posted by Glenn Gulia
Samantha Fox:wildthing :vibrator: :licky: I met an english student in 1990 called Sharon that was physically exactly as Samantha Fox. But she was brain-dead. Sometimes it's better than your secret wishes will keep being... just wishes

Flocka seagull hair now thats funny:yikes:

Well, let's see!

A DeLorean
Cujo (the evil dog)
AT-AT (from Star Wars, the real deal)

and I actually begged for this, A race track I saw on TV that had cars that exploded and caught fire. I did not know this was fake. I saw it on SNL as one of their commercial skits. My parents kept telling me it wasn't real, but I thought they were saying that so they wouldn't have to buy it. I still would like to have it.

air guitar
dirt bike
ear ring(everyone cool had them)
a pair of lee jeans
a pair of levis jeans(i finally saved to get)
nike shoes(again i saved haha)
pac man machine in my house
be a memeber of a garage band
a really cool car
a cd player or sterio that would record rather than just a tape player!
concert tickets
a vcr!(had to save a long time for that)
my own tv set

im sure there are alot of things we all forget on this one!

Originally posted by ImSoooSure
[B]John Taylor from Duran Duran.
Ok, so I set my goals high! Very high!]

LOL me too! John Taylor filled the void between Joe Elliot:*...I mean Def Leppard albums!