I bought a full size 6 foot skeleton (from a comic book add) with glow in the dark eyes when I was 10.
When I finally got it it was a sheet of white plastic with a couple of stick on glow in the dark eyes.
Welcome to the real world.....

I had x-ray specs, I had to paint over the hypo swirls to be incognito.

I found my uncle's old comics on my grandmother's attic.The comic books were outdated, by the time I read the ads, but this one got my attention.

fond memories of those advertisements. I got the x-ray classes.

I remember being creeped out by the notion that there could be tiny underwater humanoids living in a glass bowl in my bedroom. I finally saw them at Kmart and there was a tiny, discretely placed diagram of a brine shrimp on the box. So then I wasn’t creeped out anymore, but the magic was gone.