Geez! And I couldn't even get my parents to collect enough boxes to build something like this:

https://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2009/08/cardboard-box-submarine.html?m=1

Let alone cough up any money toward something like this:

https://misternizz.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/my-obsession-with-acquiring-a-polaris-submarine/

(I wonder if they knew it was the ripoff the article described...?)

Kids these days, I'll tell yah...