[Misc] Best Christmas present you received as a child?

[jimhigham]

Both of mine have been done. Papa Lazarou beat me to the Atari and Braggfan got the AT-AT. Here's a nice picture of the latter though.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Both of mine have been done. Papa Lazarou beat me to the Atari and Braggfan got the AT-AT. Here's a nice picture of the latter though.

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Sadly I never got Star Wars toys, which would be worth a fortune nowadays

 

[Originunknown]

Original Gameboy, or NES.

 

[Knightsworld]

A Yellow Raleigh Chopper

 

[The Clamp]

Sadly I never got Star Wars toys, which would be worth a fortune nowadays

Between us three boys we had tonnes of the stuff. It’s worth a fortune. Unfortunately my lazy arse mum and stepdad couldn’t be bothered to get them down for the loft when they moved house. We never had a chance to save them and we were all away in boarding school.
I have forgiven my Mum, because she was my Mum but have genuinely never fully forgiven my Stepdad.

 

[Bozza]

Race & Chase was one I remember fondly.

It was a Matchbox version of Scalextric but included a couple of interesting features - there was a ramp that cars could go over, get a bit of airtime and, hopefully, land back in their slot and continue. More interestingly, cars could change direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35AJ6Vs3Ow

Another thing that was utterly amazing, for me at least, was Big Trak which I had in the very early 1980s. This is a TV advert from the time which I could still recall perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRTw-ux_Tew

 

[Insel affe]

Back when you had to use your imagination....

I wish I still had them.....

 

[ForestRowSeagull]

My brother and I got a snooker table which my mum must have been up all night building so it was ready when we came down in the morning. It was amazing, got so many hours of fun out of it.

 

[greengull]

2 best christmas presents - 5 speed raleigh racer bike - sitting all shiny in the living room for me, enabled me to get out of the village on my own.
Acorn Atom, forerunner to the BBC micro, had 1K RAM and a cassette player. My Dad bought the kit and soldered all the chips in after I had gone to bed, unfortunately he couldnt get it to work and had to swap it for a ready built one. Learned to program from typing in games from magazines- its now my job. Also had its own TV, which meant I finally got my first TV of my own.

 

[Frankie]

1978 Escalado Metal horses you wound a handle and the vibration moved them up the track, loved that game .

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

I annoyed my parents and siblings for hours playing this.....

 

[tinx]

Such great memories of this bad boy. Sony Walkman Sports

 

[Fungus]

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Also got this one year, memorable because you had to be an action man 'expert' to be able to get the wet suit on.

Getting it off was worse - I broke his foot off in the struggle!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Hardly top of the range, but recall getting this exact model and playing for hours.

I did not use it to record the Top 40 off of the radio, nor did I tape my friends' 45s rather than buy them.

 

[Blue3]

A tank it was big well from memory it was big but I was only 8 at the time it had a remote control sort of it was long ish bit of wire attached to the tank one end and a controller the other it when forwards backwards left and right it could manage slight inclines and could get up a curb with a ramp

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Early fifties I had a plastic machine gun for Christmas that worked by triggering a friction motor. I was over the moon until the afternoon when my mate in the flat downstairs got one that worked with batteries. Gone were the days of an orange and a bar of Fry’s chocolate.

 

[atfc village]

I’d sue the barstard

To be fair he is a very decent bloke ,never forgotten his roots. He has paid for a new Cricket pavillion to be built in the village ,to give something back to where he grew up . Plus he will fund it for 5 years .

 

[Eeyore]

For me it's a small orange transistor radio that still has pride of place.

Many nights of listening under the covers to Peter Jones and co on European nights. Early mornings to Test matches in foreign lands.

I think I was given it circa 1977.

 

[Hillian1]

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This.

The Action Man Scorpion Tank was by far the best present I ever got.

When I finally got to see one in Bovington Tank Museum however I was distinctly underwhelmed.

 

[Sirnormangall]

When a friend told me God, Jesus and Father Christmas weren't real and that no matter how I behaved as a child it wouldn't matter as to where I ended up when I died.

Was your friend called Bill Archer?