Best christmas present you ever got as a kid

sensibleken · 04-03-2011 10:44AM

RichieC wrote: »

c64 with night moves.

fúck yeah!

My best one was either Optimus prime or this space lego thing i got in 83, mainly because its the first one i can remember

Pace2008 · 04-03-2011 10:49AM

Super Van City.

Sanjuro · 04-03-2011 10:51AM

My ma bought a brilliant train set in New York and brought it home for Christmas morning. I got up, ignored the Gameboy I'd also gotten (twas a good year) and concentrated on the train set. It lasted about 26 hours before my sister smashed a section of the tracks and the thing became unusable.

Ledger · 04-03-2011 10:55AM

sega mega drive all the way!

noel farrell · 04-03-2011 11:04AM

way back a colt 45 and holster like john wayne. it was real to me at the time

sunflower27 · 04-03-2011 11:08AM

noel farrell wrote: »

way back a colt 45 and holster like john wayne. it was real to me at the time

Ahhhh, that is really sweet

twowheelsonly · 04-03-2011 11:14AM

A Space Suit !!!!

It was 1969... I was the MAAAANN....

Still have some pics around somewhere of me wearing it on Christmas morning with the biggest smile you ever did see

CrazyRabbit · 04-03-2011 12:05PM

C64 for me also.

I guess younger generations won't understand how amazing it was (at the time). It was literally a life changing gift.

pragmatic1 · 04-03-2011 12:16PM

SNES with a scope, super ghosts and ghouls, and mortal kombat.

Rubberlegs · 04-03-2011 12:20PM

Playdoh barbers shop. You shoved the playdoh into the head of a little plastic guy and wound a handle, the hair "grew" out of holes in his head and you could cut it with little scissors:). It was the next best thing to the Pretty Cut n Grow doll, never got one of them. Simple times....

SuperGrover · 04-03-2011 12:23PM

A Scalextric set with the JPS F1 cars, one white, one black.

Best. Christmas. Ever.

endabob1 · 04-03-2011 12:23PM

Matchbox Powertrack PT-3000 I thought I was king of the f--king world that Christmas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powertrack#Powertrack_sets

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sunflower27 · 04-03-2011 12:25PM

73Cat wrote: »

Playdoh barbers shop. You shoved the playdoh into the head of a little plastic guy and wound a handle, the hair "grew" out of holes in his head and you could cut it with little scissors:). It was the next best thing to the Pretty Cut n Grow doll, never got one of them. Simple times....

I remember those!!! My sister had one. I loved it - even the smell of the playdoh. Simple times indeed

snugglebear · 04-03-2011 12:40PM

has to be a lego- underwater (not really) aquatic command centre, hours of fun

hal9000 · 04-03-2011 12:50PM

lego airport set
http://danbrokamp.com/chicagobrickartist/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/6396-international_jetport_overhead-300x221.jpg

blaze1 · 04-03-2011 12:56PM

Gulliver wrote: »

Has to be either:
Action Force Dragonfly Helicopter
or
Cobra Rattler VTOL the next year
or
Atari 2600

I was going to say the rambo helicopter

but then saw your links

I got this one year

http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/W.H.A.L.E.

wicked, wish i still had it!

bm365 · 04-03-2011 01:14PM

Best present I got was a remote control JCB. I was about 6 at the time. It was when I was going through my trucks/diggers/cranes etc. phase. Best thing I remember about it was there was some sort of canister inside it so that when the JCB was going it gave off a diesel type smell from the exhust!! To me, that was the greatest thing ever! Thinking about it nowadays the smell probably got me high any time I used it and Im pretty sure it'd be banned from the market now.

Kersh · 04-03-2011 01:18PM

Christmas 1984, the last one before we moved from Ballymun to Swords.

I got the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars. I used to walk past the one in the window of Perrys in Ballymun shopping centre everyday in the run up to Christmas with my Mam

I was 8, and back in 1984 the Falcon was £40 or so. Tons of money.

But Mams and Dads are great

and I got it on Christmas morning. Still have it

Kersh · 04-03-2011 01:19PM

hal9000 wrote: »

lego airport set
http://danbrokamp.com/chicagobrickartist/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/6396-international_jetport_overhead-300x221.jpg

I got that in Christmas 1986, brilliant

podgemonster · 04-03-2011 01:22PM

Everyone got a mega drive but I got its cheap-ass cousin the Master System with Sonic the Hedgehog original, no saving when it was game over i had to start again from level one, hence hours of fun!

Mr Magners · 04-03-2011 01:26PM

Evel Knievel

Really giving away my age:D

kfallon · 04-03-2011 01:32PM

Mask toys, loved that cartoon

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.fish2/MASK/Figures/thunderhawk1.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.fish2/MASK/Figures/jackhammer.jpg

http://blog.motorcycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/maskcondor2c.jpg

old hippy · 04-03-2011 01:36PM

A microscope, with scalpels, slides, chemicals and all that whack.

I went through a dorky phase around 9

Liamario · 04-03-2011 01:47PM

I think I'd break down in tears if I ever saw it with my own eyes again/

spoofilyj · 04-03-2011 02:22PM

Amstrad 6128, was the most exciting pressie ever, still have it and it still works!!:D

maximoose · 04-03-2011 02:26PM

Looking back I feel sorry for my parents haha.. i'm one of four children and my parents were far from rich but we got spoilt rotten at Christmas time.

I think the best present I ever got was my GT Performer BMX

The years of enjoyment I got out of that bike :cool:

Persiancowboy · 04-03-2011 04:51PM

A toss up between subutteo table soccer or a transistor radio with an ear-plug (we're talkng the mid-70s here) which allowed me to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the sheets when i was supposed to be asleep...ah memories.:)