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Christmas Retro

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  • #32
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Oh wow, Mr Freeze and Mr. Pop. Both things I badly wanted and never got haha.

    Some of the stuff in that is gas, brought back so many memories, the C64... wow.


  • #33
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Spirograph!! I remember that!

    I had a commodore 64... used to love it. :)


  • #34
    Loughc
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    Posy wrote: »
    I had a commodore 64... used to love it. :)

    Yep I had one too and way too many games, remember Dizzy?


  • #35
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Loughc wrote: »
    Oh wow, Mr Freeze and Mr. Pop. Both things I badly wanted and never got haha.

    Some of the stuff in that is gas, brought back so many memories, the C64... wow.
    Me Freeze was crap. Not sure why they expected children to be able to crush ice with some plastic and their hands.


  • #36
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Loughc wrote: »
    Yep I had one too and way too many games, remember Dizzy?
    I do!
    My favorite was Buggy Boy, the car racing game. :)


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  • #37
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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


    So this is all kinds of amazing!


  • #38
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    The above video has a penny’s Christmas ad with the famous jingle and an acoustic version of war is over by u2.

    A-maz-ing


  • #39
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    That penneys ad & jingle brings back a load of memories.... talk about nostalgic!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #40
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    http://www.gosocial.co/new-cadburys-selection-boxes-christmas/

    Interesting wish they had a bigger selection (pardon the pun) of bars.


  • #41
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,173 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Loughc wrote: »
    http://www.gosocial.co/new-cadburys-selection-boxes-christmas/

    Interesting wish they had a bigger selection (pardon the pun) of bars.

    It would be great if it tasted the same!


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  • #42
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Oh I love the look of them. Very retro!
    gosocial wrote:
    If you’re one of those people who get excited for Christmas in September, then you’re in for a real treat.
    How did they know??! :D


  • #43
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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  • #44
    Loughc
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  • #45
    [Deleted User]
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    Great thread guys. I can recall Christmasses in the mid to late 80s. Is it fair to say while still commercialised to a degree it was a far simpler affair?

    It is probably because Ireland was still a state influenced heavily by the church. While I'm no Church goer myself today I long for that less commercialised time and a breakaway from this Christmas Inc shíte that it's morphed into.

    Another thing noticeable is that fewer hit Christmas songs released in modern day.


  • #46
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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  • #47
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Wow, turns out Christmas TV was always rubbish on RTÉ.


  • #48
    French_Girl
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭French_Girl


    Fab pics, Loughc!


  • #49
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Great pictures Loughc!! :)
    Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »
    Wow, turns out Christmas TV was always rubbish on RTÉ.
    Hahaha! :D


  • #50
    Loughc
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  • #51
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users Posts: 21,820 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    geez , just look at how young everyone is on all the covers , doesn't seem that long ago !!


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  • #52
    Loughc
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  • #53
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    More memories this time toy ones.

    https://www.joe.ie/life-style/16-classic-toys-that-every-irish-kid-growing-up-in-the-90s-wanted-499311


  • #54
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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  • #55
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I always had a bit of a soft spot for the stockings rather than the selection boxes.


  • #56
    Loughc
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    Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »
    I always had a bit of a soft spot for the stockings rather than the selection boxes.

    Same the net socks will always be Christmas selection boxes for me. Also look at the size of the bars!! Drool haha.


  • #57
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Loughc wrote: »
    Same the net socks will always be Christmas selection boxes for me. Also look at the size of the bars!! Drool haha.

    The Milky Way from the net was always the nicest Milky Way of the year. I can almost taste it right now.


  • #58
    funnights74
    Registered Users Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    There's a "colorized" version of Its a wonderful life on UK gold at the moment. Its just not right, leave alone please.


  • #59
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Some pics from the Argos Autumn/Winter catalog 1983

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  • #60
    ciara007
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭ciara007


    I have my eye on these lights we had the same ones on our tree as kids. 

    https://www.brownthomas.com/brown-thomas-navigation-catalog/40-pickwick-lights /130744657.html?cgid=root#q=christmas&prefn1=refinementSubCategory&prefv1=ChristmasLighting&start=1


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  • #61
    chuckles30
    Registered Users Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭chuckles30


    Oh it's great to see those old type of lights coming back.  I got LEDs for my mothers tree last year and they are lovely, but luckily it's in her porch.  I find them a bit too bright for a sitting room where you would be looking at it all night.  I have clear lights on my tree, but I would love to do something retro too, but I think I need another tree.  I don't think coloured lights would work with my current tree decs.


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