Your best ever xmas present as a kid

Pretty sad but I can't remember any apart from a stamp album when I was about 8 :angry:

As a 'family' we once got Monopoly and another time we got a ZX Spectrum which caused a mahoooosive arguement and ruined the day completely. :mad:
 
Must have been the mid 60's when I got all of the Thunderbirds.
Massive they were. Really huge.
Had Thunderbird 1, 2 and 3.
Thunderbird 2 had a removable pod with a door that opened, and inside were Thunderbird 4 and the Mole.
They were my favourite toys and I spent hours and hours playing with them.
 
Smiffy said:
Must have been the mid 60's when I got all of the Thunderbirds.
Massive they were. Really huge.
Had Thunderbird 1, 2 and 3.
Thunderbird 2 had a removable pod with a door that opened, and inside were Thunderbird 4 and the Mole.
They were my favourite toys and I spent hours and hours playing with them.
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I can remember them, they were fantastic.
 
Gee I am old!
Lot of this stuff I was buying for my own 2 boys.
Anyone remember Bayko Building Sets? Meccano for the less skilful.
Dewsweeper
 
dewsweeper said:
Gee I am old!
Lot of this stuff I was buying for my own 2 boys.
Anyone remember Bayko Building Sets? Meccano for the less skilful.
Dewsweeper
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My cousin had a Bayko building set (he was a baby of the early 1950s so a bit older than me) - and I used to enjoy building houses using the little metal rods and bricks - very clever system. But I have to disagree about Meccano being simpler. The year after my brother and I got the train set we got Meccano Set 6 - and I built some pretty mega bridges, cranes and splendid steam locomotives and ships. Used to build big long bridges for my train set. Brilliant.
 
Subbuteo Cricket ... that led to Subbuteo Football and many years of fun.
And then a few years ago, Mrs Shark bought me a set as a reminder.
 
If we include adult presents, I had a girlfriend who met me at the station on Xmas Eve and when we got back to her place, she only had a Xmas bow at a strategic place under her raincoat .... :)
 
Sony Playstation. I'd played on the Mega Drive before that and loved it, and was a big fan of the Championship Manager series on PC, but the Sony Playstation was my first proper console. Spent so much time on Xmas Day getting beat by my Dad at International Superstar Soccer Pro. Great times.
 
Subbuteo

Started with the basic pack and added it with pocket money. Ended up with about 40 teams, all the terracing anda stand, fllodlights, electric scoreboard etc (it even had the anti-riot fencing prevalent in grounds of the 1980's. Use to do cup comps with proper draws (including waiting for the 3rd round of the FA cup before the big clubs came in). A few mates and I had our own league and cup comps home and away. Played with it for years and years.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Subbuteo

Started with the basic pack and added it with pocket money. Ended up with about 40 teams, all the terracing anda stand, fllodlights, electric scoreboard etc (it even had the anti-riot fencing prevalent in grounds of the 1980's. Use to do cup comps with proper draws (including waiting for the 3rd round of the FA cup before the big clubs came in). A few mates and I had our own league and cup comps home and away. Played with it for years and years.
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Yup - can go with that also - we got Subbuteo Continental Club edition one Christmas in the early 70s. Though through time we got more teams, kickers, throwers, and pitch-side fencing that was it - we didn't go the whole hog like you did. We and our pals played it for years.
 
My late dad was a cabinet maker by trade and when I was about five he told me to go upstairs to my parents bedroom to find my present. He had painstakingly made by hand a fort with all the lookout posts and kitted it out with dozens of cowboys and indians. Over fifty years later I still remember that Christmas Day with great fondness
 
arnieboy said:
My late dad was a cabinet maker by trade and when I was about five he told me to go upstairs to my parents bedroom to find my present. He had painstakingly made by hand a fort with all the lookout posts and kitted it out with dozens of cowboys and indians. Over fifty years later I still remember that Christmas Day with great fondness
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Blimey - you've just reminded me of the fort that MY late dad - also a cabinetmaker - made me for one Christmas about 50yrs ago - I would have been a little older - maybe 6. It was great and yes - I can now remember the thrill. With me it was an outpost fort for my 7th Cavalry :) The next year he made my little brother a garage with lift to roof top car showroom. Thank you so much for reminding me.
 
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