Your favorite Christmas present that you ever recieved

[BigRedChief]

Just share.

Most valuable, meant the most as a kid, present from your kid whatever. No criteria. It's your favorite. Your qualifying criteria. For all my Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim etc friends..........just your best present will do.

If repost or Q nlm

For me it was a bike as a kid.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jmXcgn93TN0/TZ3zA-McyvI/AAAAAAAACNw/xfHuzIci-qQ/s640/HuffyWheel1.jpg

[Al Bundy]

1984 GT Pro Performer.
http://i58.tinypic.com/2wn0ius.jpg

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/atomic/006.jpg

http://www.theswca.com/images-toys/figuretoys/deathstar-front.jpg

[Al Bundy]

Ohh man.. the Death Star Space Station.

[Buehler445]

Quite honestly, money. I saved all of it my whole life and made the down payment on my house.

[hometeam]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HcwTaGHmotI/Tua84O7GplI/AAAAAAAAHtU/KxgK6PC5edE/s1600/DSC_0001.jpg

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Quite honestly, money. I saved all of it my whole life and made the down payment on my house.

That is a monk-like level of asceticism.

[Aries Walker]

I was like 12. My brother gave me his train set. I've had other good ones, but none like that.

[TimBone]

That is a monk-like level of asceticism.
Haha...no shit.

[TinyEvel]

My parents divorced when I was 8. Neither of them had much money, but my dad somehow managed to get us the one thing we wanted most each year. Not even sure how he knew, or how he paid for it. But looking back, each year the single most wanted toy or whatever, we somehow got.

This Tyco racing set was the tops. Hours and hours and days and weeks and months of great times racing these cars.

[cosmo20002]

Just share.

Most valuable, meant the most as a kid, present from your kid whatever. No criteria. It's your favorite. Your qualifying criteria.

If repost or Q nlm

For me it was a bike as a kid.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jmXcgn93TN0/TZ3zA-McyvI/AAAAAAAACNw/xfHuzIci-qQ/s640/HuffyWheel1.jpg

W in the F is that? That was a thing? Never seen that before.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

My parents divorced when I was 8. Neither of them had much money, but my dad somehow managed to get us the one thing we wanted most each year. Not even sure how he knew, or how he paid for it. But looking back, each year the single most wanted toy or whatever, we somehow got.

This Tyco racing set was the tops. Hours and hours and days and weeks and months of great times racing these cars.

I had a smaller one, but those were badass.

[cosmo20002]

My parents divorced when I was 8. Neither of them had much money, but my dad somehow managed to get us the one thing we wanted most each year. Not even sure how he knew, or how he paid for it. But looking back, each year the single most wanted toy or whatever, we somehow got.

This Tyco racing set was the tops. Hours and hours and days and weeks and months of great times racing these cars.

Aww, shit...haven't seen one of those in a while. Seems like I got of those for a few consecutive years. Inevitably, the track would get stepped on or the controllers would stop working and I'd need another one.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Aaaaaaaaaaand good for beating the piss out of each other:

http://playborhood.com/wp-content/uploads/hot_wheels_track.jpg

[Buehler445]

http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/atomic/006.jpg

http://www.theswca.com/images-toys/figuretoys/deathstar-front.jpg

I had that fucking pinball machine! Holy fuck. That brings back memories of my wood paneled basement. It was broke when I got it but I still used the shit out of it.

[ghak99]

The threesome the neighbor lesbian chicks delivered in college.

Alzheimer's couldn't erase the parts I remember.

[TinyEvel]

OK. Second best...

Coleco Head to Head Football. This was like Sega Genesis versus Atari 2600. Mattel football came on the scene, thought it was the best thing ever. Played that all night while listening to the new Styx album.

But now with Coleco Head to Head...TWO people can play at once? And have BLOCKERS?!? and also the option to PASS?

Sign me up.

Pretty friggen awesome.

look at Nintedo 3DS and then compare to this LED blips....it's almost laughable how much we liked this back then.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

I had that fucking pinball machine! Holy fuck. That brings back memories of my wood paneled basement. It was broke when I got it but I still used the shit out of it.

I loved that pinball machine. Used to beat the piss out of that thing.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Awwwwwwwwwww yeeeeah:

http://2e130c55e0c2763c8a20-c7a4d0feffd26319b59c92c4aecae366.r18.cf1.rackcdn.com/30b67d6914450233d81fe25a3cdda80c63404544.jpg

[cosmo20002]

OK. Second best...

Coleco Head to Head Football. This was like Sega Genesis versus Atari 2600. Mattel football came on the scene, thought it was the best thing ever. Played that all night while listening to the new Styx album.

But now with Coleco Head to Head...TWO people can play at once? And have BLOCKERS?!? and also the option to PASS?

Sign me up.

Pretty friggen awesome.

look at Nintedo 3DS and then compare to this LED blips....it's almost laughable how much we liked this back then.

I loved Head-to-Head football, but I recall it being kind of hard to actually play in two-player mode because you had to lay the thing flat on a table, which wasn't natural when you're used to playing it upright with your thumbs.

After a while it got pretty easy to beat the 'computer' and I'd just see if I could break my scoring record.

[BucEyedPea]

Cuisinart first year I got married. Was a total surprise and loved it.

[TinyEvel]

I loved Head-to-Head football, but I recall it being kind of hard to actually play in two-player mode because you had to lay the thing flat on a table, which wasn't natural when you're used to playing it upright with your thumbs.

After a while it got pretty easy to beat the 'computer' and I'd just see if I could break my scoring record.

It was totally dependent on if you were playing against a dude who was an asshole or not. Selfish bro's would tilt the game towards themselves, and thus a fight would ensue.

In perfect form, the game was horizontal and you were both hidden under one of your jackets to block out the light, so the LEDs could be more clearly seen (and teachers or schoolyard attendants might not know what you were doing)

[chiefs1111]

Aaaaaaaaaaand good for beating the piss out of each other:

http://playborhood.com/wp-content/uploads/hot_wheels_track.jpg

Oh man me and my brother used to beat the shit out of each other with them. Fun Times

[Buehler445]

That is a monk-like level of asceticism.

Heh.

Somehow or another the lessons of accruing interest and savings concepts sunk in. Maybe because in the 80s savings interest rates were balls ass high, but it worked. They stuck all my money in a savings account from when I was a kid so I saw what to me was a huge balance (laughably small) that came from saving money over time and stuck with it.

I don't know if it was genetic predisposition, blind luck, or masterful parenting, but I'm glad it worked. Hopefully I can get that through to my daughter.

It also helps that I began working summers at 8, so I had money around other places for doofy kid stuff and could cash flow major purchases.

[BigRedChief]

W in the F is that? That was a thing? Never seen that before.Yep, didn't last long. The brakes were dangerous as hell. Kids could do things most bikes at the time could not do. Kids got killed.

[Baby Lee]

I don't know if it was my all time favorite gift, but the most memorable 'Santa' presentation was when Santa left me my basketball backboard, with the hoop and the new basketball, and a Kings jersey, and new high tops.

Of course my sis got a similar spread laid out by Santa, but damned if I remember what she got. I was a hog in slop. When can we put it up Dad? Can you pour concrete in the snow Dad? Can I wear these when I go back to school Mom!!

[Simply Red]

green Swatch watch.

[In58men]

Authentic autographed DT jersey

[Simply Red]

http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/atomic/006.jpg

http://www.theswca.com/images-toys/figuretoys/deathstar-front.jpg

lil' chiefy would have loved that space station admit it.

[chefsos]

This Tyco racing set was the tops. Hours and hours and days and weeks and months of great times racing these cars.That reminded me of my second favorite. I can't remember the name or the manufacturer or anything, but it was a kickass racing set. Not slotted; the cars had a sort of wind up/friction motor and we cranked 'em up in pitstops and let 'em go. Wide, high banked track and it was a square or maybe a rectangle. It was awesome. I wish I could dig up a picture.

But #1 was very similar to this, when we were 12-14 or so. We ran that beast around the yard until we made banked ruts in our preferred turns, around the maple tree out front and the burning barrel out back. Dad looked at that and said, "Naw" and sold it, but he bought us a TV with the money!

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae22/chefsoscat/4c83_1.jpg

[R8RFAN]

My family didn't make much money and I think these are the best 2 things I ever got for Christmas....

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Mattel-FootballI.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41422B4PTML._SY300_.jpg

[UK_Chief]

3 pages and no one's mentioned BJs or PIIHA. You've changed

[Pepe Silvia]

Talk Boy, greatest toy ever.

[Sully]

Chiefs season tickets when I was 14

[BigMeatballDave]

My family didn't make much money and I think these are the best 2 things I ever got for Christmas....

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Mattel-FootballI.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41422B4PTML._SY300_.jpg
I had an electronic football game. Played the shit out of it. Loved it.

[beach tribe]

The NES.

Me and every other kid of my generation.

[beach tribe]

That is a monk-like level of asceticism.

I can't remember seeing a non-medical word that I didn't know the definition of.

I bow before your vocabulary.

[ILChief]

Yep, didn't last long. The brakes were dangerous as hell. Kids could do things most bikes at the time could not do. Kids got killed.

https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.snl.com/SNL_0043_06_Consumer_Probe.png

[beach tribe]

That is a monk-like level of asceticism.

After researching the word, I'm not so sure his discipline can be defined as such.

Edit: Nevermind. Yes it can.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

lil' chiefy would have loved that space station admit it.

LMAO

Lil' Chiefy would get his action figure stuck in the damned garbage compactor indefinitely.

My family didn't make much money and I think these are the best 2 things I ever got for Christmas....

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Mattel-FootballI.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41422B4PTML._SY300_.jpg

I had some Ross Perot, Texas Instruments version of that shit back in the day.

[displacedinMN]

My family didn't make much money and I think these are the best 2 things I ever got for Christmas....

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Mattel-FootballI.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41422B4PTML._SY300_.jpg


I have version 2 of that-with the pass option. IT STILL WORKS!!!!!

[BigRedChief]

3 pages and no one's mentioned BJs or PIIHA. You've changedLots of that discussion in the oral sex thread.

[Great Expectations]

Super Techmo Bowl

[cabletech94]

The NES.

Me and every other kid of my generation.

I remember stumbling upon this system in the trunk of my moms car (worst hiding place ever, right) like 3 weeks before xmas. I day dreamed of playing Mario EVERY. SINGLE. MOMENT.

and then a few years later when super Mario 2 came out, the stores couldn't keep it on the shelves. we went through all the unwrapping and was happy with what we got. then my mom said "oh, I think there's something that was missed.

great times.

[bdj23]

A Mossberg Ducks Unlimited 20 gauge pump shotgun when I was 12. It's still my favorite possession because of sentimental value alone.

Plus you'd probably wind up in the clink if you gave a 12 year old a shotgun for Christmas now'a'days.

[MTG#10]

Castle Grayskull

http://geek-news.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/geek/2013/02/mtvgeek_castlegrayskull_1.jpg

[Bwana]

No clue what the brand was but it was a cap gun set.

http://www.nightmarefactory.com/BF17.jpg

[mlyonsd]

http://www.rjtaylor.net/products/airship/images/johnny_astro/johnny13.jpg

I got this in like 1967 before we landed on the moon. It was awesome and the entire family played it all Christmas day.

[TrickyNicky]

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090110172328/lego/images/c/cf/6285006.jpg
My Dad spent a good bit of the evening sitting indian style just watching me build it. It was the first huge set I had ever attempted. He helped me with rigging the sails with string, but otherwise I had the rest. Just an awesome experience.

[SAUTO]

My parents divorced when I was 8. Neither of them had much money, but my dad somehow managed to get us the one thing we wanted most each year. Not even sure how he knew, or how he paid for it. But looking back, each year the single most wanted toy or whatever, we somehow got.

This Tyco racing set was the tops. Hours and hours and days and weeks and months of great times racing these cars.

I had the same story almost the same age. Dad bought me the aircraft carrier year one.

I'll never forget it

[LoneWolf]

http://www.riderzlaw.com/images/Dennis_Blogs/honda-ct70-pitbike.jpg

1971 Honda Mini Trail. I'm still amazed I didn't kill myself.

[mlyonsd]

1971 Honda Mini Trail. I'm still amazed I didn't kill myself.Awesome. My dad bought us one in 1972. Had a lot of fun on it.

[R8RFAN]

http://www.riderzlaw.com/images/Dennis_Blogs/honda-ct70-pitbike.jpg

1971 Honda Mini Trail. I'm still amazed I didn't kill myself.

I dreamed of one of those as a kid:deevee:

[kcxiv]

Awwwwwwwwwww yeeeeah:

http://2e130c55e0c2763c8a20-c7a4d0feffd26319b59c92c4aecae366.r18.cf1.rackcdn.com/30b67d6914450233d81fe25a3cdda80c63404544.jpg

yep, thats it for me too right there. I Think it was 1982 when i got one lol Loved Space invaders. played for fucking hours and hours as a kid

[BigRedChief]

No clue what the brand was but it was a cap gun set.

http://www.nightmarefactory.com/BF17.jpgWonder if Mom's think you'll put your eye out if you shoot it close to your face? If they still sell em? Would imagine kids would want BB guns???

[Infidel Goat]

Awwwwwwwwwww yeeeeah:

http://2e130c55e0c2763c8a20-c7a4d0feffd26319b59c92c4aecae366.r18.cf1.rackcdn.com/30b67d6914450233d81fe25a3cdda80c63404544.jpg

This as well.

I found the old Adventure game on-line and had to play it until I could find the hidden dot that you could use to open the the hidden easter egg page.

Good stuff.

[notorious]

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100509191013/lego/images/6/6a/6985_Box.jpg

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608025360716859216&pid=15.1&P=0

http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-at-at-toy-80s-600x350.jpg

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

This as well.

I found the old Adventure game on-line and had to play it until I could find the hidden dot that you could use to open the the hidden easter egg page.

Good stuff.

Totally jammed Adventure back in the day. Chopper Command and Pitfall FTMFW.

[Easy 6]

As a kid, too many to name just one, but a few highlights were the full size, fully articulated Batman & Robin dolls, Big Trac and the Millenium Falcon... I definitely got moms moneys worth out of all three.

As an adult, it was coming home to Fairbanks AK from a month in the field at Ft. Polk Louisiana, got home about midnight Christmas eve and the ex was waiting up for me wearing something naughty, she had the candles lit, the beer was cold... and it was hawt all night long, very romantic. Things were never better between us, we were both feeling the love big time that night.

[notorious]

As a kid, too many to name just one, but a few highlights were the full size, fully articulated Batman & Robin dolls, Big Trac and the Millenium Falcon... I definitely got moms moneys worth out of all three.

As an adult, it was coming home to Fairbanks AK from a month in the field at Ft. Polk Louisiana, got home about midnight Christmas eve and the ex was waiting up for me wearing something naughty, she had the candles lit, the beer was cold... and it was hawt all night long, very romantic. Things were never better between us, we were both feeling the love big time that night.

Did you ever get the canopy glass and dish to stay put?

[TinyEvel]

That reminded me of my second favorite. I can't remember the name or the manufacturer or anything, but it was a kickass racing set. Not slotted; the cars had a sort of wind up/friction motor and we cranked 'em up in pitstops and let 'em go. Wide, high banked track and it was a square or maybe a rectangle. It was awesome. I wish I could dig up a picture.


Sizzlers. I think they remanufacture them, too. The juice machine looks like a gas pump, takes 4 D batteries.

[DJJasonp]

http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/atomic/006.jpg

http://www.theswca.com/images-toys/figuretoys/deathstar-front.jpg

holy crap - I had both of those!

Shocking on the pinball machine....I thought those were pretty rare/random.

Guess they were more popular than I thought!

[notorious]

We had that pinball machine, too!

[Blindside58]

http://www.toysrgus.com/images-toys/figuretoys/falcon-esb-front.jpg

I think I caught Santa Claus mid set-up around midnight on this one and went back to bed...It was set up with action figures the next morning.

[notorious]

OH HELL

http://stevenjamesolson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/curvehuggers1-e1281460520708.jpg

[notorious]

I think I caught Santa Claus mid set-up around midnight on this one and went back to bed...It was set up with action figures the next morning.

That's the one.


The "glass" in the canopy always fell out, and the dish fell off, too.


The hidden panel on the floor was awesome.

[DJJasonp]

This was mine (with 64K Ram!!!!)

I pitched it as "I need this for high school"......but in reality, I wanted it because Pole Position actually LOOKED like the arcade pole position (rather than the original atari where it was 8-bit, blocky, etc.).

[Easy 6]

Did you ever get the canopy glass and dish to stay put?

Hmmm, I dont recall having any problems with those things, but its been a while of course.

[DJJasonp]

OH HELL

http://stevenjamesolson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/curvehuggers1-e1281460520708.jpg

Hell, I'd like to have this now! :)

[notorious]

Hell, I'd like to have this now! :)

Absolutely.

I might have to dig it up out of my parent's basement! Awesome fun until my older brother stole my chassis (which was the fastest) and switched it with his car body.

:(

Here was my fastest car.

https://www.slotcarsillustrated.com/slot-cars-for-sale/september/2012/TYCO_440-X2_DIEHARD_CHAMPION_STP_25TH_ANNIVERSARY_CHROME_25_SLOT_CAR_RUNNER_HOOD.JPG

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/TRS-80_Color_Computer_2-64K.jpg

[DJJasonp]

Absolutely.

I might have to dig it up out of my parent's basement! Awesome fun until my older brother stole my chassis (which was the fastest) and switched it with his car body.

:(

Here was my fastest car.

https://www.slotcarsillustrated.com/slot-cars-for-sale/september/2012/TYCO_440-X2_DIEHARD_CHAMPION_STP_25TH_ANNIVERSARY_CHROME_25_SLOT_CAR_RUNNER_HOOD.JPG

This memory has stuck with me through the years.....I recall at least two years in a row, going to the toy store at metcalf south the day after christmas, and rustling through the slot cars section and picking up a few - as they always had a ton of clearance deals the day after christmas.

Also, picking up the extra tires, etc.

I'll never forget, my dad used to take a pocket knife and cut slits into the tires, as he claimed that gave them more traction (who knows if true???) :)

[notorious]

I'll never forget, my dad used to take a pocket knife and cut slits into the tires, as he claimed that gave them more traction (who knows if true???) :)

It might have helped. I remember the cars going so fast they flew off the track. LMAO

[TinyEvel]

We always used to clean the pickups with a pencil eraser. The track, too. We'd also separate the track in one spot and stack Legos underneath one side to make a jump. We'd have our electric train go through that jump section so you had to time it right to miss the train.

[Pablo]

I'm gonna go with my Sega and Sega CD probably.

[Dartgod]

We always used to clean the pickups with a pencil eraser. The track, too. We'd also separate the track in one spot and stack Legos underneath one side to make a jump. We'd have our electric train go through that jump section so you had to time it right to miss the train.

Yep, did the pencil eraser thing too.

But, I was an AFX slot car guy myself. They had MAGNA-><-TRACTION!

http://www.slotcarsillustrated.com/misterconey_HO_sets_AFX/AURORA_AFX_ELECTRIC_HO_SCALE_SLOT_CAR_RACING_SET_2233_REVAMATIC_COMPETITION_BOX_LID.JPG

[ChiefRocka]

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2010/04/legoghostbusters.jpg

[Demonpenz]

those slot cars stunk with burning if you ran them for along time.

[Buehler445]

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100509191013/lego/images/6/6a/6985_Box.jpg

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608025360716859216&pid=15.1&P=0

http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-at-at-toy-80s-600x350.jpg

Those lego space series were fucking awesome!

[The Iron Chief]

http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/toys/atomic/006.jpg


I played that thing over and over and over again.
I think I remember eventually the little plastic legs broke over time.
Great present in its day..the sounds I can still hear ringing in my head.

I'll add this one...
http://nerdywithchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Evel-Knievel-Stunt-Bike.jpg

[ghak99]

I'm pretty sure I still have this thing somewhere.

http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/85/ussflagg/flagg_box.jpghttps://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7214/7386479430_f881f69ea1_z.jpg

[58-4ever]

My neighbor's wife gave me her panties last year.

[displacedinMN]

I have most of my toys from when I was a kid.

My mom can't throw anything away and I never had any need to take them out of their house.

I have my Tonka trucks, race track, matchbox/Hot wheels cars and garage, board games and the model cars I made.

Loved the race car set. We had it set up on the dining room table after we added more track. Ran the crap out of it.

The day is coming where we will have to clean out the house. It will take a year or more depending on the time I can spend there.

[ghak99]

I have most of my toys from when I was a kid.

My mom can't throw anything away and I never had any need to take them out of their house.

I have my Tonka trucks, race track, matchbox/Hot wheels cars and garage, board games and the model cars I made.

Loved the race car set. We had it set up on the dining room table after we added more track. Ran the crap out of it.

The day is coming where we will have to clean out the house. It will take a year or more depending on the time I can spend there.

My mom is the same way. I'd bet she still has every single truck, GI Joe, He-Man, Ninja Turtle, Lego, or whatever I didn't blow up as a teen put away in storage somewhere.

I restored one of the old Tonka trucks for the nephew and couldn't believe the crap she had stuffed away in totes.

[Otter]

http://craphound.com/images/2729474646_0daed9668f.jpg

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCIENCE-FAIR-160-in-One-ELECTRONIC-PROJECT-KIT-Used-Vintage-Very-Cool-/281529697161?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item418c7a4389

Wow, time flys.

I was lost for 3 months trying to complete every possible experiment in the book then eventually broke it taking it apart to see what made it work.

[Big Tedd]

I got a Schwinn World Sport road bike one year. My Dad kept it in the garage and waited until all the other presents were opened to give it to me. I was soooo excited when he took me out to the garage to see it. I rode around the block in the freezing cold temps and had the biggest smile ever when I came back home. The biggest, most enthusiastic smile I can remember.

[cosmo20002]

We always used to clean the pickups with a pencil eraser. The track, too. We'd also separate the track in one spot and stack Legos underneath one side to make a jump. We'd have our electric train go through that jump section so you had to time it right to miss the train.

That was always fun. After you played it awhile, figuring out modifications that were not intended. After sticking in some home-made ramps, we'd set it up on a table and see how far we could shoot the car off over the edge and onto the floor into some lego building down below.

[cosmo20002]

I'll add this one...
http://nerdywithchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Evel-Knievel-Stunt-Bike.jpg

Awesome...I had that Evel Knievel thing. I don't recall it working all that well.
Seems like there were a lot of similar toys like that but you stuck in a "ripcord" kind of thing and yanked it out to get the wheels spinning.

[stevieray]

Awesome...I had that Evil Knievel thing. I don't recall it working all that well.
Seems like there were a lot of similar toys like that but you stuck in a "ripcord" kind of thing and yanked it out to get the wheels spinning.

SST's

[lcarus]

I was super stoked when I got a Super Nintendo when it came out. I also got a pretty killer bike that year too. They tricked me that year. They gave my brother and I our bikes first and we felt very happy and appreciative that we got the bikes but we were really wanting a SNES. Later on they gave us the SNES and we were just super thrilled. Very fortunate that year.

[Easy 6]

Awesome...I had that Evil Knievel thing. I don't recall it working all that well.
Seems like there were a lot of similar toys like that but you stuck in a "ripcord" kind of thing and yanked it out to get the wheels spinning.

Here is something you and I can actually agree on, it didnt always work... but when it did it was pretty cool, he did scoot pretty fast when it worked.

[stevieray]

slot cars were the bomb...there used to be a place on 40 highway across from Cool Crest that sold cars, motors, slicks, etc....hours and hours of fun

new bike at five... but one my favorites was helmet, shoulder pads, football and tee...was seven or eight..I think I have a pic...might have to dig it up...

[cosmo20002]

SST's

Ah, yes...that's it. :thumb:

[stevieray]

Ah, yes...that's it. :thumb:

they were actually pretty fast.

[SAUTO]

I can't wait until my youngest can race little cars. I'm pumped and he is a car lover. It's going to be so much fun. I wanted to get him a big ass hot wheels track this year but he likes to play with the cars too much.

[alpha_omega]

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/globalmedia/nmem/73784_2.PNG

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/globalmedia/nmem/73784_2.PNG

Fuck George Plimpton. :)

[alpha_omega]

Fuck George Plimpton. :)

Oh ya, I fogot about him.....

The baseball game was awesome.

[Buzz]

I can't wait until my youngest can race little cars. I'm pumped and he is a car lover. It's going to be so much fun. I wanted to get him a big ass hot wheels track this year but he likes to play with the cars too much.

I bought my son one of those ride on, electric 4 wheelers at about the age of 3 or 4 for Christmas. We would play in the culdesac till the battery ran out, him driving around and I would give the rear tire a little kick and he would spin out and laugh and laugh. Warms my heart thinking about that.

[SAUTO]

I bought my son one of those ride on, electric 4 wheelers at about the age of 3 or 4 for Christmas. We would play in the culdesac till the battery ran out, him driving around and I would give the rear tire a little kick and he would spin out and laugh and laugh. Warms my heart thinking about that.

They make em even smaller now, my little one just turned 2 and always gets a hot wheel at the store with dad. One day we turn the corner and there is a ride on mater. He says "truck daddy" and for 40 bucks I couldn't say no.


He has ridden the living SHIT out of that thing for at least the last six months, we have had so much fun.

[stevieray]

I bought my son one of those ride on, electric 4 wheelers at about the age of 3 or 4 for Christmas. We would play in the culdesac till the battery ran out, him driving around and I would give the rear tire a little kick and he would spin out and laugh and laugh. Warms my heart thinking about that.

my oldest was about 10, brand new bike under the tree...fisrt words? WHERES"S MY JEEP?

:deevee:

[Buzz]

my oldest was about 10, brand new bike under the tree...fisrt words? WHERES"S MY JEEP?

:deevee:

Been there too, we can't win them all.

[stevieray]

Been there too, we can't win them all.

love that kid! we laugh about it today.

[Rain Man]

My uncle gave me a very high-quality football when I was about 8. Hands-down winner, but other finalists include:

Thinking man's football game at about 10 or 11
Football cards most years
Electric football and a full football uniform when I was 7
Talking football when I was 10 or 11

I really liked football. I miss those days.

I got a demolition derby board game when I was six that piqued my interest in games, so it's a key game even if I never really learned how to play it right.

I don't remember if I got the Game of Life for Christmas or if it was just a family purchase, but it also got me into gaming.


As an adult, my favorite gifts have probably been my Tanita Innerscan Body Composition Monitor (weight scale that estimates fat content) and my Ultimate Breadman bread machine.

[stevieray]

Talking football when I was 10 or 11


OH.MY.GOSH.

I forgot about talking football...that ROCKED.

I also really liked the basketball game with the ping pong ball with levers that shot the "ball" from holes all over the court...anyone else remember that?

[lewdog]

Mine was packs of sports cards or starting lineup sports figures. Always the best.

[gblowfish]

Mrs. Blowfish agreed to marry me on Christmas Eve.
Is that corny enough for you?

[Buzz]

love that kid! we laugh about it today.


;)

They are adorable until the teenage years, get through that and hopefully it gets easier, mine did. Actually was a much better kid then I ever was, don't know why I got so blessed.

[stevieray]

NBA BAS-KET...

[Paniero]

NES nigga

[Buzz]

TCR racing was the bomb, had a race track set up on top of a pool table complete with train track model buildings. Good Times...

[Rain Man]

NBA BAS-KET...


I didn't have that, but a friend of mine did. It was one of the coolest things ever.

[Rain Man]

OH.MY.GOSH.

I forgot about talking football...that ROCKED.

I also really liked the basketball game with the ping pong ball with levers that shot the "ball" from holes all over the court...anyone else remember that?

I couldn't play Talking Football with any other kids because they would just pick the "Gadget Play" or the "Long Pass" every single time. You'd win because I think the Gadget Play had about six outcomes, one of which was a touchdown. But I played the heck out of it on a solo basis. I'd set up schedules and play an entire NFL season.

But Thinking Man's Football trumped Talking Football in terms of game quality, so once I got TMF I stopped playing TF.

[lewdog]

A blowjob from KCNative's wife.

[stevieray]

I didn't have that, but a friend of mine did. It was one of the coolest things ever.

yup, all about the touch! half court shots!

[Rain Man]

I never had a classic slot car set, but Hot Wheels had a "Sizzler" set that was similar, and I got that for one year. It was really pretty cool. The cars would get "juiced up" and run around the track (no controls, they'd just run), and the thing that fascinated me most was the lap counter.

The cars had little antennas, and they would go through the lap counter, which was basically a tunnel, and the antennas would trip a mechanical counter. Each car's antenna was slightly offset, so it could record laps for four cars pretty well. Anyone else remember these?

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vvUJPXKadmw/maxresdefault.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvkkTGld1nvYyUiFki9nBqsAqkctzo2lGTGE8UNWsaYhCVsdCb

This was the lap counter, which fascinated me with it's mysterious and magical inner workings.

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mQHN5lKA1983zcIWBQ2ht1Q.jpg

[Al Bundy]

A blowjob from KCNative's wife.

:doh!:

[Buehler445]

They make em even smaller now, my little one just turned 2 and always gets a hot wheel at the store with dad. One day we turn the corner and there is a ride on mater. He says "truck daddy" and for 40 bucks I couldn't say no.


He has ridden the living SHIT out of that thing for at least the last six months, we have had so much fun.

Kudos to you for getting the battery to last that long.

[Cheater5]

Easy; when I was 8 years old I got the Crossman 766 air rifle. Thousands and thousands of BBs shot through that thing. Beer Cans, traffic signs, Army men, GI Joes, frogs, model airplanes, a few birds, light bulbs...

loved that gun.

[ChiTown]

NBA BAS-KET...

THAT game was hella fun. rep for the good memories.

[Buehler445]

Easy; when I was 8 years old I got the Crossman 766 air rifle. Thousands and thousands of BBs shot through that thing. Beer Cans, traffic signs, Army men, GI Joes, frogs, model airplanes, a few birds, light bulbs...

loved that gun.

I had a hand-me-down from my brother. I shot up a bunch of cans, but I was a bird killing mo-fo. Mom fed them and I killed them. She got real pissed when I smoked off squirrels, so I only did that when she was gone. I also killed far to many rabbits than any normal person should. I typically couldn't kill them with one shot, so I typically needed an assist from the dog, or chase it through everywhere for another shot.

As much shit as I've killed with that thing, it's a miracle I'm not a serial killer. Wait....Maybe that gun is WHY I'm not a serial killer.

[Wallcrawler]

bHncoxvxRO8


Followed very closely by

ScmLeMY3XoI

[Radar Chief]

Easy; when I was 8 years old I got the Crossman 766 air rifle. Thousands and thousands of BBs shot through that thing. Beer Cans, traffic signs, Army men, GI Joes, frogs, model airplanes, a few birds, light bulbs...

loved that gun.

:thumb:
Mine was a Daisy Saddle Rifle, a .30-30 replica that I flat wore out. Seriously by the end it would barely even expel a bb, they just kinda fell out of the barrel.

[scho63]

My family didn't make much money and I think these are the best 2 things I ever got for Christmas....

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Mattel-FootballI.jpg


I loved this game but it caused so many fights in our household because my father, my brother and I NEVER would relinquish the game to anyone else.

How about the sound it used to make with those little red blips??? :LOL:

[scho63]

KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU FOR POSTING THESE AND REMINDING ME OF MY CHILDHOOD! I REMEMBER ALL OF THESE THAT I HAD OR USED! :thumb::thumb::thumb:

Aaaaaaaaaaand good for beating the piss out of each other:

http://playborhood.com/wp-content/uploads/hot_wheels_track.jpg

I had that ****ing pinball machine! Holy ****. That brings back memories of my wood paneled basement. It was broke when I got it but I still used the shit out of it.

http://www.riderzlaw.com/images/Dennis_Blogs/honda-ct70-pitbike.jpg

1971 Honda Mini Trail. I'm still amazed I didn't kill myself.

OH HELL

http://stevenjamesolson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/curvehuggers1-e1281460520708.jpg

I played that thing over and over and over again.
I think I remember eventually the little plastic legs broke over time.
Great present in its day..the sounds I can still hear ringing in my head.

I'll add this one...
http://nerdywithchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Evel-Knievel-Stunt-Bike.jpg

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/globalmedia/nmem/73784_2.PNG

NBA BAS-KET...

Just share.

Most valuable, meant the most as a kid, present from your kid whatever. No criteria. It's your favorite. Your qualifying criteria. For all my Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim etc friends..........just your best present will do.

If repost or Q nlm

For me it was a bike as a kid.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jmXcgn93TN0/TZ3zA-McyvI/AAAAAAAACNw/xfHuzIci-qQ/s640/HuffyWheel1.jpg

[siberian khatru]

Two that immediately come to mind:

<img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/VertibirdShip.jpg">

<img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://p2.la-img.com/1281/26727/10037607_1_l.jpg">

[siberian khatru]

I never had a classic slot car set, but Hot Wheels had a "Sizzler" set that was similar, and I got that for one year. It was really pretty cool. The cars would get "juiced up" and run around the track (no controls, they'd just run), and the thing that fascinated me most was the lap counter.

The cars had little antennas, and they would go through the lap counter, which was basically a tunnel, and the antennas would trip a mechanical counter. Each car's antenna was slightly offset, so it could record laps for four cars pretty well. Anyone else remember these?

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vvUJPXKadmw/maxresdefault.jpg



Yes, my uncle (who is four years older than me) had that. Did you put the tip of the energizer on your tongue? You'd get a little charge out of it. That's probably gonna manifest itself as a brain tumor at some point.

[DMAC]

The GI Joe aircraft carrier is the ultimate toy. Nothing comes close.

[BigRedChief]

The GI Joe aircraft carrier is the ultimate toy. Nothing comes close.Wanted one, never got one due to us being poor.

Which made the bike extra special.

[Al Bundy]

Wanted one, never got one due to us being poor.

Which made the bike extra special.

I never owned one as a kid either, but bought one (and still have it) as an adult.

[Braincase]

My son.

[Rain Man]

OH HELL

http://stevenjamesolson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/curvehuggers1-e1281460520708.jpg


I remember openly salivating over setups like that when I would see them in the Sears catalog. But it was so far out of the realm of possibility that I would just sigh and flip to the models in the women's underwear section.

[Rain Man]

Yes, my uncle (who is four years older than me) had that. Did you put the tip of the energizer on your tongue? You'd get a little charge out of it. That's probably gonna manifest itself as a brain tumor at some point.


It never occurred to me to do that. I tended to follow the instruction manuals pretty closely with my toys.

[Hamwallet]

http://craphound.com/images/2729474646_0daed9668f.jpg

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCIENCE-FAIR-160-in-One-ELECTRONIC-PROJECT-KIT-Used-Vintage-Very-Cool-/281529697161?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item418c7a4389

Wow, time flys.

I was lost for 3 months trying to complete every possible experiment in the book then eventually broke it taking it apart to see what made it work.

I had one of those also. Loved making the alarm and rigging my bedroom door up, you know, make sure nobody went in my room while I was at school.

[Dartgod]

I had one of those also. Loved making the alarm and rigging my bedroom door up, you know, make sure nobody went in my room while I was at school.

I had one of those too. Also had some sort of chemistry set.

Edit: Mine was actually a 65-in-1 kit. We were kind of poor.

Another present I loved was a kickass erector set.

http://mcregan71.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/05erector1976-motorized.jpg

[cdcox]

But Thinking Man's Football trumped Talking Football in terms of game quality, so once I got TMF I stopped playing TF.

This was a fantastic game for its time. I didn't own it, but played it at a friends house. I don't think any game surpassed it until Sandbox Simulations, which came out in 2011 or so.

Football games I owned:

1) Electric Football (Chiefs - Vikings reprise)
2) Original MNF game
3) Mattel electronic football
4) This obscure electronic game pictured below:

http://assets.suredone.com/1766/media-photos/sd004953-vintage-1969-computer-football-game-555-electronic-data-control-sports-games.jpg

The best of these was the MNF game, but it paled in comparison to TMF.

[BigRedChief]

I had one of those too. Also had some sort of chemistry set.

Edit: Mine was actually a 65-in-1 kit. We were kind of poor.

I can't believe that they even existed. Giving kids the ability to make arsenic and shit that will explode??:)

What could possibly go wrong?

[beach tribe]

OH HELL

http://stevenjamesolson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/curvehuggers1-e1281460520708.jpg
why do I have so much trouble finding these in this day and age?
Did they really stop making something so awesome?

[BryanBusby]

Finding out that I'm going to be a dad was a nice early Christmas gift this year.

Beyond that, getting my own PC when I was 12 was bad ass. Watched so much porn that night :)

[TimeForWasp]

http://www.rjtaylor.net/products/airship/images/johnny_astro/johnny13.jpg

I got this in like 1967 before we landed on the moon. It was awesome and the entire family played it all Christmas day.

Wow. I got one too but it was the portable one. Had to be around the same year too. Must have been popular in South Dakota as I lived there growing up.

http://www.johnnyastro.com/Johnny%20Images/Explorer.jpg

[mdchiefsfan]

Just got mine tonight. From my girlfriend of 7 years' son:

http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q561/Aequitas009/A566560D-5EDF-431D-8D4C-45C4650B4153_zpsq94ny4vx.jpg (http://s1164.photobucket.com/user/Aequitas009/media/A566560D-5EDF-431D-8D4C-45C4650B4153_zpsq94ny4vx.jpg.html)

[cosmo20002]

I had one of those too. Also had some sort of chemistry set.

Edit: Mine was actually a 65-in-1 kit. We were kind of poor.

Another present I loved was a kickass erector set.

http://mcregan71.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/05erector1976-motorized.jpg

I think it is amazing that there was a time when you could market a toy based on the word "erect." The only erector you see now is Cialis.

[ping2000]

It was a field goal kicker that you bopped on the head and it kicked. Came with a goal post. More accurate than Lin Elliot. Had SST racers too.

[TinyEvel]

It was a field goal kicker that you bopped on the head and it kicked. Came with a goal post. More accurate than the kicker that shall go unnamed. Had SST racers too.

SUPERJOCK series. They were rad cuz that football was pretty hard and we'd slam the **** out of the head to see how far into my friend's sisters room we could send that ball flying. :thumb:

[Rain Man]

Just got mine tonight. From my girlfriend of 7 years' son:

http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q561/Aequitas009/A566560D-5EDF-431D-8D4C-45C4650B4153_zpsq94ny4vx.jpg (http://s1164.photobucket.com/user/Aequitas009/media/A566560D-5EDF-431D-8D4C-45C4650B4153_zpsq94ny4vx.jpg.html)


That's very nice. But customarily doesn't one display prized trophies on the mantle instead of inside the laundry room pantry closet?

[BigRedChief]

SUPERJOCK series. They were rad cuz that football was pretty hard and we'd slam the **** out of the head to see how far into my friend's sisters room we could send that ball flying. :thumb:LMAO

[scho63]

Not sure if anyone posted this but my cousin got one of these back in the 70's and we used up the whole damn thing in like 2 days! It was awesome and I never her of stuff like this anymore.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4081/4884317151_9b73cecbf7.jpg

[scho63]

http://www.riderzlaw.com/images/Dennis_Blogs/honda-ct70-pitbike.jpg

1971 Honda Mini Trail. I'm still amazed I didn't kill myself.

I got into a bad accident on one of these when one of my neighbors let me drive it and the throttle cable stuck, I was about 14 years old. I went straight into the woods and into a tree and was knocked unconscious. I had a knot on my head like a softball and his gas tank was dented and handle bars bent. I missed having a broken branch go straight into my head by about 6 inches.

I've been afraid of motorcycles ever since! :fear: