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The best Christmas presents you had as a kid
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Posted 13 years ago
Mine.
Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agohours of fun for me and my brother.
Posted 13 years agoMamod Traction Engine. Like this one
Posted 13 years agoA XZ81 – I had loads of other cool pressies over the years, but when I got this when I was 11 it was just awesome! I spent hours typing out code from computer magazines!! Not that it did me much good, programming never sunk in!
Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoDerek Starship – I had that one too. I believe it is still at my mum’s somewhere packed away.
My favourite – my mum caught me and my brother getting it out way before Christmas and told us we had spoilt Christmas 🙁
And (something like this – mum and dad spent an age making it, complete with tunnels, bridges and a little town with a shop in it with the family name over the door).
Posted 13 years agoNot the best but one I remember most. (It was also rubbish, but we couldn’t afford Scalextric.)
Still have it, waiting for it to be worth something.
Posted 13 years agoI reckon it was probably this:
Was proper excited when I unwrapped that and I’ve still got it now
Posted 13 years agoand
Both second hand. I’ve followed my dad’s lead by buying second hand boxes of Lego and K’Nex for my kids. They play with them just about every day.
Posted 13 years agojohnny 7 OMA (One Man Army)
Bond’s Aston Martin
A balloon and a fan – great fun
It needs no introduction
Posted 13 years agoreally liked this
Posted 13 years agospooky Matt, that was mine too !
TCR as above was also one of mine,
Plus this,
Ammaco Team Sprint 84′Posted 13 years agoMine too – bought by my grandparents cos my parents were too tight
Posted 13 years agoBattling Tops.
40 years on, I’ve still got it.Posted 13 years agoUndoubtedly, my best present was a bike.
I think it was a second hand bike that I can’t remember make of or much more than it was blue with gold mudguards and that I loved it. It was certainly the present that I got the most, (ahem) mileage out of…The second best was probably my Action Man Scorpion Tank
After the caterpillar tracks fell off I swapped it for my cousin’s Action Man Armoured Car which went faster and stood up to a lot more abuse in the wars that used to take place in our garden.
I always wanted, but never got, this:
Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoKona Hahhanna when I was 13, my first proper mountain bike.
Like this oneOh and one of these a few years before
Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoPosted 13 years ago
Raleigh Chrome Burner!
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