Mine.
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AT-AT - still remember that one, and the cool thing is all my star wars kit is at my folks house, and now my kids play with it when they visit Grannie and Papa. lovely! 🙂
Interestingly, new one looks basically identical to the one i got 25 years ago:
Kev
An ultra burner.
hungry hippos or my first bike raleigh nitro baby!
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Subbuteo World Cup
(it had the Argentina team)
An A-Team branded gun that fired grenades and sticky darts.
God it was amazing...
It had all manner of attachements and configurations including sniper tripod.
Best mate down the road got one too. Awesome!
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hours of fun for me and my brother.
Mamod Traction Engine. Like this one
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Lego trainset with remote points and level crossings. Going to get it out when I go home as Christmas 🙂
And the air rifle I got on my 12th birthday was amazing 🙂
A 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!
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Done a quick google but can't find it - anyone recall - it was an Action Man plane/boat thing as I recall - you could convert it from one to the other - early 80s I guess.
Various Action Man figures (proper ones with fuzzy hair, eagle eyes and gripping hands - not the moulded crap they sell nowadays)
Evel Knivel stunt bike
ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64
Lego, hands down.
Derek 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 🙁
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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).
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Muffin-man - that's the one 🙂 funny thing is it looks pretty crap now - loved it at the time - remember being just silly excited when I got it...
muffinman - I got a ZX81 when I was 11.
Mum and dad bought it from WH Smith for £69.95. I loved it so much.
I got a Byg Byte 32k RAM pack for my birthday in the following Feb.
32k was MASSIVE - we're talking Met Office memory!
Not the best but one I remember most. (It was also rubbish, but we couldn't afford Scalextric.)
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Still have it, waiting for it to be worth something.
I reckon it was probably this:
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Was proper excited when I unwrapped that and I've still got it now
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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.
matthew - I had that too - that was probably my second choice 🙂
johnny 7 OMA (One Man Army)
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Bond's Aston Martin
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A balloon and a fan - great fun
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It needs no introduction
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really liked this
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spooky Matt, that was mine too !
TCR as above was also one of mine,
Plus this,
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Ammaco Team Sprint 84'
Mine too - bought by my grandparents cos my parents were too tight
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Has to be a chemistry set. Amazing thing it was, even though it got me into trouble a few times with blackened ceilings and spilt chemicals. And burnt fingers. And trips to A&E.
Maybe buying the extra chemicals was a bad idea...
Battling Tops.
40 years on, I've still got it.
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Undoubtedly, 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
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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:
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Kona Hahhanna when I was 13, my first proper mountain bike.
Like this one
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Oh and one of these a few years before
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Raleigh Grifter in red....absolute go-anywhere, poorly geared, lump of iron. But I loved it!
No good at the pictures thing but:-
Action man stuff was my personal fave every year,
The plane/car/boat combo above
The Scorpion Tank
The Training Tower
Submarine
assault boat
105mm howitzer
i was spoilt rotten really.
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Plus various Action Men over the years, don't recall that wierd aircraft above though but if it was 1980's I'd probably outgrown playing with the likes of Action man etc. Had deja vu last christmas though when son asked for & got a lot of the HM Armed Forces action man rip off stuff - their battle tank looks suspisciously like the AM Scorpion above.
I had a proper Action Man with fuzzy hair and non of that modern day eagle eye and gripping hand rubbish.
Figure of 8 Scalextrix.
The rest of them were of dubious quality and not what I either wanted or asked for, in my opinion. (Wouldn't a 4 letter adjective be better and quicker here?).
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Raleigh Chrome Burner!
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😉 😉 😉
Evel Knievel jump bike, the trusting look in my little brothers eyes as I wound up the motor before sending Evel across mums lyno kitchen floor towards the launch ramp just by our kids knees, and the sight of Evel clearing both brothers legs then crashing into the kitchen cupboards.
Mums look towards dad as she stirred the gravy was not the look he married her for !, but
Great choice of toy, thanks dad.
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Mine didn't come with Skyway Mags though...
Ones that vividly stick in my mind are a radio (aged 10), chemistry set (about 10 or 11), mamod engine (8/9) and air rifle (12ish).
I'm over 45 now and still got the last two.
🙂
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Hours and hours of fun, wonder what happened to it? Actually I suspect it got removed on the quiet due to the amount of small metal cars being launched at various targets.
this one isn't mine but one of these....
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117982
i had to forgo the school ski trip in order to get it, totally worth it
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Good thread this - takes me right back.
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spent ages getting blisters on my hands playing daley thompsons decathlon
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handlebars were the perfect shape to allow you to safely miss them and faceplant on tarmac when you went over the bars - and i did, several times
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hours of fun sending evel down the stairs much to my parents annoyance
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My brother sent to me for Christmas a long time ago a chemistry kit.I had lots of fun with my first Chemistry Set! this was my best gift as kid.
Well thank you for that SPAM diane. May you sell many chemistry sets.
Gameboy Color with a Gameboy Camera + Printer 😀
OMG, talk about memories, sigh, its a shame we grow up,
big ups to:
AT AT
Amstrad CPC464
Speccy 48K
Lego
and
INVADER 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i waited months for this hoping/praying "Santa would deliver"
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i also found this while tiding up the other day ahhhhh 1977 and my first action man.I don`t know why i have that hat on
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[url=
Derby[/url].
Please watch. It's trailertrashilicious, and I wanted a set for TWO CHRISTMASes before [s]my parents[/s] Father Christmas finally gave it to me.
I can't remember many of them but sticks in my mind.
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SaxonRider^^^ Yeeeeeeeeehaaa
Wtf is this
Another Johny Seven