Best Christmas Gifts Received as a Kid

[jayg]

 

I wore this thing out. 

[Sweats]

14 hours ago, jayg said:

 

I wore this thing out. 

 

 

 

I got this as a kid one year........at the time, this was huge and everyone just about had one.

[Buftex]

 

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[Bob Lamb]

 

Physiatrist Approved

[BADOLBILZ]

 

This one.   The Death Star set was another great one from that late 70's era but I chose this Sears exclusive because it was all about the great Cantina figures you couldn't get in stores and the Cantina scenes were probably the coolest part of the movie to us as kids.  

[Mikie2times]

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[Ned Flanders]

On 11/27/2024 at 4:16 PM, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

Creepy crawlers 

Lincoln logs 

Revell model cars

Had Creepy Crawlers and also Mattel came out with a similar product where you made your own Army men.  You would fill the mold half way with the goo, put in a metal form about the texture of a paper clip, and fill the mold to the top.  You then had a bendable Army guy.

 

Lincoln Logs very underrated and augmented my Fort Apache playset.

 

Built all sorts of models, Revell and Monogram cars, ships, and planes, AMT model cars but Aurora monster models were the best.  They also put out sports hero models...I remember building Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown, Willie Mays, and Babe Ruth. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

17 hours ago, Bob Lamb said:

 

Physiatrist Approved

 

13 minutes ago, Ned Flanders said:

Had Creepy Crawlers and also Mattel came out with a similar product where you made your own Army men.  You would fill the mold half way with the goo, put in a metal form about the texture of a paper clip, and fill the mold to the top.  You then had a bendable Army guy.

 

Mattel had a number of variations on the injection molding toy.  I got one on Christmas from 'Santa', 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' (mother) immediately confiscated it, put it in attic storage, and gave it to a family in the neighbourhood with slightly younger children. 🤔

'Santa' in my family was my father, who would hit Maxims (Hertel Ave.), Twin Fair, or I.D.S (Central Park), on the last night he worked before Christmas Eve.  The three kids in the house were under strict orders NOT to go near his car in the driveway.  One year, I saw him shoveling snow from the snowbank onto the car to obscure the view of the interior. 😁

[Goin Breakdown]

Dukes of hazzard figures.
Rambo figures.

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