Favorite toy you got for Xmas as a kid

[SlitheryDee]

 

[shortylickens]

Oh fuck yeah I had an Armatron!!

 

[nanette1985]

Chatty Cathy doll. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sYQ8_2v_Q&feature=related

I took it apart because I wanted to see what made her talk when you pulled the string. My mom took it away because I wasn't playing with it the "right" way. Later I found it in her closet and put it back together - after a few tries I made her talk again.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Oh yeah! I had that too! And I Robbie Junior.

 

[mcurphy]

Top 4 memorable Christmas presents:

Castle Grayskull with a slew of He-Man characters to go with it

C.H.I.P.S big wheel

NES

Sony Walkman

 

[sportage]

Few electronic toys in the 1960's. I guess Garloo #1, and a bit later, "Johnny Seven". Toy guns for boys were big back then. Vietnam was going strong.
Toys that got the kids outside, playing together and getting exercise.
Days long gone...

The only links I can find are from ebay auctions.
Amazing these toys are still around.

Garloo:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Gre...352?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f1186c420

Johnny Seven:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JOHNNY-SEVE...511?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb9ef0ef7

I think every kid in the neighborhood got a Johnny Seven that year.
Seven guns in one. What more could a kid want?

For the price collectors now sell these toys for, my mom should of bought a few hundred. Better investment than AT&T, back then.

Ps. Thought of more...
"Get Away Chase Game"
A car and track board. The mob chased by the FBI.
http://www.timewarptoys.com/chase1.jpg

Had one of these too:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-13-Saturn-Electronic-Walking-Robot-TV-Screen-/390232187668
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[Arkaign]

Probably my bike

 

[dawp]

http://www.manytoystosell.com/french/lists/master_list/toys/mini/Resize%20of IMG_6131.JPG
SSP toy cars had a flywheel that you got started with that black zip strip. the wheel would spin for what seemed like forever and go fairly fast.

some reason I could not embed the img, so linked

 

[highland145]

Ok, heres a real fucking blast. Verti-Bird. I had a few different versions of it as a kid. Really cool. Google it.

Forgot about them. Loved it. Would haul ass backwards.

If you saw how fast they came out, you would not LOL.

MotionMan

We couldn't have one but lawn darts were O.K. Guess the folks were going for the all or nothing injuries.

 

[PClark99]

The most memorable toy I got for Xmas was back in the 70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4B7CV4mPAM&feature=related

Milennium Falcon FTMFW!!!

 

[Old Hippie]

The only links I can find are from ebay auctions.
Amazing these toys are still around.

Garloo:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Grea...item3f1186c420

You had one too? Cool!

That thing would scare the shit out of my younger cousins.....GREAT fun!

I think my favorite stuff was my American Flyer train set-up.

I had a train-board/layout in the basement and every year on Christmas eve Satan would come and install new pieces.

Eventually an HO car track was integrated into the set-up.

 

[Rhezuss]

 

[lokiju]

Every time we got a new game system

Latest Atair system (had 2 or 3 versions IIRC)
NES
SNES
Genesis
Sega CD
Playstation 1
N64

Had a few old school Tandy computers thrown in there also that I'd load up on the huge 5 1/2" floppies stuff like Space Quest.

 

[Jadow]

Legos
Transformers
Nintendo Games

Remember the green transformer that you put together from small ones in to a bigger one? My mom bought me like 3 of those, but she never got that you need all of them to make the giant robot, so as a kid, I I would play with just the leg and torso, hehe.

 

[rasczak]

Legos
Transformers
Nintendo Games

Remember the green transformer that you put together from small ones in to a bigger one? My mom bought me like 3 of those, but she never got that you need all of them to make the giant robot, so as a kid, I I would play with just the leg and torso, hehe.

Ahhh Devastator!!!

I forgot about getting Optimus Prime as well. Man that x-mas was a fucking blast!

 

[Imported]

Oh man.. I remember that. I tossed the one I got as a kid in the trash just a few weeks ago while cleaning out the garage.

 

[TXHokie]

Atari 600XL computer. It's probably responsible for defining my life career in IT.

 

[crownjules]

It would be a tie between the Ghostbuster's Firehouse or Thundercat Lair. Probably the latter, because it had lights and sounds.

Later on, some of the big Lego sets I got like the electric train or monorail.

 

[SandEagle]

NES games, GI Joe figures, Transformers, Gobots.......

my fav was Ultra Magnus


life was good back then.

 

[purbeast0]

I have a bunch that I can remember being excited about.

Domino Rally
TMNT Sewer Lair
Torpedo Run
Crossfire
NCAA Basketball on SNES
Stanley Cup on SNES

EDIT:

oh yea and this thing!!!!

http://wtfoodge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/traxx.jpg

 

[slightlyhuman]

n64 definitely. accidentally opened super mario world first before i got to the n64. i went ape shit. miss being young. also a haro zippo bike.

 

[Elganja]

snes, i was amazed my dad even knew what that was when I was a kid

 

[purbeast0]

n64 definitely. accidentally opened super mario world first before i got to the n64. i went ape shit. miss being young. also a haro zippo bike.

heh N64 was THE reaon i got my first job at 14. i remember when i went to get it and i had to work that day. i brought the mario 64 and pilot wings 64 instruction books to work to read on my break.

 

[MichaelD]

Atari 2600, hands-down the most awesome XMas present ever. My brother still has it, complete with about 20 games, collecting dust in his basement. Wonder what it's worth?

 

[HAL9000]

My James Bond suit and accompanying briefcase of gadgets