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Favourite childhood Christmas presents

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  • CharltonManor1966
    CharltonManor1966 Posts: 145
    Man from UNCLE cap gun!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,000
    Stretch Armstrong. 
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,678
    edited December 24
    James Bond 007 Scalextric....wish I still had it apparently worth a few bob now.......


    Since the 1960s, Scalextric have offered TV and film tie-ins, beginning with the now rare and valuable James Bond 007 set, featuring an Aston Martin with action features as shown in the film Goldfinger. Even the 'baddie' car in this set, a Mercedes, had action features of its own, whilst the set also sported many other unique action points and props......taken from Wiki.

  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,327
    CharltonKerry said:
    Magnetic table football, got it when I was 10 on Christmas Day 1962, the day before the big freeze. Played it with my older brother throughout the long long winter. Loved it.
    I had a magnetic car game similar to the football game when I was about 8 and spent hours driving it around a little track. For the life of me I can't remember what it was called.

     I'vee often looked out for it when I have been to retro shops and boot sales but never seen it :(.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,277
    edited December 24
    Power Point football boots
    Images
    Power Boots 1966-76 Beyond The Last Man
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,229
    edited December 24
    All different years...

    Biker mice from mars base and action dolls. 

    Batman suit.

    A giant beanbag. (Bit of a cheap year)

    SNES game system. 

    Game boy. 

    Probably my favourite was a large wooden fort with American civil war toy soldiers. I was always Confederate. (Still got it and if I ever have a kid they're having it and if they don't want it, then they better look for foster parents) 


  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,275
    This... Lego Indigo Island from the Pirates theme, always stuck with me, as remember asking for it, and didnt get it in my initial pile of presents - My Dad then did the trick of: "Oh Santa left this present upstairs" and I still to this day remember screaming the name of the set in excitement as they gave it to me... God there would have been trama had it not been that :D

    Lego 6278 Enchanted Island Lego Indigo Island Parrot Indigo Minecraft Lego LEGO 6278 Pirates Islanders

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,932
    Would have been Christmas 1962 ..Two presents stick in the memory.I was 5 

    Britain Toys a number of Union Soldiers ( swoppit as they were known) and a bright red home made sled ..it snowed like billio the following day so great timing. 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,087
    Gotta be my Sega Game Gear in 1993 or my N64 in 1997. 
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,741
    eastterrace6168 said:
    I remember asking for a Scalextric in the early 60's, but felt a bit cheated when my Dad got me a Tri-ang Minic Motorways, very small version, always felt inadequate compared to my mates Scalextric... 
    Isn't it funny (as in strange) how these memories remain with us for life.  I'm sure most of us ( I have definitely) had some pretty awful episodes throughout life which we tend to put behind us but some things we can't forget. 

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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,650
    A PlayStation, with Actua Soccer, Actua Golf and Mutant Football League
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,894
    It's got to be a bike I had called a wolfgang or my 1st ever PlayStation with spyro, v rally and metal gear solid.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,666
    A-Team replica figures and a kind of fire station stunt building thing they hung out in I think??
  • EastbourneAddick
    EastbourneAddick Posts: 3
    Got lots of great presents but funnily enough one year I asked for a box of twiglets ( yes they used to come in boxes) and I was doubly pleased as my mum and dad bought 2 boxes as well as other presents !
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 883
    edited December 25
    My cousin got this one year, it was great 
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 947
    Red and white football kit. Charlton lookalike kit, deffo wasn't official.
    Airfix 1:24 Spitfire model, the year they were first produced. Must have been 1971/2 I guess.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 706
    Johnny Astro!, undoubtedly in the top ten of fan assisted balloon landing space simulation games.

  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,840
    CaptainRobbo said:
    My cousin got this one year, it was great 
    Shit. I had this too. I had never heard of Dr Pepper at the time. 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,713
    church-lane said:
    Red and white football kit. Charlton lookalike kit, deffo wasn't official.
    Airfix 1:24 Spitfire model, the year they were first produced. Must have been 1971/2 I guess.
    Red shirt with white collar and cuffs? I'm sure i got that about 1964ish.
    I don't think you could get replica kits for kids then.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,461
    CharltonManor1966 said:
    CharltonManor1966 said:
    Me in my new sports car 1964!! Wish I still had it.....
    If there’s a reward, I saw it parked outside @Millwallfan gaff with different number plates. 😉

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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,833
    Etch-a-sketch, Spirograph, Chemistry set, Fuzzy Felt, Zoo and Farm animals. Francie doll, she was Barbie's cousin if I remember correctly.

    Big teddy bears called Cuddles and Goldie, one was mine and one belonged to my sister, but we often swapped. Cuddles was pink and blue, perhaps because my Dad played for and was connected to Dulwich Hamlet. Goldie was black and gold. I was about 5 or 6 and my sister 2 years younger when we found them at the bottom of our beds on Christmas morning. 

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