Christmas as a kid

[steveffisher]

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Dinky SHADO Mobile with those little yellow and black plastic rockets you always fired and lost under the sofa. Or the red rockets you lost when the Batmobile fired them.

[mazzer]

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Favourite present ever - apart from a baby rabbit when I was 11 - was my Petite Super International Typewriter. I'd craved one for SO long and loved it to bits. Started at least 3 novels on it! (never finished them though - big brother found them and took the p*ss mercilessly, thereby depriving the world of the next - or should I say first - JK Rowling ) Turquoise and white plastic it was.
No Christmas was ever complete without a Beano Annual (or Jackie and Blue Jeans later on) and a fresh set of Platignum felt tip pens. And a net sock-shaped selection pack.
Battling Tops, Spirograph, Don't Cook Your Goose, Don't Break The Ice, Sorry!,Compendium of Games.
Ooh - and a red haired doll called Chrissie with hair that "grew". (Advert - "Beautiful Chrissie has beautiful hair that grows.....")

[sally 1973]

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Some of the toys I remember getting...

Homepride baking set
sarah kay rag doll, I got pink and my sis got blue
poster paints in long tube
blackboard with both white & coloured chalk
sindy house with blue bathroom furniture and living room stuff.
sweet making factory (Icing sugar mixed with water and put into a mould)
smurf cuddly toy
play doh hairdressers
big yellow tea pot
sheepskin gloves
stocking shaped selection box with white mesh covering
now thats what i call music 5
good luck care bear
strawberry shortcake doll
misty, jinty, shiver & shake, twinkle annuals
The list is endless, spoiled little brat. lol

[old git]

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Going from the 70's onwards ithe ones that come to mind are:

Strech armstrong(hulk version)
Baron Karza
raleigh striker(green one with the peddle back brake)
scaletrix(that took hours to get working before dad realised he hadn't put a fuse in the plug lol)
raleigh racer bike
rupert the bear moulds that you poured in plaster of paris to make models then paint
always had loads of games like mouse trap and operation
plus always had board games like ludo ans suchlike
cant think of anymore!

[sally 1973]

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Anyone remember shiver and shake annual. About ghosts and ghoulies?

[Richard1978]

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Anyone remember shiver and shake annual. About ghosts and ghoulies?

I never had one as a present (more into the Beano) but there were some of the annuals & comics in the wet play box (remember them?) at my primary school.

[frame]

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I had a few of the previously mentioned items but I most fondly remember the toy cars,one that sticks in the mind was a corgi police van with accident signs and traffic cones.
Frame.

[branny]

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Anyone remember shiver and shake annual. About ghosts and ghoulies?

And an elephant.

[sally 1973]

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And an elephant.

And a hot air balloon on the cover. lol.

[scooby365]

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Great thread

Earliest memory is a space suit which was silver. Best part was it had a helmet with - I think - a green visor. Can even remember the smell of the helmet but that's probably because I wore it endlessly.

Evel Knievel Super Cycle
Big Trak + Trailer
Matchbox Power Track Race + Chase set
Little Big Man (smaller version of Action man)
Christmas Annuals on the end of the bed so if we woke early then we'd have something to do other than wake up Mum + Dad
Portable radio so I could listen to police broadcast
Crossfire
Ricochet Racers (still have it)
Tonka truck (still have it) - so well built in plastic that it just could not be broken
Games compendium ... got one every year it seemed
Mastermind
Corgi + Dinky cars

I can't say I remember believing in Santa - I was youngest of 3 brothers - but I did like the excitement of waiting to see what the main present was that Mum + Dad had bought me. I remember my brothers finding the catalogue order one Christmas and insisting that I see it. That was months before Christmas so I lost the excitement of wondering what I was getting. Christmas was never quite the same after that.

Then it went boring with gifts like trousers, aftershave, socks, torches ...

Things like a bike, Spectrum computer, and a calculator watch were reserved for birthdays.

[old git]

Re: Christmas as a kid

Great thread

Earliest memory is a space suit which was silver. Best part was it had a helmet with - I think - a green visor. Can even remember the smell of the helmet but that's probably because I wore it endlessly.

Evel Knievel Super Cycle
Big Trak + Trailer
Matchbox Power Track Race + Chase set
Little Big Man (smaller version of Action man)
Christmas Annuals on the end of the bed so if we woke early then we'd have something to do other than wake up Mum + Dad
Portable radio so I could listen to police broadcast
Crossfire
Ricochet Racers (still have it)
Tonka truck (still have it) - so well built in plastic that it just could not be broken
Games compendium ... got one every year it seemed
Mastermind
Corgi + Dinky cars

I can't say I remember believing in Santa - I was youngest of 3 brothers - but I did like the excitement of waiting to see what the main present was that Mum + Dad had bought me. I remember my brothers finding the catalogue order one Christmas and insisting that I see it. That was months before Christmas so I lost the excitement of wondering what I was getting. Christmas was never quite the same after that.

Then it went boring with gifts like trousers, aftershave, socks, torches ...

Things like a bike, Spectrum computer, and a calculator watch were reserved for birthdays.

I remember the silver space suit,that plastic smell was so strong i can still smell it lol

[lorimer]

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I remember desperately wanting a "Tank Command " game,and upon opening it on Xmas morning there was a vital piece missing!...this was the days when everything closed for at least a week,so i couldnt get a replacement until then.....my xmas was ruined!!...haha....trouble is when i took it back with my mum they had all sold out and i never did get one.....

[Richard1978]

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I remember my brother getting an Action Man command tower that had a piece missing, & my Dad having to go out as early as possible on the 27th to get it sorted out.

After that my parents did a check on our new toys before wrapping them up. I rememer I asked for one thing & got another as they couldn't get the original working in 2 attempts.

My Uncle once had to be dispatched to the shops to find some waterproof superglue after one of my cousins dropped one of those 1980s water games.

[moonvisage]

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I remember going downstairs and finding a Dawes Racing Bike.I put it outside later,and stood in awe looking at it,in the beautiful silence of christmas day and boxing day.My mum allowed me to keep it by the kitchen back door,incase people stole it.It was wonderful riding round on it in the silence and all alone.

[Heather74]

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Great thread

Earliest memory is a space suit which was silver. Best part was it had a helmet with - I think - a green visor. Can even remember the smell of the helmet but that's probably because I wore it endlessly.

Scooby could this be your space suit?