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Can remember as a child mine was a brand new pair of footy boots....not ordinary boots though these..they were SCREW INS!
Up to then most boots studs were moulded screw ins were the big new thing,think they were the Patrick Brand..i was living in a kids home then and spent all xmas morning trying to score goals on the playing field they had,nearly crippled myself...couldnt put the ball between the posts,even though there wasnt a goalie,i spent all afternoon cleaning them and showing people how to unscrew the studs   they went missing in the New Year...what a great prezzie can remember it like its yesterday.

Sticklebricks.

Sorry Sippo...i was only asking.

My Astro Wars console, Christmas 1982.

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Grandstand/Astro.htm

Big Trak and trailer. Anyone under 30 probably won't have a clue what I'm on about..

MANTA Force

Evil knevil wind and go, using roy of the rovers annuals to make ramps.

Scalextric absolutely loved it.

6ft by 3ft snooker table when I was about 12

The big yellow teapot :D

Hours of fun for everyone

Action Man Scorpion Tank.

Lasted a couple of weeks before me and a mate doused it in lighter fluid and set fire to it.

Got a belting from my dad, but it was worth it..............

A Beatles guitar. Not an original obviously but a plastic pile of shit that I loved. When I was young I was Paul. For many years now I've been John ,althuogh Paul is trying a bit of revisionist stuff that he was the Che Guavara of the group.

I'll never forget when my mum and dad got me a snes.

i was never in to asking for stuff when i was a kid and i had never had anything console-esque in my life. i had absolutely zero idea that i was getting it and then i opened it xmas morning and was reet happy.

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh, that's lovely. I expect your excited face would have been a gift in itself to your parents....................little did they know that you'd end up snorting drugs and losing feeling in your feet. It's a slippery slope! One day snes, the next thing you're sniffing crack!

enit.

I got a card once. That was nice

Snap


How old ?

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WWF ring and figures, played for hours

oh man my mate had one of those Sussex, it was the most fun! i was so jealous! :(

Purple Chopper Bike...

Atari ST; it was wicked...

Ha ha, ace. I remember that. Still remember the little tune it played before the aliens attacked!


Big Trak was on of my favourites too. Unfortunately we weren't posh enough to buy the trailer too.

F10, R90, F10, Fire, B10, L90, B10. GO.

Agreed. Fucking ace toys

Sega Master System

I had a Master System II with Alex The Kid built in 8)

one game i've never completed. it was just ace.

Nintendo NES, I had never had a games console before and although all the kids used to take the piss when they had other consoles and I admitted that I played this one, I was dead happy with it

My all time fave present was a ZX81 at xmas 1981, started me off on my career path, looking back it was shit but at the time....1k memory with the 16k expansion pack.....phenominal!

for me it has to be the zx spectrum 48k,or the star wars figures and speeder bikes etc.

If you had that....you were made!

Best pressie - "Commodore Amiga" was amazed I'd actually got one!!

Best value for money pressie; "Hero - The Official Story of the 1986 World Cup" on VHS.  I must have watched it over 100 times, in the end it snapped, but I loved it so much I fixed it and it still works today, 22 years later.

Special mention to "The Millenium Falcon", spent absolutely hours playing with that thing!!

God Father Christmas was a lot cooler back in those days, although hopefully he's getting me a decent camera this year!

championship manager. my brother was given the first ever one when i was about 5 (with the playoff winning team).

An Action Man.........special forces (blue jumper)....with eagle eyes and grabbing hands....proper job back in the 70s.

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oh my days. i can still see the box, black with silver criss-cross.

 When I was a kid just after the war, we'd get an orange or a banana and be mightily grateful, food rationing wasn't much fun.

Lego JCB. 5 hours to build it, 2 minutes to grunge it all up with sand.

I am under 30 and know what you are talking about! I had this as well!

I always M.A.S.K but never got any. sob.

Before my mum remarried I lived in relative poverty as a little kid. Then living in Germany with the armed forces saw us quite well off and I did alright at Christmas - M.A.S.K, WWF wrestlers, TMNT, He-Man, Thundercats, Real Ghostbusters, LEGO etc etc etc

We then got posted back to England and the party was well and truly over.

As a big car fan I liked micro machines and thos cars which got dents in them when you crashed them, I think Hot Wheels made them.

There's something terribly ironic about that first part of the sentence.

That picture just got me excited again. I can remember I knew was getting my megadrive, and it come with Sonic 1....but my mum and dad got me Sonic 2 as well (with tails). I was so happy, i really didnt know what to play first.

Similar to when i got my playstation 1....i was a bit older, but I remember playing a football game and thinking it looked like TV.

I got this weird Tomy computery game type thing tht you held up to your eyes so it was kind of 3d.  The controls were on the top.  Sort of a primitive virtual reality thingy. 

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'nuff said...

zx81 with 16k ram pack

The Millenium Falcon

Do you remember Mazogs and Kong...?

Subbuteo 'football express'   5 a side version using the box as a pitch.  Still got it safely stored under one of the spare beds.

One of these!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok-AE4ehgKE

In hindsight it was utter gash, but it kicked off a 20 year obsession (not quite OCD) that led to me being rather good at racing these little blighters all over the country. And I got to represent the UK doing it too, which I was quite pleased about.

crash test dummies were ace! i used to make a ramp that would go out my bedroom window and create some mad crashes!loved it

That's quite cool pumbaa. I loved my old Tamiya Boomerang. Got it working again a year or two ago, ready for when the little one is old enough.

I had a Boomerang, that was shit too.......but nonetheless they are still ace. I only ever dabbled with electric though, but really wanted to have a go with some petrol powered stuff. Never had the time or money.....

Ha ha, they have re-released the Boomerang. Yeah it's shit but I'm going to have to get one :)

Think I had one called The Grasshopper, probably a shit version of the Boomerang. It wasn't very good.

Not quite. The Grasshopper was a (only very slightly) improved version of the Holiday Buggy. Only 2WD too, the Boomerang was 4WD.

This machine wasted my childhood...

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is that a Amiga 1200? I had the 500 and that wasted my childhood

Amiga + Kick Off 2 = too many hours days weeks wasted.

I had a Tamiya Audi Quatro swiftly upgraded to a Hotshot 4wd thingy.  Strang that I put the bloody thing together back then but havent got a clue how my car works now.