What were some of your favorite Christmas present toys?

[Number9Dream]

Here's one I actually found a link to...
Operation Moon Base: http://www.timewarptoys.com/moonbase.htm



Also Lionel Trains.

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1. Spirograph and a black light.

Weird I know. Army men and fire trucks never did anything for me, I don't know why though.

[alsame]

3. Spirograph!! I also got that one Christmas and loved it. nt

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4. followed not long after by Super Spirograph:

Super Spirograph allowed you to form your own shapes to use for even more complex designs. There was even a Motorized Spirograph which drew the design for you, you just chose which wheels to use. Sadly though I never got the Motorized Spirograph.



Now there are online spirographs which you can go to and just select the wheel sizes and pen colors.

[Number9Dream]

5. Reminded me of Venus Paradise coloring sets

That reminded me of the hours I sent coloring with various Venus Paradise coloring sets.

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12. We had paint-by-numbers and the Jon Gnagy "Learn to Draw" set.

Though I'm not an artist now I believe I learned basic drawing skills from it. I spent hours during school sketching geometric shapes and then shading them.

[alsame]

11. Ooooh, I never got those two. The original was enough to

keep me mesmerized for hours with the beautiful patterns I could create.

Of course, now I'm going to have to try the online versions. :)

[KansDem]

2. Robot Commando

I got this when I was 12 (1965). It's head would open up and a rocket would fire; its arms would throw little plastic balls and it could go forward, backward, left or right.

A couple of tidbits though about how it really operated:

Never mind seeing a TV ad that showed a boy talking into the "microphone" to give the robot instructions. That was done with the little dial on the "microphone's" handle. However, I thought voice commands were very real (until I tried it for the first time)! So much for truth in advertising.

Also, you had to play with it on linoleum or other hard-surface floorings. If you tried to make it go on wall-to-wall carpet, forget it! It would crawl to a stop! I played with it mostly on the kitchen floor.

[catnhatnh]

6. James Bond slot car set circa 1965...

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33029410

Not me,but a cousin-damn him!

[monmouth]

7. A beautiful blue and white JC Higgins two-wheeler and a Betsy Wetsy doll...LOL..n/t

[MineralMan]

8. I got this when I was 11. Excellent!

[MineralMan]

9. And this when I was 12. Saw my own sperm when I was 13

through it.

[MineralMan]

10. When I was 13, I got this shortwave radio kit.

I built it. It worked. I listened to the BBC, Radio Moscow, and Radio Havana on it. Yowsa!

[FormerDittoHead]

13. Johnny Seven One Man Army - my own "holy grail" of toys...

I so remember the price: $20.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA

[shadowknows69]

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[AllenVanAllen]

15. The Kenner Alien Action Figure

I was a little old to play with toys but his 18" of badness stood on my bookshelf proudly.

The one on the left is the Kenner figure.



A friend of mine sold one in mint conditon for $600 a few years back. I have no idea what happend to mine.

[Touchdown]

16. My Tyco Train

This (a Streamline) was my actual set! I found it on the internets!