Your best old shool Christmas presents way back when...

[PapaBear]

I thought this was already a thread, but damn if I can find it.

I think the one present that thrilled me the most to get was Guns of Navarone playset.

http://www.playsetmagazine.com/photos/kane04_Oct/09_Naverone.jpg

Mine didn't have the cheesy yellow guns like this one, though. It had gun colored guns! I know they still make green plastic army men, but I wonder if they still make the gray Nazi plastic army men that this came with. They had the coolest transport truck.

[Stankfoot]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/bond.jpg

James Bond 007 Shooting Attaché Case

"Contains shell-firing pistol with attachments: stock, scope, silencer - which all converts into a rifle. Secret message decoder, code book with booby trap, wallet, passport, currency and business cards. These is a hidden dagger that slides in the one side. Latches are combination type. Case can be booby trapped to explode (fire a cap) if opened incorrectly - and it will shoot a shell when you press secret trigger. "

[The Nature Boy]

http://www.figures.com/databases/news/actionfigures/80/90.jpg

Just really made my 5th Christmas something special. Played with it for 3 months straight after getting it, and then the better part of 2 years, or the equivalent of forever to a little kids. Other gifts matched this in some ways, none ever surpassed it.

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL, I HAVE THE POWER!!!

[Fezticle98]

Dyno BMX Bike and the GI Joe SR71 Blackbird

[jauble]

http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/L951375.jpg

except mine was all black with some sick thundercats decals on it.

[PapaBear]

http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/L951375.jpg

except mine was all black with some sick thundercats decals on it.

I had the Chopperroo...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/122.jpg


Damn. That Bond kit looks awesome!

[Fezticle98]

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8258/raven2gg5.jpg

Can't find a picture of the bike. It was chrome with coaster brakes. Closest I could find was this one:

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9668/compe1lgxz4.jpg

[PapaBear]

WOO HOO!!! I found the Chopperoo!!!!

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[Furtherman]

Chain Lighting domino set and the Dukes Of Hazzard Tyco racing track. And Legos.

[weekapaugjz]

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8258/raven2gg5.jpg


oh man! i had that thing too! i don't think it was for christmas though. my best gift was the cobra command base. the thing was fucking huge and had a ship that took off from the center. i can't find pic of it though.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

There was a big box addressed to me from Santa. I chose to open my smaller presents first. I was so confused when I got TWO SHAUN CASSIDY 8-tracks and I didn't have an 8-track player.

OH MY GOD! My dad got me a stereo with an 8-track player.

I know it sounds so lame but I look back on it and see it as a completley out-of touch, newly widowed dad trying to understand his 10 year old daughter.

[jauble]

I had the Chopperroo...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/122.jpg


Damn. That Bond kit looks awesome!

Papabear I want to let you know that you have been such a great sorce of advice for me since I joined here...happy winter carnival to you sir

[PapaBear]

Papabear I want to let you know that you have been such a great sorce of advice for me since I joined here...happy winter carnival to you sir
Thank you kind sir! Merry Christmas!!!

[BalzacWB]

http://www.figures.com/databases/news/actionfigures/80/90.jpg

Just really made my 5th Christmas something special. Played with it for 3 months straight after getting it, and then the better part of 2 years, or the equivalent of forever to a little kids. Other gifts matched this in some ways, none ever surpassed it.

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL, I HAVE THE POWER!!!

Getting Castle GraySkull and Snake Mountain in 85 was UNREAL BUTTTTTT I really think opening up and looking at Eternia as a kid really blew me away.
http://www.brianstoys.com/store/images/products/images1/d_26838.jpg
http://www.toyarchive.com/He-Man/Toys/Playsets/EterniaLoose1a.jpg

IT HAD A FUCKING MONORAIL!!!!!!




http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8258/raven2gg5.jpg

Great fucking vehicle!!!

BEST one I ever got from JOE was this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/mikecp421/forums/10-1.jpg



Still mad to this day that I never got my hands on the USS FLAGG :(

oh man! i had that thing too! i don't think it was for christmas though. my best gift was the cobra command base. the thing was fucking huge and had a ship that took off from the center. i can't find pic of it though.You are speaking of the terrodrome!!! It came with a fucking firebat for gods sake!!!

http://www.geocities.com/viggler/terrordrome_hi.jpg


If you cant tell I was a spoiled prick :)

[Devo37]

a few of my favorites:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/Devo37/atari2600.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/Devo37/c64.jpg


also Lego (space theme).

[hedges]

http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/L951375.jpg

except mine was all black with some sick thundercats decals on it.

We would rip the wheel rattlers off for a "stealthy" ride. I always wanted the Green Machine.
Colecovision was the first gaming system I could talk my parents into getting for me.

[sailor]

got a small tv (17"?) when i was 12. it hella rocked.

[weekapaugjz]

You are speaking of the terrodrome!!! It came with a fucking firebat for gods sake!!!

http://www.geocities.com/viggler/terrordrome_hi.jpg




YES!!! that thing was fucking awesome. my friends were so jealous of me when i got it.

[cougarjake13]

http://brettduncan.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/nintendo.jpg

[IamFogHat]

http://brettduncan.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/nintendo.jpg

and then a few years after that
http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01856/media/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System-USA.jpg

[weekapaugjz]

another year i got a "my buddy" with a gi joe suit and i got a matching gi joe suit. i was very happy. and yes, i loved gi joe when i was a kid

http://www.toydirectory.com/monthly/mar2003/images/my-buddy-1.jpg

[Gvac]

Still the greatest gift EVER -


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[A.J.]

Still the greatest gift EVER -


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I wish I had saved mine. :down:

[ralphbxny]

[QUOTE=Devo37;1562279][SIZE="2"]a few of my favorites:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/Devo37/atari2600.jpg


http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w166/ralphbxny/wrestlingring.jpg

The 2600 and my wwf wrestling ring were my favorites!

[Lawson]

Some from Christmas past:

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/MrLawsonsPics/DaisyRifle.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/MrLawsonsPics/clickclacks.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/MrLawsonsPics/lawndarts.jpg

Did my parent's have a secret agenda?...

[WhistlePig]

I wanted this thing so bad and finally got it one for Christmas but I ruined the surprise by snooping and finding it beforehand. Then when it was all put together it was so cheesy it wasn't even worth the anticipation.

http://blog.wellsfargo.com/GuidedByHistory/images/BT.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

http://www.modifiedpowerwheels.com/forum/userstuff/jasncab/2006522114845_copper1.jpg

god damn, look at that bad boy! i used one like that everyday, until i got too big for it . . .:glurps:

[tupper65]

This was cool!
http://www.megomuseum.com/pota/images/Treehouse.jpg

[GwEnYpOo]

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/gwenypoo/Carrie4-Wheeling005.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/gwenypoo/slide8.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/gwenypoo/machsegasaturn1ti.jpg

[BlackSpider]

Toss across
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/Toss_Across_Retroland.jpg


and verti-bird...http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/vertibird.jpg

[Lawson]

Toss across
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/Toss_Across_Retroland.jpg


and verti-bird...http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/vertibird.jpg

Verti-bird!... I loved that thing... would pick up the little guys(solders?). fly around to the other side of the circle and drop them off... I forgot about that one.

[EddieMoscone]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/2-XL.jpg

[BlackSpider]

Kenner S.S.P. cars were great.
they had a big wheel in the middle, with a gear on the side of it.
you pushed a thoothed, t-handled zip-cord down through the top of the car,
when you yanked out the cord, it made the center wheel spin.
then you set it on the floor, and of it went.
They had all kinds of cars.
I had the smash-up derby set,
When the front bumpers of the cars hit each other, the doors, hoods, and trunk-lids flew off. It also came with jump-ramps...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/63b1_12.jpg


"Creepy-Crawlers Thing-Maker II" was fun,
you poured "goop" into the mold trays, and "cooked" it in a in the pot.
You could make all these little rubber creatures with it...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/Thingmaker2.jpg


Dark-Tower was an electronic D&D style board-game. Watch out for the "Briggands"
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/DarkTower.jpg


This thread makes me sound like Blowhard...

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I wanted this thing so bad and finally got it one for Christmas but I ruined the surprise by snooping and finding it beforehand. Then when it was all put together it was so cheesy it wasn't even worth the anticipation.

http://blog.wellsfargo.com/GuidedByHistory/images/BT.jpg

My best friend had this! I had the lame 3-room Barbie house with a deck. There was no elevator, or stairs for that matter, but, what the fuck, everybody did everything for Barbie anyway.

[damainer]

I loved the dog



http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/997/265/il_fullxfull.18223611.jpg

[The Blowhard]

Kenner S.S.P. cars were great.
they had a big wheel in the middle, with a gear on the side of it.
you pushed a thoothed, t-handled zip-cord down through the top of the car,
when you yanked out the cord, it made the center wheel spin.
then you set it on the floor, and of it went.
They had all kinds of cars.
I had the smash-up derby set,
When the front bumpers of the cars hit each other, the doors, hoods, and trunk-lids flew off. It also came with jump-ramps...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/63b1_12.jpg


"Creepy-Crawlers Thing-Maker II" was fun,
you poured "goop" into the mold trays, and "cooked" it in a in the pot.
You could make all these little rubber creatures with it...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/Thingmaker2.jpg


Dark-Tower was an electronic D&D style board-game. Watch out for the "Briggands"
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/DarkTower.jpg


This thread makes me sound like Blowhard...

Nothing wrong with sounding like me, the Joe Franklin of ronfez.net.
SSP cars were great. I always aimed them at my cat.
The Fireball XL-5 Steve Zodiac Spaceship. Very cool.
Whizzers: the tops that you rev up by rubbing against the ground. Very easy to shoplift, too.
WWII GI Joes: I had the Nazi, the Jap, The Brit, The US Navy guy and best of all, the Mercury Space Capsule that came with a 45 single.
The imitation M-16: thanks Viet Nam War for the great gun toy ever!
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Spy Kit: same as the James Bond stuff.
The Star Trek Phaser: it shot plastic discs.
Dino The Dinosaur: real old school, and a real hazard. A battery operated Dino made with cheap cloth and sharp metal. Fun!
I'm sure I could go on and on, but I will mention the worst gift ever:
The Flintstones Building Blocks: styrofoam bricks to play with. Total shit!

[PapaBear]

I LOVED the SSP cars! I didn't have them, but a buddy of mine did. Though it was called "Smash Up Derby", I always pronounced it "Smash 'Em Up."

The best GI Joe stuff I had were the Jeeps. The green one pulled a cart that had a cannon (the cannon that actually fired the missile. Newer models wouldn't actually fire the missile, because people started being worried about putting out an eye). There was also a big spotlight for the cart that you could swap out with the cannon. I also had the tan desert jeep. Another friend had the Nazi GI Joe. I bet that thing is worth a fortune.

[The Blowhard]

The GI Joe jeeps were great, and so were the Navy Frogmen. I grew up in a house with older sisters, and they had dozens of Barbies and Midges and Kens. I used to take my GI Joes and kidnap Ken, and I would usually torture him(the Nazi GI, of course) and eventually decapitate him, much to the anger of my parents, who took away my GI Joes quite often. I remember my friend and I putting Ken's head over the stove and melting his head. One of my sisters retaliated and took a scissor to my astronaut Joe and destroyed him and his silver "Lost in Space"-like suit. I even used tampon applicators as missiles, and boy, talk about fun! Who needs video games when you have tampons to play with?

[BlackSpider]

I loved my Bangsite cannon.
When you mixed the powder with water, it made a gas.
Then you hit the flint in the back, and it would go boom,
and you'd get a flash out the front.
Sometimes a bug would wind up in the barrell...

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/60mmCannon2wh_x.jpg

The bangsite powder was fun.
I didn't limit it's use to the cannon...

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/bangsite2.jpg

[PapaBear]

I loved my Bangsite cannon.
When you mixed the powder with water, it made a gas.
Then you hit the flint in the back, and it would go boom,
and you'd get a flash out the front.
Sometimes a bug would wind up in the barrell...

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/60mmCannon2wh_x.jpg

The bangsite powder was fun.
I didn't limit it's use to the cannon...

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/bangsite2.jpg

I think my brother still has ours, but I think the trigger is missing. We've had this since way before I was born. On New Years Eve, I'd fire the cannon and my dad would fire our pistol.

[sailor]

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/bangsite2.jpg

butt plug?

[FUNKMAN]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41801W5WR9L._AA280_.jpg

[tele7]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41801W5WR9L._AA280_.jpg

I would put that at the top of the list, but the cars always flew off the track. "Magna Traction" my ass!

[FUNKMAN]

I would put that at the top of the list, but the cars always flew off the track. "Magna Traction" my ass!

yeah, you couldn't go "all out" all the time... then keeping the tracks stuck together tightly was a trick too

[Devo37]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41801W5WR9L._AA280_.jpg

wow, i forgot about my slot-car track. i got the A-Team vs. Police track. you could do u-turns on the curves (i don't think the older tracks had that feature).

eventually, we bought some indy-style slot cars and had races that included 'pit stops' where we'd have to pull the cars off the track, change the tires, and clean the metal connectors with a pencil eraser.

good times. :thumbup:

[PapaBear]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41801W5WR9L._AA280_.jpg

I would put that at the top of the list, but the cars always flew off the track. "Magna Traction" my ass!

yeah, you couldn't go "all out" all the time... then keeping the tracks stuck together tightly was a trick too
I used to douse my Can Am Shadow...

http://jaghobbies.com/images/slotcars/afx/bl_shadow.jpg

with lighter fluid. I'd then put a puddle of lighter fluid on the track. I'd light the puddle, then send the Shadow racing through it. I was quite the pyro. BTW... I only did it with the Shadow, because it was the only car that would protect the moving parts from the fluid and the flames.

[FUNKMAN]

I used to douse my Can Am Shadow...
with lighter fluid. I'd then put a puddle of lighter fluid on the track. I'd light the puddle, then send the Shadow racing through it. I was quite the pyro. BTW... I only did it with the Shadow, because it was the only car that would protect the moving parts from the fluid and the flames.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512BFHPFT8L._AA240_.jpg

:devil2:

[CrapEater]

Judas Preist"screaming for Vengence"12"record
RedLine P.L.20 B.M.X Bike:clap:

[Mike Teacher]

Fur Sink

Bag-O-Glass

Gasoline Powered Turtleneck Sweater

Electric Dog Polisher

[WhistlePig]

Kenner S.S.P. cars were great.
they had a big wheel in the middle, with a gear on the side of it.
you pushed a thoothed, t-handled zip-cord down through the top of the car,
when you yanked out the cord, it made the center wheel spin.
then you set it on the floor, and of it went.
They had all kinds of cars.
I had the smash-up derby set,
When the front bumpers of the cars hit each other, the doors, hoods, and trunk-lids flew off. It also came with jump-ramps...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/63b1_12.jpg


I got the smash-up derby set but it was missing one of the zip-cords so I could only ever send one car over a jump at a time! I'd send the cars into the wall but I wanted to smash them together but couldn't. How cheap. I don't know why my parents didn't take the damn thing back.

[high fly]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/bond.jpg

James Bond 007 Shooting Attaché Case

"Contains shell-firing pistol with attachments: stock, scope, silencer - which all converts into a rifle. Secret message decoder, code book with booby trap, wallet, passport, currency and business cards. These is a hidden dagger that slides in the one side. Latches are combination type. Case can be booby trapped to explode (fire a cap) if opened incorrectly - and it will shoot a shell when you press secret trigger. "


I had a friend who had that James Bond set up. As I recall, the secret trigger was in the handle and the bullet would come out the top corner of the briefcase.


I had a badass gun that beat them all back in the day.

It was called the Johnny Seven O.M.A., which stood for "One Man Army."

It as a big green thing, and it was a maching gun, a sniper rifle, a mortar, it fired rifle grenades and the grip detached and was a pistol. There must've been two other weapons I forget at the moment....

This was one badass weapon.
Back then, this company marketing all this "Johnny" stuff made everything - web belts, packs, canteens, grenades, helmets, damned near everything you could want in military gear....

[BlackSpider]

I just remembered another good one.
The Rattlin' Gattlin' Shootin' Gallery.
You'd shoot at spinning targets and targets on springs, with a Gattlin' gun.
The shot would feed back into the bottom of the gun as you fired.
Of course I had to remove the gun, so I could shoot things around the house.
Man, I had some great toys...:smoke:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/RattlinGattlin.jpg

[CountryBob]

A few:

1.The Evil Kinevil wind up motorcycle: that thing would go half a mile if it didnt hit anything
2.The Six Million Dollar Man action figure with different face attachments for some robot and Oscar
3. The Atari 2600: my mom fooled me by putting the Atari in a box that snow boots came in. I was so devestated I didnt open the box but dropped my little head and went to my room to cry. She made me come back in the den and open my new snow boots. I absolutely lost it when I found the Atari inside with 20 some games. This is the best memory of christmas gifts past.

[SyndicateParish]

http://www.tk409.com/images/fett/minifett/20.jpg


http://www.toysyouhad.com/1999eagle6.jpg

http://www.toysyouhad.com/1999eagle1.jpg

[FUNKMAN]

sometimes christmas, sometimes during the year. i can still hear the click/snap of the trigger

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/TracerGun.jpg

[LastThenFirst]

Remember Big Jim by Mattel?

Yes, Big Jim and his friends Big Jack and Big Josh. Just a group of 8" high manly men hanging out in the Big Jim Camper (Which was actually the Barbie Camper in brown) and all wearing flannel !

The commercial was a riot. You see boys playing with them and they show face shots or the dolls and all the dolls had that "just Cornholed" grins on them. They looked like a Ken doll just made a visit to the campsite. Makes you wonder if they were all signing the Lumberjack Song before the kids interupted them. :glurps:

Even Action Jackson by Mego was a tougher figure and was smaller that these woodsmen.

[furie]

http://www.oafe.net/monkey/art/sw6atat1.jpg

I flipped when i saw this under the tree

[PapaBear]

Remember Big Jim by Mattel?

Yes, Big Jim and his friends Big Jack and Big Josh. Just a group of 8" high manly men hanging out in the Big Jim Camper (Which was actually the Barbie Camper in brown) and all wearing flannel !

The commercial was a riot. You see boys playing with them and they show face shots or the dolls and all the dolls had that "just Cornholed" grins on them. They looked like a Ken doll just made a visit to the campsite. Makes you wonder if they were all signing the Lumberjack Song before the kids interupted them. :glurps:

Even Action Jackson by Mego was a tougher figure and was smaller that these woodsmen.
Holy shit! I remember that, now. I guess I've had the memory of that commercial "suppressed".
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[LastThenFirst]

Holy shit! I remember that, now. I guess I've had the memory of that commercial "suppressed".
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THAT IS IT !!! Thank you Papabear for finding one of the commercials.

I remember the Big Jim motorcycle too. The funny thing was you could put 2 on it. The back rider would always have his hands on the drivers chest and his head on his shoulders. And with the grins of their faces, it was priceless !! My dad made a comment one day when my cousin and I were playing with them, he said, "Looks like they are taking a bikeride to Club Ramrod." They my mom punched my dad in the arm. :lol:

My Big Jim collection met its fate back in the fall of 1977 when I was 13. They were camping on the banks of the mighty (smelly) Passaic River. As they hanging out in the camper (I hope they were just doing that), a blockbuster rolled under the camper sending Big Jim, Josh, Jack, parts of the camper, pots and pans, even the fake campfire towards the heavens. There was flannel , vinyl and plastic flying everywhere ! All that remained was Jim's flanneled forearm and Jack's ankle and boot and the bottom of the camper. Nothing was ever found of Josh and the rest of the camper carcass remained on the river bank until the November Flood of 1977 took it downstream towards Newark Bay.

A witness said they seen a Ken doll in a pink shirt skipping away from the scene :lol:

BOY ! They don't make Xmas toys or memories like that anymore ! :happy:

[high fly]

There was a company, perhaps a division of Mattel or some other outfit, that used to make lots of military gear for us kids, which I have mentioned previously.

In these days of political correctness, I'd sure like to see their commercials again.
This outfit sold gennades, web belts, canteens, packs, pup tents and helmets as well as weapons.
They had these cheezy commercials showing 7 year-olds behind sandbags fighting off assaults by other kids who would come charging up there with fixed bayonets like it was Pork Chop Hill or something....

[Bellyfullasnot]

I don't remember the military toy company name but I remember grenades that you could use "paper strip caps" and throw @ each other. The caps would bang, but the grenade was heavy as hell with a metal tip.

[LastThenFirst]

I don't remember the military toy company name but I remember grenades that you could use "paper strip caps" and throw @ each other. The caps would bang, but the grenade was heavy as hell with a metal tip.

Yea, Cap Grenades. We use to love'em as kids. They still make something like it today but not as heavy as the old ones were.

I still have mine somewhere around. They were made from the company who made to roll caps as a kid. Today's use the little plastic cap "Dots" I call them. You can only put one shot in them. The old ones you use to put about 10 to 12 caps on a strip in it and got a hell of a bang :devil2:

[PapaBear]

There was a company, perhaps a division of Mattel or some other outfit, that used to make lots of military gear for us kids, which I have mentioned previously.

In these days of political correctness, I'd sure like to see their commercials again.
This outfit sold gennades, web belts, canteens, packs, pup tents and helmets as well as weapons.
They had these cheezy commercials showing 7 year-olds behind sandbags fighting off assaults by other kids who would come charging up there with fixed bayonets like it was Pork Chop Hill or something....

It probably was Mattel, because they made real military gear. When I was in the Navy, we had two models of M 14 rifle. The one's with the nylon stock had the Mattel logo stamped right on them.

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When I got a Barbie mansion, I thought : It doesn't get any better than this! I think it was... '88. Can't find photos. Greek columns, three stories, crank elevator.