Do you remember a particular Christmas gift from your childhood?

[Macca19]

Holy eyesore Batman....Just how corny do those placards look.

They are somehow worse in real life. Photos that look like theyve been filmed with a potato, horribly out of focus and Tubs isnt even centred.

 

[Blues177]

A few days before Christmas when I was 10 my sister and I left a note of our Christmas wish on the dashboard in dad's car.

Dad went to work and later that afternoon came back with...

 

[WCErevival]

Super nintendo with Mario allstars.

I also always remember getting a copy of the 1995 Guinness book of records but forget who it was from. I still have it.

 

[Mooshoobuca]

My favourite childhood gifts:
-A scooter (HM because I still use this as an adult 18 years later!)
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-A basketball hoop (see above)
-Bubble Angel Barbie
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-A remote controlled car
-A mini car racing track set
-Elmo (carried him around for years)

i had that same bubble angel barbie for christmas 95 was so much fun haha

 

[dales.girl38]

Santa was very generous with Disney gifts the years we went to Disneyland. Jeez kids are gullible.

 

[blueboy25]

The Grey Nicholls Scoop I got in the 80s still lives at my old man's beach house so that wins by sheer longevity

I still have my Allan Border Duncan Fearnley at my parents house. Always comes out on Christmas Day.

 

[Syd]

One Christmas, my parents saved up and got me and my 2 brothers 3-speed bikes.
What we got was something like this


What we wanted was this


Little brother stripped his down and tried to make it into a chopper
Older brother refused to ride his
I used my old bike more, but occasionally the new one

Money was tough, so in retrospect we were ungrateful little shits when we should have been appreciative of our parents going without so we could get new bikes.

 

[Caesar]

My grandfather gave me a Günther Sturmvogel when I was about five. I just googled it and they still make it:

1810 STURMVOGEL

Sailing boat with varnished wooden deck and high-quality synthetic hull treated with special sea-water-resistant lacquer. Capsize-proof and seaworthy…

www.guenther-toys.de

It was honestly the best toy, a fully-functioning sailboat. You could take it into the pool on a windy day and trim the sails, and it would sail right across.

30+ years later I still have it boxed up in the garage, I should totally get it out and rig it up

 

[Xtreme]

I had an uncanny knack of knowing what my presents were without having to unwrap them. Some of my memorable guesses were the Batman board game (based on the 89 movie). And another year I knew I was getting a Sega Mega Drive II.............. which I couldn't play until the day after Boxing Day (some campaigner didn't put the A/C adapter in the box lol. So I just stared at it most of the day, until we went down to my cousins... who were given a SNES with Super Mario All-Stars).

 

[raskolnikov]

One year my mum gave me an orange for Christmas.

 

[Hawk Dork]

One year my mum gave me an orange for Christmas.

lol

I slept in my camper-van on the beach in Demre Turkey(birth place of St Nick) on Xmas eve and a shepherd came past with his flock and gave me an orange.

 

[Rankine2Rachele]

 

[PT Bar None]

Ha, only recently mentioned in the Lego thread, but this. Would've been 9 I reckon


Still got it

 

[Hawk Dork]

Each gift my grandparents gave to me has a unique spot in my heart. However, my favorite one is a silver watch that they gave me on my 15th anniversary. It’s an expensive one with small diamonds and a silver belt. As time passes, my grandparents don’t have the strength to go and choose extravagant gifts, still, I don’t even pay attention to this. This year for Christmas, my grandma gifted me 8 pairs of customized socks from getphotoblanket.com. How can you not live such gifts? I think we need to appreciate even the smallest attention.

Did they ever give you a can of Spam ?

 

[DickieKnee]

Scalectrix. It was a present for my older brother and me. My car was a red F1 car number 5 (my age at the time). His was a blue car number 7.

 

[PoppedCorn]

 

[Shell]

Ha, only recently mentioned in the Lego thread, but this. Would've been 9 I reckon
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Still got it

I wish I still had my lego

And my michelangelo TMNT doll I went to Kmart 3245 times before they were not sold out and I could buy one.

 

[Gough]

I wish I still had my lego

And my michelangelo TMNT doll I went to Kmart 3245 times before they were not sold out and I could buy one.

I wish my parents had not let me open and play with my Star Wars figures.

 

[Shell]

Toys need to be played with tho