Favorite Christmas Gift

[ABWorsham4]

What has been your favorite Christmas gift, past or present.

[Young Grasshopper]

MY AWESOME “SEGA MASTER SYSTEM”… Alien Syndrome, Out Run, After Burner, Alex the kid in Miracle World, Space Harrier, and California Games (Back when video games were fun and didn’t take themselves so seriously).

[Witt]

Morning Worsham.
I think I was 8, or something like that.
I woke up to find Father Christmas (my grandad)had left me a castle at the foot of my bed. It was unpacked (and constructed) and there were hundreds of Airfix 1-72 scale soldiers in and out of it. Not sure how long I played in my room.

[ABWorsham4]

At age ten, I got the G.I Joe, (2 1/2") action figures General mobile command vehicle. It could hold fifty men.

[Karl7]

I remember being totally psyched about getting that transformer that was a cassette player with the cassette transformers that turned into birds or whatever… shockwave?  was this its name?  This was early 80s.

other than that, I remember getting Conquest of the Empire for Xmas and was very pleased.

[Gargantua]

Soundwave - I too had this toy and he was probably my all time favourite toy.

[Gargantua]

The autobots also had a version named blaster.

[barney]

Looks like a “Rock’Em Sock’Em” offspring : )

[taamvan]

Soundwave was so *#@&$#@ wicked he had like 3 series of flat cassette monsters that were a pterodactyl, fast cat, etc, that he deployed to accomplish various tasks and he programmed them with his deck.

Those toys were so cool b/c whenever he got in trouble he could drop screecher or whatever to delay the autobots in car mode while he made his escape.

Biggest drawback is a tape deck doesn’t really have a plausible way of moving about except to be carried or walk….

[Gargantua]

@taamvan:

Biggest drawback is a tape deck doesn’t really have a plausible way of moving about except to be carried or walk….

That’s why they call it a walkman. :)  And Decepticons could fly!

[Witt]

@ABWorsham4 I saw this had a new post , so read it , meaning to post . Then read one that sounded like my best ever gift, only to realise it was me; that I was reading from 5 years ago!
Thanks for the reminder guys.
My 7 year old has been playing with my soldiers from the 70’s (the 1-29 scale ones ) for 2 years now. Makes me So happy to see .
My best friend , with whom I played those soldiers every week, died of a brain tumour when he was 14.
I thought of him yesterday. Funny how things come full circle.

[ABWorsham4]

@witt Wow, that is a kingly gift.

[General Kromwell]

@abworsham4 I know I was under 10 years of age. I received a nice bike. Parents were poor. Still means a lot to me.

[ABWorsham4]

@general-kromwell I have a Christmas like that. My mother had became single and been disabled. We had a tree and no gifts underneath. I went to bed hoping that Santa would come.

In the morning I had two ninja turtle action figures. I was so excited, I had been preparing myself for no Christmas.

Years later my mother told me the story, of how that came to be.

[TonyMartin]

My girlfirend gifted me a ps5 for christmas last year.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@ABWorsham4

Dang, hard to choose (really hope this doesn’t make me sound arrogant, but I don’t mean the comment like that).

This year was definitely a great selection.

I’m a huge fan of Lego and I got a great group of both old and new sets.

The 70594 Lighthouse Siege from Lego Ninjago was great. Probably tops the pre-2020 list.

I’m really happy I got the new 71427 Larry and Morton’s airships. That’s definitely a great gift. My favorite is probably 76423 Hogwarts Express