#4323668 - 12/27/1602:39 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
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Originally Posted By: MarkG
I thought it was the coolest toy ever! Mine had a yellow console and at least four black seats for Sulu, Chekov, Uhura and Scotty).
Holy cow, I had this as well when I was a kid circa 1980-1981. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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#4323681 - 12/27/1603:16 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: RedToo]
BSA Meteor .22 air rifle, similar to this. Loved it to bits. Scope came later.
Got one of those for Christmas too, following year I had to give it to my younger brother and I got a BSA Mercury with a Nikko Stirling Gold Crown 6x40 scope.
Gold Crown 6x40 scope,
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#4323714 - 12/27/1604:54 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
I, well me and my sister, got an Intellivision when I was 12, 1979. But it was the Atari I really wanted.I never got use to, or liked the Intellivisions weird controller. Now that I think about it, I can't ever remember my sister using it at all.
#4323755 - 12/27/1606:23 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: Robbster]
The most yearned for and received was the Dinky Tank Transporter and Tank. One pound seventeen shillings and sixpence; quite a sum in 1958.
Then my first Scalextric with a Ferrari and Vanwall. That smell of an over heated hand control I'll never forget.
#4323757 - 12/27/1606:26 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
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Ah yes the Dinky! Wasn't that the main British heavy tank that could knock out Tigers and Panthers with impunity?
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#4323761 - 12/27/1606:29 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
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The most yearned for and received was the Dinky Tank Transporter and Tank. One pound seventeen shillings and sixpence; quite a sum in 1958.
I didn't have the Dinky tank transporter, but I did have the Corgi James Bond Austin Martin and the Hook and Ladder fire truck.
#4323763 - 12/27/1606:32 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
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That looks like the Comet.
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#4323807 - 12/27/1608:07 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
#4323808 - 12/27/1608:09 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
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Originally Posted By: KraziKanuK
Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer
That looks like the Comet.
Box says Centurion.
LOL! I blame a lack of caffeine. Thanks for pointing that out.
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#4323871 - 12/28/1612:28 AMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: Robbster]
How many of you had some of these, I remember my brother and me spending hours playing with them. Then the darker side of my brother came out and I found out how much it hurt to use the track as a whip.
A daisy BB gun when i was 9 but unfortunately with it i slaughtered many birds (including some that it's a fine to harm) and lizards in my backyard, alley and even in neighbors yards.
I regret having killed every one of them and their deaths still haunt me today
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#4323886 - 12/28/1602:33 AMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: JimK]
Though I was into archery, my dad got me a .22 rifle for christmas. Scared me to death when you have no idea how to handle firearms and was annoyed that he took it out shooting often without me :-(
#4323899 - 12/28/1604:30 AMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: Robbster]
It was badass, and could transform from a jet to a battlemech. And then my brother broke the arm off a few years later. I'd so love to still have it intact to give to my daughter.
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#4323903 - 12/28/1605:14 AMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: JimK]
I had those Hotwheel tracks. Got my ass tanned by my Mother once too.
Gave new meaning hurt to, My brother left whip marks on my back that lasted 8 months. Needless to say when Dad saw the damage. His lasted longer.
You don't know pain until you've been beaten with a solid injection-molded plastic Johnny West action figure. Being clobbered with one of those is akin to being hit with a billy club. Zero give.
#4324013 - 12/28/1605:19 PMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
[Re: JimK]
I had those Hotwheel tracks. Got my ass tanned by my Mother once too.
Gave new meaning hurt to, My brother left whip marks on my back that lasted 8 months. Needless to say when Dad saw the damage. His lasted longer.
Holy crap. My beating was nothing like that. I do remember my Dad being pissed with my Mother for using the track as a spanking device, (the only time I can recall him being on my side). I was 4 at the time. Thankfully Mom moved on the wooden spoons, broke one a my butt once. How times have changed.
#4324174 - 12/29/1604:58 AMRe: What was the best Christmas gift you received when you were a kid?
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A daisy BB gun when i was 9 but unfortunately with it i slaughtered many birds (including some that it's a fine to harm) and lizards in my backyard, alley and even in neighbors yards.
I regret having killed every one of them and their deaths still haunt me today
I only ever shot one bird, my first and last because just that one bothered me enough not to do it again. I didn't actually kill it though, shot one of its legs off and when it fell to the ground one of our cats got it.
I had Hotwheels too but never had a GI Joe. I did play with my friends GI Joes once though. Dolls for boys.