Best/Favorite Christmas gift you received as a kid..

[stoops the eternal pimp]

For me it was
http://www.mastersunbound.com/MOTU%20toys%20images/MOTU-LA-Grayskull1.jpg

[rufnek05]

boxer puppy when I was 7.

will be the only dogs I will ever get.
I have one right now.
BEST. DOGS. EVER!



EVER!

[AllAboutThe'O']

Loved trains when I was a kid. Not so these days, but I digress.
When I was about 6 or 7, woke up one Christmas morning to the sound of a train whistle. I run out to the living room and see a miniature train layout set up on the rug. Spent the whole day watching the train circling the track.

[PhxSooner]

Barbie townhouse, complete with elevator. My brother used it as a GI Joe base when I wasn't around.

[Poli Sci]

I will never forget I had to be about three years old. I remember waking up and running into the living to see the Millennium Falcon in all her glory laying under our christmas tree. I spent hours running around in my back yard pretending it to be some far off planet, until I eventaully lost all the pieces and ended up selling it in some garage sale. To this day I have yet to receive a gift that brought me that much excitement upon getting it.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I will never forget I had to be about three years old. I remember waking up and running into the living to see the Millennium Falcon in all her glory laying under our christmas tree. I spent hours running around in my back yard pretending it to be some far off planet, until I eventaully lost all the pieces and ended up selling it in some garage sale. To this day I have yet to receive a gift that brought me that much excitement upon getting it.

I remember getting the MF...I was big time into the star wars stuff

[Widescreen]

Barbie townhouse, complete with elevator.
Sic'Em?

My favorite gift was an Atari VCS (before they named it the 2600). On Christmas Eve, my aunt and uncle got me an Atari game cartridge and then told me that they were sorry - they thought I was getting an Atari but they found out I wasn't and that I could return the game after Christmas for something else. I was devestated. On the way home that night I pretty much figured out it was a ruse, or at least I convinced myself that it was. I was pretty sharp for a 22 year old. ;)

Anyway, Christmas morning, Santa brought me the Atari. Screw you, mom and dad!

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Sic'Em?

My favorite gift was an Atari VCS (before they named it the 2600). On Christmas Eve, my aunt and uncle got me an Atari game cartridge and then told me that they were sorry - they thought I was getting an Atari but they found out I wasn't and that I could return the game after Christmas for something else. I was devestated. On the way home that night I pretty much figured out it was a ruse, or at least I convinced myself that it was. I was pretty sharp for a 22 year old. ;)

Anyway, Christmas morning, Santa brought me the Atari. Screw you, mom and dad!


http://www.atariage.com/2600/systems/sys_AtariVCS.jpg

[PhxSooner]

Same year I got the townhouse I also got the Merlin game. Best Christmas ever. We were at my grandparents, and I can remember lying in bed and listening to the grandfather clock chiming the hours, starting at 4 am.

[The Ghost of Joe Morrison]

For me it was
http://www.mastersunbound.com/MOTU%20toys%20images/MOTU-LA-Grayskull1.jpg

AWESOME! Thanks for that pic! Brings back GREAT memories. 1984 had to be my best Christmas, EVER! I, too, got Castle Grayskull! I also got my first ever Carolina shirt! It was black, had the helmet on it, & said BLACK MAGIC!

[King Crimson]

http://ryangenno.tripod.com/images/odyssey2System.jpg

[sooneron]

Puppy, followed by intellivision.

[sanantoniosooner]

A stick with frayed twine on it.

[crawfish]

Intellivision.

[IB4OU2]

Imagine the surprise when PG found her shiny Glock nestled under the Christmas tree.

[NormanPride]

http://thundercats.vpga.com/toys/cats_lair_blueprint.jpg

I really wish I had the picture my parents took of our kittens sleeping in it. Cutest thing ever. :)

[badger]

http://i6.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/c6/83/770e_1.JPG
I was soooo excited!

This was the only toy I had extreme patience with :D

[royalfan5]

http://www.farmgame.com/tfg.htm

It rules.

[sanantoniosooner]

http://www.farmgame.com/tfg.htm

It rules.
thanks Dwight.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Back when I was... Four? Five? I LOVED Spiderman. Not in a 'omg check out his package in those tights' sort of way, but in the usual boyhood superhero way. I had a Spiderman toothbrush that went in my Spiderman toothbrush holder, a Spiderman light switch plate to protect the lights on my bedroom that housed a cool hard plastic Spiderman about a foot tall that had a lil' string coming out his fist that he could pull himself up with. But with all the love of Spiderman, I lacked one thing.

Transportation.

Until Christmas. Sitting in the breezeway in our house there in Midwest City on Christmas morning was greatness on two wheels. Red plastic fenders and chrome forks, bright yellow paint, hard plastic tires and training wheels, a seat complete with web graphic, and plastic placarding with none other than the webcrawler himself, 'SPIDERMAN', plastered all over it. I had it. It was mine. The SPIDERBIKE.

It was the first bicycle that I could call my very own. I finally learned how to roll sans training wheels on the Spiderbike. I learned how to pop a wheelie and do a bunny hop on the Spiderbike (all this on hard plastic tires). It wasn't long before I became the neighborhood daredevil on the Spiderbike, feeling invincible and left out as my older brother and the other neighborhood kids jumped ramps and pulled tricks there at the circle on Marshall Drive. Soon those ramps were conquered by the Spiderbike and I, and eventually there was no ramp unjumpable, no curb unhoppable, no crotchety neighbor un****-off-able. In fact, the Spiderbike with me at the helm became the official ramp tester as blind courage and hard plastic wheels hit every jump with reckless abandon.

It wasn't long before the Spiderbike began to show its age...

One crisp morning, on a simple cruise around the circle, the Spiderbike died. The seat broke at the weld between the adjustment and the post. If not for my ever-durable Toughskins, I would've had a steel-laced peek at prison life, as the remnants of the post jabbed me right in the butt. I crashed and sat forlorn, staring at the cracked hard plastic wheels, the seat still wobbling upside-down twenty feet up the street, the absence of chintzy plastic placarding, the and the weathered rubber bands still in place and ready to hold the next baseball card. Dad eventually had the seat rewelded, but it quickly broke again. And after the initial incident, the Spiderbike had lost all of its bulletproof luster.

I still to this day miss it. The Spiderbike was dead.

Long live the Spiderbike.

[sanantoniosooner]

Actually a Kabar deer skinning knife was one of my favorite gifts ever.

I nearly took the top of my thumb off with it.

[Oldnslo]

Do you remember when you were 5 wondering what it would be like if your parents owned a toy store?

When I was 5, mine did.

We got EVERYTHING.

I remember some kind of self-contained shooting range with tiny BBs. I don't remember what it was called, though. And the Big Wheel was teh awexome.

[proud gonzo]

Imagine the surprise when PG found her shiny Glock nestled under the Christmas tree.nah, that was for my birthday

[SicEmBaylor]

http://www.computercloset.org/Commodore_64_Box.jpg

[sanantoniosooner]

http://www.popgadget.net/images/hello%20kitty%20exhuast%20pipe%20(2).bmp
bet it looks good on the miata

[SicEmBaylor]

Heh.

[Mixer!]

http://i4.ebayimg.com/03/i/02/6c/c8/ea_1_b.JPG

1965, biatches.

[Vaevictis]

Easily, by far, the NES.

Used that thing for 8+ years.

[Flagstaffsooner]

Olevet enjoyed his very first Christmas gift.
http://www.wayodd.com/funny-pictures2/funny-pictures-does-your-baby-drink-beer-8Kr.jpg

[TopDaugIn2000]

http://www.cutco.com/images/prod/enlarged/1847.jpg

(if 24 years old is still considered a kid)

[jr4ou]

Intellivision

[phead903]

http://sp1.mm-a8.yimg.com/image/4129534537 (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fs earch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dantique%2Bpedal%2Btractor%26y %3DSearch%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dyfp-t-304%26x%3Dwrt%26js%3D1%26ni%3D20&w=400&h=300&imgurl=www.toybox2000.com%2Fad-photos%2F17648-mod.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toybox2000.com%2Fclassifieds %2Fview-ad-440.html&size=49.4kB&name=17648-mod.jpg&p=antique+pedal+tractor&type=jpeg&no=5&tt=229&oid=568529b1026a2a00&ei=UTF-8)

1964 - I was 7 and it was teh awesome!!

[olevetonahill]

Olevet enjoyed his very first Christmas gift.
http://www.wayodd.com/funny-pictures2/funny-pictures-does-your-baby-drink-beer-8Kr.jpg
Thats How I knew how to feed that kid :D