Xmas present memories from your childhood, what stands out ?

[Bob D.]

[Mr. Dazzle]

ISTR reading that's a rejected design for a ship from Star Wars too?

Or maybe one ship in Star Wars became a different ship in Star Wars actually. I don't bloody know

[gremlin]

I think I just had a little sex wee.....

[Bob D.]

ISTR reading that's a rejected design for a ship from Star Wars too?

Or maybe one ship in Star Wars became a different ship in Star Wars actually. I don't bloody know

yeah not sure - Space 1999 was first aired in '75, and Star Wars premiered in the US in '77. Dinky Toys also did a slightly different Eagle, the transporter, and it came with iirc four nuclear containers under its middle bit thing. It was all white.

[David]

An orange and a walnut.

Cor.......yow wuz posh...we got orange peel and nutshells...didn't arf make a mess in the shoe box we lived in on even dates...odds we just stayed in the tip.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

ISTR reading that's a rejected design for a ship from Star Wars too?

Or maybe one ship in Star Wars became a different ship in Star Wars actually. I don't bloody know

yeah not sure - Space 1999 was first aired in '75, and Star Wars premiered in the US in '77. Dinky Toys also did a slightly different Eagle, the transporter, and it came with iirc four nuclear containers under its middle bit thing. It was all white.

I had that, got it as a swap for something - I can't remember what though or who with.

[Count Steer]

Remembered another, one year I got a Mamod steam engine (still have it). It was interesting but once you'd run it for a while, blown the whistle and driven a few Meccano things with it, it got a bit boring tbh.

(Not childhood but my nephew did get up one Christmas morning to find his girlfriend/partner had bought him a brand new Triumph bike - Speed Triple of some sort iirc. Nice.)

[Mr. Dazzle]

My Dad dug out some of the old train set stuff a while back. One of his colleagues was building a set so my Dad went for go.

The one at the back was deffo a Christmas present of mine in about 1994. The middle one is also mine, but I can't remember when...think I might have bought it some Birthday money. The front one was joint with my brother again.

And yes I've just spotted my Dad's railway magazine

[formula400]

it was all about action force and GI Joe for me

GI Joes by amusedtolife, on Flickr

can't wait to buy them for my lad

[mangocrazy]

My standout Xmas present memory was from when I was about 6 or 7, when my dad had made me a scale model of a castle, complete with a lot of hand-painted metal soldiers. Even at that age I can remember thinking 'how long did all this take?' I remember playing the Grand old Duke of York, marching my regiment up and down the hill leading to the castle.

Shortly after that my folks Got Religion, and a particularly pernicious variant thereof - Jehovah's Witnesses. So, very abruptly the Xmas and birthday presents stopped. They didn't restart until my early 20s when I decided I really didn't need that shit and kicked it into touch. It also probably explains my lack of enthusiasm for Christmas and all its trappings, having been force-fed the 'Christmas is a lie' juice for so long.

[Rockburner]

Remembered another, one year I got a Mamod steam engine (still have it). It was interesting but once you'd run it for a while, blown the whistle and driven a few Meccano things with it, it got a bit boring tbh.

When my parents moved we found that my Dad had kept the Mamod stream Rolls that he bought me when I was about 5 and completely uninterested.

Best present we ever got was the Puch Magnum X we rode into the ground over the next 5 years or so, until we were old enough to ride on the road.

[Mr. Dazzle]

the Grand old Duke of York,

Baby D sings that loads at the moment. I always think that the Duke of York has gone down hill somewhat in recent years when I hear it

[Scud]

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I’ll never forget walking into the living room to one of these when I was about 6

[Rockburner]

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I’ll never forget walking into the living room to one of these when I was about 6

Same colour as mine!

We've still got it, I'm going to try to get it running again.

[Scud]

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I’ll never forget walking into the living room to one of these when I was about 6

Same colour as mine!

We've still got it, I'm going to try to get it running again.

Mine went over to Holland to my cousin a year later when I got a ty80, I believe he still has it somewhere in a barn on their farm.

[Jody]

The first one that come to mind was when I was about 14.

A large (100cm 60 cm x 60 cm) box was under the tree labelled for my older brother and I.

We'd been asking about a motorbike for the field but we also knew that that wasn't really in budget (it's tricky when you have 5 siblings!)

The rules in our house was that you don't get your "under the tree" presents until after Christmas dinner is done along with all the washing up !
Finally the time came to open the box
Inside, where two smaller boxes, we took one each. Inside each box was a smaller box, inside each smaller box was a smaller box !! This went on and on until finally one of the boxes revealed itself to be empty, the other one finished at a matchbox!!
Inside the matchbox was a key !!!!!
Hidden away in the barn was a 50cc yamaha road bike, it was very tired, I remember the kickstart shaft had snapped off and that's how my dad was able to afford it, but it was a motorbike, an actual real life motorbike