Favorite Christmas gift you received as a child

I'm feeling very sentimental this morning, and something made me think of Christmas back in 1969. In July that year, Apollo 11 had successfully landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong was the first person to every walk its surface. On Christmas morning, I opened my all-time favorite present: Billy Blastoff.

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I remember playing with that toy for a long, long time. He had his own space ship, space crawler, space sled, space ATV, ray gun and radar screen. I saw a set like that on eBay recently for $250. I wish I'd kept mine! Not to sell it but just to have.

How about you? What was your favorite Christmas gift you received as a child?

I loved dolls - especially Barbie dolls. One year Santa gave me a Francie doll (Barbie's younger cousin). My Mom also sewed an entire Barbie wardrobe for my sister and I. I remember hearing her sewing late at night.

My Little Pony castle

Does anyone remember NOT getting that one special gift you asked Santa for? I begged for a Sno-Cone machine for several years. I always remember my Mom saying that Santa had told her that he couldn't bring it because it was just junk!

My favorite video game when I was 7..

Santa disappeared when I was four --- but my best gift was a Brownie Hawkeye camera. I think I was ten or eleven when I got that.

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Does anyone remember NOT getting that one special gift you asked Santa for? I begged for a Sno-Cone machine for several years. I always remember my Mom saying that Santa had told her that he couldn't bring it because it was just junk!

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Well, I don't want to talk about it!
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Originally Posted by Penny Berry

My Little Pony castle

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:) How sweet.

I always seemed to love every gift I received, but one stands out in my mind. I was 4, going on 5 and I received a Kenner Give A Show Projector. It came with slide strips of mainly Hanna Barbera cartoons...The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, etc. I loved that thing!

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Originally Posted by ChristmasFanatic

I always seemed to love every gift I received, but one stands out in my mind. I was 4, going on 5 and I received a Kenner Give A Show Projector. It came with slide strips of mainly Hanna Barbera cartoons...The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, etc. I loved that thing!

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I remember getting something like that as a child. Loved it!

My mom told me when I was five, I got the pocket money as my Christmas gift.
That was awesome so I could buy my favorite Christmas gifts:presents1:

Christmas is the big holiday for use ..

My favourite presents were.....

A gameboy
Walkman
The beano annual
Lots of lego

The best for me growing up is when my decided to play Santa one year.. That memory for me, tops any store bought gift

G.I. Joe Hovercraft

Comic books in the uk arent like those in America. Their more cartoon/humour based. The greatest of the two were the beano and the dandy.

The highlight of many childrens Christmas's was the beano or dandy annuals. My avatar is my favourite one growing up....