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Offline buffermop

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first favorite Christmas toy
« on: December 16, 2010, 06:52:30 AM »
What was your favorite Christmas toy as a youngster. Mine was a crow target set with stopple guns. Hit the crow and it would caw and spin. Had tons of fun playing with this, instead of doing homework. ;D
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 07:03:23 AM »
Play Doh. Loved the way it bounced and picked the images off of newsprint.

Do frogs and lizards count?
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2010, 07:21:22 AM »
I think I got these the same year. One, was a Roy Rogers guitar, that I use to strum and sing Home on the Range. The other, was a golden colored space ship toy, that I believe ran on 2 D size batteries. Had a radar screen thing, that mounted thru the top. And, it came with a deep tugboat type whistle, that when you blew it, the toy would change course, and follow me around the living room and basement. I remember my dad sentencing me to the basement with this toy, as I found out if I yelled, it would do the same thing. And it would keep him awake during the football games he was claimed to be watching. gypsyman
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2010, 07:40:25 AM »
BB gun , Had 9 , would get a new one each year as the old one was worn out . When they started selling BBs in milk cartins it was a great day - the little tubes held so few.
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2010, 07:53:38 AM »
A small Lionel train set.
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2010, 08:03:01 AM »
 I`m torn between my Lionel Train Set , that blew Smoke from the stack. The smoke stuff came in a little green bottle and you added just a drop or two. Of course my butthole cousin poured half the bottle in and we pretended the train was on fire. Or, my pump Action BB gun. I would set a metal plate on the cellar door and shoot at it. I had it set so the ricocetting BB would bounce straight back at me! Had me a heck of a time fighting off the bad guys....
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2010, 11:29:10 AM »
My mother saved up the box tops and got me my "Captain Video Space Ranger Ray Gun (used talcum powder) and Video Decoder Ring" and gave them to me for Christmas! had a ball running around the house being a Space Ranger :). My sister, being the lovingly inherent EVIL sister that she always was during this period in my life :-[, LOADED my ray gun with the talcum powder and told me that Daddy was pretending to be an evil alien, go shoot him :P. Daddy was sitting in his recliner reading and a very impressionable (read that a STUPID!)5 year old Space Ranger went and "shot the evil alien". I realized that I was up to my nose in DEEP DOO-DOO :'( :'( :( :( :-[!!!!!! Picture, if you can, a reclining Al Jolson (in FULL face paint)reading a book with a Big Cigar in his mouth. OOOOPPPPSSSS. My loving Mother saved my life that Christmas (after she recovered from a massive laughing attack along with my sister). Justice won out that day due to the fact that my sister couldn't stop laughing. Mother casually asked Daddy how I knew to load the powder. With the unerring accuracy of a striking Cobra---Daddy looked at my sister and the jig was up. Who says there isn't a God. Justice was SWIFT. ;D God Bless to all.


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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2010, 02:54:05 PM »
A red and white Firestone bicycle
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2010, 03:34:19 PM »
I can't remember back that far.  :-\

No.. wait, I remember now, it was a Fort Apache play set.  It was a metal suit case like thing that unfolded into a fort.  It came with a bunch of toy cowboys, Indians and soldiers compete with horses, wagons and cannons.  I played with that thing for hours. 

Don't recall if I got my BB gun as a Christmas present or a birthday present but I spent hours and hours shooting it. It was a Daisy lever action with a peep rear site and hooded front site.  I got so good with it that hitting wooden matches stuck into blobs of modeling clay at 25' off hand was easy for me.  Wish I could still shoot like that today.       
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2010, 03:41:27 PM »
"Play Doh. Loved the way it bounced and picked the images off of newsprint."

Think that was Silly Putty.My favorite was in 1954.A blue pedal car.Wish I still had it.Slow
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2010, 06:26:25 PM »
Mine, too, was the Fort Apache playset from Marx Toys. I didn't have the fold up carry-all version. Mine came in a big cardboard box that had a handle like a suitcase, but the fort was individual plastic pieces that had to be assembled. Man, oh man...GOOD TIMES!
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2010, 11:27:21 PM »
  My favorite toy when i was a kid was My Ding-A-Ling. :o.  Thank you Chuck Berry.
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Re: first favorite Christmas toy
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2010, 03:47:09 AM »
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