my lump of coal isn't looking so hot anymore :< what an awesome present!

1. A Mattel Dareplane stunt aircraft. You had to have good hand/eye coordination to fly that puppy and you'd fly it right into the ground if you didn't.






2. Tyco Burlington Northern HO scale electric train set. This one led me on to more elaborate 4'x8' (and then 8'x16') set-ups. Before the size got out of hand and I moved to N scale trains and set-ups.




Both were early to mid-70s gifts, well before the introduction of Pong and the loss of imagination.

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I remember this bad boy.... I had the most fun with this than any other present I remember. Plus developed some great upper body strength and endurance. : )

We got these from my uncle one year and created sides and spent hours shooting rubber bands at them to knock them down. It was a blast!

I also got a sweet red bmx bike too. I was soo excited!

Radio controlled car. Tyco Fast Traxx. It was really fast, had wheels like a tank and my best friend also got one. We played with those for a couple years and put it through every imaginable contraption that a 11 year old boy could build.

Dude- I put an apple and orange in each of my kids stockings. Lol

Got to love the green soldiers. My set had tan ones as well that I would guess were the opposition. We used to set them up across the room and shoot them with rubber bands , or roll shooter marbles to knock them down, and eventually shot them with the bb gun as we grew older. That sort of dented them up. Always got mad when the dog chewed one up. Did keep the chewed ones up as "wounded" guys. Never could figure why the landing craft was about the scale size of a canoe. Why have a landing craft if your invasion force is only two guys?

I had a Civil War set with blue men and grey men too.They weren't as much fun as the Army men. For the life of me I don't know where they all went. Came home from college once and my room/closet had been cleaned out. Mom seemed to recall they were " around" somewhere. Un huh. I suppose they are all fighting wars on some hidden beach far away.

My dad played pretty hard with the electric train one year. It took way too long to set up as we didn't have a plywood board to attach it too.

Got a cool "Pluto Platter" which was an early Frisbee. That thing seemed to live on the roof, and got upcycled as a water catcher in the potted plant.

Took my Super Ball outside and slammed it on the sidewalk as hard as I could, it bounced up pretty good and hit me under the chin. I got a couple stitches for Christmas that year.

Thanks for bringing the subject up, it has been a real long time since I thought of those fun days at play.