What was your favourite Christmas present as a child?

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I loved my Tiny Tears doll when I was 7.
A few years later, it was the Fashion Wheel.
80s childhood Christmases were the best!

3 storey Cindy Doll house

then as a teen a music system
combining Record player, radio and cassette player

Possibly my Ballerina Sindy in 1979, then my Sindy Horse in 1981. Also my Lundby dollshouse in about 1976 or 77.
My walking, talking Alice in Wonderland in 1974/5 was also wonderful. She had a tiny record player in her back, and three tiny records that played crackly songs through a speaker in her tummy.

My dinky toy car transporter.

A blue care bear. (Wish bear?) Fashion Wheel. When I was a but older a Walkman that was in a triangle shape and when you pulled the headphones out, it had a little speaker that played. It was pink!

Girl’s World, brunette version. Also, a little set of chocolate squares with raised Disney figures on them - early Disneyfication of everything, I suppose, but quite novel in 1975!

À la carte kitchen circa 1985. Also remember getting a pink popple cuddly toy and a white puffalump. 1980s toys were the best!

A raleigh grifter bike. All the more special because my parents had said they couldn’t afford one and I’d have to have a woolworth own brand bike (which was probably just as good but didn’t have the street cred)

I too had a tiny tears doll, but my best present was the year my parents got me a chopper bike.

I remember that!

Teddy Ruxpin when I was around 6.
A tape player with a plug in mic and a Kylie Minouge tape.
I also remember loving a tinsel wig.

Tiny tears here too, her name was Katie and she is on my spare room bed!! I also had the tree house house with the family, I got a duvet one year with a Sarah Kay cover, I loved that…and most of all I got my guinea pig one year!! That was definitely the best!!!

A Lights Alive. Even when I see pictures of one now, it brings back all the emotion and memories of the amazement. Oh how I long for those simple, glorious times.

Ahh I loved my Fashion Wheel.
Bike - a lovely shiny Raleigh glittery one.
Furby.
Bottle of Anais Anais.
IPod Shuffle.

My parents could not afford much and you were happy with anything but when I got a Spirograph (late '70s). I played with it continuously. I also got a ZX80 in the early '80s, after hoping, but knowing they could not afford it, and I suspect it was a shared present with my sister who really did not have an ounce of interest in the thing. I am sure it was about £50 (a fortune in those days), and had 1k of memory and I continually wrote programs for it thereafter. We also got a binatone television game one year (again shared). I still have both things, but the spirograph has long gone. You were so delighted with anything you got, and you only "got things" twice a year, Christmas and your birthday. Later, when they gave me money to spend in the sales, I would be out with the larks on the 26th and would blow the lot on clothes. Nice times xx

Tiny Tears and Fashion Wheel both memorable for me too, and also My Little Sweet Shop.

I have a terrible memory and we didn’t have much money but the three things that stand out in my mind are a glow worm (remember them with a light up face?), a pink cassette player and when I was a teenager, a kind of cardboard cube that looked like a large die that had all different compartments with makeup in them. I was chuffed to bits with that 😂

A millennium falcon and a Walkman - not both the same year though!

yes to the glow worm!!!!!!

Haunted House board game 1973. What fun! Also Sheena the doll with the growing hair. Oh and roller skates that you put shoed feet into and tied the laces. All memories from different early 70’s Christmasses when you had one main present. All glorious. Ah and very exciting - a Petite typewriter which sadly broke! It was a small but functional typewriter presumably for the budding 1971 secretary-to-be.

Yes to Tiny Tears and Fashion Wheel. I'll add - my love heart and peaches & cream Barbies, really enjoyed those! My Girls World, can almost still smell the make up. My roller skates! Happy days 😍

I loved an annual! My little pony, sylvanians, Beano. I still have them all. And Wishbear as pp mentioned!

A Russian doll. I read about them in a book and then saw some hand painted ones in a shop in the Albert Dock. My mum got me one for Christmas. It was lilac with blue swirls. I thought it was magical

My Gran had one in her display cabinet and I was allowed to play with it ,that's got to be 54 years ago ..

Mini Cadbury’s vending machine

This!

Plus a very much coveted First Love doll when I was 10. I've still got the picture of me opening it with a look of pure joy on my face.

A Baby Alive.

Downfall game. Guess Who.

A kissing doll called Sarah.

A Grifter bike which my older brother thought he was getting when we found it in my Nan's cupboard before Christmas. I was really chuffed because I really wanted to be a boy at that stage so I was over the moon to get a boys' bike! I assume that they were being clever by thinking that they could eventually hand it down to my younger brother.

A Donkey Kong game.

A Transformer when I was 12. Still got all of these toys now (apart from the Cadbury machine and bike).

We always loved getting those Cadbury chocolate machines.

They toy I loved the most was my Tiny Tears but I didn't get her for Christmas...still got her too!