What was your favourite present EVER when you were little??

[Maidamess]

A calculator that beeped when I pressed the buttons. (Sooo high tech in 1979)

A SIMON game. Remember them?

Hungry Hippos

Julip horses and accesories

But can barely read through this thread due to the roll call of things I wanted desperately and never got.....Simple Simon, HUngry HIppos, Girls World, a Sindy house, Chopper bike, easybake oven...

The most memorable was a tiny silver coloured digital alarm clock (before ANYBODY had a digital anything) It came in a little black velvet drawstring pouch. I was SO in love with it.

ChristmasSendsMePsycho

There was a walking talking doll she was called Amanda, you used to lift her arm and she would walk and talk. I had one when i was about 4yrs i think.

But my best present was Space invaders game (which i still have now . I got this when i was about 9.

A Paul McCartney LP. Tug of War. I was very little (surely just a babe in arms ) but it meant something at the time The following year Pipes of Peace...... it meant something too. I have both, in the loft. One day someone will make me buy a player........

And watching my little brother open a Millenium Falcon. Wow! I felt his pleasure! I still love him to bits. He's staying with me on Christmas Eve to relive the pleasure of Christmas morning. He has no children. I have three (inc twins).

He has no idea

An Annie doll. She had ginger curly hair, a lovely smile. She wore a red dress & had Sandy the dog in her pocket!!

I got her the same year I got a black doll, she came in a buggy! My couisn Orlagh got one the same... mine was called Candy (As in those days Candy Devine was on the TV a lot)
Orlagh's had hearts on her white dungarees & mine had balloons on her white dungarees!

My aunt & my mam always did their C'mas shopping together... so quite often myself & Orlagh (there are 3 months between us!) found ourselves with the same toys! Only difference was that Orlagh had no buggy as my sister had picked that up for mam on C'mas eve!!!!!!!!

My two most favourite presents were a Major Morgan and Fashion Plates....I played for hours with both of them

Funny how most of these new fangled high tech toys these days barely hold my dc's attention for more than 10 mins (The reason why we have bought them all "proper" toys this year like lego, wooden dolls houses and doll prams)

Snap hedgehog - my dsis and I had to share the Cindy house with the lift on the side. I also had the Cindy buggy (a yellow thing) which I used to sit on and ride down hill - even though I was far too big for it....

Was very proud of the machine gun I got for christmas aged 6 - I had Huggy Bear clamped to one arm and a machine gun on the other. Classy.

HUGGY BEAR [incredulous]

I coveted Huggy Bears.

remember the advert..."huggy bear, huggy bear, you can hug him anywhere..." I still have my huggy - even if he now lives in my loft!! His grip still works too

my cupboard with glass doors to put all my things in. it was taller than me and i have never forgotten the thrill of seeing this enormous present for me [quantity not quality emoticon]

oh captain don't!!!! We were too poor! I remember the ad though. Loved it.

Loved only because my gran would let me and my big brother stay up on Friday nights to watch Starsky (swoon) and Hutch. Huggy Bear was integral to my induction to life beyond routine and timetables and mum saying NO. There is a feeble connection non?

BTW, I adored Captain CAAAAAAAVEMAAAAAANNNNN

A Girls World

lizziemum.....really....there was a walky talky doll??????

psycho comes round all sad cos she wanted something that had been real and still never got it

and calafraun.......yup......aunty really is truly sick

Oh god I remember that yellow teapot it was great. I had a silver cross style pram which I loved and used to put the cat in. I'd forgotten about that tape recorder with a microphone that was good also, and simon too.

Maybe I'm a bit younger but my fave christmas pressie was the year I got a commodore 64 (goes glassy eyed about flimbos quest). And also roller boots they were the best thing ever, in fact I'd like a pair now. Me and my sister used to spend ages making up routines and playing torville and dean in the kitchen.

STYLOPHONE still have it.

also had amanda jane -snow! stillhave a box of her stuff- the shoes are class!

LEGO

Any shape or form.

I was so pissed off one time when i got back from Uni and found ou that my mum had thrown it all out.

A MR FROSTY

I remember the year I got Sindy with a box full of knitted clothes for her, that had been knitted by my mum and my granny. I still have some sindy dolls and some of the clothes that my dd's play with sometimes.
I also had a Sindy Caravan.

One year my brother and I got an Atari computer between us, all the games were on tape and you had to wait ages for them to load up and there were these huge long programmes in a book that you could type in, if you had half a day free, and the computer would talk to you through the tv! We were well impressed.

Wasn't mr frosty a bit crap though? I remember using it once and it being very hard work for very little reward

Yeah - bit like Soda Stream.

Great idea but fell down at the important stage - actually USING it.

Mr frosty maker, a cabbage patch doll named kimberly and that little kitchen where it showed on the advert, the little boy and girl serving cake with beans .

Do you know I don't think I ever got lego (feels deprived). Seeing as both my parents are dead (poor orphan Jo) I shall let them off in their lego overlookedness