your most favorite xmas present (1 Viewer)

[sammy719]

Well my most favorite Christmas present of all time was my Marx battleground playset, (which I wish I still had) I did buy a new one a few years ago on e-bay but it just wasn't the same..(white germans instead of grey) and I also loved my electric football game with the buzzer connected to the metal football field, played that thing to death. oh yea the S.T.P. crash up derby cars, I used to scare the hell out of my dog with those things ha!!!! .....Sammy

p.s. but these days nothing is better then K&C under the tree, in case Santa is reading this!!!!

 

[marco55]

My favorite christmas present was a GI Joe space capsule and it was my favorite because my grandfather went around selling junk and scrap at 69 years old because he knew I wanted it so bad.Some things are priceless.
Mark

 

[4th Hussar]

The Marx Alamo set with the metal lithographed building and walls. The set included a multitude of mexicans and texans. It was very nice.

 

[Deitz]

My favorite sets I received for Christmas were The Heritage American Revolution Set and the Heritage Blue and Grey Set. I really enjoyed playing with them. My brother received the Alamo set and World War II set. We recieved one set each year.

 

[Alexdakar]

The Navarone playset for me. I have three brothers around the same age and we chose Star Wars so that was a good year too.

 

[redhugh]

one year was a big log fort with Britains cavlary and indians when I was 5 or 6 the other set was a 1/32 plastic matchbox or airfix set called "counterattack", it had a hard plastic half runied 2 story building and a watch tower in pieces that clipped together. I had an artillery piece that fired small plastic rounds and would hit the watchtower which would eventually collapse with the germans inside

 

[SmilingJake]

My favorite set I received one Christmas was the Marx Giant Blue & Gray set. I thought it was great shooting the soldiers with the plastic bullets from the gun which was included.

 

[Lewey Gun Vick]

Classic Toy Soldiers Waterloo playset in 5th grd. Gee, golly my Brits would always destroy the first wave of French, and when the french broke through the gates, a bayonet charged was ordered by the Duke of Wellington and we saved the day!

Vick

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

"Big Jim" Action figure and the Big Jim camper. I also had a GI Joe Space Capsule. That was a great one as well.

 

[thebritfarmer]

Mine has to be my 10' X 8' railway my dad made for me when I was about 12. He worked on it for a couple of months under lock & key. Christmas morning came and of we went to the basement and there it was. Buildings with lights, fields with animals and passengers on the platform. Dad showed me how to control my existing train which was already on the tracks. I was too busy watching it in the siding yard to notice the Queen Mother exiting a tunnel with 3 carriages. Happy Days, wish I still had it but we were stationed in Germany at the time so it had to be given away when we moved. I still have the Queen Mother Locomotive and carriages though.

 

[Rutledge]

Daisy "Pump" BB gun!!!

 

[Al Fisher]

My father, at that time a Lieutenant Commander in the USNR, was called up for active duty in the autumn of 1940 and was assigned as Engineering Officer in USS Harry Lee, then in the process as being converted to a troop transport from her peacetime role as a passenger liner. In the next couple of years the ship transported Marines to Iceland and Bermuda in additon to developing landing procedures later used in the Pacific.

Somehow the shipped pulled into Boston just prior to Christmas 1942 and he was able to wrangle a few days off despite the pressure of WWII. On Christmas Day we drove into Boston to pick up the ship's doctor, a LCDR Andrews, and I got to tour the ship . . . quite an occasion for a nine-year old kid during wartime. (All I remember is how drab and dingy she was.)

Not a toy (I got those, too), perhaps, but a great gift for a kid who sorely missed his dad. Fortunately, he returned home safely (a four-stripper, later two star) in 1946. My wife was not so lucky . . . her father died silencing a machinegun nest in France, posthumously earning the Silver Star. And to this day, I have no toy soldiers in combat poses to honor this man who was over draft age but wanted to do his part, not as an officer with the Judge Advocate Corps (he was an international lawyer working for the later Senator Javitts(D, NY)) but as a common infantryman.

Al

 

[kilted vampire]

I have to say the BB gun. My 10-22 Ruger. Lionel train set shared with my brother. I can not remember when we got the Marx lithographed castle set. I also really liked the Major Matt Mason.

 

[eborris]

I have to say the BB gun. My 10-22 Ruger. Lionel train set shared with my brother. I can not remember when we got the Marx lithographed castle set. I also really liked the Major Matt Mason.

Welcome back, good to see you feel up to posting.

 

[theBaron]

Wow, I remember Major Matt Mason, too! Those wire armature and rubber flesh figures from Mattel. Big Jim came out a little too late for me, I was past action figures then, but my little brother had them. With the armband, to test his pythons, and the Big Jim Sports Camper:

"Big Jim Sports Camper
You're the king of the road
When you help him unload"

My favorite Christmas present, though, is a three-way tie, across a couple of Christmases, and that is, the Monogram bomber kits. I got the B-17G, the B-24J and the B-29, each in a different year, and I was in seventh heaven with those models. Now that I've gotten back in to scale modeling, those are all on my list of nostalgia builds.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

And didn't anyone like getting the official Red Rider BB Gun, with a compass in the stock, and this thing that tells time?

(Favorite quote from "A Christmas Story"--the Old Man, in his barely suppressed rage at seeing his major award lying shattered in pieces in the living room: "Nadafinga!")

Prost!
Brad

 

[Russell]

Brad, I never did get a BB gun but I sure looked at the pictures and dreamed about it. Where did I see the ads? Were they in comic books?

This fort along with the cowboys and Indians was my favorite. Below is a photo of a fort that delighted me to no end. It was made of wood. I do not know the maker. Can anyone help?

 

[binder001]

I was SO into my toys at Christmas - I guess I never really grew out of it! Anyway, one that really stands out was a great year when I got the Marx "Battle of the Ble and Gray" playset. One of the few full Marx playsets I ever owned when I was actually a kid! Anyway, it was great - those fine Marx figures, the litho mansion, the Lee, Grant and Lincoln figures, all the accessories. This was about the time of the centennial of the Civil War and there were lots of toy soldiers with ACW themes, but at that time Marx was absolutely the best. I also got a basic train set and it came on a vacuum formed scenery base, so you can imagine that the Marx troops took that little hill over and over again!

Gary

 

[L Flowers]

Navarone & Battleground playsets, Best of the West figures....used to get about one or two a year, Matchbox vehicles and GI Joe..in the 70s when he became more of an action figure going on his expeditions. I remember the Egyptian set as being one of my favorites with the snake and six-wheeled vehicle. And yes I did have GI Joe with the kung-fu grip!! Can't forget about my bike with the banana seat and "cheetah" slick tires!!

No comments about the clothing....it was the 70s after all!

 

[lancer]

A little off course, but related. Christmas after I turned 18, my father presented me with his Colt 1911A1 that had been issued to him while with Naval Intel. during WW2. He had been based in places such as Bougainville and the Phillipines. I treasure it still along with location photos of him while wearing the Colt. -- lancer