Best & Worst Christmas Presents.

[Oldsmobile-88]

As a lad of 8 you'd be well chuffed with that Olds.

Indeed I was DB9...I can’t imagine that sort of toy being marketed these days, except perhaps in Russia or the Middle East
Fired a small plastic “bullet” among other features with a range of about 10’

 

[Spoonz Red E]

I recall being happy when I got a Johnny Seven multiple toy gun when I was 28 Only kidding when I was 8, one Christmas.
Sat at the top of the stairs with that bad boy toy

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7 guns in one.
My favourite is the lipstick ...

 

[STURTZ]

Best memory was finding a subbuteo set at back of parents wardrobe 6 weeks before Xmas, that set was well pawed before I finally got to play with it!
Worst was a tiny toy howitzer that fired matchsticks (at the telly mainly)

 

[fred binneys head]

Those toy howitzers firing matchsticks were great when playing soldiers!

 

[manc grecian]

The outlaws, before I told them not to buy anything ever again, went through a stage of buying everything from the middle aisle of Aldi.

Imagine my absolute delight when I opened up a frost cover for the car followed up by a travel sewing kit.

 

[Alistair20000]

Those toy howitzers firing matchsticks were great when playing soldiers!

As STURTZ says the shooting of these was very poor. Worse than our current strikers

 

[fred binneys head]

As STURTZ says the shooting of these was very poor. Worse than our current strikers

Maybe Sturtz's howitzer operators just weren't being coached properly?

 

[Ex-ciderrr]

I got given a rubber dice with different workouts on, I mean, what is the point? You go to the gym with a routine, not to roll a dice to decide what exercise to do next! I can’t recall who brought for me but what on earth went through their head to get that, still baffles me to this day.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

I got given a rubber dice with different workouts on, I mean, what is the point? You go to the gym with a routine, not to roll a dice to decide what exercise to do next! I can’t recall who brought for me but what on earth went through their head to get that, still baffles me to this day.

At least you knew each session started with a forward roll.

 

[STURTZ]

Maybe Sturtz's howitzer operators just weren't being coached properly?

Learnt that if you used live red matches and attached sandpaper around the muzzle you could actually launch flaming missiles!
They were eventually confiscated but it sparked a lifetime career in pyrotechnics.
So it wasn't all bad!