When I was kid, I had the joy of anticipation of receiving a favorite toy. I had a favorite toy present. Mine was my fisher price doll house with little people. I must have played that for hours. What is your favorite?
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Not a toy, but my very favorite present as a kid was a Bobby Sherman album. Of course, Barbie dolls were always great.
Also not a toy, and not sure of the year in the late 60’s, but my Winchester .22 long rifle I got as a kid. And I didn’t shoot my eye out. Still have it today for use on destructive groundhogs and skunks.
At age seven or eight I was into haunted houses. I watched The Munsters and Scooby Doo and Thriller had just come out, I was obssessed with that video. For Christmas I asked for this pinball toy with a magnetic marble. You can see it at 7:40.
Got a Commodore 64 computer for Christmas when I was 10 years old. I thought it was the greatest Christmas present of all time, still do, as all others have been measured by that Christmas morning. Spent the next few years programming games, playing Star Wars, and waiting 30-45 minutes for games to load on the old datasette player.
I had a bike like this only the bar in back was really high, and it was blue. And it had a flower basket on the front.bike! Outside on the porch! With a ribbon!
I rammed it into a parked car and got a concussion. 
In looking at the ones with the high backs, I didn't have that. One of my friends must of had that. This is more what I had but there was a basket up front, and I'm pretty sure the seat had flowers on it. I may have stuck those 70s big flower stickers on it.
We would make constant trips to the town dump scrounging for parts in order to turn that kind of bike into something like this...In looking at the ones with the high backs, I didn't have that. One of my friends must of had that. This is more what I had but there was a basket up front, and I'm pretty sure the seat had flowers on it. I may have stuck those 70s big flower stickers on it.
At one point my bike had three forks welded together on the front making it look extra cool. But you could only drive it in a straight line as taking a turn was pert near impossible.
Yes, I saw kids with bikes not quite that elaborate, but close.We would make constant trips to the town dump scrounging for parts in order to turn that kind of bike into something like this...
At one point my bike had three forks welded together on the front making it look extra cool. But you could only drive it in a straight line as taking a turn was pert near impossible.
theseIn looking at the ones with the high backs, I didn't have that. One of my friends must of had that. This is more what I had but there was a basket up front, and I'm pretty sure the seat had flowers on it. I may have stuck those 70s big flower stickers on it.
Probably the best actual toy I ever got at Christmas was a large Creepy Crawlers set. Burned many a finger with it and when you dripped that molten liquid on you, and tried to take it off, lots of skin came along with it. A chemistry set where you could make actual gunpowder came in second. 
Oh yes, a friend of mine got an easy bake and it worked!
And the big giant hand burning light bulb in.
The spirograph thing. Uh, well, yeah. I was the special needs kid who couldn't get the damn plastic templates to do their spirograph thing or spirochete or triple salchow or whatever it was supposed to do. My "millions of marvelous patterns" were "special."
I probably would not be doing what I do for a living without that damm spirograph. That and the squirt paint spinning thing. Forget what that was called.
You had a better brain than me. I had abby normal I think.
I had another friend who got this. It was terrific. There was something about that gooey bug making thing that was so tactilelytastic!Probably the best actual toy I ever got at Christmas was a large Creepy Crawlers set. Burned many a finger with it and when you dripped that molten liquid on you, and tried to take it off, lots of skin came along with it. A chemistry set where you could make actual gunpowder came in second.