FabSwingers.com forum: Toys that made Xmas great

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Borrowed the idea from a tv programme but what toy/toys made your Xmas day great as a child ?

Was it a cabbage patch kid, Subbuteo, Furbie etc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For me it was a fashion wheel

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Star Wars toys

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"For me it was a fashion wheel

I'm intrigued, what was a fashion wheel ?

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By *orraine999Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere

Operation

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Can I say books? My dad had some sources or magic or shit. He never asked what we wanted but the Dad Christmas Book Sack was a thing of magic.

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By *ohnnyGentMan
over a year ago

london

Gotta be video game console for me. The N64 with Goldeneye was the best Christmas morning for sure.

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By *iberty RedWoman
over a year ago

Cheltenham

Simon says, whole family got very competitive but great fun. Recently brought one for my kids & still great

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Lego and my first mountain bike It was a Raleigh lizard 12speed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My big yellow teapot xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"For me it was a fashion wheel

I'm intrigued, what was a fashion wheel ?"

It is difficult to describe but if you were a young girl in the early 90s you would have had one!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Moon boots. Huge plastic monstrosities with elastic straps across them, so it was like walking on two miniature trampolines. I thought I was the coolest ever that year.

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

I remember Lego and Downfall (a game) being big hits.

We also got the predecessor to all video games - think it was called pong? Essentially you hit a little square ‘ball’ with a moving longer line and they called it tennis!

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

Dream phone and fashion wheel ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"For me it was a fashion wheel

I'm intrigued, what was a fashion wheel ?

It is difficult to describe but if you were a young girl in the early 90s you would have had one!

Loved that too

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Train set.and Meccano...my dad loved them

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

GI Joe

Transformers

SEGA Mega Drive

My first TV in my room and VHS player

Bike

Definitely not fucking socks and pants!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember Lego and Downfall (a game) being big hits.

We also got the predecessor to all video games - think it was called pong? Essentially you hit a little square ‘ball’ with a moving longer line and they called it tennis!

Loved downfall xx

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By *uriouscouple83Couple
over a year ago

Worcester

Scalextric, admittedly it was bought for my brother but it was my favourite.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"I remember Lego and Downfall (a game) being big hits.

We also got the predecessor to all video games - think it was called pong? Essentially you hit a little square ‘ball’ with a moving longer line and they called it tennis!

The classic Atari pong

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Super Flight Deck

I am very old , pre computer flight simulator ha ha

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"For me it was a fashion wheel

I'm intrigued, what was a fashion wheel ?

It is difficult to describe but if you were a young girl in the early 90s you would have had one!

I'm off to google

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Johnny seven obviously

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I don't remember the Christmas, but when I was a toddler my parents got me some puppets that were a huge craze at the time. Shortages everywhere, apparently quite the story getting hold of them. (I was a bit young for Cabbage Patch dolls) I still have them

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

"I remember Lego and Downfall (a game) being big hits.

We also got the predecessor to all video games - think it was called pong? Essentially you hit a little square ‘ball’ with a moving longer line and they called it tennis!

Me too - but it was Connect4 I was REALLY good at! Pontins champion 1983. Life went downhill after that pinnacle!

Loved downfall xx"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Raleigh burner

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved LOVED my girls world

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By *edGrayCouple
over a year ago

Swindon

Airfix model. Large Galleon Ship. Painting all the parts before gluing them together would take several days.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

My roller boots...practically surgically attached to my feet from the moment I got them.

And the only brand new bike I ever had as a kid (always got my sisters hand me downs), a shiny red and silver BMX

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

ZX Spectrum +2....I think I’d died and gone to heaven when I seen it had a tape player attached to the computer

The struggle was real

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Raleigh chopper bicycle

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

Connect 4

A nintendo game.. Turtles. Long before the consoles

Operation

Massive pack of felt tips and colouring pads

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Pop up pirate, my sister had it for Christmas one year. And my uncle and his mate spent most of boxing Day trying to find out the combination of how it popped. To mine and my sister's disappointment at the time, funny as now. Ah that is a proper lovely memory thanks OP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spirograph - I loved it so much

Oh and that thing I think it was called fashion world and you made clothes for a barber. I loved art things.

I remember saving up my Christmas money for a dolly changing station and then being gutted because it was really shit.

Oh and I always wanted a Mr Frosty but my mum said it was a waste of money so as long as my son was old enough I bought one for him and my mum was right I think we used it once

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Spirograph - I loved it so much

Oh and that thing I think it was called fashion world and you made clothes for a barber. I loved art things.

I remember saving up my Christmas money for a dolly changing station and then being gutted because it was really shit.

Oh and I always wanted a Mr Frosty but my mum said it was a waste of money so as long as my son was old enough I bought one for him and my mum was right I think we used it once

Barbie ffs

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Star Wars and Action Force figures/vehicles,then it was electronic games but the best ever was getting a Megadrive when I was 10, I'd spent an entire year or more just staring at pictures of it in the Argos and Littlewoods catalogues and religiously watching Gamesmaster to see clips of the games for it, was amazing when I actually got one!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Big Trak

Etch A Sketch

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By *amie HantsWoman
over a year ago

Atlantis

When I was 4 I got a tiny tears doll and I was the happiest little bean!

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

ZX Spectrum +

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

one for us oldies Matchbox motorway !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ZX Spectrum +

Me too and I've still got it, love a bit of retro gaming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

"Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

Dizzy down the rapids

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

Lego and my first bike..

Different years of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

It was always Dizzy on the spectrum for me

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By *goddessCouple
over a year ago

leeds

"Borrowed the idea from a tv programme but what toy/toys made your Xmas day great as a child ?

Was it a cabbage patch kid, Subbuteo, Furbie etc

doxy 3

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

Dizzy down the rapids

Had all of them ...

treasure island and magicians was my faves

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He man masters of the universe and the Super Nintendo with street fighter 2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

Dizzy down the rapids

Had all of them ...

treasure island and magicians was my faves

Magic land lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"He man masters of the universe and the Super Nintendo with street fighter 2

Ahh that too

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

"Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

Dizzy down the rapids

Had all of them ...

treasure island and magicians was my faves

I definitely had treasure Island can't remember magicians going have to go message my sister now lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can’t forget the Commodore 64 hours spent on dizzy

Dizzy down the rapids

Had all of them ...

treasure island and magicians was my faves

I definitely had treasure Island can't remember magicians going have to go message my sister now lol "

It was magic land

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

I don't remember getting any specifically exciting toys

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not really a toy, chopper bike

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By *ugofirstMan
over a year ago

livingston

Raleigh Chopper, Action Man. Those were the days

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Books

Fuzzy fwlts that we got every year

The new outfit mrs christmas had made. One year i got a signet ring and thought how grown up i was

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’d play with the banjo Xmas morning if Santa hadn’t been

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not really a toy, chopper bike "
^ loves a big chopper

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By *lanor the FairWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

I’ve always been a book addict so I was always happy to receive books . I’m still the same now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The tennis video game.

Spyrograph

Etchasketch

Operation

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Subbuteo, Hot Wheels and Meccano

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All sorts,

Tin can alley

Big track

Scalextric

Snooker table (5ft)

Lego

To be fair, as great as all those are, I was just as happy with a bottle of Mr Matey bubble bath.

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By * Lexi xWoman
over a year ago

stockport

Sylvanian families

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Spirograph, pens, pencils and drawing book

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By *eavertrackerMan
over a year ago

Bridgwater

My first vibrator,...though I don't think it was for me, though the look on my dad's face when I opened it, that was priceless

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My first vibrator,...though I don't think it was for me, though the look on my dad's face when I opened it, that was priceless

Haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Meccano. I got new additions each year which later formed the basis of my career

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By *iddle ManMan
over a year ago

Walsall

Consoles and earlier, ninja turtles toys

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By *adame 2SwordsWoman
over a year ago

Victoria, London

lego makes it christmas every day!

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

All these toys makes my wooden hoop and stick look a bit tame.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"All these toys makes my wooden hoop and stick look a bit tame. "

Happy times before commercialism took over Xmas,

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

The one that sticks in my memory as filling me with glee was when totally unexpectedly some friends of the family bought me the biggest Scalextric set that was available at the time - any Xmas money I had that year was then spent on expanding it further.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Monopoly, bop it!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"All these toys makes my wooden hoop and stick look a bit tame. "

Oh that stuff is timeless

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on PlayStation

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"The one that sticks in my memory as filling me with glee was when totally unexpectedly some friends of the family bought me the biggest Scalextric set that was available at the time - any Xmas money I had that year was then spent on expanding it further."
was pretty much the same with my Hornby train set every penny went on new track locos waggons etc ended up building a massive permanent layout in our cellar .got sold on with the house when we moved out

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By *ryingitout19Man
over a year ago

Wales

Scaletrix!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Frustration and kerplunk

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

I had sylvanian family presents each year which built up in to quite a collection

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By *rhugesMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I used to love action man.

Also had a cow boy and Indian. Can't remember what they were called , but they had all the accessories chaps house rifle Indian head dress ect

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Spud gun was awesome but after shooting aunt Edna and uncle bob from behind the couch when they fell asleep it was forcibly taken from me never to be seen again

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

Barbie! I loved Barrie, but Father Christmas gave me a kitchen set, I loved it until I realised it was a Sindy set!

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

A rabbit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many great toys and memories from my childhood

Transformers g1

Mask

He man

Star Wars

Sega systems

Commodore 16&64

It was tough also as parent was in ambulance team and in 80’s was strike which went over Christmas I remember parents still managed buy me something but wasn’t huge but I was so greatfull.

I had gone with my dad to support and say hello to his friends and a lady seen me at the picket line and was shocked how realising it would impact my Christmas so gave me the turkey an said take home so you can eat. It was wow

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool

Action man

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By *idcotlad2020Man
over a year ago

didcot

Build a better burger

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara

Star wars

Lego

Action man in a little bird helicopter,

And a pool table

Are the presents that I remember the most.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Animal figures and dolls house, and furniture, I booted the dols out and moved my animal figures in. I also loved my dolls pram and pushchair, again booted the dolls out and push my cuddly animal toys about

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I always wanted a Johnnie 7

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Furbie, Disney Miniatures and my Marvel/DC action figures.

My barbie’s dated Batman because Ken was a wimp

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Scalettrix

Star wars toys

Those early 80s hand held arcade games

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By *az080378Woman
over a year ago

Cromer

My two best gifts i received as a kid were a pound puppy and a Mr frosty machine!!!

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

My Walkman and commodore 64, loved playing fogger and pac man on it!

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