Toys you wish you had received at Christas

[Gasport]

Yeah, My parents never failed to please at Christmas time either...I was a very lucky kid!

[Wich2]

Though we were really a pretty tightly budgeted family, Mom really made the Holiday for my sister and I - partly by way of Monkey Ward's Christmas Club.

So I got stuff like GI Joe, Captain Action, Viewmaster, Mego Secret Identity, etc. But this coveted one, I missed:



-Craig

[Unknown Primate]

Show-off...
     

[Dr. Madd]

I got one of these for Christmas once.. I wish I still had it.

[bigbud]

toy cockpit that projected images of other planes on the wall and you could fire dart "missiles" at them as they moved

That would be Deluxe Readings Jimmy Jet (1961).......or Ideal Toys Electronic Fighter Jet (1959). Both are consoles with screens, and fire darts......Jimmy has a half steering wheel and Fighter Jet (1959) has a joy stick. No helmets, but any kid of the day would have to have an Ideal Steve Canyon Helmet (Ideal 1959) to wear while flying. Also in the airplane cockpit toys was the Remco Flying Fox  Jet-prop Airplane (1960) ; a cool 4 prop plane atop a full cockpit that controlled it's functions, and one of my favorites, Remco's B-52 Ball Turret (1961). 1955-1965......the greatest 10 years in toy manufacturing! And the greatest time to be a kid!  IMHO.       Love, Buddy

[bigbud]

Gasport! Always great to see those photos of you on that Christmas! What exactly are you holding in the first one? And what is it that sets underneath the Wolfman model kit? Almost looks like an Ideal Astro Base box. AND.....what is the box to the right of Wolfman that looks like a Marx playset box?......Too cool a pic!  Buddy

[bigbud]

I hesitate to show this again....I caught such grief last time for my spelling....EVEN THOUGH I WAS A LITTLE KID WHEN I WROTE IT!  Anyway, it fits the discussion. I got some other cool toy instead of Robot Commando that Christmas. Mom told me later that she just couldn't find one at any store. We were seriously broke most of the time, but Mom always came through with the greatest of Christmas gifts!   Buddy

[Gasport]

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Gasport! Always great to see those photos of you on that Christmas! What exactly are you holding in the first one? And what is it that sets underneath the Wolfman model kit? Almost looks like an Ideal Astro Base box. AND.....what is the box to the right of Wolfman that looks like a Marx playset box?......Too cool a pic!  Buddy

Hey Buddy! Thanks for the compliments...that would be King Zor i am thrusting toward the camera. Can't for the life of me remember what is under the Wolf Man box, but to the right of it is a Rocky & Bullwinkle Sparkle paint set and in the extreme lower right corner you can just make out part of the Ideal Haunted House game!

[Count_Zirock]

I just want you to know, "Stanta" Claus made my day!
I picture a guy in a red-and-green bowling shirt, with a gray crewcut and a big, stinky cigar. He's got a Schlitz in one hand, and a great, big, sliced-Polish-sausage-on-a-kaiser-roll-with-sauerkraut-and-spicy-brown-mustard sandwich in the other.

[Type3Toys]

Two thihgs I had and lost, then wanted agian were a toy M-1 Rifle and a Mego Human Wolfman. I did not even know the Mad Monster castle exsited or that would have been on the list too!

[bigbud]

I just want you to know, "Stanta" Claus made my day!

I just knew someone would chime in on that. Lest it wasn't Scatter.     Buddy

[Pauspy]

I just knew someone would chime in on that. Lest it wasn't Scatter.     Buddy

At least you guys didn't mis-spell "Christmas"! 

[bigbud]

At least you guys didn't mis-spell "Christmas"! 

Ha! Yea.....I think we all saw that! That's forgiven if Stanta is forgiven.......Buddy

[Hepcat]

My parents never went overboard with gifts at Xmas so there were many toys I would have liked that I never got. If I had to narrow it down to one though, it would be a Lionel HO train set like one of these two:













One of my buddies had a Lionel HO set and I always coveted all the sets and cars pictured in the little catalogue he had. But you know I never even thought to ask my parents for one. For whatever reason I just assumed I wouldn't get such an elaborate present even though we weren't poor or anything since my father had a very good union job at Labatt Breweries.

[bigbud]

Hep, You and I grew up in the time of some great Lionel sets!  Do you remember the missile firing boxcar with exploding bunker? And the flatcars with helicopter or submarine on them? Those were great!  Buddy