Remember all the cool toys you had as a kid?

As Christmas hoves noisily into view for another year, and the marketing divisions of the world's toy companies go into overdrive, we inevitably start to ponder... was it all like this in our day? If you're reading this, it's likely there'll be a good twenty-plus years lying between this Christmas and the last one you started by tearing down the stairs at five in the morning, in wide-eyed anticipation of the contents of that mountain of wrapped boxes under the Woolies' fireproof silver tinsel tree. So, to this end, we polled TV Cream's readership to find the most well-remembered - for better or worse - toys that turned up in the stockings of yesteryear, from the tiniest fifty pee rubber novelty to the many bulky Bakelite candidates for that hallowed "main present" status. Quite often the little things, mainly through having lower expectations to live up to, went down better than the battery-hungry robo-gun-battleship thing mouldering in its box in the airing cupboard by Boxing Day. Anyway, enough of all this - it's now 6.30AM, and we've just been told by hungover parents that we can go downstairs and start sorting out the presents into piles. Let the blizzard of Mr Men wrapping paper commence...

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Here's the stuff I remember: http://wesclark.com/am/toys.html

 

I had almost all the transformers.
Both Voltrons
Bunch of GI Joe stuff.
Lego's! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! #1 toy ever!!

 

Lego's are the best toy ever.

 

My best (& worse ) Christmas present was a Double Loop HotWheels track. Man I thought that was the greatest thing ever until................................

My mom busted my butt with a section of it. I'm tellin' ya...ya ain't ne'r had a whoopun until you've had one with a piece of HotWheel track. The very next day I gave it away to a friend. Got my butt whooped for that too, but it weren't with no HotWheel track.

 

GI Joe. Nothing beat the GI Joe. Not the wimpy little 4 inch puppies but the big Joes. With kung fu grip. But not with the rolling eyes that was freaky.

And Matchbox cars. Gotta love em.

 

I don't know, transformers were pretty cool. Everytime I tried to "transform" my GIJoe, I ended up with a hand full of body parts.