| Best Present you ever got 19:55 - Mar 21 with 8720 views | qprxtc |
Evel Kenivel bike and energiser for my birthday in 1976. Best toy ever.
Brrm brrm
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| Best Present you ever got on 20:07 - Mar 21 with 5574 views | loftboy |
Scalextric 200 , with the extension pack. |  |
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| Best Present you ever got on 20:14 - Mar 21 with 5551 views | westy |
Brilliant. Still got the scars on my knuckles from the concrete |  | | |
| Best Present you ever got on 20:39 - Mar 21 with 5495 views | ozexile |
Are you talking about the model motorbike with a ramp or an actual bike? If it's the model I could never get that thing to go further that 20cm!! On the advert it went for about 100m!! Marketing eh! [Post edited 22 Mar 2023 5:56]
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| Best Present you ever got on 21:06 - Mar 21 with 5453 views | MrSheen |
White hexagon - black pentagon leather football ball, when I was about eight. Getting it to spin around off the side of my foot gave me as great a sense of achievement as anything I’ve managed since. |  | | |
| Best Present you ever got on 21:07 - Mar 21 with 5449 views | BlackCrowe |
First gen Chopper |  |
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| Best Present you ever got on 21:50 - Mar 21 with 5399 views | stevec |
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| Best Present you ever got on 22:26 - Mar 21 with 5366 views | essextaxiboy |
Shares in QPR holdings ... proof that I married the right girl .
Electric golf trolley .. proof that I am an old fart |  | | |
| Best Present you ever got on 04:45 - Mar 22 with 5272 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Best Present you ever got on 21:50 - Mar 21 by stevec |
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I see Laird, Paal, Balogun, JCS, Roberts, Chair, Richards and Willock are all still out then! |  |
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| Best Present you ever got on 08:04 - Mar 22 with 5191 views | Rs_Holy |
Carlton Cyclone....Dad could only afford the 5 speed version (the 10 speed was a whopping £10 more) but it didn't make any odds. What a machine, suddenly I was independent. used it as a main mode of transport all the way from school years to early apprenticeship years. I went everywhere on it at weekends and its where I discovered my love of cycling. |  | | |
| Best Present you ever got on 09:11 - Mar 22 with 5143 views | DWQPR |
| Best Present you ever got on 20:07 - Mar 21 by loftboy |
Scalextric 200 , with the extension pack. |
Got TCR Racing in 1979. Far better than Scalectrix as you could switch lanes and also had a third car that hugged the inside lane at a lower and constant speed making over taking a fine art. Cars tended to stay on the track more often too.
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| Best Present you ever got on 09:12 - Mar 22 with 5144 views | TheChef |
Yeah toss up between the Scalextric Le Mans set, or the Millennium Falcon. |  |
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| Best Present you ever got on 09:28 - Mar 22 with 5114 views | CamberleyR |
| Best Present you ever got on 09:17 - Mar 22 by TheChef |
Ah yes the speed calculator!
Never did work out that one. |
Me neither! |  |
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| Best Present you ever got on 10:01 - Mar 22 with 5079 views | CamberleyR |
I still have all my old Scalextric catalogues as well although bizarrely not this one for some reason. I have them from '75 to '83 when I stopped getting them. | |
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| Best Present you ever got on 10:18 - Mar 22 with 5059 views | SydneyRs |
When we were kids a guy my dad knew socially who had been a bit down on his luck ended up lodging with us for a few years. My dad was a manager/supervisor at work and deliberately omitted some adverse health history information about this guy from his job application to help him get a job there. Worked out fine as he worked there for quite a few years before retiring.
He didn't have a lot, hence he was renting a small room in our not very big house, yet one Christmas he bought me and my brother a Scalextric set. Will never forget that.
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| Best Present you ever got on 14:35 - Mar 22 with 4929 views | R_from_afar |
My brother, my dad, my French uncle and I played it for hours. Eventually, the tops started to break due to all the impacts.
If you pulled the cord really hard, you could induce a power wobble because your top was spinning so incredibly fast. Some of the impacts were terrific and a top would be blasted across the room. As the tops slowed down, you sometimes ended up with a nail-biting finish in which just two tops were left in the ring, both barely still spinning. |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Best Present you ever got on 14:51 - Mar 22 with 4892 views | Bluce_Ree |
ZX Spectrum |  |
| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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| Best Present you ever got on 14:52 - Mar 22 with 4892 views | hubble |
Battling Tops was a brilliant game. Bit concerned about your 'French Uncle' though, RFA. |  |
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| Best Present you ever got on 15:24 - Mar 22 with 4845 views | R_from_afar |
| Best Present you ever got on 14:52 - Mar 22 by hubble |
Battling Tops was a brilliant game. Bit concerned about your 'French Uncle' though, RFA. |
Did you think that was a euphemism, Hubble?  He is the son of a French army general and married my aunt, who is English but who has lived in France since the 70s.
He was a good sport and would participate in all the daft activities my family engaged in. You should've seen him playing beach cricket. When he was bowling, he would come charging up to the stumps off a long run, looking like he was going to do a Jeff Thomson, then just chuck the ball. He wasn't very good at catching and some mean batters would deliberately sky catches towards him just to see him fumble them and fall into the sea. Naughty. | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Best Present you ever got on 22:09 - Mar 23 with 4603 views | itsbiga |
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| Best Present you ever got on 00:18 - Mar 24 with 4567 views | FredManRave |
It was, almost literally, out of this world.
A real "wow" moment showing just how far technology could go!
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| Best Present you ever got on 07:31 - Mar 24 with 4521 views | MoonshineSteve |
| Best Present you ever got on 00:18 - Mar 24 by FredManRave |
It was, almost literally, out of this world.
A real "wow" moment showing just how far technology could go!
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I had one of those. |  |
| I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham. |
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