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When you were a kid... what was the best Christmas toy you recieved.
Mine was a train set. | |
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A Commodore 64 I hated my pops, but he sure bought me fun toys. 
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A bike.
A big red shiny Raleigh Grifter. 
I'd only ever had second-hand bikes before this one. | |
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mine was a barbie townhouse  | |
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I'm waiting on my first Christmas gift ever. | |
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Heavenly said: I'm waiting on my first Christmas gift ever.
How cool  This is my first Christmas I've celebrated in 17 years, I hope you have a nice Christmas  | |
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here's part of it:
it was freakin' awesome.  | |
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MrJoker said: DUDE! Me too, best freakin gift EVER! | |
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endorphin74 said: MrJoker said: DUDE! Me too, best freakin gift EVER! oh you soo ruined my evening...i had it all...i had it all..and somebody threw them all away... damn basement at my grandma's!! its evil!! evil down there...  Space for sale... | |
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endorphin74 said: MrJoker said: DUDE! Me too, best freakin gift EVER!  i wanted one but i never got one!!! all's i got was a star destroyer playset and a dagobah.  | |
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slm4m said: what was the best Christmas toy you recieved.
Mine was a train set.  ...I was very lucky and had many good presents over the years | |
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I always wanted the AT-AT, but my mom refused to buy a toy that cost $50 at that time. | |
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EverSoLesa said: mine was a barbie townhouse
I never got a Barbie townhouse which has scared me 4 life....but I did have a metallic purple Barbie corvette  and of course she played purple rain over and over in her corvette  | |
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MrJoker said: I always wanted the AT-AT, but my mom refused to buy a toy that cost $50 at that time.
I never got an AT-AT either  | |
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sosgemini said: oh you soo ruined my evening...i had it all...i had it all..and somebody threw them all away... damn basement at my grandma's!! its evil!! evil down there...
Next time your in MPLS, stop by and we can play with my toys. THANK GOD my mum was smart. When I moved out at age 17, we had a big sale and I told her to sell all the stuff. She was smarter than that, though. I'd cry today had it all been sold. | |
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endorphin74 said: MrJoker said: I always wanted the AT-AT, but my mom refused to buy a toy that cost $50 at that time.
I never got an AT-AT either that's why i never got a death star playset. | |
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Anxiety said: endorphin74 said: DUDE! Me too, best freakin gift EVER! i wanted one but i never got one!!! all's i got was a star destroyer playset and a dagobah.
the dagobah? with the little foam "swamp"? and the little cargo packs on the prongs that you could raise with the force? GOOD SHIT!  | |
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Anxiety said: endorphin74 said: I never got an AT-AT either that's why i never got a death star playset.  I did get that one, but I was seriously 3 or 4. It was one of my few toys that didn't survive. I can barely remember it now... | |
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endorphin74 said: Anxiety said: i wanted one but i never got one!!! all's i got was a star destroyer playset and a dagobah.
the dagobah? with the little foam "swamp"? and the little cargo packs on the prongs that you could raise with the force? GOOD SHIT! ahhhhh..i had that too... 
and thanks for the offer e-74.. but i might try to steal them.. Space for sale... | |
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one christmas when we were very poor, and it was my brother aaron, my mother and i, my brother sold his most prized possession, his electric guitar to buy my mother and i gifts. all he was able to afford was really low grade stuff, but the thought behind it was so emotionally overwhelming that it was truly the greatest christmas i ever had. he bought me this stuffed dinosaur, a really garish color of pink and the wire in it's neck was shoddily put in, so it's head always leaned to one side, often making it very difficult for the dinosaur to stand on it's feet, but it was very special to me.
the sad irony of it is my brother always was madly in love with christmas, and i never really much cared for it. as adults, he became a jehovah's witness and no longer celebrates christmas, and i absolutely adore it because i spend as much money as i can giving gifts to people in need, just as he did. this year my church (a very gay-accepting progressive non-denominatial church) asked the AIDS assistance program they regurlarly do stuff for year round what could be done at christmas, and we were told normally there is a woman who single-handedly covers christmas gifts for the 40 children (living with AIDS or living with parents who live with AIDS) could not do this year. they asked if we could pick up a few of the kids, and we told them we would take all 40. they held drives amongst the small church, and got gifts for all 40. it made me want to cry every time i walked by the stack of presents, just as it does every time i think of that purple dinosaur. so my best christmas gift ever is the emotions connected to those two things. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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sosgemini said: endorphin74 said:
the dagobah? with the little foam "swamp"? and the little cargo packs on the prongs that you could raise with the force? GOOD SHIT! ahhhhh..i had that too...
and thanks for the offer e-74.. but i might try to steal them.. 
I keep thinking about putting some of my stuff up when I take down Xmas- you know, in prep for Episode 3. But I'm nervous that someone may steal some of it. None of my friends would, but after bars can be a li'l crazy... | |
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cborgman said: one christmas when we were very poor, and it was my brother aaron, my mother and i, my brother sold his most prized possession, his electric guitar to buy my mother and i gifts. all he was able to afford was really low grade stuff, but the thought behind it was so emotionally overwhelming that it was truly the greatest christmas i ever had. he bought me this stuffed dinosaur, a really garish color of pink and the wire in it's neck was shoddily put in, so it's head always leaned to one side, often making it very difficult for the dinosaur to stand on it's feet, but it was very special to me.
the sad irony of it is my brother always was madly in love with christmas, and i never really much cared for it. as adults, he became a jehovah's witness and no longer celebrates christmas, and i absolutely adore it because i spend as much money as i can giving gifts to people in need, just as he did. this year my church (a very gay-accepting progressive non-denominatial church) asked the AIDS assistance program they regurlarly do stuff for year round what could be done at christmas, and we were told normally there is a woman who single-handedly covers christmas gifts for the 40 children (living with AIDS or living with parents who live with AIDS) could not do this year. they asked if we could pick up a few of the kids, and we told them we would take all 40. they held drives amongst the small church, and got gifts for all 40. it made me want to cry every time i walked by the stack of presents, just as it does every time i think of that purple dinosaur. so my best christmas gift ever is the emotions connected to those two things.
GOOD STORY! thank you for sharing! | |
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endorphin74 said: Anxiety said: i wanted one but i never got one!!! all's i got was a star destroyer playset and a dagobah.
the dagobah? with the little foam "swamp"? and the little cargo packs on the prongs that you could raise with the force? GOOD SHIT! yah, i guess i shouldn't complain in retrospect...i used to love me some dagobah foam swamp fights. | |
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endorphin74 said: cborgman said: one christmas when we were very poor, and it was my brother aaron, my mother and i, my brother sold his most prized possession, his electric guitar to buy my mother and i gifts. all he was able to afford was really low grade stuff, but the thought behind it was so emotionally overwhelming that it was truly the greatest christmas i ever had. he bought me this stuffed dinosaur, a really garish color of pink and the wire in it's neck was shoddily put in, so it's head always leaned to one side, often making it very difficult for the dinosaur to stand on it's feet, but it was very special to me.
the sad irony of it is my brother always was madly in love with christmas, and i never really much cared for it. as adults, he became a jehovah's witness and no longer celebrates christmas, and i absolutely adore it because i spend as much money as i can giving gifts to people in need, just as he did. this year my church (a very gay-accepting progressive non-denominatial church) asked the AIDS assistance program they regurlarly do stuff for year round what could be done at christmas, and we were told normally there is a woman who single-handedly covers christmas gifts for the 40 children (living with AIDS or living with parents who live with AIDS) could not do this year. they asked if we could pick up a few of the kids, and we told them we would take all 40. they held drives amongst the small church, and got gifts for all 40. it made me want to cry every time i walked by the stack of presents, just as it does every time i think of that purple dinosaur. so my best christmas gift ever is the emotions connected to those two things.
GOOD STORY! thank you for sharing! thank you for reading it, sacharine and cloying as it is...  Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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cborgman said: endorphin74 said:
GOOD STORY! thank you for sharing! thank you for reading it, sacharine and cloying as it is... well, it ain't about Star Wars toys, but it was a pretty good story...
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He-Man, Man-at-arms, Teela, BattleCat, Castle Greyskull, Panthor, and I think Sleletor.
SheRa was hot. (Insert something clever here) | |
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cborgman said: one christmas when we were very poor, and it was my brother aaron, my mother and i, my brother sold his most prized possession, his electric guitar to buy my mother and i gifts. all he was able to afford was really low grade stuff, but the thought behind it was so emotionally overwhelming that it was truly the greatest christmas i ever had. he bought me this stuffed dinosaur, a really garish color of pink and the wire in it's neck was shoddily put in, so it's head always leaned to one side, often making it very difficult for the dinosaur to stand on it's feet, but it was very special to me.
the sad irony of it is my brother always was madly in love with christmas, and i never really much cared for it. as adults, he became a jehovah's witness and no longer celebrates christmas, and i absolutely adore it because i spend as much money as i can giving gifts to people in need, just as he did. this year my church (a very gay-accepting progressive non-denominatial church) asked the AIDS assistance program they regurlarly do stuff for year round what could be done at christmas, and we were told normally there is a woman who single-handedly covers christmas gifts for the 40 children (living with AIDS or living with parents who live with AIDS) could not do this year. they asked if we could pick up a few of the kids, and we told them we would take all 40. they held drives amongst the small church, and got gifts for all 40. it made me want to cry every time i walked by the stack of presents, just as it does every time i think of that purple dinosaur. so my best christmas gift ever is the emotions connected to those two things. Thank you. I had a bleak day, your posting is a good reminder of what can be right in people. Now I'm older than movies, Now I'm wiser than dreams, And I know who's there
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When I was around 7 I got a gigantic teddy bear that was bigger than me. I thought that was the neatest thing. |
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my ps2 | |
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