I love the smell of a newly assembled Battle Cruiser on Christmas morning. Is that a jug of moonshine by the TV stand?
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Archive for the 'Christmas Morning' Category
Christmas Morning, 1978: Micronauts
Published December 18, 2012 Christmas , Christmas Morning , Micronauts Leave a CommentChristmas Morning: Tinker Toys and Mr./Mrs. Potato Head
Published December 15, 2012 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Christmas , Christmas Morning Leave a Comment
I had lots of Tinker Toys. We had that chair, that carpet. My dad wore those moccasins.
Date unknown. Early-’60s? Mr. Potato Head was introduced by Hasbro in 1952. Mrs. Potato Head came along the following year.
Christmas Morning, 1983: G.I. Joe
Published December 14, 2012 Christmas , Christmas Morning , G.I. Joe Leave a Comment
I love his expression. “Huh? Can’t you see I’m really busy here?” He’s putting together the Polar Battle Bear. Waiting in the wings (top box) is the wicked Cobra H.I.S.S.
(Photo via killerlouise/Flickr)
Christmas Morning, 1983: ColecoVision
Published December 14, 2012 Christmas , Christmas Morning , G.I. Joe , Home Consoles , Video Games 2 Comments
Score. Coleco Vision came with Donkey Kong, and I see a Donkey Kong Jr. cartridge as well. Word Yahtzee? Please. That box was “lost” before the day was over.
We’ve got a G.I. Joe box, but I can’t tell what it is. Bigfoot is a monster truck toy from Playskool. You turned it on with a key and it had forward and reverse gears.
(Photo via colorcritical/Flickr)
(Video via RetroTY/YouTube)
Christmas Morning, 1986: G.I. Joe
Published December 13, 2012 Christmas , Christmas Morning , G.I. Joe 5 Comments
Christmas Morning, Circa 1982: Stompers and Masters of the Universe
Published December 12, 2012 Christmas , Christmas Morning , Masters of the Universe 1 Comment
I can’t identify the Masters of the Universe figure, but I think that’s the Stomper Badlands Trail Set. What is the mom holding?
Christmas Morning, Circa 1962: Marx Operation Moon Base Play Set
Published December 10, 2012 Christmas , Christmas Morning , Marx Toys/Playsets , Space Race , Space Toys/Playsets 5 Comments
I think he’s holding a coonskin hat! And you know he’s just dying to get the pictures over with so he can try out that sweet sled.
Marx Toys’ Operation Moon Base was released in 1962, the year John F. Kennedy gave his now legendary moon speech:
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? […]
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency […]
(Image sources: Darrin’s Photoclique and Time Warp Toys)
Christmas Morning, 1982: D&D and Lego Space
Published December 6, 2012 Atari , Christmas , Christmas Morning , D&D , Lego , Lego Space 4 Comments
Okay, first off, he’s holding the Tomb of Horrors module, written by the great Gary Gygax. (I’ll post it in my module series next year.)
Next, we’ve got two Lego Space sets: the Mobile Rocket Transport (6950) and the Surface Explorer (6880). (Images are via Brickipedia.)
Top Secret was a spy vs. spy RPG released by TSR in 1980. Rubik’s Revenge was a more difficult version of the Rubik’s Cube (I so hated those cubes). And of course that Pitfall is the original Atari 2600 version, released in 1982.
Christmas Morning, Circa 1975: Operation and The Game of Jaws
Published December 3, 2012 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Board Games/Tabletop Games , Christmas , Christmas Morning , Jaws 1 Comment
Operation needs no introduction, obviously, but how about that plastic shark poking out from the right side of the photo? That’s The Game of Jaws. As John Kenneth Muir reflects, many of us were too young to see Jaws when it first came out, so the only way we could participate in the phenomenon/hysteria was through merchandise like this.
The object of the game is similar to Operation. The box (image via Muir) about sums it up.
And how sweet is that red velvet and leather chair/throne upon which our presumptive dad is scratching his crotch? If someone could wrap that bad boy up and drag it under (or near) my tree, I’d be much obliged.
This is the first of a series of Christmas morning shots. Stick around.
2 Warps to Neptune 