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Originally Posted by bberkley

My 12 y/o step-son has all the blinky-blinky crap a kid could want. My 21-month old is getting a Tonka truck, building blocks, and in a year or so, GI Joes or Dragon figures, and sporting goods.

I remember getting plastic model kits, and other stuff I was interested in. My first electronic thingy as a kid was Pong, and a Coleco hand-held soccer game that just had the LED display. Of course there were the required Erector sets, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Matchbox and Hotwheels cars. Bags of plastic army-men, tanks, the zip-strip pull racers, Evil Kneivel stunt-bike/action figure, comic books, etc.

I wanted to get the oldest one a Ruger 22/45 for christmas, but the spouse said "Umm, I don't think so....."

When I was 8 or 9 I got a full size replica of a .30 cal machine gun complete with tripod. We terroized the neighbors for a couple of years before it got broken. My dad was a carpenter at the time and made really nice replicas of thompsons and garands. (gotta remember Combat! was on the air at the time)