Comments on: Treasures Under the Tree.

By: Jason "Plastic Soul" Lenzi

Jason "Plastic Soul" Lenzi — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:54:55 +0000

THAT’S the toy I was thinking of, Captain Laser. And the Colonial dude was just a repaint of him. With a vest, I think. Rip off!

By: Jason "Plastic Soul" Lenzi

Jason "Plastic Soul" Lenzi — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:54:00 +0000

Wow, that is bittersweet. And what could you do? Ah, grown ups, by trying to be sneaky, they bring heartache.

Man, I lusted after that AT-AT too. Just saw it recently at TRU and got flashbacks to being in the toy aisles way back when. Doubt it’ll ever make it inside the house. Unless, of course, someone asks me, “Hey, do you know a grown man who likes toys? What do you think he’d like for Christmas?”. Score!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:45:56 +0000

Ah, yes, getting the Major Matt Mason Space Station is one of my favorite Christmas memories! What an awesome line of toys that was. I have a few random scraps from it, but most of it was played with to death. One piece I have that remains intact though, is the awesome Captain Laser figure, the mold of which was later re-used for Mattel’s Battlestar Galactica Cylon!

By: gl666

gl666 — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:46:33 +0000

Getting Hot Wheels and Major Matt Mason when they first came out.
Damn I’m old.

By: Shellhead

Shellhead — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:42:02 +0000

One of the best Christmas’s I remember was getting the Terrordrome. I could never get my folks to buy the USS FLAGG (and I know I’m not alone), but they really came through on the best headquarters of the GIJOE line IMO. I played with that so many times that I eventually broke the gun clips and most of the door clips. Nothing beat being able to launch that rocket plane from the center!
Sadly, that was probably the last gasp of true Christmas awe, because I don’t remember any particular presents with such fervor after that.

By: Andrew B.

Andrew B. — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:31:52 +0000

I had a few items on that list, but the AT-AT was the best Christmas present ever. Santa brought it Christmas morning and I carried it around on my lap like a new puppy while we visited grandparents and aunts. The flashing lights and noise of its guns still feel like Christmas to me.

By: vancleef9000

vancleef9000 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:24:37 +0000

When I was a kid I had an Aunt who asked me if I knew what another little boy my age might want for Christmas and handed me the Sears catalogue. I loved Star Wars like crazy and totally wanted an AT AT but I thought the other little boy was a nephew of hers on the other side of the family that I had met a few times. This kid LOVED cars so I told her to get him the Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash playset.

Come Christmas morning and I think you already know how this story ends.

I get to Gramma’s house and open my gift from my Aunt and it’s the race track set I thought was for the other little kid. My Dad and Uncle had a great time playing with it but I liked cars about as much as liked clothes so it mostly sat unused for most of my childhood.

Cut to thirty years later and low and behold this years Sears catalogue not only has the all new super AT AT
but an all new super version of Criss Cross Crash as well. I’m not sure if the moral of the story is be careful what you wish for or what goes around comes around, but all I know is that I’ve still never had an AT AT.

By: demoncat

demoncat — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:38:48 +0000

nice article. though some of that stuff on your list i never have heard of like the bullet man doll the star wars and star trek stuff remember that . my warmest holiday memories was finding the original optimus Prime and sound wave under the tree. plus the Jabba the hutt play set and a whole lot of his men gift from my grand mother.