The first Christmas gift you asked for

[HardyGirl]

One that I can specifically recall asking for when I was 3 (4 at the oldest) is the Fisher Price Sesame Street Clubhouse. I asked Santa for it.

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- Ian

Awww...that's sweet. I love Sesame Street.

[Mr Mego]

Were their Star Wars Kenner Toys in Christmas 1977??? I dont think Kenner made the deadline the only thing offered was the Early Bird kit cardboard cutout with the promise of 4 action figures in Spring 1978

That's what my mother told me she got them late, to saved for me is for next X-Mas, '78 to complete Star Wars toys for me. She thought it's from '77..... she got old and can't remember well.

Also, she bought 2nd released "Empires Strike Back" Yoda figure with his Dagobah playset is for next 2 more years on X-Mas, 1980.

I opened carded Yoda and played with him and his Dagobah playset with my brother.

[Joe90]

You guys are making me feel old... Some of these toys are what I bought for nieces and nephews.

I asked for a GI Joe for Christmas 1964. Didn't get him.

But I did get him the next year!

[madmarva]

I'm not sure the first thing I asked for, although I'm sure I did. I never really wrote out a letter to Santa, either, to my recollection but I always got a present marked from him.

But the two earliest Christmas gifts I remember were:
1) a fuzzy-headed, talking GI-Joe in camo. It may have been from Santa or my parents. The next Fourth of July my 11-year-older brother strapped a bunch of bottle rockets on him in an attempt to make him fly. Didn't work. But Joe did look kind of cool with melted spots all over him.
2) was a Marx Fort Apache playset with little plastic cavalry and Apaches. It was from my favorite aunt and uncle. I was his namesake. He must have bought a store display because it came set up on a big plywood board with everything tacked to the board. Talk about cool. But I was only about 3 or 4. Have no idea what happened to it.

[Brazoo]

One that I can specifically recall asking for when I was 3 (4 at the oldest) is the Fisher Price Sesame Street Clubhouse. I asked Santa for it.

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/900-999/FP937-1-EB88392119-B.JPG

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4185106366_6afe7bf58d.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4185106392_2365e33076.jpg

- Ian

That was such a fun toy.

[EmergencyIan]

That was such a fun toy.

It sure was. I have many fond memories of it. It got a lot of use.

- Ian