Sat, 18 May 2013 22:22:21 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275445#Comment_275445 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275445#Comment_275445 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:26:14 -0800 Slick ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275447#Comment_275447 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275447#Comment_275447 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:03:06 -0800 Rachæl Tyrell THIS as well as it's Animaniacs equivalent. I used to go and stare at them hanging in the Warner Brothers store on my break while working at a crappy mall job.

For my 15th birthday, I got this:

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Also:

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I was a hard kid to shop for, interested in things that were difficult to find.

Edit: I can remember a horrible, horrible Christmas gift that scared the hell out of me when I was six or seven. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275459#Comment_275459 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275459#Comment_275459 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:57:19 -0800 nigredo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275463#Comment_275463 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275463#Comment_275463 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:46:41 -0800 Will Ellwood
I have nothing else to say on the subject except that my parents in their own middle class way are very irresponsible. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275464#Comment_275464 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275464#Comment_275464 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:47:25 -0800 oldhat ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275466#Comment_275466 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275466#Comment_275466 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:58:26 -0800 Ninewhilenine83
You're not the only one. My dad managed to find me a very cheap second hand almost dead one when I was about and I fell in love with it. I also was the proud owner of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sewer HQ thingy. Same year possibly, both on the verge of being too trashed to sell. Both were excellent. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275467#Comment_275467 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275467#Comment_275467 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:10:03 -0800 StefanJ
I'm relieved to hear that I'm not the only one who got thrift store presents. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275478#Comment_275478 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275478#Comment_275478 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:54:32 -0800 Fan


Several people have asked me about it, when I'm just wearing it and it isn't even illuminated (so, who knew, maybe they were all even geekier than me).

Downside: its batteries wore out 2-3 months ago.

Upside: I might know what kind of presents he likes, now. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275482#Comment_275482 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275482#Comment_275482 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:31:32 -0800 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275484#Comment_275484 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275484#Comment_275484 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:03:25 -0800 LokiZero
SNAKE. MOTHERFUCKING. MOUNTAIN. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275499#Comment_275499 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275499#Comment_275499 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:04:31 -0800 AtomicSloth
Me too!

I think I was six, I asked for a crappy ghostbusters gun, and got the station, the car and all the figures too. Best xmas ever. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275520#Comment_275520 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275520#Comment_275520 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:18:56 -0800 kelvin awesome. Many tumbles and scrapes, of course, but wonderful. It's great having a bicycle when you're a kid. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275521#Comment_275521 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275521#Comment_275521 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:28:48 -0800 mister hex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275523#Comment_275523 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275523#Comment_275523 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:38:13 -0800 epalicki The original Kenner Millenium Falcon. The big one. It was awesome.

Ditto. I was four years old. My parents wrapped up a tiny little box with a riddle written on a notecard inside. I had to solve the riddle to find the Falcon hidden under the kitchen table... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275525#Comment_275525 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275525#Comment_275525 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:02:22 -0800 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275531#Comment_275531 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275531#Comment_275531 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:02:03 -0800 city creed Although the TaunTaun with Open Belly Rescue Feature will always occupy a special place in my chest cavity. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275537#Comment_275537 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275537#Comment_275537 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:59:50 -0800 Flabyo


Had that for years, my sister eventually claimed it for her classroom when I went to uni and I never saw it again.

They've re-launched them this year, and I've nearly bought myself one on several occasions. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275565#Comment_275565 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275565#Comment_275565 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:03:57 -0800 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275575#Comment_275575 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275575#Comment_275575 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:31:25 -0800 Alastair ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275578#Comment_275578 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275578#Comment_275578 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:59:25 -0800 William Joseph Dunn

I remember mailing off the coupon on Christmas day. I also remember asking my mother everyday after that: "is it here yet?" poor woman. I was an exhausting 7 year old. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275581#Comment_275581 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275581#Comment_275581 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:29:04 -0800 StefanJ Star Trek and Lost in Space were running there were remarkably few actual geeky SF&F toys. Ones with meaty back-story. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275583#Comment_275583 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275583#Comment_275583 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:37:35 -0800 William Joseph Dunn


and a Star Trek Spock:



never understood why the phasers were aqua colored on those Star Trek figures.

I wish I still had those. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275632#Comment_275632 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275632#Comment_275632 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:56:28 -0800 Timbo
i got a shoe box full of action men (GI Joe for the US) one . They were hand me downs from older cousins etc!

I was especially pleased with one who had a 'real' beard!

I couldn't have been happier.

The best new Christmas gift I got as a kid was the milennium Falcon. We used to think that kids who got the AT-AT were spoiled though! Go figure.

Hope that all your presents in these recessionary times still elicit excitement. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275635#Comment_275635 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275635#Comment_275635 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:12:35 -0800 karegon

on of these just before i hit my teens. considering i got it in the early 90's, i certainly got a lot of attention. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275643#Comment_275643 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275643#Comment_275643 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:26:00 -0800 kelvin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275679#Comment_275679 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275679#Comment_275679 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:37:10 -0800 government spy SNAKE. MOTHERFUCKING. MOUNTAIN.

And the annoying fun it was to use the echoing snake microphone for hours...

Also, this:



or this:

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Either through politics or money troubles, my parents never got me any, not that I had a serious jones for combat play. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275707#Comment_275707 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275707#Comment_275707 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:08:02 -0800 Erisah
Second best is the camera Mum bought me when I turned 17. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275729#Comment_275729 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275729#Comment_275729 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:04:17 -0800 MaC
I totally had the firehouse! It was the best playset ever, it crapped all over the Wayne Manor playset. I had the cars too, I remember trying to put the proton packs in the back of the car so it'd be like the movie. I broke the arm grips on so many packs :x. I remember losing my mind cause the GB2 toys turned different colors when you put them in water and looked slimed.

My favorite stuff was the Proton Pack and the Slime Cannon thing, I just loved that roleplay stuff when I was little. But the holy grail of my Ghostbusters toys was



@GovernmentSpy

I remember towards the end of Elementary School when the new wave of Star Wars toys for the re-released movies started coming out I learned my much older cousin in virginia had the Ewok Tree House and never stopped wanting it. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275730#Comment_275730 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275730#Comment_275730 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:12:42 -0800 mister hex @William Joseph Dunn - I had all the Mego Star Trek figures, including the aliens in the second series. I still have a complete McCoy but I only have Spock's head (which I often carry around with me as a good luck charm/cheap prop - "Give me a reading, Spock") and Lt. Uhura's head (which I have converted into a cat toy. It's jolly good fun to toss it an exclaim "BRING ME THE HEAD OF OPRAH WINFREY!" and watch the horrified looks on people's faces as the cat goes scampering after it. Yes, I DO do this.)

Glad to see so much love for the Falcon. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275745#Comment_275745 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275745#Comment_275745 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:21:18 -0800 government spy on top of the tree house, so that if you fell into the "quicksand" on Degobah, you fell into the top of one of the Trees. Yes, I'm that kid. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275751#Comment_275751 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275751#Comment_275751 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:23:53 -0800 Brendan McGinley

Guy Gardner's first appearance

Best big brother ever. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275763#Comment_275763 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275763#Comment_275763 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:09:58 -0800 m3t4lfi3nd
My very first console, 12 years of age ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275797#Comment_275797 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275797#Comment_275797 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:26:10 -0800 Paul Sizer

A few years earlier, I remember really being into puppets, wanting to do shows for my sibs, etc. These two guys showed up one Xmas morn, much to my joy:
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we did a poundshop secret santa in the work and I got this which has been wowing everyone all morning. I'm quite easily pleased.

Best ever was the my Megadrive w/ Sonic 1, oh yes, or maybe this mad terminator toy where you make skin and then rip it off the exoskeletons.

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Then one year, she got me the first new "Prince of Persia" game, "Full Spectrum Warrior", an original X-Box wireless adapter with an X-Box Live subscription, this big "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" gift set, and a bottle of Holy Grail Ale.

I legit teared up. It wasn't the fact that she got me nerd shit; it was the fact that she got me things she knew would resonate with me. I still get emotional when we talk about that Christmas. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275820#Comment_275820 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275820#Comment_275820 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:25:31 -0800 munin218 ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275824#Comment_275824 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275824#Comment_275824 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:33:54 -0800 m3t4lfi3nd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275838#Comment_275838 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275838#Comment_275838 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:19:13 -0800 Finagle
I'm just going to wear it. Even better if I can find my Snap-On hat to go along with it. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275853#Comment_275853 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=275853#Comment_275853 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:23:27 -0800 Dervaspa http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276202#Comment_276202 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276202#Comment_276202 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:54:47 -0800 Fauxhammer
My dad's awesome. He got it for both me and my wife, but that's not going to cut it. She was originally going to have it, and I was going to get one myself, but she apparently was uncomfortable with the way I was pawing hers and she just gave me that one. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276323#Comment_276323 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276323#Comment_276323 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:54:04 -0800 staticgirl
Me trying it out:


This year my mum bought me Crecy by some bloke called Ellis, a book about Anglo Saxon Lindsey and a tiny miniature stone cathedral roof boss. She is so Ace! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276328#Comment_276328 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276328#Comment_276328 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:26:00 -0800 Alastair
thats a paul kidby signed by him and terry prattchett (kidbys is on the back)

AND

an insane espresso machine. my sister who's a professional barista (a proper one not a starbuckian) has been showing me how to make the best one i can.

i'm pretty jumpy right now ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276374#Comment_276374 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9329&Focus=276374#Comment_276374 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:53:25 -0800 Don Hilliard


Third best: at age 7, the Six Million Dollar Man and Maskatron.



Absolute best: at age 28, escaping absolutely unscathed, along with my sister and both my nephews, when her car spun out on black ice across 4 lanes of freeway traffic. (That was an early present - it was the 23rd.) ]]>