Christmas toys you'll never see again
Can't believe no one has mentioned LEGO!
I had many of the toys mentioned, some of which were handed down from older brothers. Some I got new, including the slot car set with working headlights and glow in the dark guardrails. Had tons of Hot Wheels cars and a few tracks. Always liked getting new plastic model kits, fond memories of the paint and glue aromas, my old man would sometimes freak out over the smell, if he'd only known about all the times me and the kid next door would light puddles of gasoline in the garage, or take full boxes of "ammo" for cap guns and light them off at once. I had a small glass tube of mercury that I used to marvel at for years, no idea what happened to it though. Used to play demolition derby on the basement floor with the plastic model kits that I was tired of, of course I had to glue reinforcements to the things to make battering rams in the hope of making one indestructible, never worked, usually broke an axle off and that would be the end of that one, at least until I got hold of a lighter and proceeded to do my own "bodywork". LOL