“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 33
[Thank you, we have a winner. This contest is now closed. Congratulations to faithful Macenstein reader Vince!]
On the Thirty-third Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) A PED3 auto iPhone Stand from Thought Out Company.
Featuring 360Ëš rotation, rubber tipped fingers, a 5-inch steel flexible neck for endless positioning and a number of versatile mounting options, the PED3 Auto is the ideal way to position your iPhone for in-the-car use, whether you’re making phone calls, listening to music, using Google Maps, or negligently watching videos while driving, the PED 3 Auto is got the ideal way to mount your iPhone. And it’s not just for cars, people! The optional suction cup base or adhesive panel means you can place it almost anywhere! Check out the full specs here along with a ton of beauty shots.
To enter: Since the PED 3 Auto has multiple mounting bases (some of which require a small amount of assembly) it got me to thinking of all those “some assembly required” gifts I had gotten as a child, and am now assembling for my own kids as an adult. So, to enter, just tell us what is the coolest toy you ever received as a kid? Winner will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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gameboy color with zelda
classic.
Planet of the Apes playset w/Action Figures. DUH.
Anything electronic that I could tear apart, and put back together.
( I always had parts leftover )
Nintendo!!!
Not a toy, really, but a .22 rifle
Squirt gun that shoots around corners… we were poor, but HAPPY =)
Digitally controlled remote car… Awsome I used to play with it & repair it until it was absolutelly not working 🙂
Bearcat Police Scanner installed in my car. I always knew where the local cops were. I avoided SOOOOOOO many tickets!
table hockey game, best ever
gameboy color and the first playstation
A GameBoy!
Transformers
Received…so me buying a MBP for myself does not count?
I got a iPod video one year, that was pretty cool. (especially since the iPod I had before that was a 3rd Gen.)
I got a 4mp Camera one year!!!!!….ya I know 4mp sucks.
iPod mini
My first 10 speed bike
Radio Shack 150-in-1 electronics project kit. It was a radio, and a light-sensing alarm clock, and a sound effect machine, and a lie detector, and 146 other things…. good times….
Erector Set. I used to build all sorts of things with that :3
SNES
Roland TR 505 drum machine. It was 1986 and I was eager to make electronic music. I got together with a friend who had a cheesy keyboard and his friend with a Korg DW 6000 synth. We started our first electronic band. It was the beginning of my life as I know it.
a vertibird
legos
A Batman/Batcave play set.
An Erector Set
Knowing full well it will reveal my age and expose me to criticism I affirm the greatest toy I ever received for Christmas was: Pong! God it was so beautiful at the time! I thought only elves could make something so magical.
“Star Wars” Aluminum Falcon… I mean Millennium …
Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots
They were the greatest toy until one night I got up to pee and fell on the robots and had to get 13 stitches above my eye. They ended up in the trash when I got back fro the E.R.
NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOURRRRRRRRR!!!
The BIg Wheel, of course!
Lego space monorail. No question.
Slave I
My Sega Genesis, I guess. I can’t remember anything from back then, really.
It was a hopping dog that I got from my grandparents for Christmas when I was 2-3 years old … thats 25 years ago … 😛
expansion board with parts kit for my TRS-80… damn I’m old
Amstrad CPC 6128
Atari
“Green Machine”. It was kind of a Big Wheel, but in my mind much better.
What do you mean “…as a kid”? I’m still a kid…
a Mister T in your pocket with sutch wonderful one-liners like:
“I Pity The Fool”
“Don’t Gimme No Back Talk, Sucka”
“Quit Your Jibba Jabba”
“Don’t Make Me Mad.”
“First Name Mister, Middle Name Period, Last Name T”
“Shut Up, Fool!”
Sega DreamCast
Metroplex
any ninja turtles action figure
That thing with the C name that had the gears in it and you could connect the different gear types to make things that moved or rotated or crawled or whatnot. Whatever it was called. You know what I mean.
LEGO
I’m talking blocks, not these fancy smancy things you get these days. Where’s the creativity in making something from a book with pre-made parts?
And it’s LEGO, not ‘legos’ … look it up!
Bah humbug, I’m getting old.
The Game Gear, it was huge and bulky and had terrible battery life and I loved it.
XBox
NES Powerglove
A brand new 10 speed bike for Christmas. Then came the agony of waiting for the snow to melt to ride it.
a Cox airplane, but I never got to play with it since my father had to try it out first and proceeded to crash it immediately.
An Eagle One space ship from Space 1999 complete with astronauts and detachable shuttle. I was in geek heaven!
puppy
a baby sister!