10 year old Christmas present

[Frenchda]

Need ideas for a Christmas present for my 10 year old son, budget about £100 (+- a little) but nothing connected with games, apps etc. Bike & scooter already in his growing garage and he cannot reach the pedals on a MX5 yet. Also no coke or hookers!!!

[Hugo a Gogo]

Lego VW Camper

[crispyshark]

any of these, even better if you buy 2 so he can 'war' with his mates when they come over:

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/index.jsf;jsessionid=42C3...

It's what i would've wanted!

[DeputyDawg]

I initially started thinking... why would some tight wad keep a 10 year old Christmas present to pass on?

[big_boz]

Decent Remote control car?

I got my first, A Tamiya Lunchbox when i was about 10, you should be able to get something similar for about £100 depending on how much you want to spend on the motor and Remote control.

Like This.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSOuA9GeXHw

I might have to buy myself one actually!

Edited by big_boz on Wednesday 28th November 11:46

[TA14]

DeputyDawg said:

I initially started thinking... why would some tight wad keep a 10 year old Christmas present to pass on?

This would make quite a nice 10 year old Xmas present: http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

[Frenchda]

Thanks guys

Like the camper, although he builds Lego then tends to not play with it once built. Nerf armoury already in place (love them!)

[Frenchda]

TA14 said:

DeputyDawg said:

I initially started thinking... why would some tight wad keep a 10 year old Christmas present to pass on?

This would make quite a nice 10 year old Xmas present: http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

hhmmm, he told me the other day he does miss the Tuscan......

[Frenchda]

Like the remote, I remember the Grasshopper. Whats the battery life like. Can anyone recommend a robust longlife cheapish remote control car or PLANE!!!!

[Dr Interceptor]

Is he 1.5m tall yet? If so...

http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedking...

[Downton Mini]

Frenchda said:

Like the remote, I remember the Grasshopper. Whats the battery life like. Can anyone recommend a robust longlife cheapish remote control car or PLANE!!!!

Depnds on if you want to build on or buy a ready to run one. Have a look here http://modelsport.co.uk/

ETA GLad I wasn't the only to be thinking someone had kept a Christmas present for 10 years.....

Mind you reminds me of a thread on another site the title was something like pushchair for a TT I thought well thats a fiar swap......

Edited by Downton Mini on Wednesday 28th November 11:57

[crispyshark]

i take it he has a scalectrix already??

[Eighteeteewhy]

[big_boz]

Frenchda said:

Like the remote, I remember the Grasshopper. Whats the battery life like. Can anyone recommend a robust longlife cheapish remote control car or PLANE!!!!

I had a Grass hopper II Super G after the lunchbox!

Battery life wise i used to get about 10 minutes per charge from memory, but had a quick charger that only took half an hour and also a couple of spare battery packs so no downtime!

I did have a plane at one point, self build balsa wood jobby, only flew it a few times, and then hit a tree...dead. Wouldn't recommend one for a 10 year old...unless secretly this is a ploy to get you a toy!

Tamyia kits start at about £60 on ebay, battery, fast charger all about £10 each, motors all start about £5, controllers about £20, that's all new so should be doable in budget.

[Chrisw666]

A Scalextric layout https://www.scalextric.com/shop/sets/standard/c128...

or a pair of these with different crystals so you can race them



http://www.modelsport.co.uk/losi-micro-t-1-36-scal...

[nosuchuser]

This:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MAVERICK-Electric-Monster-...

My 7 year old got one for his birthday. It's a quality little truck, spares easily available which is useful. 3 hours to charge, maybe 30 mins runtime.

[big_boz]

I have just ordered a lunchbox for my nephews (read for me). Cheers for the thread!

[Devil2575]

Frenchda said:

Thanks guys

Like the camper, although he builds Lego then tends to not play with it once built.

I had loads of lego when I was a child.

We used to spend more time building our own creations from the huge pile of accumulated parts from all the sets.

Loads more fun than just building the one on the box.

Mind you from what I can gather, there are a lot more individual model specific bits in now so that's not as easy.

[lawrence567]

I can confirm that the 2 biggest Nerf Guns are fking incredbile, loud, powerful and shoot hundreds a minute!
Whilst being huge!

[djfaulkner]

http://www.menkind.co.uk/gifts-gadgets-c112/remote...