Christmas and toys in the 1970s

It is almost Christmas, dear Discolovers, and I Love Disco wants to take a trip down memory lane and recall the toys we used to find under the tree in the now distant 1970s.

Today, children ask for iPhones, iPods, mobile phone top-ups, and many other technological inventions of the modern era. However, those who, like me, were there in the 1970s will remember that Christmas requests at the time were quite different.

I was born in 1971, so I remember the Christmas of that era and the related gifts well.
One year, the orange Dolceforno arrived; I enjoyed experimenting with recipes for only a few months—perhaps that is why I never learned to cook?!? Another time, I found the legendary portable record player, also orange (a very popular color in those years), and spent days listening to the record from the television series Mork & Mindy. But my true passion was Barbie dolls, so how could I forget the “Heart Family”? Dad, mom, and children all in Barbie versions—and to think that my generation is the product of the divorce law era!!!
And then there was the legendary “Barbie Dreamhouse”—certainly not like today’s, which looks like a villa worthy of AD. Mine, like those of many other girls at the time, had an external elevator, three double floors, and a room on each floor for my beloved playmates.
Then there was “Cicciobello”; I had both the white and black versions, and occasionally, my primitive maternal instinct was channeled through them.

Having two older brothers, I also remember the toys for boys: Big Jim (all muscle, yet shorter than my Barbies), their endless Subbuteo matches with every possible team imaginable, and the Micronauts (those little monsters with detachable parts held together by magnets).

I could go on for a long time, but I would become tedious; so, Discolovers, tell us which toys you used to find during the magical Christmas nights of the 1970s.