Merry Christmas to anyone visiting this site today and for my own celebration I spent Christmas Day with my family at my Mother’s house.  Here I am with my mother, Shirley Wlodarczyk, posing by the Christmas tree with a Kenner ALIEN toy.

It was on this day, exactly 40 years ago, she gifted to me my very first Kenner ALIEN.

Of course, I wasn’t the only person to receive a Kenner ALIEN toy on Christmas Day, 1979.  Many children, younger than myself, were also recipients of this astonishing toy. Recommended for children “AGES 5 AND UP”, many of these figures became the proud possessions of kids around the world.

40 Christmases have passed since then and I’ve had the pleasure to talk to many people now in their late 40s or older who received one of these on that day as a child.  I have also seen around half a dozen photos of youngsters posing on Christmas Day (or soon thereafter) with their proud possession.  This image is to honour those kids, now adults; and also for my mother who was kind and understanding enough to grant me one of these weird things on Christmas Day, 1979.  I was 17 years old at the time and this was probably the last toy she gave me.

Thank you, Ma.

-Windebieste.