Favorite toys as a child ?

I'm in a sharing mood so... If you look at post #22 you'll see my reference to this toy I got from Santa when I was 4&1/2 years old.
Below are pics of what wife gave me for Christmas at 56&1/2. Also a pic of what it looked like a couple weeks later.
All of its vacuum mettalized parts will come out of the soak tank tomorrow.
Wife paid too much for it and I'll spend even more restoring it. My plan is to give a grandson his own key to it next Christmas, oversee his play time with it, designate it his in my will.