i think it would be when i was quite young, and my dad had been away for a while (it can only have been about a week but i was small) with work, and when he came back, he and my mum told me and my brother to do this thing we used to do if there were ever non-celebration related gifts where we would sit on the sofa with our eyes closed and our hands out like a shelf, and then something would be put on our hands and we could open our eyes.
I can't remember what my brother got of course, but I opened my eyes to be staring at the box of armada red alert. My first figure, as good as my first introduction to TF's (Armada had been on morning TV sometimes, but only sometimes), and it is still one of my favourite figures to this day.
*getting all nostalgic*
hang on a minute, do we have to be in america to win like we did the last one?
hope not...
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