Now THOSE were good presents! Any kid worth his salt would be frantically mixing things together, trying to get something that could blow up!
Hahahaha...every time I did it, I ended up with test tubes full of muddy looking liquid that never did anything.
And then the microscopes. I always seemed to destroy the glass slides by crunching them with the optical unit! At some point, I recall they stopped putting glass slides in those microscope kits.
I think they put plastic slides in there, but those things were worthless.