In A Christmas Story, what is the name of Ralphie Parker’s prized fantasy present?

In A Christmas Story, Ralphie Parker dreams of receiving a Red Ryder BB gun.

Ralphie repeatedly asks for the officially styled Red Ryder, carbine-action, 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Adults around him warn that he could shoot his eye out, turning the present into the movie’s recurring joke and central Christmas obsession.

The film presents Ralphie’s desire through the exaggerated imagination of childhood. His fantasies include heroic adventures in which the BB gun helps him defeat villains. The story also follows school life, family arguments, a humiliating pink bunny suit, and the arrival of a leg lamp.

A Christmas Story was released in 1983 and directed by Bob Clark. It is based partly on Jean Shepherd’s writings, especially material from In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. Peter Billingsley plays Ralphie, and the film is set in the fictionalized Indiana world of his childhood.