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Title: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: BadBrad on March 26, 2008, 07:00:43 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/sets/72157594229749541/?page=11]
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: lcddream on March 26, 2008, 07:07:55 pm
one thing is for sure, it's not like it used to be....
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: NickG on March 26, 2008, 07:23:44 pm
That was a great drip down memory river of drool, thanks.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: milhouse on March 26, 2008, 07:27:05 pm
I was always partial to the JC Penny book, but there are still things in that Sears book I wish I had (and still do).

Damn parents.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: SavannahLion on March 26, 2008, 11:50:21 pm
OMFG! I had some of those toys. First random page I click on, P595 had the Fall Guy truck I once had! Shweet!!

There's more than a few things in that catalogue I remember having at one point or another.

BTW, check out page 60 :laugh2:
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: chopps on March 27, 2008, 02:15:59 am
that was cool.  the AFX slot cars bring back the memories.  :cheers:
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: RayB on March 27, 2008, 02:47:30 am
That was a great drip down memory river of drool, thanks.
And here I was expecting the underwear section.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: turbo6 on March 27, 2008, 07:14:45 am
Wow, talk about feeling nostalgic... brings back alot of memories of when I was a kid. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I miss those days. :'(
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: RetroACTIVE on March 27, 2008, 09:00:02 am
Is it sad that I still have the starwars toys and video games?

and I almost forgot.... the big AFX race track?
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: CCM on March 27, 2008, 10:26:31 am
That was a great drip down memory river of drool, thanks.
And here I was expecting the underwear section.


 :laugh2:

Same here... when I was a kid there was no internet, so the Sears catalog was all you had to work with...

Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: tk_42_1 on March 27, 2008, 10:49:02 am
Wow, what memories .  I remember this coming in the mail every year, skipping the first 2/3rds of the book to get to the toys.  Telling my parents I want this and this and this and this.  And then getting none of it on Christmas day.  Oh well, there was always next year.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: billf on March 27, 2008, 11:52:23 am
BTW, check out page 60 :laugh2:

 :applaud: :applaud:
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: RetroACTIVE on March 27, 2008, 12:43:54 pm
I like the BETA VCR on p 16 "for as low as $788"  :o
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: dgordon86 on March 27, 2008, 12:50:07 pm
were hot wheels/toy cars big in the early 80s? ha. I like the roadmates illustration/logo on the top of 596.

I can kinda remember a couple of playsets. (I received from my bro, who received from our cousin. )
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: billf on March 27, 2008, 12:51:49 pm
I like the BETA VCR on p 16 "for as low as $788"  :o

Make sure to check out page 17 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/231090630/in/set-72157594229749541/) what you can get for a cool $2070!!
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: RetroACTIVE on March 27, 2008, 12:58:50 pm
I like the BETA VCR on p 16 "for as low as $788"  :o

Make sure to check out page 17 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/231090630/in/set-72157594229749541/) what you can get for a cool $2070!!


Thats high fidelity man!.... Back then all this crap was the cats --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules--.... can you imagine where we will be 20-30 years from now???  It just doesn't seem that what we have today would ever seem so ridiculous... then again... technology advances in waves... we will just have to wait and see.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: KenToad on March 29, 2008, 02:58:21 am
Wow, nice link ... I had a couple of those Tyco sets, the huge one and the one with the jump.  My friend had one that went up the wall.  I was pretty envious.  Oh, and just seeing those slot cycles gave me flashbacks.

 :cheers:
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: ErikRuud on April 10, 2008, 03:10:18 pm
that was cool.  the AFX slot cars bring back the memories.  :cheers:

I still love my Aurora and Tyco slot cars. http://www.a-ruud-awakening.com/NITRO/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Maelstrom.Maelstrom
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: ErikRuud on April 10, 2008, 08:32:29 pm
Check out the top right corner of this page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/322500323/sizes/o/in/set-72157594294161324/
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: KenToad on April 16, 2008, 01:14:31 am
You inspired me.  I searched and found this site:

http://www.wishbookweb.com/1985_SearsWishbook/index.htm

G.I.Joe and Transformers sleeping bags, yes!

Not to mention that I spent many hours poring over these two pages:

Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: btp2k2 on April 20, 2008, 10:42:41 am
If you like this stuff, go check out http://www.plaidstallions.com/
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: koolmoecraig on April 21, 2008, 03:09:05 am
If you like this stuff, go check out http://www.plaidstallions.com/

This link and the link of the Sears catalog might be the greatest posts ever on BYOAC.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: KenToad on April 21, 2008, 11:56:07 am
If you like this stuff, go check out http://www.plaidstallions.com/

This link and the link of the Sears catalog might be the greatest posts ever on BYOAC.

Agreed, both of them just inspired a flood of pleasant memories of simpler days.
Title: Re: How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.
Post by: RTSDaddy2 on April 23, 2008, 10:03:34 pm
"Is the best of the free life behind us now / Are the good times really over for good." (M. Haggard)

I officially hit 40 in about three months, but my legs and arms are already complaining that I'm there.  Think I'll go grab me a beer and a telephone - I feel a case of black cord fever coming on. 

Just damn....part of me would kill for those days again. Looking at the plaid stallions page, I couldn't help but laugh - we had one of the Stretch Armstrong dolls, and for some reason it was put on the top shelf of the closet.  We went to get it out one winter and the thing fell on my sister's foot and nearly broke her toe (can you say frozen innards?  I knew you could!)!