How about the 1982 Sears Xmas catalog scanned.

[BadBrad]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/sets/72157594229749541/?page=11]

[lcddream]

one thing is for sure, it's not like it used to be....

[NickG]

That was a great drip down memory river of drool, thanks.

[milhouse]

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.

[SavannahLion]

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

[chopps]

that was cool.  the AFX slot cars bring back the memories. 

[RayB]

That was a great drip down memory river of drool, thanks.

And here I was expecting the underwear section.

[turbo6]

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.

[RetroACTIVE]

Is it sad that I still have the starwars toys and video games?

and I almost forgot.... the big AFX race track?

[CCM]

That was a great drip down memory river of drool, thanks.

And here I was expecting the underwear section.

 

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

[tk_42_1]

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.

[billf]

BTW, check out page 60

 

[RetroACTIVE]

I like the BETA VCR on p 16 "for as low as $788" 

[dgordon86]

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. )

[billf]

I like the BETA VCR on p 16 "for as low as $788" 

Make sure to check out page 17 what you can get for a cool $2070!!

[RetroACTIVE]

I like the BETA VCR on p 16 "for as low as $788" 

Make sure to check out page 17 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.

[KenToad]

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.

 

[ErikRuud]

that was cool.  the AFX slot cars bring back the memories. 

I still love my Aurora and Tyco slot cars. http://www.a-ruud-awakening.com/NITRO/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Maelstrom.Maelstrom

[ErikRuud]

Check out the top right corner of this page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/322500323/sizes/o/in/set-72157594294161324/

[KenToad]

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:

[btp2k2]

If you like this stuff, go check out http://www.plaidstallions.com/

[koolmoecraig]

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.

[KenToad]

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.

[RTSDaddy2]

"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!)!