This 100%. I remember being a kid back then and thinking about how great and exciting the toys were and the ways that gaming evolved just in that decade also. That and we started getting better special effects in movies like Ghostbusters and Back To The Future.
We also had cartoons every day plus Saturday mornings in the 80s. Good luck finding any cool kids shows on broadcast TV these days. Isnt there a current CBS kids show about postal inspectors? Kids need an escape, not more low budget educational fluff for their limited free time.
j C I think they still have those kinds of programs to fulfill some FCC requirement, even though there are no commercial kid’s programs on the networks anymore
These magazines are so nostalgic. I found '93 and '94 Holiday Wishbooks at a thrift shop a few years back and it was like a blast from the past looking at all the stuff that existed back then. I was 13 and 14 around those years and had grown out of toys, but even seeing the children's section was like going back in time. Also had found the 1997 and 1999 toy catalogs. Way past my childhood but still fun to look at.
Great vid! I love that you care so much about nostalgia life. I was born in 84 but I had an older brother so I got experience a lot of this stuff. I had that slot car track next to Mr.T. My dad built it on a large piece of wood and did the whole scene up with trees and everything with model train stuff.
Does any remember the store BEST? They had huge stores, a big catalog and when you went there, they had this cool system where you buy something and take a ticket to this counter and they had a conveyor belt bring down your items. The anticipation of waiting for your toy to come down was unreal for me.
I VAGUELY remember BEST! It closed when I was super young but the shopping center in which it was located in was called "BEST Shopping center" (or something) for years after it closed, lol.
@@ErinPlays The other weird thing about BEST was that the one by me was painted light green with flowers all over the sides of the building. It really stood out.
Where I lived in Phoenix the store was called LaBells before it became Best. I think it's where we got our first VCR, classic top loader with the wired remote! In fact, we had the same model that is featured in The Goldbergs intro.
Even that ad for the Commodore 64 had a bootleg game on disk in the picture. I knew a lot of people that had C64's and no one had original game disks. Our family had almost 200 games and they were all copies we made from other people.
Same for me in Canada...we had maybe 5 store bought games, the other hundred or so were all pirated....good times. I recently got a C64 emulator working on my PC, and have a lot of the games i hadn't played in 30 years, so awesome.
I've been collecting classic Christmas catalogs from the late 70's early 80's for about ten years. I love them, they are a direct portal to my youth. JC Penny catalogs tend to cost the most, followed by Sears. For some reason Montgomery Ward catalogues are less common, and cheaper. Century House catalogs are quite rare, but very affordable.
Thanks Erin, for taking me back to more simpilar times! I remember owning/ seeing this stuff you covered back in my "very" early days. True nostalgic trip
I grew up in the 80s and am having a serious nostalgia moment; I was nine when this catalog came out. My sister and I were huge into Star Wars and had the Ewok village, as well as Jabba the Hutt. Actually, I think we had most of the figures, just not as many of the ships (my grandma actually collected those!). And yes, we had the Snoopy snow cone maker, which we thought was the most awesome thing ever...not to mention a Viewmaster, which I remember we had a lot of Muppets discs for. The 80s is the one decade everyone seems nostalgic for, whether they lived through it or not. Growing up, I did not fully appreciate how awesome of a time it truly was.
I don’t think any of us appreciated how great a decade it was to grow up in at the time - its only after experiencing subsequent decades which seem to have progressively declined in character that you can look back and realise how lucky we were!
I was seven in 1984 and this was a real trip down memory lane. I was so into Masters of the Universe, Transformers, and G.I. Joe. I think I had those Temple of Doom PJ's to.
Thanks for the memories! I fondly remember breaking many of these as a kid, haha. Loved the star wars stuff. I would sleep with the Rancor every night, and apparently started crying when my uncle called it ugly.
Whenever someone mentioned Poochie, I always thought of the side character from The Simpsons. I had no idea it was an actual toy and brand. The more you know.
always loved the effort they put into these kind of catalogs, sorting stuff out and create "diorama" of some kind Poochie was extremely popular in italy, in the early 80's at least
when we were kids throughout the 1980s, our mom use to shop at a store called Orr's back then and she use to get the Christmas catalog from there as well. Just seen is bring back such good memories and good times. Miss being a 1980s kid
Another great memory I have from my childhood was always getting those Montgomery Wards or JC Penney Christmas catalogues when I was little and my mom would just tell me to cut out and paste anything in the catalogue onto a big white sheet of construction paper because that was easier for me when I couldn't really write or talk but yea I missed those days looking through those each year to see the newest toys!! I feel like after the 90's things just weren't the same anymore I like how each decade from the 90's and back had like a destinctive style and look but once the 2000's came along I feel like styles and everything sorta just blended together from early 2000's to 2010's it wasn't as destinct as say the 80's from the 90's.
Wishbooks are life. When I was a kid, my parents would say, "If you see something you like, but your initial by it." which quickly progressed to my own rating system starting with a single small m, to M, all the way up to MMMMM.
This was fun and you have nice hands! I had a Snoopy snowcone maker as a kid and had a lot of fun with it...although I don' t really care for snowcones.
14:55 I had the Pac-Man tabletop but it used a bunch of C batteries that were expensive. Eventually our batteries leaken in it and I don't think we ever used it again.
I LOVE watching people go through old catalogues. The excitement from the person makes me happy and some of them make jokes about the things. These are great. I never got to experience a catalogue but I love these! Do more if possible please.
I was 6 years old when this catalog came out and I remember a lot of the toys from this era.Brings back a lot of great memories of my childhood.Thanks for posting this Erin.
I looked back at an old picture of me from '83 or so because I remembered having one of those See n Says you can see at 10:42 - apparently I had two, as well as the "Tomy Tutor Typer" from the next page. Also I don't remember being into the Get Along Gang at all as a kid.
Wow, this really took me back! I always remember back to school shopping at Montgomery Ward when I was in elementary in the early 90's. And those toys were so much fun! Definitely make more of these types of videos if you can!
Great video!!! So fun. I remember Get Along Gang, not the toys so much. But they had a cartoon. They had a thing called the Clubhouse Caboose. I think I had a crush on Dotty Dog.
I had that Barbie jacuzzi! Fill up the tub and mash the manual pump a bunch of times to create bubbles haha. I still have my Strawberry Shortcake dolls, My Little Ponies, She-Ra, Popples, and the NES and SNES console and games. My mom never really got rid of any toys when I was younger and I'm so glad she kept them. I'm loving all the 30, 35, and 40 year anniversary remakes of these toys :)
Great video! I really enjoyed it 😁 The Get Along Gang was a Saturday morning cartoon. I remember watching it when I was really little. I have a fondness for Montgomery Ward. The 1st place I ever played a Philips CD-i was at Montgomery Ward. They had a demo unit with one of the Zelda games in it.
I was seven when this catalog was out. We had a TV from Monkey Wards that lasted us a long time! Yes the Get Along Gang was a thing for a while. They had a Saturday morning cartoon about the characters who had a club house in a caboose (the name of the caboose escapes me). They were a toy line that encouraged children to play together and....get along! We had a lot of the Super Powers toys and vehicles. The Hall of Justice was pretty awesome! I remember the Little Professor calculator ! At the time I didn’t look at the computer stuff much because there was NO WAY in hell we could afford them! Same with VCRs. VCR prices finally came down when we got one in 1990 (about $160).
I had that Dingbot at 3:26! He was the best. All he did was roll around and flash his eyes and make noise, but he would also hit things and know to turn and change directions which was kind of mindblowing back then. Now I want to hunt one down... Mine either did not have a map or whoever opened it for me just thought it was junk. And that Wico controller was pretty great. Forget the Atari 5200, though... the 8-bit systems were where it was at. My mom got that controller and said it was her's. I was never allowed to use it. Well... I say never... but eventually I ended up with it. I guess she got tired of gaming and the rules got a bit more lax.
This was a definitely throw back for me. I am an 81 baby. Remembered most of these. I love Rainbow Brite!!! Would love to see more of these! I really enjoyed this🙂
Omg. This takes me way back. I remember the Sears and the JC Penney catalogs and all the flyers that would come in the mail during Christmas time with all the toys in it. I wish I would have kept them.
Me and my best friend were 12 at the time and I remember this catalog very well as we both wanted many things that were in it. Superb video and thanks so much for sharing it with us.
There were a bunch of commercials in the 80's that advertised both a girls and boys toy. Probably combined to save some money by not having to purchase 2 commercial slots and still advertise to 100% of the audience.
Erin thank you so much for that it brought back so many memories. Getting and looking through the christmas catalogs was always an event we looked forward to every year. I was super into he man back then. To answer your question, yes poochie was, not super popular, but popular. My sister had one that you could stamp things with its butt and she stamped everything.
Really fun to see. I only remember Poochie from catalogs myself. I'm sure there was a show and commercials but I only remember the stuff from catalogs where as, even as a boy, I still remember Care Bears, Rainbow Brite and Glo Worms being everywhere. I still have that Qbert tabletop game somewhere in storage, a Snoopy one too. I have zero memory of those tall Game and Watches though. I wonder if they were really expensive or something. Oh and it's always fun to remember that those old school Snoopy Sno Cone makers really did have a serious blade in them. I knew a kid who'd take apart his GI Joes and try to grind them up in the sno cone maker. I imagine he's in jail now LoL
I remember circling all the toys I wanted in the Sears, and Service Merchandise catalogs so my parents would know what to get me for Christmas. Mostly Star Wars, Transformers, GI Joe, and video games. We had a Snoopy Snow Cone Machine, but I only remember grinding up a devil dog in it while my family waited out Hurricane Gloria in our basement in '85.
Thank you so much for posting this!!! I have been searching for years for a toy I had as a child. When you turned to the Go Bots page there it was!!! The wheeled dinosaur holding the screwdriver looking thing. Now I can look up what it is called and try to find it on eBay.
This was a really cool video and would love to see more like it! We really were the luckiest generation we had all the cool 80's stuff and then a lot of us got to experience some of the best of the 90's as well. I didn't know you collect McDonald's stuff, I have literally huge totes full of happy meal toys from the 80's and early to mid 90's . If there is anything in particular your looking for I could probably send you some ( a lot of them are still in the little cellophane baggies as well).
Same here re: Montgomery Ward. Got my first computer there (I think it had 4mbs of RAM on it and I'd have to use a bootdisk to allocate resources to run DOOM). I think I used to shop PC games and if memory serves they had Atari Lynx games there for short time. Even as kid I had my rotation of stores to check games. Montgomery Ward, Sears, Toys R Us, Babbage's, Software Etc, and the local used book store (got the original Final Fantasy there on NES for $17, and I still have it). I love videos like these, they take me back!
12:06 I had that Garfield and Odie when I was a kid. Didn't even know that the Arlene and Nermal were around at the time, as I never saw them anywhere -- even finding Odie ended up being a one-in-a-million shot.
All I saw was Montgomery Ward and I was here. I vaguely remember being in one when I was a child, I'm 36.. I also just noticed that was from Lapeer Michigan, I grew up in Lake Orion Mi which is about 40 minutes south of there, weird.
Love this video. Definitely should think about a catalog series. I loved looking through these as a kid and me and my sisters had a lot of these toys growing up. ❤️❤️❤️ No joke. My sister ran me over with that Strawberry Shortcake bike when I was like 4. Right over my face.
I have a couple Christmas catalogs that I go through every so often. It’s just a fun snapshot of that year in my life. What was popular, the toys I wanted and that I played with. Thanks for the great video.
So excited to see Commodore 64 stuff! I still have my Commodore 128. Side note, you need to check out the Playskool McDonald's playset. I played with that so much as a kid!
I was 2 months old when this catalog was out,but I still have some of my 80's toys like Thundercats,Mask,He Man,Karate Kid,Pee Wee etc..that I can remember.
My sister actually did have a canopy bed, and she had that bedspread set ( she still has the blanket and cover to it), basically if it was Rainbow bright she had it.
13:11
Why isnt her channel part of cinemassacre?
I noticed that too James. Hilarious....😂
I feel kinda fortunate to have lived through this period in time. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Best of both worlds 😊👍
I’ve never thought of it that way but that is so true! Growing up in the 80s was amazing in retrospect....
That's why we're X-ennials. Not quite gen x and not quite millenials. 1980-1984
This 100%. I remember being a kid back then and thinking about how great and exciting the toys were and the ways that gaming evolved just in that decade also. That and we started getting better special effects in movies like Ghostbusters and Back To The Future.
Nice
There is nothing better than toy's from the 1980's/90's.
I agree!
Say whatever you wanna say, you wish you had the Nerf guns kids have today.
@@リンゴ酢-b8g lolwut
All I know about Poochie is that he died on his way back to his home planet.
may some lawyer assure us he will never return?
His home planet needed him.
Endless Noise You beat me to it, was gonna write that one in the comments too ;) =)
We also had cartoons every day plus Saturday mornings in the 80s. Good luck finding any cool kids shows on broadcast TV these days. Isnt there a current CBS kids show about postal inspectors? Kids need an escape, not more low budget educational fluff for their limited free time.
j C I think they still have those kinds of programs to fulfill some FCC requirement, even though there are no commercial kid’s programs on the networks anymore
These magazines are so nostalgic. I found '93 and '94 Holiday Wishbooks at a thrift shop a few years back and it was like a blast from the past looking at all the stuff that existed back then. I was 13 and 14 around those years and had grown out of toys, but even seeing the children's section was like going back in time. Also had found the 1997 and 1999 toy catalogs. Way past my childhood but still fun to look at.
Great vid! I love that you care so much about nostalgia life. I was born in 84 but I had an older brother so I got experience a lot of this stuff.
I had that slot car track next to Mr.T. My dad built it on a large piece of wood and did the whole scene up with trees and everything with model train stuff.
Does any remember the store BEST? They had huge stores, a big catalog and when you went there, they had this cool system where you buy something and take a ticket to this counter and they had a conveyor belt bring down your items. The anticipation of waiting for your toy to come down was unreal for me.
Dave Muscarella I think we got our Atari 5200 from best. The conveyor belt is definitely the thing I remember the most from that place..
I VAGUELY remember BEST! It closed when I was super young but the shopping center in which it was located in was called "BEST Shopping center" (or something) for years after it closed, lol.
@@ErinPlays The other weird thing about BEST was that the one by me was painted light green with flowers all over the sides of the building. It really stood out.
Where I lived in Phoenix the store was called LaBells before it became Best. I think it's where we got our first VCR, classic top loader with the wired remote! In fact, we had the same model that is featured in The Goldbergs intro.
BEST also had great video game demos. I played 3DO and Donkey Kong Country for the 1st time there.
How I miss the fresh smell of ink when the Christmas catalogs would begin arriving in fall.
Even that ad for the Commodore 64 had a bootleg game on disk in the picture. I knew a lot of people that had C64's and no one had original game disks. Our family had almost 200 games and they were all copies we made from other people.
Same for me in Canada...we had maybe 5 store bought games, the other hundred or so were all pirated....good times. I recently got a C64 emulator working on my PC, and have a lot of the games i hadn't played in 30 years, so awesome.
Erin I love your passion for 80’s toys and video games. Keep up the great videos on your channel. Mike is a lucky man!
Thank you! I’m so glad you like my videos :)
I've been collecting classic Christmas catalogs from the late 70's early 80's for about ten years. I love them, they are a direct portal to my youth.
JC Penny catalogs tend to cost the most, followed by Sears. For some reason Montgomery Ward catalogues are less common, and cheaper. Century House catalogs are quite rare, but very affordable.
Thanks Erin, for taking me back to more simpilar times! I remember owning/ seeing this stuff you covered back in my "very" early days. True nostalgic trip
I grew up in the 80s and am having a serious nostalgia moment; I was nine when this catalog came out. My sister and I were huge into Star Wars and had the Ewok village, as well as Jabba the Hutt. Actually, I think we had most of the figures, just not as many of the ships (my grandma actually collected those!). And yes, we had the Snoopy snow cone maker, which we thought was the most awesome thing ever...not to mention a Viewmaster, which I remember we had a lot of Muppets discs for. The 80s is the one decade everyone seems nostalgic for, whether they lived through it or not. Growing up, I did not fully appreciate how awesome of a time it truly was.
I don’t think any of us appreciated how great a decade it was to grow up in at the time - its only after experiencing subsequent decades which seem to have progressively declined in character that you can look back and realise how lucky we were!
I was seven in 1984 and this was a real trip down memory lane. I was so into Masters of the Universe, Transformers, and G.I. Joe. I think I had those Temple of Doom PJ's to.
That’s awesome :)
Thanks for the memories! I fondly remember breaking many of these as a kid, haha. Loved the star wars stuff. I would sleep with the Rancor every night, and apparently started crying when my uncle called it ugly.
I'll never forget Christmas morning when my Mom and Dad set up Castle of Grace Skull, and all the figures at night.
best parents ever
Whenever someone mentioned Poochie, I always thought of the side character from The Simpsons. I had no idea it was an actual toy and brand. The more you know.
Same and me neither.
The GoBots, the poor man's Transformers. Haha!
You took me through my childhood on this video!
Thanks for sharing, this video was wholesome.. remember in kindergarten one kid brought his castle grayskull.. he was our hero xD
always loved the effort they put into these kind of catalogs, sorting stuff out and create "diorama" of some kind
Poochie was extremely popular in italy, in the early 80's at least
10:37 wow i had one of those too, was 1 year old in 84 😂 lots of great toys in that magazine, 80's best decade ever.
I was born in 1990 I had a glow worn too
10:58 Ah! My sister and I loved the Snoopy Snowcone Maker. I remember using it often.
7:32 That He Man toothbrush holder is the reason why I still vizualize days of the week in a circular pattern when I count them in my mind.
when we were kids throughout the 1980s,
our mom use to shop at a store called
Orr's back then and she use to get the Christmas catalog from there as well.
Just seen is bring back such good memories
and good times. Miss being a 1980s kid
Another great memory I have from my childhood was always getting those Montgomery Wards or JC Penney Christmas catalogues when I was little and my mom would just tell me to cut out and paste anything in the catalogue onto a big white sheet of construction paper because that was easier for me when I couldn't really write or talk but yea I missed those days looking through those each year to see the newest toys!! I feel like after the 90's things just weren't the same anymore I like how each decade from the 90's and back had like a destinctive style and look but once the 2000's came along I feel like styles and everything sorta just blended together from early 2000's to 2010's it wasn't as destinct as say the 80's from the 90's.
Wishbooks are life. When I was a kid, my parents would say, "If you see something you like, but your initial by it." which quickly progressed to my own rating system starting with a single small m, to M, all the way up to MMMMM.
This was fun and you have nice hands! I had a Snoopy snowcone maker as a kid and had a lot of fun with it...although I don' t really care for snowcones.
14:55 I had the Pac-Man tabletop but it used a bunch of C batteries that were expensive. Eventually our batteries leaken in it and I don't think we ever used it again.
I LOVE watching people go through old catalogues. The excitement from the person makes me happy and some of them make jokes about the things. These are great. I never got to experience a catalogue but I love these! Do more if possible please.
Dat Wii shop channel music! great video Erin :D
Loved LGR’s old catalogs, love this too! More please.
I was 6 years old when this catalog came out and I remember a lot of the toys from this era.Brings back a lot of great memories of my childhood.Thanks for posting this Erin.
I looked back at an old picture of me from '83 or so because I remembered having one of those See n Says you can see at 10:42 - apparently I had two, as well as the "Tomy Tutor Typer" from the next page. Also I don't remember being into the Get Along Gang at all as a kid.
Damn, this is like a walk through my childhood, I had lots of these toys.
This was awesome! Yes, please more videos like this!
Yes! More of this. Nostalgia, commentary, and a bit of ASMR :0)
Thanks Erin!
You made me cry ...
tears of lost joy!
Wow, this really took me back! I always remember back to school shopping at Montgomery Ward when I was in elementary in the early 90's. And those toys were so much fun! Definitely make more of these types of videos if you can!
Holy shit. The snoopy snow cone maker. I think I still have mine in some box
I never got to have one because my parents read in Consumer Reports that they were "dangerous."
Great video!!! So fun.
I remember Get Along Gang, not the toys so much. But they had a cartoon. They had a thing called the Clubhouse Caboose. I think I had a crush on Dotty Dog.
Elmo likes to look at himself in shiny knives
I had every He-Man toy on the cover except for the horse! :P I used to love looking through Christmas catalogs in the 80s.
Awesome review Erin...I lived for the holiday catalogs...Montgomery Ward, Sears and JCPenny!!
Erin 80's & 90's Toys are Awesome 😊😁
Hope you do more of these in the future. Had a great time watching!
Thank you! I want to :)
I had that Barbie jacuzzi! Fill up the tub and mash the manual pump a bunch of times to create bubbles haha. I still have my Strawberry Shortcake dolls, My Little Ponies, She-Ra, Popples, and the NES and SNES console and games. My mom never really got rid of any toys when I was younger and I'm so glad she kept them. I'm loving all the 30, 35, and 40 year anniversary remakes of these toys :)
Ahh 80's toys... this hit right in the nostalgia.
Also, enjoying the snappy tunes to this walk down memory lane!
Great video! I really enjoyed it 😁 The Get Along Gang was a Saturday morning cartoon. I remember watching it when I was really little. I have a fondness for Montgomery Ward. The 1st place I ever played a Philips CD-i was at Montgomery Ward. They had a demo unit with one of the Zelda games in it.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it. And that's funny about the CD-i, haha.
I was seven when this catalog was out. We had a TV from Monkey Wards that lasted us a long time! Yes the Get Along Gang was a thing for a while. They had a Saturday morning cartoon about the characters who had a club house in a caboose (the name of the caboose escapes me). They were a toy line that encouraged children to play together and....get along! We had a lot of the Super Powers toys and vehicles. The Hall of Justice was pretty awesome! I remember the Little Professor calculator ! At the time I didn’t look at the computer stuff much because there was NO WAY in hell we could afford them! Same with VCRs. VCR prices finally came down when we got one in 1990 (about $160).
Awesome video, Erin! Glad to see someone shed some light on the MW catalog. I used to love looking through these as a kid.
I had that Dingbot at 3:26! He was the best. All he did was roll around and flash his eyes and make noise, but he would also hit things and know to turn and change directions which was kind of mindblowing back then. Now I want to hunt one down... Mine either did not have a map or whoever opened it for me just thought it was junk.
And that Wico controller was pretty great. Forget the Atari 5200, though... the 8-bit systems were where it was at. My mom got that controller and said it was her's. I was never allowed to use it. Well... I say never... but eventually I ended up with it. I guess she got tired of gaming and the rules got a bit more lax.
Care Bears 2 is one of my all time fav movies - thanks for reminding me
I was so happy in 1984 best time of my life.
Thank you for sharing. The catalog is pretty cool.
This was a definitely throw back for me. I am an 81 baby. Remembered most of these. I love Rainbow Brite!!! Would love to see more of these! I really enjoyed this🙂
1984..I was 7 back then. I miss the 80s. Thanks though for the awesome memories, Erin
Oh man, I had all kinds of He-Man toys as a kid. I’m impressed how much of those toys I remember.
All the nostalgia! I had that Skeletor fortress and the Knight Rider car you could ride in! What a great time to be a kid.
I had so many of those toys, including the amazing Inspector Gadget.
Omg. This takes me way back. I remember the Sears and the JC Penney catalogs and all the flyers that would come in the mail during Christmas time with all the toys in it. I wish I would have kept them.
This was one of the most entertaining videos. I love old toy catalogs! Cool videos!
Awesome video Erin keep up the good work!!!
Me and my best friend were 12 at the time and I remember this catalog very well as we both wanted many things that were in it. Superb video and thanks so much for sharing it with us.
I used to love looking through their catalogs, along with Sears, JC Penny and Woolworth!
I have a old 1976 Spiegel Christmas catalog I found in my grandparents attic.
There were a bunch of commercials in the 80's that advertised both a girls and boys toy. Probably combined to save some money by not having to purchase 2 commercial slots and still advertise to 100% of the audience.
Erin thank you so much for that it brought back so many memories. Getting and looking through the christmas catalogs was always an event we looked forward to every year. I was super into he man back then. To answer your question, yes poochie was, not super popular, but popular. My sister had one that you could stamp things with its butt and she stamped everything.
Really fun to see. I only remember Poochie from catalogs myself. I'm sure there was a show and commercials but I only remember the stuff from catalogs where as, even as a boy, I still remember Care Bears, Rainbow Brite and Glo Worms being everywhere. I still have that Qbert tabletop game somewhere in storage, a Snoopy one too. I have zero memory of those tall Game and Watches though. I wonder if they were really expensive or something.
Oh and it's always fun to remember that those old school Snoopy Sno Cone makers really did have a serious blade in them. I knew a kid who'd take apart his GI Joes and try to grind them up in the sno cone maker. I imagine he's in jail now LoL
Lots of neat A-TEAM stuff. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I had the He-man talking toothbrush holder. The recorded message it played when you pressed the red button was hilarious.
Omg I had so many of these toys. I was way spoiled! The Inspector Gadget doll was my favorite! I lost it in 1986 when we moved. I’m still devastated.
Erin always coming through with the quality content 👏🏼 👏🏼
Yaaaas girl please do more of these videos! It was so nostalgic to watch this ❤️
I remember circling all the toys I wanted in the Sears, and Service Merchandise catalogs so my parents would know what to get me for Christmas. Mostly Star Wars, Transformers, GI Joe, and video games. We had a Snoopy Snow Cone Machine, but I only remember grinding up a devil dog in it while my family waited out Hurricane Gloria in our basement in '85.
This was very fun to watch. You must find at least the pilot episode of Knight Rider. What a great show that was.
Thank you so much for posting this!!! I have been searching for years for a toy I had as a child. When you turned to the Go Bots page there it was!!! The wheeled dinosaur holding the screwdriver looking thing. Now I can look up what it is called and try to find it on eBay.
I'd never seen the Montgomery ward catalog, but I used to love looking through the JC-Penneys Christmas "Wish Books" a lot as a kid.
Those were great!
This is a real nostalgia blast, I was born in the year 1980.
This was a really cool video and would love to see more like it! We really were the luckiest generation we had all the cool 80's stuff and then a lot of us got to experience some of the best of the 90's as well.
I didn't know you collect McDonald's stuff, I have literally huge totes full of happy meal toys from the 80's and early to mid 90's . If there is anything in particular your looking for I could probably send you some ( a lot of them are still in the little cellophane baggies as well).
Same here re: Montgomery Ward. Got my first computer there (I think it had 4mbs of RAM on it and I'd have to use a bootdisk to allocate resources to run DOOM). I think I used to shop PC games and if memory serves they had Atari Lynx games there for short time. Even as kid I had my rotation of stores to check games. Montgomery Ward, Sears, Toys R Us, Babbage's, Software Etc, and the local used book store (got the original Final Fantasy there on NES for $17, and I still have it). I love videos like these, they take me back!
12:06 I had that Garfield and Odie when I was a kid. Didn't even know that the Arlene and Nermal were around at the time, as I never saw them anywhere -- even finding Odie ended up being a one-in-a-million shot.
All I saw was Montgomery Ward and I was here. I vaguely remember being in one when I was a child, I'm 36.. I also just noticed that was from Lapeer Michigan, I grew up in Lake Orion Mi which is about 40 minutes south of there, weird.
Love this video. Definitely should think about a catalog series. I loved looking through these as a kid and me and my sisters had a lot of these toys growing up. ❤️❤️❤️ No joke. My sister ran me over with that Strawberry Shortcake bike when I was like 4. Right over my face.
Awesome video. Brought back a lot of memories.
Awesome vid Erin. More content like this would be great 👍
Wow! You brought back so many memories I didn't even realize I had. From the he man toys on the cover till the end. Thanks for this one!
I have a couple Christmas catalogs that I go through every so often. It’s just a fun snapshot of that year in my life. What was popular, the toys I wanted and that I played with. Thanks for the great video.
Still have all my He-Man stuff! Great video!
So excited to see Commodore 64 stuff! I still have my Commodore 128. Side note, you need to check out the Playskool McDonald's playset. I played with that so much as a kid!
Yes, more please! This made me feel warm and fuzzy.
I was 2 months old when this catalog was out,but I still have some of my 80's toys like Thundercats,Mask,He Man,Karate Kid,Pee Wee etc..that I can remember.
Those Star Wars toys were soo freaking awesome! Ewok Village!? Jab a the Hut?! RAD!
10:04 I think you're referring to the FenslerFilm PSAs. You can find a ton of them on RUclips. They're so bizarre and hilarious!
Great video I love old catalogs, and I was born in 84, yay
My sister actually did have a canopy bed, and she had that bedspread set ( she still has the blanket and cover to it), basically if it was Rainbow bright she had it.
Whew this bought back memories for me. I had allot of these toys back in the 80s and whatever I didn't have my cousins did. Fun times.
You're an '87 baby??? Me too!!! 😂🙌
Def had that snoopy snow cone maker!
7:49. Dude I think I had that he man tent. Ooohh. I totally forgot all about it. I never would have remembered if you didn't just show it to me.
Thanks for the upload 👍. I was 7 when this came out. It's like a trip back to childhood.