Let's share some scans of vintage toy catalog pages.
There's something about looking at these pages that makes me feel like I'm going back in time all while losing my grip on reality. I suddenly feel like I'm entitled to head out to the department store and order all the cool toys featured in the catalog.
"I want to order this toy right here in your catalog." I'm sorry sir, that toy is no longer available, and besides it's 2012 - not 1964. And then I respond - "please let me speak with your manager." And then the ambulance arrives. And I scream - "damn you all to hell, and a very Merry Christmas to you all!"
1966 J.C. Penney's Christmas Catalog featuring a talking herman Munster puppet for $3.84
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1966 Sears Catalog
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1964 Sears Christmas Catalog
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Quote from: fmofmpls on October 27, 2012, 01:32:17 PM
"I want to order this toy right here in your catalog." I'm sorry sir, that toy is no longer available, and besides it's 2012 - not 1964."
My response "Well order some. 1964 isn't so long ago."
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Yeh boy, I wish I could order some of those things at those prices!
How many different toys used that same basic mech as the Marx Frankenstein?
I'm sure hoping to see the Renzi monster car ad mentioned in another thread. Searching Google diligently for it.
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Do you (American) guys have any idea what torture it was being a European in the 60,s and 70,s ,all we knew about stuff like this was adverts in D.C and Marvel Comics,and at prices we couldn't believe ,Eventually we got the Aurora stuff,but that was about it ;)
Quote from: Carts on October 27, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
Do you (American) guys have any idea what torture it was being a European in the 60,s and 70,s
My condolences to your childhood. ;)
Quote from: Mike Scott on October 27, 2012, 03:32:05 PM
Yeh boy, I wish I could order some of those things at those prices!
I wish I could order some of those things at even 25X the price!
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I'm taking orders for all these toys at the prices listed in the catalog. Just send me your money via PayPal. And oh, please allow 45 years for shipping. Buyers must be at least 50 years of age. Thank you.
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Quote from: jimm on October 27, 2012, 03:29:01 PM
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I remember this Robot.
Quote from: fmofmpls on October 27, 2012, 08:35:42 PM
I'm taking orders for all these toys at the prices listed in the catalog. Just send me your money via PayPal. And oh, please allow 45 years for shipping. Buyers must be at least 50 years of age. Thank you.
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Haaaaaaa! Ouch!
Great stuff!
Quote from: fmofmpls on October 27, 2012, 03:36:27 PM
I'm sure hoping to see the Renzi monster car ad mentioned in another thread. Searching Google diligently for it.
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If you're lucky enough to find an A.J. Renzi catalog, please let me know...I've been trying to track one down for a while. I called the Leominster public library, and exchanged a couple of emails with their library historian, and she didn't have much information on the Renzi company, other than the factory was sold and torn down shortly after 911. I'd really like to know exactly when they started producing their cool skull trick or treat pails, and how long they were in production for.
Did you get that one off ebay recently?
I had a few of these toys advertised. Sadly, they are in toy heaven now :(
Here's the 1963 Mongomery Ward Toy Yearbook (Christmas Catalog). This is how all Christmas catalogs should be! 200 pages of nothing but toys! Hey, check out the clown riding the horse........he reminds me of the clown hiding under the bed in Poltergeist.........creeps me out.......
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1966 was a VERY good year!
I had that Tom & Jerry puppet in the upper right corner (1st pic) as well as the Porky Pig.
Thanks for posting the catalog page!
They currently have Hanna-Barbera action figures in Toys R Us.
Nothing like the classics you grew up with Saturday mornings!
Quote from: bigbud on November 06, 2012, 10:59:58 AM
Here's the 1963 Mongomery Ward Toy Yearbook (Christmas Catalog). This is how all Christmas catalogs should be! 200 pages of nothing but toys! Hey, check out the clown riding the horse........he reminds me of the clown hiding under the bed in Poltergeist.........creeps me out.......
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The clown was made by Rushton and was part of their lineup of toys for many years. I have one just like the one in your pic, and his younger cousin serves as my avatar here!
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George
Ramsey37.....I'll be checkin' under the bed tonight......that clown looks possessed..........
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The above photo is the Hasbro Horror House paint and pencil by numbers box set sold through Sears from the 1963 Sears Christmas catalog.
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"63 Hasbro Horror House Paint & Pencil by numbers carrying case box set.
Wish I could see a photo of my first toy robot. I know it was Cragstan...as that always stayed in my memory. I think it was mostly red and battery-operated. I have done searches, but the one that looks somewhat familiar is not Cragstan and another is not battery-op (friction). I can visualize myself in my room setting up things for it to knock down. Supercar was out then, as I made my own 'model' out of pipe cleaners and paper and cardboard and hung it from the ceiling. I know I was living in Houston then, so that was between 1959 to around '62.
I look on Google and eBay, but nothing jumps out at me as "that's it!" Of course, that was a LOOOONG time ago. I remember our wind-up tin roller coaster from even earlier (guess one of the Chein ones). I have a photo of us with a tin service station from the same time period. I know my older cousin had one at their house we would play with. I didn't remember ours that vividly. After the mysterious robot I have a pretty clear recollection of most of my memorable toys.
Here my same cousin was selling old Christmas catalogs at a local 'market days' thing in the 90's he had gotten from a neighbor (among lots of other stuff). My friend got some and called me and luckily he still had one left under the table that I got after I went there. He was selling them WAY too cheap!!! AAAGGHHHH!!!!! I think maybe I got my buddy to trade me one of the others. We weren't as close a friends back then and he and his dad were also set up there.
My cousin is not a 'toy guy' and is more into 'normal' antiques and furniture.
Quote from: RPM on November 13, 2012, 11:32:13 AM
The above photo is the Hasbro Horror House paint and pencil by numbers box set sold through Sears from the 1963 Sears Christmas catalog.
Wow, that's very cool. You don't have a bigger photo of it, do you? I'd like to be able to read it.
Quote from: darkmonkeygod on November 13, 2012, 01:52:03 PM
Wow, that's very cool. You don't have a bigger photo of it, do you? I'd like to be able to read it.
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For some reason his picture shows up a lot bigger/clearer (even more so than the one above) over at the CHFB!
http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/7483/Re-Anyone-remember-60s-Sears-Monster-Activity-Kit?page=-1#.UKKYU4aPugd (http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/7483/Re-Anyone-remember-60s-Sears-Monster-Activity-Kit?page=-1#.UKKYU4aPugd)
Quote from: RPM on November 13, 2012, 11:37:12 AM
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"63 Hasbro Horror House Paint & Pencil by numbers carrying case box set.
So I take it that Carrying Case Horror House Box Set contained the Hasbro paint-by-number Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolf Man pictures. Would each of these have been in the same individual box in which they were sold separately or did Hasbro dispense of the individual boxes for this Box Set?
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I'm not sure why these photos appeared so small. I've problems attaching them.
Yes, the Frankenstein, Wolfman and Dracula 12" X 16" canvass panels w/ oil paints were all contained in the set and are identical to the individually packaged one. In addition, there are 36 8" X 10" presketched sheets of more generic style monster scenes for coloring w/ pencil, crayons and watercolor. It sold through Sears for $3.97
Okay, but therefore it's not the case that each Horror House contained the three individually boxed Frankenstein, Wolfman and Dracula paint-by-number sets. The canvases I take it were all loose inside the Horror House set.
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The case contained everything above loose. Each monster was not indivually packaged.
Quote from: RPM on November 13, 2012, 03:11:34 PM
I'm not sure why these photos appeared so small.
You were using a thumbnail size pic.
Quote from: RPM on November 13, 2012, 03:29:21 PM
The case contained everything above loose. Each monster was not indivually packaged.
Cool! Thank you again for the pics and info. I assisted a good friend on mine in gettingnone of these years ago, but it only had a few of the generic pencil by number sheets in it. I'm really glad to finally know what a complete set consists of, and seeing that Sears ad is a real treat.
Quote from: zombiehorror on November 13, 2012, 02:00:08 PM
For some reason his picture shows up a lot bigger/clearer over at the CHFB!
Just click on the pic to see it full size. (It's a new thing.)