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WishBookWeb.com

Flack — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:00:26 +0000

Like many of you I’m sure, one of my favorite Christmas rituals was thumbing through Sears’ annual Christmas catalog to find all the toys I wanted Santa to bring me.

WishBookWeb.com has Christmas catalogs dating back to 1933. The online collection of scans includes catalogs from Sears, J.C. Penny’s, F.A.O. Schwarz, and others. The interface is a little clunky and you have to scroll around a lot, but once you find the Smurfs, Star Wars, He-Man and G.I. Joe toys for sale, you’ll forget all about that.

Atari 2600: Arcade Golf (1977)

VicSage — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:40:47 +0000

I never had this particular Atari 2600 Sears Tele-Game cartridge but looking at the description on the back of the box that may not have been a bad thing.

“Nine different unique holes, each one with a moving obstacle to make life miserable, but interesting.”

Now what kind of description is that? I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have wanted my Grandparents to pick up this cartridge for me with that description.

As always a big thanks to the kind folks over at AtariAge for the box scans. Thanks as well to Tork110 for uploading a few rounds of the game over on YouTube.

Complete 1940 Sears’ Wishbook

The Retroist — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:28:18 +0000

Enjoy some really retro catalog action with this complete scan of the 1940 Sears’ Wishbook. Chock full of color images, its an amazing look at WWII American consumerism. One look at their toy selection and you can tell that kids back then had very powerful imagination.

Return of the Jedi Toys and Merchandise from the 1983 Sears’ Wishbook

The Retroist — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:28:54 +0000

The highlight of these toys and merch is the rare gleaming C3PO action figure carrying case. I would praise it more, but I am under the watchful stare of my Darth Vader case, so I have already said too much. Forgive me my master.

What Action Figures would you like from the 1985 Sears Wishbook?

The Retroist — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:28:40 +0000

As the Metal Misfit said, its time to start making your Christmas list. If you are having trouble, maybe these images of Action Figures from the 1985 Sears Wishbook will help you decide. Its not all Action Figures, I am including some robots as well, just because I love robots and they are kind like Action Figures. Both Omibot and Robotix are in this catalog, but sadly no Tobor.

If Action Figures are not your thing, their will be plenty more choices leading right up to Christmas, enjoy.

1985 was really the swansong for Star Wars figures. Check out the last page and see the reduced prices. That Imperial Shuttle is hot.