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Thanks dede. It had been a long time since I had even thought about the Wish Book.

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I loved the Sears catalogs. My family was like yours. There are 7 of us spread out throughout the country. We would have the kids pick out what they wanted and then select what they needed and then just let each other know what to buy. It sure made shopping easy back then.

I remember staring and staring at all the catalogs from like 67 to 78 growing up and just hoping to get what I wanted, which I pretty much did. I've looked through a lot of these and can't seems to find a cheap azz metal detector I got somewhere from '74 - '76. I mean, I see some metal detectors just not the one I got.

Man do these bring back some major memories. Great times, great thread.

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ya might wanna ask elven, I understand he is well versed in them and he still has all of the catalogs.

I cannot tell a lie....I got stuck on the pages elven referred to a few pages ago...year round. I thought I was the only one but as it turns out, it seems most dudes were clever at an early age.

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okay...is CLEVER the word ya wanna use?.....really?....

I still have one of these. Took it to work one time along with a potato. Loads of fun. Did I mention I work in a secure nuclear facility?

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I owned a few of these as a kid in the 70's early 80's, but the following are the ones I remember quite fondly.

Mattel's handhelds were the popular toy of its kind back then, I had baseball & soccer, but they were mostly 1 player only toys. These other handhelds provided me & my brothers with hours of fun as you could go head to head on them.




I loved construction toys. There was a brand called TENTE, I'm not sure it was available in the U.S, I think it might have been european. My favorites were the Sea Ships & the Space lines.

Some other fantastic construction toys from my childhood were the EXIN West line & the Castle line.



This game was called Chuta Gol (I would have thought it was called Shoot On Goal in english but no, It was called Super Striker)


At 5 or 6 years old we spent Christmas in the U.S. visiting family. I got this toy and it was a favorite for a long time. My first Tonka:


And to wrap things up this last toy, still amazed at how much fun me & my older brother got out of it. It was the toy of choice for long road trips.


This is a great thread. Thank you for it.

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LMAO...

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Not really a "toy", but who else had all of these?