Browsing a 1984 MONTGOMERY WARD Catalog with Erin!
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2020
- I thought it would be fun to browse through a Montgomery Ward catalog from Christmas 1984. I've always loved looking through old catalogs and I thought 1984 would be a fun place to start! I'd like to do some from the 90s' too so let me know if that's something you'd like to see. Enjoy!
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#80s #retro #montgomerywards - Hry
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
13:11
Why isnt her channel part of cinemassacre?
I noticed that too James. Hilarious....😂
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
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 ;) =)
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
How I miss the fresh smell of ink when the Christmas catalogs would begin arriving in fall.
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
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 :)
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.
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!
The GoBots, the poor man's Transformers. Haha!
You took me through my childhood on this video!
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."
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
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
Dat Wii shop channel music! great video Erin :D
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.
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.
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.
Erin 80's & 90's Toys are Awesome 😊😁
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 :)
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.
Damn, this is like a walk through my childhood, I had lots of these toys.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
This was very fun to watch. You must find at least the pilot episode of Knight Rider. What a great show that was.
Oh man, I had all kinds of He-Man toys as a kid. I’m impressed how much of those toys I remember.
Hope you do more of these in the future. Had a great time watching!
Thank you! I want to :)
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 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'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!
Erin always coming through with the quality content 👏🏼 👏🏼
Yaaaas girl please do more of these videos! It was so nostalgic to watch this ❤️
Thanks for sharing, this video was wholesome.. remember in kindergarten one kid brought his castle grayskull.. he was our hero xD
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🙂
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 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 :)
10:58 Ah! My sister and I loved the Snoopy Snowcone Maker. I remember using it often.
Elmo likes to look at himself in shiny knives
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.
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!
I remember drooling over the toys and electronics sections of the Sears and JC Penny's catalogues back in the day. Thanks so much for bringing back some very fond memories! I was 9 in 1984, and in love with Transformers.
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.
This was one of the most entertaining videos. I love old toy catalogs! Cool videos!
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.
Care Bears 2 is one of my all time fav movies - thanks for reminding me
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.
Loved LGR’s old catalogs, love this too! More please.
This was awesome! Yes, please more videos like this!
Yes! More of this. Nostalgia, commentary, and a bit of ASMR :0)
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.
I had so many of those toys, including the amazing Inspector Gadget.
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.
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.
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.
I was 3 in 84.
1.) I have vague memories of that time but I remember Rainbow Brite, Care Bears and He-Man being everywhere! Like to a degree I'm not sure is even legal anymore.
2.) It pains me whenever I see Star Wars toys. I had a bunch of them and then none.
3.) I miss Montgomery Ward also. In the 80s my Dad worked at the local grocery store (that doesn't exist anymore and I miss that too) and next to it on one side was a Montgomery Ward and on the other this amazing store called Child World that was basically Toys R Us on steroids. It was the perfect trifecta of stores in one spot. Now it's a Hannafords and a Home Depot. Not even remotely the same.
I have a old 1976 Spiegel Christmas catalog I found in my grandparents attic.
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).
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 a my buddy as a kid. My sister was into polly pockets. I also had a robot that came with cassette tapes and it would tell stories. It was from Tiger Electronics I think. It was pretty cool.
0:53 It's literally Montgomery Moose on a Montgomery Ward catalog cover. Heartbreakingly missed opportunity. Good job with at least knowing the name of the show, though, since it's very much a forgotten show these days.
Thanks for the upload 👍. I was 7 when this came out. It's like a trip back to childhood.
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.
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.
Awesome review Erin...I lived for the holiday catalogs...Montgomery Ward, Sears and JCPenny!!
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.
Ahh 80's toys... this hit right in the nostalgia.
Also, enjoying the snappy tunes to this walk down memory lane!
Awesome vid Erin. More content like this would be great 👍
Awesome video. Brought back a lot of memories.
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 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.
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!
Awesome video Erin keep up the good work!!!
Wow, I forgot how expensive those Game and Watch games were.
$21 in 1984 would be like $54 today!
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.
Thank you for sharing. The catalog is pretty cool.
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 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.
Lots of neat A-TEAM stuff. Thanks for sharing this with us.
My older sister, whose name is also Erin, had all of the Rose Petal Place toys. Car, watering can house.
🤫 I was partial to Tumbles and Sunny Sunflower.
This is a real nostalgia blast, I was born in the year 1980.
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!
I had that Go-Bots base! It was awesome because it was a vehicle & giant robot as well as the base. If you laid it down it had wheels so it was like a big ol' tank, or you could extend the legs and it was like an AT-AT from Star Wars. And the best part? There was a button on the head, and if you pushed it the eyes would flash and it would make a badass klaxxon noise.
Transformers will always be my first love, but it was great how Go-Bots were the same size as Hot Wheels, so if you already had HW cars & playsets your Go-Bots instantly had a home.
1984..I was 7 back then. I miss the 80s. Thanks though for the awesome memories, Erin
OMG!!! I have travelled to my childhood, Erin!!! 😃😃😃 I love your videos!!! Greetings 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
I used to love looking through their catalogs, along with Sears, JC Penny and Woolworth!
I have the Game and Watch that has the babies falling out of a burning building and you bounce them over to the ambulance. I still play with it from time to time. Mine is just black and white though. Interesting that the games you show have more color in them.
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.
This was a totally unexpected video from you, I loved it, hope u make more
Yes, more please! This made me feel warm and fuzzy.
Great video I love old catalogs, and I was born in 84, yay
Thanks Erin!
You made me cry ...
tears of lost joy!
I had a lot of these toys handed down to me by my older siblings.
Also,your nails are super cute!
I was so happy in 1984 best time of my life.