Toy-Ventures: 1985 Child World Catalog
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Toy-Ventures this week digs into another vintage toy catalog. This week we explore the 1985 Child World Catalog which is jam-packed with the hottest 80s toys like
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
• Remco Zybots
• Tonka GoBots
• She-Ra: Princess of Power
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• Knight Rider
• Rainbow Brite
• My Little Pony
• Robotix
• My Buddy
• Voltron Defender of the Universe
• Garfield
And so much more, it’s a total time capsule!
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Child World was my toy store in the late '70s and early '80s. The best of the best.
If you’d asked me “what cost more in 1985, an Atari 2600 or a Garfield Phone?”, I would have been exactly wrong. Fifty Bucks?! Holy hell.
crazy eh?
Oh such fond memories for me. Our store was a Children's Palace and I loved it. Toy's R Us turned up a few years later and it just never measured up for me. I can still close my eyes and picture where everything was in that store. So many times I visited and always came home with something cool.
As for the one thing out of the catalog I'd want, I'd say that Zybots set. I loved Remco's knock-off toys and those were some of my favorites. I have been re-collecting them over the past few years and I never had that 10 pack, though I did have a few of those I'd gotten seperatly.
Those Voltron sets for $59 were expensive for back then! No wonder I never got one for a present!
Child World was my favorite place to go as a kid. Grew up in Connecticut, they had one inside the Enfield Mall. Got almost all my GI Joe ARAH stuff there from 82~86, some of my most favorite memories were rushing there as soon as a new batch of Joe figures were released. If I remember right, it closed well before '92, and then Toy's R Us box stores started taking over the Earth. Man, I wish I took some photos of Child World, just never occurred to me as a kid.
I love thinking back to those days of catalogs, & dreaming about ... all those toys
Yup, it's what keeps me going.
Here in Louisville Kentucky back in the 80s i would go to Children's Palace it was the same thing, before i went to a toys r us. We also had a thornsberry toy store that went out in 1983. Thanks for sharing this. The memory.
The last year of the golden age of toys. I had a bunch of this stuff: Gobots Command Center, the smaller Voltron which are all pullbacks, MOTU Battle Bones figure transporter, and the Fisher Price tape recorder off the top of my head.
That Zeemon Radio from Gobots. I swear before this video I didn’t even know it existed! Love Trans Ams and love transforming robots🤟
Yeah it's pretty neat!
Living in Connecticut, child world was my favorite place! Thank you 🙏
We are the same age “ I remember the my little pony castle I still have mine in the box and all my ponies and I’m 50 and I have all my original Barbie’s even and remember going to child world in NJ with my mom the best times
I think it 1990 and I was working for Toys R Us in Louisville, KY and there was a Children's Palace across the street tucked behind a Service Merchandise. That holiday season the Children's Palace just up and closed out of the blue along with the other three around town. Soon after TRU hired a guy who worked over there. He told us that there were constant rumors of the store shutting down but they were always told that if it was going to happen there would be a "going out of business" sale. They were all surprised to show up for work one morning to a locked store with a notice on the door telling them where to pick up their final check. I always thought that was a really crappy move but then TRU shuts down a few years back promising a severence package to workers who stayed through the closing process only to have them get a judge to approve not making those severence pay-outs... Those guys were real jerks (being very polite here) to their loyal employees and they really crippled an already struggling toy industry by placing orders with the toy companies as if things were business-as-usual the spring before their summer shut-down... I now work for a music distributor and we ended up with a lot of that product as did places like Five Below and close-out stores like Ollie's. I'm amazed the manufactures - for the most part - have bounced back as well as they have...
Spydor and Battle Bones! Two of my favorite MOTU toys from back then. Funny I don't remember that dark version of Strydor at all.
12 channels in 1985? Wow, we only had five.
Great contrast showing the fancy pants video game systems at about the same price point as Castle Grayskull while actual ‘Robot Toys’ were still several hundred dollars. Great Work! Top Shelf!
Well, to be fair, two of those channels were French and one just showed community events. Glad you dug it.
I think Child World was where my mom got Rainy Day Finger Play & Fun Songs on VHS for my sisters in 1985 when they were two years old. If so, that was before I was born. I'm ashamed to admit she passed away on April 28, 2021.
Child World! I used to love that store. The one I shopped at had the children's place castle facade.
My Child World had the Castle
Wow, not one actual Transformer or GI Joe item in the catalog. Great nostalgia though. Not even any LEGO items. We had a Child World by our local mall in Eatontown. We also had a Toys R Us not even one mile away. My local area had a store called Fun Town also. Great toy store about the same size as the other two. Child World was never a prime stop for us, it was always TRU. I don't understand why we didn't go to Child World more often.
My buddy...my buddy...wherever i go, he goes....
This is like a monthly flyer of sale items, so Joe and Transformers probably did get featured in previous months.
Loved Child World, got a lot of great stuff there over the years and even worked there in the late 80s doing overnight Christmas stocking (riding bikes around a closed toy store at 4AM was awesome). I'd have to go for that Gobots Command Center, have no attachment to it but just seems like a very goofy, fun toy. It's similarity to an AT-AT is just the icing on the cake.
Ha! I had a friend who worked the night shift at KMart, he rode a bike around the store as well.
As a kid I would kill for that Voltron, now I just want that Cookie Monster lap desk!
I've still got that Garfield phone, and it still works!
Have you ever ordered Lasagna with it?
@@BrickMantooth no, but that's a great idea! Life goals.
Loved Child World, had them in Connecticut as well. 85' was especially a prime year.
We didn’t have Child World in Florida. I have fond memories of the Sears and JC Penny’s Christmas catalogs from the late 60’s through the Mid 80’s with my sister. One year I made out like bandit. I received Corgi’s Batman gift set (I still have it) and the James Bond gift set (don’t have this :( ).
I remember going to my Grandmother's house and always pulling out her Sears catalog and just looking at all the toys for hours
Seeing this 1985 Catalogue was fabulous and really took me back to 1985 - 1986, when there were some truly great toys about both here in the uk and the rest of the world. Oddly, if I could have anything from this, it would be the Atari 2600 Games System, or the Omnibot... just something about them that demands further playing! Thanks for the video!
The only thing I don't like about this video is that it makes me want to hunt down some of their old catalogs myself and I don't need to start collecting something else! LOL But this does bring back fond memories for me. My mom used to work at the flower shop down the road from the Child World in Quincy, MA and occasionally I would go to work with her, earn a few bucks for helping out and go spend it on toys. I distinctly remember getting some Joes like the Night Raven and Dr. Mindbender there. The flower shop is still there and I wish the toy store was too.
Loved that store...and of course the catalog. Ma took me there to spend the cash I got for my 11th birthday. I got Mego Superman, Batman, Robin, Shazam, and Spiderman...Best Year Ever. Lol };}]~
What a great memory.
Child World in Scarsdale New York was The store for us growing up. Toys R Us in Yonkers was too far for us. A lot of fond memories☺️
Those Omnibots cost an arm and a leg. Fortunately the smaller size tomy ones were more affordable. Still have my childhood Crackbot.
Have you seen the Tomy Dust Bot? It's basically a Roomba. I have one in that old slightly yellowed computer color.
I once bought a working Omnibot 2000 at a toy show for ten bucks and left him in the passenger seat of my Eclipse for a week. Strapped in too😂 I still have him
I can't get over their price!
@@BrickMantooth Sure makes the MOTU castle even more of a bargain. Sure its a plastic shell but more play value than an overly engineered robot that looks cool, but is boring after 5 mins! There are some nice mods poeple have done that have it upgraded with things they implied it could do in the old ads (but could not do).
That skating panda is going to haunt my dreams....
then my work here is done.
I’m so happy I didn’t hallucinate the giant panda sign at Sheppard and Victoria Park beside Chucky Cheese! 😐🙂😆
I always thought it was weird that the Little Professor could only do math games, and not actual calculator functions 😅
You know, I've never put batteries into the darn thing.
@@BrickMantooth Unless you’re a grade-schooler, the novelty wears off quickly, especially since you can’t “calculate” with it 😄
Edit: I should mention i’m talking about the original version from the 70s with the red LED display (picture an old-school Texas Instruments calculator), i dunno if they added actual calc functions in the later version (like pictured here), which looks like it had also upgraded to an LCD screen by this time.
Wow, the Atari VCS/2600 for less than $40! I still have mine and a 7800 too. Yes, I still like outdated oldschool video games.
The Garfield phone reminds me of the Godfrey Ho/Richard Harrison ninja movies, that might be an obscure reference, but I am fairly certain that someone reading this will get it.
raises hand.
Things were better then. Although 1985 was getting close to "the toys winding down"...
I miss Child World
Me too… and Toys R Us, and KayBee, and Lionel Kiddie City, and… all the toy stores, i guess 😢
Oh, to answer your question Brick, i would love to have that “Immortals of Change” set, i was always fascinated by those types of “more than _just_ a regular board game” things as a kid, like “Crossbows & Catapults” too. I never had any though, cuz they were “more expensive than a regular board game” too 😄
I've never seen that Immortals of Change before, I need to check it out.
I had that same exact set. A quasi version of Crossbows and Catapults with a future-esque motif
I or my cousins had so many toys from this catalogue. I had the cabbage patch pin ups, glo bug, glo friends figures, Mr. Potato head, the oven, the MLP carry case, and Alphie II. I think my neighbor had the She-ra dress up set. Remco even knocked off the Care Bears with Dream Bears. If I could pick one toy I would pick the CPK horse or the MLP carry case.
Yay!
If I could have just one thing in that catalogue, it would be the Masters of the Universe ''Spydor''. I always liked it, but missed the boat the first time around. A giant mechanical spider that somehow only has six legs, what's not to like?
In actuallity "Masters Of The Universe " collection ;) started dying in 1987. I think because of that it was the only year when there weren't any new He-Man or Skeletor variant.
I just remember all of a sudden the shelves were clogged and then things got a little dusty. It was pretty sudden.
@@BrickMantooth ok
@Lance Lanny Also ;)
It’s crazy seeing all these prices because in my head I remember things being so much less expensive than they are now….but it turns out toys were massively overpriced when I was a kid, too. I..uh…I was 4 in 1985, so money also likely meant nothing. Haha
I'm surprised there weren't any Joes in there. Wasn't that the year the Flagg came out?
It was! But, yeah, no GI Joes. No Transformers either. Just Go-Bots and Zybots. And this was their second year, with Jetfire, Shockwave and the Constructicons.
This is like a monthly circular they sent out, so I imagine Joes and Transformers had been featured regularly in previous ones. It's not a total representation of inventory.
@@BrickMantooth Ah! Makes sense!
@@BrickMantooth Well, it's not like the Flagg would ever go on sale anyways... ;)
For me.. I think I'd take the Garfield phone..
Here ya go then.
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2:55 wow… a Colecovision for $49.97 in 1985? That’s actually a pretty good price… of course, the US dollar had so much more buying power 45 years ago…
5:00 “Bullets won’t work on me, Brick…”
my buddy and meeee.. kid sister.. kid sister.. kid sister..
My buddy was kinda creepy without Chucky
Ha!
@@BrickMantooth imagine putting a speaker in it and messing with your kid. I'm gonna get you when you sleep... traumatizing.
@@robertonline6543 Well, to be fair, any toy doing that would be scary.