Swiped from the Megomuseum Department of Christmas Catalogs, this is one I vividly remember, it’s the 1980 Sears Canada Catalog. I remember just drooling over Old Bob and Humanoid from the Mego Black Hole line.I ended up getting the Humanoid and S.T.A.R figures but didn’t see an Old Bob until I was twenty or so. […]

Ok when you see swarthy guys in leisure suits like this are you reminded of: a) Movies that involve drug dealers?b) porn?c) That dance pimp from the Pat Benetar “Love is a Battlefield” video?d) Papa? Is that you?

This really has nothing to do with anything but I found it funny. It took me a half an hour of TV watching to realize that this was sitting across from me, just staring. My old Mattel Shogun Warrior with some Fisher Price Sesame Street Little People impaled on his horns. It made me realize […]

I noticed this auction today for one of the final Consumers distributing Catalogs, I believe they died in 97 or 98 however. Another cool ass store killed by Wal-Mart’s arrival in Canada. Anyway, the seller of the Catalog added some stuff from Wikipedia and even mentions my beloved Shoprite in his piece about why Consumers […]

It’s always weird to go through a catalog and find something you owned. I received this stereo from my Grandfather in 1978, it didn’t make a lot of sense to give an eight year old a then expensive stereo but he got one for my older sister and didn’t want to make me feel left […]

I was thumbing through the 1978 Sears Catalog and thought this guy had an uncanny resemblence to SCTV’s Joe Flaherty. Except this guy has really big hair…..

For those not in the know, ShopRite was a Canadian chain of catalog stores. Very little was on display, you had to fill out a little slip and the item came out of the back. We had a shoprite downtime where i lived and at that time, it was a pretty big deal because it […]