Comments on: Christmas Wishlist 1981

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:52:43 +0000

Your penmanship as a child would put most adults to shame today.

By: JEN

JEN — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:11:30 +0000

THis is just fantastic.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 23:26:36 +0000

This is great, awesome to see what you wanted way back then, please post more next year if you have found other lists or nostalgic stuff… We did have it really good back in the 70's aside from a gas crisis and economic issues here and there, really good memories for me too.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:13:12 +0000

This was great, Brian, thanks for posting. Every year I find it difficult to get into the Christmas spirit (life is always hectic and moving so fast) but this helped. 🙂

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:38:47 +0000

I loved my missing link. And my pryaminx. I think I received them both the same year I got Run Yourself Ragged too. That was a great Christmas!

By: Hauntedheadful

Hauntedheadful — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:52:41 +0000

I am 50 years old and the Missing link I got for Christmas in the 80's is sitting on the coffee table in my den.I have never solved it 100 % but I never really tried too hard.I don't recognize the 2nd item was that a catalogue exclusive maybe?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:44:53 +0000

Motivated by their love, the best parents and grandparents do heart-warming stuff like this. It's a gift to have relatives like this. Found a similar cache three years ago while clearing out my dad's estate… he'd saved every Christmas card I'd ever, ever given him all the way back to the first ones "I" gave him written by my mom.

Smart move cutting out the ads, btw. That can mean the difference between getting Shockwave, the Decepticons' Military Operations Commander or stuff like Radio Shack's "Galactic Man" aka. KayBee Toys' "Robot Pistol".
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3xpFVEYCmiE/UtKM473gmJI/AAAAAAAACWY/FBlZqzJIG-I/s1600/IMG_0303.JPG

Little kids can be awful franchise junkies and, in their defense, classic Transformers had incredibly cool box graphics.

While they're both great toys, Galactic Man's trigger location was… embarrassing… to say the least, particularly when noticed by older and more worldly cousins. After that, it's "can't unsee" in the worst possible way. The photographers working for Radio Shack moved heaven and earth, used every trick of perspective to minimize the damage on the box art, but they weren't there on Christmas morning.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p214/Autobot_prime1979/IMG_0587.jpg

By: Wendyvee

Wendyvee — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:09:56 +0000

You were quite the little "marketer" … included graphics and everything 🙂

By: Jamie Ghione

Jamie Ghione — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:47:55 +0000

…Smurfs

By: Jamie Ghione

Jamie Ghione — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:47:28 +0000

Smurfit ! I was totally not them. This really brings back memories.