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The Toys R’ Us Catalog.

I think you'll like this one - a page-by-page look at the Toys R' Us 'Out of this World' Toy Book, covering He-Man, Centurions, Inhumanoids, She-Ra, Lazer Tag, and a whole lot more. Enjoy. Suck my bandwidth.

Posted by Matt on 04/30/2003. E-mail me!

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Um, doesn’t it occur to you that the more pages an article is, the more bandwidth used, i.e. the need for more ads? Click them, ingrates!

Chestnuts roasted by grrr............. @ 05/01/2003 3:09 PM

Sometimes I think Matt may be psychic…I was just thinking about Sweet Secrets the other day, except for the life of me I couldn’t remember the name. What would we ever do without Matt and his psychic powers? He saves us so much research/google time!

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 05/01/2003 3:38 PM

Wow so many memories never had many of those toys. Only ones I did have where the tape recorder thing and the construxs on page 15. My parents stuck with mostly model kits and those construction sets. I think it screwed me up for life for some strange reason math and physics course are a major turn on for me.

Oh and here is a question there was this toy that was a little boulder and you would press a button and it would turn into a monster and eat a little goblin figure in the process of turning into said monster. Anyone have any idea what it was called?

Chestnuts roasted by Geek @ 05/01/2003 4:56 PM

odd…the ads never show up on my computer. I’ve got my ad blocking software off and have had it that way for a few weeks, but the ads just show up as "page cannot be displayed." I’d click the ads, but I can’t. sorry.

Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 05/01/2003 5:15 PM

yeah, i was all like: had it, wanted it, friend had it…

just when i thought i’d remembered every one of my childhood toys through this website, i see little Sweet Secrets dolls. holy gumdrops, i’d forgotten about them.

this was a spiffy article, Matt… i hope you come across more flyers like this in the future with stuff like video games in them.

Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 05/01/2003 5:16 PM

Every single time I come back to this site it puts a big smile on my face and brings me back to when life was good and the only thing you had to worry about was why you felt that weird feeling in yer pants when you were playing with the Baronness and Lady Jaye… but enough of my weird fetishes

I remember one christmas my brother and I collected as many different catalogs as possible, we’re talking JCPenny, KMart, anything we could get our hands on that had pictures of toys the biggie of course being the Toys ‘R’ Us catalog. We took scissors and cut out the pictures of all the toys we wanted and then glued them in the order we wanted them onto about 10 sheets of construction paper front and back spent an hour trying to stuff all that paper and glue into an envelope and mailed it to santa…. I DIDN’T GET A DAMN THING I WANTED THAT YEAR… FUCK SANTA IF I WANT TOYS I’LL THROW A TANTRUM TILL I GET EM LIKE EVERY OTHER NORMAL KID…

whoa… sorry about that, and thank you matt.

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 05/01/2003 6:00 PM

I’ve actually seen those Rupert the Bear shows (as I recall, he makes Teddy Ruxpin look downright rugged). It’s funny because my girlfriend is from England, originally, and she remembers all the posh parents naming their kids ‘Rupert’ and the kids getting teased about it because of the book series. So anyway, while I know it wasn’t that show, I hadn’t realized how many similarities there were in these two seemingly different shows, ’til you mentioned it, Sean. Unfortunately, they were playing the news at the gym this morning and again at lunch, otherwise I might have asked the staff if they knew what it was. ("And looked like a twenty-four-year-old-dweeb?" Yes; and looked like a twenty-four-year-old-dweeb. With tight buns. So neener neener, so-called-cool non-cartoon-watching kids. ;p )

I don’t know what they’re called, Geek, but that sort of reminds me of the MOTU Stonedar and Rokkon figures. (I know you probably weren’t thinking of that, though). Does anyone remember the name of the female MOTU/She-Ra comet warrior? I had that figure (probably under the auspices that it was a girl figure and was, therefore, a vaguely girl-appropriate toy to play with) but I don’t remember her name and Google isn’t helping me out. Fucking Google.

I’m just kidding Google; you know I love you. Let’s never fight again.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 05/01/2003 6:12 PM

Good to see KIA is still making cheap transportation aimed at young people. In fact I think the RIO uses the same frame as the bmx bike.

Chestnuts roasted by naturekid @ 05/01/2003 6:18 PM

I missed something…where’s the Hulk Easter egg? I thought there might be something in the duck pictures somewhere, but I never found anything anywhere.

Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 05/01/2003 6:20 PM

Mouseover the Hulk Pez dispenser on each page.

Chestnuts roasted by Hulk Eggs @ 05/01/2003 6:42 PM

I have the Giraffe Transformer.

His name is Longrack, the 2nd in command in the Japanese Beast Wars Neo series.

He isn’t all that great though.

Now Big Convoy, his commander? He kicks ass. Removable Matrix of Leadership in his chest, and he turns into a friggin wooly mammoth..

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 05/01/2003 6:48 PM

Who cares about your precious video games. There weren’t any #$%@ing Legos in there either! The closest thing in there was Construx. And not even the standard versatile Construx, but some quasi-military version that looked like crap. Construx? C’mon people. They were ok, but paled in comparison to the epic grandeur of my favorite Lego space sets. Please tell me that somebody else around here also has a Lego fetish.

Chestnuts roasted by NutfuZ @ 05/01/2003 7:03 PM

Mr T. goes after Best Buy
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/news/daily/0501mrt.html

Chestnuts roasted by Murdoch @ 05/01/2003 7:37 PM

I always knew Mr. T’s name was Laurence, but who spells it like that? Weird. Or, to follow T’s spelling lead, Ueird.

Chestnuts roasted by thanks for the scoop, Murdoch. BUT I AIN'T GETTIN' ON NO DAMN PLANE! @ 05/01/2003 8:00 PM

WOW been a few months since i have said anything. HOpe everyone is doing well. That was a really good article. SOme of the toys brought some funny stories back to my head. ALso when the VCR games my fav one was about Comerical crazies..

Chestnuts roasted by Sailor Ike @ 05/01/2003 8:16 PM

I’ve got that commercial crazies game, just watched it a while ago lots of great commercials on there.

Chestnuts roasted by Patrick N @ 05/01/2003 9:39 PM

Singing: "I don’t wanna grow up, I’m an X and E kid, Matt shows me all the junk I used to play with… I don’t wanna grow up cause if I did, I wouldn’t be an X and E kid!" Blasted jingles, LoL!

Chestnuts roasted by BotchieGulpe @ 05/01/2003 9:41 PM

Is anyone else disturbed by a toy line called "furskins"? I mean, there is only one word in the English language that sounds close to that, and it isn’t one you normally think of as a plaything for children. Eww.

Also, this seems like one of those places that people might care–I was in a Walmart this evening, and picked up a Scooby-Doo "mystery solving crew" for 3 bucks (down from $7, down from $20!)! That’s 5 figures, including Daphne (YES!) and best of all, a window box shaped like the van, easily worth $10 on its own! And that’s 3 bucks Canadian. That’s like fifty cents US.

The only reason I knew about them was the store was filled people carrying them, and I really doubt that many people are into Scoob and the gang. Hell. I’m not, but what a deal!

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 05/02/2003 12:19 PM

Nutfuz I love my legos I want the mindstorm set. Ohh legos those were the best I wish they would do some more pirate ship kits I had those and I loved them.

Molten No they weren’t Motu toys odds are it is a pretty obscure toy line but it is just something that is driving me insane the little goblins that they ate were about an inch tall each God some one help me I am losing sleep over some toys I had over 10 years ago.

Chestnuts roasted by Geek @ 05/02/2003 12:24 PM

"I mean, there is only one word in the English language that sounds close to that, and it isn’t one you normally think of as a plaything for children."

Jerkins?

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 05/02/2003 12:38 PM

err, yes Geek…I’ve had the same burning question for awhile now…I do believe we are thinking of the same exact thing….mmm, the boulders that transformed into dinosaur-esque monsters, the little plastic trolls brightly colored….my kingdom for an answer….

Chestnuts roasted by kpants @ 05/02/2003 3:43 AM

I finally got the new Teela…the world is at peace…FOR NOW! (duuh nuuh nuuuuh) (Roll credits)

Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 05/02/2003 10:09 AM

Matt. I still have not recieved my Crude Drawing that i purchased from you. I am sad.

Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 05/02/2003 10:24 AM

I have to say I’m disappointed that only one person has commented on the Robotix set that was in there. Robotix were GREAT toys, as long as you weren’t too abusive to them. Of course, most kids like to smash their toys for no apparent reason, so I can see why many people wouldn’t remember Robotix. They probably would have lasted 15 minutes for most kids. I really loved mine though. Who wouldn’t like making motorized walking mechanical monsters that were (sort of) remote controlled? They were like Legos, since you could build many different configurations, and they were like Transformers in that they were giant robots. The best of both worlds!

Chestnuts roasted by Spaz307 @ 05/02/2003 11:26 AM

How fun…but I can’t believe nobody remembers Blinkins! I lived in terror of that freakin’ frog for at least a month.

Sean, furskins freak me out too, it’s not just you. "What are you doing in there Tommy?" "Nothing Mom, just playing with my furskin!" A little much for me.

I recently ran across an old Teddy Ruxpin video that I wish you all could see…Teddy, Grubby, Gimmick, Tweeg, root stew and the almighty airship in a live-action adventure not to be missed! You haven’t lived until you see that big purple thing showering in Rainbow Falls!!

Chestnuts roasted by Queen of Ill Repute @ 05/02/2003 11:40 AM

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