LGR - 1993 Toys"R"Us Catalog

Objects are dematerialized into a matter stream that can be moved across subspace via an annular confinement beam and rematerialized at the target. The key to accurate reassembly is in the Heisenberg compensators. Please consult the TNG Technical Manual for further details. Special sound effects, lighting effects and two-ways mirrors are also involved.

Zabe

I hope I can get one to cover sometime! It's a fascinating thing, I wonder what kind of hardware is inside

LGR

Oh man, I remember having trouble trying to find the elusive Red Ranger, and then the green one after that. I pretty much stuck to my blue rangers, haha

LGR

Thank you! It's surprising the huge range in years this video has caused intense nostalgia for :)

LGR

It is!

LGR

I missed out on it as a kid, too ;)

LGR

I'll give it a look!

LGR

...I am entirely too curious how that thing works

LGR

According to the site Retro Junk, it is!

LGR

wow you are sooooo cool, i bet ur iq is like so high man, woah dude ur probably a genius huh

Dakov

Same here, born 92. I use to love going through them for the same reasons. Some of this stuff looks familiar too. But alittle different to the stuff I had. The cabbage patch dolls jumped out at me as my brother had one he hung on to for yrs. Make more of these LGR!

I just looked up the VTech Video Painter, and it was surprisingly affordable on Amazon- I'd like to see a video on that.

Steven Zakulec

This is awesome. I don't know why but I just love the 90s. I wish I could go back and experience those years as an adult. I was a kid and it's so different looking at 90s things through my adult eyes. I can also see somebody at their first day working at McDonald's. "This isn't how you make fries! I learned how to do it the right way with my McDonald's burger maker play set." Kids toys are somewhat disturbing too because they establish gender roles and teach children about low-paying jobs.

Kevin

Yep I am sure my 7 year old self went crazy for this catalogue I remember around this time going to wal mart at 6 am just to try to find a Red Ranger.

Duck Avenger

Oh I had Teddy Ruxpin too, until his lower jaw popped off which made him look really creepy.

Zabe

Funny when I watched cartoons as a Kid I can't remember to have seen any commercial at all (Don't ask me why, but than again I was an insanely smart kid so my subconscious must just have seen the psychedelisch "make me want to have it" waves and shuts thigh (and with insanely smart I mean I knew stuff like 78% of the atmosphere was made of nitrogen when I was 5, but then in elementary school the other kids never believed me "Nah that is nonsense you can't breath nitrogen") But when I watch cartoons today I just mute the TV when the commercials start because I get so fucking mad I want to punch baby ponies!.

Ezydenias

I was born in 93 but this was still pretty nostalgic for me. I used to love going through catalogs as a kid and seeing all the stuff I wouldn't ever own haha. Great video!

Dakov

Is that Lindsay Lohan at 6:20?

Luke Powell

I was surprised when you turned to the page with the Etch a Sketch and there was a girl in a wheelchair, playing with one. In Australia, we just don't see that kind of diversity in mainstream advertising. It's sad because that catalogue is from 1993 and we're still playing catchup. Nice to see ALL the boys and girls playing :)

Iron Arse Hands

Okay that's not what I expected. It definitely took a turn there lol.

Justin Dotson

I played the crap out of that Matchbox Motors. And that Aliens Evac Fighter. I got that that year. It was totally worth it. I was really into the NES.

Justin Dotson

oh dude! Omega Virus! the talking board game. I have that!

mavrick

looked up that old Talkboy commercial because you reminded me of it. got this instead <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wgzUSsE_Y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wgzUSsE_Y</a>

mavrick

Holy shit! I had an Eat at Ralph's AND Forbidden Bridge board games!! I had a bunch more too like, Don't Wake Dad!, Splattin' Bugs, a Bernstein Bears board game where you explored a haunted house, even Pretty, Pretty Princess (shush, don't judge me). I was always way more into the board games than the baby dolls marketed towards little girls. Although I did have a Baby Check-Up. Mostly because I wanted that Baby Eats A Lot or whatever doll near the beginning of the catalogue was called, but my mom nixed that after the incident where the girl got her hair tangled in the mechanism of the doll, and it made national news. :P I also had an Easy Bake Oven because I pestered my parents constantly for one, but I kinda stopped using it after discovering the baking creations never tasted as good as what Mom would make in the real oven. My best friend actually owned one of those toys where kids could make their own fast food (she had the McDonald's one). We used it once, but I was disappointed to find out that it wasn't recreations of the actual food you'd get at one of those places. If I remember correctly, for the "french fries", all you'd do was stick a slice of bread into the device, crank the handle, and out would come french fry shaped bread.

Jess the Stampede

AHAHHA Puppy Surprise! Kitty and Horsie are the ones on the page but I got a Puppy Surprise for my birthday once. I was mildly disappointed because (of course) I got one that only had three puppies instead of four or five.

FizzPlease

Oh my, that was quite a nostalgia trip, I didn't actually grow up in America or around a toys r us but I remember looking through tons of catalogues with toys as kid and wanting everything, mostly toy cars! Now a days I'm after early 2000 mobile phone catalogues, but no one has them... :( I remember as a kid looking through them and wanting the phones that had the most games built in. Oh nostalgia.

Dorian Bartecki

Me too! I was wondering if it was her or just a lookalike!

Lindsay Michelle

Man, you hit me with a nostalgia bomb big time. I am not too much younger than you (turned 5 in '93) and I had a lot of those toys in there... the My Size Barbie, the kid-sized pool table (was totally obsessed with that in particular... made my poor parents play with me on that small thing), the Disney movie VHS tapes, and of course the SNES and Game Boy stuff. I remember the SNES Yoshi's Cookie fondly in particular. I remember my mom would play it too on her own sometimes and I clearly remember her complaining loudly every time she would lose. XD Thanks for bringing back these memories! This is why you're awesome. :)

Lindsay Michelle

I'm shocked they were still selling the Zap Zap Race Track in 1993. I got that exact thing back around 1980 or so when I was a toddler.

David E. Blankenship

Awesome nostalgia! but you confuse the color writer and the mix-n-spin, the color-writer is the thing below it.

Foone Turing

Amazingly, I barely recognized much in there. A few things, but that's it. I got into DOS, DOS gaming, portable gaming, and console gaming, so early in life that by 92 I was much more focussed on video games over toys... not that I didn't still get toys, but usually I didn't ask for them; I asked for video games. Alas, much of what I had as a child got tossed by my parents who felt I had "grown out" of such things, and once I realized this was happening I started to make an effort to keep as much of my stuff as I could. As a result, I still have my LEGO, a wooden marble run set, a bunch of Micro Machines including the airport playset which folded into a big battery shape, a plastic-peg molecule building set, a fair number of Zaks, and a backgammon case filled with random toy trinkets instead of backgammon pieces. :B

Kris Asick

WWF is more expensive than Shining Force! That's amusing. lol

pcwzrd13

Great video. As always. I was 18 at the time . Nostalgia is fun. And ow... You missed out on The Bat Mobile ;)

Druid Donagh MacBran

That's what I thought too, page 38 for sure!

Hollyweeds

Only once have I visited a Toys R Us, while on vacation in Florida with my dad. It was the mid-late SNES era. I was 8 years old, a single child, and had divorced parents (my dad trying to buy my affection with vacation trips and toys). Needless to say, I was very unhappy with my parent's divorce so I burned a nice big hole in my dad's credit card that day, leaving the store with more SNES games than I could carry. That day I learned that even if all things come and go sooner or later, there's always a way to get the best out of what you have right now, material or otherwise. Apologies for my ramblings, got a bit nostalgic there for a moment. Great video! Also I had the paint-spinner-thingy, it was absolutely "trippin", so fun.

iCach0

I was going to ask the same, she sure looks like her!

iCach0

Was that Lindsey Lohan showing off the Video Painter?

Christopher Michael Horyn

I have the Star Trek: TNG Transporter and frequently used it to make my hamsters disappear.

Zabe

I was 2 when this came out... so my gaming experience was SNES, N64, then pretty much PC, with the exception of a few classics like Kingdom Hearts or Super Mario Sunshine, but even for me this is awsome (See what I did there! :) ). I had a 2XL, but never a Teddy Ruxpin. It was actually really really cool. Looking back on it, I wish I still had it.

Zem Hysong

Clint, you may want to check out Defunct Games. He's been going through the best and worst games from Nintendo Power (1987-1995).

Joseph Coco