Beno's Toys Christmas book from 1979

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Seeing as Christmas and shopping is all that on our minds right now, let's take a look at the specials offered 36 years ago with the Beno's Toy flyer.

I've never heard of this California based chain but I sure recognize the toys like Kenner Star Wars, Play-Doh and a metric ton of classic hand held electronic games!

Begin the tour of the Beno's Christmas Book right here!

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[jwyblejr]

Look,proof of how evil the Sunshine Family is. That sale price of $6.66.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Well there's at least three things on there that I remember wanting and never getting

[TrekStar]

Love seeing stuff like this, we had a Childworld in the next town over, got me many Trek Mego's there,
forgot about the Karate men, never had them but wish I did, had the rock'em sock'em robots instead.

[samurainoir]

I had that treehouse. It was fun using my star wars figures in it. of course it later became the Ewok Treehouse.

[HardyGirl]

I love looking at these old circulars. My mom never let me keep these, b/c she knew I'd drive her nuts with all the stuff I wanted!

[Klosterheim]

The hovercraft looks pretty awesome!

[Bruce Banner]

Fantastic. Love seeing vintage catalogue pages like that crammed full of awesome stuff.

[CKMBDavis]

Man, looking at this stuff is the closest thing I'll ever get to a real time machine. Very cool, indeed.
Shrinky Dinks ruled, by the way.

[Hedji]

I can almost smell those Star Wars figures, they're so fresh off the card.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Skedoodle! I had totally forgotten about that! I had one and played with it for hours and hours. Essentially, a round Etch-A-Sketch.

Chris

[EmergencyIan]

Got a lot of hours of enjoyment out of Hit and Missile.

It seems funny to remember some of these toys so well, when you never saw them "in person" and only know them from ads such as these.

- Ian

[Wee67]

It's interesting to see the beginning of the transition to electronic toys (Electronic Bowlatronic? I get it, it's electric.). It really times with my own 79-81 transition to no longer being interested in action figures but dying for Atari and hand-held games.

[Godzilla]

My oldest asked for Beno annuals for Christmas.

[Bocasean]

Look,proof of how evil the Sunshine Family is. That sale price of $6.66.

Good call, buddy