Rare Battlestar Galactica toy in CD Catalog (Plus Mego Micronauts)

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I recently acquired the 1979 Consumer’s Distributing catalog, a Canadian chain, Consumers was one of those stores where you filled out a slip of paper (I tended to use fake names), it went down one of those cool tubes and then 20 minutes later your purchase rolled up a conveyer belt (or a substitution item, […]

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[thunderbolt]

There was a chain here like that Service Merchandise.

[rykerw1701]

Oh the memories. We had Century Housewares in the Buffalo area, and then Brand Names after that. I poured over that Century catalog around Christmas each year like it was the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some of those Galactica toys go for big $. I was looking to pick up a loose Baltar to throw on a shelf in my basement until I saw what they were going for. Yikes.

[sprytel]

I could see that concept making a comeback in the age of Amazon. Showrooms where you can inspect certain products, and then any order actually gets fulfilled by Amazon Prime / Prime Now.

[Bruce Banner]

The Landram!
Still really want one of those.

[tay666]

I could see that concept making a comeback in the age of Amazon. Showrooms where you can inspect certain products, and then any order actually gets fulfilled by Amazon Prime / Prime Now.

That's not a bad idea at all.