Very limited time-travel question

[Brazoo]

When I was a kid there was this store called Consumers Distributing, you had to pick out everything in this incredible catalog that I was just mesmerized by. TONS of toys - and often toys that no one else carried locally.

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I guess I'd like to go back into time when that still existed and hunt around their warehouse - or wherever they actually kept everything. To me as a kid, that warehouse seemed like it must have been the best place in the world.

[Duncan]

When I was a kid there was this store called Consumers Distributing, you had to pick out everything in this incredible catalog that I was just mesmerized by. TONS of toys - and often toys that no one else carried locally.

That's interesting. Sometimes I miss the experience of shopping in a catlogue store. I vaguely recall shopping at a store on the edge of Philly called Block's, which I think has a pneumatic tube system. I seem to recall seeing a Pet Rock & Hai Karate in the showroom, but the good stuff had to be ordered...not that a Pet Rock & Hai Karate aren't great stuff.

[Brazoo]

Yeah - same here - sometimes I had to wait for stuff to come in - we'd get a call and we'd have to go and pick it up. It was both exhilarating looking forward to getting a new toy like that mixed with torture.

I believe the last thing I ever tried to get was a Jabba The Hutt Sail Barge playset that they ended up not being able to get (I can't remember now, did Kenner even release that thing?).

The whole thing is vague to me now, but I know I spent ridiculous hours staring into that catalogue's toy section.

[jwyblejr]

Yeah,Kenner released it. It came out with the original POTF stuff.

[megomania]

remember Wigwam in Seattle in the late 70's early 80's that store was the best

Yep, Wigwam was awesome...miss those days!