9 Must Have Items From The 1988 Disney Spring/Summer Catalog
Today let’s travel back to the magical year of 1988. Crocodile Dundee II is the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year. In music, Milli Vanilli releases their first single, Girl You Know It’s True. On the Disney side of things, the Disney Spring/Summer Catalog hits newsstands. While I’m almost 100% certain it’s not fondly remembered by anyone, there’s still some good stuff in here. Let’s take a look at the must have items from the 1988 Disney Spring/Summer Catalog.
This cover is great but doesn’t scream 1980s yet. It also shows what a frugal guy Mickey is. He has all the money in the world but will still stop and pick wild flowers for him and Minnie’s picnic date.
Before we move on lets take a look at the top right corner of the cover. Only Disney could have gotten away charging TWO DOLLARS for 23 page catalog! Adjusted for inflation that’s $4.38.
You don’t really see many licensed outdoor faucets these days (and believe me I’ve looked).
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I NEED that Cool Mickey towel. Disney, do a re-release!
I had the Mousercise record and played it often while doing the moves. I would get friends to join me sometimes.
Awesome!
Love the metal pool. Brings back happy memories…until my brothers would catch turtles and put them in with me! What’s a pool without crinkles in the sidewalls.
Turtles?!?
Wow! I just got a major flashback seeing that Mousercise record. That was on heavy rotation on my Fisher Price record player back in the day. Sadly, my parents didn’t love me enough to buy the sweet leotard outfit to go with it! Thanks for this trip down memory lane…if modern exercise classes used this for their workouts I would be in much better shape. I think I still remember the moves to “I Wanna Be Like You”!
That’s a great idea!
I see that I typed the wrong price for the cheese board; today it would cost $54.65.
By the way, I’d like to meet someone who HASN’T listened to Coast to Coast AM, on a Mickey or any other type of radio….
You mentioned the catalog price in today’s dollar, but didn’t update each item’s price after inflation, which is pretty interesting:
9) $76.55
8) $24.95
7) $28.36
6) $26.17
5) $32.74-$164.16
4) $37.12-$41.50
3) $17.41
2) $39.31
1) $63.41
And what–you couldn’t come up with a list with a nice round number, like 10? I’d definitely add the “Cooking with Mickey” cookbook (which would be cost $21.79 today).
There’s plenty of top 10 lists. 9 stands out. It obviously worked because it got you to comment 🙂