Video from a Woorlworths in Statesville, NC, from 1991. Quick glimpse of some TFs from around 0:53- 0:58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtpaAQChCmo

Credit to the poster Bill at the Technodrome Forums for bringing it to attention.

Anyone got photos of the TMNT toy line (1988-1999) when they were in the toy shelves? - Page 5 - The Technodrome Forums

 

Time to bring this Thread back! Here is my contribution. https://www.flickr.com/photos/132172476@N08/albums

Let's see some new stuff......

 

Haha I know I'm way late on this pic but I keep seeing myself going into a panic attack trying to get that megatron off the top shelf without bending the flap.

 

You go for megs , while I go sub- level and gently grab that Jetfire ! .... oh the days.....

 

And I go middle and grab the Bug Bot! Boooya!

 

I'll grab the bop bag ( top left next to megs) to take out my frustrations as Megs and Jetfire will all have been sold 

 

Man... I wish I had a time machine...

 

Well, the 1984, 1985 toys were re-released in Europe as Classics and were available alongside the Headmasters and Powermasters. So, while that pic is not authentic from the 80s, it actually still looked like this. I remember standing in front of aisles like that and deciding wether to buy Springer, Sandstorm or one of the Headmasters, etc. I was waiting for the 1986 toys to be released that were advertised in the pack in catalog, but I did not know, that these toys were 1986 releases. I only learned that later on the internet.

 

Any photos of headmasters on a shelf? Fort Max in particular?

 

I love how the topic of vintage toys turns into theorizing about time travel.....everytime.   lol. I know i do it or play the wisha, woulda, coulda game  .

Some guys were really getting into it about the implications of traveling back and hoarding toys earlier in the thread. I was dying laughing. Shit got real. Don't fuck with the temporal prime directive. Pshhh everybody knows that

 

ill have to look..i used to have one. there was a pic that showed about 10 fort maxs

 

whats that on the end cap?

naa metroplex. I think theres more pics from this set. thats not me..

 

cool! I guess Grotusque was never a good seller...

 

That is so beautifull.  

 

Which would be a shame as it's a phenomenally nice G1 toy, one of my favourites.








All the best
Maz

 

Is that a winged sabertooth hamster?

 

I believe the official description is "Flying Tiger Monster".

All the best
Maz

 

i never saw any of the monsterbots on the shelf back in the day  

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I just discovered this topic (inspired to search for it by the Your Earliest TF Toy Memories thread just started,) and man... I literally cried. No shame whatsoever. I didn't know photos of these store displays existed!

Not sure if this has been posted and not sure if it's actually vintage or just a display similar to 20th Century Toy Collector's recreation, but it definitely brings back memories for me (c/o Transformers-Toys-Action Figures-Store-Pictures | Transformerland.com )



Also, I hope this is okay, and if not I'll remove them, but I tried to enlarge, sharpen, and color correct two of the earlier photos posted in this topic. Not sure how well they turned out, but I love seeing them larger like this at least lol.






Oh sweet, sweet memories. :') Thanks so much for this topic existing.

 

Anyone else though of toy stores back then, when they didn't have transformers, they were no real toy stores?