Are you so young that you were not alive for G1? Anyway- I checked Google Maps streetview- and Toymaster is indeed where Wellworths used to be. Mind you, Wellworths as a chain seems to have escaped Google's analytics! Are we really that old? Were the 80s that long ago?!

 

im a 90s kid (as in i was of toy buying age in the 90s) and woolworths and toymaster made up most of my toy buying locales.. as well as that magical place where toys were a million all under one roof

 

I'm mid-2000's so yeah, missed G1 by a longshot even thought its generations figures are the main thing I collect. Grew up on Prime.

 

Battle Call Bumblebee, Earthrise Doubledealer, Earthrise Optimus, Earthrise Grapple and a few cyberverse Warriors.

 

Still waiting on an invoice for Kingpin. And Snake Eyes now I think of it!

Is there a listing or rumour for Faker yet? I know he'll appear eventually (good old box art), just wondering. If you want listings I've found online let me know.

@IrnBro Don't cancel your US order, Amazon UK cannot be trusted!

 

I can't quite remember which Origin figures I've got on preorder. I'm not even sure if I'm collecting these yet, but I don't want to wait six months and wish I'd bought them and have to pay more. So I'm just buying them now.

 

I’ve done that with the new Micromachines, five sets so far, all MOSC!

 

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Ooh all this talk about Toymaster got me to thinking about my old toy hunting days as a child back in Barnsley, South Yorkshire!

I think it was a Toymaster, perhaps called John Britton's before that up on Shambles Street in Barnsley town centre - they had loads of Transformers back in the mid 80's.  
It was just up from the main central Library where I also used to frequent, tracking down Charlie Brown & Snoopy books as well as Asterix the Gaul books, and later those choose your own adventure style books, you know where you turned to page 12 to go one path or page 15 for another! LOL!  

Those crazy 80's days where when we had a shop called Cosmetique in the main bus station which sold everything which was where I found what we know as Shackwave!  

 

So, the Toymaster/Wellworths banter got me doing a bit of googling on various NI stuff that may have escaped being recorded on the internet. One of the things did find was a video of Belfast's biggest toy shop from the 70s-90s.

But here's the thing the video is from Xmas but everywhere that has posted it doesn't seem to be sure which year it's from other than somewhere between 1989-1994.

Anybody able to tell? Unfortunately no Transformers or Computer Games shown that will help, but there's plenty of Lego and Barbie that a true fan of those properties would probably have enough evidence to work out.

 

I've bought the works, if you don't have them in a Toymaster nearby go to Amazon and just wait on stock coming in. It's never long before it does. I love them to bits but I wouldn't pay more than £15 each. I already have a list of who's going with what vehicle though... that's where I'm at!

MOTU was my first ever cartoon and set of toys  

Here's the list:

Listings/rumours

Listed or shown Origins

Sorceress (with Castle Grayskull)
Stratos
Merman
Hordak
Tri-Klops
Roboto
Panthor (there's a flocked version too)
She-Ra
Battle Armour He-Man
Battle Armour Skeletor
Keldor/Chronis-Trapjaw 2 pack
Landshark
Ram Man
Clamp Champ
Ninjor
'Deluxe He-Man'
'Deluxe Skeletor'
Zodak


Listed or shown Masterverse

Evil Lyn
Moss Man
'Classic He-Man'
'Classic Skeletor'


Origins - Potentials from WWE parts/box art/no reliable source rumours

Webstor
Faker
Green Goddess
Stinkor
Fisto
Terror Claws Skeletor
Jitsu
Roger Sweet He-Man prototype
Dragon Blaster Skeletor
Clawful
Mek-a-Nek
Spikor
Draego-Man
King Randor
Trollan Prisoner
Stinkor
Skeleton Warriors
Power Con She-Ra
Power Con Moss Man
Origins Creature Assortment
Evil Lyn 2
LOP Merman (I'm assuming Lord of Power but re-decoed as an exclusive or something, maybe, if correct at all!)
LOP Beastman
Deluxe Hordak
Deluxe Mosquitor
Windraider
Royal Guard

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@drmick Everything in that vid suggests around 1992, Beauty and the Beast annual, Take That lol, the particular Lego sets... It was my favourite shop in the whole world. Still is.

 

Needs to be the little guy for size purposes.

 

How much was? It`s Currently unavailable.

 

£42 something.
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I’d say 1989.

Ghostbusters 2 came out that year and the camera pans to the Green Ghost slimer toy set.

At the beginning of the video clip, I saw badminton rackets hanging on a wall and I was a county and national player in my teens. I was 14 in 1989. Been trying to work out the rackets I had and the years I had them. Lol.

I was trying to work out the year based on the fashions and haircuts.

I’d narrow that range down between 1988 at the earliest and possibly 1990/91 the latest.

 

1994. 2 reasons, first one there's a sports game called "American World Cup", and the USA hosted in 94.


Second

Simba and Mufasa. Lion King came out in 94. Almost impossible it's any earlier, although I'd concede it's possible it's 93 and both things are preemptive.

 

Good spot with Take That. That kicks to the long grass my initial thought of 1989. Take That formed in 1990 and perhaps then we can narrow the years down between 1990-92.

 

Thing about that store, and Belfast in general, is we always got stuff late or randomly from Europe! A guy near me plays tennis, he bought a racket many moons ago and loved it, emailed the manufacturer in recent times and asked lots of geeky questions. They couldn't believe their stuff had ever reached here!

So much random stuff was used as ballast or brought in anyway because we used to have a fully functioning shipyard (it's still there and operating, but nothing like it's 70s and 80s heyday).

edit Lion King'd! lol

 

I couldn't make out the annuals, lol.

 

Clearly I missed that one. Lol. I would agree with what you say, seeing that. 1994 and an outside chance of 1993.

Definitely an Aladdin’s cave that store Chris.

@drmick - how did we all do? Dave nailed it in the end. My varifocals are my excuse. Lol