you don't really. I did and it was pretty crap. Apart from the toys... and the shows... and the music. Ok, I enjoyed it, but thats because it was my chilhood. I think there was cool stuff in the '70s, but I wouldn't want to live then.
WOW I used to have that gobot fortress, that thing was awesome!!! As I was looking thru those pages, it brought back a lot of memories. I think what's odd though is we had a base or a fortress for almost everything, now a days you get a action figure and that's IT!!!
Wish I was my current age during the 80s. I would literally purchase every TF, Joe, and Voltron paraphernalia.
In the 80's Sears was'nt the only cool place to go, there was also Service Merchandise , who always kept all their toys on display under glass. You'd check them out and grab a ticket for it, go pay for the ticket and they'd send your toys out on a belt from the stockroom. Sorda like how we used to buy video game stuff from TRU with those tickets Skyfire looked like a million dollars then. Everyone wanted him and that GI Joe USS Flag they had on display
I got most of my original TF collection at Service Merchandise.......I loved that store. You meen "Jetfire" dont you????
Yep. That conveyer belt seemed to make everything cooler. There were other catalogs, but none got as much attention from my childhood self as Sears. Despite poor descriptions and often misused/mistransformed pictures, they were the bees knees. It was pretty cool to take a look at the scans there and recall all the marketing that had been pushed into my brain at the time.
I wanna save some of the pics. Why did they have to disable the right click function, why would they care if you save the pics?
Remember some of the flack TFs got for marketing a violent movie towards young kids? Well, what about link 4 under 1986? And look at '87. Was Skorponok really $36.99, with Sixshot being $5 more?
Don't you all feel great that the Transformers so outdid the Gobots and even Voltron? Back in the day, there were no clear winners but I was always on board with the Transformers.
Yeah...but it's not really surprising. Voltron? That thing didn't have an army of characters to make toys out of. Go-Bots actually outsold Transformers at the beginning but there are numerous reasons why TFs succeeded and Go-Bots did not. Hasbro's aggressive marketing campaign and Go-Bots' lack of any character profiles on the packaging being some of those reasons.
Not to mention the fact that the first "Offical" Voltron figures didnt hit the market till more then 1/2 a year after the show's first hit the air and by that time the market was fluded with KO's.Also there were 2 teams of Voltron on the air at the same time and 3 teams to buy figures of.
I was gonna say the exact same thing. I remember seeing toys in there that I completely forgotten I had when I was a kid. Captain Power?! I was all about captain power back in the day. Its interesting to see too how much stuff. USS Flagg for $125. The Shuttle Complex was $135. No wonder my parents didn't want to get it for me.
Skystriker for less than 20? FANG for 5? Soundwave for 13? jeez, even if Max was 99, all those prices make me light headed and woozy.... let's see...for a grand you could build a navy to rival the U.S. and all at Sears.... think of it...250 for 2 flaggs....80 for a Skystriker fleet...droolsville, man. did i read it right about trypticon being 60? sorry, man, but this is makes Reganomics feel like it was actually a good thing in the day.... man i feel like a Class A doofus...shoulda told mom to screw the NES, gimme TFs....all of em, baby! woulda came out better in the long run... sigh.
