Now if that isn't a peek into the past I don't know what is, the language used in the article is so nice & proper... ;):)
It'd be cool if Joshua were to be a member here, or at least got in contact with the board - CRAZY small world that you should've been a class mate of his, Sky Shadow! :eek:
Great find Paul, cheers for sharing it mate. :)
Hehe, just to make some you guys feel your age, I was 6 Months and 16 Days old at the time of publication of this article! :p:D
I was nearly 6
That was an interesting read. Thanks for taking the time to dig that article up Paul. :)
I'm at K-Mart now - looks like Josh got the last Perceptor and they're totally sold out of Voltron lions. :(
Ring around. You might get lucky ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
Somewhat related, saw this on the Herald Sun website: Barbie, Elmo, Pokemon: fad toys from Christmases past
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1985 — Transformers
If you were a child of the 1980s then you had a Transformer. The Optimus Prime was the ultimate Transformer and the must-have item. Prime was the leader of the Autobots and transformed into a truck. Santa’s 1985 list had millions of requests for Optimus Prime.
And they have undergone a revival — they are back on the wish lists of kids in 2014.
They certainly are. Rescue bots for nephew & niece.
As an aside, I'm curious to know what the price was for Optimus Prime back in the day.
I have a 1985 Toyworld catalogue: Optimus Prime was $26.88. So was Megatron. Dinobots were $16.96Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatran
^ Cheers Paulbot. That's pretty expensive back in the day. My parents could never afford to spend that much on a toy. If I recall correctly, a Four'n'Twenty meat pie at primary school was around 40 cents.
Boxed toys were usually received on special occasions like birthdays, Xmas etc., but the carded toys were cheap enough, e.g. $1.99 for an Autobot Mini-Car. I remember Constructicons being on the more expensive end for carded toys at $9 each, but they were still cheap enough that I was able to complete the entire set after a couple of months. I remember forming Devastator for the first time... such an awesome feeling! :D The other gestalts took longer to complete because the central components were dearer boxed figures, and indeed, it was the Classic reissues in 1990-91 that allowed me to finally complete some of those sets (e.g. my G1 Dead End and Wildrider are Classics). But for a long time during the 80s, I would form "hybrid" gestalts comprised of members from different teams. At the time, I'd never heard of Scramble City, but that's basically what it was. ;) I never owned any of the Predacons as a kid. I did know a few kids who owned some Predacons, but I didn't know anyone who owned Predaking in the 1980s.
Here's a photo of me (blue collared shirt) taken in January 1988:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ay/g1_1988.jpg
I'm holding a typical example of the 'hybrid gestalts' that I used to make in the 80s; that particular one is comprised of Hot Spot, Afterburner, First Aid, Slingshot and Lightspeed! :eek: