Quote Originally Posted by roller View Post
How did people know back in early internet times, that some toys were not released in either the US or Australie?

Eg: Turbomasters, non combining constructicons


Did they see a pic of someones collection one day and say "wahhhh!! what toy is that???? By reagans beard ive never seen that one on sale!"

Before the internet was wide spread, did people know at all which toys had not been released in their countries?
I knew which US toys weren't released in Australia - as long as you were a big fan who wasn't stupid or a liar, it wasn't too hard to realise that nobody had ever seen Shockwave, Sky Lynx or the Deluxe Insecticons on shelves (even though they were in catalogues. People who were stupid or liars thought 'Shackwave' was Shockwave and came in real Transformers packaging and said they had cartoon Skyfire or Unicron toys at home. I hated those kids, because other dumb kids really believed them.) I would personally have thought there were a few more Transformers we didn't get. Did anyone here seriously see Fortress Maximus on Australian shelves? Likewise, I know that in the UK, fans knew they didn't get Swoop, Shockwave etc. - they were even told so in the UK comic.

I didn't know at the time (when I was buying toys like Action Masters Tracks, Bombshell, Windmill, Thundercracker, Double Punch, Take-Off, Talon etc.) that those toys *weren't* released in the US. The internet and toy magazines told me so years later.

I know I knew there were Japanese only toys and I knew about Star Saber... I can't remember how I knew that though... Maybe from people I knew who went to Japan on holidays? I know I knew in the eighties that Japan had a different Astrotrain, because I saw a Japanese catalogue.

P.S. Roller - I don't think I have any G2 (or even G1) toys you're looking for.