80's Toy Store Flash Back!

[canofwhoopass_87]

Hey all!

I just got a new digital camera today, so this is a good excuse for me to give it a whirl. I thought it would be pretty interesting to see if any local otcanians had any vintage US / Japanese G1 boxes that still retain their old store pricetags?

If you have any, feel free to throw up some happy snaps Gold Classic G1's would be interesting to see too. I got most of these boxes from the UK, so many still have "Tesco" pricetags on them. Is this some sort of retail department store over there? Anyway, for anyone wondering what these guys used to go for (back in the day)...

Wheeljack - Tesco £7.99 from the UK



Scattershot - Kaybee toys $14.99 from the U.S



Ratchet - Tesco £7.49 from the UK



Ramjet - Tesco £9.99 from the UK



Runamuck - Tesco £4.25 from the UK



Braun - Tesco £2.25 from the UK



Blades - Tesco £3.49 from the UK



Octane - Woolworths £8.99 from the UK

[Zippo]

I dont think we ever had Kaybee in New Zealand ...

[Sky Shadow]

I dont think we ever had Kaybee in New Zealand ...

And if you did, it wouldn't have been selling Scattershot for $14.99NZ. (It's a U.S. pricetag.) And Tesco is a predominantly-UK grocery store like Woolworths.

[Paulbot]

I've got some price-stickered boxes iny archives. Mostly Kmart price-tags, some from Venture and Target. I will dig them out next weekend.

[canofwhoopass_87]

Hmm I thought good ole NZ and the U.S had Kaybee Toys, but I must be mistaken. I bought the Scattershot box from a NZ collector too.

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[GoktimusPrime]

I'm impressed that you've managed to have the discipline to keep your boxes in tact for the past 26 years! I cut up and threw out all my boxes, although I still have the clipped out box art of some of my boxes. But certainly none of my G1 boxes survived my childhood. I have a few G1 boxes which I managed to obtain by chance... but none of them have price tags.

Hypothetically if I had kept them, most of them would have price tags from Toyworld (yeah, remember when NSW had Toyworld? ), Grace Bros (heh), Target and Kmart. Of course, ones which were gifts had the price tags removed, so toys like Starscream, Bludgeon, Thunderwing, Apeface, Snapdragon etc etc. - stuff that were birthday and Xmas gifts, I have no idea where they came from. Well, I know Apeface and Snapdragon came from Grace Bros (cos mum got them on lay-by, making the final payment on Xmas Eve after working a late shift -- I waited up all night for her to come home with those toys! ).

Did you spend some time in the UK and US as a child canofwhoopass? I had some friends who moved overseas when I was a kid and I we'd keep in touch as pen pals... they'd send me toy catalogues and stuff of various kinds of toys that were released overseas that we wouldn't see for ages later. Which was really cool for pre-internet days.