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Oh man! I used to do the same thing! I’d keep the pamphlets from toys and study them for hours! I’d also keep the cardboard parts of the box cuz they had neat art and all the other characters to collect! Great stuff Gabe!
yeah. printed stuff had a meaning back then.
holy shit, this new website design sux. i cant figure out how it works. plus i miss those little icons of the comics on the days’ tabs….
Lacko, im sure they will return. :)
So, I remember doing this too, except mine was with Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters figures. I never got Transformers, because quite frankly they were too expensive for my family’s income level. When you get excited about getting a unopened Ninja Turtle once every 6 months you know you’re poor.
Also I hate the site redesign too.
I remember those feelings! Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll add my my name to the list of people who did this as well. Sadly these days very few Transformers include a catalogue, even the boxed ones. The other difference these days, is that I CAN have them all! MUAHAHAHA! Well, the ones that actually show up. Walmart and Zellers have been slacking lately, we’re a few waves behind :( Maybe it’s just the nostalgia speaking, but it always seemed like there were more complete selections available back in the 80s.
For me it was the original 1984 catalogue, and then I would even cut out the full color local Zayres ads from the Sunday paper that featured the figures posed for battle on various kinds of rough terrain.
It’s sad how much pleasure this brought me!
I did the same with G.I. Joe pamphlets. The pictures were always staged in cool miniature landscapes. I wanted to live there!
I gotta say, I loved doing the research for this one. I still have all my original Transformer pamphlets.
the catalogues I treasured and pored over were the lego sets… those huge ones with the bajillion pieces were the ultimate goal when saving up the 2 $ a week allowance…
I don’t know about your Wal-Mart but our toy department consists of Iron Man, Transformers and Starwars, they carry NOTHING else for action figures. They also have a entire isle dedicated to Hot Wheels. Last December I found a diecast Ecto-1 replica for $0.89!
They also have almost two isles dedicated to nothing but Legos, but to be honest, Legos are too damn expensive. Mega Bloks are cooler. They have a Halo set now for Mega Bloks and the figures have full joints in their arms and legs and come with guns and back-packs and stuff. They are cheaper too. Once and awhile I’ll pick up a $1.99 mystery Halo figure pack to see what I can get.
I-I can’t help myself.
It’s “pore” not “pour”. You’re poring over every detail.
If you need help remembering which to use, basically imagine that you’re looking at someone’s face so intently you can see all the pores – hence poring.
I think i found the reason why my dad took back some “garbage” from the “absolutely irrevocably garbage litter”. He is quite pragmatic about what is and what’s not garbage: If it’s properly stored, it might be garbage. If it isn’t where it is supposed to be, certainly is garbage. Not used in six months? Garbage. Nobody will use anymore? Garbage. Broken? Garbage. If two or more of these qualities stack, it becomes “absolute garbage” on his eyes and he might put it on bags that have lots of really useless stuff (and some things you wouldn’t poke with a ten-foot pole). I was cleaning a storage room which we will use to build his new bedroom, and it was utterly cluttered of stuff with varying degrees of “garbage”, and even two or three bags of “absolute garbage” thrown in. Since i wasn’t sure which of these bags were actually useless stuff, i re-checked them again. (i got my share of “have you seen my X?”, “you threw it away in 199Y”)
One of them had only some metal scraps that might be of use since he is a metalworker. And a ridiculously sturdy Megatron with a broken leg (it had a child-proof design: “children can’t break it, but only adults can put his arms and legs back in place”. Refusing to remount it was punishment enough). I mounted it back, looked it a while without dusting it off, manned up a bit and put it on the absolute garbage bag.
Later, i check on the living room, beneath your usual place for photos, trophies and other things you just lay on your room, there is a clean, waxed Megatron and the old guy asking if i saw his big ass cannon.
The toy didn’t had exactly a sentimental value, and it actually was weirdly dug out of hollowed soil to start with, but his demeanor was sort of “dude, you don’t simply THROW away a transformer”.
Megatron got a happy ending, unlike Toy Story 3. Oops.
I also very clearly remember this sheet. Now it probably would have been an 8″ by 11″ foldup, but back then? It looked like a huge treasure map. And I dont think I ever saw more then a handful of the 30 some mid sized car transformers in the wild. Certainly never Jazz. I had many bumblebees though.
that bear is kawaii as hell