“Sales of robot toys exceed predictions” in 1984
October 12, 1984. This Calgary Herald newspaper article by Barton Jaques helps to reinforce what we already know: transforming robot...
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1986 Newspaper Advertisement – Vernell’s Gummy Transformers
January 26, 1986. A Roboplastic Apocalypse Facebook post last week led me to search newspapers for "Gummy Transformers." What an...
1984 Newspaper Advertisement – Transformers Shockwave
November 1, 1984. This early ad for the Shockwave toy, still one of the greatest Transformers toy designs ever made,...
1982 Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quest and Dungeon Boardgame Flyer
I opened an old Dungeons & Dragons box set and found this flyer for the incredible Endless Quest adventure gamebooks...
“Find a real adventure…”
From the back cover of issue #13 of the Games Workshop Warlock magazine comes this full-page advertisement for that ever-popular...
“Treasures of the Caped Crusader’s Caverns!!”
From 1978 and the Superhero Catalogue comes this two-page spread of awesome Batman toys and trinkets of the seventies. Out...
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Boardgame 1986 Advertisement
Based on the very first of the Fighting Fantasy solitaire gamebooks (find at Amazon.com*), the Games Workshop boardgame, The Warlock...
“Discover the true power of the elements and you will find nature as deadly a foe as any monster.”
"This book is an attempt to add structure and detail to that part of the AD&D game rules concerned with...
