Autobot Minicars and Cars on Sale in 1984 
G.I. Joe Battlefield Accessories and Action Figures at Osco 
Shockwave Only $9.99 in 1986! 
Arco’s Ro-Gun and Tomy’s Starriors on Sale in 1984 
Free T-Shirt Offer from Monogram in 1984
Buy a model and get a free t-shirt? Awesome! Toymakers had the best ads back in the eighties, and this...
G.I. Joe Action Figure and Skystriker on Sale in 1984
My book dedicated to Star Wars newspaper ads, Collect These Figures and Accessories*, needs a companion, yes? I mean, if...
“G.I. Joe: Escape from Doom!” Pack-In Insert from 1990
In addition to the "Incredible Shrinking Joes" mail-away promotion (posted here), Hasbro also offered up this 1990 pack-in insert for...
2003 ToysRUs Transformers Toy Reissue Advertisement
A few days ago I posted a 2002 TRU advertisement for Hasbro's reissue of Transformers of the time. I ran...
1987 Watchimals Newspaper Ad
Hasbro's Watchimals toys (see Wikipedia) were working watches that had one weird gimmick: these were stuffed animal wristwatches that were...
Spotted Online – X-Transbots Unofficial Cosmos!!!
I've reviewed the original 1985 Cosmos toy (review here), as well as iGear's unofficial Cosmos (review posted at TFSource), and...
1982 E.T. Atari Game at K-Mart
Okay, I may have just won Christmas. Poking through the Google newspaper archives I ran across this K-Mart ad for...
Transformers Armada Comic Book Advertisement from 2002
If this ad looks familiar then it may be that you're remembering it from the first issue of Dreamwave's Transformers:...