1983

Philip Reed March 7, 2018

Ideal's Manglors (see Wikipedia) is one of those obscure, failed toylines that some out there vaguely remember from the early...

Philip Reed March 4, 2018

I shared an ad for the Bounty Hunter game a few months ago where I mentioned the old Ace of...

Philip Reed January 27, 2018

The pre-Transformers Takara Diakron toys return, following an ad we saw earlier this month for the pre-Sunstreaker red Countach based...

Philip Reed January 12, 2018

Alongside that recent Diakron newspaper advertisement we find this ad block for Dungeons & Dragons Halloween costumes, demonstrating just how...

Philip Reed January 12, 2018

From the Transformers pre-history of 1983 comes this ad block for the Diakron version of the Transformers Sunstreaker toy, where...

Philip Reed January 1, 2018

December 1, 1983. In searching for toy advertisements in the Google newspaper archives, there are also times when a surprise...

Philip Reed December 28, 2017

December 8, 1983. We saw a similar ToysRUs advertisement yesterday (posted here), so today's look back at 1983 should come...

Philip Reed December 27, 2017

December 8, 1983. Here's something you just don't see these days: TSR's Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game (find at Amazon.com*)...

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