“The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning” Has Arrived!
The Fredericksburg, VA Free-Lance Star from June 4, 1988 is in my thoughts at this exact moment because Amazon delivered...
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G.I. Joe and Reagan in 1983
By late in 1983 Hasbro's G.I. Joe action figures were performing so well that some adults had to try and...
“Futuristic convertibles are current toy craze”
November 11, 1984 brings us this article from the Tuscaloosa News in which both Transformers and GoBots are mentioned as:...
ESSO Robot Racer Ad from 1986
You may remember the ESSO Robot Racer toys I posted a week or so ago. Well, I started thinking about...
The Montreal Gazette and The Empire Strikes Back in 1986
While searching for something completely unrelated I stumbled across this ad from 1986 for Empire on television. Everyone remembers how...
1988 Newspaper Ad Features Half-Price Ultra Magnus
Reading, Pennsylvania's October 24, 1988 Reading Eagle newspaper will make you cry. If you had been in Reading at the...
Star Wars and Toy Hype in May of 1999
"Hasbro making a new bid to be king of toys with 'Star Wars' collection" is a 1999 Associated Press article...
1987 Starcom Newspaper Advertisement
The December 9, 1987 issue of The Milwaukee Sentinel is a fun one for fans of Coleco's Starcom toys. One...
