In this episode, we talk about the art of “hunting” Transformers over the years and how it has/hasn’t changed.
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Rows of toys, all in glorious boxes. Children’s Palace and Dahlkemper’s Department store, Hill’s Department stores. back when Series carried toys..Value City…Oh man. The hunt wasn’t so hard back then because they were everywhere and all the stores were decently stocked. Onlything I remember that was really hard to find was Swoop.
Oh man, the seasonal catalogs were like the Friday preview shows of the new Saturday morning cartoon series.
I was just telling my gorgeous girl about how sweet it was when the new mall opened in Clarksville Indiana back in 1990 & I had a Toys R Us; Children’s Palace, & K B Toys all within a quarter mile of each other. I miss children’s Palace & their Turbo Graphix 16 demo station
Erie, PA was a Test market town for toys, so we often got McDonald’s toys and what not here that other places didn’t get, as well as some toys (I later found out in life).
Did Erie get any unique Transformers Happy Meal Toys like the St. Louis mini-bots?
HILLS was the shit!! AND they had fresh-roasted cashews!
I remember we got a number of the Transformers Robot food toys. (Muppet Babies apparently was also an area exclusive). It’s really hard to say, because to me, it all was…normal.
So, you guys are talking about the old classic toys which I remember as a child.. yes a child!! In toys r us! But What’s your thoughts on the way these characters are put forward to the fans and the people today!? And what about the way the toys and characters are actually made! Do you think they’re better then the good old days? and I don’t mean the cheap copies
Gah, born the year I graduated high school…
Did you guys have a Children’s Palace?
that was my preschool’s name LoL
When doing “The Hunt” In Erie, PA I like to coin the Phrase “If you see it once, buy it because you may never see it again.”
Lamont – did your dad say “this is the big one, Elizabeth!”
Lamont did you have a Children’s Palace? That place was here in 84 two in the Louisville market. To walk into one between 84 & 86 was a walk amongst the clouds my friend. Truly a thing of beauty to behold
So, you guys are talking about the old classic toys which I remember as a child..yes a child!! In toys r us! But What’s your thoughts
Mike I was going to ask him if his ppl ever referred to him as a “big dummy” but I didn’t know if anybody els would get it
Red Fox
More old person stories. I was thirteen in 1984. I bought my first Transformers at a Coast to Coast Hardware, but a retail chain called Alco was where most of my G1 came from back in the day. I was able to ride my bike there, and they had pretty much all of G1, including the giftsets. When I turned sixteen in 1987, I got my license and a part time job, and that summer, drove to the nearest Toys R Us and bought my Fort Max for $99.99.
You can wait, but you have to know your area. I always here Protoman go on and on about, just be patient, but he’s a collector that goes to a lot of places to get his TFs. Where I live, a store may only get a max of 2 cases of a line (Heck Arcee/Chromia has only hit this city once, as well as Brainstorm, to date). So yeah..
Lamont, do you have a local comic book shop? I by my Hasbro stuff from him. Sure I pay a small mark up, but I get everything I want & I put my money into a local mom n pop as opposed to an enormous, soulless big box.
Mike, do you still have that Fort Max? I’d like to here the story. I was 12 when he dropped & had no chance in hell of getting one. Now I have a Brave Max & I feel like it all worked out in the end
Best flea market find I ever had was a G1 Hotrod with guns for $3.
Shut your filthy mouth
LOL! Stickers were even in good condition. 😀
Your mom’s not gonna be in good condition
Yeah, still own it today, Jason. Best flea market find for me was about 5-6 years ago. Found a G2 Grimlock loose for $2. The light blue version.
I also found one of those I guess knock off Brown Grimlock things.
$5
LOL!
Duron is estimating he had between 4 and 70 million
Heh Walmart, Clearance, Human Alliance Jazz $10.
When you’re on the hunt and for whatever reason you don’t have money to buy the figure right then and there, what do you do, to make sure you can come back and get it later?
Burn the store down.
Someone do the math on Duron’s MPG estimate.
Eff you, Mike.
LOL.
If I can’t have it, noone will!
Heh, he doesn’t hide, because he’s just not good at it. 😀
I hid a toy in TRU for 3 months.
If you go to my TRU’s just hide it behind a Supreme Starscream, no one will ever find it
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Best way to get Black Friday toys that you know is coming out. When TRU had that big Jetwing Optimus Prime for $50, they got them in stock a few days early, so instead of going through the headache of waiting in line to buy them, I just took one, did a little hide, and on black Friday, strolled in around 1pm walked over to the spot, got it for $50 and was gone. 😀
Hey, when did Steven Hawking join the podcast?
Good show.
Thanks everyone who participated! 🙂
Great show gentlemen and Mike.
WOW! Thanks for making it “so hard” to keep up with all the excellent interaction, everyone! You’re all invited to Taco Tuesday!