tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post2308229109676048498..comments2024-01-16T22:15:10.766-08:00Comments on ROBOPLASTIC APOCALYPSE: Did GoBots write "Don't ever change" in each other's high school yearbooks?Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-74285140438539411492009-04-19T16:06:00.000-07:002009-04-19T16:06:00.000-07:00IIRC the unpanted Ultra Magnus was not a store exc...IIRC the unpanted Ultra Magnus was not a store exclusive. The unpainted Magnus was that came with a glow-in-the-dark poster. No-poster Magnus had paint aps and chrome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-50948794719589510422009-02-10T14:42:00.000-08:002009-02-10T14:42:00.000-08:00"I hated high school and never understood the extr..."I hated high school and never understood the extremely strong nostalgic feelings some people have for those years because for me it sucked sucked sucked."<BR/><BR/>I hear you, my man. I had a high school teacher that said that we should enjoy High School because it will never get any better. I thought that was the saddest statment I had ever heard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-53314301630321326722009-02-09T11:29:00.000-08:002009-02-09T11:29:00.000-08:00Well, no, there were the K-Mart Legends which were...Well, no, there were the K-Mart Legends which were just the inner robots of the Classic Pretenders Bumblebee, Grimlock and Starscream on blister cards. And that Ultra Magnus with no die cast or paint applications is said to be a Kay Bee exclusive. But those are sort of the reverse of the early 80s department store specials where some sort of value is added to the figure instead of taken away.Evil King Macrocranioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-23530978162229513772009-02-09T10:29:00.000-08:002009-02-09T10:29:00.000-08:00so there were no G1 store exclusives ever?so there were no G1 store exclusives ever?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-4624532523762598442009-02-09T09:44:00.000-08:002009-02-09T09:44:00.000-08:00Yeah, there's a good article in Tomart's 147 (part...Yeah, there's a good article in Tomart's 147 (part of the Kenner Legacy series) where it is explained that department stores like Sears were trying to compete with the freestanding toy discount stores despite not being able to match their prices and that's where these exclusives came in. The department stores would ask toy manufacturers to give them something special and that's where the Sears exclusive Star Wars and GI Joe sets came from. But as their toy aisles shrunk to near nothing the practice stopped. Transformers came along late in the game near the death of the department store toy section and didn't get those kinds of exclusive recolors and repackagings like Star Wars, He-Man, Gi Joe or other toylines.Evil King Macrocranioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-25023372681325644422009-02-09T09:27:00.000-08:002009-02-09T09:27:00.000-08:00To be fairer, at least you got something different...To be fairer, at least you got something different a lot of times with the mall stores. Like the Micronauts had different colored Montgomery Wards exclusives and the GI Joe Sears recolored tanks. They didn't ever do anything like that with Transformers, did they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-55026630899372982882009-02-09T08:03:00.000-08:002009-02-09T08:03:00.000-08:00To be fair, JC Penny and 12 n' Under were departme...To be fair, JC Penny and 12 n' Under were department stores. Department stores always had significantly higher prices until the discount toystores like Playworld, Children's Palace and TRU came along. If you shop around in the other ads from that same year from different retailers you'll find there was quite a range of pricing. The problem was that until the discount retailers arrived, department stores were oftentimes the only ones with decent selections. My mom ended up paying 19.99 each for the Dinobots because she could only find them at the department store in the mall. The Playworld arrived in our town in late '85 and she'd never have to pay that much again.Evil King Macrocranioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-61536254839872663232009-02-09T02:35:00.000-08:002009-02-09T02:35:00.000-08:00Heavy, you are absolutely correct. I think those u...Heavy, you are absolutely correct. I think those upset by the price hike on Deluxes need to break out the ol' inflation calculator to put things in perspective. We still pay much less for TFs than when we were kids.<BR/><BR/>Besides, the most probably crappy new Movie toys are coming so they shouldn't worry about it too much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-70977698989828162422009-02-08T17:50:00.000-08:002009-02-08T17:50:00.000-08:00Wow. Looking at the prices on these, I'm going to ...Wow. Looking at the prices on these, I'm going to quit bitching about walmart raising the prices on deluxes to 13 bucks and voyagers to 22 bucks. Deluxe figures JUST attained the price that a triple-changer would have cost you, and I paid less for Classics Jetfire than I would have for G1 Jetfire.Heavyarmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182671538096799844noreply@blogger.com