1990 Transformers Toy Catalog
I wrote all about the old toy pack-in catalogs when I put together Each Sold Separately*, but nothing can replace the joy of staring at one of those classic toy catalogs. So, in the interest of making your Saturday a little more fun, here’s the 1990 Transformers pack-in catalog from Hasbro. This is the end of the U.S. Generation One series, as the Action Masters — non-transforming Transformers toys that I appreciate more today than I did then — reached shelves and sat there without enough sales interest for the line to continue.
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What do you think the American G1 cartoon would have been like had it lasted long enough to include the Action Masters? How would they have explained the return of dead characters like Prowl?