Transformers Pretenders and Micromasters on Sale in 1989
December 14, 1989. Out of a Gibson’s Discount Centers from The Kerrville Times newspaper comes this block featuring Hasbro’s attempts to keep the Transformers alive at retail. Stranglehold, the Transformers Pretender toy shown in the ad, is from the second wave of Pretenders and it was this wave of toys that’s another checkbox on the “smaller action figures” list I’ve been unwittingly putting together these last few weeks. Just why were so many toys shrinking during this time?
