Seibertron wrote:
Man I used to absolutely love the Sears catalog when I was a kid. I used to just stare at the Transformers in those pictures.
I did the same(with catalogues from Argos and Hamleys, we didn't have Sears). Actually I probably did it for years afterwards, because I missed out on most of the early stuff by being too young at the time. I'd be looking at those tiny images in old catalogues, trying to imagine all the stuff it could do. Of course some toys were much better in imagination than reality.
It's interesting, because a lot of stuff in those pages is forgotten today. There's a lot of periferal G1 stuff on other pages as well.
http://www.wishbookweb.com/1985_SearsWishbook/images/SearsWishbook.1985EC.P586.jpgCheck out items 5, 16, and 17
The Bluestreak one actually looks kind of interesting, though way overpriced for what it was back then. I actually have a transformers board game packed away somewhere.