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News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Thu May 28, 2015 8:37 pm

So, has any of this outstanding and awesome Combiner Wars news got ya feeling a little nostalgic? It certainly has had that affect on me.

I have fond memories of the early combiners, especially Devastator and Defensor. The recently posted Defensor/Protectobots got me thinking. My first Transformers hunt began shortly after receiving the four Defensor limbs for Christmas. The first thing I would do at stores that sold Transformers would be go look for Hot Spot. After what seemed like forever to a 10 year old; Hot Spot was found. Then began the begging and pleading. He was eventually mine and we lived happily ever after. blah blah blah

Now that I've gotten the boring setup out of the way... But what exactly got me thinking you may ask? Well, how did my parents end up with just the limbs? Was it just dumb luck? Was Hot Spot out of stock? Did the limbs come in a four pack (not that I can tell)? Then I remembered that stores like Sears basically made their own bundles (probably weren't called that back then). When I was just a wee one, my sister and I would spend the weeks/months/eternity build up before Christmas just pouring over the Sears Wish Book.

After "researching" how the combiners were sold back then, and flipping through a few Wish Books here and there; I found that my "nostalgia feels" were really tingling. So I figured, why not share this information with some like minded individuals.

Ok, now on to the good stuff.

WishBook.web
The good news is that they have quite a few catalogs available. They even have a Sears Canadian catalog for my Canadian friends. The bad news is the TF page isn't loading for the 1986 catalog, at least for me anyway. Their selection also stops at 1988.

Flickr Wish Book
They have a ton of content and the the Wish Books I check out has all the "good" pages we would be interested in. The pages do load slow as all get out, but then again YMMV.

Flickriver Wish Book
Really about the same as the flickr link and I think it's by the same folks.

BotRiot
Found this site while digging around. They seemed to have cherry pick the more interesting pages.

Well that's all I could find. I hope you enjoy, make yourself comfortable and please share any links you have.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Thu May 28, 2015 8:50 pm

This brings me back... *single tear*

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Thu May 28, 2015 9:00 pm

Yeah those scans are some good stuff. I just couldn't not share.

shajaki wrote:This brings me back... *single tear*

Anything in particular on that page pulling on the old heart strings?

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Thu May 28, 2015 9:34 pm

carytheone wrote:Anything in particular on that page pulling on the old heart strings?

Sixshot for sure. I was given him out of the blue one day when I was a kid, had him for like a week and his arm snapped off

I still have that arm for some reason, don't ask me what happened to the body :lol:

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu May 28, 2015 9:37 pm

Oh the memories of being a kid with no cash......

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Fri May 29, 2015 7:33 am

fenrir72 wrote::sad: Oh the memories of being a kid with no cash......

It is funny the way we remember things, isn't it? Sometimes though, I feel the wanting/the hunt is better than the having.

Once I have a figure, it goes on a shelf and the the next hunt begins. When I walk into a store, I'm equal parts hope and dread.