Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Retro Toy Chest: An early Transformers toy commercials (1984)

Remember when the Transformers first hit the US? Remember how it was the hottest thing going?

Hasbro contracted with Marvel Productions for not only the daily animated series, but also some advertising. I had an ad with actor Alex Karras up, but that was deleted.

Here's a block of commercials:

4 comments:

Steven Dolce said...

I started collecting Transformers toys between the end of Beast Wars and the beginning of Beast Machines back in the late 1990's and early 2000's since I was born on June 5, 1994.

hobbyfan said...

It'll probably cost you a pretty penny to get the older stuff, Steve.

Chris Sobieniak said...

Oh, it would. I was there when this all started!

hobbyfan said...

Marvel & Hasbro pushed this pretty hard when the Transformers debuted.