Talk:Toy Fair 1986
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eBay Sighting
[edit]Guess what I found on eBay: Toy Fair 1986 catalog! Featuring Blue Superion and Wacky-Gunned Galvatron! It, uh, costs $500 to bid on, so we're probably gonna hafta deal with the annoying and obtrusive watermarks if we steal any images from it. --ItsWalky 12:18, 23 February 2010 (EST)
- We've seen smaller, grainier pics of that proto-Galvatron before: they were in the same Japanese laserdisc booklet that had the pics of proto-Arcee. They're already up..... uhh.... on some site. Either Zob or Prime Saber or the STA. --Thylacine 2000 20:56, 23 February 2010 (EST)
- This is the third time that auction's been up. I think the last time it was priced at $600, but I have the auction images from the first time it showed up. Toy Archive had the laserdisc scans.--MCRG Again 21:10, 23 February 2010 (EST)
- Allspark is getting folks together to help raise money for it so the Wiki can scan and archive it. --ItsWalky 13:01, 24 February 2010 (EST)
- This is the third time that auction's been up. I think the last time it was priced at $600, but I have the auction images from the first time it showed up. Toy Archive had the laserdisc scans.--MCRG Again 21:10, 23 February 2010 (EST)
Scans Discussion
[edit]Feel free to make this page pretty as I do the dirty work of scanning the pages. --ItsWalky 15:25, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Also, if anyone else is better than me (read: any proficiency at all) at getting collist to work, please fix up the donator list that I've temporarily made invisible. --ItsWalky 15:31, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- The collist seems to works just fine for me in Firefox, although you might want to mark it up as an actual list. Collist only works in FF, though, since that's the only browser with multi-column support, so maybe that's your issue? If you want something cross-browser, it'll have to be a table. --Jeysie 15:38, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I'm just curious, will you be scanning more than just the TF stuff? Because I wouldn't mind seeing the G.I.Joe pages myself. --Detour 16:05, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I'll scan everything. Won't put everything up here, though. So hope you like My Little Pony! --ItsWalky 16:06, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- It's probably worth asking if YoJoe or someone wants the appropriate pages. I know there are MLP fansites that would love to get their mitts on that stuff, and I imagine the Jem fanbase would be interested, too. -hx, at work.
- I'm surprised Stormrave over at the Allspark hasn't been squeeing yet, considering she's an MLP buff. --Jeysie 17:04, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I am almost done scanning MLP. Will probably link them on this talk page from a directory on my SP! server for now. --ItsWalky 17:07, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I added the GI Joe images and a copy of this page to Joepedia, with the appropriate credit pointing back here. Didn't include the list of contributors, but instead added another link back to this page, so everyone can come see those who gave. I was going to add a link to Joepedia in the "External links" section here, but I didn't know if that would be kosher—any objections? --Buttbutt 21:12, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I'm surprised Stormrave over at the Allspark hasn't been squeeing yet, considering she's an MLP buff. --Jeysie 17:04, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- If there's Voltron stuff in there, I know some places that would like to see/host it. (I didn't donate as I didn't know of it until today, but I'll gladly throw some money at the charity in return.) --GrantB 09:25, 2 March 2010 (EST)
- It's probably worth asking if YoJoe or someone wants the appropriate pages. I know there are MLP fansites that would love to get their mitts on that stuff, and I imagine the Jem fanbase would be interested, too. -hx, at work.
- I'll scan everything. Won't put everything up here, though. So hope you like My Little Pony! --ItsWalky 16:06, 1 March 2010 (EST)
HEY GUESS WHO'S HOTLINKING OUR IMAGES It's Seibertron. --ItsWalky 10:30, 2 March 2010 (EST)
- Is there any way we could replace some of the images they're hotlinking with, like, a big sweaty dick or something? That'll learn 'em. -- Semysane 16:07, 2 March 2010 (EST)
- But who would we get to take a picture of themselves?
MyLittlePony
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--ItsWalky 17:27, 1 March 2010 (EST)
HasbroSofties
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--ItsWalky 17:53, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Rhinokeeeeeeey!
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- ...ahem. - Chris McFeely 17:55, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I don't remember the second-year Wuzzles at all. However: Woolrus is awesome. -LV 17:58, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- I remember Koalakeet. I think I had a storybook with him in it. - Chris McFeely 18:01, 1 March 2010 (EST)
G.I.Joe
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And that's it. --ItsWalky 18:15, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Awesome. Thanks. --Detour 18:41, 1 March 2010 (EST)
Differences
[edit]So I went through and documented every difference I could find over here. Shall I mirror it in a subsection on the Toy Fair 1986 page? (Also, holy crap, logging into my old account doesn't cause a server error anymore!)--MCRG 20:42, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- You missed Outback's red face. Other than that, great work. Should someone document the mistransformations (such as face up Powerglide jetform)? Khajidha 20:48, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Also First Aid's clear red windows. Khajidha 20:51, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Yes, please do so—that sounds like a good idea. --Buttbutt 21:12, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Kup is so totally not finished. I go over all of the crazy changes in tonight's blog over at Shortpacked!. I don't think anything on him is final. --ItsWalky 21:31, 1 March 2010 (EST)
- Like I said, I could only ascertain so much from the scans on here at the time. You had the super hi-res ones to work from, so that has since been amended now that I have them too.--MCRG 00:10, 2 March 2010 (EST)
- I'm amending things now that I've got access to the super hi-res scans. I'd like to have it complete before adding it here. I've also chosen to ignore to ignore the mistransformations, since they don't really pertain to what I'm trying to document.--MCRG 00:05, 2 March 2010 (EST)
- And yes, that picture with Cyclonus (actually the whole picture of all five toys) were used in the 1986 Euro catalog (I live in Denmark, so that's probably why you thought about Denmark/Sweden). Also, I *think* (need to check that) that the group shots of the combiner limbs were used in the same catalog as well. Big kudos to all for those killer pics! --Fighbird 03:15, 2 March 2010 (EST)
- The UK catalogue for 1986 also uses that Decepticon Planes picture and some of the other photos such as the Triple Changers appear to use the same backdrop, suggesting the same photo shoot. Timrollpickering (talk) 12:17, 25 August 2024 (EDT)
Galvatron's cannon
[edit]Just thinking... at what point was it decided that the best way to stop kids getting confused when they shot at each other with pretend guns was to make the barrels orange? I'm wondering if that was the reason for the particle cannon colour change. Either that, or maybe they thought that the black cannon made him look too much like Megatron? LiamK 17:31, 3 February 2011 (EST)
- I'm fairly certain that the orange barrels are so cops don't think some kid is pointing a real gun at them and shoot them. -- Semysane 19:07, 3 February 2011 (EST)