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” Newsletter of ‘The Official TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Turtle Force’ Fan Club “
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–>> Sending a self-addressed stamped envelope off to Schamburg, Illinois ( the addy listed on the backs of most 1980s & 1990s TMNT toy packages under the ‘Pizza Points’ ) would land you a Catalog of Turtle goodies for what you could redeem all those hard earned points for. While you did have to mail away for the catalog, some of ’em came with participating figures and vehicles.
Various & earlier incarnations of the catalog were usually illustrated in two colours, often green & white.
This one from the later 1990s ( possibly towards the end of the Pizza Point redemption run ) came with full colour photographs of the merch.
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–>> ..the sadly defunct Toy retailer ( closed in 1992 ) was pretty $@#*’n cool and one of the greatest !!
If you’d never been to one of these stores: Hm – to tOkKid’s eyes & children in the 1970s, 80s, and early 1990s it pretty much was the COSTCO or “Sam’s Club” Warehouse of toys of it’s time. The place was seemingly huge, and the overstocked shelves reached very high ceilings in near every isle.
Entire isles were devoted to a majority of the most popular toys of the time. So imagine a TMNT toy lane from your wildest dreams – as far as the sore eye could see. To your beady and impressionable young , mushy mind – this was a NINJA TURTLE & Toy Mecca !! Think of it that way and maybe, just maybe you’ll get the tinge of just how overwhelmingly cool a trip to Children’s Palace / Child World really was.
.. guess it’s experiences like this that had added to Tokka’s mental anguish and over-all brain damage.
Yeh for some people, Turtlemania has actually been documented as a very severe mental-health condition requiring heavy medication from rather early age.
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