Ultra Magnus wrote:Answer me this, and that might help the case of my memory, then. When did the second GI Joe Mini-series come out (the one about the Weather Dominator).
Truth be told I may be the only Transformers fan in existance that hates G.I.Joe cartoon so I really cant answer that question with 100% certainity.
But I just did some online research on a few different G.I.Joe fan websites ,Wiki and TV.com and they all have September of 1984 at the original air date of the 2nd GI Joe Mini-series.
Here are some links:
http://www.tv.com/g.i.-joe-1985/the-rev ... ep_title;5
http://joes.propadeutic.com/1984.html#Cartoons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_ ... _series%29
http://epguides.com/GIJoe/
So barring the possibility of early test marked viewing it first aired in September of 1984....the week after the Labor day weekend.
Which as I noted earlier was around the time of that the first episode of the Transformers aired.
Which also fits the marketing policies of the time......most new cartoons tied to toylines would get their starts in the days after summer ,"Labor day", and the "back to school rush".
The marketing stratagie [spelling?] being that kids could convince their parents to buy them a few new toys while buying back to school stuff.I know it worked in my case when I was a kid.
Now the G.I. Joe mini was a five parter so maybe you got the numbers of both serries transposed?????
Or maybe you saw all five in late October 1984 when, in a many of markets, the networks running Transformers ran the first 5 episodes as part of their "Halloween week" line up????
The only think "Transformers" related to come out around April of 1984 besides some of the toys was the comic books.