In a decade of excess, the toy landscape was also revolutionised. From Zoids to My Little Pony, playtime would never be the same again ...

Toy-Fu's work is not as simple as buying up some old toys and selling them. Thousands of the robots have been released over a 40 year span. They range from the diecast metal originals of the 1980s ...

His uncle bought him seven that day. More than two decades later, Yee, 31, has 3,000 pieces in his Transformers collection and his own Web site, Ben’s World of Transformers, www.bwtf.com.

1980s: Hasbro has success with the My Little Pony franchise, introduced in 1982. In 1984, the company launches the Transformers toys, an even larger success.

In case you missed the 1980s, Transformers are giant, sentient robots made up of a gazillion moving parts that shift around to turn the big guys into all sorts of things - vehicles, jet planes ...

Rare Transformers toys are helping children in poverty Hasbro The original Transformers in the 1980s were a huge success, with cartoons, comics and movies all following Jonathan Geddes ...

1980s: Hasbro has success with the My Little Pony franchise, introduced in 1982. In 1984, the company launches the Transformers toys, an even larger success.

Rare Transformers toys are helping children in poverty Hasbro The original Transformers in the 1980s were a huge success, with cartoons, comics and movies all following Author, Jonathan Geddes ...

The original Transformers in the 1980s were a huge success, with cartoons, comics and movies all following Jonathan Geddes BBC Scotland News ...