This is a review of those little vinyl stickies that you place on a shiny surface and they stay on like... magic.
Anyway... Here I have two GI Joe licensed Colorforms "Play Sets", one from 1982 and one from 1985. They're similar in design, but different in philosophy. The 1982 version puritanically lacks images of guns, while the 1985 version has guns, fire effects and explosions! I'm not sure why a toy line with a great size range of ACTUAL physical play sets needed a two-dimensional Colorforms set, but the box art is some of the best in the licensed category. Colorforms have been around since 1951 and Time magazine called them one of the "100 greatest toys of all time" a couple of years ago. I think calling this a toy is bit of a stretch. More like an arts craft. Nobody I know remembered what they were called, but they ALL had them and nobody loved them.
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