JEM was officially unveiled at the 1986 Toy Fair in New York City -- 1986 February 10th.
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JEM2023
Holy Truly Outrageous 40th Anniversary, Synergy!
the Toy Book has revealed ... The Loyal Subjects licensed Jem/Jerrica figure/doll!!!
the Toy Book has revealed ...
The Loyal Subjects licensed Jem/Jerrica figure/doll!!!
 
 
Glitter'n Gold Jem: Sticker Fun - 1987 Weekly Reader Books - A Golden Book/Western Pub. Co. 2165-1
Glitter'n Gold Jem Sticker Fun Experience
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NEW On

I am Riot!!!
The Original Riot™ Judith Nelson Presentation Illustration
And Rapture!
The Original Rapture™ Judith Nelson Presentation Illustration
The Original Judith Nelson Presentation Illustration
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4' JEM Sign P/N182243.00A
JEM Store Signage
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JEM and me
at NYCC 2011
with JEM at the 2011 New York Comic Con
Britta Phillips singing voice of JEM, Samantha Newark speaking voice of JEM, & Joelle Dunn 1987 Rebrand voice of JEM at Jemcon2024
Samantha Newark speaking voice of Jem as Jem at Jemcon2022
 

JEM and Pizzazz action figures!
Coming Soon!!! SDCC2022
Super7 SDCC JEM
 

Desperately Seeking
Rockin' Romance Jem
Desperately Seeking Rockin' Romance Jem 1988 Hasbro
To include on the website
and in a collector's guide book!!!
If you have any leads let me know -- buy at a decent price or maybe even trade for it.
contact me
or any other prototype doll, deco guide, head mold, prototype fashion, etc.

 
Let Hasbro know we need the complete original soundtrack in stereo!!!
Let Hasbro know we need the complete original soundtrack in stereo!!!
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Let Hasbro know we need the complete original soundtrack in stereo!!!
Jem the triple-platinum recording artist who never got her fair dues!!!
Let Hasbro & Netflix know we need the 13 more episdoes to complete the 3rd season!!!
Let Hasbro & Netflix know we need 13 more episodes to complete the 3rd season!!!
We need the Entropy storyline, we need Graphix, we need a Minx and a Rapture origin story, plus a hand full of unproduced scrips.
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Let Hasbro & Netflix know we need the 13 more episdoes to complete the 3rd season!!!


Hasbro Licensing News - March 1986 Jem and the Holograms, GI Joe, Transformers


Hasbro Licensing News - March 1986 Jem and the Holograms, GI Joe, Transformers


The Missing Master Tapes
the JEM Master Tapes


Hasbro Licensing News - March 1986 Jem and the Holograms, GI Joe, Transformers

Licensing Then
Hasbro Licensing News - March 1986 Jem and the Holograms, GI Joe, Transformers
Hasbro Licensing News - March 1986 Jem and the Holograms, GI Joe, Transformers

Licensing NOW!!!
JEM2023
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JEM and the Holograms!
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Integrity Toys JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS 35th anniversary!
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JEM and Pizzazz action figures!
Super7

JEM2019

Party City 2019 Jem and the Holograms Wig
Party City

Agua de cheiro Jem and the Holograms Make-up
Agua De Cheiro

Glam Polish Jem & The Holograms Collection LE
Polished Lifting
(not officially licensed)

JEM and the Holograms 20/20
IDW Publishing

Funko JEM and the Holograms
Funko


Jem's Pet
Rama Llama
Rama Llama Jem's Pet
2018 NEW
Wedding KImber & Male
Wedding KImber & Male!!!

2017 UPDATE
on Ruby Red™ Jem®
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35 Years of JEM! 1985-2020

JEMstars
JEM Character Bios

1985 Jem/Jerrica Benton™ | Kimber Benton™ | Aja Leith™ | Shana Elmsford™ | Rio Pacheco™ | Roxanne "Roxy" Pelligrini™ | Mary "Stormer" Phillips™ | Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor™ | Eric Raymond™ | Mrs. Bailey™ | Synergy™ | Howard Sands™ | Zipper™ | Countess Danielle Du Voisin™ | Lindsey "Lin-Z" Pierce™ | Anthony Julian™ | The Starlight Girls™

1986 Vivien "Video" Montgomery™ | Constance "Clash" Montgomery™ | Jeff Wright™ | Harvey Gabor™ | Shawn Harrison™ | Giselle "Danse" Dvorak™ | Techrat™

1986.2 Alex Couto | Alyx Couto | Entropy

1987 Carmen "Raya" Alonso™ | Craig Phillips™ | Sheila "Jetta" Burns™ | Harriet Horn™ | Emmett Benton™ | Jacqui Benton™

1988 Rory "Riot" Llewelyn™ | Ingrid "Minx" Kruger™ | Phoebe "Rapture" Ashe™ | Maeve "Astral" Eldrich™ | Regine Césaire™ Gwendolyn "Graphix" Snyd™ | Rama Llama

2015 Blaze™


JEM
Jem and the Holograms Ornament!
(Oct 1, 2016)
JEM the Comic Book!(April 2015)
hallmark.com

The Hasbro Dolls 1986
Jem/Jerrica 4000 1986 -- images from 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Holograms 4005, Aja, Kimber, and Shana 1986 -- images from 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Misfits 4010, Pizzazz, Stormer, and Roxy 1986 -- images from 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
Rio 4015 1986 -- images from 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Hasbro Dolls 1987
Glitter'n Gold Jem/Jerrica 4001 and Rio 4016 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
Rock'n Curl Jem 4002 and Flash'n Sizzle Jem 4003 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Holograms 4005, Aja, Kimber, and Shana 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Holograms 4005, Danse, Video, and Raya 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Misfits 4010, Pizzazz, Stormer, and Roxy 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Misfits 4010, Clash and Jetta 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
Synergy 4020 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Starlight Girls 4025, Ashley, Krissie, and Banne 1987 -- images from 1987 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog
The Hasbro Dolls 1988
Rockin' Romance Jem 4004 and American Beauty Jem 4007 -- images from 1988 Hasbro Pre-Toy Fair Catalog
"scented" Hollywood Jem 4009 and "basic" Hollywood Jem 1988 -- images of prototypes and Illustration from Doll Reader Magazine
The Holograms 4005, Regine and Astral -- images from 1988 Hasbro Pre-Toy Fair Catalog
The Misfits 4010, Pizzazz and Gaphix 1988 -- images of prototypes
The Stingers 4012, Riot, Rapture, and Minx 1988 -- images of prototypes

JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the first airing on Super Sunday
October 6, 1985 -- October 6, 2020
Count Down Clock:
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the Jem dolls line's unveiling
at Toy Fair 1986
February 02, 1986 - February 02, 2021
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of "the Beginning"
extended Jem episode.
April 04, 1986 - April 04, 2021
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the first "New" Jem episode
"Starbright Part 1- Falling Star."
July 7, 1986 - July 7, 2021
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the Glitter'n Gold line unveiling
at Toy Fair 1987
February 09, 1987 - February 09, 2022
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the "Glitter and Gold"
Jem episode.
March 15, 1987 - March 15, 2022
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the "Talent Search"
Jem episodes. (Raya/Jetta)
Sept. 21, 1987 - Sept. 21, 2022
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the Hollywood Jem episodes.
Jan. 11-12, 1988 - Jan. 11-12, 2023
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the "the Stingers" Jem episodes.
Feb. 02-03, 1988 - Feb. 02-03, 2023
JEM's 35th Anniversary
of the "A Father Should Be..."
Jem episodes. (the end)
May 02, 1988 - May 02, 2023

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JEM is Here!

Integrity Toys Licensing Deal ...
 
2012
San Diego Comic ConHollywood Jem™
Hollywood Jem™
SDCC 2012
Jem and the Holograms™ - Classic Jem™, Jerrica Benton™, Rio Pacheco™ & Synergy™
Classic Jem™, Jerrica Benton™, Synergy™ & Rio Pacheco™
November 2012
2013
The Holograms - Kimber Benton™, Aja Leith™ & Shana Elmsford™
The Holograms™: Kimber Benton™, Aja Leith™ & Shana Elmsford™
March 2013
The Misfits - Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor™, Roxanne "Roxy" Pelligrini™ & Mary "Stormer" Phillips™
The Misfits™: Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor™, Roxanne "Roxy" Pelligrini™ & Mary "Stormer" Phillips™
May 2013
The Stingers - Rory "Riot" Llewelyn™, Ingrid "Minx" Kruger™ & Phoebe "Rapture" Ashe™
The Stingers™: Rory "Riot" Llewelyn™, Ingrid "Minx" Kruger™ & Phoebe "Rapture" Ashe™
September 2013

Continuing after
the original Licensing Deal ...
Broadway Magic JemGlitter'n Gold Jem/Jerrica Benton™ / Glitter'n Gold Rio Pacheco™
Broadway Magic Jem™ W Club 2013, Glitter'n Gold Jem/Jerrica Benton™ SDCC 2013 & Glitter'n Gold Rio Pacheco™ IT Direct 2013
Who Is He Kissing? Flipside Giftset / the Holograms Stage Essentials & the Misfits Stage Essentials
Who Is He Kissing? Jem™ & Jerrica Benton™ December 2013 & Stage Essentials March 2014
2014
Carmen "Raya" Alonso™, Sheila "Jetta" Burns™ & Maeve "Astral" Eldrich™
Carmen "Raya" Alonso™, Sheila "Jetta" Burns™ & Maeve "Astral" Eldrich™
March 2014
Constance "Clash" Montgomery™, Vivien "Video" Montgomery™, Giselle "Danse" Dvorak™ & Regine Césaire™
Constance "Clash" Montgomery™, Vivien "Video" Montgomery™, Giselle "Danse" Dvorak™ & Regine Césaire™
June 2014
In Stitches Jem™ & Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor™ Duet Giftset (2013 IT Direct Exclusive) Property of Integrity Toys, no copyright infringement intended
In Stitches Jem™ & Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor™
IT Direct 2015 - March 2014
Techrat™
W Club 2014 - August 2015
Property of Integrity Toys, no copyright infringement intended Rockin' Romance Jem™
Countess Danielle Du Voisin™
W Club 2014 Upgrade
Rockin' Romance Jem™
SDCC 2014
2015
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Lindsey Pierce™
IT Direct 2015
Eric Raymond™
IT Direct 2015
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Starstruck Jem™
IT Direct 2015 - Winter 2015
Craig Phillips™
IT Direct 2015 - Winter 2015
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Award Night Jem™
W Club 2015 - Early 2016
Twilight In Paris Jericca Benton/Jem™
SDCC 2015
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Anthony Julian™
IT Direct 2015 - Fall 2015
Showtime Jem™ SHOPBOP 2015 - October 2015
2016
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Sean Harrison™
IT Direct 2016 - Winter 2016
Rock 'N Roll Royalty
RIOT LLEWELYN™
IT Direct 2016
May 2016
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The Bands Breakup
KIMBER BENTON™
IT Direct 2016
June/July 2016
The Bands Breakup
Mary "STORMER" Phillips™
IT Direct 2016
Late Summer 2016
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Designing Woman
Phyllis "PIZZAZZ" Gabor™
IT Direct 2016
June/July 2016
Gwendolyn "Graphix" Snyd™
W Club 2016 -
Feb 2017
Dolly-Days - New Editions with bonus fashions

Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor™
Bonus "At The Awards" Dress
Roxanne "Roxy" Pelligrini™
Bonus "I'm With Her" Dress
Mary "Stormer" Phillips™
Bonus "I'm Okay" Outfit
Ingrid "Minx" Kruger™
Bonus "Are You Feeling Alright?" Outfit
Phoebe "Rapture" Ashe™
Bonus "Destiny" Outfit
IT Direct 2016
Nov 2016

2017
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Zipper™
IT Direct 2017
March 2017

Tomorrow Is My Wedding Day
KIMBER BENTON™
IT Direct 2017
April 2017

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Studio Playset
W Club 2017
Fall 2017
Sophisticated Lady JEM®/Jerrica Benton™
IT Direct 2017
June 2017
The End
Encore ...
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Glitter ‘n Gold - Aja Leith™ On-Stage Mini-Giftset
(Encore-W Club 2017 Exclusive)
Winter 2017
Glitter ‘n Gold - Shana Elmsford™ On-Stage Mini-Giftset
(Encore-W Club 2017 Exclusive)
Winter 2017
Property of Integrity Toys, no copyright infringement intended
This is Farewell JEM™
(Encore-W Club 2017 Exclusive)
Winter 2017
A New Beginning
Integrity Toys JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS 35th anniversary!
35th Anniversy
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Up & Rockin'
Jerrica Benton™/JEM™ Flip-Side Gift Set
14105 ©2020
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
Sept 2020

Perfect Match
Rio Pacheco™, JEM™ and Riot Llewelyn™ Gift Set
14104 ©2020
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
Oct 2020
Property of Integrity Toys, no copyright infringement intended
I Am A Giant
Phyllis “Pizzazz” Gabor™ and Roxanne “Roxy” Pellegrini™
Two-Doll Gift Set
14109 ©2020
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
March 2021
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Beat This
Aja Leith™ and Shana Elmsford™ Two-Doll Gift Set
14107 ©2020
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
March 2021
She Makes An Impression
Kimber Benton™ and Raya Alonso™ Two-Doll Gift Set
141078 ©2020
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
Early Summer 2021
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I Like Your Style
Mary "Stormer" Phillips™ and Jetta Burns™ Two-Doll Gift Set
14106 ©2020
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
June 2021
Post-35th Anniversy
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Roxy Rumbles
Roxanne Pelligrini™ Two-Doll Gift Set
14110 ©2021
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
Late Winter 2022
Mind Games Ingrid "Minx" Kruger™ and Phoebe "Rapture" Ashe™ Two-Doll Gift Set
14111 ©2022
(IT Direct / Sideshow.com Exclusive)
Late Summer 2022
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Mood I'm In: The TV Show Edition
14113 ©2022
(IT Direct)
Summer 2022
Music Medley Fashion Pack
14114 ©2022
(IT Direct)
Summer 2022
The End
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no copyright infringement intended

Updated: June 2022


Shout! Factory

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JEM is now on DVD!

The Truly Outrageous Complete Series Season One
Shout! Factory DVD - Jem The Truly Outrageous Complete Series! Shout! Factory DVD - Jem The Truly Outrageous Complete Series! - Season One
October 11, 2011 October 11, 2011
   
Season Two Season Three
Shout! Factory DVD - Jem The Truly Outrageous Complete Series! - Season Two Shout! Factory DVD - Jem The Truly Outrageous Complete Series! - Season Three
February 14, 2012 July 10,
2012

Hasbro has reacquired the worldwide distribution rights to the Sunbow Library of Hasbro Classics on May 14, 2008.

Updated: Nov 3, 2011


(see above)
JEM the Comic Book!
(April 2015)
JEM the Comic Book!(April 2015)
IDWPublishing.com
Get your officially licensed Jem t-shirts at
Everything you need to dress-up like Jem, Pizzazz or Synergy -- officially licensed by Hasbro. spirithalloween.com

Get your officially licensed Jem t-shirts at welovefine.com
Get your officially (USA) licensed Jem t-shirts at welovefine.com
thanks to the first welovefine/Jem contest, many Jem fan made designs are available for purchase.
Jem Tee Design Contest
Congratulations to the Winners! You are Superstars!

Get your officially licensed Jem t-shirts at truffleshuffle.co.uk
Nov 2011 - Get your officially (UK) licensed Jem t-shirts at truffleshuffle.co.uk

Jem The Movie
(October 23, 2015)
JEM the Movie!(2016?)
jemthemovie.com

JEM on tubi

Jem @ Comic Cons
JEM @ 2012 San Diego Comic Con
HollywoodJem Integrity Toys - licensed by Hasbro -  ©2012 Hasbro
JEM @ 2011 New York Comic Con
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at NYCC 2011
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JEM's Beatin' Beetle
My Dream Car!
JEM's Beatin' Beetle - My Dream Car!
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JEM's Beatin' Beetle - My Dream Car!

Fun Facts:

  • "Saturday's Hub premiere of "Jem and the Holograms" (2-5 p.m.) earned significant double-digit growth versus the prior week"
    thefutoncritic.com
  • Jem was the #1 rated cartoon show Nov. 1986 (Nielsen).
    2.) G.I. Joe, 3.) Smurfs, 4.) Transformers, 5.)Thundercats
    Playthings - June 1987
  • Jem made over $50 Million her first year. (Not Correct? - unless it's net vs gross) source
  • 1987 - "Hasbro said it had projected sales of $30 million this year, but had only sold $21 million worth of Jem dolls"
    LA Times - Aug 22, 1987
  • The Jem theme went Triple Platunum by Aug. 1987 - over 3,000,000 dolls sold which included the theme song.
    LA Times - Nov 9, 1987 - thanks CTD
  • By Sept. 1988 over 5,000,000 dolls were sold.
    looking for source
  • Jem was voted the 1986 Girls Toy of the Year in Australia
    article unknown

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JEM&Me

Me sometime before April 1986.

I have to say I'm very jealous of the girls who have pictures of themselves with their Jem dolls ... from their childhood. I don't have one, but I did find this one from close to the time I fell for Jem.

"Riot4Voltron!"

There are 6 silver guns that are on the castle, the bottom guns are the same size as the bottom of the Jem stand leg holder. I had may Jem concerts on the Castle of Lions.

Why do I have this obsession with Jem? Well it's the glitter, the glimmer, the fashion and the fame I fell in love with. There is an air, a felling of excitement that no other cartoon or toy had. As a 9 year old boy nothing else touched me like Jem did. Jem really inspired me. Everything I have done, has some tie to Jem.

I loved the five elements for Jem: the music, the animation, the doll, the fashion, the story. I unconsciously have molded my life around Jem. I started of by playing guitar (1989), and then my interests lead me into art and animation. (1991) By that time I finished high school I was all set to work for Disney, but I didn't want to leave home. (1995) I took the local college route and discover I had to work from what I knew, which led me into dolls…and leads me into fashion design. The whole time I have been trying to develop a story lines for my own show.

So where does that leave me? My goal in life is to create an animated series, doll line, comic book, that has music groups and a whole lot more. Don't worry it would not be a recreation of Jem, I have to many ideas, and I have learned from Hasbro's mistakes. The most exciting part will be my involvement with the whole project…not just one small piece of a great big puzzle.

How did this all get started? TV!

I saw JEM for the first time one Sunday in the fall of 1985 during "Super Sunday." I can't remember the day or month; I can't even remember which episode. It's such a distant memory now; it feels almost like a different life. Some times that part of my life feels so close, sometimes so, so, too far away. I watched the show every Sunday until it was shown weekdays, then I watched every day of the week. Not knowing a doll line was coming out, during Christmas 1985 I was obsessed with idea of finding Christmas Angles in the colors of Jem, the Holograms, and the Misfits.

I started taping Jem on to VHS at the time it was on Sunday/Saturdays. I even made really cool video box covers for the tapes. I don't know why, but I decided to tape MTV rock videos over them. Then around 1988, I taped all the episodes again from WGN an the local FOX satiation, just to tape over them again. I finally taped and kept them, when Jem was on USA Network, but before she became part of the USA Cartoon Express. Before Jem's run was coming to an end, and they chopped the episodes up, and replaced the Jem commercial lead ins/outs with their own. I wish I had the originals still, but at least the show is still in my life. At least I have an audio tape of music I record from the show through my stereo.

A Boy and His Dolls.

I saw the dolls at the local Sears for the first and every time I went to a store, I spent the whole time in front of the Jem dolls … I was in heaven. I always wanted to buy one every time I went to a store. My parents would not let me.

So as I was struggling at school my parents decided to give me a quarter a day for every day I did not get a bad grade … leading into being able to buy the dolls around early fall of 1986. I did not buy one for a long time since they where fifteen dollars at most of the stores. For Christmas that year I asked my three siblings for a Hologram each, and then for my January birthday I was hoping for a Misfit from each of them. They did not get me the Holograms, so the day after Christmas I started my collection. Dec. 26th, 1986. I went straight over to the local Tractor Supply Center (TSC) which had Jem/Jerrica, Rio a lot of fashions On Stage and Flipside Fashions, and the playsets, but they didn't carry the Holograrms, the Misfits, or Smashin' Fashions. I picked up Jem/Jerrica at 50%. Thinking every store would have 50% off, I went straight up to Hills to pick up Kimber and Aja but they where still full price…I just got Kimber at $10.82, plus tax.

With Christmas down, I had my birthday right around the corner. I'm not sure why, but we went to a near by town, about an hours drive. This town had a Children's Palace, and I was in heaven again. It was the Saturday before my birthday and my parents said I could pick out any toy. I went straight for Jem I was hoping for dolls, but my parents would not buy me a doll. The Rockin' Roadster was okay for them to buy me. I still wanted to get two dolls, which would have been the same price.

Then it was my 11th birthday, so we took my two best friends to a local pizza place. I got cards with money…enough to get Aja that night, finally. But my parents wanted to take us home right after the little pizza party. The next Saturday I got my Aja, on our weekly family tip to the grocery store…Hills was right across the street.

After that, I'm not sure which days or even months I got my next two dolls. I was going to get Shana next of course., but then Rock'n Curl Jem came out…and she was cheaper, so I didn't have to wait as long. So I just had to pick her up instead. Shortly after that I talked my best friend's little sister into a trade for her Shana doll, the only Jem doll she had. She got my three She-Ra dolls out of that trade. And I won the "Let's Rock This Town" Flip Side Fashion from the local FOX station contest.

The story seemed to have come to a close by May of 1987. I was still looking at all the new 1987 dolls and wanting to buy everything that came out. My parents got sick of my oppression with Jem and forbid me to buy anything that was Jem related.

When I turned 16 (1992) and got a job and I tried to go to Hills to buy some Jem dolls. But sad to say, there was no sign of Jem anywhere. I was crushed; the last time I looked for Jem dolls they were every where…now no where. The next year when Hills closed they had a few Video Madnesses, but I was so broke I could not afford them.

I did not buy another doll until 1995, when I got a nude Flash'n Sizzle Jem with a bad hair cut. I found in Pennsylvania while my parents were doing genealogical research. I found the doll, bought it and hid it under the seat of the car for the whole ride home…taking it out to look at it every chance I could. I was 19 at the time. Looking back, it was sad that I felt I had to hide her/hide me. Later that fall I found a Jem/Jerrica and Stormer at a local fair and bought them right in front of my mom. She was not to thrilled, but did not try to stop me. Then I struck it big, and got a star capped earring Jem/Jerrica, Glitter'n Gold Rio, a Synergy, 1st issue Stormer, and 2nd issue Pizzazz and Roxy, along with five fashions from answering an ad from a toy price guide, and my collection was taking off again.

In the spring of 1997 we got a new computer and we got on the Internet, and my life changed forever. I bought what I could, when I could…a lot of my early online purchase where not even from eBay, but message boards and posts. I had a car wreck September of 1997, so by September 1998 I got twenty five thousand dollars from the issuance. I did not spend much of it right away, but then Rockin' Romance Jem came up for auction. Early 1999. I thought I was going to be smart and put two thousand on her, but two other people had the same idea ... my first real bidding war, and I lost. If only I would have put five on her or something like that. Oh well, after I got over that loose I figured I could spend the money I was going to spend on her on other Jem items and so away I went. I got a lot of treasures along the way. Don't worry I did not spend all of that money, a lot went into stocks.

A special moment in 1998 was when my boyfried and I where at another local fair. He said, "I bet you won't find a Jem doll." He knew me so well even back then. Before he even got "Jem doll" out, I darted to a table. I could see a foot sticking out of a box three tables away, and I knew it was a Jem doll. It was a Rock'n Curl Jem

Looking back on my life with Jem, I wish I felt more comfortable with liking Jem, as a child…not that I could help that. Do I hate my parents for not letting me get more dolls? Well at the time I sure did, but now I love them too much to be upset over something like that. So long ago, and really out of their hands.

I still have dreams about Jem, finding new toys, and buying the dolls. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about Jem in some shape or form.

It doesn't matter if the store is still there or not. By now all the toy sections have moved and store rearranged, but if they had Jem … I get taken back to those special moments when, as a small boy, I stood in the middle of the doll section and wished and dreamed. And the color and designs filled my very being right in the middle of the store. I can't even describe the rush of emotions that comes over me, as I'm taken back. Just by walking in the doors, or driving past I relive every moment of a few of those most wonderful times from my past.

I hope to create a toy line that will touch at least one child's life, the way Jem has touched mine.

I have God, Jem, my love, family, friends and my dreams…what else do I need.

Riot4Jem

Kimber and Jem along with my Christmas toys
12/26/86
I got Jem 50% the day after Xmas, bought Kimber the same day.
12/86
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
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I was well on my way to wearing out Kimber's cassette by the end of 86
12/86
My parents bought me a Rockin' Roadster.
01/87
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
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I bought Aja.
01/87
The dolls where $10.82 at Hills
01/87
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
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Shortly after that, I got the 1st of the 1987 dolls...Rock'n Curl Jem
02 or 03/87
I loved to swap the clothing... traded for Shana and won a fashion.
02 or 03/87
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
   
I loved to set up concerts.
02 or 03/87
pictures developed 3/87
02 or 03/87
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
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02 or 03/87 02 or 03/87
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New slides added
03/87
03/87
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03/87
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
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1987-1988
I made create designs and representations of Jem and the Holograms out of anything I could get my hands on.
(these are using Perler® Beads)
K - Kimber, A - Aja, S - Shana, R - Raya Shana, Aja, Kimber...with pink and yellow for Jem/Jerrica
Jem, Kimber, Aja, Shana, Raya, Danse, Video A Kimber face
odds and ends I also made Raya's drums with these, but have not located them
 
1995-1996
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
by the end of 1996 I had 4 Jem dolls. my Holograms where still looking good
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
I finally got the Misfits 1996 along with GnG Rio and Synergy
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986
and four new fashion these 3 dolls I got nude 1995-1996
Jem and Me! My Jem and the Holograms doll collection starting December 26, 1986 but then I hit eBay in 1998. That's that rest of this site.
So this was my expanded collection 1996...  
   
2000-2001
when we moved together into his fathers old house, the Toys got their own room.
I built a disco club as part of a school project -- using old store diplays.
But Jem is not alone ...

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