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How Did Vintage Toys Manage To Stay Mint on Card or Mint in Box
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11-17-2022, 02:33 PM
SmokeBellew
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Yeah, I guess there have always been some speculators/collectors. Like that one guy on here who's family ingrained him the idea these were collectibles even while he was a kid. Some of it's just weirdo kids, or spoiled kids who got a lot of toys and didn't care about some of them enough to open them.
And the "new old stock" thing blows my mind. I remember when I first got into this in 2000 there was a story about a Flagg just being found on a top shelf in a TRU backroom. And I can't remember what they were now (The Shadow figures, maybe...some early-nineties toy line), but a few years ago I found a bunch of banged up and water-stained figures marked down to almost nothing at a Kmart or Sears or somewhere. I asked the lady working in the aisle and she said she thinks they were found under the shelving base deck when they were shifting aisles around.
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