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11-17-2022, 03:58 PM | #11 |
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Was it in this forum where somebody posted about finding a drug store in the midwest that had a downstairs sales floor with toys from the last couple of decades still on the pegs that had never sold?
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11-17-2022, 04:12 PM | #12 |
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I had a step-dad back in the mid 80s that would buy a couple Joes figures for me every now and then, and he would buy himself some as well. He mainly collected the 12 inch back then. He kept his 80s Joes carded and stored away. After he and my mom divorced back in 1993 he had a couple boxes full of the carded Joes. He then sold them around 2015 I think.
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11-17-2022, 04:26 PM | #13 |
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11-17-2022, 04:56 PM | #14 |
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I remember getting 1988 Storm Shadow at TRU, and I ALMOST was able to keep him on card, but I ripped him open eventually. If I'd had more money, I would have started an MOC collection in the late 80's. I was in high school and was starting to appreciate the card art as much as the figure. More, in some cases. I think the first figure I kept carded was a TMNT Foot Ninja.
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11-17-2022, 05:06 PM | #15 |
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I've seen some attic diver/toy collector videos where they will go to some old grandma's house who had bought a lot of figures back in the 80s and 90s to pass out to their grandchildren for holidays/birthdays/etc. But somehow, they end up with extras that they box away and never give out. Then suddenly, they are gone and those figures are found still carded and new by their kin.
I also had a friend whose father worked at Kenner, and saved a full set of unopened Star Wars figures for him for when he graduated high school as either a nest egg or become a collector. He became a collector and still has it. Last edited by Goldchains; 11-17-2022 at 05:09 PM.. |
11-17-2022, 05:42 PM | #16 |
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Alot of times my still mint figures were because my dad and uncle bought them at drug stores. No kids were grabbing them off pegs like at TRU, etc. so they tended to stay pretty mint. Same with metal lunchboxes, which I still have dozens of MIB because I got them from drugstores in the 80s and they weren't tossed on the ground in the store ala Kmart for example.
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11-17-2022, 05:55 PM | #17 |
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MIB samples of vehicles even on the scale of the FLAGG being found doesn't shock me. It's the individual figures being found with bubbles that were never opened that gets me. Sure pegwarmers I get. They wouldn't have been bought at the time they were hot commodities, so likely were simply passed around from store to store and eventually bought by some collector, but figures like Firefly, Storm Shadow and the other heavy hitters... what child would have had the intestinal fortitude and patience to simply put that MOC figure in a box and never touch it!? That child isn't human and should likely be opened to ensure that they aren't gears, pulleys and circuitry inside!
It's likely collectors who bought them at the time, put them away for a rainy day and they are just now seeing the light of day. But a child who would have not opened their figures is a child I don't think I'd want to know... sorry. |
11-17-2022, 06:07 PM | #18 |
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I've got POTF2-Episode 3 Star Wars figures I bought in 2005 that I just put in totes because I was constantly moving, just bought them because they were on sale in stores or from toy shows, I didn't even intend for them to stay MOC because I didn't collect SW toys-they were just fun toys to play with in our house
I'm guessing things like that occurred in decades past too |
11-17-2022, 07:44 PM | #19 |
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I guess some people gambled that they'd be worth something, or maybe liked the look of the packaging? Maybe the Flagg owner didn't have room to assemble it and stored it away?
Who would have really known back then that Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers would be worth so much decades later. I have unopened Stargate figures that aren't worth shit. Also all those 90s Star Wars figures. No one wants it. |
11-18-2022, 12:50 AM | #20 |
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i heard of a story about someone finding a whole warehouse or something of carded 1987 Renegades in around 2014 and then they were all bought up and put on ebay. not sure the exact year. just my guess.. but thats why u might see a lot of carded renegades out there now.
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