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11-17-2022, 01:30 PM | #1 |
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This is something that I've always wondered. How is it that a toy produced and was on the market literally in decades ago managed to get (at the earliest the 90's,) and was never opened.
What happened when retailers did the reset back in the olden days? Did they just send the pegwarmers and unsold stock back to the manufacturer or did the retailers resell them to your discount chains? Were there speculators who saw the potential in these unsold toys and they took ownership of them? Like I said, I'm really curious about this. How does a factory sealed Flagg end up on the hated and despised secondary market 37 years after it was available in stores? https://www.neatstuffcollectibles.co...-joe-for-sale/
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11-17-2022, 02:21 PM | #2 |
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It's pretty incredible. A random unopened case of figures getting misplaced in a warehouse for 30 years I can understand, but something as big as the Flagg?
I can tell you there were definitely speculators back in the day. By the mid-80s, local news outlets were already running stories about some dude in Duluth selling his rare Jawa variant from 1978 or whatever for hundreds of dollars and everyone was suddenly convinced they had carelessly sold their kid's college fund at a garage sale (they hadn't). Again, though, it's hard to imagine a speculator snagging something as big and expensive (even on clearance) as the Flagg to squirrel away for 30 years. By the way, did we all see this? https://twitter.com/KennerToys/statu...CcX3hZravPBMBw
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11-17-2022, 02:33 PM | #3 |
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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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11-17-2022, 02:46 PM | #4 |
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There is a video on YT from 1983 when the Return of the Jedi figures made their debut before the movie came out. The video is news footage from a local TRU in Jersey or NYC. Anyways, there is an adult, probably in his mid 30s, seen grabbing figures and the newsman asks him what he is doing. Guys tells him he thinks they will be worth something someday in the future. So there were definitely people out there even back then who held onto stuff.
I remember I used to work with a guy whose parents owned a mom & pop toy shop in the 1970s to late 1980s or very early '90s. When his dad finally retired and sold the business, they found a few cases of some toy stock that they never sold through. Some of the cases were original 1978 and 1979 Star Wars Kenner figures. My co-worker said they had about 25-35 figures worth, sealed and in pristine condition. So stuff like that happens too. I also think sometimes stuff gets lost in warehouses and sits for years before someone stumbles across it. Or people who forgot they had it come across them years or decades later too. BTW, here is that video. Go to 01:40 to see the guy who was buying them for the future
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11-17-2022, 02:51 PM | #5 |
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11-17-2022, 02:54 PM | #7 |
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Sometimes toys are bought by stores that don't move much of that type of product. A farm store local to me used to still have Gobots in the mid 2000s and early 90s Star Trek and Seaquest DSV action figures as recently as around ten years ago.
Another farm store near me had early non O-ring GI Joe vs Cobra stuff it pulled out every Christmas for about 10 years. |
11-17-2022, 02:56 PM | #8 |
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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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11-17-2022, 02:59 PM | #9 |
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This is something that I've always wondered. How is it that a toy produced and was on the market literally in decades ago managed to get (at the earliest the 90's,) and was never opened.
What happened when retailers did the reset back in the olden days? Did they just send the pegwarmers and unsold stock back to the manufacturer or did the retailers resell them to your discount chains? Were there speculators who saw the potential in these unsold toys and they took ownership of them? Like I said, I really curious about this. How does a factory sealed Flagg end up on the hated and despised secondary market 37 years after it was available in stores? https://www.neatstuffcollectibles.co...-joe-for-sale/ |
11-17-2022, 03:33 PM | #10 |
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I think the oldest carded fig I have is Batman from the 89 movie, for that very reason.
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