Whats your Holy Grail moment ?
#1
Posted 21 March 2013 - 07:27 AM
I was wondering what some other people's defining toy collecting stories were?
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#2
Posted 21 March 2013 - 08:11 AM
There's a toy dealer at an antique mall my son and I occasionally visit for Transformers. Last March, he revealed he had a Fortress Maximus and was willing to part with it for a decent price. I mulled it over for a couple of weeks, and finally accepted the offer.
It figures, Takara is finally re-issuing Fort Max this year, but I feel having the original is much better.
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#3 Guest_General Veers_*
Posted 21 March 2013 - 08:20 AM
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#5
Posted 21 March 2013 - 09:14 AM
First one was at Power Con in september. I finally picked up the last chase figure I needed from the 200X MOTU line... Fisto!
I would have rather had him MOC, but I can't complain! Finally got him! Also I figured since I got him loose, migt as well send him off to AFA... He scored a 90!
Second one is the Palisades Muppets Backstage Playset. I held a boxed one in my hands back in 03 when it was released, but passed on it. At the time $65 was too much. That was one of my biggest toy regrets up untill earlier this month when I found it at a local toy show for $20!
I found it with no figures and only a couple accessories, but I'm super happy either way! The way I found it would still sell on Ebay for over $200! This one will never see Ebay, though!
The third one I haven't been able to score yet is the Playmates Donatello statue released in 02 I think...
I would love to have a colplete set of these!
Someday....
#6
Posted 21 March 2013 - 09:31 AM
Now I just need a Black Sonrics Behemoth
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#7
Posted 21 March 2013 - 11:57 AM
I have just purchased a 18" 1979 kenner Alien figure. These were withdrawn after a short shelf life for being to scary. I was very pleased to come across him.
I was wondering what some other people's defining toy collecting stories were?
see him here: http://www.flickr.co...N08/8568494142/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66826516@N08/8567395689/
theres always at least five alien figures every year at the toy show we have in columbus,oh. Some are boxed some are loose
#8
Posted 21 March 2013 - 12:08 PM
#9
Posted 21 March 2013 - 03:05 PM
Five 1979 8" Kenner Alien figures? Or just five Alien figures?theres always at least five alien figures every year at the toy show we have in columbus,oh. Some are boxed some are loose
#10
Posted 21 March 2013 - 03:37 PM
#11
Posted 21 March 2013 - 04:52 PM
Five 1979 8" Kenner Alien figures? Or just five Alien figures?
The 1979 8" one. The last show a guy had 4 of them for sale
#12
Posted 21 March 2013 - 05:13 PM
a flea market for $10. So now he sits on a shelf In my family room guarding the apartment
#13
Posted 21 March 2013 - 05:16 PM
#14
Posted 21 March 2013 - 05:22 PM
Speaking of series 2 cheap toys, scoring a 16 figure lot on eBay would be another grail haul for me.Getting a Series 2 GPK Cheap Toy of Eerie Eric was a pretty big moment for me.
#15
Posted 21 March 2013 - 06:06 PM
And you are here, with them, as so many specks of sand.
#16
Posted 21 March 2013 - 06:22 PM
It really is like winning twice, every time.
Any social media: @bad_luck_jimmy
#17
Posted 21 March 2013 - 10:30 PM
Most recently however, it was getting all the stuff made and sold by people here...UofV, Scrap Sandayu, Critters...amazing stuff that made me feel like being a kid in the 80's again!
#18
Posted 09 June 2013 - 03:05 PM
Scroll down for more (and better) pictures. I still get nervous around it.
If Veers is saying him getting a M.U.S.C.L.E. Nestle Quik can is his Holy Grail moment, then I'm going to have to agree with him on this. I will never forget what through my mind when I saw the Nestle Quik can on Ebay. I was doing my usual morning search, saw the art work on the back of the can, thought WTF is that............no it can't be...........HOLY S**T it is!! I honestly never thought I would be able to find one.
#19
Posted 10 June 2013 - 08:52 AM
Mine will probably be when I finally find a Teddy Ruxpin Airship playset. So far though I've had awful luck with getting outbid on the only to come up on eBay in the past couple years with two seconds remaining :-(
-Brian
#20
Posted 10 June 2013 - 06:02 PM
Personally, I have a couple am looking for the red rubber armymen MARX TOYS made as "Commies" in the early Fifties
(Thumbnails from ToySoldierHQ site .. a source for OLD little rubber guys and OLD collectors thereof!!)
In the early Nineties, I had THREE pre-teen sons and TWO pre-teen daughters.
Always on the lookout for BATTLE BEASTS and STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE,
I came upon a Childrens Palace toy store
http://en.wikipedia....iki/Child_World
that was closing them out for 50 cents each.
I picked up almost a hundred cards that night.
The next week, in the mall right across the street (North St. Louis, MO County), the K&K (Kay Bee Toys)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_B_Toys
store was closing and doing the same thing!
SCORRE!!
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#22
Posted 08 July 2013 - 10:41 PM
#23
Posted 08 July 2013 - 11:01 PM
I just thought about it, and I think my holy grail moment was finding a vintage metal Cat in the Hat lunchbox at this weird little store up in the mountains in Jerome, AZ.
This sucker : http://instagram.com/p/Uuzn55OQi7/