A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
FedEx delivered this huge box of goodies yesterday, straight from my pal, John (AKA jboypacman), at the Revenge from the Cosmic Ark. We worked out another trade and I’m pretty sure we both got what we wanted, which is always the goal of a good trade! This Pac-Man tabletop arcade game from Coleco was the [...]
The 10 best things I saw this week… 1956 Forbidden Planet half sheet movie poster up for bid at emovieposter.com James Bond lunchbox up for bid at eBay 1964 Godzilla board game by Ideal up for bid at Hake’s Krang Jack O’Lantern Batman #1 (CGC 7.0) up for bid at Heritage Auctions 1961 Curse of the [...]
This episode of Toy Hunter has Jordan Hembrough searching for toys in San Francisco, California, an area rich in toy history. Worlds of Wonder, LJN Toys, and Mattel were based in that area, so Jordan is hoping to find the goods. His first stop is a visit to Brady’s Spider-Man shrine. This place is incredible! [...]
The yard sales were pretty good this weekend. We hit one neighborhood sale and two church sales, which I have started to really appreciate. The church sales are basically small flea markets, where a bunch of people get together in a parking lot to sell their items along with a bunch of stuff that was [...]
Here are some pictures of the Aurora model kits boxes I added to the collection last weekend. Most of these are in amazing condition, especially when you consider they are around 50 years old. King Kong and Godzilla Dr Jekyll as Mr. Hyde, Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors Guillotine, and the Vampire Dracula, Frankenstein, and [...]
Last night, I teased you with a photo of my epic pop culture haul from earlier in the day. There were many good guesses, but I can assure you there were no bananas, plantains, Beatles posters, or parts of Gwyneth Paltrow in those boxes. Yesterday afternoon, I checked Craigslist to see if there were any [...]
Heritage Auctions has this amazing Godzilla poster up for bid in this Sunday’s Movie Poster Auction. It’s a French poster from 1957 and the current bid is $190, but you can bet that will go much higher. [Image via Heritage Auctions.]
Tom Krohne lives in New Jersey, and spends his nights working on The Indescribable Watchamcallit and The Giantastics. I met Tom through Twitter, where I learned that he had a monstrous collection and he was kind enough to share it here. Thanks, Tom! How did your collection start? What was the first item in your [...]
Before I die, I will own a complete set of these guys. This is a commercial from 1978 which features Mattel’s 24″ Mazinga and Gaiking along with Godzilla. In addition to those three, the US saw figures for Dragun, Daimos, and Raideen as well. These large figures were scrutinized for their flying missiles and small [...]
Yesterday, I went to the Greenberg Toy & Train Show in Chantilly, Virginia and saw plenty of trains and even a few toys. Here are the toys that found their way home with me… I instantly fell in love with that Lone Ranger Squirt gun. I have a Batman and a Superman from the same [...]
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