Childhood Toys$$$$

[Lost Cause]

I was thinking about the childhood toys I had, and how much they're worth today if I had them.

My main toy was the G.I. Joe with the Mercury Space Capsule, complete with the flight suit, and portable air conditioning unit.

It's worth some big bucks today.

Another is, I bought a large scale 1st edition, Millenium Falcon for my son with the removable top and crew. He gave it away for another toy from a friend. It's probably worth some buckolas now.

Damn those collector shows on TV!

What toy did you have that could have been an investment if you would have kept it?

Or do you still have it?

 

[Lost Cause]

Oh goody!

I found my astronaut on the web for $175.00, and the Millenium Falcon for $250.00 USD.

If you need to look up any toys you might have had...
http://www.planetforce.com

 

[MercyMia]

we didn't have those kind of toys. we had wood scraps, remnant material, bottles, cardboard boxes. the best thing we played with was a giant plywood box that a new refrigerator was delivered in. my dad sawed a window and door in the sides and it was our playhouse. we spent HOURS in that thing.

we tucked in a blanket like a curtain hanging from the upper bunk and used the lower bunk as a playhouse, too.

so no toys for us. it was a little embarrasing at show and tell at school, but we survived.

of course, this was back in the 1800's!

lol


mia

 

[Lost Cause]

Flashback!

In Seattle, we have the Seafair Hydroplane Races. When my brother's and I were wee ones, my grandpa made 1ft scale balsa wood models of the boats for us. We'd sit with grandpa and paint them to our favorite racers looking at pictures for reference.
Geez, I just got a warm feeling, my grandpa must be around!

 

[Gil_Favor]

I built model cars

Unbuilt kits from my time period <60s> go for big bucks, especially muscle cars.

Assembled models from this time period are also quite expensive.

I blew my models up with fiecrackers

 

[Thin Man]

I built model cars

Unbuilt kits from my time period <60s> go for big bucks, especially muscle cars.

Assembled models from this time period are also quite expensive.

I blew my models up with fiecrackers

Thank God,,,,,I am not the only one.

 

[The Heretic]

About the only thing I had that might be worth something now is old comic books.

We ca ntalk about how much some of those things would be worth, but if you had taken the original investment and put it in the stock market or some interest bearing account you would probably have that much or more.

 

[Gil_Favor]

Thank God,,,,,I am not the only one.

lol......... Did you douse them in lighter fluid first?

 

[Thin Man]

No, I didn`t

lol......... Did you douse them in lighter fluid first?

I will bet it was spectacular!

 

[flawed_ethics]

we didn't have those kind of toys. we had wood scraps, remnant material, bottles, cardboard boxes. the best thing we played with was a giant plywood box that a new refrigerator was delivered in. my dad sawed a window and door in the sides and it was our playhouse. we spent HOURS in that thing.

...

of course, this was back in the 1800's!

Come again?

For me, it was Voltron and Castle greyskull from He-Man. I also had pretty much the entire 1986 Topps Baseball card set. Ahh, for the days when a pack cost 25 cents at the corner drug store, and you got a bubblegum stick too! (Yeah, the gum was bland - but at least the corner drug store wasn't a Walgreens, and the baseball pack didn't cost $3.00)

Still - you're presuming you keep your toys in mint condition. I'd rather have had the priceless hours of play time with my toys than wait 20 years just to sell them off for a few bucks.

 

[Renegade]

God, how I wish I had kept my hands on a few Thundercats and Transformers from back when I was a kid. Some of those things are going for hundreds on Ebay these days. I've been able to hold onto all of my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures and a few G.I. Joes, but their value isn't as high as several other toylines which I've let slip out of my hands. Don't think I could part with my Ninja Turtles anyway. Not that I still play with them, or anything. *dry cough*

 

[lobito]

I have several thousands of dollars in old hot wheels sitting in a xerox paper box right next to me. I've never playyed with them though...

is this turning into a weekly thread by the way?