re: Vintage toys you still have

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1955 Lionel Train, still smokes, still whistles, cattle car still works

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Do you keep it on display? Can we come watch it? I'm not interested in purchasing..........just wanna watch it live

old school metal Tonka trucks. You might get tetnus from looking at them soy boys

In 1993 I found a few Return of the Jedi action figures at the Woolworth in the Southland Mall. I was hooked on collecting action figures at that point.

Every spare dollar I could get from every odd job I could get fed the habit.

That Woolsworth and the one in downtown Houma were my honey holes. Star Wars, GI Joe, Tron, Dukes of Hazzard, Masters of the Universe, obscure knock offs that had been out of the stores for years would pop up on the shelves there. I got all sorts of goodies when they closed up in 1995.

My biggest break as a toy collector came in 1994. I saw an add in the classifieds that said star wars toys. I convinced my dad to drive me to Kiln Mississippi to meet this old man who had some mint on card star wars figures. I got a Boba Fett, a 12 back Han Solo, and a few other Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back carded figures for $10 a piece my dad thought I was crazy. Most of these figures had .89 price tags on them. Over the years I bought 188 mint on card figures for that man for between $10 and $125 a piece. I have over 1,000 in package vintage Star Wars toys, and my Star Wars collection is worth more than I care to admit. I have about 800 other mint in package vintage toys from the 70s and 80s and thousands of loose pieces.

I sell some here and there, and if I could find someone to write a check for what everything is actually sellable for id get rid of it all right now. Instead I'm burdened by it.

- 15 or so 1980’s Tamiya RC Cars
- Snoopy’s Dream Machine ca. 1981 (found on eBay after 15 years of looking for one in mint condition)
- Star Wars POTF A-Wing fighter
- Several older Athearn HO scale engines

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You an I must be the same age because I had all the same things, plus six-million dollar man and Evil Knevil.

I don’t have it but a buddy of mine I used to work with went into an old hardware store in Pensacola years ago and asked the owner if he had or knew someone with some old toys. He said he had come across s few boxes of toys he never sold when he sold them back in the seventies. He came out with 4 unopened boxes with Kenner written on the side. He paid the man about $100 for the entire first run of figures and vehicles Star Wars toys. This happened back in the mid nineties. He still has them all in a huge display case in den.

Old action figures

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Still have my red ryder

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Year? I have dad's '48. Fires a bb at a deadly 10/fps. You have to aim high to hit a 24" target at 15 feet