Other Vintage Collections

[spoons]

Went on a 9 hour round trip to pick this fella up yesterday. He was sat at the back of a job lot ebay photo and is a prototype green pants action man. The theory is that they were used as sales samples just before the change from no pants to blue pants action man, but presumably would have been used to test palyability too. I'm not sure if he ever had a head and he is missing a foot.

They probably exist in similar numbers to Star Wars first shots and I'm dead chuffed to have him

 

[Mini99]

Did the seller know what it was he was selling , or did you get a bargain?

 

[spoons]

Did the seller know what it was he was selling , or did you get a bargain?

It was a job lot from an unpaid storage unit so in short they had no idea. But, it cost about twice as much as it would have normally done with a few people having noticed the green panter. I think he upped the cost around £200-£300, cheap for Star Wars but quite pricey for Action Man

 

[subzero]

Did the seller know what it was he was selling , or did you get a bargain?

It was a job lot from an unpaid storage unit so in short they had no idea. But, it cost about twice as much as it would have normally done with a few people having noticed the green panter. I think he upped the cost around £200-£300, cheap for Star Wars but quite pricey for Action Man

Such a shame it's missing bits, cool find though. 8)

Do those storage auctions work just like how you see them on telly on Storage Wars etc?, they always seem to find extremely rare items and antiques in almost every unit, iv'e always had the conclusion that in real life you'll just find crap furniture and worthless books and stuff 99 times out of 100 :lol:

 

[spoons]

Did the seller know what it was he was selling , or did you get a bargain?

It was a job lot from an unpaid storage unit so in short they had no idea. But, it cost about twice as much as it would have normally done with a few people having noticed the green panter. I think he upped the cost around £200-£300, cheap for Star Wars but quite pricey for Action Man

Such a shame it's missing bits, cool find though. 8)

Do those storage auctions work just like how you see them on telly on Storage Wars etc?, they always seem to find extremely rare items and antiques in almost every unit, iv'e always had the conclusion that in real life you'll just find crap furniture and worthless books and stuff 99 times out of 100 :lol:

Ha ha - I suspect that is true 99% of the time

 

[Lindo]

Did the seller know what it was he was selling , or did you get a bargain?

It was a job lot from an unpaid storage unit so in short they had no idea. But, it cost about twice as much as it would have normally done with a few people having noticed the green panter. I think he upped the cost around £200-£300, cheap for Star Wars but quite pricey for Action Man

Such a shame it's missing bits, cool find though. 8)

Do those storage auctions work just like how you see them on telly on Storage Wars etc?, they always seem to find extremely rare items and antiques in almost every unit, iv'e always had the conclusion that in real life you'll just find crap furniture and worthless books and stuff 99 times out of 100 :lol:

The ones they show on TV are a select few of when they do actually find stuff, so they may record 50 auctions but only 5 would get to TV, if you catch my drift.

 

[subzero]

It was a job lot from an unpaid storage unit so in short they had no idea. But, it cost about twice as much as it would have normally done with a few people having noticed the green panter. I think he upped the cost around £200-£300, cheap for Star Wars but quite pricey for Action Man

Such a shame it's missing bits, cool find though. 8)

Do those storage auctions work just like how you see them on telly on Storage Wars etc?, they always seem to find extremely rare items and antiques in almost every unit, iv'e always had the conclusion that in real life you'll just find crap furniture and worthless books and stuff 99 times out of 100 :lol:

The ones they show on TV are a select few of when they do actually find stuff, so they may record 50 auctions but only 5 would get to TV, if you catch my drift.

Ah get ya, I still reckon half of them are fake as **** though :lol: iv'e read things online about the producers apparently opening up units before the day of the auction and sticking interesting quirky items in there for the bidders to find then locking it back up, just to make it more interesting for the show. Apparently Storage Wars were actually caught for doing this.

 

[Mini99]

Did the seller know what it was he was selling , or did you get a bargain?

It was a job lot from an unpaid storage unit so in short they had no idea. But, it cost about twice as much as it would have normally done with a few people having noticed the green panter. I think he upped the cost around £200-£300, cheap for Star Wars but quite pricey for Action Man

So not a bargin, but still a great find.
Congratulations nice one.

 

[Seahawks]

Just added this to my vintage Indiana Jones collection. I love the artwork on the box and as a bonus, it's still sealed in it's shrink wrap.

 

[Mini99]

Just added this to my vintage Indiana Jones collection. I love the artwork on the box and as a bonus, it's still sealed in it's shrink wrap.

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I can understand why you have got this, what fantastic art work.
Don't remember seeing this or for that matter much Indi stuff in the day.
Very nice piece.

 

[spoons]

Thats a beauty seahawks!

 

[Palifan]

That's a great Raiders snap-fix set and strangely I've seen a couple of these turn up recently after never knowing of their existence.

Nice to find a sealed one though and it will look great with your Indy collection.

Ian

 

[Snaketibe]

What a great Raiders piece! Congratulations on adding it to your collection

 

[Seahawks]

Just added this to my vintage Indiana Jones collection. I love the artwork on the box and as a bonus, it's still sealed in it's shrink wrap.

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I can understand why you have got this, what fantastic art work.
Don't remember seeing this or for that matter much Indi stuff in the day.
Very nice piece.

Thank you! I had never seen until recently and the artwork immediately grabbed my attention. Kept my eyes open for quite awhile until this one turned up for a price I couldn't pass up.

Thats a beauty seahawks!

Thanks Spoons!

That's a great Raiders snap-fix set and strangely I've seen a couple of these turn up recently after never knowing of their existence.

Nice to find a sealed one though and it will look great with your Indy collection.

Ian

Thanks a lot Ian. I've seen a few pop up recently as well, but most had the box beat up pretty bad. I got lucky finding this one.

What a great Raiders piece! Congratulations on adding it to your collection

Thanks so much Snake! I'm "chuffed".

 

[poncho]

here you go steve. im sure edd will like this post too.

got this in my local charity shop last week! boom it works too amazingly 8) even came with its original ploystyrene inserts.

 

[SAVORY100]

here you go steve. im sure edd will like this post too.

got this in my local charity shop last week! boom it works too amazingly 8) even came with its original ploystyrene inserts.

BOOM... drops the mic!
That is absolutely brilliant - well done Chris

 

[Clarkspie&chips]

Holy **** poncho, what a score. I always wanted an amiga 500 but what a set!

Captain planets mullet looks like it was made for that box

 

[bosk70]

I always wanted a Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 but went from a VIC20 to an Atari st, I always had Champaign taste but Atari money :lol:
nice pick up, I sold a load of BBC MICRO games and the computer, and my old Atari games system and loads of carts at a boot sale some years ago, regret it now, loved playing paperboy on the BBC and pitfall on the atari

 

[tobedesu]

Found these cardbacks in a box.
Anyone remember them?
I only have the Shock Trooper figure left which I posted a while ago.
Die-cast figures.

 

[subzero]

This is one I bought several months back but forgot to post it, got this one for xmas the one year and was my very first WWF figure. So many hours of fun with these figures along with the blue ring with sound effects which was ****ing awesome.

I love the Hulkster's steroid fuelled eye balls. :lol: