Primetime Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 More 80s vintage toy pickups...thanks to Dark Knight for helping me acquire this 84 pre rub Soundwave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primetime Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 And got this at a show today. 1984 Matchbox Voltron III Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psithyrus Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Greeeaaaat. . . now, I feel like I have to have one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primetime Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Greeeaaaat. . . now, I feel like I have to have one of those. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymole Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Not sure if this one was posted before as i have not gone through all the pages yet, but I loved this Toy as a kid, mainly because of the technology. Flat square pieces of plastic that will change into dinosaurs/creatures and then back into squares again when using the machine. Here is what the squares look like before and after: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintcollector Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 More 80s vintage toy pickups...thanks to Dark Knight for helping me acquire this 84 pre rub Soundwave. This was my favorite Transformer as a kid. Great find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Awesome Transformer and Voltron. Hope to post something interesting in the next few days. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 As promised, my recent purchase: G1 Fortress Maximus Close-up of Gasket/Grommet: Head-Master Spike: Tech Spec (damn, it's huge. And 16 points! WTF?) Double the flavor, double the fun. The negative? It's not complete. Missing the two small guns and Instruction booklet. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicwiz Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Nice! There is a very slight chance I might have the instruction booklet for him.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Hook a comic/toy brother up. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 A couple of my favorites. Only the copies issued prior to September, 1987 looked like this. After that date there are several other iterations, increasingly more common as time went on. These first versions are almost never found sealed with only a couple sealed examples of either turning up so far, and certainly not in grade. To top it off they are both the best known copies and and in gorgeous condition. Despite being released in the NYC area as early as holiday 85, the NES wasn't released until holiday 86 and in fact, holiday 87 was really the first big sales push for the NES, so copies produced before that 87 holiday period, to have survived unopened.. is quite rare indeed. Both of these came from the collection of man who had passed away in 2012 but had, back in the day, bought all his titles at the day of release... without playing a single one. Quite unusual as most sealed games are store inventory that went unsold and therefore typically most sealed copies are the latest released prints/iterations/whatever you want to call them, because that's what the stores were stuck with when they went bust. This is the rare collection of sold inventory that was just... kept sealed by a collector/gamer from the day of release and was therefore full of first prints. A friend and I collectively acquired the collection at some risk for about 60K but it "panned out" very well in the end and thankfully made that price look cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tivo32 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Ghosts N Goblins was such a mind numbingly frustratingly hard game but so stinkin fun. Those are beauties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 thx! Hard, but great. One of the true classic earlier games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Christmas came. Any cool acquisitions? Love to see some old school Christmas present pictures too! Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Most likely pre-ordering this in the next day or two... http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK11727&mode=retail Masterpiece Transformers are like crack for adult collectors. I do not buy Transformers like if you were to go to Toys R Us... however these things are pretty complex and articulated larger figures made for adults. I have a few of them and usually have one on my desk at home. Right now everything is packed up though. For those that are interested I have an Optimus Prime, Hot Rod, Grimlock, Red Alert, Prowl and the Binaltech Skids. I look forward to Wheeljack though as I had him when I was younger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Post pics. I don't have any, but they look pretty sweet. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Post pics. I don't have any, but they look pretty sweet. Pat I don't have any pics and they are currently packed away. I have a lot of stuff and almost all of it divided between the bank, storage and relatives homes. One day I may be able to actually enjoy my collections. Prowl - compared to his G1 counterpart and some others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Friggin' awesome. Love that Prowl. Now I'm going to be buying those!!! DOH Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Friggin' awesome. Love that Prowl. Now I'm going to be buying those!!! DOH Pat The mold used for Red Alert is one of the best I have ever seen. Although it is a complex transformatio, it creates a clean robot body that looks like the cartoon versions. I am thinking of picking up a Sideswipe before they are all gone even though I never owned one as a kid because I like that mold so much. They have not created any other dinobots, however there is a third party company that is coming up with their own version that is currently under production supposedly. That would be a sort of "what if" Takara/Hasbro actually made the rest of the Dinobots in Masterpiece format. The problem is that they would wind up costing three times as much as these for each of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynaldosense Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Wow... Reading this really brings back memories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...