This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection 26 26

[srezvan]

I like to buy lots of toys, match up parts, and fill gaps in my collection that way. I think it's a lot of fun. Bought a huge Joe and Transformer lot ~3 years ago, and another large lot 1 month ago. Was able to complete two vehicles - the Air Skiff (but missing Zanzibar's gun) and the RAM. My first purchase had the Skiff box, instructions, and accessories, but no actual vehicle. The second purchase had the base and a few accessories. Next task is to figure out how to remove stickers from the broken RAM for the better RAM.

 

[srezvan]

As I mentioned above, I like to buy lots of toys. Over the years I've resold parts I don't need or collect as lots, but I'm left with these that I just can't figure out. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. That little figure was from a board game, but now I can't remember which one. I'm also looking for a venue to trade toy parts (GI Joe, Transformers, Star Wars) if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks.

 

[whisp]

4 hours ago, srezvan said:

As I mentioned above, I like to buy lots of toys. Over the years I've resold parts I don't need or collect as lots, but I'm left with these that I just can't figure out. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. That little figure was from a board game, but now I can't remember which one. I'm also looking for a venue to trade toy parts (GI Joe, Transformers, Star Wars) if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks.

 

H is from 1983 GI Joe headquarters.  https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/83/headquarters/

[F For Fake]

Another Saturday, another estate sale, another small Star Wars collection! These weren't nearly as nice as the ones I picked up a couple of weeks ago, but still well worth getting up early to check out. They needed a little cleanup, but all in all I'm pleased. The big surprise was the Luke with the original lightsabre with the skinny tip still intact! I was stoked. I took the saber out and transplanted it into the nice clean Luke I got in the last collection. The rough Luke is pictured below, but the light saber is nice!

After the estate sale I went by the LCS, which was having a 20% off sale. Picked up this set of Talkin Turtles. Cards are wavy but the set is still cool.

 

[Buzzetta]

9 hours ago, srezvan said:

As I mentioned above, I like to buy lots of toys. Over the years I've resold parts I don't need or collect as lots, but I'm left with these that I just can't figure out. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. That little figure was from a board game, but now I can't remember which one. I'm also looking for a venue to trade toy parts (GI Joe, Transformers, Star Wars) if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks.

 

A - "Might" be the canopy piece from the Starcom Load Lifter

C - GI Joe vehicle "seatbelt" clip.  It clips to the figure and then slots into a vehicle. 

G - GoBots Baron Von Joy http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/gobots-tonka-gobots-super-baron-von-joy-025-/200080/

J - Clone Trooper Blaster Rifle (Pretty sure but not definitely sure)

E - Rock Viper Pistol GI Joe

M - Star Wars Clone Trooper Heavy Blaster Rifle (modern)

P - Boba Fett Prototype Armor Pistol (modern)

R - Star Wars Clone Trooper Blaster (modern)

edit: @srezvan - Found G and I think J is another Clone Trooper gun. 

Edited September 23, 2019 by Buzzetta

[followtheleader]

"L" looks like Airwave's helmet (Sky Patrol from the Joe line).

Patrick

[miraclemet]

12 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

A - "Might" be the canopy piece from the Starcom Load Lifter

it's not the load lifter canopy.

 

vs

 

 

If I remember right, and my brain cant exactly recall it, it's part of a construction set where you can build spaceships . I remember building with that piece, but I cant remember the KIND of building set it was... 

[Buzzetta]

1 minute ago, miraclemet said:

it's not the load lifter canopy.

 

vs

 

 

If I remember right, and my brain cant exactly recall it, it's part of a construction set where you can build spaceships . I remember building with that piece, but I cant remember the KIND of building set it was... 

You are right! 

I just looked through Construx and Knex pics and don't recognize it from those either.  Now I want to know...

[miraclemet]

2 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

You are right! 

I just looked through Construx and Knex pics and don't recognize it from those either.  Now I want to know...

IT WAS CONSTRUX!!!

(I nearly yelled in my desk)

You can see an example of the canopy on the vehicle below

 

god did I build a lot with those, and stepping on those blue connectors was like 10x worse than a lego. 

 

Edited September 23, 2019 by miraclemet

[F For Fake]

10 minutes ago, miraclemet said:

IT WAS CONSTRUX!!!

(I nearly yelled in my desk)

You can see an example of the canopy on the vehicle below

 

god did I build a lot with those, and stepping on those blue connectors was like 10x worse than a lego. 

 

That's great! So glad you unraveled the mystery! One of my best friends had a ton of Construx when we were kids, so we'd have contest called "Construx Racing" where two players would assemble the sturdiest vehicle they could engineer using only the Construx at hand, and then we'd ram them into each other at full speed, over and over again, until the vehicles could no longer roll. Whichever vehicle managed to roll freely for the longest time was the winner.

We tried playing again as adults and the Construx had more or less turned to dust. These plastic toys weren't meant to last decades...especially when they spent most of their life being rammed into each other at top speeds!

[Yorick]

Construx by Fisher-price was awesome.  Still have many boxed away somewhere, but the evil alien guy sits on my bookshelf.  Really cool little purple dude.

[D84]

I've been on a Star Trek kick.  It's amazing how cheap they are.

[srezvan]

Thanks to everyone for helping identify those pieces. I've had them for a while now, and it's nice to know what they are. I completely forgot that I picked up some modern Star Wars in a lot and gave them to my son without evening thinking about the weapons. He's 2, so he'd lose them anyway. The Joe stuff makes sense, since I bought a huge lot of Joes, although I need to do more research on the seat belt since I'm not familiar with it. But the Construx, I never would have gotten that. I never had those as a kid and don't remember seeing them all that much.

[whisp]

56 minutes ago, srezvan said:

Thanks to everyone for helping identify those pieces. I've had them for a while now, and it's nice to know what they are. I completely forgot that I picked up some modern Star Wars in a lot and gave them to my son without evening thinking about the weapons. He's 2, so he'd lose them anyway. The Joe stuff makes sense, since I bought a huge lot of Joes, although I need to do more research on the seat belt since I'm not familiar with it. But the Construx, I never would have gotten that. I never had those as a kid and don't remember seeing them all that much.

In and around 1990 they used those seat belts like on the 1990 Hammer.  It plugged into the seats to hold in figures.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZauJ7rM5c

Edited September 24, 2019 by whisp

[srezvan]

Antique store sidewalk sale. I loved these as a kid. Still sealed. 

 

[F For Fake]

There were a TON of yard sales going on Saturday, and I found a few things. I'd circled a sale on Craigslist that advertised comics and toys, and showed pics of a display case full of Joes, several straight arms, etc.

Got to the sale Saturday AM only to find that this was the second weekend for this sale, and all the good Joes had been scooped up! That's how it goes sometimes. I went ahead and picked up the rest of what was left. Mostly figures that no one likes or that you always find (tons of vehicle drivers, Crystal Ball, Iceberg, etc) but for the price I decided to take them. I ended up scoring on the comics though! That story will be over in the garage sale thread.

Moving on from the sale I was still Junk Crazy, so I went by the toy mall. Didn't find much, but I did pick up a grubby Donald Duck figure for my Duck shelf, and a couple of cheap soft head Turtles in decent shape.

Next up I took my wife to a mall in a nearby city so she could do some shopping, and discovered a vintage toy shop in the mall, which was a first for me! Most of the stuff was crazy overpriced, but I did pick up these DVD battles sets for $20 each. Missing the DVDs, but I'm opening them anyway so I don't care. I don't do modern Joes much, but I always thought the radioactive Snake Eyes was a cool figure, and I love the MASS device accessories.

 

[followtheleader]

Finally picked one up.

This figure has so many problem spots that i thought id never get one.

Lights and sound work, chrome is great, etc.

Glad to finally get one. 

Patrick

Edited October 1, 2019 by followtheleader

[bane]

3 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Finally picked one up.

This figure has so many problem spots that i thought id never get one.

Lights and sound work, chrome is great, etc.

Glad to finally get one. 

Patrick

I remember getting that for Xmas .... still have it somewhere! 

[F For Fake]

15 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Finally picked one up.

This figure has so many problem spots that i thought id never get one.

Lights and sound work, chrome is great, etc.

Glad to finally get one. 

Patrick

Awesome! This was also a Christmas present for me, always love the design.

[followtheleader]

8 hours ago, F For Fake said:

Awesome! This was also a Christmas present for me, always love the design.

I just can't believe how big the box is. 

Though it looks awesome, it seems like a huge waste of space. 

Probably should have been sold in robot mode. I know, they didn't sell that way. 

Might have looked better than the gun mode within the box (with the window display). 

Patrick

Edited October 2, 2019 by followtheleader