New message from Barney Brown over at Herald Toys & Models;
"Okay so the heat wave is well and truly over, but we have
over 300 very hot SALE items to tempt you with! Just click on our 'Specials'
pages to take a look at our many new sale items, with further reductions on
many others and "Get Them While They're HOT!" Stay safe and keep well
everyone."
I've been over to have a look and there is
a lot of good stuff!
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Toys in the Media
This was a Faceplant 'sponsored post' which
appeared uninvited in my feed for some local (well; Reading) IT company of some
kind, it's more Preiser doing stuff in a human world, rapidly becoming a tired
trope as far as originality (or 'artiness') goes but always fun to see.
While I suspect unpainted Preiser provided
the population for this shot illustrating a Tic Toc article in the 'i'.
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Hammer Prices
The was some feedback from the special
Action Figure single-collection auction at Vectis last week;
"A two-day sale of action figures, TV & Film ty
collection sold for£210,000 at Vectis Auctions today.
The sale was mainly made up of a single owner group of
small-scale action figures many people will remember from the 1980’s – 1990
including Masters of the Universe, Thundercat’s, Tron, Buck Rogers, Clash of
the Titans, Flash Gordon and many more.
These toys would have cost a few pounds each when originally
sold, with many in the sale now reaching three or four figure sums.
Lot 5582, a Palitoy Star Wars vintage Power Droid 3
3/4" figure sold for £4560 against an initial estimate of £800. Palitoy
were the UK manufacturers of the original Star Wars toys from the 1970’s and
are now highly sought after by collectors. Another similar Palitoy Star Wars
vintage Greedo 3 3/4" figure appealed to buyers raising £3840 against an
£800 pre-sale estimate.
Vectis regularly achieves high prices including world
records for selling Star Wars toys but other less know character releases were
snapped up too. A Ben Gali Belgian figure from the 1980’s Thundercats cartoon
television series sold for £840 against a £200 estimate. Another popular series
from the same era was Masters of the Universe He-Man with a single figure
snapped up for £696 against a £200 pre- sale estimate.
The selection of Kenner M.A.S.K boxed vehicles and
accessories were especially popular; the 24 lots saw fierce bidding with the
highlight being the M.A.S.K SWITCHBLADE vehicle selling for £2160 against a
£400 estimate.
Another strong section were the Transformers. You would have
to be prepared to pay a minimum of £264 to buy any one of the single toys up to
£708 for the Hasbro Transformers G1 1984 Dinobot SNARL. Even empty boxes
WITHOUT TOYS commanded money – Lot 3143 Hasbro Transformers G1 1984 SOUNDWAVE,
BOX AND INSERT ONLY (NO TOY) sold for £168.
As with most collectable pieces the condition of these toys
was excellent, they were unopened and un-played with, in essence a collector’s
dream!
The extensive collection is the best of its type ever to be
sold in the UK if not the world and confirms the popularity of ‘in living
memory toys’."
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Links
NME explore a new game which even has me wondering if I should have a go and I'm sworn-off
the ultimate 'bread & circus' time-waster that is PC gaming . . . in my own
opinion of course!
Fake products including toys are planted in stores to confuse and amuse consumers
Collector Peter Nussbaum gets his collection in the local paper - Star Tribune
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More My Modern Met
Preiser's Plastic Pudding People Part One
Preiser's Plastic Pudding People Part Two
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