News, Views Etc . . . Catch-up

Summer Sale

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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