Vintage Collectibles Thread

[galactiboy]

Great pick-ups Flosi... some great figures in that group. I always had a soft spot for the Endor Trooper, not a special figure by any means but I remember having him as a kid and really liking him.

 

[Khev]

No natural disasters? Quite a few faults and are capable of big quakes.

Yes but that hasn't really translated to anything. There was the St. Helens eruption over 30 years ago but events every 30-200 years don't make for a place I'd call prone to disaster.

I lived there from 1988 to 2006 without anything more that some light flooding of the Columbia river in the mid-90's. Quite the contrast to the yearly storms, hurricanes, and ongoing risk of your house just being swallowed up by a random sinkhole that we deal with here in Florida.

 

[DPrime]

Great pick-ups Flosi... some great figures in that group. I always had a soft spot for the Endor Trooper, not a special figure by any means but I remember having him as a kid and really liking him.

Yeah, he was very cool. I remember using him with my GI Joes too, until I dismantled him for some reason...

 

[user 1190]

Yes but that hasn't really translated to anything. There was the St. Helens eruption over 30 years ago but events every 30-200 years don't make for a place I'd call prone to disaster.

I lived there from 1988 to 2006 without anything more that some light flooding of the Columbia river in the mid-90's. Quite the contrast to the yearly storms, hurricanes, and ongoing risk of your house just being swallowed up by a random sinkhole that we deal with here in Florida.

I agree I could never understand why people would want to live where hurricanes or tornado are an annual occurrence.

Yeah OR and the west coast have some lurking disasters but aren't common and even when we get decent size quakes they do little to no damage.

 

[DPrime]

I agree I could never understand why people would want to live where hurricanes or tornado are an annual occurrence.

Yeah OR and the west coast have some lurking disasters but aren't common and even when we get decent size quakes they do little to no damage.

Yeah, but it's always something.

We used to have tornado warnings all the time when I was growing up in southwest Ontario, but they usually don't amount to anything. I guess recently they had a bad one in Goderich, but that's the only one I can remember in the last three decades that really did substantial damage, and even then, only one person died.

As far as Hurricanes go, what can you do? They hit the coasts - gotta have people living there, for trade, fishing, etc. Think of all the major cities on the east coast of Canada/US, for example.

I'd love to go back to the west coast, even though earthquakes cause far more damage than either tornados or hurricanes... I think, anyway.

 

[user 1190]

Earthquakes on the west coast dont cause more damage then hurricanes. Last large one was Northridge 17 years ago and tons of retrofitting and changes have been made to make the next one of that size even less damaging.

 

[Nintenjoe]

just got in a few more he-man items. i'm not one for collecting miscellaneous he-man items, but i had these when i was a kid.

 

[Skiman]

Company coming over for the weekend soon. 'Nuff said.

So it's a foursome then?

 

[karamazov80]

I had a plastic, translucent He-Man ornament deal you painted up and stuck in the window. Pretty sure Hurricane Rita did away with it, though.

 

[Skiman]

12 years for me, too.

 

[brucecamblzchin]

'I am a cork board'

 

[Nintenjoe]

'I am a cork board'

yeah every time i read that, i say it like he-man would say, "iiiii haaaaave the powerrrrrrr!"

iiiiiii aaaam a corkboooooooarddd! lol.

 

[brucecamblzchin]

yeah every time i read that, i say it like he-man would say, "iiiii haaaaave the powerrrrrrr!"

iiiiiii aaaam a corkboooooooarddd! lol.

Word, that's what I did! Nice pick up though mate, I admit I will buy pretty much anything with the old Super Powers logo on it.

 

[DPrime]

Gah, went through my Dino-Riders Deinonychus - missing a part and another broken.

Oh well. Got a few more of these to go through yet, and I'm not getting my hopes up!

 

[Nintenjoe]

Word, that's what I did! Nice pick up though mate, I admit I will buy pretty much anything with the old Super Powers logo on it.

hahaha, cool. when i first started collecting vintage MOTU i was buying everything, but it got out of hand pretty fast so i scaled down big time.

 

[DPrime]

hahaha, cool. when i first started collecting vintage MOTU i was buying everything, but it got out of hand pretty fast so i scaled down big time.

Sooo easy for this hobby to get out of hand, isn't it?

So, any new vintage news/buys this weekend, folks?

 

[Deak Starkiller]

No vintage for me, but I did pick up the Thundercats Classics Lion-O & Tygra. Pretty cool except Lion-O's sword is a bit...limp plastic -wise. Bandai use some solid plastic too, joints are nice and tight (like your mom) and I have to say very accurate to the animation model.

 

[Deak Starkiller]

Oh, AND WE'RE BACK! Thread resumes...

 

[DPrime]

No vintage for me, but I did pick up the Thundercats Classics Lion-O & Tygra. Pretty cool except Lion-O's sword is a bit...limp plastic -wise. Bandai use some solid plastic too, joints are nice and tight (like your mom) and I have to say very accurate to the animation model.

I was pretty excited about these when they were first shown but I think it's worn off... I think if they were MOTUC size I would still have picked them up, though.

 

[galactiboy]

Are they not the same scale as the MOTUC figures? I just assumed they were

No recent vintage pick-ups for me either. At this point I'm considering what line to focus on next; I'm thinking either Joe's or Super Powers. I prefer Super Powers, but since I only want about 12 Joe figures that might be an easier one to work on.