5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

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Matchbox MAC lot- After my video this week, I got really interested in MAC toys on eBay despite the fact that I try to only buy them in the wild. So here is a really great starter lot that will likely go very cheap.

AHI Batman Road Race Set- AHI did more than rack toys with Batman, they also did some pricier items, though I wouldn't be generous about the quality. Take this Batman road racing set, it's full of cool little easter eggs and the cards are adorable. I owned one of these for a time just so i could photograph it!

Monster Vending Machine header cards- I never search for vending machine header cards because I could easily become obsessed with them and yeah, look at how cool these things are! Looking at these things is such a gut-punch of childhood, it's unfiltered and amazing.

View-Master Good Guys Gift Pack- Some kid brought this into kindergarton and I remember desperately wanting this afterward, which made no sense because I had half of the reels already, my dad sold viewmasters at the time. I blame the beautiful orange package with superheroes...

Sealed Case of Space:1999 gum cards: I'm not justifying the pricing on this but i love the box litho on this very much. I had an empty one some time ago but a flood took care of that. I don't think Space:1999 gum cards sold very well, collecting in the 1980s I ran into sealed boxes everywhere.



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[Earth 2 Chris]

Awesome stuff! I had that View Master Good Guys pack, even though I also had most of the reels individually. I think I got the gift pack for Christmas. I remember I kept that canister for a long time. Wish I still had it!

Some of the cardboard standees in the Batman race set look a lot like Ideal's Batman play set. Both Mego and AHI got a lot of mileage out of that Murphy Anderson art.

Chris

[Confessional]

LOVE vintage vending!… there's lots of supercool monster/bug/halloween/kong/apes stuff out there; certain rabbit holes of fun doom!

That said I reconditioned a nice 70s machine a couple years back and plan on filling it with creaturific art toys and vintage bits at events. It will have a custom header inspired by the creepy genre too.

[TrekStar]

Love the Batman road racing set, never knew that exsisted.

[MRP]

I had gotten that Viewmaster set for Christmas when I was very young, though it had a red and white Viewmaster not brown, and that was in many ways my introduction to super-heroes in a big way.

-M

[Bruce Banner]

Still have my View-Master Good Guys gift pak... (yeah, my viewer was red and white, too.)
(Also still have the Marvel All-Star gift pak.)

[EmergencyIan]

Love the MAC stuff. It's right up my alley and was all those years ago.

I think the Batman road racing set box is great. Love that View-Master set as well.

- Ian

[tay666]

I never search for vending machine header cards because I could easily become obsessed with them and yeah,

First I never even knew there was such a thing!
Let alone think about searching for them.
But after seeing that, I could easily become obsessed with finding some really cool ones to display.
Will have to wait until I have a bit more disposable income though.