Favorite Lunchbox?

[Mikey]

Hey Mike...I know you had a huge lunchbox collection.

Did you sell them all?

Yea, Hector

Unfortunately they all had to go a few years ago.

[HardyGirl]

As a kid, I was lunchbox deprived. My mother just didn't see the point when a paper bag would do just as well, and I couldn't lose it. My friend took pity on me and gave me her Bobby Sherman lunchbox when I was in 4th grade (the time I stopped eating school lunches). Then right before 6th grade, I saw a Bionic Woman lunchbox in the back-to-school display at the grocery store. I even had my own money to pay for it. But y'know what Mom's answer to this was? "You already have a lunchbox."

Of course, this is why I collect them now, and whenever I eat lunch w/ my kids, I bring one. (usually one of my newer ones) Now I have:

SMDM (1st version)
Hardy Boys
Star Trek (catalog repro)
Star Trek (gift shop special)
The Monkees (catalog)
Fame
Star Trek TNG
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (Target repro)
Knight Rider
SchoolHouse Rock (catalog)
a generic planet Mars lunchbox (Chabot Space and Science Center giftshop)

[johnnystorm]

Had a Batman one in the '60s (and no it's long gone and now out of my price range to replace), then a Rat Patrol one (which I still have but in super-rusty condition). Later on I had (briefly) a Partridge Family box my Mom got me because I liked the show...until I used it as a sled one day on the way home and destroyed it. Last lunch box I had, replaced with paper bags after that.
Favorite ones that I found later on but never actually used were the Evel Knieval, Super Friends, & Marvel Super-Heroes. I'd like to find a decent priced Indiana Jones & Robin Hood one.

[jessica]

I wanted to be grown up so I had the most boring lunchbox ever. I wish I had a Planet of the Apes one.

[Megospidey]

My favorite was the Road Runner and Coyote...still have it.

My second favorite was the Marvel Superheroes...

Third - Disney's Jungle Book.

[Joe90]

I remember this one. I wanted it badly...



I remember getting one of these second hand as a kid. It was a little knicked and scratched but it was still very cool...

[TEXASFETT]

My favorite one was Knight Rider....I thought I was all billy badass in elementary. I wanted a Kiss one so bad my mom said no!!!

[david_b]

My favorite was the Road Runner and Coyote...still have it.

My second favorite was the Marvel Superheroes...

Third - Disney's Jungle Book.

I was stuck with the Road Runner and Coyote one in grade school.. I REALLY wanted Batman and Robin, Green Hornet, Marvel Superheroes, or any kind of cool hero. FINALLY got the smaller, collectable 60s Batman along with the Joe Astronaut one.

I would have given my left *** for any of those as a kid..

david_b

[wilbs518]

Marvel Super Heroes
DC Heroes
Empire Strikes Back

[vintage spideyfan]

I've always been partial to the Alladin Universal Movie Monsters lunchbox.



Some more shots of this beauty...
Universals Movie Monsters Lunchbox | CollectionDX

[boss]

[Mikey]

Not as a rule, but in general I always favored Aladdin boxes over King Seeley boxes.

Aladdin used rich colors and had great artwork - almost like a movie poster.

KST favored more pastel colors and sometimes their art was was a little plain.

[toys2cool]

my He-man and Gi joe ones from when I was a kid

[Adam West]

Not as a rule, but in general I always favored Aladdin boxes over King Seeley boxes.

Aladdin used rich colors and had great artwork - almost like a movie poster.

KST favored more pastel colors and sometimes their art was was a little plain.

Aladdin also introduced the 3-D lunchbox which is are the boxes with the impressed images. They are really hard to find in high grade condition.

I have a large collection of vintage lunch boxes that unfortunately are sitting in storage boxes because my kids were too young when I was collecting them and now that I can display them, I haven't had time to create a display shelf.

I only owned two lunchboxes when I was a kid....Adam-12 and Washington Redskins. I think my actual boxes were pitched so I ended up purchasing replacements. The Redskins lunchbox is actually quite rare and at least as far as lunchboxes go, usually sell for quite a bit of money because it isn't an easy box to find and is a cross-collectible.

By far, my favorite box of all time is 1954 Superman. The graphics are just incredible. I actually ended up buying it from someone on Ebay who happened to live about 20 minutes from my home but he was asking way too much for it so no one bid on it. I asked him if I could come up and take a look at it and possibly make him an offer and he agreed. The box was in excellent condition (better than his pictures on Ebay and would probably grade a C-8 to C-8.5). He actually used it when he was a kid and when his mother died he inherited some furniture and found it packed away in a drawer. I told him the box was worth $800 easy (at least at the time when I bought it) but told him that I really couldn't afford that kind of money. He asked me how much I could afford, I said $400 and he agreed to sell it to me because he saw that I was just a collector and being completely honest with him. Plus he said it made him feel good to know that a box that belonged to him would be appreciated by someone like me.

Star Trek '66 is an excellent dome box and I have a lot of other favorites.

As a side note, when I was collecting, '60's boxes were going through the roof, '70's boxes were just starting to climb in value, and nobody wanted '80's boxes. I do have a He-man lunchbox that is mint with tags and I think I paid $15 for it. I realize that lunch boxes have fallen in value since I was collecting them but in hindsight, I should have bought up a bunch of mint 1980's boxes that nobody wanted at the time. I'm sure that He-man box would fetch way more than what I paid for it.

[wayne foundation 07]

I think it would have been 3rd or 4th grade I had an Incredible Hulk box.I remember talking milk to school in the thermos and ruined it.Always loved that box really colorful.