2012 Urban Safari Hunting Hauls (Garage Sale, Thrift Stores, Craigs, Rummage...)

[Monsterama2000]

Here's my haul from yard sale-ing yesterday (sorry about the crappy cell phone pic) --



ZOOM Record
Muppet Babies carrying case
Garfield's 20th Anniversary book
Set of 6 Tom and Jerry and friends cookie cutters from 1956
A bag full of mostly Sesame Street figures (including a Grover finger puppet)

Paid $4.75 total. Not too bad!

[megocrazy]

PM'd you about the gun. Pretty sure I have one. Missing 3 pieces of armor. May have 1 or 2 but not the square rudder armor. The box shows a picture of all the armor. That's a very sweet score.

Not finding anything at Garage/Yard Sales...but my thrift store has been good to me recently. Today it was especially good to me:

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Found a few other items like a complete Charlies Angels Puzzle, VHS WWF Survivor Series with the Hulk Hogan anti-smoking insert card, 6 Baseball Yearbooks from 1970 - 73 (Reds '70 and '71, Phillies '73, San Francisco Giants '73, LA Dodgers '73, Boston Red Sox '73), 3 New York Nets ABA Playoff Programs (71/72 (2) and 73/74 with Dr. J) and a New York Jets Yearbook from 1972 with Joe Namath and John Riggins on the cover. Also found a few 45's and 5 LP's. But the thing that blew me away was the fact that I found a Boxed Jetfire. I had to do a double take when I originally went by it. Pickin' has been slim at this thrift store for a while.

I may be bringing the Jetfire to the Meet. Not really much of a 80's Toy person. Anyone know what's missing from Jetfire? I know the gun is missing...but don't know anything about Transformers. BTW, Jetfire is white...only thing that has yellowed is one of the hands. You can probably see it in one of the pics.

I left stuff behind too. They had an Einstein Electronic game still in the box and 2 hand held football games...one was a head to head and the other was Electronic Quaterback. Also left behind a whole bunch of VHS's I know I could flip easily on ebay...and the fees wouldn't even hurt

[HardyGirl]

Hey! I have that Zoom record! Nice haul!

Here's my haul from yard sale-ing yesterday (sorry about the crappy cell phone pic) --

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee161/Monsterama2000/0520121019.jpg

ZOOM Record
Muppet Babies carrying case
Garfield's 20th Anniversary book
Set of 6 Tom and Jerry and friends cookie cutters from 1956
A bag full of mostly Sesame Street figures (including a Grover finger puppet)

Paid $4.75 total. Not too bad!

[luey]

New finds today

Hit 2 Estate sales today, took my little girl so I thought she might hold me back...First sale I saw some Shogun Warriors in the pic (3) but was #33 in line, a guy drove 2 hours and was #1, he got them of course but he was a nice guy, I was happy for him... I however managed to snag a box of micronauts under the table, priced $3 for all ... I another guy I know was walking around with a diecast Hulk MIB in his hand and said, hey you want this? Sure for $25, Thanks Marcus! Maggie saw a box of doll clothes and they are all vintage Barbie and Ken clothes, $3... Next stop I got the Batman doll, Corgi Batmobile box (no insert), 1979 Black Barbie MIB, Sasha Doll MIB, Golden Girl and outfits MIB, Atomic Man, Topper Soldier, ROTJ MOC, Bionic Woman and Maggie got a Baby Doll total $55... Sasha should be $100+ ... Good day picking, on the way back I got 1990's Trendmasters Godzilla MOC and MIB for under $2 each and a Bunch of Playmates Star Trek Ships MIB for $8 each including Borg Ship and a Ton of Jurassic Park stuff MIB for $5 each... Need a nap!

[EMCE Hammer]

Another inspirational post from Mr. Mason!

[RickD]

Can always count on Greg for the good stuff!

[Nostalgiabuff]

damn, i have yet to hit a score like that

[Nostalgiabuff]

hit the Stormville flea market this morning. lots of vintage goodness. i picked up a GI Joe footlocker with a nice sea adventurer inside, several outfits including the 2 zipper astronaut, part of a muscle body and a few other accessories.
saw several Trek Megos, boxed Apes Stallion...guy wanted $80.00...that a good price?
also spotted a Bionic Woman car, which I don't remember ever seeing but it was the correct scale and had the BW stickers on it
unforetunately had to leave before getting though all the rows due to other engagements

[BENDY]

Great Haul.

[Den82]

Yesterday stunk for me.

I went to one where it mentioned vintage GI JOE (that you had to ask for). It was an older guy who in his 60s I guess who had an odd mixture of 60s, 70s and a lot of 90s reissue stuff. I drove almost an hour to get there and the guy had no idea what he wanted or how much any of it was worth and kept hitting me with these trick questions that were annoying me.

He had like a Man of Action with Kung-Fu grip in a 60s Deep Sea Diver outfit that looked complete, but the head was gluded on, patches of hair missing and discolored hands.

I've been through it before: Older guy, bought GI Joe strictly as investment in the 90s and thinks they are sitting on a goldmine now.

[Peter Panda]

This is an awesome thread...i love to see the finds people make!

[HardyGirl]

Hit 2 Estate sales today, took my little girl so I thought she might hold me back...First sale I saw some Shogun Warriors in the pic (3) but was #33 in line, a guy drove 2 hours and was #1, he got them of course but he was a nice guy, I was happy for him... I however managed to snag a box of micronauts under the table, priced $3 for all ... I another guy I know was walking around with a diecast Hulk MIB in his hand and said, hey you want this? Sure for $25, Thanks Marcus! Maggie saw a box of doll clothes and they are all vintage Barbie and Ken clothes, $3... Next stop I got the Batman doll, Corgi Batmobile box (no insert), 1979 Black Barbie MIB, Sasha Doll MIB, Golden Girl and outfits MIB, Atomic Man, Topper Soldier, ROTJ MOC, Bionic Woman and Maggie got a Baby Doll total $55... Sasha should be $100+ ... Good day picking, on the way back I got 1990's Trendmasters Godzilla MOC and MIB for under $2 each and a Bunch of Playmates Star Trek Ships MIB for $8 each including Borg Ship and a Ton of Jurassic Park stuff MIB for $5 each... Need a nap!

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Wow, a black Barbie! Not Christie, Barbie! That's cool!

[theantiquetiger]

No major finds in the last couple weeks. I did score this Blind Melon tour poster signed by four members of the band for $5

[emeraldknight47]

No major finds in the last couple weeks. I did score this Blind Melon tour poster signed by four members of the band for $5

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/5e7b8ac7.jpg

Pretty sweet score for five bucks! SCORE!!!!!

[Toyman_Chris]

Someone responded to my Craigslist ad. These were his toys from his childhood. Craigslist comes through again!

I am planning on bringing a lot of this to Mego Meet.