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That guy had a great Godzilla collection. And I'm sorry, a Popy Jumbosaurus Godzilla, boxed in that condition, only worth $500? Please! I don't know if the buyer was a plant (I get that feeling often on this show too), but that piece in that condition was easily worth at least a thousand bucks IMO, if I stumbled upon that at a show and had the extra money, I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. It very rarely shows up in that condition, certainly not at a toy show like that.
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Oh, I'm sure the buyer's are plants. They always seem to go after the one piece that the participant doesn't want to sell.
He didn't sell the Godzilla for $500, did he? I thought he got $1000 for it.Comment
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He did (supposedly) get $1000 for it, but at first Elyse told him that it was worth $500, which was way off IMO.Comment
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OK, I thought as much. When I saw it I thought "That's all they cost MIB? Why don't I own a loose one?"Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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I think for a second season, they're going to have to do more non toy or comic booky things. Which isn't really what I want, but as Elyse says at the start of the show "if it can sit on a shelf, somebody collects it." You could get into some crazy collections of stuff and that would open it up to some real strange cases.
And I still think the Flintstones guy was the most nuts of all the people they showed. He was creepy. Almost as creepy as Richard Hatch, now that I think about it.Comment
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I think this show tries to label toy collectors as dysfunctional individuals that live in (or create) unhappy homes. It's kind of like Hoarders except more subject specific. But I think this hobby is like anything you do in life for entertainment. If it takes priority over essential planning and protection of your home and family, then you've gone too far. My own hobby is built off of disposable income or trades. The bulk of my income goes first to bills, then to savings or investments in my 401K. What I have afterwards, gets used for whatever we need or want and then my hobby comes dead last. But my hobby has also been a life long investment. So at 48, it would be very easy to have amassed...well...alot. It would also be very easy to film that collection and falsely characterize it as "abnormal" from someone with an agenda to sell. And any therapist that would agree to the terms of meeting someone like this is not offering a professional assessment. That therapist got paid by the producers to offer an opinion in line with the perspective they were selling. And it places those who do not have a "problem" in a uncomfortable light. Megoscott's discomfort in watching was a perfect example.Comment
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Oh yeah, you really don't see ones in that condition come up for sale much these days. His firing fist wasn't missing, it still roared, and the large box looked pretty nice. A loose one in that condition would likely go for way more than $500 on the open market. And like I said, I'd pay a grand for that boxed one with absolutely no hesitation.Comment
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Is it done? I didn't see anything about it tonight.Comment
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Yeah, last week's two episodes was the end of the season.Comment
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