2013 Urban Safari Hunting Hauls (Garage Sale, Thrift Stores, Craigs, Rummage...)

[mikeMc6]

I love it when Splitty puts his stuff up, and Marvelmania is really expanding his eye towards different cool stuff.. Love this thread but like Den I found nothing not for lack of sales, but new baby, plus work, plus heaven forbid social mego gatherings!

I miss hitting sales, maybe next week. Feels like I'm leaving cash all over Clark county for someone else to scoop up. Arghhh!

[MegoSteve]

Got lucky this morning and found these at a flea market: Two boxes of two Mego Waltons, a Six Million Dollar Man in a rough box missing the top flap and the girder (anyone have one for sale?), a Cher never removed from a torn box, and an open carded Muhammad Ali. Also found a loose Human Torch wearing Thor's boots, Mr. Fantastic's gloves and a white vinyl AJ belt (I think)... it was in a bag labeled "It is what it is."

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[Splitty]

----^ Wow. It's so cool finding vintage figs in boxes locally. Alot more fun then finding them online.

I love it when Splitty puts his stuff up, and Marvelmania is really expanding his eye towards different cool stuff.. Love this thread but like Den I found nothing not for lack of sales, but new baby, plus work, plus heaven forbid social mego gatherings!...

Yay! And... 'she' actually. I like violent movies and collect monsters, so I get mistaken for a 'dude' alot.

You know what I've found in the last two weekends?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

The amount of competition is just too much in my area now. It's gotten to the point where some jerk(s) is constantly creating ads for fake sales. I fell for it twice already .........This is the crap I am dealing with lately.
It's funny how toys ended up strengthening my conviction about how sickening human beings are.

I'm so sorry you're having such a difficult time. When it's like that and all the fun get's sucked out of g-saleing, collecting becomes such a chore and not a fun pastime. Even with buying to resale, it should be at least a little fun. You need a change of scenery.

...so you should probably not look at the stuff below. Just don't look. LOOK A-W-A-Y.


I totally lucked out this weekend My FIRST sale of the morning I just stumbled across was a collector lady just thinning out her stash just to get the house more clear. Her husband goofed and didn't get the Craigs ad posted, so NOBODY KNEW about it! so cool. The prices were very reasonable. She knew about ebay prices (on SOME of the items, others she didn't know), but just didn't care. She even threw things in for free!
And everything here is sooo cool, I don't think I'm going to resale ANY of it. Shame on me!



- Labyrinth 1986 sealed Paper Plates!! $1
- 1976 Ben Cooper King Kong mask (tag still on) in a rare color $1
- 3 Neca Nightmare Before Christmas figures $8-$10 ea (the Witches usually go for $70, which is why I didn't have them yet!)
- oops, I didn't notice the Imperial dragon was missing his wings $3
- super rare ceramic Kreiss-like Worrying Willie nodder $4 (Estate sale find)
- 4 aaahh Real Monsters figs $1.25 ea
- two super-sweet 60s Dam Troll banks $6.99 ea at local thrift store!! (Value Village, NOT Goodwill, as Goodwill ships ALLLLL the good stuff off to be sold on the internet now )
- everything else was like .25-$1

That was a way fun weekend.

[Werewolf]

I totally lucked out this weekend

The NBC and Real Monsters figures were a great find. I didn't even know they made Labyrinth paper plates. That's wild. Neat haul.

[Marvelmania]

Love that Kong mask!

[Splitty]

I don't have pics taken of it yet (and needs cleaning!), but today some dude posted a whole bunch of vintage Barbie stuff on Craig's List for $5 total.
The pics showed a 1962 fold-out Dream House, a black corvette, and bags of accessories. So I was like sure, even if I can't sell the house and acc, it'd be great for photo ops. And the vett can always sell (or be used by meeeee).

Well, guess what? Turns out the black vett isn't Barbie at all, but a 1975 Big Jim Wolf P.A.C.K. corvette!! Still has stearing wheel, windshield, and some stickers (missing seatbelts and striped stickers). AWESOME.

I totally recognize some of the bagged accessories as being Big Jim sports items too.

$5. Yay!

[EMCE Hammer]

Got lucky this morning and found these at a flea market: Two boxes of two Mego Waltons, a Six Million Dollar Man in a rough box missing the top flap and the girder (anyone have one for sale?), a Cher never removed from a torn box, and an open carded Muhammad Ali. Also found a loose Human Torch wearing Thor's boots, Mr. Fantastic's gloves and a white vinyl AJ belt (I think)... it was in a bag labeled "It is what it is."

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Nice haul. Now you can complete your Euell Gibbons Grapenuts diorama. I picked-up a bunch of Cher stuff about two months ago that I need to sort through.

[justzeg18]

So I found this little odd gem at goodwill today.
It's a variation on the old spinning fish catch games, but this time some ingenious marketing guru decided to make it monsters.
It uses all the same molds as the fishing version, they just added stickers that make them look like monsters.
They also changed the "water" to red.
Combining that fact w/ the little image of a blood dripping monster head on the front of the box, it seems we're fishing for monsters in a lake of blood. The sign seems to imply this all takes place in a cemetery...

[rche]

Aaahhh real monsters! !!! Yes!

[mvanis]

oh man I need one of thsoe! that's awesome... want to sell it? =)

[GHVersion12]

Here is my Sunday morning haul. I was pretty surprised and excited to find the World Class Championship Wrestling game as I have been looking for it for years and the best part is it is complete and so is the Barney Miller game.


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[Marvelmania]

Anyone pick up anything good lately?
Here's a few grabs from today.

1979 Rocky 2 poster $$3


M&M cuckoo wall clock $1


1980 Boxed Coleco Pac Man game $10


love this grab! a box of 70s & 80s records with some of my favorite bands. The guy had them marked from $1-$5 each but when I looked through the box I just asked what he wanted for it all, got all 108 albums for $25. Lots of Ramones, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Def Leopard, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Stray Cats, Van Halen, Cars, Beatles, SPK, Hendrix, Eagles, and just all kinds of odd ball stuff, K-Tel disco and other hard rock, punk, metal and pop. So far everything seems to be in great shape, clean and playable.

[RickD]

nice score on the Rocky poster and Pac Man coleco game

[Red Hulk]

Nice score on the Pac-Man game I still have my Galaxian,did the KISS Double Platinum album have the inserts?

[Marvelmania]

the inserts in this album were black with red kiss army lettering, I'm not positive if they go in this one or one of the other kiss records. In all there were 7 different kiss albums so they could have ben mixed and matched at one point.