Toy Collecting: Not that Rare

[palitoy]

So, as some of you know I have been in the midst of a move for almost six months. The first thing I had to do was get rid of all my toys, posters, records and guitars because the Realtor told me they were a distraction and would hurt the home sale.

Took me over a month to put it all in storage, I am now living in a tidy, boring house.

Upon touring houses for sale, I noticed toy collections in about 1/3rd of them, 1/3rd weren't occupied so I imagine this number may have been higher..

• One house had a large assortment of Barbies tucked in the basement.
• One bedroom (and I wonder how this dude worked this) had an epic display case loaded with diecast cars.
• In another place, I found a Mego Dukes of Hazzard collection in the basement. This one I wanted to photograph but that felt creepy, so i didn't.

Finally, in the house I ended up buying, while I was figuring out a place for stuff to go, I found a whack of Beanie Babies in their acrylic displayers. Future investments I suppose.

So collecting is alive and well.

[Werewolf]

Yeah, it's a pretty common hobby. Most people are just more shy about it than us.

[Mr.Marion]

I went on a business appointment and the guy had Corgi and dinky cars including the UFO and Space 1999 vehicles. He mentioned how pricy the solid box corgi Batmobile was . From my research in the neighborhood of $400 but I didn't want to pry.

[toys2cool]

that's pretty cool, everyone should collect something.. It's just so fun

[samurainoir]

I've always done unusually well when I've tabled at small, less promoted shows in your neck of the woods. Even when there hasn't been a great deal of foot traffic, compared to shows in other GTA bedroom communities.

I've also always felt like there is an unusually high amount of collectible and hobby stores (and flea markets) around you too. More so now that I am living equidistant on the OTHER side of Toronto, where NONE of those kind of stores seem to exist, other than a couple of comic stores. It's positively antiseptic out here when it comes to collectibles.