Pieces you passed on, and wish you didn't.

[jwyblejr]

Mego wise,it would be the loose Star Trek Aliens for $15 each I passed on. That was back in the mid 90s when I started to slowly get back into Megos. On the plus side,I did pick up a loose Dr.McCoy and Green Arrow from the same guy for the same price. Non Mego it would be the set of Star Wars 21 back figures that I saw at another antique show for $2100. That was just before the hype started back up for Star Wars.

[English Paul]

Passed on a pair of carded palitoy Starsky and Hutch on Ebay for £60 ($120). It ended with no bids.
I have walked away from things at toy fairs and then hit myself with a reality check a couple of stalls later and gone back - fortunately things were still there.
I think now that past experience tells me not to let things go.

[toys2cool]

Mine was a Joe Namath mib figure on ebay like 4 months ago buy it now $45,I'm sure it was a member who here who got him

and in 99-00 I skipped school to go to that Miami store I'm always talking about and didn't take a sealed Eternia from He-man for $350 worth well over $1300 now

[JDeRouen]

Waaay back in 1997, I found a pristine boxed magnetic Batman at a flea market for $50 but didn't pick it up. I always kinda regretted that.

[UOBob]

@ a brick & mortar auction: A weirdo Japanese tin Batmobile from the early 60s. It was MIB and lit up and made some crazy sounds. The box was darn near perfect and was mostly a fragile cello window on the front. Darn near perfect. The toy was perfect. Unplayed with and everything worked. Everyone but myself and one other guy dropped out at around 300 and I crapped out at 500. Found out later of course, that it was a probably a bargain at thrice the price, and what with the extreme mintyness, would command even more from the right collector.

Ebay style: 100% complete MIB Ali Ring. I don't know what it's worth and I don't care... I was in a position to win that sucker, and I darn sure should have. Also slept on some sweet BINs, including: 50 buck Minty Iron Man, 30 buck Inviz Girl, 100 buck boxed Hulk.

This post is bring me down...

[supes]

Back in the early 90's a box of moc Greedo's for 8.00 a piece.

[Surfsup]

I'm still relatively knew to collecting so I don't tend to pass on anything if I see something I want. I never know when I'll see certain things again.

[Flynne]

In 1995 I was at a Toy Show in Kansas City and at the end of the day I had about $30 left to shop with and a guy asked me what I was looking for. I said "Mego" and he pulled out the cherriest boxed Iron Man I have seen to date. He wanted $150 but was willing to come all the way down to $90 when he found out all I had left on me was $90. I decided to pass because I needed gas money to get home to Wichita when a friend of mine offered to loan me the $90. I said "No" and have regretted it ever since.

I got the guy's info but by my next payday he'd sold it at a show in PA. I think of that box everytime I see a boxed figure and I think I may never be satisfied unless by some miracle I track that box (on in better condition) down. That's a tall order.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I started "collecting" in 1988 or so at the ripe old age of 14. I subscribed to Toy Shop, but didn't buy much from it. When the 1989 Batman movie, I got into a spending frenzy and bought up TONS of black plastic crap with a bat-symbol on it. I was so caught up in new toys, I missed some really great (by today's standards) deals on Mego stuff that goes for 3 times the amount now. Same for Super Powers. Ugh.

Chris

[megomaniac]

All mine are non-Mego. Only two items I've left behind ever hit me dumb: As teenager in the 80's I went to a Super-Rx drugstore and found POTF Han Solo in carbonite. I passed because I was too old for toys. Then about 2001 I was at a flea market and a seller had several SETS of the SMDM bionic mission legs and arms, all loose, all for $20. What possessed me not to buy that, I still don't know.

My worst moment was selling my ENTIRE childhood Star Wars collection, ships, figures, everything including a mint and complete 12" IG-88, all for $80. I'm still smacking myself over the loss of that robot 20 years later.

[PCofmisfittoys]

All mine are non-Mego. Only two items I've left behind ever hit me dumb: As teenager in the 80's I went to a Super-Rx drugstore and found POTF Han Solo in carbonite. I passed because I was too old for toys. Then about 2001 I was at a flea market and a seller had several SETS of the SMDM bionic mission legs and arms, all loose, all for $20. What possessed me not to buy that, I still don't know.

My worst moment was selling my ENTIRE childhood Star Wars collection, ships, figures, everything including a mint and complete 12" IG-88, all for $80. I'm still smacking myself over the loss of that robot 20 years later.

I remember buying lots like that from the wayward SW collectors that had outgrown them . Sadly i know I passed on many good deals of MEGO between all the shows and flea markets I go to , but they just don't appeal to me.

[SoulSinger]

My mom sold all my megos at a garage sale when I went away to college. That was 22 years ago and it still stings.

[almitysufx]

I have two, both non mego. the first was when kenner started the POTF Star Wars line back in the mid 90's. The first wave had long light sabers then they switched to shorter sabers but still had some long packaging. I thought I had all the ones they did this treatment to until I was in my friends shop. There on a peg was the reg. Luke Skywalker. He didn't know it was rare, I had the $ in my pocket ($10) but asked him to hold it for me till the next week. I'm sure it's in his collection now. Never saw another one, last time I looked in the price guide and found it, it listed $1,000.
The second was the Star Trek Picard 1701. My girlfriend at the time collected Next Gen. figs. I went into Hills Dept. Store and the stockboy was just pegging the newest releases and the front one on the peg was the Picard. I payed no attention to as she all ready had several Picard figs. I wanted to get her a few of the characters she didnt have yet. OOPS! they only made 1701 of that Picard and soon after it was booking for $1,000 +

But the only real regret from both would be the $ from selling them would have gotten me more toys!!!

[Dave Mc]

This past year I passed on the opportunity to own one of the original Logan's Run figures. I wanted it SO bad, but I had some things come up in the real world and couldn't justify spending the money. I had to back out. But I was an email away from closing the deal. I had to pass, but I regret it everytime I think about it. It's one of those opportunities that just doesn't come along but once in a blue moon.

[ramsey37]

A story I've never told before:
Around 1999 or so, I purchased a dead mint pair of loose AHI Creatures, the "male" and "female" versions. Both are still pictured on Lou Melograna's Megolike.Com in the AHI section. I posted about the figures shortly after getting them. Shortly after that, I received an e-mail from a guy who was selling a Red-Haired Dracula and a Blue-Haired Frankenstein. I had spent all my cash on the Creatures and so had to pass on the Mad Monsters, which he later sold to Ahmed Abdoo (sp?). Ahmed later sold them when he liquidated his Mego collection to collect Charlee Flatt figures, and I've no idea what became of them after that. I've wished for years that I'd at least grabbed the Blue-Haired Frankenstein. I suppose it's a weird sort of serendipity I ended up cosponsoring the BH Frank card
George