Toysrus.com selling vintage toys!?

[toys2cool]

I wonder if they'd give you that price back if you try and return one I have a Captain America, i'm gonna try and return it

[mazinz]

When I started collecting toys in the early nineties, TRU still had a clearance isle. This isle was usually full of stuff like Secret Wars and Super Powers vehicles. Later on, when I worked there, the clearance isle had been phased out for various reasons, but you could still find the odd thing in boxes of packed up merchandise. It's totally possible that this stuff was still in some backroom somewhere.
Actually, this reminds me more of working at Value Village. The management, who knew absolutely nothing about this sort of thing, were given a collector's guide one day and would jump on every chewed up thing they found, often putting said items in the display case for pricey stuff. I used to think it was pretty funny.

I used to love the clearance aisle as it was total bedlam and sh+t was just all over the place. It made looking in it more enioyable.

One of the TRU stores by me in the late 90's fished out some old MASK (you know with the helmets and vehicles not that Jim Carry crap) toys and I also found a few sealed Intellivision games and a super old commodore 64 game (mail order monsters omn a giant 5" floppy). Great stuff

[Earth 2 Chris]

This is odd. I know when Children's Palace went out, they dug out some old stuff.I got a 1976 AHI Spider-Man on motorcycle in 1992. My wife did find a pair of Super Powers Wonder Woman sunglasses at a TRU in the late 90s, but other than that, we've never been too lucky finding truly "old" toys at retail.

I still kick myself for not buying at least one carded 8" Mego Spidey from that huge endcap at TRU in 1986...

Chris

[jasonmego1277]

I do think they are cleaning warehouses and finding stuff. Not uncommon for them to be honest. I was a store manager ( Director) for them years back , and we would hear all the time about things like this. We always would try and the stuff brought to the stores, or sold to the employees, but they didn't bite. With the toy collecting hobby getting more and more popular , flat sales, etc, they may be looking at a new approach. They can increase their sales this way by looking through the warehouses, and using the online route to sell it. I do remember there were rumors of them looking into collector's markets , and maybe selling vintage merchandise...........so maybe they have finally given it a test run. You also know there are warehouses out there for these companies that probbably still have tons of this kind stuff buried in them....... way cool though.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I would have just stuck these on an end cap in some TRU somewhere, and set up a webcam to catch the reactions...

If that happened, it would be bringing to life an often recurring dream of mine. I know I can't be the only one here who's had the dream of walking into a toy store now and suddenly finding an end cap or aisle full of awesome vintage toys?!

[jasonmego1277]

If that happened, it would be bringing to life an often recurring dream of mine. I know I can't be the only one here who's had the dream of walking into a toy store now and suddenly finding an end cap or aisle full of awesome vintage toys?!

Believe me , I tried. The problem was most had no sku's in the system so they did not know what to do with it, and the ones that did had a clearance price of .01 cents. LOL that would have beeneven better. We actually were told they wanted whatever was in our store stock room shipped back with the next truck. The stuff that we heard was found in the company wearhouses, I tied to get , but was told no .

[toys2cool]

I wonder what else they found

[generic]

I wonder if they'd give you that price back if you try and return one I have a Captain America, i'm gonna try and return it

Seriously, you've got to try that! That would be awesome! I think this is where you need the video camera. Just bring in your Captain America and your laptop to the store and when they can't find the price, go to the TRU website page and tell the clerk, "If you can't find the price in the system, you can just pay me what they're selling them for at clearence on the website - $59.99." I would love to see that! Haha!

[mazinz]

I do think they are cleaning warehouses and finding stuff. Not uncommon for them to be honest. I was a store manager ( Director) for them years back , and we would hear all the time about things like this. We always would try and the stuff brought to the stores, or sold to the employees, but they didn't bite. With the toy collecting hobby getting more and more popular , flat sales, etc, they may be looking at a new approach. They can increase their sales this way by looking through the warehouses, and using the online route to sell it. I do remember there were rumors of them looking into collector's markets , and maybe selling vintage merchandise...........so maybe they have finally given it a test run. You also know there are warehouses out there for these companies that probbably still have tons of this kind stuff buried in them....... way cool though.

warehouse finds are pretty common. You hop on ebay and you can find all sortso f uncirculated rubber monsters, magazines and other material

The part that amazes me is how this stuff is stored for so long in one place and no one having a clue

a great example:

In the 90's old famous monsters magazines were hitting comic shops in a 3 pack that were due to warehouse finds. The magazines they were selling were from the 60's!

[generic]

In the 90's old famous monsters magazines were hitting comic shops in a 3 pack that were due to warehouse finds. The magazines they were selling were from the 60's!

The closest thing I ever found to something cool like that was sometime in the late 90s, I was in a convenience store in the North Georgia mountains and found a Battlestar Galactia toy from the late 70s in the toy section. It was covered with so much dust, you couldn't see through the top of the plastic bubble. It had probably been sitting there untouched for almost 20 years.

[jasonmego1277]

The closest thing I ever found to something cool like that was sometime in the late 90s, I was in a convenience store in the North Georgia mountains and found a Battlestar Galactia toy from the late 70s in the toy section. It was covered with so much dust, you couldn't see through the top of the plastic bubble. It had probably been sitting there untouched for almost 20 years.

Generic , now that is very cool. Any idea who it was by chance ?