What is your best "adult" discovery of a childhood toy?

[MIB41]

I think discovering there were secret identity Megos was a major buzz for me. When I first saw that in Tomart's 1992 hard back price guide, I was blown away. I NEVER knew Mego had actually released an official version of Peter Parker using Shazam, which I myself used as a kid. The irony in that still makes me shake my head to this day. The early forms of customizing were in play even with Mego themselves.

[Mr.Marion]

To be honest with toy shows and the magazines in the 90's there is not too much I didn't know about. The Fleetwood Ghost Rider is a good example of one that flew under my radar. The guiliver marvel and dc pvcs. The Lincoln monsters I didn't know about until later. Zorro from John's book. I do remember seeing a palitoy carded Torch at a show the seller was high as a kite on everything else but I think he wanted $175 for him and I did buy an fantastic 4 vhs from him. This was in the late 90's.

[PNGwynne]

Oddly, I knew about the SI because I recalled the catalog ad. (We did A LOT of catalogue shopping in the '70s & '80s, as a small-town family.)

But the Teen Titans & Tarzan were teen discoveries for me as I started re-collecting.

[TrekStar]

My discovery of Kirk and Spock in A small shoebox in our attic, we never go up there, it's just insulated
but my Mom some 35 years back must have put some other things up there and one day about 5 years ago
I went up just for curiosity to see what was up there, it's a small attic, have to keep my head slightly
lowered, noticed some old records and junk stuff, a woman's shoe box, took a peak inside and OMG there were
Kirk and Spock in the shoe box, no weapons though, but my obsession thus began to start collecting them
again.

[Captain Big Trousers]

The Takara Henshin Cyborg line. The history is fascinating - the links between GI Joe, Action Man, Takara Cyborgs, Denys Fisher Cyborg/Muton, the Micronauts and the Transformers... it's like a toy family tree.