Thrift Store Speculators needed

[ddgaff1132]

So I've been hitting the Thrift and Goodwill stores alot. Especially since my nearest one is selling by the pound. In the Mego/ Mego-like catagories I've found :
2002 8" Spidey and Gobby figures.
An actual Mego Superman.
2 Breyers girls figures 7.5"
And the wrestler figures that are near Mego scale.

What I need speculation on is
Why am I not finding any 9" Famous covers and the like?
Also I wonder how long it will be before I start seeing the RE-Mego figures?

I gotta say. The first day I start finding current Mego-like figures in those Goodwill bins. Thats when I begin camping out at that store.

[samurainoir]

Weren't famous covers generally a collector's line being sold via collector's venues like comic shops as opposed to the toy aisles to kids?

I don't ever recall seeing them in mass market stores, but that might be just Canada.

[thunderbolt]

Because they weren't bought by kids, just collectors for the most part. I've only seen a Hasbro Sandman one time and they wanted way to much for him. I guess they thought he was valuable. I think the same will go for the retro figures out now.

[thunderbolt]

Weren't famous covers generally a collector's line being sold via collector's venues like comic shops as opposed to the toy aisles to kids?

I don't ever recall seeing them in mass market stores, but that might be just Canada.

Toys R Us carried them here, its how I got them all.

[BlackKnight]

I got most of my Famous Covers from Target .... & TRU. Then later, towards the last few , they were Diamond / Comicbook Shop Exclusives... Rogue , Red Skull, NightCrawler, and so forth.

A few were also KB Toys Only Figures..., the 2 packs I think ... Spider-man / Electro & Spider-Woman / Spider-man ... Then I think a Different Spider-Woman.

[vulcan2074]

I bought most of my Famous Covers at TRUs in New Mexico. I ended up giving them all away. They were fun to collect and even more fun to give away to kids.
Sammy

[RG]

I know toys r us has famous covers but only tops 5 or 6 out at a time here local. I've found a couple at the goodwill but they were so trashed not worth the $4 price they had on them .

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

I think I got most of the ones that I bought in a store at Kay B Toys. Otherwise it was ebay all the way. Famous Covers at Goodwill? Dare I dream?

[AAAAA]

i saw quite a few at the stormville flea market

[ddgaff1132]

Maybe I shouldnt have focus on "Famous Covers" only. There where other 9" lines. The last I saw in that scale where at Wallymart. I think it was the "Spiderman Origins" line. They were 14.99 a piece. I got a Spidey, Iron Spidey, Doc Ock and Goblin. Also Did'nt Hasbro do a 9" run of figures for DC. I bought a Blue Superman (from the Death of Supes story line.) at a Salvation Army store And I think I saw a Golden age looking Green arrow figure at a used video game store. Both were marked up so high you would have thought they were Mego's.

[BlackKnight]

Double post .

[BlackKnight]

Batman (Target Only )
Superman ( Target Only )
Aquaman
Green Lantern
Golden Age Green Arrow
Superman Blue ( KB Only)
Martian ManHunter ( KB Only )
Sprang-ish Batman & Robin 2 Pack ( KB Only )
1st Appearance Batman with Book ( Book Stores I think )

Deluxe Box Sets, Target Only

Batman
Superman
Penguin
Joker


Spider-Man
Black Spider-Man
Iron Spider-man
Captain America
Wolverine
Dare Devil
Dr. Octopus
Green Goblin

Target Only's

Punisher
Cyclops
Mr. Fantastic
Sandman

I think that's your List of 9inchers from Hasbro ... I have all except like 4 of em.

[samurainoir]

Famous covers and dc hasbro figures are generally dirt cheap everywhere you go, so I don't think you need to limit yourself to finding them in thrift shops. Rather than picking up used played-with versions, boxed and new will generally only run you a few bucks.

[thunderbolt]

BK, the Dick Sprang Batman and Robin was Hasbro Collectors website exclusive, and there was a Ditko Spidey that was Target exclusive, too.

[BlackKnight]

I saw the Dick Sprang set at KB too ...