If it was a non-Deluxe Hydra Stomper, it was about a normal trade at trade value. If it was the Deluxe Hydra Stomper, you overpaid about $100, even if you paid full resell on the Power Base. If it was the non-Deluxe Hydra Stomper and I really wanted the Power Base, I would have made the trade. Since you had a $650 price on the Hydra Stomper, I would assume that it was the Deluxe and that you gave too much away in trade; probably over valued the Power Base.
@@toyfederation I only played with it twice and then I boxed it back up. I only sold it because I needed the money bad. The man that bought it also bought all my VHS tapes and other toys from the line later. I still have a few small things like folders and stickers, found them with my trapper keeper collection lol
When I was a kid I used to walk to school and there was a house on corner that had one of the city trash cans delivered the big ones and I guess the person died but they thru away everything I was doing 10 years old and I looked in it cus there was a ghostbusters headquarters sticking out I filled up my back pack with nothing but kool toys and wen I walked home from school the trash can was gone but I got ghost buster car with all ghost busters som motu some other kool thunder ate ji goe all vintage that was 30 years ago
I have a question (or two) for you guys. I keep many of my toys in their original packaging and do not open them. Some toys and playsets, like the Captain Power shown in the video, how do you know that is what you are getting inside? Has anyone ever sold you something or have you ever heard of someone getting a mint in box, only to open it sometime later to discover a bunch of stuff inside that isn't what's on the box? Another great video, keep them coming fellas! 😊
You really don’t, but if you’ve handled enough vintage sealed product you’re gonna recognize if it’s been redone or not. But then it’s not fool proof but also I’m not opening it anyway so you just don’t Know
@@toyfederation Makes sense that it would be difficult to pull that off. Especially since you guys have dealt with far more collectibles than I ever have or will. I want to imagine there is a special place in hell for someone who would do that anyway. 😆
Captain Power is one of the easiest toy lines to find still sealed in box. It was massively overhyped and over produced. The line didn't get much traction, and ultimately Mattel had to liquidate tons of unsold merchandise to discount chains like Big Lots. It didn't even sell there and Big Lots and they had to liquidate it too. I remember buying all the figures I didn't have for $.99 on clearance. I think I paid $2.99 piece for the XT-7 and Phantom Striker. The Power Base clearanced for $9.99 if I recall, but I didn't get it. Because the prices were so low, a bunch of flea marketers bought out their local Big Lots, and the stuff sat around carded and boxed for years there For me, the hardest to find stuff sealed in box is the stuff made by Arco; non-lightbeam toys. A few of the light beam toys, like the Blastpak 1200 are pretty hard to find sealed. I personally loved the line, even though I was hitting those teenage years at the time; when toys were no longer cool. I watched the cartoon and played along everyday. Had all the VHS tapes too. And I could invite friends over to play, and they thought ot was cool, even if they were teens playing with toys. It was cool, like Dragon's Lair was cool when that was a thing!
I still think the single hardest 80s player to complete is Volcan Rock from Power Lords......I've got a complete Hyve in box....and Volcan Rock in box that's about 98% complete.....it has taken me YEARS to put the Volcan Rock together. Crystal Castle is no push over either.
the Sectars spiders were cool, the action figures sucked. We had a few of the spiders and used them with G.I. Joe, TMNT, Heman, pretty much everyone but the lame human bugs they came with. I'm surprised no one just copied the idea, it was cool, it was a glove you put on, your fingers were the legs and mine had a ring you pulled and the claws grabbed action figures.
Agree. I would call it hard to find, but not really rare. Which rare is a marketing buzzword we all throw around too liberally! I once spent 12 years actively looking for an item, before I found a single one new in box. Aside from 1 of 1's, it may be one of the rarest items I ever sought. Unless it takes me at least a year to find just one for sale, I really don't consider an item rare. Rare is a relative term and means different things to different people, depending on where they are in their journey!
That Cats Lair was so BEAUTIFUL!! My parents got me one when I was a kid in the 4th grade. I haven't seen that piece in over 40y and this one in the video is perfect dude, so minty fresh. When he walked in with it, my jaw hit the floor. The colors were popping off my screen 💯💗
That's a very nice store you have! The Sectaurs set is awesome... I only have the one figure in that range, the one with the fly's head, had it for years, and only recently found out what it is 😂
@@tkhalo as more people watch they will get longer. Just trying to work that youtube algorithm right now! So be sure to share with your friends and tell them to like subscribe and comment! Hahaha
All that sectaurs stuff was red tagged down to almost nothing at my local KB toystore. I had the flying spider and dragonfly with figures and fn tossed them in the garbage 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Sectaurs looks so dark and foreboding. Then on the inside it's like a vaporwave graphic. I got a Sectaurs action figure. I found him recently digging out my old Castle Grey Skull.
wonder what the original Voltron, or skeletor would go for. Funny story I went back to my old house 20 years later and found one of my GI joes about 20 ft in the air. I sneakily knocked him down. His little rubber band waited for me all those years and then disintegrated!
Loving this channel. Another Rare playset worth mentioning along with difficulty of The Hyve, Crystar's Crystal Castle and Power Lords Volcan Rock is Blackstar's Ice Castle......not super rare and not a ton of easily lost pieces......but just the condition of the plastic. You either get unlucky, which I'd say 75% were in this category of plastic that turns brittle and shatters into pieces over time....OR.....you get lucky and have a plastic mixture that holds together over time and stays in one piece. Some sellers are even afraid to ship the castle due to it's brittleness.
Gotta wonder how honorable this guy's shop is? I recently took a Toys R Us exclusive Masterpiece Optimus Prime in the Japanese lettering box to a geek shop just like this one. The toy is worth 300-1000 US but the scum only wanted to give me $90. Suffice it to say, Prime is still in my toy closet. How much would you guys give me for him?
