Adult collectors ruined the toy market in the 90s. We hoarded so much of it and kept it all MISB/MOC that we inadvertently made it worthless. IT'S ALL OUR FAULT! The only things from back then that are worth big money now are Pokemon and Magic The Gathering cards. The most valuable comic books from then are the Mcfarlane Spiderman, Spawn #1, The Uncanny X-Men issue that had the first appearance of Gambit, and that's about it as far as I can remember.
There are a few exceptions for action figures though....namely a few from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last few waves in the mid 90s. Some of them are now going for anywhere from $700 - $2K. I remember seeing several just sitting on the shelf back then but i didnt pick them up 🙁
McFarlane's Spawn line is another one people thought they would get rich enough off of that they could retire, especially the Malebolgia and the "Party" Angela (That was the version of Angela that they forgot to paint on her underwear). Last I checked, neither is worth anywhere near as much as they were in the late 90s/early 2000s.
I was big into the X-MEN line back then. I had multiples of Iceman, Wolverine 3, Phoenix and Rouge. They were the hot sellers back then. They can all be had for a song today.✌️
I remember falling into that comic book trap in the 90s. There were some titles I read and some I bought with speculation. Especially the #1s. Boy were we wrong. Lol.🤣
I was getting all the power of the force figures, long lightsaber, short lightsaber. Thinking they were going to be worth money, Nope!! But I did buy other figures during the 90s and 2000s.. Turns out the "Year Without a Santa Claus" figures that I bought from Sam Goody, of Heat miser, and Snow Miser. Are worth like 300 dollars now.. and I only bought these because I like the characters. Sometimes we never know what's going to be worth anything. So just buy what you like..😅
I'm glad they made them so buff and ugly in the beginning. I was in my twenties with a lot of disposable income. I probably would done the same thing if I wasn't repulsed by the looks of them.
Oddly enough, the least popular characters on popular TV shows, be they action figures, or plastic ship models, those are the ones that are worth the most money now. Nobody wanted them, and now they're hard to find.
Housewives in the 90s thought they were going to retire on beanie babies and we all know how that turned out! About the only thing you can collect and retire on is gold & silver baby!!
I remember everyone claiming that Power of the Force Princess Leia would be worth loads of money. The one in the White dress and was really bulked up with muscles.
I didn’t keep things in package because I was pretty sure everybody was buying them, but I do remember competing with rabid collectors to get the harder to find figures. Tarkin was the one I remember going to the most trouble over.
At a certain point, Tarkin became abundant again. At least in my vicinity, as I found several on pegs at reasonable prices, I was customizing other officers that they hadn't produced, yet. I own the actual ones, now, but I believe the head I made for my Tagge figure is still a source of personal pride. I don't think my Wulff Yularen is so shabby, either.
I had several exclusive Toy Biz figures. Us agent from the Iron Man toyline, Canadian exclusive Battle Blasters X-men figures, Spider-man: Clone Saga boxed set and Secret Wars boxed set, and X-Men: Strike Team boxed set. The reason that Iceman figure's value decreased was because ToyBiz rereleased that figure with a blueish tinted to the plastic. Once collectors who just wanted to add Iceman to their collections had that one to choose from, the value of the original clear version diminished. I was a collector of all those ToyBiz Marvel figures, and had at least one version of every character (except Dark Aegis from the Iron Man line) but I never thought of them as something to sell later. I just enjoyed displaying them.
I'm sure if I think on it I have plenty of examples too, but one that immediately comes to mind is Outcast issue 1. Kirkman was hot at the time and the comic book store I went to had it for like 8 bucks and were very confident that it was gonna shoot up in price once the show was released. I nurtured that issue for years, kept it safe, and now it's worth... basically 8 bucks still on the high end. No one gives a fat bag of turtle poop about Outcast.
I remember that POTF 2 green card Slave Leia. Couldn't find her anywhere, even the collectors didn't have them in shops. I got mine from a couple friends that said it was almost buying black market stuff, trying to find me one.
I would've liked the video just for sneazing if I hadn't liked automatically. :) haha My dad has that Deanna Troi figure. He had the hots for her. :) The Playmates ST figure line is still a great line. So many great figures (400+) to choose from. I obsessed over the 0s and 1s on my POTF figures when I was a kid, bought the collecting magazines religiously, searched high and low for ANY Boba Fett that wasn't a "full circle" on hand figure .. I couldn't tell you what my carded POTF figures are worth now (probably nothing by the sounds of it), I'm so outta the loop. I did the same thing with the ROTS line, only I wasn't obsessed this time around. I got the Target exclusives like the "Lava reflective" Darth Vader still on the card, I got the #28 "red eyes" Anakin .. I honestly have no idea right now. I thought about jumping ship, so to speak, and selling everything from the 90s and 2000s and use that to fund my vintage pursuit, but .. I don't know. Thanks for the video
Only thing from Death of Superman I recall was the limited Fossil watch. My grandfather died around that same time and I was inconsolable. Dad bought me one. Still have it. So the black on black watchface w/the Superman logo means a little bit more to me.
@That Junkman ''Deathstroke the Terminator'' (Slade Joseph Wilson), debuted in ''The New Teen Titans #2 (December 1980). And was originally created as a villain for The Teen Titans. His creators (Marv Wolfman and George Pérez) imagined a character who was an amalgamation of Marvle's (Nick Fury and Wolverine). His first appearance issue is worth a lot more then (Deathstroke the Terminator) Vol 1 # 1 from August of 1991. FYI- Marvel's ''Deadpool'' was intentionally developed as a parody of DC's ''Deathstroke''. 🤪
In the POTF2 days I did pretty well selling on the Star Wars collecter message boards. Brown Pants Endor Han Solo was a peg warmer here, but in high demand elsewhere. I must have made $25
Maybe in another 30 years on your 80th birthday that Man Eating Cow will be worth $30 there Junkman...or you can have "Opening a Rare Vintage 90's Action Figure" episode. I know you're a big fan of opening mint carded figures to get views.
That painted Invisible Woman was terrible, the eyes never lined up, and that's not even the rare Invisible Woman, the one from the main ToyBiz Marvel line, that the colors kicked in, when you froze the figure. The Iceman you mention later had similar properties, but only had those chintzy, jagged icicles painted onto him in places. But, at least you had that super cool stand you could fill with water, while freezing him, then you could pop the ice block with his ankles still in it, wet a surface, and skid him across it like he does in comics and animation. I too, worked at Toys R Us, and kept trying to get an Invisible Woman, and filled out countless "Goof Slips" to try to nail one single one down. Never got one. I even promised that I'd cancel previous slips if one came through, I wasn't greedy, I just wanted _one!_
Ah Service Merchandise. I always hit up my local SM when I was toy hunting. I bought up figures from all the small startup companies selling figures. Most of them are worthless.
I remember those days when figures were seen as the poor man's stocks and bonds.the line which I saw people buy most for potential value later on was star trek figures.every time a new series was released you saw everyone picking and clearing them out.the speculation market was very high indeed.I myself collected out of love and to have those figures not love of money as one should.when star trek did the infamous 1701 figures that ended the value of the whole line.
You want an extremely hard to find Star Trek figure? Try Chief O'Brian in Original Series outfit! That figure was so hard to find, I had to make my own!
Lando of the 90s🤔 Hell everytime I go into target or Walmart that’s all they have is “Fu&65# Lando🙄 Lando is like the all time leading shelf warming action figure ever produced, his legacy is unsurpassed in 40 years ! Somebody get Rippley’s and Guinness Book on the horn pronto ☎️
I have plans for the ultimate Deanna Troi Action figure. I have an original costume, just need a Real doll that looks like Marina Sirtis. I can sit it in a chair & it'll be just as useful as the real thing.
Did they ever make a Greatest American Hero action figure I wonder 🤔 I remember when I was a kid my mom made me a greatest American hero costume and when she was busy with washing clothes or making dinner I took the ladder out of the garage and climbed up onto the roof of our house to the 2nd floor porch and jumped off thinking I could fly🙄… I found out just like Ralph that I couldn’t and separated my shoulder and broke 2 ribs, never forget that day 🥴
I have six sets of the penguin commandos and I still love them because I got them for .50¢ each .they look good on display next to my dcuc Penguin figure.
The biggest flaw was not knowing when to sell.. When that Star Trek Troy figure hit 60 you should’ve sold, but nope you held. That’s why you didn’t make money, because you were greedy.
Just for shits and giggles, I looked up that Thomas Riker figure... There are three on Ebay, two on card , One starting at up to $119.00 and a buy it now for $155, and one starting at $169 with a Buy it Now of $220... And one that is loose but still has all the accessories going for $45.... else where on of couple sites I have never heard of there were ones on Card going for $68 and $74.... nothing to retire on, but at least it's more than $20...
Man did I screw myself buying a lot of Starting Lineup sports figures. I would check out the Starting Lineup price guide in Tuff Stuff magazine and generally act like an ass searching for the valuable players. By 2000 they were on their way to becoming worthless plastic.
Comics from Image: Brigade, Youngblood, Cyberforce & WildCats printed for a money grab. Along with Furby's and Beanie Babies. Worth more as insulation in an Eskimo igloo or used for as future birthday/ Christmas gifts to millennials. Don't bring up "Episode 1-3" Star Wars junk.
I worked at KB back in the nineties and I was the guy responsible for keeping those annoying ass demo toys going all day. To KB patrons I offer a sincere apology 🥲
