80's era toy packaging is a lost art. Those gorgeous traditionally painted artworks belong in a museum and this is the closest we can get to the equivalent of an art restoration.
Dave, my favourite videos of yours are vintage box restorations. It's so satisfying to watch you at work. I've bought the tape, EVA glue and have all the tricks in the book from yourself and I love it when i receive a battered vintage box to restore myself, it feels hugely rewarding once you've finished it, even though it does take time as you say. Love watching you work my friend and thank you, you've taught me so much and helped me bring many vintage boxes back from the brink of ruin!
Awe man this brings back so many memories! I had the Fire Cracker and a bunch of other M.A.S.K toys as a kid. Wish my mom wouldn't have thrown all my childhood toys out me, I had so many! All I have now is a few Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars a Decepticon Transformer that's purple & blue and that's about it. 😞
Very good! What helped me a lot was polishing the outside of the box with some „floor-shine“ liquid (Polyboy - not sure what is available in the UK). It makes the print shiny and „seals“ the cardboard in some way. Cheers!
It really turned out well, Dave. The wear and tear reminds me of the faux weathering on the Hasbro Star Wars Retro Collection packaging. It’s funny how the weathering looks forced and like a cash grab where as the actual vintage wear and tear brings back a sense of nostalgia and longing for the simpler times of our youth when a new toy was like a celebration of life. Thank you for another great video. Cheers!
I've been waiting for a MASK box video for ages. So happy you done it. This is exactly how I do my MASK boxes and funnily enough, I was doing a Firefly Box when I came across this one. Great job as always Toy-polloi. Keep ut the great videos
I've learned a lot from your channel. Thank you! Let me try to give back a little. Instead of lighter fluid, give pure n-heptane a try. It evaporates quickly (like real quickly) and won't leave behind any of the oily residue that light fluid often does. It's apparently what professional conservators use in their work. In the US at least, a cheap source I've found is the product Bestine from the company Speedball (the screen-printing supply company). The stuff is truly magical for reactivating/removing adhesives.
Thanks Dave 😊 You are always doing something interesting. I will be sharing this video with friends who have a channel, one of them wanted to fix a box for a toy. Take care of Yourselves ☺
Loved the MASK opening titles! Box looked great! I've done a few myself, I run a red marker pen along the white cracks on the edges. The cardboard seems to absorb the ink and hides the cracks.
Great video! I have a bunch of old boxes that I'm going to have to restore (83 GI Joe APC & G1 Omega Supreme pop to mind first). Probably will change-up the ironing part and use my comic pressing set-up (w/ steambath) to get the major wrinkles out, then fine press any remaining areas with some other tools. The steam may even loosen the glue joints.
By coincidence just today I found a 70s era version of the game Battleship at an op-shop. The game itself is great shape, but the box is really dilapidated. I usually don't mind because for me, that kind of pre-used, beaten-upness (did I just invent a new word?) is part of the charm. But I think I'll give some of your techniques a go. Thanks, as usual.
Nice restore.I'm always a bit disappointed when you don't go over the bad creases with ink and paint to make it look that much better, because I know you are capable of it.
@@Phantasia_Workshop Yes, but I don't think he's EVER done a box/card repair where he's touched up the surface. He'll do a great job on the toy restoration, but will leave the packaging looking like it's been run over.
@toy Polloi man what you did to that box was quite amazing! I agree seeing age to it makes it look nice! Just how you restructured it wow love it! Great job! Always enjoy watching your repairs! -Stephen
Well MASK is always gonna get my vote Dave, actually have a couple of MASK boxes to do myself. Exceptional job though once again my friend. The colours on the box still look nice and bright too, as always thoroughly enjoyed it 👏👏
I wonder if it might be worthwhile to iron the flat unfolded box and leave it under a sheet of heavy perspex/plexiglass overnight, to really help flatten the paper. I also wonder if it would be worthwhile to fill boxes like this with floral foam blocking, to make them even more sturdy, and to help them keep their shape longer. If you wanted to do a display where you stack boxes like this, it would also help keep the boxes from being crushed due to being empty.
another interesting repair. Well Done. I wondered if the warm iron would add to dry out the old cardboard and make it even more brittle? I guess it's unavoidable.
This is going to be a great help with partly restoring a water-damaged Sky Commanders Locust Raider box. Dave I did have a question though. Do you know how to fix the spare tire mechanism on Firecracker, so that the tire actually locks in place? I've disassembled it after it suddenly stopped working and I think I must be missing something.
@@toypolloi I will throw a vote in for Thunderhawkif you decide to give it a go. I have a box with missing sections of graphics on every side due to Christmas wrapping paper being taped directly to the box and then ripped off.
I haven't looked inside this one yet. So hard to say. Most likely a clip has snapped off and would need either repairing or replacing. I'm sure it's fixable based on how the other toys work.
Nice . Good repair, restoration . I imagin you have gotten and will be getting loads of sugestion from your fans👨🏫👨🏫 . If i may. 😏😉 . On Jules Burt channel , he uses Mr Sheen to clean some of his book covers . Any how thanks for the help and advice . 🖖
Not at all. I have many toys to fix up. But people ask for more box repairs, and I know often collectors will only watch videos on toys they collect. So MASK fans may not watch the Star Wars Box repairs, etc.