Me in the 80's playing with most of these: "I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow up..." Me now: "You already are." Me in the 80's: "Aww, that's sweet." Me now: "No, seriously, you already ARE. Save that stuff ! Me in the 80's: (Doesn't save stuff) Me now: Hmm, I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow old... 🤣
Think Barbie has gone thru many eras she was born in 1959, Coronation Street 1960 longest running shows in history in the World don't forget Jem rocked in the 80s i even watched it girls had it and many others to choose,just as good as guys did
My parents recently gave me a couple of my old transformers from the 80s. Sound Wave and Blaster I think. I gave them to my kids. They're surprisingly well-built, have metal joints in them, and transform just as well as they did when I was a kid. They definitely don't make them like they used to in this case. Some of the greatest toys ever imo.
Definitely don't make anything good anymore. Brittle plastic and cheap parts made in China. Toys are definitely garbage now. I worked at a Wal-Mart during a holiday season and was disgusted by all of the merchandise coming in. Made me wonder why anyone would ever want to buy any of that junk to begin with.
Some of the markets for these items have, frankly, gone nuts. I can understand rare items going for inflated prices, but some of these toys and games are nearly as common as dirt, yet still often have high asking prices attached. If I can go to eBay any given day and find tons of examples of any TMNT, GI Joe, or M.U.S.C.L.E. figure I want, they aren't rare. Overwhelming demand (and in the case of video games, fishiness in the grading and auction world) has driven these high prices way beyond what they should be "naturally."
They have gone nuts and some of them can certainly be overinflated. But it is crazy to see what some people will pay for things like this. Thank you for watching!
@@MrsCap343 you are a very wise person . As I believe the same thing. You can ask whatever u want . If no one is willing to pay that much. You still have it
Most people don't realize the amount of appreciation from toys. I collect hot wheels and action figures, and many of these bought within just the last several years have tripped in value. Like the Storm Mortal Kombat og Ninjas, RLC R34's, Mafex Superman, Figma Metroid, Marvel legends Spiderman figures, and more.
I love seeing retro toys online, and in person is even better, but it's no longer fun to collect stuff because of greed and everyone wanting top dollar for junk. Im cool with the memories 😁
I have a super Nes and a whole chicken feed box with toys from the '80s! I even have comic books in make condition from the early 2000s. In this video was really nostalgic. Thank you
My mom found a couple Cabbage Patch kids back then. She made a few hundred dollars. There’s still at least two opened ones in my parents’s basement. I had an animal one, too. Teddy Ruxpin always creeped me out then and still does. The room that I had to share with one of my older brothers was half sports trophies and Shirt Tales and my half had Care Bears. I found a vintage Rainbow Brite unicorn at the thrift store a few years ago. I have my original stuffed Gizmos and stuffed girl Ewok. I still have a Barbie and the Rockers van. I never had a Rocker Barbie, though. I finally spotted one at Kmart back in ‘87 or ‘88, but I was probably 8 or 9, so I guess I felt I was a little too old and didn’t want to ask my dad to buy it for me. I actually hid it behind some other stuff, thinking I would come back later to buy it, but it was gone. When my oldest brother moved out, I started cleaning out his closet so I could get him out quicker and have his room for my extra stuff. When I opened it, all his Dungeons & Dragons stuff fell out at my feet.
I collect cabbage patches and have been for many years the only ones that are into the thousands are the original handmade ones not the mass produced ones.
I used to create elaborate terrains for my Ninja Turtles in the woods behind my house. Me and my friends built breakaway bridges with scrap wood over trenches lined with landscaping plastic and rocks to make it like a river. We made cool “hangouts” for our toys from cardboard boxes painted to look like city buildings or surrounded with bark and rocks to look like a cave. We cut up some corrugated drain pipe to look like sewers connecting our Turtle “world”. We must have spent an entire summer playing with just that and jumping on the trampoline. Needless to say our toys got wrecked! But it sure was fun!!
I am blessed to have my Donkey Kong & Frogger that were made my Coleco in the early 80’s.I am sure I could get close to a 75.00 to 100.00 for each of them,except they are so sentimental to me that I would feel richer keeping them.
Can I hit the time travel button, sure would love to have some of these toys today and show them to my kids. At least I have my original old weeble house!!
It would be great to have a stock pile of them. Especially if they were in mint condition. Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great weekend as well!
I have the green Boglins and he's really cute in person. He's a puppet, so you can make his mouth move with your hand inside and there's a little toggle to make his eyes look from side to side and also his eyes glow in the dark. I don't have the box anymore and wouldn't sell him anyway. Very cute toys and I enjoy your videos!
Never throw away your child's toys if they were especially beloved and are in good shape. Or can be cleaned up. 60s and 70s also. Believe me I collect and know
I had so many of these toys, and i still have a few, but nothing close to mint or in the box. My best friend had the first 4 TMNT comics, they were so good and dark and gritty, not the TMNT that became huge. I have my boba fett original kenner. I had star scream, and shock wave with the 4 cassette animals. Lots of gi joes, the sno cat, the hydrofoil, the helicoptor, my buddy had the base. Hours we spent. Robotix was another cool toy from then. My sister still has her cabbage patch kid, hush puppy and the lamb from care bears.
How I loved my 'pet' Boglin! One of my friends strongly resembled my Boglin and he loved his nickname of Boglin. My pet Boglin was often taken out to my favourite heavy metal pub and he was very well loved by everyone. Boglin - I haven't said this name for years, so feel I've made up for it in this post!
Idk bro, I been hustling on ebay for about a decade now. And while the price of most items can vary from month to month, and some bidders can drive an auction up much higher than normal sometimes,, whether they are caught up in a bidders war or perhaps money is not an issue. So an item may have sold yesterday for $800, and today you can buy it now for 39.99... You just never know. Sometimes a seller may not know what they have and list it low, with a buy it now offer. Or perhaps an auction may get driven up because multiple buyers are bidding, then later perhaps the auction ends late in the Night, and Noone bids it up. So timing is also an issue
Omg just from the thumbnail, I remember my Boglins lol!! Used to have like 10 of those things. And living just south of Cleveland, GA as a child, 30 minutes from the cabbage patch kids HQ, I lived 5 houses down from Xavier Roberts the inventor of the dolls so my mother had tons of them.
Loved some of these toys. Had a cabbage patch and I liked the way it smelled. It had its own odor like perfume. 😊. They even had cabbage patch cards. Wow, wished I kept some of my stuff.
I've never seen any of the Star Wars movie's or the Star Trek movie's either. I assume I'm missing out, since I over hear people talking about those movies to this day.🤔🤷🏽♀️
keep your eye on garage sales, my son who is 10 bought 3 of these metal car toys that have a spring thing that makes them go on their own. all three were sealed and he got them for 1 dollar lol. I checked out ebay just incase and they sell for 25-50 bucks sealed.
I love collecting Toys, and comics from any time period. It is my true love. I am 38, but when I find a toy I have been looking for, or something that I think I'll never find is such an amazing feeling. I am a kid at heart, and it's never going to change. 😊 I have been collecting since I was a young kid. I always took care of my figures. Alot of times never opening them. I have found some gems throughout my years collecting too. I love it! Oh man! I had a ton of masters of the universe figures. Those are unfortunately ones I couldn't stop myself from playing with. Skeletor is one of my all time favorite characters. Also I had alot of ghost busters toys, along with the building they had. That building had value to it when u researched it not to long ago. Sadly my mom gave them all to good will! 😡🤬 I was keeping them at her house, and thought that I didn't want them anymore. That hurt 😢
Can I mention the Smurfs figures? I’ve somehow become involved with collecting these since they were introduced in the USA back in the 80’s. Did you know that the company that produces them, schleich, has made a small series of new figures all along since the 80’s? For those who are interested, there is a really detailed official collector’s guide published by an Italian company called Gian & Davi, check it out! Over the years, there have been promotional Smurfs figures that were made that go for larger amounts of money. Also, some of the playsets and (mushroom) houses go for large prices as well. Rhetty, sorry to bring this up, but the Smurfs photo you show at the beginning of the video aren’t from the 80’s. Don’t worry though, most people can’t tell the difference, anyway. 😃
Yes I knew that was a newer photo of Smurfs. You can definitely tell the difference but I also thought they looked cleaner and more crisp for a video than the older ones. That is interesting that you are collecting them. I haven't really gotten into them nor known what all was out on them going back to the 60's. I just remember the little toys, plush dolls and cartoons of the 80s. I'm curious if the values went up when the newer movie came out? Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory hmm, I don’t recall any real increase in value of the figures when the movies came out. I think mostly some sellers on eBay increased the prices of the ones they were selling, but not all across the board. The value lies more in the rarity of the figures.
I agree, about the values, a little over stated, I live in South Florida and this stuff is, believe it or not, is available at reasonable prices, now I might be a little more privy to finding this stuff, as I've been collecting since the 70s, and have a lot of dealer friends, who still have a good amount of the things listed, now, things like cabbage patch kids, you can't give those away, u actually see them in our thrift stores all the time, boxed, if anyone wants anything on this list, minus some of the obvious Grails, that you got right, hit me up, but, Great video,👍👍👍👍
Man, the amount of money my ma has thrown out over the years in toys me and my brother had . He was born in 84 I was born in 87. Had the NES , super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive with 100s of games thrown out. All the TMNT original toys, Manta Force still in the box starships, dozens of WWF wrestlers, lots of original Terminator 2 toys, Ghostbusters toys and play sets, He-man, Thundercats, Visionarys. Oh man 😬 I only started collecting things like silver age comics and pop culture memorabilia my late 20s and all that glorious stuff is gone. 🤣🤣 From Scotland 🏴👍🏻
If there is more than one toy in sight then it is a mess. My mom threw away all my toys. My wife threw away all my vinyl because they weren't aesthetically pleasing for her to look at even though they were neatly stacked on the shelf. All my collections even my coin collections were thrown away. Apparently there is a fine line between collecting and hoarding.
I remember being in a toy store and seeing a whole rack of the fx-7 Star Wars toy for sale no other Star Wars toys were available they couldn’t get rid of it . If only they knew
An original NES does not sell for $1100 on Ebay. Just because someone has posted a price does not mean they'll get that price. Usually, if the seller has advertised a rare game along with the NES, then it would explain someone dropping $1100 for the console plus whatever came with it. Edit: Then you went and mentioned Heritage Auctions who were proven to be rigging their own auctions. The Zelda title mentioned was bought by one of the silent partners of Heritage Auctions to artificially inflate the value of the game.
The original NES (which came out in 1985 (not 83)) with the R.O.B. Robot will sell for big money. The console, by itself, isn't that rare and will NOT fetch the ridiculous $1100! It was the sealed retail copy of Super Mario Bros that sold big money. This guy needs to do his homework better. The Famicom (in Japan) came out in 1983.
From this video education alone, I could make over 12, 000 dollars. Yet, I collected much earlier in my twenties or kept my old toys... May never sell them. lol
Super Mario Bros games are only valuable when complete in box. Otherwise I paid $30 for an excellent condition of a Super Mario 3 cartridge. Also Heritage House and the WATA grading system are corrupt (I.e. they are the same owners).
Nothing wrong with getting one not in the box. The object of it all is to use it. Just about every market has people in it to inflate prices. Thank you for watching!
I’m annoyed that I used to have Castle Greyskull, She-Ra, 6 Cabbage Patch kids and a whole set of Strawberry Shortcake figurines and because of my family being mean idiots after my parents passed, I lost everything I ever owned.
I do like reminiscing about these toys. But I also loved fireworks. I unfortunately blasted many of my toys to tiny bits when I taped big powerful firecrackers to them and lit the little wick. Kaboom! My mom's hard earned money to buy those toys was sacrificed because I just happened to have extra firecrackers to blow up stuff with. 🧨🧨 But you can admit l, a good amount of these toys deserved a big blast.
I'm so pissed at myself for throwing my 80's toys away. The original metal Voltron, M.A.S.K. vehicles, transformers and so on. Like my dads mother throwing away his old baseball cards I wish I held onto my old 80's toys
“If it’s factory sealed…” yep. But what kid would leave things factory sealed??? Because I have a ton of heman and shera figures but they definitely are not factory sealed. 😂
I had so many of these. Some I damaged purposely (gi Joe's I tied to fire crackers & well you can see where I'm going with this). I had so many nes cartridges. I had toys from the late 70s too. I was a stupid kid...... but I had fun🤣😫. I still have some garbage pail kids & tons of comic book & sports cards in near mint-mint condition
If I had a way to send to my past self some messages... I would be rich, by now ^^; (they all would sound like "hide _"name of the toy"_ and his parts somewhere safe and don't let your parents trow away the box")
These prices youre mentioning are astronomical. Im a collector of 32 years, and unless youre speaking of graded toys or prototypes that were never publically released, then these prices are incorrect. Now some of the toys from other countries can be pricey, such as your mentioning of Brazil.
There are certainly some crazy prices and I think a lot of them have been inflated. Those kind of tactics have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. Thank you for watching!
"Listed on Ebay for.." lol Listed' means jack..VHS tape are 'listed' for $6k, while same one is also listed for $3..the actual worth. $1100 for a NES system? Your prices are way way off. Using Egay for price evaluations is not a viable pricing strategy..esp if you're not references actual Closed/Sold listings.
YES! I got to experience the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's in grade school, then as a teen in the 80's got to transition to high school, growing up in the best decade ever- the 1980's!!
What I find as sad is the people who are children today will not have tots to look back on their youth in 20 years. All they will have is electronics. I enjoyed my childhood playing with my toys and playing outside with my siblings and friends. Gen X'er s had the best childhood. Toys, Saturday morning cartoons, and playing outside. Who could ask for more.
I do find it sad that kids just aren't into toys like they used to be. There really is a lot of joy in them no matter what you have. Even if they are homemade. Thank you for watching!
It's up to the parents to encourage a proper childhood, nothing has changed from then until now except people distracted by technology becoming victims of "advancement".
In 1988 my brother and I redeemed cans and bottles, collected and saved every coin and penny we could find for 8 months until we had enough to get an nes from kay-bee toy store. I still have it and it still works and I still play it with my boys. Made in Japan still playable 30+ years later. Amazing.
I still have an NES, too, Mauricio. I also have the Atari 2600 that my Dad bought around 1980, still works no problem..wish newer consoles were made to that standard of quality. I have built up quite a library of NES games over the last 6 1/2 years, almost 340 of them. Only a small handful are in box.
Man I loved M.U.S.C.L.E. figures as a child, and He-man, transformers, smurfs, micro machines, Nintendo, boglins, baseball cards, mad balls, gI joe, a team, knight rider and tmnt's! Man nostalgia at it's best! Thank you for this video!
best thing for me in the 80s as a child was the freedom to roam.i remember most all these things. i was into g.i joe.we were mostly outside ,involved in physical activities. the toys were rainy day and winter activities
Yep..my son had the Nintendo game system.we did too. But he spent most of his time outside on his B.M.X. bike. That was his big obsession. Now that he is in his forties he races quads . He even has sponsers and wins frequently..Luckily he also is a foreman at his construction company so he can pay for his expensive hobby.
I had a Rainbow Brite doll. No clue what happened to it. We didn’t think about selling our toys back then, just playing with them until they fell apart and then giving them away. I guess that’s why the 80s toys are so rare. I go antiquing a lot and hardly ever see 80s toys.
As someone who buys, restores and resells games the numbers you are stating are over inflated and can be from fake bids. Like the stadium events that sold on eBay for $200,000. Turns out it was kids making the bids. I have have been in the possession of very rare, games, and even had values assessed and was still no were near these numbers. When information like this is taken out of context it makes people think their old broken stuff is worth a fortune and in reality it isn't and it becomes impossible for someone like myself to buy, fix and resell an item when the value is way lower than what they think. It also makes it way too expensive for a casual collector to buy anything.
I’m having this issue with CPK right now on eBay. People are selling their memories I think. Many sellers are asking for several thousand for a NIB Cabbage Patch from 1980’s. You know what I see when I find someone selling several NIB CPKs? I think of the times when I wasn’t able to get one of my own in the stores growing up because they bought all ten from the shelves…😢
I’ve always seen values of collectibles, “as in the eye of the beholder “, kinda thing. Because if something is actually only worth $50, but a collector of that character, series or franchise wants it bad enough, they’ll pay double that.
@@Subzero271978 1978 is a Good year to be born in my friend, 🥂, I totally feel the same way I just sold eight Ninja turtles to a toy store in chagrin Falls Ohio 150 bucks. To me that was a fair price specially for not being in 100% condition ,but decent, someone else could be priceless
@@floydsemlow8253 I like to think it was, I was able to be around and see the beginning of a lot of cool stuff 😁. Yeah TMNT stuff is picking up steam again. But never ceases to amaze me how people will charge for nostalgia, it’s not even real, it’s a feeling. Hope you have a great rest of the weekend brother!
1980s was the best time to grow up in the toys ,cartoons,playing outside and no social media brain washing people was the greatest time ever I had the biggest majority of these toys before they got put in the bin as i outgrew them. I really miss those days
My brother has ours. He still plays it too. We thrift shopped a lot of the games we couldn't afford as kids over the years as adults and he has a great collection.
I still play with my original NES too. What's so impressive to me is that it's the only console that hasn't required any type of restoration. My Gameboy Color is working too but the screen will probably need a replacement.
I love your channel and like the information, but I have to say your NES info is WAY off Most NES open systems will sell for about 50-75 bucks. And a boxed system shouldn't sell for more than 150. Also, your average copy of SMB will barely sell for a dollar, and that high-priced boxed version was an artificially inflated sale that was meant to drive up used game prices. Sorry, not trying to be a "gotcha", but I love your channel and want your info to be accurate.
I got a NES in a box for $75 and it took me awhile to get that. There were a lot going for more. Those kind of tactics of inflating the price have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. Thank uou for watching!
My sister still has her Nintendo; controllers and duck hunt gun and games. I want it just to play it. I bought this Nintendo mini that had games already stored in… but it’s not the whole game. And no duck hunt gun! Original is always best
These toys already made you rich. being fortunate enough to have grown up in a time period like that is a true blessing.
Yes it is. Thank you for watching!
Me in the 80's playing with most of these: "I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow up..."
Me now: "You already are."
Me in the 80's: "Aww, that's sweet."
Me now: "No, seriously, you already ARE. Save that stuff !
Me in the 80's: (Doesn't save stuff)
Me now: Hmm, I wonder if I'll be a millionaire when I grow old... 🤣
Yeah too bad it reminds you even more how sucky everything has gotten in the past 22 years and how humanity is doomed.
@@loneshewolf74 True.
This almost made me cry 😭
I loved my Rainbow Brite and Carebears when I was a child. I also remember GloWorms and I loved that thing to pieces.
I had the Gloworm too! I remember seeing a friend of mine for the first time and really wanted one too..I also wanted the mr frosty maker ⛄⛄😂
Yes! I also loved my Poochie I had. And Jets Barbie and van! Cabbage patch kids were awesome also!
Think Barbie has gone thru many eras she was born in 1959, Coronation Street 1960 longest running shows in history in the World don't forget Jem rocked in the 80s i even watched it girls had it and many others to choose,just as good as guys did
I loved my glo worm 😢
My parents recently gave me a couple of my old transformers from the 80s. Sound Wave and Blaster I think. I gave them to my kids. They're surprisingly well-built, have metal joints in them, and transform just as well as they did when I was a kid. They definitely don't make them like they used to in this case. Some of the greatest toys ever imo.
Definitely don't make anything good anymore. Brittle plastic and cheap parts made in China. Toys are definitely garbage now. I worked at a Wal-Mart during a holiday season and was disgusted by all of the merchandise coming in. Made me wonder why anyone would ever want to buy any of that junk to begin with.
Yeah I have a bunch G.I Joe vehicles from the early 90s. They are built like tanks lol, super thick plastic, metal axles, and just very heavy.
I was fortunate enough to be a late 80s/early 90s kid with a brother who was a late 70s/early 80s kid. We had ALL the cool toys!
Lots of nostalgia in this video for me! Thanks Rhett
Thank you for watching!
Some of the markets for these items have, frankly, gone nuts. I can understand rare items going for inflated prices, but some of these toys and games are nearly as common as dirt, yet still often have high asking prices attached. If I can go to eBay any given day and find tons of examples of any TMNT, GI Joe, or M.U.S.C.L.E. figure I want, they aren't rare. Overwhelming demand (and in the case of video games, fishiness in the grading and auction world) has driven these high prices way beyond what they should be "naturally."
They have gone nuts and some of them can certainly be overinflated. But it is crazy to see what some people will pay for things like this. Thank you for watching!
Your stuff is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
Yes it is is. And some go overboard on them. Thank you for watching!
@@MrsCap343 you are a very wise person . As I believe the same thing. You can ask whatever u want . If no one is willing to pay that much. You still have it
Most people don't realize the amount of appreciation from toys. I collect hot wheels and action figures, and many of these bought within just the last several years have tripped in value. Like the Storm Mortal Kombat og Ninjas, RLC R34's, Mafex Superman, Figma Metroid, Marvel legends Spiderman figures, and more.
Was 8-year-old when He-Man started out, I can remember never missing a show as well as Thundercats,was my 2 favorite cartoons.
I love seeing retro toys online, and in person is even better, but it's no longer fun to collect stuff because of greed and everyone wanting top dollar for junk.
Im cool with the memories 😁
I have a super Nes and a whole chicken feed box with toys from the '80s! I even have comic books in make condition from the early 2000s. In this video was really nostalgic. Thank you
My mom found a couple Cabbage Patch kids back then. She made a few hundred dollars. There’s still at least two opened ones in my parents’s basement. I had an animal one, too. Teddy Ruxpin always creeped me out then and still does.
The room that I had to share with one of my older brothers was half sports trophies and Shirt Tales and my half had Care Bears. I found a vintage Rainbow Brite unicorn at the thrift store a few years ago. I have my original stuffed Gizmos and stuffed girl Ewok. I still have a Barbie and the Rockers van. I never had a Rocker Barbie, though. I finally spotted one at Kmart back in ‘87 or ‘88, but I was probably 8 or 9, so I guess I felt I was a little too old and didn’t want to ask my dad to buy it for me. I actually hid it behind some other stuff, thinking I would come back later to buy it, but it was gone.
When my oldest brother moved out, I started cleaning out his closet so I could get him out quicker and have his room for my extra stuff. When I opened it, all his Dungeons & Dragons stuff fell out at my feet.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you have had and still have. It sounds like you have had some great ones and so has your brother.
I collect cabbage patches and have been for many years the only ones that are into the thousands are the original handmade ones not the mass produced ones.
No Strawberry Shortcake?
Those original highly scented dolls made one heck of an impression.
I had a ton of LJN WWF wrestlers. I used to be able to find ones at thrift stores all the time to add to my collection in the 90s.
I just found a Paul Bearer figure 😂
Thank you for watching and sharing what you have!
I had all the Fisher Price toys in the late 60's. From the airport to the parking garage to the gas station 😎
I had the ferris wheel and the bus. My brother had the plane. Those were fun!
I used to create elaborate terrains for my Ninja Turtles in the woods behind my house. Me and my friends built breakaway bridges with scrap wood over trenches lined with landscaping plastic and rocks to make it like a river. We made cool “hangouts” for our toys from cardboard boxes painted to look like city buildings or surrounded with bark and rocks to look like a cave. We cut up some corrugated drain pipe to look like sewers connecting our Turtle “world”. We must have spent an entire summer playing with just that and jumping on the trampoline. Needless to say our toys got wrecked! But it sure was fun!!
Lots of memories here. Thanks Rhetty ! Course 80’s wasn’t playing much but still cool to see again !!
Thank you for watching Linda! I hope you are doing well.
@@RhettyforHistory doing ok here. Hope u guys good
I am blessed to have my Donkey Kong & Frogger that were made my Coleco in the early 80’s.I am sure I could get close to a 75.00 to 100.00 for each of them,except they are so sentimental to me that I would feel richer keeping them.
Between my sister and I, we had most of these toys, btw you have a great voice, I find it very relaxing.
Thank you for watching and I appreciate you kind words.
This video made me cry , I had so many of these items but my childhood home burned down 😞😞😞
Can I hit the time travel button, sure would love to have some of these toys today and show them to my kids. At least I have my original old weeble house!!
It would be nice to have a time travel button! Thank you for watching Melissa!
Hi Rhett 🙋🏽. WOW I wish I had some of those things. I could sure use the money 😂🤣😂😅 LOL. Have a great weekend ‼️
It would be great to have a stock pile of them. Especially if they were in mint condition. Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great weekend as well!
I have the green Boglins and he's really cute in person. He's a puppet, so you can make his mouth move with your hand inside and there's a little toggle to make his eyes look from side to side and also his eyes glow in the dark. I don't have the box anymore and wouldn't sell him anyway. Very cute toys and I enjoy your videos!
I still have my Teddy Ruxpin. But I don't have cassette Tapes anymore....
Never throw away your child's toys if they were especially beloved and are in good shape. Or can be cleaned up. 60s and 70s also. Believe me I collect and know
I had so many of these toys, and i still have a few, but nothing close to mint or in the box. My best friend had the first 4 TMNT comics, they were so good and dark and gritty, not the TMNT that became huge. I have my boba fett original kenner. I had star scream, and shock wave with the 4 cassette animals. Lots of gi joes, the sno cat, the hydrofoil, the helicoptor, my buddy had the base. Hours we spent. Robotix was another cool toy from then. My sister still has her cabbage patch kid, hush puppy and the lamb from care bears.
How I loved my 'pet' Boglin! One of my friends strongly resembled my Boglin and he loved his nickname of Boglin. My pet Boglin was often taken out to my favourite heavy metal pub and he was very well loved by everyone. Boglin - I haven't said this name for years, so feel I've made up for it in this post!
Idk bro, I been hustling on ebay for about a decade now. And while the price of most items can vary from month to month, and some bidders can drive an auction up much higher than normal sometimes,, whether they are caught up in a bidders war or perhaps money is not an issue. So an item may have sold yesterday for $800, and today you can buy it now for 39.99... You just never know. Sometimes a seller may not know what they have and list it low, with a buy it now offer. Or perhaps an auction may get driven up because multiple buyers are bidding, then later perhaps the auction ends late in the Night, and Noone bids it up. So timing is also an issue
Omg just from the thumbnail, I remember my Boglins lol!! Used to have like 10 of those things. And living just south of Cleveland, GA as a child, 30 minutes from the cabbage patch kids HQ, I lived 5 houses down from Xavier Roberts the inventor of the dolls so my mother had tons of them.
I had all the original Ninja Turtles and all the goodies to go with them, but my mom gave them all away when I moved out.
Loved some of these toys. Had a cabbage patch and I liked the way it smelled. It had its own odor like perfume. 😊. They even had cabbage patch cards. Wow, wished I kept some of my stuff.
I've never seen any of the Star Wars movie's or the Star Trek movie's either. I assume I'm missing out, since I over hear people talking about those movies to this day.🤔🤷🏽♀️
keep your eye on garage sales, my son who is 10 bought 3 of these metal car toys that have a spring thing that makes them go on their own. all three were sealed and he got them for 1 dollar lol. I checked out ebay just incase and they sell for 25-50 bucks sealed.
I have still the original smurfs from the 80.
I have them all and with the house .
I love collecting Toys, and comics from any time period. It is my true love.
I am 38, but when I find a toy I have been looking for, or something that I think I'll never find is such an amazing feeling. I am a kid at heart, and it's never going to change. 😊
I have been collecting since I was a young kid. I always took care of my figures. Alot of times never opening them. I have found some gems throughout my years collecting too. I love it!
Oh man! I had a ton of masters of the universe figures. Those are unfortunately ones I couldn't stop myself from playing with. Skeletor is one of my all time favorite characters.
Also I had alot of ghost busters toys, along with the building they had. That building had value to it when u researched it not to long ago. Sadly my mom gave them all to good will! 😡🤬 I was keeping them at her house, and thought that I didn't want them anymore. That hurt 😢
Things back then we're built to last I still have my pound puppy and baseball cards
This kinda thing endlessly fasinates me.
If they played rainbow bright today it would be a completely different cartoon that's for sure
Can I mention the Smurfs figures? I’ve somehow become involved with collecting these since they were introduced in the USA back in the 80’s. Did you know that the company that produces them, schleich, has made a small series of new figures all along since the 80’s? For those who are interested, there is a really detailed official collector’s guide published by an Italian company called Gian & Davi, check it out!
Over the years, there have been promotional Smurfs figures that were made that go for larger amounts of money. Also, some of the playsets and (mushroom) houses go for large prices as well.
Rhetty, sorry to bring this up, but the Smurfs photo you show at the beginning of the video aren’t from the 80’s. Don’t worry though, most people can’t tell the difference, anyway. 😃
Yes I knew that was a newer photo of Smurfs. You can definitely tell the difference but I also thought they looked cleaner and more crisp for a video than the older ones. That is interesting that you are collecting them. I haven't really gotten into them nor known what all was out on them going back to the 60's. I just remember the little toys, plush dolls and cartoons of the 80s. I'm curious if the values went up when the newer movie came out? Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory hmm, I don’t recall any real increase in value of the figures when the movies came out. I think mostly some sellers on eBay increased the prices of the ones they were selling, but not all across the board. The value lies more in the rarity of the figures.
I agree, about the values, a little over stated, I live in South Florida and this stuff is, believe it or not, is available at reasonable prices, now I might be a little more privy to finding this stuff, as I've been collecting since the 70s, and have a lot of dealer friends, who still have a good amount of the things listed, now, things like cabbage patch kids, you can't give those away, u actually see them in our thrift stores all the time, boxed, if anyone wants anything on this list, minus some of the obvious Grails, that you got right, hit me up, but, Great video,👍👍👍👍
I used to have most of all these toys as a child. My parents bought me toys every Friday. My dumbass gave my entire toy box away 😭
I got Time Machine but lack the needed plutonium to use it.
Dang it.
Man, the amount of money my ma has thrown out over the years in toys me and my brother had . He was born in 84 I was born in 87. Had the NES , super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive with 100s of games thrown out. All the TMNT original toys, Manta Force still in the box starships, dozens of WWF wrestlers, lots of original Terminator 2 toys, Ghostbusters toys and play sets, He-man, Thundercats, Visionarys. Oh man 😬 I only started collecting things like silver age comics and pop culture memorabilia my late 20s and all that glorious stuff is gone. 🤣🤣 From Scotland 🏴👍🏻
When I was a kid, I lost a boglin at my granddad's farm. Spent the rest of the day looking for it, at the time it felt like losing a limb.
If there is more than one toy in sight then it is a mess. My mom threw away all my toys. My wife threw away all my vinyl because they weren't aesthetically pleasing for her to look at even though they were neatly stacked on the shelf. All my collections even my coin collections were thrown away. Apparently there is a fine line between collecting and hoarding.
I remember being in a toy store and seeing a whole rack of the fx-7 Star Wars toy for sale no other Star Wars toys were available they couldn’t get rid of it . If only they knew
I have a basement full of goodies and memories but they stay therre.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you have.
Mad balls were really cool!
My favorite toy was Tyco Rc CliffHangers
Were Garbage Pail Kids just forgotten? A box of 1st series cards gors for north of $50k these days.
An original NES does not sell for $1100 on Ebay. Just because someone has posted a price does not mean they'll get that price. Usually, if the seller has advertised a rare game along with the NES, then it would explain someone dropping $1100 for the console plus whatever came with it.
Edit: Then you went and mentioned Heritage Auctions who were proven to be rigging their own auctions. The Zelda title mentioned was bought by one of the silent partners of Heritage Auctions to artificially inflate the value of the game.
The original NES (which came out in 1985 (not 83)) with the R.O.B. Robot will sell for big money. The console, by itself, isn't that rare and will NOT fetch the ridiculous $1100! It was the sealed retail copy of Super Mario Bros that sold big money. This guy needs to do his homework better. The Famicom (in Japan) came out in 1983.
Who still has their toys from the 80s like The Transformers, And stickers like the Garbage Pail Kids stickers?? 🙋🏻♂️
From this video education alone, I could make over 12, 000 dollars. Yet, I collected much earlier in my twenties or kept my old toys... May never sell them. lol
Super Mario Bros games are only valuable when complete in box. Otherwise I paid $30 for an excellent condition of a Super Mario 3 cartridge. Also Heritage House and the WATA grading system are corrupt (I.e. they are the same owners).
Nothing wrong with getting one not in the box. The object of it all is to use it. Just about every market has people in it to inflate prices. Thank you for watching!
I’m annoyed that I used to have Castle Greyskull, She-Ra, 6 Cabbage Patch kids and a whole set of Strawberry Shortcake figurines and because of my family being mean idiots after my parents passed, I lost everything I ever owned.
How about Poe doll saying bite my butt 😂😂. Rare batch of teletubby doll saying foul stuff 😂😂
I do like reminiscing about these toys. But I also loved fireworks. I unfortunately blasted many of my toys to tiny bits when I taped big powerful firecrackers to them and lit the little wick. Kaboom! My mom's hard earned money to buy those toys was sacrificed because I just happened to have extra firecrackers to blow up stuff with. 🧨🧨 But you can admit l, a good amount of these toys deserved a big blast.
I knew other kids that did that, shot at them or various other things so you're not alone. Thank you for watching!
Can't speak for new and sealed, but there's tonnes of working NES consoles on ebay for sensible money. (Sub £100)
It’s ridiculous that people are buying stuff leaving it sealed, trying to turn it into $1 million profit. It’s disgusting.
I'm so pissed at myself for throwing my 80's toys away. The original metal Voltron, M.A.S.K. vehicles, transformers and so on. Like my dads mother throwing away his old baseball cards I wish I held onto my old 80's toys
Forgot Classic Space Lego Sets
“If it’s factory sealed…” yep. But what kid would leave things factory sealed??? Because I have a ton of heman and shera figures but they definitely are not factory sealed. 😂
At 6:23 and 6:49 - those are not images of the original Transformers toy range from Hasbro. All modern remakes.
THE RUBBER WWF WRESTLERS ARE WORTH A BIT NOW TOO....👊👊
BEST.DECADE.EVER.
I had so many of these. Some I damaged purposely (gi Joe's I tied to fire crackers & well you can see where I'm going with this). I had so many nes cartridges. I had toys from the late 70s too. I was a stupid kid...... but I had fun🤣😫. I still have some garbage pail kids & tons of comic book & sports cards in near mint-mint condition
GI Joe was a great cartoon!
I have a Nintendo. The number on the back is 001...Does that mean it was the first ones that came out?
I had a Teddy Ruxpin and all the books and cassettes. I eventually gave it away :/
If I had a way to send to my past self some messages... I would be rich, by now ^^;
(they all would sound like "hide _"name of the toy"_ and his parts somewhere safe and don't let your parents trow away the box")
You and me both! Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory
Thank you for the video.
These prices youre mentioning are astronomical. Im a collector of 32 years, and unless youre speaking of graded toys or prototypes that were never publically released, then these prices are incorrect. Now some of the toys from other countries can be pricey, such as your mentioning of Brazil.
There are certainly some crazy prices and I think a lot of them have been inflated. Those kind of tactics have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. Thank you for watching!
I ❤80's😎👍
I had a few of these toys
Thank you for watching Brandon!
I have a set of the teenage mutant ninja turtles star Trek figures opened but in good shape
I had heaps of Boglins !!!!!
Tamagotchi released in 1996
"Listed on Ebay for.." lol Listed' means jack..VHS tape are 'listed' for $6k, while same one is also listed for $3..the actual worth. $1100 for a NES system? Your prices are way way off. Using Egay for price evaluations is not a viable pricing strategy..esp if you're not references actual Closed/Sold listings.
The 80s was a great time to be a kid. Wish I could go back!
It would definitely be great to have a time machine! Thank you for watching!
Get in a time machine and go
@@wildlifewarrior2670 I already did. Remember that “old guy” that beat you in Q*Bert at the arcade back in the summer of ‘86? That was me! 🤪
@@mudvalve crap it was you
@@mudvalve crap it was you
Just a heads up. Nintendo Entertainment Systems sell complete in box for around $200 - $250.
They can definitely be found cheaper too. I got one for $75. Just have to look for awhile. Thank you for watching!
Sold mine for £600 odd back in the summer reluctantly.☹️
Greatest decade to be a child.
Late 70’s early 80’s was a great time to be a kid. Many great Christmas memories from that time
Born in 79 me, yep 80s seemed to be better Christmas’s than any other time
Yes! My mom gave us the greatest toys! Christmas was the best day ever!
YES! I got to experience the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's in grade school, then as a teen in the 80's got to transition to high school, growing up in the best decade ever- the 1980's!!
Late 80s to 90s was the jam.
What I find as sad is the people who are children today will not have tots to look back on their youth in 20 years. All they will have is electronics. I enjoyed my childhood playing with my toys and playing outside with my siblings and friends. Gen X'er s had the best childhood. Toys, Saturday morning cartoons, and playing outside. Who could ask for more.
I do find it sad that kids just aren't into toys like they used to be. There really is a lot of joy in them no matter what you have. Even if they are homemade. Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory I’m 20 and have many many fond memories of toys.
My kids LOVE toys who you kiddin lol
It's up to the parents to encourage a proper childhood, nothing has changed from then until now except people distracted by technology becoming victims of "advancement".
In 1988 my brother and I redeemed cans and bottles, collected and saved every coin and penny we could find for 8 months until we had enough to get an nes from kay-bee toy store. I still have it and it still works and I still play it with my boys. Made in Japan still playable 30+ years later. Amazing.
good god, you must have had thousands to tens of thousands of those things to build up enough money!
Loved Kay bee!!! Made the mall worth it.
I still have an NES, too, Mauricio. I also have the Atari 2600 that my Dad bought around 1980, still works no problem..wish newer consoles were made to that standard of quality. I have built up quite a library of NES games over the last 6 1/2 years, almost 340 of them. Only a small handful are in box.
I used to play Black Sabbath tapes in my Teddy Ruxpin.
Amazing, just amazing
I love you
Picturing your Teddy Ruxpin singing NIB. 😂
😂
BAHAHAHA!!! Love it
Man I loved M.U.S.C.L.E. figures as a child, and He-man, transformers, smurfs, micro machines, Nintendo, boglins, baseball cards, mad balls, gI joe, a team, knight rider and tmnt's!
Man nostalgia at it's best! Thank you for this video!
best thing for me in the 80s as a child was the freedom to roam.i remember most all these things. i was into g.i joe.we were mostly outside ,involved in physical activities. the toys were rainy day and winter activities
There's no difference from then to today though.
Yep..my son had the Nintendo game system.we did too. But he spent most of his time outside on his B.M.X. bike. That was his big obsession. Now that he is in his forties he races quads . He even has sponsers and wins frequently..Luckily he also is a foreman at his construction company so he can pay for his expensive hobby.
I had a Rainbow Brite doll. No clue what happened to it. We didn’t think about selling our toys back then, just playing with them until they fell apart and then giving them away. I guess that’s why the 80s toys are so rare. I go antiquing a lot and hardly ever see 80s toys.
I had a Rainbow Brite too, I had Puppy Brite, Starlite, Lucky, Champ and Lurky too.
Actually my brother’s He-Man doll “dated” my Barbie doll when we were kids. She was way too tall for him but otherwise it was fine.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memory of that!
Omg same! We had Teela get so jealous.
I made my brother's heman date my shera doll. I think they are brother & sister🤔relized that later in life😬 SHERA princess of powerrrrrrr🎵😂
I hope He-Man put on some clothes, ha ha ha. 😂
As someone who buys, restores and resells games the numbers you are stating are over inflated and can be from fake bids. Like the stadium events that sold on eBay for $200,000. Turns out it was kids making the bids. I have have been in the possession of very rare, games, and even had values assessed and was still no were near these numbers. When information like this is taken out of context it makes people think their old broken stuff is worth a fortune and in reality it isn't and it becomes impossible for someone like myself to buy, fix and resell an item when the value is way lower than what they think. It also makes it way too expensive for a casual collector to buy anything.
I’m having this issue with CPK right now on eBay. People are selling their memories I think. Many sellers are asking for several thousand for a NIB Cabbage Patch from 1980’s. You know what I see when I find someone selling several NIB CPKs? I think of the times when I wasn’t able to get one of my own in the stores growing up because they bought all ten from the shelves…😢
I’ve always seen values of collectibles, “as in the eye of the beholder “, kinda thing. Because if something is actually only worth $50, but a collector of that character, series or franchise wants it bad enough, they’ll pay double that.
@@SatanenPerkele rare means very little. It's all about popularity
@@Subzero271978 1978 is a Good year to be born in my friend, 🥂, I totally feel the same way I just sold eight Ninja turtles to a toy store in chagrin Falls Ohio 150 bucks. To me that was a fair price specially for not being in 100% condition ,but decent, someone else could be priceless
@@floydsemlow8253 I like to think it was, I was able to be around and see the beginning of a lot of cool stuff 😁. Yeah TMNT stuff is picking up steam again. But never ceases to amaze me how people will charge for nostalgia, it’s not even real, it’s a feeling. Hope you have a great rest of the weekend brother!
1980s was the best time to grow up in the toys ,cartoons,playing outside and no social media brain washing people was the greatest time ever I had the biggest majority of these toys before they got put in the bin as i outgrew them. I really miss those days
90's was incredible aswell. Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokemon were HUUUGE!!!
Rule number for mental health, delete social media.
My mom still plays games on the original NES system she bought for me in the 80s. I’m amazed that it still works.
Very few moving parts. Electronic components are easier to replace also.
@@garystinten9339 that's good to know in case it ever stops working.
My brother has ours. He still plays it too. We thrift shopped a lot of the games we couldn't afford as kids over the years as adults and he has a great collection.
What games does she play?
I still play with my original NES too. What's so impressive to me is that it's the only console that hasn't required any type of restoration. My Gameboy Color is working too but the screen will probably need a replacement.
I love your channel and like the information, but I have to say your NES info is WAY off
Most NES open systems will sell for about 50-75 bucks. And a boxed system shouldn't sell for more than 150. Also, your average copy of SMB will barely sell for a dollar, and that high-priced boxed version was an artificially inflated sale that was meant to drive up used game prices.
Sorry, not trying to be a "gotcha", but I love your channel and want your info to be accurate.
I got a NES in a box for $75 and it took me awhile to get that. There were a lot going for more. Those kind of tactics of inflating the price have always been around. It's in about everything too. Real Estate, cars, toys and even this years Hallowen decorations. Thank uou for watching!
It you grew up in the 80s you had a great childhood. The 80s 90s were awesome
The NES did not come in 1983. It had a limited release in 1985 and full release in 1986.
My sister still has her Nintendo; controllers and duck hunt gun and games. I want it just to play it. I bought this Nintendo mini that had games already stored in… but it’s not the whole game. And no duck hunt gun! Original is always best
I was an 80's kid. Good times. I still have a teddy ruxpin, a cabbage patch doll, a care bear and gobots.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had!
@@RhettyforHistory YW. :) I still have them :)
@@RhettyforHistory Btw I love history. (It was one of my majors in university.) I had to give you my sub!
That’s the one toy I would re buy if I really needed a frivolous and yet happy pick me up, that Teddy Ruxpin. I loved that bear so much.
@@devenifujita9899 :)
I still have my Cabbage Patch kids and both Ewok stuffed animals! Great memories!
Voltron toys from the that era is worth a lot of money nowadays too! Great cartoon also!
My Vehicle Voltron is still pretty good shape
I wish my childhood bedroom had been preserved as a time capsule! This video is bringing back even more hidden memories from back in the day.