Should we be happy or worried that Facebook mind reading algorithms randomly displayed an ad for a local comic shop we had never before visited? It was not that far away and we were excited to go check it out. But seriously, how did Facebook know?
It was in one of those old townes that seem to be common around here. We wandered around and got some more pictures of the town but this bunch is all from the store.
What was inside? Click on the "Read more" below to check it out!
That shelf over there is about all of the "Comics" they had. This was more of an old collectible toy store. And there was plenty of that.
All sorts of shelves and cases full of old figures! Here's a ton of Playskool Heroes figures. These aren't too old but still 'kool.
There was so much stuff there. I tried to take wider pictures to show more, but they came out a little blurry so you really can't zoom in and look around.
Masters of the Universe figures filling up a display case. Check out that guy in the middle with the big wheel in his chest next to Leechor. My friend had a lot of these and was happy to see them.
Here was a fun little "game" of sorts. A bin of random bits and pieces, and a challenge to identify where they came from. Winners get a free pat on the back!
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere! More commonly known as M.U.S.C.L.E. The very classic early attempt at marketing "gumball machine"-level toys as more expensive regular toys. Cool enough to get away with it.
Another shelf packed with goodies. Ewok plushies to the left of that bottom shelf.
Smurfs of course! Not that uncommon to see them at a place like this. But wait, are those Snorks?! We don't see those very often.
Check out the Battlestar Galactica Daggit plushie on that top shelf! Sci-Fi robot dawg yo!
More treasures in the room in the back. It's really a small store but it's packed full of so much treasures!
Tri-Klops was one of my friend's favorites. He had a ring around his head that you could rotate to put a different eye in the front. Here's a newer updated version.
They did make a few Digimon plushies. It's too bad they always got compared to Pokemon and never were able to explode in popularity like they could have.
This gets a "HA!" read in Alf's voice. Happy to see him here, we already have one of these.
This giant creature here was familiar but we couldn't quite name him. We were going to look it up later. How would you research this kind of random thing?
Is Monster High that old yet? A lot of these are original-release versions so I guess they are kind of old.
Hey check out Blade! He's a Day Walker vampire so he can go out in the sunlight. I bet if you left him out there long enough it would still ruin this figure.
There were a couple of old Lego sets there. Seeing the Prince of Persia set reminds us we are still a little bitter at Jake Gyllenhall for the bad way he treated us at a Broadway show stage door signing.
My Little Ponies in the Hizzizzle! Did I spell "Hizzizzle" right?
Disney Vinylmation and old McDonald's glasses are cool, but check out the Go-Bots case up there! My friend told me his Go-Bots and Transformers got along just fine.
We took home a few Battle Beast figures. A Tourtoise, Rabbit, and Tiger. The Rabbit is the winner; his wood beats the other two's water. That's not what it sounds like.
This Papa Smurf plush still had his tag that said 1983! It's impressive but he's probably still very common to be priced at only $4. He came home with us to help cheer us up with his smurfy wisdom.
Hey, if you still haven't ID'ed that one big green monster toy it's Tendril from "Inhumanoids". It was a toyline by Hasbro during the 80's that was kind of a mashup of G.I. Joe, hollow earth theory, and the Cthulhu Mythos. Kids loved it but parents didn't care much for the grotesque designs, or the large price tags, so the line was pretty much D.O.A.
ReplyDeletewow awesome! You saved us some trouble. I bet the store owners would have know if I had simply thought to ask. Thanks!
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