These pics were from our trip to Virginia, there's an Antique Mall we like to stop in, and it had been a while since our last time. Let's get some pictures!
This sun-faded Mario statue invites you into the new section. There used to be a model train shop over here, but that whole area has been assimilated by the giant store. Like the place wasn't big enough already, I say sarcastically, but... in like a good way.
They had a section of nice wall plaques with Garbage Pail Kids printed on them. I see some of my friend's names up there, how about you? These are not really antiques but it's a neat concept based on antiques.
Yeah this was an often funny part of the Dragon's Lair arcade game, but as a framed art piece,... kinda gloomy.
Would it be cool to send your kid Wendy to school with notebook? How about anybody else, but there's a different kid named Wendy in your class? Come to think of it, I wonder how many Garbage Pail Kids nicknames "stuck" with kids?
Pokemon cards! Technically these are not Pokemon, but the Trainers. This is a very subtle way to teach kids to appreciate art because you can get these cards, for gameplay purposes, at only Uncommon rarity, for very much less than the rare, but "pretty art" foil versions.
It's not often that you see old PC computer games at thrift shops, like The Lost Vikings over there. They certainly are lost! Would you even be able to find a disk drive that would play those things anymore?
I saw that coffin over there and I think I remember it was a weapon or something from... an anime? I couldn't think about where I saw it from, so I took a picture to remind myself to look it up later... Oddly it was not easy to look up. Do you recognize it?
Old BB guns, so what's the line we have to say here? We all know.... You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
The new section connects upstairs, too. Here's a new view of a downstairs area, That's only a small part of it, this place is really big!
Old Sci-Fi stuff. You get +1000 Points for each one you can recognize. +5000 each if you are a girl. Hahaha just kidding, but... that was funny, right?
My friend was very excited to see these here! Here's the story:
These two giant robots, just like these, are what my friends called "Proof of Santa". There's an age where the kid's friends have rumors that parents actually buy the Santa gifts, so the two brothers were determined to test the theory, by only asking the Mall Santa for these, and never mentioning them to their parents. At the time, the giant robots were kind of rare and expensive, so it was a long shot at even getting them, but if anybody could, it would be Santa! Christmas morning came and they were shocked when they unwrapped them! Santa IS REAL! That's a true story.
In the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard was travelling through time, and this is the future version of him. Is Patrick Stewart this old... now? That's gotta be weird for him, right?
Donkey Party. I was going to try to make some kind of Donkey Kong joke about Mario Party, but everything I type sounds lame. Does Donkey Kong even have a tail to pin on him?
Right below this picture is a nice comfy leather couch. I suppose the idea is that you can listen to tunes here? The stereo on the wall over there looks quite epic.
There's a nice corner of this place with a bunch of old music stuff. So much good music here, where would you even start?
Even the recording sign has a relaxed vibe to it. Whatever, man... just be cool.
I wonder what year this figurine was made? Because it looks an awful lot like E.T. from that movie. Put this next to your home phone? What's that, you ask?
Merchandise that did not "age well" includes pretty much everything from the show The Dukes of Hazard. I'll just give you a flat out warning DO NOT buy that trash can.
I saw these and thought "Why do those monks have hamburger heads?" On second glance, they are very oddly dressed like maybe they could be in some kind of space show, monks from an alien planet? They have a very odd scribble-based writing language.
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