What you think (or thought) other players look like

[Word]

I collect robots (most of them from the 80s), my father has a much bigger collection of older toys/books/comics and i get some extra money thanks to stock photography. you can meet us on the flea market every weekend (we don't sell there though).

what is the purpose of acquiring these toys?

To surround ourselves with beautiful things....or nostalgia. Most mordern toys look boring (due to the forbidden swalloable components), they're nearly all made of plastic and not of sheet metal. In the 60s most toys were produced in Japan, not in China. These toys had sharp edges and an interesting inner life. they were fun to play with. We repair them if we need to. You can learn a lot about real cars, too. And they all somehow represent the spirit of their time (for example military toys from the early phase of the cold war, or the Monkee Mobile ). Um, and for showing off.
they are inspiring. whenever you have too less ideas you can just take a look at your shelves.


(the links aren't photos by me but we have these toys)

[Phytotron]

Oh, 80s. Older ones are cooler. Did I already give you this link? http://www.theoldrobots.com/ Oh, yep, I did.

But, since you are interested in the 80's in particular, have you Maxx Steele Robo Force? How about HERO?

"Diecast construction. It's a lost art."

[Word]

I don't have these two yet, but i do have Robby (from Forbidden Planet). One day i'll get them we have 8-15 robots with doors/screens/guns in their stomach and identical astronaut-faces.
for a long time, this was my favourite car.(then i got my driving license and priorities changed)
and another one(this time from me).

Here's one nobody on this forum will ever see irl (me included ):
Mr Atomic (there exist only 3)


(i wanted to post another robot image but i can't find it. I'll make another one tomorrow )

on a side note, we never pay a lot for the toys. we never visited an auction or something like that. some people just want to get rid of them (good for us though). we generally don't buy toys that are still in their box. they look better after someone has played with them.


edit: here's the one i originally wanted to post

[Olive]

phytho; I'm much more handsome when im less tired.

[Phytotron]

Heh, that ROBOTRAC is pretty sweet. Am I barely seeing a drooping track there?

I asked about Maxx Steele Robo Force because the cool thing about their design is that they're kind of an 80's take on 50's-60's (mainly a Dalek—hello, Whovians) robots, so you've got double the retro (although I find the concept of referring to the 80's as retro rather odd). They're cheap, too.

Do you mostly collect ones that were originally marketed in Germany, or broader Europe, or just from anywhere? I'm sure you're aware that pre-war, Germany, along with the US, was the world's main manufacturer of toys, then Japan took over.

Soundtrack for these toys: Man or Astro-Man? - Destroy All Astromen (album)
(even if it is a modern band)

phytho; I'm much more handsome when im less tired.

I did say the younger Furlong, not the puffy, strung-out-looking one.

[Word]

Am I barely seeing a drooping track there?

no, that's just the book's back.

Do you mostly collect ones that were originally marketed in Germany, or broader Europe, or just from anywhere? I'm sure you're aware that pre-war, Germany, along with the US, was the world's main manufacturer of toys, then Japan took over.

We collect everything we can get on the flea market or the internet. When ebay became popular we got access to more toys that weren't originally sold in Germany. We don't have a lot of chinese toys, i think most is either American/Japanese or German (on some toys you can still see the occupation zone they were made in). It's also easier to get Russian/East German toys now (for example the DeTomaso, my favourite toy car. i have a children's book that explains you the environmental advantages of asbestos - that would be something for fixxxxit....).
The toys i know inside out are made by Joustra, TippCo, Arnold, Gama, or Matchbox but we also have Japanese things whose names i often can't read. we don't purposely go by the countries they were made or sold in.

[Phytotron]

Am I barely seeing a drooping track there?

no, that's just the book's back.

No, I mean the caterpillar track:

Looks like yours is droopy.

[Word]

oops, i'll go check my spare parts depot

edit: it's there, it was just not visible on the photo i posted (and i remember that it's not the original one - it looks different from the one in your photo)

[TaZ]

envy:

Desolate:

[Phytotron]

Let me preface this by saying that, in contrast to the previous post (and a handful of others preceding it, following the resuscitation of this thread a couple years ago; you kids just don't get it), this is not a slight or insult or any such thing.

But Lucifer recently mentioned he's having to work at a burger joint (with which I sympathise). Then last night I ran across this GIF—though it turns out it has been on youtube since at least 2006, so maybe some of the kids have seen it before (and apparently some such kids have taken to copying it).

Nevertheless, Lucifer if he had to work at Little Ceaser's:

LC Air Guitar.gif (1.85 MiB) Viewed 3245 times

Original video here (although it's the wrong kind of metal for Lucifer).

[Goodygumdrops]

Desolate:

It's supposed to be what you thought Deso looks like, not his actual photo.

[Misery]

I now have a craving for some pizza.

That's awesome, Phytotron! Totally Lucifer! lol

[Word]

Hamar and Six doing a sweepbox

[ItzAcid]

Here's one nobody on this forum will ever see irl (me included ):
Mr Atomic (there exist only 3)

I'm sure it must be a replica since it's so rare, but I have one of these somewhere in the garage. Do you want it just in case?

[Word]

No, but thank you.
It's hardly possible that you have the original one, and if you have (which is very, very unlikely) I think the best place is Sotheby's

http://news-antique.com/?id=784201&keys ... ney-steiff

(the reproduction i know looks like this)