yeah the chipperfields are pretty cool, i dont know if he has any wind up ones though. i didnt know board games were worth anything, amazing the stuff people buy. he has some "corgi classics" which are reamkes too because he couldnt find all the original chipperfields stuff

no date, and yeah its the carbonite one, unopened and box is in perfect condition so im hoping its worth a few $$

the turntable with no data says R.414 (its where the glare in the photo is)

Dang! Just saw a 10" 'Cheech Wizard" model. Gotta get it. Anybody from the old days remember 'Cheech Wizard" by Vaughn Bode'?

Most of my toys, cars, comics, etc. are in storage now since I moved to Florida, until I get some more space. Here are a few of the HotWheels (that aren't in storage) I just grabbed off my shelf...

http://www.gweeb.com/images/jaks/a-few-hotwheels.jpg

The El Rey Specials are, I would say, the most beat up cars I have, but they're so hard to find in good condition so I still love them. :)

99.9% of the stuff I collect is for my own pleasure :) so even the beat up stuff is cool nice cars btw.

Mongoose Funny Car! I remember when the first was it 'Snake vs Mongoose' or 'Cobra vs Mongoose' dual race Hot Wheels set came out. A must have.

The most desirable Hot Wheels cars I can recall are the original versions of:

Splittin' Image
Silhouette
Chapparal
Mach 1

They had those axles that warped after a long run and they had to reissue them with the newer axles. Then you would put them in a Super Charger and slab Crisco on the track and watch them fuckers fly!

One guy showed me how to tweak a Super Charger so it would throw the cars out faster. It was damn near lethal.

Hot Wheels lost their charm for us back in the early 70s after moms throughout the country realized that the plastic race tracks made good spanking tools. Worse than a switch or a belt.

After that we burned them Hot Wheels tracks! Went on to 'Sizzlers' which came with tracks but didn't need em'.

Thanks, and yes, it's fun just to have them, and know that they were played with and enjoyed by some kid somewhere. :)

I'm still looking for a nice Snake vs Mongoose boxed set. I see them every now and then but my money has been going towards comics for a while now so I have yet to pick one up.

Monkeysnap: I also have one of those Hulk "Scene Machine" vans packed away at my grandmother's house.

There's gotta be a set out there. Might cost a good penny though.

Did you ever collect NASCAR hot wheels?

I love that thing. Anyone who doesn't know... there's a little peephole-like thing in the back window. When you hold the van up to the light and look through it you see a Hulk scene. :thumbsup

I've seen sets on eBay every now and then but like I say I spend most of my collectible money on comics now, and other than that I really like the loose cars and never got too much into the boxed sets. Back about 6 years ago I sold my carded cars collection (a few thousand) and kept all of my loose cars. I wish I hadn't sold the cards now though, but that's how it always goes when you sell a collectible (don't even get me started on the Silver Age comics I sold back about 10 years ago, I might cry).

I never got into the Nascar HotWheels though. I'm not really a Nascar type guy but I do love the Papyrus PC game, and I've got my force feedback wheel right here as testament to that, lol

Didn't know about the Hulk toy thingie. That's what I get for not being a kid in the 80s I guess. Now I want one.

Never sell your silver or golden age comics. You can actually borrow against em'. They're like legal tender!

Here's a lesson I learned early in comic collecting: It's who loves what that makes it valuable. That goes with all collectibles.

One day at a board meeting I was telling the producers about a comic I'd read in the 80s. It was the funniest damned comic book and should be developed into film. It was called 'DESTROY! The World's Loudest Comic Book'. It was so funny people couldn't eat, walk while reading it. Just a big comic with a single story. Yet when we tried to find the comic book it was nowhere to be found at the time. Time was running out and we couldn't find an issue. Guys I had known since childhood who owned every comic known to man couldn't find it. Then the run-around. " I might be able to find one but I have to climb every mountain, crawl every swamp, etc. So TMALSS it was too late to get a copy. People had em' but they knew something was up if we were trying to get one. Sucks but that's business. You've gotta do it stealthy sometimes.

Monkeysnap, what's with your sig?

Not sure, what do you mean?

Well I was a kid in the 70s, which is when that one is from, 1979 (although it could of course qualify as early 80s. :))

I spent a few years making my living by dealing in rare Silver Age comics, and I still do some selling now, so I'm not techically "just" a collector. :thumbsup

What I meant is in your sig it says 'Sig Swap'.

What kind of service is it. I got confused when I went to the site.

Interesting. It's hard sometimes to know if things come across as easily understandable when you're so deep in it. I thought it was fairly well explained but if there's something specific that's confusing please let me know.

******* is a banner exchange for forum sigs. You sign up, upload your 120x60 graphic ad button, grab our special code and use it in your forum sigs. Every time your sig shows 2 buttons of someone else's, your own button gets shown in another sig.

We have members posting with our sig code at almost every adult webmaster message board there is, so ******* is a great way to get your ad button shown on all those forums. You can put any button in along with any URL to send clicks to, so a lot of our members put in webmaster referral buttons with their ref code attached, and get sign-ups from all over the place.

If you don't want to use the exchange system yourself you can always just purchase an ad exposure campaign and let our members show your button all over without you having to do anything yourself.

Unless you can physically post several times every day at over 70 adult webmaster message boards, you simply can not get the sig coverage ******* can give you.

And finally, we do have an affiliate plan, which is where the text link in my sig goes to. People can sign up to refer ******* ad sales, and they get paid when a sale goes through.

I hope that made sense, lol. :1orglaugh

You're right about video game nostalgia, but the way it works is that 20 year olds now grab an emulator and a rom and replay their childhood games in their PCs, so I wouldn't stockpile too many playstations if iI were you...

talking about video game nostalgia, i just bought a sega master system II and a SNES with som of my old games from ebay :thumbsup

100 toy collectors

Now hold on for a sec. My sister and I have an old SEGA we dug out of the basement. We enjoyed playing it.

Sure you can dupe the games to your pc but it ain't the same as playing it in your hands for old times sake.

I bought a Game Gear 10 years ago. Finally the screen went dead. But I'm going to find an old Game Gear so I can play my games on them.

Don't throw it away if it works!

Yeah the damned audio went out on my Game Gear a month ago so I have to pick up another one. I was in the game dev industry for a long time (before I started my own biz and now I just do contract work for other developers) so I really get into vintage game stuff. I love emulators too but nothing beats the actual system and carts\CDs.

Well.. maybe people don't find their getting the full experience with emulators... I certainly foud MAME gave me enough of the feel of the arcade games to satisfy, but I guess you can always find some guy with enough money who doesn't know what the heck an emulator is... :)