strange or rare yahoo auctions post here (after theyre over)

Wow, some real choice pieces posted over the last page. Roger thanks for sharing that one, I had no idea there were Japanese version of the Dino-Riders. I was recently hunting one of these actually, as I have a niece whose absolutely favourite saurian is a monoclonius, and this is one of the very few lines which actually has one (named as such). My pre-Christmas hunting was not very fruitful alas.

Shoot, I have to agree that that GID Zazahn was quite a nice grab. Such a grail piece, and just a plain amazing toy. A fair price for someone to be able to adopt him, with some nice paint condition too.

 

Was watching this auction closely, as - up to a few hours before the end - this guy seemed like he might be a real steal. Ended up climbing to more 'expected' levels at the end, and boy howdy, is he a lovely one. Gary's are always right up there in terms of character demand, and so, while not being a first Marusan issue, this one doesn't really surprise me that much. But in any case, very lovely to see one come up for sale with such nice paint remaining, you could easily mistake this for a modern repro from the condition and quality. Such fantastic blue and cream paint, even with some wear, on that lustrous green vinyl. It's no surprise it has been mimicked/homaged countless times. One of my [and many, I know] sincere favs,



Vintage Bullmark Garamon (second appearance)

Spoiler: Full photo set

 

Shoot, even for a peg-leg junker, I don't think that is too bad. I missed that Marusan one or I might have thrown some bids in on it. I tend to have a great soft spot for misfits toys (as my shelves will attest to), and for a chance at one of those I surely could and would accept some defects.

Funny how the Bullmark one jumped up so quickly in the end. The low price had me very hopeful - I mean, of course there would be some other eagle-eyed toy hunters like yourself - but the seeming reluctance of bidders did have me doing some extra digging into this version to see if I had overlooked something on him, or in the description (which was scant at best).

Here is me hoping, with digits crossed and breath held,

 

^ Exactly, Charlie. That was my reaction when I noted the listing and the [nearly] going price. Sorry for any unintentional misleading, but I'm happy to see that some others get pumped up with vintage toy excitement when they see these listings, too.

 

Heck yes!! This - or even better - and Ultraman version, would have been my golden toy as a kid, and I would rarely have been parted from it. Such items were really my jam (you know, when kids had imagination). I had a space helmet which was my dear companion for many years, and have tried for decades of searching on the internet to find something similar. I loved any kind of plastic swords and rayguns too. The best thing was my complete mashup of any genres, I really didn't care about how it was supposed to come together {I once had a costume of my helmet with a Superman outfit, for example... photo not to be shared here }. Man, this post is really taking me back. Thanks for that, Roger.

 

Tough call. The paint on both of these does look extremely mint, I fully agree Roger. But it isn't necessarily unheard of. One of the difficulties I [would] face [if I could] in spending this guy of money, somewhat blindly when you only have photos on a website to go off, is not being able to see, touch - and yes, even smell - what the toys are like. Some parts on these could have been repainted, but they were definitely done professionally if so. I think the strong bidding lends confidence to others as well, rightly or wrongly.

 

If you look at this example from the UK archives, it looks fairly similar to the above , even more yellow and possibly brighter/more brilliant metallic blue (and actually also appears in very fine condition):