The "What you just got in the Mail" Thread

As one of those people, I don’t know if I can help make sense of this phenomenon. You pretty much wrapped it up. I love toys and take great care of them and don’t give a care for the packaging. It never caught my eyes and don’t know what to do with it. I have a bag I put headers in cause others care and when I’m selling a toy I like to think the person buying it from me got all they want from it. My experience, as I loose quite some headers, is that most people don’t care either.

By the way, this doesn’t in any way is meant to say I can’t appreciate the time and effort put into them. It’s just that my attention is all on the toy and not on the header at all.

 

I love headers and often think they’re a big part of a “lost art” aspect to toys. It’s exactly why I started getting photos of toys bagged and headered. Presentation is 50% to me, so having that visual of what a toy looks like with its bag and header is equally a representation of its aesthetic purpose as it is once its on display unpackaged. Lots of artists make AMAZING headers, like Paul Kaiju, Splurrt, The Devil’s Kaiju, Butanohana, older Cure Toy, Secret Base and Ggml fighters, obviously Bullmark, Marusan, M1 - Go, Yamanaya, Spectrum Lab, plenty others. Then you’ve got artists like Blk Clvd(Black Cloud) with the Kvltvs fighter line and Atomica Exotica that’s pumpin’ out killer headers, prints, stickers, comics, bags, longsleeves, tees and others extras, WITH the toys, that just give you that “bang for your buck” feeling.

 

Nobody will be able to flip any of the hype dollies these days without one of them cardboards.

just keep them in bag and keep it flat in some box or closet. Easy

 

Heat reactive colour change vinyl from Gumtaro. Cold blue/Hot white.
gumcolour by i thorn, on Flickr

 

Unbelievable mail day. Still can't believe it..

2D0E7160-3D97-4485-9FF5-2E6533DA583D by Matthew Kirscht, on Flickr

 

Holy shit.

 

Recently had the same mail day

Gargamel x Super7 x pickleloaf Flower Zag!

 

awesome!!! Congrats

 

Damn those sure are purty!

 

4" high coin bank.

 

These cuties made my day; I'm very grateful!

 

They hold hands very well

 

Love the marbling on this lil dude

 

so jealous can't seem to get my hands on one of these, I'm starting to think I enter the lottos wrong?? thanks for sharing

 

Recent acquisitions. I don't buy much these days but i couldnt pass up the s7 Goji or a vintage marusan Kanegon (my first!). Barunga was an added bonus.

 

Woof! What a haul

 

Jim Woodring toys rule.

 

Another M1 middle sized Gezora and some Sunguts Shin Godzill'as just showed up (2019 4th form and 2022 WF 3rd form)!

The 4th form Shin is huge!

 

A couple of different boxes of semi-cheapies/scratched/dented stuff. I love Gyaos. I love Baragon. I love Zazahn. I've warm feelings for Gomess. GID zahn in the back is a big deal for me, I think it's a promo item (no green streaks, all-glow, and strangely heavier in hand). Also had been hunting that elderly scrap of paper at the bottom right for a while. Is anyone watching the exchange rate getting a little bit favorable and pulling the trigger on some things?



This pic also just triggered a memory, for the old-timers. A hundred years ago, when Toy Shop was still a thing. I vaguely remember contacting a dealer from Missouri who placed an ad that suggested calling him on the phone during certain hours, for current stock. I think I was just starting out in college and had no money, but I called anyhow. And I have no idea what else he rattled off, except for the new crop of Bandais, and a Billiken "GOHMZ". The end.

 

That Baragon is so great, one of my faves! And that little purple Gyaos screaming to be let out looks adorable.

 

Every time I see a Mantra I kick myself for selling them all those years ago. What a beautiful figure.

 

it must be spring...Bakuler evaded Russian airspace and finally landed...
bakuler by i thorn, on Flickr