Wed May 11, 2011 11:22 pm
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Thu May 12, 2011 11:01 am
Sanjeev wrote:Mind-blowingly awesome!
I trust you've seen this photoset (especially the second page)! Lots of incredible custom-chromed magnemo figures. Seriously nuts!
Sun May 15, 2011 7:36 am
Sun May 15, 2011 12:16 pm
diceone wrote:The Gold Baron Karza is from my purchase of a large lot of back stock from Burlington Antique toys.
The microman figures were sold to Burlington over 8-10 years ago by a consignor.
Steve Balkin, age 73, store owner, purchased this with about 20 other microman pieces.Burlington Antique Toys opened on Madison Avenue in 1978, and closed on April 30th, 2011.
Sadly, cities seem to be losing these great unique stores. .
diceone wrote:I'll save that tale for my friends and those who visit our NY continuation of Steve's great love for toys and his vision to find the drive to collect and stock in this massive variety of genres.
Sun May 15, 2011 1:31 pm
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Sun May 15, 2011 7:24 pm
diceone wrote:The gold baron karza, along with the other takara microman items were sold to Steve Balkin because the person needed quick money.
Microman went defunct and many of the collectors and dealers and execs attached suffered financially.
New York isn't like other cities. So just because a store is in a ritzy neighborhood doesn't mean it's clientele was exclusive to the elite.
Steve is a warm-hearted and friendly person, who often over paid and simply enjoyed discovering new items and felt like he was helping people out.
On the other hand, many people that are insiders, influencers, and the like are also based in NY. So maybe it's a bit of both situations?
Mon May 16, 2011 9:07 am
Mon May 16, 2011 11:12 am
So, let’s see. You barely have any posts, and a good chunk of them just self-promoting your own event known as “Toy Street.” So you want to do work in the toy world and profit from fans of toy culture but you consider the definition of “consignment” versus “sale” worthy of personally deriding others of as “nerds?”diceone wrote:Wow. Semantics and nerds.
You said the following when you popped into this thread.diceone wrote:They weren't on consignment.
Steve bought them at least 10 years ago.
You keep on changing your story with each post and mix up pseudo-facts with reality. The box on the item in question even refers to “Micronauts” but you keep on mentioning “Microman” and you don’t even know the history of the toy or the company which can be gleaned in a simple Google search?diceone wrote:The microman figures were sold to Burlington over 8-10 years ago by a consignor.
On a map, Yorkville is technically part of the Upper East Side. But as far as the Upper East Side that “Burlington Antique Toys” was based in, it’s another planet.diceone wrote:Just an FYI Yorkville is in the UES. it doesn't border it.
And 23rd and Madison is Flatiron.
I live in the UES, at 95th and 3rd.
So please try not to tell me about my neighborhood
Seriously dude, with a handful of posts you are showing yourself completely hypocritical of any “great love of toys.” Like I said before, you real need a serious attitude check.diceone wrote:I'll save that tale for my friends and those who visit our NY continuation of Steve's great love for toys and his vision to find the drive to collect and stock in this massive variety of genres.
Mon May 16, 2011 4:41 pm
Mon May 16, 2011 5:43 pm
Okay, you are my “fact basis.” Here’s a breakdown of the problems with your “facts.”diceone wrote:I gave you the story. I AM your fact basis that you are now trying to argue with me about.
diceone wrote:Even worse you're trying to tell me about my own City and neighborhood that you clearly haven't been in.
Stop looking at google maps and comparing it to where ever it is you live, and then combining that with urban-legend and internet searches on the history of the residents of the upper east side.
I grew up in deep Brooklyn and now live in another part of Brooklyn. I know this city profoundly well. And in the 1970s I was buying Microman toys directly (as a kid) from stores in this city because I scoped them out.MicromanZone wrote:Apparently it came from an old NYC antique store that was going out of business, but growing up in NYC I can’t think of which one it would have been.
No, but you are attempting to be a dealer in the toy world and your reaction to some basic questions here reflects on your maturity deeply. And in the world of dealing with this stuff reputation speaks a lot. Your passive-aggresive swipes against anyone knowing anything about this toy-line combined with your pissing contest “I found this!” attitude makes me wonder if you actually have a love for the toys you are selling or not? You can’t condescend to your customers, because that completely flies in your whole “great love for toys” attitude you claimed before.diceone wrote:I'm sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about except harping on me about my faux paus in re to mego being defunct, rather than microman. I'm not claiming to be captain microman/micronauts.
See above. It’s amazing you would rail on me with that “You don't know NYC” without doing basic research. Which in this case means simply reading this very simple thread.diceone wrote:I'm trying to keep you from pulling the wrong info.
Just chill out.
You don't know NYC, you don't live here, you didn't find or buy the pieces and you didn't get the story and you didn't sell them.
In general—and not just here—people who come in from out of nowhere to a community, invite people to a “free” event, berate them for asking questions and then mock/question their background tend to be the type of people whose intentions/motivations many people question.diceone wrote:and don't make me regret posting an invitation to SB to come to our free toy event.
That's just sad.
Fri May 27, 2011 9:29 am
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