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Haji Space Trooper - Super Score!
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wing_clipper
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Joined: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:25 pm Posts: 2538 Location: illinois
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 Haji Space Trooper - Super Score!
Just found this vintage tin Space Trooper yesterday in a random hole-in-the-wall Midwest antique store. Sure it has some rust and is missing the gun and box, but still totally awesome! Made by Haji in Japan, circa 1956.  
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plastichunter
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Joined: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:40 pm Posts: 4237 Location: Los Angeles
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Oh man that's just gorgeous! What a great find.
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Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:36 pm |
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vintagevinyl
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Joined: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:58 pm Posts: 1657 Location: Bend, Or
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what an awesome find ! glad to see some old tin showing up here.
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Greasebat
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Joined: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:48 pm Posts: 2415 Location: NE OHIO
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wow. The rust makes him look even cooler
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Autopsy
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Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:54 pm Posts: 1936 Location: I'm Right Behind You!
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Congrats on the score - that is a great find for great price
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wing_clipper
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Joined: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:25 pm Posts: 2538 Location: illinois
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thanks guys! i'm super excited about this score, especially finding it in such a random place and for such a steal
its funny, i'm not a tin toy collector by any means but i have always been intrigued by pics of old tin robots and the like... but they go for crazy bucks which pretty much keeps me away. when i saw this in the antique store i knew it looked super familiar, either way i had to have it.. too rad to pass up.
sure enough i checked when i got home and there was one that sold in the morphy auction recently (in much better condition). i had actually saved the auction picture to my computer just because it looked cool, now i have the actual toy a month later!
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Leecifer
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Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:06 pm Posts: 2018 Location: Oaktown hills
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That's just so damn cool! Yeah I gotta' go w/ rust = cooler. Somewhere online is Glenn Barr's collection of tin toys you might get a Kick out of.
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TULKU
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Joined: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:00 pm Posts: 518
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Now thats a classy piece  WOW! Thanks for sharing it.
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