paid $250 for mine on e bay and it came with the gloves and backer card but no bag .the maudaya talker was a bit more at about $400 and the masudaya light up was $100 . the light up i have seen go cheap and also super expensive .

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Vintage Masudaya Tiger seven talker
I do not know what is more strange, the price or the figure
Went for:232,000 yen
This is what is written in the sale, I hope to be helpful:
It is Pipuro Talking of time thing.
Pulling the cord, it will be several types of lines.

The Tiger7 auction has a few things working for it, the biggest of which is that talking vinyls are really super expensive now. They are oversized (most start at 13" tall and go up to almost 16") and usually the largest vinyl ever made of the particular character. Because of their size, mechanism and original higher retail price, just about all the talkers are rare. They were considered second tier "gimmick" vinyls for a long time, and heavily ignored by most collectors in Japan, which made it easier for people like or Jim/vintagevinyl or myself to go out and find them. Like many lines, that perspective shifted over time, and about 6 years ago, a collector put one of almost every vintage talker up on yahoo at the same time. Once people saw them in a line together and could get multiple at once, the prices of those auctions tripled/quadrupled the previous sales for those characters. I put in what I considered to be preposterus bids on a few I needed, figuring I was going crazy on a couple, but whatever, no one would ever pay what I would for them. I was wrong, and I lost every auction I bid on by a large amount. That pulled what remaining stock was out there out of the woodwork, and then the supply was gone. Since then, prices on the talking vinyls have been going up and up. The market for vintage has become higher and higher, and the larger and more unique items are more and more desirable, and some of these items rarely turn up, maybe only once a year or less. Quite honestly, it may have been two years since I saw a Tiger7 talker for sale. When the stock is that sparse, the prices get crazy!

...As a general rule, the reissues are a hair bit smaller, and quite honestly, are resculpted (but look identical). The easiest way to tell, is that the reissues have a green talk box in the back and the originals have a flesh talk box.

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