does any one collect 3/4 gi jos

mnolan · February 1, 2008 9:03AM

have a large collection im looking to dump

lawnmowerman · February 1, 2008 10:44AM

yankeeno7 · February 1, 2008 10:49AM

I guess you could say they are giving each other.....umm...nevermind.

lawnmowerman · February 1, 2008 10:50AM

perkdog · February 1, 2008 11:06AM

mnolan · February 1, 2008 11:07AM

gotsparks09 · February 1, 2008 11:20AM

<< im looking to dump >>

you should read this because knowledge is power!

mnolan · February 1, 2008 1:30PM

i see everything is joke tonight so ill try again ihave about 3000 guys and about 1500 vehicles they are from 82 up sraight arm to i invested about 10k in these things and i have no more room

mrbecker712 · February 1, 2008 2:27PM

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<< im looking to dump >>

you should read this because knowledge is power! >>

Why's there an apple on the cover? Okay, people, horses, and ducks poop. But apples?

lawnmowerman · February 1, 2008 2:30PM

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Why's there an apple on the cover? Okay, people, horses, and ducks poop. But apples? >>

Good point!

gotsparks09 · February 1, 2008 2:31PM

<< Why's there an apple on the cover? Okay, people, horses, and ducks poop. But apples? >>

You have to read the book to find out what happens to the apple...in the end.

lawnmowerman · February 1, 2008 2:36PM

I wonder why his hands are like that?

mrbecker712 · February 1, 2008 2:41PM

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<< Why's there an apple on the cover? Okay, people, horses, and ducks poop. But apples? >>

You have to read the book to find out what happens to the apple...in the end. >>

You sorta just ruined the ending! That's pretty "crappy".

TNP777 · February 1, 2008 2:45PM

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<< Why's there an apple on the cover? Okay, people, horses, and ducks poop. But apples? >>

You have to read the book to find out what happens to the apple...in the end. >>

You sorta just ruined the ending! That's pretty "crappy".

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Crapplesauce?

gotsparks09 · February 1, 2008 3:00PM

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I wonder why his hands are like that? >>

In the immortal words of Sublime..."I didn't know she had the G.I. Joe kung fu grip..."

wolfbear · February 1, 2008 3:21PM

"You used to love to play with me. Don't just mail me off to a stranger!"

storm888 · February 1, 2008 3:27PM

I like 'em, but I like the big ones better.

I fear the lttle guys have been over-hoarded in
new condition.

It might be worthwhile to trade-off some of the
3/4s for a lesser quantity of the fulls. If you still
like the character.

Or, you could throw them in an EBAY store, put
high prices on them, and let 'em move out slow
but semi-profitably.

yankeeno7 · February 1, 2008 3:36PM

Thats a lot of GI Joes! Good luck on your sale.

DeutscherGeist · February 1, 2008 3:54PM

If the 3/4 figures are sealed in the original box, they are worth some nice coin. If the original package is graded, then one can expect hundreds of dollars easy.

Figures that are out of the box and still MINT are not always easy to find, but they are out there. If Storm's statement that these figures were hoarded when new, then I hate to know what is going on now with GI Joe figures. Now with the 25th anniversary figures out on the market, I doubt many of those get out of the package. If it was called hoarding in the 80s with those early figures, then what do we call it now with the 25th anniversary figures where I suspect mainly adult collectors buy them as opposed to children for play.

Leiascards · February 1, 2008 4:01PM

I read a report that estimated that 70% of all action figures sold in the SW, WWE, and GI Joe lines are bought by adult collectors.

Ironically many are now selling for as much or more open and not sealed in the package. There is one set of SW figures I can buy right now at WalMart for 10.00 One of the figure sells for 9 to 14 dollars loose the other brings 5 to 6 loose. Together still sealed you can only get aboout retail.

DeutscherGeist · February 1, 2008 4:23PM

70%???

That is really high!!! It does not surprise me though. WWE, GI Joe and SW cater to the 80s kids that are adults now. A lot of the products are simply modified remakes of what was produced in the 80s. Nostalgia is the engine of sales for these new items. Only Star Wars crossed the generation line since it had a trilogy in the 90s, so a new generation of fans were tapped into.

I don't expect children of today to know Duke, Scarlett, Destro and Cobra Commander since there are no new movies or cartoons that can potentially fuel the interest and awareness. A lot of the 1980s toys got interest because of the cartoons. Without that, there is less appeal to buy the toys. Now you have those same characters that I mentioned back again as 25th anniversary editions. Children are not going to want those, but an adult that grew up in the 80s might buy some and display them over his computer for nostalgia reasons since his originals most likely got thrown away by mom, damaged, sold at a yard sale, lost, etc.

storm888 · February 1, 2008 4:52PM

"If it was called hoarding in the 80s with those early figures, then what do we call it
now with the 25th anniversary figures where I suspect mainly adult collectors buy
them as opposed to children for play."

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We ALL need to be really cautious when we think about
"investing" in alot of this stuff. There are going to be some
profitable exceptions, but mass-production and hoarders/
speculators are NOT going to give us a future Howdy Doody
gold mine.

50-years out, MOST of the modern stuff will still be worthless.

Stuff from 1930 to 1970 has only worked out because nobody
thought to save very much of it in NIB condition. NOW, people
are saving HUGE multiples of everything on the shelves at
Toys-R-Us and WalMart.

Some of you may think that you are young enough to speculate
in green bananas, but I am not.

Allen · February 1, 2008 5:54PM

unopened pokemon and yugioh will be very hot in 40 years. No joke.

DeutscherGeist · February 1, 2008 5:55PM

Storm,

I guess the lesson here is collect just enough Gi Joes to impress oneself and not more (one of each figure is enough) and use the rest of the money on Gold, silver, CD accounts and Mickey Mantle baseball cards.

DeutscherGeist · February 1, 2008 6:29PM

Yugioh hot in 40 years??

Aren't those play cards? I mean, they are cards to play a game with, so they get used up. Very few are being preserved, right? Is that what you mean when predicting they may be hot in 40 years?

Its hard to tell on these message boards if people are being ironic or serious at times.

julen23 · February 1, 2008 11:38PM

if you have a girlfriend who sells things on e-bay for other people (for minimal fee),
use her business to sell your stuff.

i heard vintage iron man dolls bring serious cheese also.

j

does any one collect 3/4 gi jos

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