Collecting vintage toys has been a popular hobby for people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds for decades. To some, vintage toy collections provide the chance to observe slices of history, being able to witness the changes to design, craftsmanship, and engineering. Others collect toys to enshrine their favorite shows and characters to display to […]
Wheeljack’s Lab – Vintage Toy Blog
Follow this blog for the new, the unusual, the rare and cool Generation 1 G1 Transformers toys. Reviews, news, toy resources, galleries, unboxing, opinions and personal reflections on vintage toys.
Vintage Toy Buyer Buys of the Week
Vintage Toy Buyer Buys of the Week Another week of amazing vintage toy finds, from people selling vintage toys. This week’s vintage toy buyer buys of the week. Picked a house with 1,000 boxes of vintage toys and collectibles. I had quite the day looking for plastic gold with Les, a house flipper out of […]
Selling Vintage Toys
Selling Vintage Toys We’ve been getting a lot of great new vintage toy inventory lately. While we have traditionally been a buyer and seller of G1 Transformers toys, we have been buying and selling other vintage toy brands for over 20 years. Generally having some Dungeons & Dragons, Ghostbusters, Godaikin, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Shogun Warriors, Star […]
Sell Vintage Toy Collections on Facebook
Sell Vintage Toy Collections on Facebook Today I will walk you through the pros and cons of selling vintage toy collections on Facebook. Where you choose to sell vintage toy collections is a significant decision. The choice will determine how much time, and effort you need to expend as well as what your return will […]
Prototype Action Figure Collection
Prototype Action Figure Collection Prototype action figure collection coming soon! We recently got in a vintage collection of prototypes and memorabilia from a former Tonka Executive. As a vintage toy buyer, I feel the most exciting collections are the ones from the former company employees. His collection included toys in all phases of pre-production. Represented […]
Our Top 30 Best 1980’s Toys Part 3
10. ThunderCats LJN 1985 The cartoon was easily one of the bigger hits of the 1980’s, with over 130 episodes. “ThunderCats,” who flee their dying planet, are attacked by Mutants of Plun-Darr. With their starships damaged while escaping, they are forced to stop and arrive on Earth. The Mutants then locate the ThunderCats on Earth. […]
Our Top 30 Best 1980’s Toys Part 2
20. Go-Bots Tonka 1983 Go-Bots is the toy line of transforming robot toys produced by Tonka from 1983 to 1987. They are based on the figures produced by Bandai. Divided into two factions the good Guardians and evil Renegades. The toys did very well, but Hasbro’s Transformers quickly surpassed them. Most lines on this list […]
Our Top 30 Best 1980’s Toys
Our Top 30 Best 1980’s Toys Oh boy, how did I come up with the best 1980’s toys? This list isn’t based on popularity. If it was, Star Wars would win out just based on that. Don’t get me wrong, popularity factors in a little bit; however, the fact that a toy was unsuccessful means […]