Comments on: BIG Toys Week: Rodan by Mattel

By: baby sprinkles

baby sprinkles — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:16:36 +0000

Sorry , I was a Gamera fan but did like and own a few die cast Shogun Warriors .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 May 2018 04:09:19 +0000

"Later on, it dawned on me that sometimes "Mint in Box" isn't as fun as loose."

That's something many collectors many learn fairly late in life, especially for those "grail" items. It's so perfect, so mint, the collector becomes a curator of an untouchable museum piece rather than someone who can enjoy what he has.

It's more than just toys in the literal sense, though Seventiesfan is entirely correct. It's any "collectible" originally meant to be used.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 May 2018 10:26:06 +0000

In reply to Char Vell. I had a huge collection of mostly Batman that I sold to fund a tax bill, the mint in box thing is strange, the most fun I had with it was selling the stuff on ebay and then picturing the excitement at the other end of the deal!! - Mark J

By: Char Vell

Char Vell — Sat, 12 May 2018 12:40:31 +0000

Great write up!
I never had any of the big Shogun related toys. I acquired Great Mazinga from a friend who runs the local comic shop a few years ago, he had seller's remorse and often tried to buy it back. I held on to it, trying to convince myself I'd had it since childhood.
Eventually, I traded it back to him for a first appearance of Deathlok I'd sold to him and regretted parting with, and a newer, smaller, diecast Mazinger Z figure from Japan.

It's weird how goofy plastic toys that we'd bury in the sandbox take on such importance in our lives as we age.

If only I could get a Mattel Eagle Transporter.

Rosebud.......

By: Seventiesfan

Seventiesfan — Fri, 11 May 2018 22:03:05 +0000

How right you are. "Mint in box" is no fun at all. It defeats the whole purpose of collecting. That is why ALL of my toys are loose and on display. I barely have enough room, but it's worth it. Absolutely everyone who has seen my collection is impressed by it. And I don't mind at all when someone takes an action figure off a shelf and starts playing with it. That's why toys were made.

By: Grebo

Grebo — Fri, 11 May 2018 14:08:09 +0000

When I was 9 yrs old, my parents – in an effort to stave off an imminent divorce – moved the family from comfortable Souther Ontario (Canada) down to Florida to restart our lives. It was a miserable mistake which lasted only a year, and the only thing I could cling to during that time as a 9 year old kid was the toys. Being down South meant LOTS of new options I'd never seen in old Burlington – lots of exotic crap I'd only seen ads for on our local US TV stations in Canada (hello WUTV!). So yeah, Rodan was pretty top-of-the-list for me in 1980. I remember snagging him and some smaller metal Shogun Warriors at the Tampa Bay mall one summer day and that was basically when I learned what "retail therapy" was all about.
Still have the son of a bitch somewhere in a box. He's fully intact, but I had to obvs. remove the rubber band holding those wings on. Someday he'll hang from the ceiling again, likely in the old-age home I'm rushing towards. Cheers!