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What are the oldest toys you've found still for sale at a retail store?

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 03:56:38 No.10331446 View View Reply Original Report

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I'll start. It was 2017, a Kmart near me was going out of business and having crazy closeout sales. I went to check it out and found some figures from Attack of the Clones (2002).
Pretty crazy to think they managed to sit there for 15 years.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 04:08:35 No.10331458 Report

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>>10331446
Retrospam thread?

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 04:38:50 No.10331484 Report

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>>10331446
Pic NOT related -- but similar.
I had a similar experience to yours; went to a closing Kmart and found a cardboard tray full of Hulk plushes for the Ang Lee movie.
More recently, I went to a Kohls and found a single Marvel Universe Black Cat. The bubble had yellowed significantly and looking around, I couldn't find anything else that was way too old to be there save for the Black Cat figure.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 04:40:19 No.10331486 Report

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>>10331484
For reference the pic is from 2018, taken in a closing Toys R Us.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 04:41:18 No.10331487 Report

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>>10331484
Saw an iron-man 2 Ironman one of the comic book ones with the cards and the stand I think it was iron monger this was 2 years ago

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 05:14:06 No.10331515 Report

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>>10331484
I ended up finding that full tray of plushies at Goodwill around Infinity War's release

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 05:21:04 No.10331526 Report

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I think it was 2020 but I don't remember for sure, but I went into a Gabes for a cheap phone charger cable and there was an Avengers cartoon Hawkeye on a peg in the toy section. The top right corner of the box were beat to shit but the figure was fine. Almost grabbed it just because but it was priced at $7.99 and that was more than I was willing to pay.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 06:34:24 No.10331578 Report

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>>10331446
When TRU was closing down in like a month, I saw these 2. They were still priced at $20 each, which was also how much they were new. in like 2008 i think.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 07:05:59 No.10331613 Report

Quoted By: >>10331657 >>10331833

Closest thing to this I've seen is a local wal-mart still has a copy of Cory in the House for the nintendo DS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 08:06:29 No.10331653 Report

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>>10331578
the toys themselves arent worth much but the ditial codes included with them you could easily resell for couple hundred each.

yes I've played AQW since it launched in 08 and no I dont support the stupid shit but yes whales are willing to pay obscene amounts of money for digital codes to exclusive old rare merchandise.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 08:11:50 No.10331657 Report

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>>10331613
But did you buy it Anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 08:29:01 No.10331664 Report

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Around 2015 I went to a little convenience store in the middle of nowhere. Family had a farm a few miles away. They had a single Doc Ock action figure from the Spider-man 2 figure line sitting among canned goods. Very strange.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 08:51:48 No.10331681 Report

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>>10331446
Pic related still in a store I go to buy lego, sitting there 50% off and no one wants it lol

Not sure if I should pick it up

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 11:13:50 No.10331769 Report

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I actually encountered something like this very recently, although it was an Online Only sort of thing. A main retail chain here decided to start selling McFarlane DC Multiverse figures out of nowhere though most of it isn"t stuff I actually want to buy. Cool thing to keep an eye out on though. Few days pass and I check back again out of boredom and see they put up a listing for a random Mattel DC Multiverse figure of all things. Far as I can tell the figure itself is about 7 years old by this point so for shits and giggles I decided to order one and see how it goes. Got a shipping confirmation at least so it seems pretty legit.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 11:30:18 No.10331775 Report

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My local Walgreens still has some Force Awakens black series Finns for full price.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 11:32:37 No.10331777 Report

Quoted By: >>10342363 >>10343716

Local walmart had a remodel last year and a case of hotwheels from 2001 was found in the back.
Someone bought most of them but I snagged the last one.
Main reason I noticed was the plastic was fully yellowed and brittle and immediately recognized the car because I'd bought the very same one when I was a kid.
>not the original 1998 Phantom Corsair but the 2001 brown version
Also not strictly toy related but Ollie's has bee selling Hack:/ tcg decks from 03/04 and a highlander tv show tcg from 1995.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 11:58:05 No.10331798 Report

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this must've bounced around warehouses for 24 years before i found it in ollies a few weeks ago

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 12:28:28 No.10331827 Report

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Found this guy back in 2019 at Bargain Hunt. Not bad for $1.50.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 12:33:48 No.10331833 Report

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>>10331613
I've picked up a few games that way, just last year I saw yoshi wolly world with amiibo for like $30 but by the time we decided to buy it I missed out. My best buy was world of final fantasy for 1 penny.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 12:36:35 No.10331837 Report

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>>10331446
I got a Lego Time Cruisers Mountain in 2009/2010ish. It was on Norfolk Island, they had a bunch of old stock.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 13:27:50 No.10331902 Report

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A few months ago at multiple Ross stores I saw this Triple H monster truck, apparently from 2006. I've never seen something that old at a Ross.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 23:41:56 No.10332738 Report

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>>10331653
the codes still work? what do they even specifically give?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 06:23:58 No.10333169 Report

Quoted By: >>10333176

>>10332738
Artix figure gave the Paladin highlord class and a special good paladin castle house.
Sepulchure gave the Doomknight Overlord class and a evil castle house.
Also each figure had the regular version and a rare chase version like those in the picture.

This was around the time where the sky was the limit for the company, had just released a cardgame, the figures, were looking to make a cartoon series for the cartoon network, they were intending to make expansion packs and decks for the card game etc.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 06:32:53 No.10333176 Report

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>>10333169
>Artix figure gave the Paladin highlord class and a special good paladin castle house.
>Sepulchure gave the Doomknight Overlord class and a evil castle house.
and these were valuable?

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 06:58:25 No.10333198 Report

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>>10333176
not really but you gotta remember the mindset of a whale wanting to wear old extremely rare gear as a status symbol.
both classes have been severely outclassed by newer classes for probably half a decade and both houses while nice arent any better than ones you can currently obtain in game.

Apparently theirs someone that works at their online store is routinely generating new codes for said gear and having people sell said codes through twitter for $200-$300 a wack and he's getting kickbacks.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 07:01:15 No.10333200 Report

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>>10331798
The Ollie's near me has these too

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 07:04:28 No.10333203 Report

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>>10331446
Kmart circa 2018 or so, found Iron Man first movie figures. Somewhat ironically, they were figures that I wanted and could never find back in the day. By 2018 the toy market had advanced a lot though, and they looked very outdated and crappy, so I didn't buy em.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 00:37:38 No.10336182 Report

Quoted By: >>10342322

Went into a Joann (craft store chain) a few years ago and there were some Beanie Babies that looked like they had been sitting there for decades. I looked at one of the tush tags and sure enough, copyright 1999.
Did an ebay search for each of them on the spot, none were worth enough to disturb their resting place. So there they remain for decades to come.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 01:01:37 No.10336225 Report

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>>10331681
theyre fun figures to fuck around with. if you cant appreciate them on that level atleast flip them for double what you payed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 05:55:49 No.10336658 Report

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>>10331446
>I'll start. It was 2017, a Kmart near me was going out of business and having crazy closeout sales. I went to check it out and found some figures from Attack of the Clones (2002).
>Pretty crazy to think they managed to sit there for 15 years.

I can believe it. I can remember a kmart in 2017 that had nsinc keychains.

I think the oldest currently was in 2022 an ollies had new model kits from the the late 90s

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 21:28:11 No.10337484 Report

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>>10331446
I went to an Ollies a couple years back and literally found a figure of Jeebs from Men in Black

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 21:34:08 No.10337492 Report

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Tru brought out the old bw stock. Like transqutio again when they were closing up 5, 6 years back. I thought I was going to have a stroke seeing those return since they stayed on the shelf till 2002.

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 13:11:28 No.10338521 Report

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Stockers at TRU were notorious for hiding the good stuff when they were doing the morning stock work. A common tactic was hiding the rare and good stuff underneath the bottom shelf.

t.TRU Asset Protection

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 13:43:34 No.10338562 Report

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>>10337484
I seriously want to know what underground bunker warehouses Ollie's keeps finding some of their stock.
At this point I'm waiting for reports of Bubba Bears and Muy Locos to be found.

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 14:14:24 No.10338601 Report

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One of these turned up at the local Wal-Mart in '09 or '10.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 16:06:08 No.10338735 Report

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>>10331446
i remember someone had pics of a UAE toysrus where they had 90s MMPR zords in the 2010s

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 16:16:54 No.10338753 Report

Quoted By: >>10342049

Back in 2007 when Toys R Us was sorta new in the Philippines, they had huge bins of old 90s Toybiz Marvel figures for cheap. Around $5-10 iirc.

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 16:17:04 No.10338754 Report

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>>10331446
around 2012 or so i went to TKMAXX and found a joyride studios legionnaire mech kit from mech warrior dark age
and another time after that a radioactive clown unreal universe gorge in the blue team colours

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Anonymous Fri 24 Mar 2023 05:35:16 No.10342049 Report

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>>10338753
Nice

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Anonymous Fri 24 Mar 2023 11:10:57 No.10342322 Report

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>>10336182
Does joann still exist

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Anonymous Fri 24 Mar 2023 11:18:20 No.10342327 Report

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It wasn't actually that old back then but I found pic related in a convenience store toy section when visiting my grandparents at 2002-03. It's a 1994 set.
What's crazy is that nowadays if you found an early Ninjago set it could be older today than this set when I found it. Time flies.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Mar 2023 11:53:12 No.10342352 Report

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>>10331446
Few years back I found pic related in a discount section. Discount sticker on top of discount sticker, this poor figure must've been going back and forth between stores and distribution centers for nearly 30 years until I got my hands on it.

However the absolute record keeper has to be a pile of knockoff Lego sets I found in a drug store with a 1988 copyright stamp, and this was only about two years ago. Last time I checked they were still there, too.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Mar 2023 12:00:54 No.10342363 Report

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>>10331777
checked, nice

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Anonymous Sat 25 Mar 2023 08:01:34 No.10343716 Report

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>>10331777
Oh damn I have this exact one!

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Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 10:34:50 No.10348679 Report

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>>10331775
It's surreal that Star Wars, which was for over 30 years straight the titan IP of the toy market, with entire aisles dedicated in most major stores across the country, has been reduced to a few pegs of Black Series Finn and not much else for 8 years now.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 11:29:48 No.10348725 Report

Quoted By: >>10349004 >>10349125

>>10342352
>However the absolute record keeper has to be a pile of knockoff Lego sets I found in a drug store with a 1988 copyright stamp, and this was only about two years ago. Last time I checked they were still there, too.

I think drugstores just buy 4 or 5 things from a local store and then pump the price up. Its there for dads to grab for a sick kid while they pick up the prescription.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 11:32:15 No.10348726 Report

Quoted By: >>10349121

>>10348679
>It's surreal that Star Wars, which was for over 30 years straight the titan IP of the toy market, with entire aisles dedicated in most major stores across the country, has been reduced to a few pegs of Black Series Finn and not much else for 8 years now.

black series and most black figures are bad marketing. The packaging doesn't pop and pull kids in. Same with putting a black man in a brown coat. If for black children, it doesn't grab their eyes. They should package R2 or BB8 with him to grab attention.

As an aside, I don't think kids are racist. I think they notice bright colors because fruit in the wild would be brightly colored and so would dangerous bugs like wasps.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 14:13:30 No.10348859 Report

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saw Lego Dimensions at walmart
it sit there for weeks

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 16:45:24 No.10349004 Report

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>>10348725
>Its there for dads to grab for a sick kid while they pick up the prescription.

relatable

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 18:06:41 No.10349121 Report

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>>10348726
Star wars toys are in the state they're in currently mainly thanks to Disney but Hasbro has their part to play in it too.
>ST is a mess for the reasons we all know
>ST is largely untoygetic even with Disneys attempts with BB-8, porgs and the black evil bb8
>ST toys shelfwarm hard leading to stores cutting space for star wars and Hasbro cutting freight
>now years later even with the sucess of the shows Hasbro still maintains spotty deliveries (6+months between cases at some walmarts)
>hasbro packages in multiples of figures most likely to shelfwarm (Lando vs army builders)
Plus Micro Galaxy has ran into the issue of they flooded the stores with wave 1 to the point shelves are clogged and made later waves difficult to find

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Anonymous Tue 28 Mar 2023 18:14:00 No.10349125 Report

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>>10348725
Well, it wasn't really a drug store, I don't know how else to describe it since they sell just about everything *except* groceries. And these things were insanely cheap, so I grabbed a bunch.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Mar 2023 18:33:56 No.10352108 Report

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>>10331681
Lol

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