Just noticed that this Sundays new episode of Toy Hunter is an all monster episode!! Also Jordan is looking for stuff for Kirk Hammett!
The episode is titled, Toy Haunter. Travel channel, 7pm cst.
Quote from: zombiehorror on October 16, 2013, 06:57:33 PM
Just noticed that this Sundays new episode of Toy Hunter is an all monster episode!! Also Jordan is looking for stuff for Kirk Hammett!
The episode is titled, Toy Haunter. Travel channel, 7pm cst.
Awesome, Awesome!!!!!!!
Cool. I have a friend who taped a segment for Toy Hunter long ago, but I never saw him on the show. Hopefully they were saving it for this episode.
I watch this show and seriously wish I had kept the toys that I had growing up. :(
I watch the show and see a whole lot of stuff I used to have and wish I still did. I think he lowballs the prices too much. I know he has to make a profit but I think he could do better on the prices he pays. I know the value of a lot of those toys and he comes in too low IMHO.
Sometimes he low-balls and sometimes he high-balls. I wouldn't use the show as a price guide. But it's nice that there is a show about toy collecting on the air. He'll actually talk about an AHI or Tomland toy by name, which is not something I thought I'd ever see on national TV. It's also cool that the same network, Travel Channel, has a show that connects with the mask collecting hobby–Making Monsters.
Yep, it is really weird how Toy Hunter and American Pickers operate?!?! Sometimes they go for blood when trying to get the cheapest price...other times they'll stop someone and tell them that they are undervaluing an item and offer them more?!?! Now the guy (and crew) from Hardcore Pawn, they are just out to low ball everyone on everything!!!
Toy Hunter has good and bad points like everything. The good is that there is at least something on featuring toys, and treating toy collecting as a legit hobby. The bad is that it is transparently, and poorly, scripted, and the prices are hardly an indication of true market value. However, when they feature monster toys it makes the aggravating parts worth putting up with.
I wish someone would do a show about the monster collectible market and not have any BS scripted drama. Just someone shooting the dealers room at a Chiller or Monster Bash for 30 minutes would be awesome. They could interview dealers and discuss the value, background, and rarity of toys, monster mags, comics, masks, posters, and model kits. If there isn't enough interest to sell the idea to the TV suits, then it would at least make a great YouTube show.
I think as collectors, we are definitely lucky to have a show like Toy Hunter. It is was it is. A scripted reality show. Maybe little over-board on the estimated prices? But a fun show to watch. Plus, not to mention, Distortions(Making Monsters). It is a great time to be a nerd. Syfy, has some interesting nerd shows, too. Heroes of Displayed and the
popular, Face Off. Unfortunately, Syfy did air a possible collectors show named: Collectors Intervention. The show ran
six episodes. Eventually canceled.
Thanks for the heads up- zombiehorror! I always seem to miss this show! I never know when anything good is on- I blindly channel surf 9 out of 10 times :)
And, I don't freakin' get the Travel Channel.
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Awsome, thanks for the news. It's gonna be a great night for TV!
Definitely. ;D
I'm in!!
I haven't watched it yet, but some of it was filmed at Horrorhound Cincinnati in March.
BK
Just watched it. Good episode with some great memories. He went to the Salem Toy Musuen in Salem Massachuettes. He actually bought somethings from him. I was there when it first opened and the guy told me nothing was for sale. It is all from his personal collection. He let him buy stuff out of his closet. I saw a Dracula Mystery game in the closet and I am going back to Salem in about 3 weeks. I will have to stop by and see if I can strike a deal for it. If he can sell to the Toy Hunter then he can sell to Universal Steve. The guitarist had a lot of cool and expensive stuff. I suppose if I made the money he does for being in a band I could get the high end stuff also. Always fun to see other collections.
Great episode tonight! I know it's off topic, but I couldn't help but scratch my head over how they were wearing their seat belts while they were driving around.
That was odd ???
Quote from: gummi on October 20, 2013, 09:53:53 PM
Great episode tonight! I know it's off topic, but I couldn't help but scratch my head over how they were wearing their seat belts while they were driving around.
I noticed the seatbelts, too. It was distracting!
So what about the prices on that stuff? Does that PEZ ad really go that high? I thought that carded AHI Mummy jiggler was beyond top dollar. And do the carded jigglers have tags?
I wanted to see more of Kirk's collection. I was surprised he was confined to one short segment at the very end of the program. I thought they would devote more screen time to touring his house and talking to him about his stuff.
Seemed high to me in this episode. It's a scripted show, so who knows. Not like there gonna have him buy up this stuff and have Kirk say, nahhh, pass...O0...though Bonaducci passed on the Partridge Family bus recently.
The prices definitely seemed a little crazy on this one, both in what he was asking and in particular how much he paid for some of the items. As a mask collector, I've seen that 1967 Don Post Skull go for the $240 he paid for it or less pretty frequently, let alone the $500 he was going to ask for it. Just for the heck of it, I looked up the Munsters lunch box on eBay and found that it also sells for the $350 he paid for it or less, and that's in similar condition to the one he found. He wanted to sell it for $600. I'm thinking that he gets a lot of uninformed buyers if he's able to get those prices.
Don't believe everything you see on TV...
I watched it. The good thing is they are showing SOMETHING featuring monster toys. The bad thing is all the wasted time with the format of the show. At the risk of sounding rude I'm going to be honest with my opinion here. I don't care about Jordan, or Steve, or whether Jordan makes his sales goal at the next show, or if he finds a freakin' overpriced bigfoot doll, or if he loses weight, or if he kisses some celebrity's ass properly. I care about the stuff, and the market. I sat through an hour show and saw 8-10 minutes of monster toys and the rest poorly scripted drama. We only got to see glimpses of the Kirk Hammett collection, which was the coolest part of the show and should have gotten at least a 20 minute segment. I may just stop watching Toy Hunter. The aggravating parts of the show are starting to outweigh what little good there is. Many of you seem to like the show far more than I do, and to that I say good. If you enjoy it then that's great. I'm just liking it less and less.
One other thing . . . his assistant Julia (real or not) should be featured prominently on every episode.
Quote from: Monster Bob on October 21, 2013, 05:06:09 AM
Don't believe everything you see on TV...
Well, now you're just messing with my entire worldview.
Quote from: gummi on October 21, 2013, 02:42:50 AM
The prices definitely seemed a little crazy on this one, both in what he was asking and in particular how much he paid for some of the items. As a mask collector, I've seen that 1967 Don Post Skull go for the $240 he paid for it or less pretty frequently, let alone the $500 he was going to ask for it. Just for the heck of it, I looked up the Munsters lunch box on eBay and found that it also sells for the $350 he paid for it or less, and that's in similar condition to the one he found. He wanted to sell it for $600. I'm thinking that he gets a lot of uninformed buyers if he's able to get those prices.
I don't disagree with anything you stated. I just find myself FFing through the show until I see some actual toys. And I sure don't use it as a reference for the toy market. Take what little good there is to see and FF through the rest and you're done with the show in ten minutes.
I'd like to see how kirk displays his toy collection. I love the book I'd just like to see how he's got them on display.
My question is how did that 1967 Don Post Skull mask survive sitting in a truck trailer on a Styrofoam head and still stay that nice? I'm not much of a mask collector, but own a few and thought it would be worse shape than it looked.
BK
I was so tickled during the whole show!! It was nice to hear people on tv actually talking about a subject I enjoy hearing about! I was talking along with the show, just to show off to my husband how much I know about monster toys! Ha! We've been married for hundreds of years, so I like to surprise him once in a while. :) I was breathing shallowly when they opened the door to Mr. Hammett's house. I recorded the show so that I can go back and look at his collection some more! He seems like such a nice person, and it seemed like he has so much respect for the collectibles he has amassed. I would love to see a whole show about his collection!
The 80s Frankenstein mask was my favorite find- when they opened that storage trailer, I couldn't believe the treasures I saw! The Pez ad was really neat to see. I also really enjoyed the enthusiastic buyers at HorrorHound weekend. Overall, I really enjoyed the show and I wish there were more Monster toy episodes!
Quote from: Count_Zirock on October 19, 2013, 09:51:31 PM
And, I don't freakin' get the Travel Channel.
There are some very good programs on Travel Channel in my On Demand this month, including several about some great Halloween haunts and haunted amusement parks. And they cut out the commercials to boot!
Quote from: jimm on October 21, 2013, 06:13:08 PM
I'd like to see how kirk displays his toy collection. I love the book I'd just like to see how he's got them on display.
Watch the show -- they go to his house and show some of his dazzling collection.
Watched, not nearly snuff though. Need like when people post their collection pics here O0 His painting and posters alone could take up a half hour. Original Gogo's, Frazetta's, and Bama's?!? Unreal.
Quote from: jimm on October 21, 2013, 09:46:44 PM
Watched, not nearly snuff though. Need like when people post their collection pics here O0 His painting and posters alone could take up a half hour. Original Gogo's, Frazetta's, and Bama's?!? Unreal.
Exactly. The show just gave glimpses of Hammett's awesome collection, and yet they fill an hour with a steaming pile of soap opera. They missed a golden opportunity to actually feature the Hammett collection. I guess they think they have to make it appeal to the attention span challenged masses as opposed to real collectors. Gotta run those lame cliff hanger commercial cuts to keep the viewers reeled in..."Wow!...You been holdin' out on me!", or "Found sumpin' I want!!!"
Ugh.
Not sure I buy into the minty Munsters lunch box in the trailer either. That one almost always has wear, yet someone who has no idea about it managed to keep it cherry? ???
Kirk needed some more time to show his collection. Those Bela and Borris lifesize props were just sick! They looked like they were alive!