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[Hepcat]

Those are good quality pictures!

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

Those toys are boss!

[curseofthewerewolf]

My son found this yesterday at a kind of strange sale near him (he was given a flashlight to look around and had to sign a waiver--asbestos). He sent me an email with the first photo and the title was "MERRY CHRISTMAS." It was the only toy thing he saw there. No power at all in the building.





My local buddy stumbled upon one cheap at the flea market he goes to a few years ago and only made me pay him what he paid. I used to look things up for him on the computer that he'd see there until he got Internet on his phone.

And now this one! This will be an upgrade box-wise for sure. My son was so excited about his find. He's a keeper!!! Maybe I'll trade the first once I see what's what.

[Hepcat]

OMG! What a sensational find!

[Mike Scott]

Wow! Tell me you got it cheap. That'll make the find even sweeter!

[bigbud]

Such an awesome item! especially with the inner display cardboard piece!

[freddie poe]

GREAT FIND!!

[SpeedierThantheGrave]

Noooo wayyyy!

[Mord]

 Excellent find! Well worth wading in asbestos for this.

[curseofthewerewolf]

He said it was 'cheap.' He just called again (he's excited). The back has a place where they cut into the slick layer to stick a SEARS 'label' (AAAGGHHH!!) and he said they wrote the family/business name on the side, too. All things considered, I don't think we can be too upset with Sears. He sent a photo of the back.



He said there was an old Coke machine in there, but she (the lady who would let you in/made you sign a waiver) said it was the first thing they sold. He didn't ask what they had sold it for. He saw a bicycle and trike, but couldn't see a manufacturer name on either.

[Mike Scott]

The back has a place where they cut into the slick layer to stick a SEARS 'label' (AAAGGHHH!!)

Why did they have to cut out a hunk of the cardboard just to put on a sticker? Seems pointlessly destructive, to me!

[Hepcat]

He said there was an old Coke machine in there, but she (the lady who would let you in/made you sign a waiver) said it was the first thing they sold. He didn't ask what they had sold it for.

Pop machines are boss cool! Every kitchen should have one.

[curseofthewerewolf]

Why did they have to cut out a hunk of the cardboard just to put on a sticker? Seems pointlessly destructive, to me!

Yeah, we don't quite understand that either. Not sure what they were using back then to stick them on (glue, rubber cement...'lick and stick'?), but it seems like it would have stuck just as well to the the box without slicing out that area.  Based on what he first told me I was almost expecting worse (they carved out a place on the back...)!

[Mike Scott]

Based on what he first told me I was almost expecting worse (they carved out a place on the back...)!

I'd scan the "Haunted House" area on the front and make a patch for the back.

[curseofthewerewolf]

I had thought of that and was thinking of it again on the way home from work. As I get older I get less obsessive, so it doesn't bug me as much as it once would have.