Show off your Weekly Finds.

[CerebusLives]

You should always be investing; good call on the getting something for the wife by the way

[zman1981]

I'd be searching for a Frankenstein head speaker.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Rockshasa]

I will have to go back and see is Kirk had one of these in his display at the Airport or in his book Too Much Horror Business.

LOL, that was my first thought too. I'm not a Metallica fan at all, but I am quite aware of Mr. Kirk's love of all things monsters. We are also the same age. When I saw the bids, I immediately thought, "Only a rockstar could afford to place that kinda bid on a monster toy."

I have often wondered if any famous folks were in our midst on these boards...operating under aliases.
Guess we'll never know...

[John Pertwee]

He is most likely here under an alias. It is the only way to avoid paying the "fame tax" he talked about in his book. He would be able to buy things in the for sale section and have them sent to an assistants place.

Who knows? Perhaps you are Kirk. Or is it me? Don't know or care. Enjoy the forum Kirk, and thanks for letting us enjoy your collection. 

[Monsters For Sale]

Guys:

This thing is up to $11,900.00 with 5 days left.

The top bidder has two identical bids, so we now know what his "safety bid" was.

This getting to be fun huh, Ares?

[Ares]

It's a ride man.  Not a religious man at all, but feel very blessed.

I'm really interested to see the final bidder's collection, I think I'll send them a message after everything's said and done.  (and if you're reading, of course everything's private, wont' share anything!  cept maybe with my wife over my shoulder:)   

I've sold a ton of stuff in the past few years where the seller was kind enough to show me the end result.  Such as when I sold an old transformer that was beaten to heck and missing a ton of stuff, a guy purchased it and combined it with 2 others, redid / repainted everything into a nice custom piece.  Was very impressed with that.  A Dora backpack - got a pic of her daughter wearing it with a big grin.  An older John Wayne snow globe, pic of his whole room done up in John Wayne.  And countless messages of personal stories, in fact just one a few weeks ago where a Looney Tunes x-mas ornament that had been hanging from the mirror for years had been stolen from her husband's truck, and I had the only one on ebay that was still in the box and she was so happy to get it for him and put it back in the truck.  Love hearing and seeing stuff like that.  Makes my time worth it and keeps me going. 

[Mike Scott]

It's a ride man. 

A ride in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce!

[Monsters For Sale]

A ride in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce!

... and wearing new sunglasses!

[Hepcat]

Are the other Tomland Famous Monsters equally rare MOC and therefore just as avidly prized?

[Rockshasa]

What exactly makes these figures so valuable? I'm assuming they were released in an extremely limited quantity.
Just goes to show, it's the offbeat toys that nobody scavenges after that end up being the most sought after years later.
This is one of those times you wish you had a time machine, and could go back and buy as many of these as possible.

[Ares]

Are the other Tomland Famous Monsters equally rare and therefore prized MOC?

In my "research" online, I've found that in Dec 2013 a dracula figure went up with a buy it now price of 2500 - this was just the figure, no packaging, and it sold within 20 minutes at that price.  I can't find that thread anymore, but it was on megomuseum.com

Additionally I found that a mummy card had been found and sold for 2500 as well.. just the card, and it had a lot of issues in my opinion.   Here's pics and that thread:  http://visibleinnardsarchive.moranity.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=8252&sid=ff57c939795c8c9649c39ffd55f8f7d8

[Palifan]

I've paid what I thought was quite a lot for opened, empty Star Wars packaging over the years but $2500 is an incredible price! 

I almost had a sealed Tomland Fly a couple of months ago (just missed out at the end), and from my research it was the glow in the dark version that was the super rare one. Maybe that 's what makes this Mummy card so rare as well as the Dracula (even though it doesn't say glow in the dark on the packaging....maybe that makes it a one off?).

Ian

[Hepcat]

Just goes to show, it's the offbeat toys that nobody scavenges after that end up being the most sought after years later.

Truth! If they're popular enough on release, they're hoarded. It's the less popular items generally considered outright junk on release which are therefore subjected to destruction factors approaching 100% that eventually command the nosebleed prices.

[Hepcat]

The bidding for this Tomland Dracula reminds me of that for the Lincoln Monsters boxed set that included a Victim doll:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=19935.0

[Monster Bob]

 Bless whoever it is that wants this that bad.

I personally don't understand it in the least (it looks like shat and worth about $50 to me), but bless the buyer. I cannot rip on anyone for spending money on toys.