JoeCanuck

Hi, im looking for a rear seat storage cover and a small red missile for the TIGER FORCE atv.

Please contact with price it you have these 2 things.

Thanks

Finally scored a P.O.C Lowlight with a little help from a friend.  $25 !!! ( super mint card )

Not the most valuable figure in my collection but crown jewel non the less.

Awesome!

I was on brianstoys tonight looking to see how much they would offer me for my extra MOSC figures and vehicles i have.
So im scrolling down the list, typical 1$, 2$ they offer on figures. Some more sought after items 13$ or 22$. You know typical big company buying up toys. So i get to 25th ann. vamp. 130$..?

This how it's typed on the list.

[ 25th anniversary ]......................[ vehicle ]...........[ v.a.m.p / with double clutch ].....................130$

This must be a typo right...?

Hold on it gets better!!!!

If you scroll further on down you get to the 30th ann. stuff and this is what you see.

[ 30th anniversary ]...................[ vehicle ]...........[ v.a.m.p mk Ii ]...............3,425$

What could be going on here..?

I was poking around ebay earlier tonight and discovered something new about the 25th ann. cobra Eel figure. Apparently there is also a " varaint ". Just like the mail away Doc figure, the cobra Eel has 2 diff. versions. One with a #1 on the gun and another has #2 on the gun.  The one with the #2 is the supposed " variant ". So i mossy on over to my collection and check to see witch Eels i have. Low and behold there a #2 on the gun. YIPPY right ?

Anyway, this lead me to search and try to find out how much more this supposed variant is worth compared to the regular #1 gun one. Surprisingly! LOL, there's some people on ebay trying to get 30$ for a figure that is exactly the same as its 8$ to 10$ ( #1 gun ) counterpart. But in the collecting world a variant is a variant is a variant i guess...? Me being the completist that i am i was happy to see that i have the supposed RARER version. And someday im gonna have to get me witchever Doc ( #1 or #2 ) that i don't have.

So in searching for the info. on the variant i came across an argument on hisstank.com. People where pissed off @ Hasbro for sending in figures to AFA. Hence making it available for Hasbro to sell you a 8.5 or 9 graded uncirculated figure for 89.99$. Others said that  only vintage stuff should be graded. A lot of people agreed that the whole grading thing has gotten completly out of hand in the last few years. ( And i agree )
Anyway, it was a long argument with lots of back and forth.

Don't get me wrong i would love to be able to send every last figure and vehicle i own to AFA so that i can have there value go up 10 fold for no reason. And i would imagine @ the end of that process the value of my collection would be equal to or less then what i spent on sending then to be graded in the first place.

We are already seeing cases like this pop up. Take the sdcc 2008 black suite cobra commander graded @ 8.5 or 9. People used to ask 150$ and above for that. Now you can get one easy for 70$ - 80$. 80$ for one of those is basically what the thing cost and to get it graded.

Ok, so we know grading modern aint worth poop. That was almost a no brainer from the start. ( UNLESS you have anything 9.5 and above ). And still you have no garentee EVER that something is going to come back the grade you figure it might get. So it still a crap shoot right out of the gate.

THE POINT: ( Even though i dont collect vintage ) What gets me is the grading of the vintage stuff. How in the heck now-a-days is a vintage mosc collecter going to complete his or her collection...? Can you imagine being the guy that has sunk 10, 15, 20 years and god knows how much $$$$$$ into there collection, taking there time trying to find really nice ( not beat to hell ) versions of the vintage toys they need.

I mean just about anybody who has a half desent figure or vehicle has already sent it to AFA. And it now has a double or triple price tag then what it was ungraded.

Supposes that the collecter i speak of has 80% of everything vintage g.i joe ungraded, and wants to continue collecting and displaying, ungraded. What is that collecter to do...? Does he kick in the 3 times what he would pay for ungraded. And when it gets to him, crack the case open ? Or does he spend 10's of thousands getting the rest of his stuff graded...?

Again, i guess the point is. Eventually the only vintage mosc figures and vehicles you will be able to buy will be graded ones. You won't even have the option of collecting ungraded anymore. It's almost @ that point already.

Now, what is going to happen when ever last vintage MOSC figure and vehicle is graded.....?  Ill tell you what...Having em graded ain't gonna be worth ANYTHING! Why..? Because there all graded.!!!!

The only next logical step to make your 10 GEM graded 1982 Snake Eyes better then my 10 GEM graded Snake Eyes is, we each send our figures in to AFA again and whoever's graded case grade's higher wins!!!!!! And so on and so forth till then end of time.

So to close, in my opinion grading is wrong. It just ruins the love and fun of collecting by jacking up prices. The only people that win in the grading scenario are people who resell the figures after they are graded. And AFA offcourse they win big time ( by convincing us to use a service we never needed in the first place ). Lets not forget we as collecter's can dictate the price of our toys in the secondary market place we all deal and live in.

WE HAVE THE POWER.

Up for sale is an offical batman helmet from the 60's t.v show with Adam West and Burt Ward.

NOTE: This picture is not of the one i have. Although the one i have is identical to this.

Mine has some paint wear on the black part of the helmet, and a slight ding on the nose.

This item was originally sold boxed as a set with the cape. I have seen the set with the box fetch upwards of 260$.

Im asking 40$ for the helmet only.

Thank you.

November 8th - 10th. Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Comics, Toys, Cards!!!

Special guest... Bill D. Williams ( Lando ) Among many other's!

Last year they had Larry Hamma. Im working on getting a signed variant/convention only, comic by him from last years convention. Its only gonna cost me a marvel legends 2 pack and a reprint Frank Miller dark night returns hard cover. Does this sound like a good deal to anybody out there...?

Will any of you be in attendence...?