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We are children of the 80s who just couldn't give up our love of toys and action figures. We've collected since we were kids and have been selling for a few years. As collectors AND sellers we take pride in grading and describing our figures accurately, and keeping them clean and stored safely! We hold the same standards for the items we sell as we do for our personal collections.

"I was born into a world of great 80’s and even 70’s action figures and
great cartoons or movies to promote them. Not today’s world of video games and crazy cartoons that give you a migraine from all the flashing, along with toys that you can only display or reenact a scene from the movie with. The toy stores were filled with entire aisles of action figures and other similar toys and huge bins filled with clearance toys. Most action figures cost $2.97 regular price as opposed to the $8 now. The cartoons had morals and classic themes like good versus evil, and were not dedicated to being long advertisements for figures or game cards that is repetitively shoved in parents’ and kids’ faces today.

When playing you had to use your imagination and make up stories instead of having to reenact the movie or show story lines like now a days. I remember fighting with my brother about who gets which character and how a character behaves and who owns which toys. I always liked playing by myself creating elaborate storylines. The great thing about action figures is that you can play with many or play by yourself and enjoy it even more which is certainly lacking in today’s kids.

I have been a collector my whole life of action figures (I’ve also played with action figures my whole life). However I hold different standards for the toys I collect and the toys I play with. I have collected comics, stamps,
coins, sports cards, non sports cards and probably a few other things,
so I’m a natural born collector. I have also enjoyed selling many
things for my whole life as well."

-Mike

child opening up action figures at christmas

child holding two original carded star wars action figures
child opening up original star wars AT-AT walker action figure

"I was born midway through the 80s so I missed out on a lot of great toys. However, being a girl, I missed out on a lot of them anyway. Girls tend to be fed certain toys and certain ways they are allowed to play with the toys. I always wanted to play with my big brother’s action figures and vehicles. I remember some of the G.I. Joe’s he had, but the toy that especially stands out to me was the battle armor he-man. As soon as he got it he was trying to impress and/or trick my sister and me, and once I figured out how it worked it became one of my favorites. It had been left in a toy bin at my grandparents’ house and I used to take it out and make up stories playing by myself when no one was around. It probably would have looked funny seeing a little girl playing with a he-man toy smashing up Barbies.

Being with someone now who is a big kid and collects action figures lets me havesecond chance at that childhood. Not only do I get to play with toys but I havelearned a ton about collecting action figures. I know what to look for on looseand carded figures. In fact at first I didn’t know what he meant by ‘card’. I grew uploving the T.M.N.T. cartoon and movies and watching Star Trek was a tradition.Mike’s also turned me into a Star Wars junkie… little did I know about theStar Wars universe. I love this stuff and I hope we’ll be able touse this site to help other collectors."

-Danielle