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Toy Show Sunday May 3rd St. Paul

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39th Annual Northland Toy, doll and advertising Show, Sunday May 3rd doors open 9AM – till 3:30

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MN STATE FAIR GROUNDS $1.00 off with coupon- Kids Free Antique & Collectible Toys, Dolls, and Advertising.

I will be there Sunday , come and review my book!

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Buy, sell and trade vintage and collectable toys,

Farm toys, die cast, hot wheels, Riding toys, Fisher Price, Star Wars old and new, Action figures, comic Books, Superheroes, GI Joes, Mego, comics, model kits, railroad,, Robots, Marx, Games, Puzzles, model kits, Space,Tin, pressed steel, games, western, cap guns , cast iron, Action figures, dolls, models wind ups hot wheels, anime , die cast, cast iron, dolls, cereal premium, trading cards, Advertising , posters, and more hundreds of millions of toys from today and the past .. 100’s of collectors and dealers from around the midwest.

I will be there with my Tables of vintage and newer Star Wars and sci fi related Toys

If you are a star wars toy collector you don’t want to miss this! Buying selling, l and trading vintage star wars and vintage Gi-Joes and other boys toys form the 60s to the 90’s feel free to share- – !

This year!! I’ll be bringing a major G1 Transformer collection recently acquired nearly all G1 transformers.

A lot of Vintage Star Wars figures and many on cards, also just recently acquired, GI Joe Headquarters – recently acquired- i think complete!

many complete Star Wars Vehicles , playsets, many w boxes. Rare Mego Wayne Foundation playset and a bunch or Mego’s recently acquired.

as always buying at the show and online- and offering free appraisals and grading info . see you there

 

Come and also sign up for a local Star wars collectors group forming !

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The Vinyl Cape Jawa – with original cardback

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Every now and then you score an amazing find a few years I was fortunate enough to get about 45 original figures with all the original cad backs and bubbles. The original owner had them form childhood and decided to part with his collection.

DSC07082Here is an original VC Vinyl Cape jawa. It has the original card back, note they card back bubble design, which is flat, compared to the regular jawa which has a different bubble design.

 

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Vintage Star Wars era trading card sets 1977-1979

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One of the only Star Wars things that was available in the small town I grew up in in Northern MN  was the Topps Trading cards.

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The Star Wars series began with the blue series in 1978, followed by the second series or red cards, then the yellow 3rd series, the 4th Green series, and finally the 5th Orange series.  The 4th green series of cards saw the unique C3PO card- the 207x as it has become to be referred as has A very excited C3PO. It is sought after, by collectors, although both the  207 cards are one of the hardest to find in the series.

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Each set has 66 cards, there are 11 stickers in each series.  A total of 330 cards and 55 stickers. The stickers are hard to find in good shape. There are 1st edition and 2nd edition cards notated by the number of stars on the front bottom-  at the beginning  © line

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Collectors want cards in Excellent condition, cards with bends, creases and wear have little value today, as lots of hundreds can be found online for wale  for penny’s per card.

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Also produced  was a sugar free set of stickers. They are very rare due to limited distribution. The card set consisted of a foil package with 56 “wrappers” around the gum. Not exactly thick as a trading card.  The wrappers are very rare.

SWcardssugarfreewrapperAround the world, other sets of Star Wars cards made by other manufacturers: many unique in size and design, more on International Star Wars cards later.

Three other sets of cars or stickers, were released at the beginning of the Star Wars saga.

swcardswonderbreadsetWonder Bread released, what I believe, the first collectible Star Wars item to hit the stores.

A series of trading cards inserted into a pack of bread. A very nice looking series of 16 cards. It is difficult to find the cards without stains form the bread. This was long before “safe” packaging.

General Mills, the Big G , and owner of Kenner at the time,  created two series of cards/stickers , inserted into cereal boxes, and as a mail in premium.

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swcardsgmpremium3swcardsgmpremium2Released in Cereal boxes were the Sticker series of cards. shown above.  They were in Franken-Berry, Boo Berry, Count Chocula and Lucky Charms cereals. There are 16 sticker cards in the set. 4 cards could be found per cereal brand.
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The other set was a mail in premium set with a vinyl card holder. The set is highly sought after and had 18 cards. They were thin paper and came with the vinyl card sleeve booklet. The premium was A Big G premium box top mail in offer. 

Happy collecting

 

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POTF Star wars line turns 20

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Star Wars big relaunch of action figures began 20 years ago in 1995.  The figures all saw a pumped up, on steroids  version of the characters. The vehicles were rehash of the original mold forms. Now that the line is 20 what will happen to value or interest?

Remember the Fruit loops Han solo?

If you were to describe an end to the line when was it? When POTJ line came out”?. Would TPM figures be included?

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