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Baggage Battles

Posted on December 13, 2013 by admin

Baggage Battles will be filming at the K. D. Auctions on Friday December 20 at 3:30 PM at Mechants Square in Allentown PA. Here is your chance to see Bill Leroy, Mark Meyer and Laurence and Sally Martin in the … Continue reading →

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Ideal Mickey Mouse Old Fashion Sailing Vessel AD

Posted on December 13, 2013 by admin

This time we have the ad for Ideal Mickey Mouse Old Fashioned Sailing Vessel from 1956. Ideal reused the pirate ship from 1953. It is a shame that Ideal did not do a Peter Pan version with the pirate ship.

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Ideal Pirate Ship AD

Posted on December 11, 2013 by admin

Here is the ad that Ideal did in 1953 for the pirate ship. You will see the six pirates that came with the ship. ( I missed the one in the crows nest earlier have to practice more with the … Continue reading →

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Dumbest thing I saw today

Posted on December 9, 2013 by admin

Today (December 9) I took my foreign EBay packages to a regular post office. I have to use a regular post office over a contracted post office as they have to enter the address for Homeland Security. Driving to Post … Continue reading →

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Odds and Ends 12/05/13

Posted on December 5, 2013 by admin

A local bid board had Marx Miniature Over the Top Playset which was sold at auction for $700.00. This playset featured WWI figures which are copies of the Marx Warriors of the World figures. I did my Wednesday flea market … Continue reading →

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Hing Fat Originals

Posted on December 3, 2013 by admin

Our good friend Mathias aka Breizh has posted on the Treefrog forum photos of original Hing Fat WWII figures. The new poses are for French, Germans and Russians. Each group has twelve different poses. The Americans are copies of Matchbox … Continue reading →

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York Toy Show 2013

Posted on December 2, 2013 by admin

The final big toy show of the year for us is the toy show in York Pennsylvania. This is a big toy show with a wide diversity of toys for everyone’s interest. Laurie and I like it as it has … Continue reading →

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Collector’s Marketplace Comic & Toy Mall

Posted on November 27, 2013 by admin

In Phoenix Arizona, collectors have a place to go for their toy fix. It is called Collector’s Marketplace Comic & Toy Mall. In the store are 14 permanent dealers plus on Saturdays they put up tables for collectors to sell. … Continue reading →

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Armies in Plastic Taliban

Posted on November 26, 2013 by admin

Armies in Plastic latest offering is Taliban Figures to go with their modern troops. In each box you get 18 figures in 6 poses. The figures are standing firing, kneeling firing, firing a rocker launcher, with pistol and two different … Continue reading →

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Phil Silvers Sergeant Bilko

Posted on November 24, 2013 by admin

One of my enjoyments as a child was watching Sergeant Bilko starring Phil Silvers. Today I was looking at some photos of a Comic Con from Birmingham UK. One of the photo was for a British Phil Silvers Appreciation Society … Continue reading →

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