When it comes to figuring out what goes with what, and what's complete, Welcome to TFU.INFO The Alpha Trion and Omega Prime of Transforming Toys - www.tfu.info and Transformers Wiki - TFWiki.net are your friends. TFU.info actually has a list, with pictures, of all of the accessories a figure came with, and TFwiki has a bunch of other information. Also, tremendously jealous of your haul.
Nice haul! If I wasn't so strapped for cash, I'd take Snarl, Swoop, and Slag or the Protectobot limbs off your hands.
I'm going to need to sell a lot of it so if you're interested let me know. Thank you for the info! I have been looking up what I know and remember on the wiki but TFU looks like it will be invaluable in piecing together what I don't. Also, Thank you! Dinobots are in rough shape, all transformable both directions but kind of rough. Grimlock is in pretty alright shape though.
So...should I start cleaning the dirt and crap off of them? Should I leave the stickers or remove them? What's the general consensus on such things?
clean as much up as you can with a wet nap ... leave the stickers and let the buyer deal with it ... go to ebay and search recent ended auctions for individual pieces/combiners ... list around the average ending price and hold on ... ide also offer them up for sale here on the forums at the price you want to sell them for, again use ebay as the current market value for these guys ... im also currently offloading my G1s on ebay and have been very successful, youll get the price you want. it tends to be slow here on the forums ... also consider fixed price listings vs auctions as you will get faster results that way ... good luck...
Looks pretty good man, a lot of nice pieces in there. You will get some real interest here on the boards over some of those pieces, for sure.
And if you are on Facebook, you can ask to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/G1transformers/ ^Group is moderated by a lot of people from this site
Working on that now. I'm going to update with new pics for things as I get it done. I'm on FB and will probably ask to join but I don't spend too much time on FB. I have FB mesenger on my phone though which is what I mainly use FB for anyway. So...Thank you! Thank you!
What an amazing bunch! I'd say clean em up and keep the ones you want and sell/trade the ones your not interested in.
Nice haul! Personally I'd say for the ones you don't want, dust them off and give them a light clean up (baby wipes are great for this). Don't bother stripping or replacing stickers because that might devalue the figure (people like original stickers, or want to Reprolabel it themselves). Any that are missing parts, it might be worth tracking down/replacing the missing parts before sale, because complete figures almost always go for more than incomplete figures. But don't go crazy spending silly money on missing parts, if the value added to the figure is less than the cost of the replacement part then it's not worth it. As to the ones you want to keep, it's down to you I guess. If you think the stickers are good just give them a clean up. Ones with bad condition stickers, you could remove the stickers and stick Reprolabels on as replacements. Loose joints/parts can be tightened with superglue or Future floor polish. I did that to an old G1 Blitzwing and it made such a difference. Lastly some may require disassembly, fixing and reassembly. Blaster has a notorious chest door which is supposed to open via the button furthest left on his torso? Anyway chances are it'll not work. However assuming it's hasn't been forced it should be fixable. You can take him apart, realign parts and it should work again. Bear in mind it will quite easily not work again. So if any figures are 'broken' it may be worth going to their feedback thread here on the boards and see if there was any fixes the community have come up with. Edit Yeah looking at your pic your Blaster has a stuck door. Take him apart, realign and he'll be good. Remember he can misalign very easily too.
^Don't well all thou as Transformers fans?! but to the OP: Killer haul, I say keep the ones you are keen on and sell the rest for a pretty penny!
wow man.. that's awesome. personally, i'd keep them all unless you need to for financial reasons. .. i wish a box of G1 figures like this would magically land at my door step lol.
