Is this how our age shows? 1988 + 20years = 2008. If you found these shortly before you posted, it's closer to 35 years. Anyhow. This story is amazing, and just keeps getting better and better. My parents weren't as meticulous in terms of packing/storage, but fortunately they were always adamant to never throw anything out that belonged to my brother and I from our childhood, until we've had a chance to review and explicitly say that it should be tossed. So any toys lost or trashed over the years would have been purely our (my brother and I) fault, and there wasn't much of that at all.
I watch this thread with jealousy, as my dad just threw out all of my stuff one day when I wasn't home.
LOL, sorry to be confusing I meant 20 years after I got the transformers out of the attic. I went up to grab them somewhere around 2000 when I got out of college. Everyone at the game company I worked at had collections on their desks. I remembered bagging all my transformers with my dad before we moved into our new house. I was 13, and gaming, art and music took over and into the attic they went. So that means it was actually early 87 they were bagged up. I went to visit and grabbed my transformers out of the attic (320 total, tech specs, folded boxes, my dad kept everything) and that was my collection kickoff. I searched for the Star Wars but it was nowhere to be found. It was mis labeled in storage and moved back into the house when they emptied it. Located last week.
Damn, dude. With that many childhood TFs and SW, I could definitely see you having enough storage to lose track of things. An enviable problem to have. Did you have a crap ton of Joes and MOTU too, by chance?
My He-Man is a sore subject. I had a pretty complete collection of them too. Before we were going to move my mom boxed them up and offered them to the family across the street. Problem is they were super religious and they were toys of the devil. They politely accepted them. I went crazy on my mom for it. The next day going to school, I saw greyskull barely poking out of their garbage. I cried I was so mad. To this day I only really collect skeletor figures because of it.
Another weekend, back at the Star Wars. Sunday I am unwrapping the last of the figures when my dad shows up. My favorite toy as a kid. It is going to take the most work to restore. Here is the before pic. I have 2 vintage and 2 repro wing blasters on the way.
I ended up workin on the tie fighter, Xwing, Snow Speeder and Slave 1 for most of the day. They cleaned up great.
Man, I remember a few years back, at a Garage Sale, I found one of those Millennium Falcons complete, but totally in need of cleaning. Took a bit, but it was restored lovingly. Then I sold it to feed my Transformers addiction, but it was a super nice find.
Yes. After cleaning a few, some had a slight tinge of surface yellowing. If they were well preserved like mine and the yellowing isn't deep, you can leave them outside for an hour or two and the surface yellowing will vanish. Labels color correct too. It usually lasts. On the X wing, The areas I grabbed it to play, usually around the sharp edges, yellowing is too deep to just clean and sunning bleach. So it will always have that, to me its a bit of character and play memories. I don't peroxide anything unless its yellowed to the point of worthlessness.
Hello again everyone. I made videos of the unboxing of all the figures and restoration of most. Ill spare all the details and just show my new shelves in the office. Still need to hang the vehicles up and restore the imperial troop transport. Pretty sure that a box somewhere exists with my Death Star Playset, Degobah playset, speeder bike and a bunch of accessories and parts. Haven't found it yet. Blue suit Snaggletooth is probably in that box.
These attic finds are dipped in gold! My dad worked two jobs when my sister and I were young, so he wouldn't have time to do all of the wrapping and preserving. Probably wouldn't have if he had time anyway... unless it was sports memorabilia. My mom would become frustrated with how many toys we had and how we didn't organize them and throw them in the trash when we were at school. We'd come home and all sorts of things would just be... missing.
My mom had me crackin up this weekend. She was telling stories how she would try to give my toys away and Dad would go crazy. Didn't even really think about it growing up but in hindsight but my Dad is oooooold school collector. Probably because he is such a barbarian I don't see the nerdy side of him much. I've seen my dad in more fist fights than all my friends combined. So he didn't portray the image of your typical scifi/toy/comic nerd. But there he is. I am raiding his comic stash next weekend. I can't wait to see whats in there. I only got to see his nicer books when I helped him bag them as a teen. I know he has the original Daredevil and Xmen books. He already gave his baseball card collection to my nephews, which Im cool with because I am not into cards. I'll capture pics
I never understood moms who threw toys away. Why would you throw them away instead of giving them away at least? I was lucky with my mom as she was the one who helped preserve my collection. When I was away for college and my parents were getting ready to move, my mom boxed up my collection and made sure I had access to it. Some of my storage is still in the original boxes she packed that I need to go through. My best memory is when my mom knew how much I liked the Snake Eyes V2 figure, she found and bought 2 more misb for me just in case. This was years before I ever cared about misb collecting.
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but another search at my parents yielded another find. All my double figures and even my 2nd red Snaggletooth were found. Degobah playset, the original stand and backdrop and my speeder bike all finally in my hands again. Only the Death Star Playset and Blue Snaggletooth remain missing. Added bonus: my 89 Batmobile was in there too.
You made a neat custom cape for vader at some point it seems with a waist cape also. I am curious what the thing next to him is?
