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I had the Ghostbusters, and my sister had some iteration of Barbie & The Rockers. I found a couple of those Alf plushes in a consignment place, and I think I still have one. Atari 2600, and an NES. My metal construction vehicles were Tonka, not Nylint.

>>11761791
>Atari 2600, and an NES
Nice. I never had a NES, but my uncle did. I got one just recently - Mario 1,2,3, Zelda 1,2, Double Dragon, and Barker Bills Trick Shooting.
There's an Atari 2600 for sale down the road with ~10 games for 60 bucks, but it was never my cup of tea. Except Pitfall.
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I had the fischer price roller skates. They got chewed up pretty easily.

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>>11761784
I loved playing Don't Break The Ice. But what is going on with the art on the box?

>>11761806
There was one where you pulled pins out of a tube... Kerplunk? Or was Kerplunk the one with the penguins? I used to like both.

>>11761780
I enjoy old media, especially printed media like this and it's really fun when it's local. Wish I could chip in op but I don't have anything to add other than a bump and enthusiasm for the topic.

>>11761780
I had those roller skates.

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if toy prices were that low back then, does that mean thrift stores sold as low as like a quarter?

>>11762081
I used to buy tootie frooties and tootsie rolls for a penny aty local store in the 90s. I can't speak for thrift shops at the time because I lived in the sticks.
I remember seeing a mac plus for 30 bucks in 2002 though and really should've bought it...

>those prices
Damn. We'll never ever go back to that. It's kind of depressing, really.

>>11762223
More depressing than the inflation is the sheer variety on display. You'd never see this many toylines on shelves nowadays, let alone for so cheap.

>>11762241
The prices are killing the variety. Working parents with bills can't afford what action figures and other stuff cost now, and it's hurting the children who don't get to grow up enjoying the same things previous generations got to. And none of the toy-makers are willing to price-compete to bring prices down.

>>11762081
>if toy prices were that low back then, does that mean thrift stores sold as low as like a quarter?

Yeah, thrift shops and pawn shops were cheap until about 5-10 years after ebay. You used to be able to just make a loop on a Friday hitting all the shops and get a pile of things for $100 to throw up on ebay or build your own collection.

Those days are over now. Lots of people on welfare going every single day to scrape those places clean and most used shops set their prices with ebay.

>>11762258
>thrift shops and pawn shops were cheap until about 5-10 years after ebay.
The local Goodwills in my area cherry-pick anything out that's worth more than a couple of dollars, and auction it off. Other local thrift stores are the same way. There is no more "treasure-hunting" where you'll randomly chance upon something really cool anymore.

https://shopgoodwill.com

>>11762242
>The prices are killing the variety. Working parents with bills can't afford what action figures and other stuff cost now, and it's hurting the children who don't get to grow up enjoying the same things previous generations got to. And none of the toy-makers are willing to price-compete to bring prices down.

You can blame private equity. They killed KB and ToysRus. Also the death of Kmart, Montgomery ward, etc. When g1 transformers were on the shelf there were a lot of stores selling toys. A lot. Walmart, KB, toysrus, target, Kmart, freds, Montgomery ward, Sears catalog had them. JCpenny catalog might have had them too. 10, 15 smaller chains. Thats a lot of competition to buy, giving the manufacturer more power. Now it is what? Walmart, target, amazon? Maybe gamestop?

>>11762275
Sometimes there is. Because the 16 year olds in the back pricing dont give a shit.

You can forget finding anything with a barcode to scan or a big brand like star wars oe Transformers or boxed Nintendo games.