My toy 'empire' that is, the old vintage toy business I had buying and selling old toys full time on Ebay and toy fairs back in the Noughties.
It was a lot of fun but I ended up with leftover stock when I finished around 2008. It's been sitting in our attic ever since.
Lockdown has given me a chance to start selling this final stuff and I've been slowly at it for the last 10 months.
Most of the smaller items have gone now so I'm down to the bigger things. Boxed toys and board games really. Some from the Noughties now and some huge Manta Force sets later in the year.
Its a mixture of relief and sadness seeing my leftovers go. Relief that we'll eventually have our attic back and sadness as I am quite nostalgic about my old toy selling days. Back in the day I was what Ebay called a Power Seller and had toy stalls at Morley, Rothwell, Doncaster and Donnington, besides some really fun smaller evening fairs like Normanton and Stanley Ferry. It was at such an evening fair that I found my first Project SWORD toy in 1990, the Space Glider, which I'd loved as a kid.
Anyways, here are a few "remains of the play" - I know, I know, terrible pun! Mostly early Noughties.
Spider-Man Flip Trap set 2002
how much for that steel dog bowl and brothel creepers ?
ReplyDeleteI'll accept a bag of winalot and a tub of brylcreme for those!
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