Dropping off lots of old clothes, we took the opportunity to have a wander round the Diakonie again, the large German charity store. Here's some snaps.
As expected, tons of Playmobil, the national toy.
Soft toys and a Playmobil hospital.
Cabinet stuff. Not sure what that orange dragon egg is. You?
Games galore.
Old tech too like vintage cameras
And this toy motorbike in a cabinet. At 18 euro it must be something good. Any ideas?
The handful of bits I got were as follows: a lovely old West German skip wagon by Bruder. I love their logo. What is that font?
Also two unbranded cowboys, probably modern and three die-casts: a Majorette Gull Wing coupe 1975, a Hot Wheels Stingray 1979 and a modern Hot Wheels Aston Martin, which I thought was unusual.
What do you think of my meagre haul readers?
The motorcycle is a Power Blaster by kidco. It was made in 1981, I don't think they are especially rare.
ReplyDeleteThanks and great ID skills. I like Kidco key cars.
DeleteThe orange egg with fire-breathing flyer posed above looks like it belongs to the Megabloks Dragons line. I have the ice dragon sitting on my desk.
ReplyDeleteNice Baron. Do you think that Dragon will move from your desk soon! Ha ha
DeleteOnly when I'm not looking. Fortunately I don't feed him after midnight.
DeleteBy the way, remember Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror? Gave me nightmares for years.
DeleteIs that the small murderous puppet segment?
DeleteYou bet!
DeleteI'm always amazed Woodsy at how you go to a thrift store and pick up odds-&-ends and then bring them home, fix 'em up, and make something of them. I go into one of those stores and either see nothing at all that interests me OR conversely see something I like that always costs an arm-&-a-leg and I walk out empty handed. That being said, when we first got to this town I was actually doing a lot of thrift store/antique store shopping and buying. But this past decade or so hasn't been all that and all of our favorite stores have closed.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, cheers Ed! In the UK we have countless charity shops everywhere so it's easy to find stuff (thrift stores in the US/ Op Shops in OZ - NZ?). In Germany there are far fewer but one charity chain called Diakonie has HUGE stores and one in many big towns. There's always something to tempt me and Frau Moonbase at Diakonie!
DeleteIt's rare anymore, a lot of thrift shops are looking to eBay for pricing and the result is many overpriced items. The smaller church run shops are the exception.
ReplyDeleteHmmn, church run shops sound great. Not sure we have many in the UK. Sally Army of course.
DeleteI still find some gems but not as often as in the past.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anonymous about Op Shops now using eBay as a pricing model. I was working on a low budget monster series last year ("Greystanes" -available on Tik Tok now) I needed a large Barbie hair styling head to sculpt concepts on. I visited Vinnies (St Vincent De Paul) to no avail. Luckily the Salvos (Salvation Army) had one for $3, so my budget was saved!
ReplyDeleteYes the Salvation Army is one of the only large thrift stores that still goes by the old business models.
DeleteSorry, but there's nothing there that's remotely old enough for me to want.
ReplyDeleteBut surely the cowboys are 70s or earlier, as no kids were buying cowboys later than that
I love Sixties stuff too Mish. Cowboys and Indians are hugely popular in Germany so they maybe modern. I don't know. Germans even have their own Wild West book author, Karl May, who's characters eventually became action dolls in the Seventies, figures like Mego ones.
DeleteI never heard of Karl May, Winnetou, and Old Shatterhand until I got to Germany (BTW once I got to Germany and found out about him I would jokingly call him "Old S _ _ t In The Hands' to Bettina LOL). I'm in several Western toy groups in fb and there's a heavy German (and Italian) presence there. Those guys post a lot of European made Western toys. They're very big on forts made of real wood, while our playsets here Stateside relied heavily on plastic stockade walls with tin-litho buildings.
Delete'Western' as in Old West style
DeleteI was amazed to read that Karl May write most of his stories in his many spells in prison. He spent most of his early life destitute. His books have sold 250 million copies! Not bad for a pauper!
DeleteThe last comment was from me.
ReplyDeleteThe Bruder logo will have been handdrawn as was very common at the time. By the looks of it they based it on Futura Extra Bold where they displaced the holes in various letters and made a more suitable "e" to keep it in the same style.
ReplyDeleteBest -- Paul
Fascinating Paul. Thanks!
DeleteI found the egg. It was Mattel mega construx breakout beasts. Whatever that is.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to be currently available new on Amazon.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to be currently available new on Amazon.
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