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Arkangel
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 |  Subject: What Kickstarted your collection?  Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:02 pm | |
| I dunno how it happened to you guys, mine is sort of a long story, but i'll make it less long.
One day browsing ebay i found a transformer in a guys feedback selling for 120USD i thought "no way" i thought how can this be worth that much? Ibet there are many stores out there still having these guys. So i went to look, and the first one i walked in BAM a generation 1 transformer on the shelf.
That made me so happy that i started seeking for them on ebay, along came the thought of He-man figures (my earlyest memories) i saw them on ebay but thought hell, these are hideous, they always use the same mould. One day just for kicks i bided a ba skeletor moc i wont it for 7 dollars, when it arrived i was like wow this stuff has some quality going on, not to mention the olday memories coming back like lightning. I had to had another, and another and then i found attak trak in stores, so the more MOTU i bought, the less interest i had on transformers even because, you could get misb for 5 dollars and transformers were never under 100usd misb.
So i kept collecting them on and on till today and i'm actually walking that line, wanting another and another and another.
Here it is, my first MOTU since the ones i had as a kid:
How was it 2 you?
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|  | | Tokyonever
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:55 am | |
| Since 2004 for me  (I began my toys collection in april and started the Grayskullmuseum website with Lmdlu in October(?) - if I have a good memory)
In March 2004, I took a table to sell in a french toyshow somes Japanese toys (I travelled to Tokyo and brought back japanese toys and video games for the french market)
On this Toyshow, I met somebody who had an old stock store with around 300 Motu toys (100% Moc, Mib).
Because I was always a motu fan in my brain (but not a toy collector), I bought 75% of his stock to retail all on the web (Forum, Ebay...).
After one month, I registered since then on a French forum (today died: musclor.fr.st) and I met collectors there (Lmdlu, Barbarian, Reg, Angel Seng, Kid monster etc....)
By speaking with collectors, something in me woke up and I fell again into madness motu and I wondered "why I sell Motu toys to peoples who collect them and that me I do not collect cause I am a fan as them?" 
One month after: all my money disappeared on ebay  ( toky--> <--Motu Power)
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| | | | Arkangel
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:16 am | |
| 300 moc misb  that's waht i call stock find!!!
So it seems comon in everyone that we all started by selling them and then regreting to have sold them haha
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| | | | mind_domain
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:18 pm | |
| 300 mocs in 2004???
you are a luuuuuuuuuuuucky man  |
| | | | sathomaso
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:32 pm | |
| 300 vintage MOCs? Seriously???
Damn, Johnny - you're the luckiest collector I know!!!!!!!!!
Well what was the kickstart for my collection?
In March or April 2004 I was looking on Ebay to get my hands on a "THE CROW" figure from McFarlne Productions: **picture**
Some guy in the United Kingdom had one for sale, so just out of interest (to perhaps save money on combined shipping) I also browsed through his other Ebay items for sale when I saw his U.S. Kobra Khan MOC auction.
Man, I almost couldn't believe to see that a toy from the 1980s survived almost 20 years without being taken out of the package!!!
So I ended up winning both the Crow and the Kobra Khan MOCs. 
And since this moment the "MotU-fever" has not let go of me....
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| | | | Tokyonever
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:02 pm | |
| Yes, with 36 x Beastman 8_back on french card and 36 x Whiplash YB 
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| | | | mind_domain
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:13 pm | |
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do you still have them all beastman? |
| | | | sathomaso
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:49 pm | |
| | Tokyonever wrote: | | Yes, with 36 x Beastman 8_back on french card and 36 x Whiplash YB |
What were the most rare figures among these 300 mocs?
Perhaps the YB Trap-Jaw? 
And if you don't mind to tell: how much did you have to pay for the deal?
Assuming each moc was only 10 Euros then that is still 3000,- Euros for the whole lot... 
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| | | | U.S.E.R.
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:56 pm | |
| I have found a advertising of a German Comicshop in a Magazine in 1999, I want to buy some StarTrek Actionfigures, and read MotU at 50 DM (DeutscheMark, GermanValue), I only think "such Idots a looose played Actionfigure at that price, but I found out that were MOCs"  I don't know exacktly what was my first MotU of my Adult-Collection, but I get very  when think that StarTrek is now at 1% at the price, and MotU at 1000%
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| | | | Tokyonever
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:45 pm | |
| | sathomaso wrote: | | Tokyonever wrote: | | Yes, with 36 x Beastman 8_back on french card and 36 x Whiplash YB |
What were the most rare figures among these 300 mocs?
Perhaps the YB Trap-Jaw?
And if you don't mind to tell: how much did you have to pay for the deal?
Assuming each moc was only 10 Euros then that is still 3000,- Euros for the whole lot... |
lol, I paid 12,5€ each Moc/Mib (including Snake mountain x3  )
I got 75% of the 300 items, around 220/230, oh, and 14 Dragon Walker
The most rare find has been He-Man Power Light x4
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| | | | Arkangel
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:58 pm | |
| | Tokyonever wrote: | | sathomaso wrote: | | Tokyonever wrote: | | Yes, with 36 x Beastman 8_back on french card and 36 x Whiplash YB |
What were the most rare figures among these 300 mocs?
Perhaps the YB Trap-Jaw?
And if you don't mind to tell: how much did you have to pay for the deal?
Assuming each moc was only 10 Euros then that is still 3000,- Euros for the whole lot... |
lol, I paid 12,5€ each Moc/Mib (including Snake mountain x3 )
I got 75% of the 300 items, around 220/230, oh, and 14 Dragon Walker
The most rare find has been He-Man Power Light x4 |
you wouldnt by any chance still have a "Le Monstre" ? I love that fucker
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| | | | Tokyonever
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:55 pm | |
| | Arkangel wrote: |
you wouldnt by any chance still have a "Le Monstre" ? I love that fucker |
Sorry Arkangel, All has been sold by the past 
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| | | | barbarian
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:46 pm | |
| childhood: Conan Remco, Blackstar and He-man are my favourite toys and cartoon
I bought many Motu figure until the last wave
secondary school (collège in french) : search for He-man is hard and i
have to shut up i search for toys and watch cartoon ( it's "has been"
in secondary school  ). I bought many looses to friends...
lycée (i don't know the english word) : i ask my father to buy a He-man
promocional MOC and a zodac and faker loose to Mad Toy Paris (Reg work
here at these time!), i remember what i feel when i got it ... most
powerful days in my life
After i meet some toydealer in toy convention (1998) and one really
help me, i got 30 mocs with him (SSSqueeze, Snake face, tung lashor,
King Randor, Saurod, Frak-attack , laser power He-man, whiplash , beast
man,Twistoid, clamp champ,Extendar, ...etc and the Faker euro ! I was
student at this moment.
So cool days ... my heart beats soon i saw a loose , a MOTU logo , a
motu weapon , a comics... It was the time when Internet was not popular
and i think it was the best days, days when we are happy with small
things ... |
| | | | Arkangel
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| | Subject: Re: What Kickstarted your collection? Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:03 pm | |
| | barbarian wrote: | childhood: Conan Remco, Blackstar and He-man are my favourite toys and cartoon
I bought many Motu figure until the last wave
secondary school (collège in french) : search for He-man is hard and i
have to shut up i search for toys and watch cartoon ( it's "has been"
in secondary school ). I bought many looses to friends...
lycée (i don't know the english word) : i ask my father to buy a He-man
promocional MOC and a zodac and faker loose to Mad Toy Paris (Reg work
here at these time!), i remember what i feel when i got it ... most
powerful days in my life
After i meet some toydealer in toy convention (1998) and one really
help me, i got 30 mocs with him (SSSqueeze, Snake face, tung lashor,
King Randor, Saurod, Frak-attack , laser power He-man, whiplash , beast
man,Twistoid, clamp champ,Extendar, ...etc and the Faker euro ! I was
student at this moment.
So cool days ... my heart beats soon i saw a loose , a MOTU logo , a
motu weapon , a comics... It was the time when Internet was not popular
and i think it was the best days, days when we are happy with small
things ... |
so you have an euro faker???
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