Oldest Items Still On The Shelf?

[spockoda]

What are the oldest items in your area that are still in a store? I was at a store today that still has some carded 12 inch G.I. Joe figures copyrighted 1998. I think they had been slightly reduced as they had one price sticker on top of another but they were still $14.99.

[lenzy]

I know an old bazzar next my work and they have some figures and accessories for :
- Ghosbusters
- He - Man (New Adventures)
- Gijoe
- Terminator 2
- Crash Dummies

In 2006 I bought the Power Lords playset here for 15 euros.

[salvatore]

I was at a local Zellers (same as a K-Mart used to be) in Toronto about 2 years back that was having a huge clearance sale on toys. They actually had a couple of Jurassic Park figures on clearance for about $3.00 each. I passed on them since i'm not a JP collector plus the cardbacks were shredded to s**t. This was an old store so i'm assuming that nobody cared for their storage area for years and this stuff just got tossed in a corner somewhere. older stores are usually the better bet when looking for cool finds.

Sal

[10incher]

These days i don't see to much for old stuff (let alone new figures) on store shelves whenever I get a chance to look. The best I have ever came across was a beat up Thundercats Laser Sabre in the discount bin at a TrU back in the late 1990's. They also still had a few Atari games as well.

[spockoda]

In 2004 or 2005,I remember going to a Tuesday Morning store and finding 12" Star Wars dolls from 1996,the wave that had Princess Leia and the Stormtrooper in it. In either 2001 or 2002,the wife and I were headed home from Colorado and stopped in a convience store and I saw some sort of die cast car that had an early 80s copyright date on the back of its package. It wasn't a Hot Wheels or Matchbox car,but the bubble was yellowing .

[Deleted]

I miss going to drug stores that used to have old stock FOREVER. I once bought a MOC 12 back Star Wars Death Squad Commander at a drug store in 1988 in Hampton Virginia. Nobody bought it because it was overpriced at $4.99!

The oldest item I ever saw at a regular store was a Gilbert Illya Kurakin Man From Uncle figure at a department store in Massachusetts in 1983. No one in the store was available to get a price for it, and we were on vacation and had to get rolling so I did not buy it.

[ludevig]

In Scotland there used to be a store called Your More Store. In the early 90's(maybe 92-93) i used to go in there and they would have G1 Transformers, old Star Wars, He-Man, Visionaries, Supernaturals and other older toys marked down for discount/clearance. Sadly i never bought any at the time as i was in the early stages of my wrestling collection. Big thumbs up to them though for stocking WCW Galoobs for half of what every other store sold them for.

[lenzy]

On friday I had this Terminator figure here for 4 euros

[skyline]

Belgium is good for old toys, when I was there a few years ago there was a little sweet store in De Harne what still has MISB original Castle Greyskulls and some G1 Aerialbots, they had other stuff to but I cant remember, also last year I picked up some Beast Wars in Gifi in Oostende

[ludevig]

The Drug store round the corner from my new apartment has approx 20-25 Dick Tracy wrist communcator things, Based on the Warren Beatty film of the same name, they are from 89/90 i think so have been on the rack for almost 20 years now. Still have original $4.99 price tags though, you can tell by the yellowing on them.

[brcthrift]

When K Mart went bankrupt in 2002 I got Bronze Bombers and Action Master Transformers by the arm loads for under a buck. Unfortunately at the time I was in college and needed money for things like eating, rent, and beer. I wish there was an undo feature on ebay.

[ludevig]

OK so i was at the Drug Store again today and they have the Dick Tracy Strapper Snappers still on the shelf, i counted them, they have 27 of them still hanging up with the $4.99 price tags still on them.
On the bottom shelf they have 2 Skeleton Warriors story/colouring books too for 79c each. 2 different stories in the books.
So those Strapper Snappers are at the 20 year mark and still hanging around. That's pretty wild.