• Um.. did you even watch the show? They already had a load of Kenner Batman stuff and they even had a Thundercats holy grail in addition to the Boba Fett.  I thought it had a decent variety despite also being sick of toy collecting being so Star Wars focused.

• Thats a good point for sure.

• It could have the effect or making more people aware that these toys are sought after and are collectible. If this is the case it brings more toys out of attics and basements and into the market place instead of the trash. Just think of how many times we've all heard stories of toys and toy boxes going out with the trash. These toys are our generation's comic books and baseball cards.

• Dude, why don't you save your 4-page rants for your personal blog...

• all this is going to be is "STARWARS Toy Hunters" and nothing else. No search for any Marvel Toys, No DC, nothing but STARWARS and WOW FACTOR every goddamn episode.

• The guy buying the Boba Fett for $17 grand seemed entirely too convenient to be real Knowing a few peeps in the reality show biz (and hell, even plain old common sense) tells me that the producers staged/planted/created that entire part of the show. Totally faked. That "collector" was probably a crew member of the show.

• Am I the only person that thinks this is a bad idea? If this is successful its gonna have the same effect ebay had on the toy market and everyone is going to think their trash is treasure and as a toy collector and scrounger, this irritates me.  I'm sure this is innocent enough but things like this turn the secondary toy market into a land filled with people who don't have a real understanding of the value of things and empowers scalpers and the uneducated. It empowers them with a false sense of value and makes them think they can charge an arm and a leg for things that are a dime a dozen.  I hate to be a naysayer but I have been both a collector and a toy dealer for many many years and have seen the effects of ebay and other such nonsense on the secondary market and stuff like this always brings out the assholes and people who think they're gonna send their kids to college selling some dollar store toys. SIDE NOTE: I haven't seen the show yet but from the comments this guy is a scalper and that makes me really freaking irritated. I am not looking forward to this now after having read what everyone is sayin.

• Am I the only person that thinks this is a bad idea? If this is successful its gonna have the same effect ebay had on the toy market and everyone is going to think their trash is treasure and as a toy collector and scrounger, this irritates me.  I'm sure this is innocent enough but things like this turn the secondary toy market into a land filled with people who don't have a real understanding of the value of things and empowers scalpers and the uneducated. It empowers them with a false sense of value and makes them think they can charge an arm and a leg for things that are a dime a dozen.  I hate to be a naysayer but I have been both a collector and a toy dealer for many many years and have seen the effects of ebay and other such nonsense on the secondary market and stuff like this always brings out the assholes and people who think they're gonna send their kids to college selling some dollar store toys. SIDE NOTE: I haven't seen the show yet but from the comments this guy is a scalper and that makes me really freaking irritated. I am not looking forward to this now after having read what everyone is sayin.

•  I caught the show too (DVR it, thanks for the heads up Rob). I used to have the original Star Wars figures but as the typical kid at the time sadly destroyed them.  I tried to look up future showings of Toy Hunters but couldn't find any, it would be nice to see more episodes. 

• Watched the pilot last night, and really dug it. I'm not sure how much the average joe on the street is into rare Star Wars figures or unproduced Thundercats toys, but it certainly kept my attention. The wife and I laughed at how easily the guy that picked up the Boba Fett dropped 17 large (mind you, I was extremely happy that they showed a handful of people that, while VERY interested in the figure, couldn't seem to fathom dropping that much money on it). As a side note, the show that they paired it with, "Monster Makers", about a company that produces props for haunted houses and Halloween stores (and, in the case of the episode show, Alice Cooper's stage show) was just as good. I may have to start watching the Travel Channel more often now.

• Just two words: FUCK SCALPERS.

• So tell us the truth, did this guy know you had the Rocket Firing Boba Fett stashed away before taping this show? It just seemed like a set up to me.

• Try Kenner street.

• Actually, the best garage sale ever is the flea market at MIT.  The things my friends and I have found there... My God... It's full of stars.  Hell, I need to get a table there and get rid of some stuff myself.

• Sadly I didn't get to go to NYCC this year and I didn't see any of my friends who did.

• Holy mint sealed in box, Batman! I'm recorded this on the DVR. This show is abutting my freaking life.  It's borderline disturbing how close to home this is.  I'm watching and looking at some stuff in the background, I'm going like, Got it. Got it. Want it. Need it. Ugh, Ewoks.  Got it. Want it. Need it. Of course they kinda blew they load on the show showing the guy finding two holy grails of figure collecting in the pilot.  Though I guess the show I heard about it on Friday.  All week my friends and I have been looking forward to meeting a friend coming down from Maine and going to a video game store in the next town over.   I ended up buying even more action figures than games.  Of course the games market itself is a nook of the same trading in itself. I'm sure this show will cover it.   I ended up buying a freaking Kenner Batman myself.  It's about 14 inches from the Batman Animated line.  And it lights up.  And I was looking to improve my Batman shelf. Mind you, that's Batman alone, not all the other Batman family and DC figures.  There are other shelves for those aside from the boxes back home in my parent's basement of vintage 80s Super Powers I still have from when I was a kid.  My friends keep telling me I need to get to selling on eBay and Craigslist like some of them do.  Being between jobs right now, it's certainly a nice extra source of income. Certainly my folks back home do. (Though my dad's got a bunch of random other junk around the house and not a fraction of organization, more Hoarders or an American Pickers barn than Pawn Stars there sadly. Though maybe I can find some gems in the rough.  If the poorly stacked Nat Geos don't crush me.) I also found a 1986 replica of a 1960s Ben Cooper Batman mask.  Ever since I saw Dean Venture on Venture Brothers running around in one, I had to get one. I finally found it.  After looking online, it seems it overpaid a bit for it, but to get it in my hand from a local store is worth it, especially for something so fragile.  Plus the guy was getting rid of other figures, so instead of just getting just the two Matrix figures I wanted, he tossed in the entire stock he had left.  (Hey... anyone want some extra Matrix figures?)  OH and I got a copy of Shaq Fu finally after years of searching. Plus, afterwards,  my friend finally came over after and saw my collection of used yet good condition in box Nintendo games.  He asked me to put it in my will that he could get them if I die first.  (Hmmm.. Maybe I should make sure he goes first when heading down flights of stairs...)  Funny enough the guy at the store said he didn't have too many NES game in box because a guy nearby usually comes in regularly and buys them up.  Though I'm fine with what I got already. So hopefully future episodes of this get made and they might look into the Earth 2 parallel universe of video game collecting as well as toys. Plus we got Kevin Smith's comic book store show coming.  Funny enough I just picked up a Kevin Smith and Stan Lee VHS tape and a bunch of comics for fifty cents each at a Good Will Store.  (Oh and I finally got Good Will Hunting on DVD by Smith's buddies Damon and Affleck.  Is there a better place to buy that than a Boston area Good Will Store???)  This was one of the best hits to Good Will. I heard a story of a forum about someone finding a mint 18 inch Bruce Campbell figure at a Good Will for fifteen bucks that I still see on sale at a local  store for $60, but I never have found any action figures at one.  Though I did find some old Gen 13 and recent DC and even a Kill Shakespere that sold out on me for fifty cents each. Score.  And let's not even get into the records and movies I hunt. Let.. Let's not even go there.  I've only recently really got into the other parallel universe of record collecting.  They are kindred to the comic geeks.  Surprised there's no show dedicated to record collecting. (Too bad there's no television networks dedicated to music. -___- ) They got shows about everything else under the sun. Hell, if they ever get a show going about the cosplay scene.. Geeeez. (Ya know aside from that awful cringeworthy weeabootastic TokyoPop's America's Greatest Otaku on Hulu... ) A friend of mine who has built a Tardis and a giant anime robot costume needs to find my way on a show like that. Between this Toy Hunters and Kevin Smith's show coming on after new Walking Dead next month..  I'm both disturbed and pleasantly surprised to see my interests on TV. Funny enough, after watching this, I see G4 has a show about porn stars at a porn expo.  Now I haven't been to one of THOSE cons.  Though they did go with porn stars to a bar with thousands beers like my friends and I do.  Well, a bar with pages of beers in stock, not so much the porn star chicks.  They were going through some of the beers there and I'm like," Want it. Tried it. Need it. Ew, milk stout.  Oh crap. Infinium. Got it."  Plus I've been to a beer convention too.  You get cons and geeks for anything. Meanwhile, I know these porn stars maybe a bit too well, though also the industry is interesting too. It is also kinda disturbingly similar to the comic book industry and cons.   (Though I think their shelves of toys require a few more batteries.)  So there's another fandom getting TV time.  So why not a show about collecting action figures? Anyway, after a weekend of doing exactly what this guy does for a living, it's freaking surreal to see a damn TV show like this. 

• i think he low balled alot of those guys on their stuff(kenner guys)(mask toys alone which i have and there is no way he sold those for that cheap bullshit).then told the cameras some other bullshit price he sold it for .then he tries to tell the tommart guy whats worth what.that guy from toms had been doing his job when that guy wasnt even around then tries to tell what its worth (reallly ) how to price shit i was shocked .didnt know his facts about toys either which killed me ..how long has this guy been doing this  cause he sucks.

• Thank god for places like Kokomo Indiana and now Queen City Comics in Cincinnatti where it's a short 3 mile drive to the old abandoned Kenner place. Is it just me or that the Queen City Comic shop looked a bit small?

• Just watched it...this guy just seemed like a major scalper/douchebag. He lowballed the hell out of some of those ex-Kenner guys. Plus,whats up with charging those guys a 20% brokers fee to sell the Rocket Firing Fett and the Thundercats toy? Thats more of a cut than ebay takes......

• i planned on watching this when i first heard of it one to see how many rocket firing original boba fetts they find plus what prototypes they find plus want it to go to series and have the guys find other toy  treasures  or maybe  find proof  on toy legends like the shark in the m.a.s.k line.

• A nerd reality show about me would be pretty boring... it'd be hours of me tapping away at my computer... ;) Especially since I buy most of my stuff over the interwebs. 

• According to the Wayback Machine copy of the Kenner website, the headquarters were at 1014 Vine Street, which is the Kroger Building. I dont know where the factory was... My aunt worked there in the late 60s on the Give-a-show projector line.

• Why would someone listen to what a woman said?

• I don't mind shows like Pawn Stars or American PIckers but for comics and toys specifically. I end up enjoying these shows just to see the neat stuff. Its like going on Ebay or Amazon to look at stuff without having to use a mouse.

• Seems like there is one on every street corner downtown.

• Pfft, please. Get to the 21st century and start using TiVo, Rob. XD Still, this is pretty awesome, scripted or not. I wonder if he's willing to pay for an airplane ticket if I told him there are people here that still keeps their childhood Kenner toys with them? XD

• Mr.Bricken's description gives me the impression that he actually thinks the show is real and not at all scripted.

• You're right about e-bay. It's also dramatically raised the price on things that just a few years ago were selling for a tenth of the price. Oh well.

• Only if you are already familiar with that particular object. I live in Cincinnati, and didn't know that Kenner used to be based here.  Now, as an urban explorer, I'm excited to do some research and see if I can find their old property!

• That picture is taken at my comic book store, Queen City Comics!

• I'm not even a toy nerd, but I was the right age at the right time, and if your two-word clue precedes the name 'Boba Fett', I will finally have that orgasm that's building in my balls before they even had hair on 'em.

• You are a couple years late...

• Anybody know where I can pick up one of those sweet Bat-Clocks that guys got hanging in the background?

• Great thats all we need......a new bunch of know it alls thinking they have some holy grail cuz they saw it on tv...its bad enough ebay killed off the garage sale. Now jerks are gonna be buying up all the toys thinking they can sell em later on. Its comics all over again...

• This is amazing!  I can't wait to see this.  I really hope people don't just dismiss it immediately thinking, "He's just buying dolls!"  I'd love to see this.

• LOL, your clue is a little obvious there Rob.

• Thats what she said

• Thanks for the heads, I'll catch this.

• Don't forget Hollywood Treasure on SyFy. There's alot of crap on that show I wish I had the money to buy.

• Just seeing first wave Star Wars guys (as we called them back in the day) new in the pack makes me giggle with joy. Consider my DVR set.

• They burn through a lot of film to fill up a half hour so don't be too disappointed if they couldn't fit you in.

• I think me and my gf are in the pilot. they filmed us buying her first toy prop/replica for the show. he was a really great guy too, now i have to record myself being funny on tv!!!

• Prototype Rancor?  I know where one is.....

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