Introduction + Rediscovering my childhood...
 

Hello Everyone,


Greg here located in NorCal. Just wanted to say hello as I look forward to seeing everyone's collections on these forums.


I've always been a collector of many things, mainly items such as Modern / Pop Art (Obey Giant, etc) to even collecting some original production cel's of cartoon shows I watched as a child.


I never collected action figures before... until now. :tgrin:


Upon my recent visit home to MA for the holidays, My brother and I were determined to find our childhood toys that my parents have stored away for years in our basements storage space. My mother has always kept almost everything from my brother and sisters childhood, all neatly boxed away... however the boxes are of endless rows with not much labeling.


After about 4+ hours of searching my brother and I found what we had been searching for! Tucked away in a large container covered in a ninja turtles sleeping-bag... there they were! I found my ninja turtles that I played with as a kid. (My mom kept the original boxes for many of our old toys too :))

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ps61ebfc42.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...pscf64f573.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ps04fb5142.jpg


We also found my brothers Heman figures (also castle grey skull and some other big heman castle playset not pictured):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ps10e60753.jpg

FYI - My brother is probably going to be selling off his Heman Figures.


We also found many other classic toys with original packaging, etc. About 20 orignal NES Nintendo games with their original boxes and instruction manuals, old school board games, tonka trucks, hotwheels, micro-machines, gijoes, etc.


So now after finding my childhood toys (the ninja turtles being my favorite). The next time I fly home to visit I am going to package the ninja turtles up and bring them to my home in CA.


The new goal / mission:
My plan is to set up my old ninja turtle toys on display in my home office. While at the same time I have made it my new mission to purchase every single original ninja turtle toy I had as a child but in their mint original packaging.


To start I just purchased these recently:
Metalhead, Casey Jones (unpunched), Foot Soldier (unpunched) - MIP
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I can't wait to begin searching for every ninja turtle toys I had as a child in their original packaging. It will definitely be fun. I will post up some of the production cel's along with other items I collect in the near future.


-Greg

Hello, welcome to The Technodrome! Those old toys seem to be in pretty good shape after all these years.

Thanks! Yup!! Thankfully my mom had packed away all of our childhood toys nicely and out of the elements all of these years :)

Welcome aboard!! :)

Welcome to the technodrome!!:tgrin::tgrin::tgrin::tgrin:

oooooh welcome to the drome!

those figures look AWESOME!!

He-Man figures huh? thats awesome too!

I found a stash of my old toys, just not as nicely stashed away...

Congrats on finding all those!!

Welcome to the Drome! Congrats on finding your old collection! maybe you could share this and all your new additions on the collectors thread.:)

Damn good haul/score/finds! Grats! Welcome to the Drome

Welcome to the Drome!!! :tgrin::tgrin::tgrin: Nice pretty collection found after so long waiting in boxes!!!!! A little treasure !! :tcool::tcool: :twink: !!!
Thanks for sharing! :tgrin:

Welcome to the drome, buddy:tgrin:

You and your bro are both INCREDIBLY lucky to have a mom that cared so much about all these great memories, saving the items all these years.

Thanks for sharing your story and the pictures

I'm also from NorCal! Great to see more TMNT fans up here.

That's awesome to hear. Welcome to the Drome. You'll love it here.

Welcome aboard! :)

Welcome to the technodrome!!:tgrin::tgrin::tgrin::tgrin:

Welcome aboard! Those are some nice toys!:tgrin:

Welcome !! Nice stuff !! Nice technodrome !!

Welcome aboard! Cool toys!

That. Is. Awesome! Nice collection and welcome back to the world of TMNT! I too am starting my vintage collection from my childhood memories

It's great you still have all of your action figures! :) Usually 1/2 - 2/3 of "grown up" fans usually got rid of them during their "too cool" phase when they were a teenager.

Glad to have you at the Technodrome Forums!