they told me to come here - a full collection up for sale

rootbier · 07-10-2007, 10:21 AM

I am a longtime semi-lurker over on the NTML and a very occasional lurker here.
Everyone there told me I should also come over here with this and I think they were right.

*PANIC MODE*
I have been accepted to go to school in Norway and I leave in four weeks *EEK* I thought I was going to be able to keep my toys in my mother's basement but it turns out she'd really REALLY rather I didn't (and I can understand that - it's just a surprise)...
I don't really want to sell them but it makes sense - I have my EU citizenship and don't know if I will ever live in the states again and I can't bring them overseas *CRY* and I can't afford to put them in storage and I don't actually have enough money to go away for the full six years (norway is expensive place and more money now would mean less work and more time to focus on studies) and maybe my mother is thinking about moving or wants to do something different with the basement space - I really don't know.

I have never sold on eBay and I feel like that would take forever to learn to do it right. I have talked to one dealer who basically said that nobody would want my stuff at this point in the economy. ???.

This is like maybe HALF to 2/3 of my boxed stuff and none of my 500+ carded figures - the rest is still boxed up in the basement. I'll post the figures inventory soon.

My mom and my friend helped my set up this display and take pictures.

Look it's me with my suitcase (un)ready to go to Norway.

This next picture didn't come out so hot. Kind of dark. More stuff.
See the Japanese mutant masters mike and Japanese saint turtle (toKKa's already claimed that one) on the top row.

Backpacks (the purple one with the semi-ghostly shredder in the back is sweet, the next one to the right is a sewer-sports themed one and the last one with the yellow trim is lenticular - flickery moving image of bebop getting kicked), animation cels (usagi on the right looking sad), giant troll leo in box (so rare that it was once rumored not actually even exist), the top of a pillow pal in the lower right, just to the left of the pillow pal you'll see
4 kinds of OOZE - two (once) edible ROYAL OOZE DESSERT (~15 years old? don't eat it) and two slimey style still sealed one green and one purple foot style.
Black belt boxer mike (rare because they stopped production cuz his ninja action kept breaking his foot) in box.

pillow pal leo flopped over in the middle with a carded mini-playset just next to him. a soccer ball just above him. super colorful neon-y surfer tubes and a construction mutation on the left. an unopened duelin' dudes punching game behind them. shred-head vs. mike (looks raph-y on the drawn image but clearly mike in the product shot on the box)

note the two large toy chests (15.5"x15.5"x16.5") - these things are awesome. a turtle image on each side and lots of room inside for loosies. sturdy too - i am sitting on one in the first picture. i dig these - nice big panels of art. i'll take better pictures.

all the way up at the top of the right hand pile are two bootleg figures. the blue one is pretty weird - the card just says TURTLES and the figure has blue "gem" eyes and comes with one of each weapon. one katana one sai one
nunchuck and one bo.
the thing that is just under that is a "KARATE TURTLES MASTER" so completely bootleg (the art has turtles in karate robes (i can't spell ghi/ki) of their own color -kind of awesome) but is basically the only giant splinter
ever made from the original figure design. he's basically the regular 1988 splinter figure but like 10" or so tall.
pretty well made and accurate too - cloth robe and belt and all and a nice box even if the bubble is starting the crack at the top bend. (actually you can see the bootlegs better in the backpack picture)

see the tiny shiny guys right below and to the left of giant splinter - a set of wicked cute chromed shiny marble shooters - my friend who helped who doesn't particularly care about turtles still got excited over these tiny cute
shiny things. like SD(super deformed) turtles with tiny little SD weapons. and shiny. set of four bike helmets (each box has all four color stick-ons - velcro maybe i can't remember) in the lower left.

rock and roll muta-bus. loose giant trolls. "greetings from the sewer" books of postcards. blimp. mega-mutants needlenose and killer bee. boxes of cereal still shrinkwrapped with bowls.

Same stuff different shot... ???

STUFF!!! please buy it - i'm feeling horrible about leaving this stuff with my mother - i just don't want to saddle her with it if she doesn't want it. GENERAL PANIC about leaving my life. I will bring some of my posters to put up in norway so I can still remember all of my shiny stuff. and maybe i will take a lot more pictures. When I know how to say ninja turtle in norwegian i will come back and let you know. NORWAY COWABUNGA!

a new chapter of my life....
YAH!!! and *SIGH* and YAH!!! and lucky for ya'll.

*gobo* · 07-10-2007, 11:21 AM

Good lord...

That's a veritable museum you have there!

BTW, Norwegians call TMNT the exact same thing in their country. A non-English-speaking nation that's too lazy/preoccupied to translate an imported show's title makes me a tad uneasy.

I'm not sure which of the two official dialects it is, but this should give you an idea of what you can expect to see of the Turtles over there.

^_^ Have fun.

rootbier · 07-10-2007, 11:57 AM

well - most of them do learn english from a very early age
most north american tv that shows over there doesn't even get translated
maybe i should bring one of my two carded arctic dons with me
that'd be appropriate

so
uh

please buy my stuff so my 60 year old mom doesn't have to deal with it
i'll promise to only ever buy pizza and crazy fishy norwegian pizza toppings with the money from the sales

***First of Two Latin Kings*** · 07-10-2007, 01:48 PM

D@mn, dude. Some of that stuff is really rare. You should make a bundle off of it. Still trying to decide what I want (besides Jim Lee's Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Creature from the Black Lagoon Leonardo, if you got 'em). Can anyone submit offers on anything there? Should we just include the cost of shipping in our offers as well?

When do you leave, by the way?

*Ava Collier* · 07-10-2007, 04:12 PM

I...so wish I had money to spare right now...

I think my husband would kill me though. He's had to limit me on TRIGUN, and Sonic the Hedgehog purchases. I could just see him getting home in a couple months and flipping the **** out!

Mike Bock · 07-10-2007, 05:21 PM

My God man, what a huge collection you've got there! WOW.

rootbier · 07-11-2007, 12:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth_CJJ

D@mn, dude. Some of that stuff is really rare. You should make a bundle off of it.

If anyone ever buys anything. Heh.

Quote:

Still trying to decide what I want (besides Jim Lee's Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Creature from the Black Lagoon Leonardo, if you got 'em).

You know I don't, J.S. You asked me the same a couple days ago on NTML.

Quote:

Can anyone submit offers on anything there? Should we just include the cost of shipping in our offers as well?

Anyone. Everyone.
Make offers by item or block of items. However.
We'll figure out shipping once we know what we're talking about - but yeah - people should mostly figure on covering their own shipping.

Quote:

When do you leave, by the way?

Tuesday August 7th. Four weeks from yesterday.

Ava - is your husband overseas? Military?

Another night of work - time for sleep.
See yuhs in the morning.

***First of Two Latin Kings*** · 07-11-2007, 09:06 AM

I actually posted that again here before reading your reply about how you didn't have those figures. Sorry.

Do you have a MOC Mutagen Man? If so, how much do you want for him? I already made you an offer on the ooze that goes to him at NTML.

HalfcourtGame · 07-11-2007, 01:43 PM

Extremely impressive collection. I don't think that soccer ball or retromutagen rifle even made it into production did they?
Also I sent you a PM.

*Spitfire* · 07-11-2007, 06:51 PM

I'd be interested in some of that stuff. Those rock'em sock'em robot rip offs were awesome. I had'em as a kid but I lost them. Toss me a PM with an asking price and we can see from there. There might be some carded figures I want to depends on what your asking for them.

But PM me and we can talk business.

*Ava Collier* · 07-11-2007, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rootbier

Ava - is your husband overseas? Military?

Coast Guard. He's not overseas, he's just not stationed here right now. That's probably for the best or I'd likely be forbidden to even look at the pictures you posted!
I can just hear his voice in my head. "NO...No NONONO!...please no?"

We wouldn't be able to offer anywhere near what it's worth anyway. We'd have to sell Sunshine.

Mike Bock · 07-11-2007, 07:30 PM

Hey man I am interested in the foot soldiers!!

rootbier · 07-12-2007, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raphsation

Extremely impressive collection. I don't think that soccer ball or retromutagen rifle even made it into production did they?
Also I sent you a PM.

Someone else told me that about the soccer ball once. Nice to think.
I also have a teeth-baring Raph shaped soft-rubber football that is really sweet.

As far as the rifle - which? Do you mean Don's Sewer Squirter? I have two. Dunno.

rootbier · 07-12-2007, 01:01 PM

it's going to happen
i am swamped with work and international move things and selling my other very important collection (my almost 700 CDs *CRY*) and work and bleh
it'll happen
do you want a MOC robotic (chromed) foot soldier as well?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Bock

Hey man I am interested in the foot soldiers!!

rootbier · 07-12-2007, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ava Collier

We wouldn't be able to offer anywhere near what it's worth anyway. We'd have to sell Sunshine.

If you could sell me sunshine in the middle of a long Norwegian winter I'd take it.

Mike Bock · 07-12-2007, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rootbier

it's going to happen
i am swamped with work and international move things and selling my other very important collection (my almost 700 CDs *CRY*) and work and bleh
it'll happen
do you want a MOC robotic (chromed) foot soldier as well?

Nope just regular ones please!

Thanks man.

*cowabunga14* · 07-12-2007, 04:03 PM

Sent ya a PM.

*Ava Collier* · 07-12-2007, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rootbier

If you could sell me sunshine in the middle of a long Norwegian winter I'd take it.

XD You might wanna try buying her dinner first.

Sunshine · 07-12-2007, 07:29 PM

Hey! I am NOT for sale! Besides... you'd have to be sure you had a proper care manual for me. I require food, cigarettes, and I should be kept out of direct sunlight. >_>

rootbier · 07-19-2007, 07:09 PM

I posted pictures on the two toy chests in a new thread - also don't forget to look at my carded figures list in my "partial inventory" thread... I have a lot of stuff that other people are offering right now and I will do my best to undersell anyone else on this board.

07-10-2007, 10:21 AM	#1
rootbier Random Punk Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15	they told me to come here - a full collection up for sale I am a longtime semi-lurker over on the NTML and a very occasional lurker here. Everyone there told me I should also come over here with this and I think they were right. PANIC MODE I have been accepted to go to school in Norway and I leave in four weeks EEK I thought I was going to be able to keep my toys in my mother's basement but it turns out she'd really REALLY rather I didn't (and I can understand that - it's just a surprise)... I don't really want to sell them but it makes sense - I have my EU citizenship and don't know if I will ever live in the states again and I can't bring them overseas CRY and I can't afford to put them in storage and I don't actually have enough money to go away for the full six years (norway is expensive place and more money now would mean less work and more time to focus on studies) and maybe my mother is thinking about moving or wants to do something different with the basement space - I really don't know. I have never sold on eBay and I feel like that would take forever to learn to do it right. I have talked to one dealer who basically said that nobody would want my stuff at this point in the economy. ???. This is like maybe HALF to 2/3 of my boxed stuff and none of my 500+ carded figures - the rest is still boxed up in the basement. I'll post the figures inventory soon. My mom and my friend helped my set up this display and take pictures. Look it's me with my suitcase (un)ready to go to Norway. This next picture didn't come out so hot. Kind of dark. More stuff. See the Japanese mutant masters mike and Japanese saint turtle (toKKa's already claimed that one) on the top row. Backpacks (the purple one with the semi-ghostly shredder in the back is sweet, the next one to the right is a sewer-sports themed one and the last one with the yellow trim is lenticular - flickery moving image of bebop getting kicked), animation cels (usagi on the right looking sad), giant troll leo in box (so rare that it was once rumored not actually even exist), the top of a pillow pal in the lower right, just to the left of the pillow pal you'll see 4 kinds of OOZE - two (once) edible ROYAL OOZE DESSERT (~15 years old? don't eat it) and two slimey style still sealed one green and one purple foot style. Black belt boxer mike (rare because they stopped production cuz his ninja action kept breaking his foot) in box. pillow pal leo flopped over in the middle with a carded mini-playset just next to him. a soccer ball just above him. super colorful neon-y surfer tubes and a construction mutation on the left. an unopened duelin' dudes punching game behind them. shred-head vs. mike (looks raph-y on the drawn image but clearly mike in the product shot on the box) note the two large toy chests (15.5"x15.5"x16.5") - these things are awesome. a turtle image on each side and lots of room inside for loosies. sturdy too - i am sitting on one in the first picture. i dig these - nice big panels of art. i'll take better pictures. all the way up at the top of the right hand pile are two bootleg figures. the blue one is pretty weird - the card just says TURTLES and the figure has blue "gem" eyes and comes with one of each weapon. one katana one sai one nunchuck and one bo. the thing that is just under that is a "KARATE TURTLES MASTER" so completely bootleg (the art has turtles in karate robes (i can't spell ghi/ki) of their own color -kind of awesome) but is basically the only giant splinter ever made from the original figure design. he's basically the regular 1988 splinter figure but like 10" or so tall. pretty well made and accurate too - cloth robe and belt and all and a nice box even if the bubble is starting the crack at the top bend. (actually you can see the bootlegs better in the backpack picture) see the tiny shiny guys right below and to the left of giant splinter - a set of wicked cute chromed shiny marble shooters - my friend who helped who doesn't particularly care about turtles still got excited over these tiny cute shiny things. like SD(super deformed) turtles with tiny little SD weapons. and shiny. set of four bike helmets (each box has all four color stick-ons - velcro maybe i can't remember) in the lower left. rock and roll muta-bus. loose giant trolls. "greetings from the sewer" books of postcards. blimp. mega-mutants needlenose and killer bee. boxes of cereal still shrinkwrapped with bowls. Same stuff different shot... ??? STUFF!!! please buy it - i'm feeling horrible about leaving this stuff with my mother - i just don't want to saddle her with it if she doesn't want it. GENERAL PANIC about leaving my life. I will bring some of my posters to put up in norway so I can still remember all of my shiny stuff. and maybe i will take a lot more pictures. When I know how to say ninja turtle in norwegian i will come back and let you know. NORWAY COWABUNGA! a new chapter of my life.... YAH!!! and SIGH and YAH!!! and lucky for ya'll.

07-10-2007, 11:21 AM	#2
gobo Wacky Action Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: on Earth Posts: 12,784	Good lord... That's a veritable museum you have there! BTW, Norwegians call TMNT the exact same thing in their country. A non-English-speaking nation that's too lazy/preoccupied to translate an imported show's title makes me a tad uneasy. I'm not sure which of the two official dialects it is, but this should give you an idea of what you can expect to see of the Turtles over there. ^_^ Have fun. __________________ Live and let live... or go to hell.

07-10-2007, 04:12 PM	#5
Ava Collier It's ninja ninja RAT! Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,958	I...so wish I had money to spare right now... I think my husband would kill me though. He's had to limit me on TRIGUN, and Sonic the Hedgehog purchases. I could just see him getting home in a couple months and flipping the **** out! __________________

07-10-2007, 05:21 PM	#6
Mike Bock Hench Mutant Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Splinter's Dojo Posts: 366	My God man, what a huge collection you've got there! WOW. __________________ http://mikebock.deviantart.com/gallery/

07-11-2007, 01:43 PM	#9
HalfcourtGame Hench Mutant Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Tany Posts: 308	Extremely impressive collection. I don't think that soccer ball or retromutagen rifle even made it into production did they? Also I sent you a PM. __________________ Please Help Me Complete My Collection I need Scratch! MOC or loose complete and Devil Shredder MIB

07-10-2007, 11:57 AM	#3
rootbier Random Punk Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15	well - most of them do learn english from a very early age most north american tv that shows over there doesn't even get translated maybe i should bring one of my two carded arctic dons with me that'd be appropriate so uh please buy my stuff so my 60 year old mom doesn't have to deal with it i'll promise to only ever buy pizza and crazy fishy norwegian pizza toppings with the money from the sales

07-11-2007, 06:51 PM	#10
Spitfire Writer • Director Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 12,035	I'd be interested in some of that stuff. Those rock'em sock'em robot rip offs were awesome. I had'em as a kid but I lost them. Toss me a PM with an asking price and we can see from there. There might be some carded figures I want to depends on what your asking for them. But PM me and we can talk business. __________________ Check out my online portfolio http://www.christopherpelletier.com/

07-11-2007, 07:30 PM	#12
Mike Bock Hench Mutant Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Splinter's Dojo Posts: 366	Hey man I am interested in the foot soldiers!! __________________ http://mikebock.deviantart.com/gallery/

07-12-2007, 04:03 PM	#17
cowabunga14 Lover of Weird Things Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4,014	Sent ya a PM. __________________ How can something so beautiful shine on something so dreadful?

07-12-2007, 07:29 PM	#19
Sunshine Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: A nice little spot in the gutter where I keep my mind Posts: 1,437	Hey! I am NOT for sale! Besides... you'd have to be sure you had a proper care manual for me. I require food, cigarettes, and I should be kept out of direct sunlight. >_> __________________

07-19-2007, 07:09 PM	#20
rootbier Random Punk Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15	I posted pictures on the two toy chests in a new thread - also don't forget to look at my carded figures list in my "partial inventory" thread... I have a lot of stuff that other people are offering right now and I will do my best to undersell anyone else on this board.

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