TRON

stone roses

HI all , any you guys see the new tron toys from spin masters??
really nice collectables!

like many kids in the 80s i loved tron but never got the toys, ya tere were loads of transformers, star wars and he-man but for some reason never got tron!! i have seen the new movie and the tron collectables on youtube and in the pass few weeks i have being saying to myself i must pop into smyths and take a good look at them, low and behold i did today!!

i must say they look great with the led lights and great detail on the toys, these seem to be a big hit across the water in the u.k and america

another good reason to invest in these classics is they are half price at the moment and well worth the money in my book!! so i think i will grab a few tron items for display in my retro room , to be honest you cant get more retro than tron!! 80s bliss :-)

so let us know if you like or dislike the tron toys, also if anyones got the vintage toys throw up a few photos, love to see them!!

cheers

Doctor DooM

Yeah the tron toys look nice. The collectable identity discs look especially cool imo.

stone roses

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Yeah the tron toys look nice. The collectable identity discs look especially cool imo.

hi

yeah i didnt come across the identity disc in smyths?
i imagin its in forbidden planet or somthing like that? , but i did see it on youtube and fans do like it!!

going to get the 7" figures this week, cant go wrong for 6.99!!! :-)

Doctor DooM

stone roses wrote: »

hi

yeah i didnt come across the identity disc in smyths?
i imagin its in forbidden planet or somthing like that? , but i did see it on youtube and fans do like it!!

going to get the 7" figures this week, cant go wrong for 6.99!!! :-)

I'd say to get the collectors discs you'd prob have to get them from kapow or big bad toystore on line.

They're not the kind of things you'll find in Smyths!

K.O.Kiki

Toy collecting disgusts me.

The only good toy is one that has been fiddled with for countless hours.

That's why LEGO & die-cast cars will always remain the best.

The iPod dock looks the part and it lights up, think I'll get it :cool:

stone roses

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Toy collecting disgusts me.

The only good toy is one that has been fiddled with for countless hours.

That's why LEGO & die-cast cars will always remain the best.

i had lego and whizzwheels as i was born in the early 70s and played with these toys along with matchbox and gorgi cars, also other toys like vintage action man, g.i.joe, star wars, transformers, he-man, tron are very collectable and expensive if you want mint to near mint exsamples!! these collecables are not for kids anymore! for exsample one of the first 12 star wars figures to come out in 1979 was han solo,, to get him on a 12back star wars card mint 400-500 easy!!! for one figure

i had him but i throw him onto the fire when i was a kid!! yes thats what we were suppose to do play with the toys and we did , but these toys are now very collectable for that reason, they were played with and lost, smashed into the wall, throw onto the fire or givien to the dog to chew on!!

the fact is toy collecting today is a serious hobby with an element of fun, its serious money and not for kids!!

tron was an 1980s toy line, vintage tron figures mint on card today your talking 100 or more!! i also liked tron as a kid in 82, i dont collect new toys today only vintage but i did get this toy line because of my tron memorys as a kid and they were half price even better!!

toy collection disgust ya well thats your problem!!
a lot of thing disgust me but i keep it to myself unless provoked

K.O.Kiki

Well, you have an obvious choice here:

-Let some kid have the time of his life, inventing endless scenarios for his Star Wars figures to roam in while he PLAYS, for years on end
-OR-
-Put a perfectly good toy away for a few decades in the miserly hope that its value appreciates, which will only happen if the toy is even remembered for any good reason other than being marketed with a "collectible value".


Oh, and I mentioned LEGO because I've broken maybe a dozen parts through play in 20-odd years. Best-built plastic toy in the world.


Also, wtf were you doing throwing a toy in the fire

stone roses

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Well, you have an obvious choice here:

-Let some kid have the time of his life, inventing endless scenarios for his Star Wars figures to roam in while he PLAYS, for years on end
-OR-
-Put a perfectly good toy away for a few decades in the miserly hope that its value appreciates, which will only happen if the toy is even remembered for any good reason other than being marketed with a "collectible value".


Oh, and I mentioned LEGO because I've broken maybe a dozen parts through play in 20-odd years. Best-built plastic toy in the world.


Also, wtf were you doing throwing a toy in the fire

"WTF" was i doing throwing star wars figures into the fire?? well in 1979 i smash them up, ripped them apart and gave them to the dog to chew on!!!

"i was 7 years old" what else are you going to do at 7 buy a house, consider having 2 0r 3 kids or keep an eye on the stock exchange?? ummmm.... LET ME SEE NOW!!! sounds like someone missed out to me!!

arnhem44

OK guys keep it on topic here,Moderator.

stone roses

go the 7" figures yeaterday only 4 of them 6.99 cant go wrong!!
they look fantastic :-)

brianregan09

Toy collecting is indeed massive business just look at big bad toystore and not all collecting is putting stuff away with the mothballs in the attic, I collect toys myself and i only really started since i gave up cigarettes, i have all my toys, figures whatever you call them all out of there boxes on display proudly, on the Tron stuff its all 4.99 in smyths now, there is more tron stuff that didn't make it over her including a figure of quorro , Ireland suffers from wave 1 syndrome, With these movie lines we get the 1st line and thats it Iron Man 2 wave 1 hasn;t moved but over in the US there onto 5 or 6 i think we get screwed over here

K.O.Kiki

stone roses wrote: »

"WTF" was i doing throwing star wars figures into the fire?? well in 1979 i smash them up, ripped them apart and gave them to the dog to chew on!!!

"i was 7 years old" what else are you going to do at 7 buy a house, consider having 2 0r 3 kids or keep an eye on the stock exchange?? ummmm.... LET ME SEE NOW!!! sounds like someone missed out to me!!

I played with my toys, and didn't try to destroy them...

stone roses

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

I played with my toys, and didn't try to destroy them...

if you didnt destroy your toys when you were a kid then you didnt play with them!! 70s and 80s toys are collectables now because they were destroyed, thats why mint to near mint exsamples are hard to find and expensive. thats all im saying on the matter!!! :-)

K.O.Kiki

I didn't TRY to destroy them because I had enough common sense to know that if a toy breaks, you can't play with it anymore...

Mind you, I still broke lots of toys, but that's because they were made of cheap plastic.

The only toy I consider kid-proof is Lego :pac:

Skerries

the OP and other collectors aren't denying kids the use of the toys, they are collecting them for themselves
i doubt there's a child in Ireland who has been told no he can't play with daddy's toy because they are collectibles and i'm sure they have plenty of their own