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What? What are you doing? Playing with the chains.

It's not a toy.

Yeah, it is.

This is an open Lego set. It's the second edition, the Death Star.

Corey, I'm not your father.

Something about these pizza -eating life -like turtles.

I could do this all day.

You're tearing up my heart with these.

Yeah, we were really young. And that's Chris with his pineapple hair, I like to

call it. And Justin at his ramen noodle head.

I'm just like mega impressed with this thing.

I think this was your first action figure. Man, I don't even have one.

I buy this, you still won't because I'm putting it in my collection.

Oh, Joe.

How

can

I help you?

I have five NSYNC dolls and a signed picture by the entire band.

We have Joey Fatone, Lance Bass,

J .C., Chris Kirkpatrick, and Justin Timberlake. All the ladies want them and

all the guys want to be them.

One of my favorites.

You're tearing up my heart with these.

This is definitely cool.

NSYNC, I think they started around 1995.

And they actually started overseas in Germany and Europe first.

About 96 is when they came over to America, released their first album.

And it was a landmark album. I mean, from that point on, they did

with tons and tons of well -known musicians.

Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Aerosmith. I mean, they had two platinum records, two

diamond records, three gold singles.

And Sync is one of the most popular, most successful boy bands ever.

So I do have one doll that was signed twice by Joey Fatone.

So that's pretty cool.

I think Joey and Justin are probably the most popular of the group. They went on

to have the most successful careers after. So it looks like they made these

dolls to be collected.

So these weren't the kind of dolls you would play with. If they were out of the

packaging, they would be less desirable.

Let me see the picture.

Oh, this is really cool.

You got everyone's signature on there?

Yes. I mean, you can definitely see the 90s just pouring out of the picture

right here. Just the clothes, this looks like late 90s, early 2000s right here

in this picture.

I don't know how collectible NSYNC is, but I imagine that there's a good market

for this stuff right now because they're from the late 90s, early 2000s, and the

kids growing up at the time period to listen to that music are starting to get

old enough to where they have the money to collect stuff like this. It's really

cool you have the whole set right here.

How much are you looking for these?

I'm looking for $500.

Okay. I don't know the value of these, honestly, so it might not be out

of the realm of possibility.

I'd like to have someone come down, take a look at these, and put a value on

them before I make you an offer.

Okay. All right? Give me a few minutes. I'm going to call my guy down here, and

hopefully you can get here quick.

Okay. Thank you.

So what do we have here, and how in the hell did you get this through my door?

Very carefully. No, seriously, one of your guys gave me a hand with this.

so they decided to help you through the door with it, but not help you sell it,

okay.

I'm on my own there, I guess.

All right, so tell me about it.

Well, this was popular in the 60s and 70s. Williams made several versions of

this kind of game.

Okay, this is almost the end of this era, too.

Oh, it is. After this is when it got really, really electronic and video

just kind of took over. Right, and the new pinballs became more like video

games, too. In fact, they quit the pinball business in the 90s.

I think their main thing is the slot machine.

A lot more money in that.

Absolutely.

This is a rare find.

I got it from this collector down in Austin, Texas.

He's redone all the cabinet.

He found new control panels, things that were not available any longer.

And the big feature on it is it's got this animated back glass where the

players, as you score runs, they will actually physically get up and run

the bases. Okay.

What makes you want to sell it? Well, I've had my day with this one, so time

find a new home for it. So does it work?

Works 100%.

Well, I'll tell you what, set it up to where I can play it real quick.

After I play it, if I decide I like it, we'll talk some money. All right.

Well, we press a button.

All right, that's the sound you want to hear.

All right.

All right.

The secret is pitch first and then swing late.

Okay. All right.

There you go.

There, that was your first score.

I could do this all day. That's great.

These old pinball machines are really cool, and the market's pretty good for

them. If I can get this for the right price, I should have no problem selling

it.

And that was it. That was your out.

All right, so what are you looking to get out of this?

$5 ,500.

$5 ,500.

That's a good deal based on the condition.

The condition looks great, man. I just kind of feel like that's probably what

I'll get out of it.

Well, I think you can get more if you get the right collector.

Yeah, if I've got to find the right guy.

It may take some time.

I'm going to have to resell it. I've got to make money. I'll do $3 ,500.

I'm thinking $3 ,500 is a pretty fair offer on it.

You don't find him in this condition, though.

What would you sit at $4 ,000?

I'd take four grand cash for it.

$3 ,750.

You got a deal. Thank you, sir.

Let's go do some paperwork.

All right.

Thank you, sir.

I hit a home run.

I paid $800 for it.

I'm thrilled at $3 ,750.

I have a customer in the shop looking to sell her five Instinct figurines and a

picture that she says is signed by the entire group.

Instinct is one of the biggest boy bands in the world, so I'm sure there's some

value here.

But I need a little bit more information, so I'm calling up my good

Johnston to learn a little more.

I got quite the collection for you to look at today.

These are cool.

The Instinct toys were, for the time period and the culture, like really,

big. And the reason they were so big is this band, obviously, when they blew up,

they... took off like wildfire.

You want to talk about a great marketing campaign with the song It's Gonna Be

Me? They filmed that song as the marionette, so they were dressed in the

to look like the dolls.

You saw them come to life on your screen, and then you turn around, you go

the toy store, and there's the marionettes available for you to

And immediately you saw this toy line, when it hit the shelf, disappear.

So the boxes look like they're a little rough. It's pretty common for these

boxes to be in this type of condition.

I also noticed that this one looks like it's got some writing on it. That could

be an autograph. I don't authenticate autographs for you, so that's not

something that I can tell you that is for a fact, you know, Joey's autograph

not.

So what do you think everything's worth?

So I've seen the Justin go, you know, $35 to $40 by itself.

The other figures go anywhere from, you know, $10 to $15 each.

That's what we paid for them originally.

Yeah. In some cases with some of these toys, when they're mass produced, they

don't necessarily gain or sometimes lose value. And we see this trend,

especially in the 90s and early 2000s toys. So as a set, I would expect you'd

able to get $90 for them.

However, you have a picture down here, and it looks like it's signed by the

entire band. I think you should get the autographs authenticated.

Because if you do that, that could really be your value here, the fact that

have all the autographs with it. You know, I've seen Justin's autograph go as

high as $200 because of how desirable his is.

Okay. But as far as the toys are concerned, as they sit, I would expect

you'd be able to get $90 for the dolls themselves.

Okay.

Thanks for coming out. No problem. Thanks.

You know what? I actually know someone that can authenticate these signatures.

Do you mind if I make one more call?

Okay. I'll be right back.

Earlier today, a customer came into the shop to sell her NSYNC figurines. The

dolls are in great condition, and although Steve Johnson valued the dolls

$90, he says that having the signatures authenticated could increase the value.

And it just so happens I know the perfect person for the job.

Hey. Hey, how you doing?

What's going on, brother? Thanks for coming out.

How's it going?

Hi. Doing all right?

Very nice to meet you.

Chum called me up, wanted to see if I could verify some signatures.

Of course, being with NSYNC as a group for well over 10 years, in a sense, you

know, you tend to know each other's signatures and seeing them because we're

signing thousands of them. Like, you know, meet and greets will come up. We

won't sign a bunch of pictures. So, of course, you get to know all the

signatures. You can't get away from my chicken scratch.

And all the other guys, too.

It's like staring in a mirror. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Anatomically correct, too, by the way.

Wow, this is pretty crazy. And you got all of them.

Here's the whole set.

Bringing back some old memories here. Yeah, you know, it's amazing.

You know, with the No Strings Attacked album, we broke records. We sold 1 .2

million albums in the first day.

And we sold 2 .4 million albums.

in the first week, which was never done before, and they were tangible albums.

Yeah, it's a lot different now with digital streams.

Yeah, exactly.

So take a look at these and tell me what you think.

Pretty cool. But, yeah, no, that's definitely my signature. Usually I would

write, like, sometimes, like, stay sweet or peace and love and stuff like that,

which obviously there it is. I wrote peace and love on the back of it. So,

that's definitely my signature on there.

Cool.

And then this picture. Wow. Holy cow.

Yeah, we were really young. And that's Chris with his pineapple hair, I like to

call it. And Justin at his ramen noodle head.

The signatures, yeah, I mean, they look, they are pretty legit. JC usually,

he'll write his name and he'll put the JC on there.

Lance usually has two double squiggly lines, which is right around there when

writes Lance. That is definitely my sloppy signature right there. Chris has

always had the signature where it was like a CH and an I always. You never saw

the rest of it. And of course, Kirkpatrick looked all crappy, but

Obviously, he always had the J, and he always crossed the T with his actual

letter and his name, which was pretty cool.

So you can verify your signatures for sure? Yeah, it's definitely real. So

job. Brings back a lot of memories. Crazy.

Well, I appreciate you coming by. No problem. Thank you so much. Very nice to

meet you. Thank you. So nice meeting you. My pleasure. Nice meeting you guys.

Have a good one.

All right. So there you go. Straight from Joey himself.

The autographs are real.

My toy guy says the toys are nice. Go for about $90.

As a group, I could give you $150.

$150? Oh, but Justin's signature alone is worth $200. I mean, I

need to make a little bit of profit.

Could you do $175?

Man, would you consider $200?

Yeah,

I think I could do $200 on them.

Okay. All right, let's go write it up.

I ended up selling my collection for $200, but...

I got to meet Joey Fatone and discuss the signatures of the band.

So it was well worth it.

Hey, Rick, you got to come check this out.

Damn. Oh, that's badass, dude.

Where in the hell did you get this?

My roommate owed me some money and gave this to me as collateral.

I have not heard from him since.

Okay. Everything in here is practically identical to a...

Full rail car. This is the coolest little model train I've ever seen in my

This is like nerd heaven right here.

This was the Great Western Railroad. It was in England.

This was the first train to go over 100 miles an hour, right? That's exactly

right. Okay.

Well, it's a model of the train that went over 100 miles an hour. That's

And this was basically, you know, we're reaching the pinnacle of steam

railroads. This train right here had a superheated boiler. I mean, you get the

boiler extra, extra hot. Does it work on coal? Yes, yes.

Shovel coal in there, and then you can get it started with a little catalyst.

Use paraffin. Once you get it hot enough, it'll stay running.

I'm just, like, mega impressed with this thing.

It's really not a toy. It's a super high -tech toy. It's a super nerdy high

-tech toy.

England was an industrial powerhouse. They pioneered and refined the steam

engine. This exact replica gives an idea of just how incredible they were.

To find a working model with this much detail is pretty rare.

I am sure train collectors are going to be all over this.

All right, big question. What do you want for it?

50 bucks sold.

Well, the number on the engine is 3440. How about 3440?

And when was the last time you fired it up?

92?

Can you be like $1 ,700 for it?

You know, I got to have a little more out of it. I mean, yourself, it's just

cool. How about $25?

I'll give you $2 ,000. $2 ,000 cash, I think it's fair, because I have no idea

what they're going to go for.

I'll tell you what.

$2 ,000 is a lot better than $500 of somebody I owe a new one, so...

Let's do it. Okay. All right. $2 ,000, man.

Let's do it. Okay.

Meet you right up front. All right.

Overall, you know, $500 back in 91, $2 ,000 today.

I'm looking to go loan some more money to some of my deadbeat friends.

How you doing?

Good. How are you? Pretty good. What do you have here?

I have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle prototype from 1991 along with the

product. They're actually re -releasing a lot of these, too, because they are

popular amongst this generation, too. Yeah, I think the turtles will always

a special place, right? Something about these pizza -eating, life -like turtles

that just captured the pop culture of America.

That's pretty cool.

This looks like it's from the Mutant Military set.

each turtle would have represented a different branch of the military. That's

right. In 1991, Playmate was doing some really cool stuff with the line Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was a relatively new comic, and I think their

television series came out in, like, 87.

So they released their first set of toys in 88, and they did really well. And

then in 91, Playmate started to do all kinds of cool stuff with the turtles,

the toys would just fly off the shelf.

So tell me a little bit about what you know about it.

So these characters were made as hard resin prototypes, like the one you have

front of you. Do you mind if I handle the prototype?

Absolutely.

It's pretty cool, though. I'm just kind of comparing it to the final product

there, and it looks pretty much identical, right? But I'm interested,

you find the prototype?

So I have a friend who is very close to the person who actually made the

prototypes for Playmate.

It is pretty cool, actually. Were you the one who had this graded? I did.

It has some minor whitening around the edges, but overall, it's a beautiful

piece, and it doesn't seem to have any fading going on on the actual card

itself.

Do you have a price in mind?

I was looking to get $3 ,500 for it. Okay.

It's not so hard for me to value the graded one because, you know, there's a

record of stuff like this selling in different grades, so it's pretty easy.

as far as the prototype goes, those don't trade publicly as much as the

release stuff.

So I'd like to have someone come down and take a look at it and kind of give

their idea on what they think it would sell for in today's market.

Sure. All right. Give me a few minutes. I'll have my guy come down here, and

we'll talk about what he thinks. Great. Thank you.

Hello.

How's it going?

Got some sweet for you, man.

Okay. This is my 1 ,000%.

Bare brick.

It's by COZ. What do you mean 1 ,000 %?

That's just the size. So this is the largest version he has. They have 100%,

400%, and this is 1 ,000%. So it's not small, medium, large.

Yeah, we're going by percentage.

All right.

It's interesting, but who's the artist?

COZ. He's a famous artist out of Brooklyn, and this is the dissected

Okay.

It's beautiful.

They go for a lot. He has a lot of pieces. Of course, he has like... Whoa.

bear brick?

Are you selling this?

I am. Do you know what this is, Rick?

Um, it's a bear thing.

Kaz. So how do you know about this?

He's one of the biggest artists, Rick. You got to understand.

MTV had him redo their Moon Man for their MTV award.

Jordan has done collaborations. They made Jordan's shoes with this guy.

He's had some stuff even sell for $14 million.

You know?

He started working on painting backgrounds for 101 Dalmatians, Doug,

animated series.

And then at night, he would go out and do graffiti.

And that's how he got famous. Kaz's signature trademark is putting X's on

eyes and X's on the hands.

This is actually one of the most sought -after ones. It's really hard to get.

This is called the Companion. And the Companion is modeled after Mickey Mouse.

Is that the box for it right there or whatever? Yeah. Oh, you got the box for

it, too? Yeah, original box with it as well.

I guess you would say.

So what's this thing worth?

I mean, brand new in the box, in the plastic.

People ask about $12 ,000 for it, $13 ,000, and they do sell for that.

But open like this, already out of the box, other than these few little scuffs,

I mean, the condition looks pretty good, and I think all this stuff could be

wiped off with a towel. Without trying, you could get $5 ,000 for it.

These things are only going up in value. You need to get it, all right?

Okay.

All right.

I don't know what's crazier, that it's worth that kind of money or Chum knew

that much about it. I heard that, Rick.

So, what's your best price for it?

How about $10 ,000?

No, because I can't sell it for that much.

I'll give you $4 ,000.

No, I can't go that low.

$6 ,000?

I'll tell you what. I'll do $4 ,500. I'm not going to do any more.

$5 ,000?

I'll go $4 ,500.

Rick, $5 ,000 is still.

You're basically robbing them.

You work for me, right?

I've seen you do the customer, right?

All right. I might be crazy, but I'll do the $5 ,000. Sweet. Okay, sweet.

I'll meet you right up front. We'll do some paperwork, and I'll get you paid.

Don't worry, Rick. I'll put this away.

Be careful with it. Don't screw it up.

You better be right on this, though.

Hey, how are you doing?

I'm good.

I mean, it's pretty self -explanatory, but what do you got here?

So this is an unopened Lego set. It's the second edition, the Death Star.

All right, definitely pretty cool. You don't really look like a Lego person.

I am a bit of a Star Wars nerd, but this is just overwhelming. 4 ,000 pieces, I

can't fit.

My nephew stayed at my house for about a month when he was a kid, and I learned

about LEGO. Yeah, you're probably still stepping on them.

This is actually really cool. So LEGO started in the 30s. They came right off

the heels of the erector set craze that was going on.

1949 is when they started making the little bricks out of plastic.

77 came along.

Star Wars came out. This would be the second set. It came out in 2016, and

is the new and improved, better version of it.

I think this one had something like 200 or 400 extra bricks in it. Definitely

one of the most popular things Lego has done in probably the past 30 years.

Very true. Just really, really more refined. I think it had a bunch of the

hip Lego people call them mini -figs.

Mini -figs. I just call them little Lego character guys.

Let's see, here are all the mini -figs. You have two Stormtroopers, two Death

Star Gunners, Grand Moff Tarkin.

He was the guy that's above Darth Vader. Everybody has a boss, right? Even in

different galaxies.

Yeah, everyone does. So apparently Darth Vader did too.

But I'm pretty sure one of the things that makes this set really special is

is the only set where he's in.

Definitely pretty cool. I know that's one of the things that makes it more

valuable than others. I mean, the box is a little worse for wear. It's slightly

open over here.

I mean, the only thing cool about the box is that you still have some kind of

original box. I mean, you have the tape here, all that, but it's not going to

bring anything extra for it.

I'm assuming you brought it here to sell it, right? Yeah.

So how much are you looking to get for it?

I'm hoping to get $1 ,100 for it.

I mean, if the box is in absolute perfect condition and this thing came

off the shelf, I'm sure it could go for $2 ,500, maybe even up to $3 ,000.

It's all in the packaging.

Would you do $5 ,000?

I'll do $900.

I can do $7 ,000.

$850.

I just can't do it.

$750?

I can do seven switch. You've got to do it.

I'm going to be right over there. Leave this here. We've got to do some

paperwork. Thank you.

What do you think, Corey?

Do you think your dad designed this bobble himself?

It doesn't really look like him.

No, not really, but I think they just used, like, a stock head on it and just

made it bold.

You guys look like you're working hard.

What's up with this bobble head? It doesn't even look like you.

Yeah, it does.

You know I love you, but it's a little attractive to be you.

First off, he's slender.

And?

Okay, now I see it.

I think we'll sell him. I mean, everyone wants a bobblehead of me, right?

All right, well, I'm going to try to get him to redo you.

I think my bobblehead looks good, dude.

Yeah, we really got to do something about this bobblehead.

Corey, I'm not your father.

There's a guy in the shop right now with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action

figure prototype and a sealed version graded of the same toy.

I'm asking Steve Johnson to come take a look and let me know if I should make an

offer or put this deal in the shredder.

Hey, Steve.

Hey, Chum. How's it going? Pretty good. How you doing?

How you doing? Hey.

So this gentleman has this cool collection of Ninja Turtle stuff here,

of them's a prototype, and he has the matching general release version graded.

Yeah, so it's funny that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of the most

collectible toy lines out there. The reason for it, it reminds me a lot of

a Disney character.

They can be anything.

And that's what they did with Playmates. They really took and they found

storylines for these characters to be able to be in almost any dimension, any

time. So being in the military, obviously that's right in the realm of

would expect a Ninja Turtle to do.

So the toy's graded pretty good.

85 .4 is what it says down here.

This is pretty cool and interesting. I wanted you to take a look at it.

Do you mind to play? Yeah, absolutely.

Go for it.

So Leo obviously is the leader of the Ninja Turtles. So from a collector's

standpoint, he's always collected.

Playmates is known for letting prototypes out the door.

They're also known to make more prototypes.

So it's common to see what we would call a naked prototype.

Along these lines, they're testing to make sure that everything looks good

before paint. So this is right before paint.

Very, very cool figure. Very collectible. And it's in really good

because you got to think when it's a prototype, it gets shipped around all

the office.

Oh. And so usually you see some type of like major scuffs and damage and stuff.

But overall, he looks really, really nice. So I think it's a really great

example of a prototype for the Ninja Turtles. OK.

What do you think these are worth, the graded toy and also the prototype?

So I think as a pair, $2 ,900 is a fair assessment.

I think you'd have no problem being able to sell them.

All right. Well, I appreciate you coming by. Absolutely. Thank you. Good luck.

Thank you. Appreciate you. All right. Well, after hearing everything Steve

I really want to buy it. He did value it a little less than you were asking.

Would you take like $1 ,900 for the pair?

That would be too low. I would probably drop down to $2 ,600 maybe.

I do really love it.

I could come up to maybe like $2 ,300 if you can make that work. If not, I think

that I would just have to pass today.

If he wins a $2 ,400, I think I could get it done.

All right, I think I can do $2 ,400. All right, let's do it.

I'll meet you over there, and I'll get you paid. Great.

What do we got going on here?

I got a Luke Skywalker land speeder here.

Awesome. Do you know what this is?

Oh, it's Star Wars. All right, yeah, it's pretty cool. This is like an iconic

vehicle in the movie.

This is the speeder I'm looking for.

These are pretty cool. You can imagine when it came out, this was the hottest

item for Christmas, and it was a Toys R Us exclusive.

Believe it or not, this is supposed to be able to fit two kids in it, just like

you could do in the movies.

Just the way it's designed, it has the wheels on the bottom, but they're tucked

way under it so that it actually looks like it's floating around exactly like

would in the movie.

It looks pretty beat up, but it's supposed to look that way because Luke

Skywalker didn't have any money, you know? He was willing to ride around in

whatever he could get.

The Landspeeder came out in 2017, but shortly after, Toys R Us went out of

business, and they started to liquidate all this stuff.

So you were able to actually purchase one of these for $100 to $250 at one

point. At the time of liquidation, they just wanted to get rid of everything.

Does it still work?

It still runs. I just don't have the battery charger.

All right. Well, that's probably not too hard of a thing to get.

Is it charged right now?

Yes. A light bulb is going off in my head.

How would you feel about test driving this thing?

I would love to test this out. All right. Are you okay with this beautiful

man hopping in and testing it out?

Yeah. All right.

You might have to hang your feet out of it. You're a little tall.

I think this is pretty good.

All right, so you're in high speed right here.

Oh, yeah, right here.

Yeah, it worked pretty good.

All right, pick up speed. You're going over that bump.

Oh, there we go.

I think it worked pretty good overall.

Apparently you never learn how to parallel park, but, yeah, I can imagine

one kid in there, it probably goes a little bit faster, too, and maybe the

battery needs to be charged up a little more. All right, well, you're having too

much fun. Let's get out of there.

All right.

So what are you looking to get out of this?

$250.

Um...

I got a little wear and tear in it, and there was a time when you could pick

this up for under $250 brand new. So I'm not going to be able to give you $250

for it.

Would you take $50 for it?

How about $80?

What do you think?

I think $80 will do.

I agree. I think $80 is a fair price for it. It leaves me enough room to make a

profit, and you don't have to take it home. Deal.

Jake, you want to take them to the counter and write them up? All right.

Follow Jake. All right. While I play.

I guess the force wasn't with me, but I'll take the 80 bucks.

It's better than nothing.

All right, what do we got here? I've got almost every single car that MaxWalks

put out between 1953 and 1969.

Didn't rob a toy store, did you? No, I did not. Okay.

So where did you get all this?

I've been collecting since I was young, actually.

There's roughly 1 ,000 pieces, almost 600 of them in boxes.

Matchbox is a huge company. I mean, there's a huge collector market out

for them.

Everything is pre-'70, which is considered the most collectible because

Matchbox changed their whole way of manufacturing due to Hot Wheels being

released. Most Matchbox cars are scaled -down versions of actual vehicles.

Kids went crazy for them, but then Hot Wheels came out with wilder, Hot Rod

-type cars. So to keep up, Matchbox completely transformed their line.

Now the cars from the 50s and the 60s can be worth some serious money.

This collection is without duplicates. Everything in here is different. Right.

For an example, this car here, it's a BP gas tanker. The fact that it has gray

wheels instead of black plastic wheels.

Makes us a $1 ,000 car.

Okay. Let's see.

Here I've got Team Queen Coronation Coaches. There was only 200 ever made in

1953. That will go for between $2 ,000 and $2 ,500.

I've got to admit, it's in great shape, and it's got the original box, which is

amazing. So what do you want to do with these?

I'm hoping to pawn them.

Okay. How much were you looking to get?

I'm hoping to get $20 ,000.

$20 ,000.

Okay.

I don't know enough about this stuff to just shell out $20 ,000. Right.

But my buddy Johnny will now. So let me get him down here, have him go through

all these boxes, and maybe we'll get something done.

Okay. All right, I'll be right back. Let me give him a call. Thanks.

It's really hard to put a value on a collection this big, so our buddy Johnny

stopping by to check it out.

Johnny, my man.

Hey, what's up, guys? The guys usually call me down here to take a look at some

toys or give them some more information about a piece.

What's going on? This guy wants to pawn all of his Matchbox stuff.

He's got, like, thousands of cars and pieces here, so I was hoping you could

maybe go through it for me. Yeah, no problem, man.

The Matchbox came out in the late 40s, and they were really popular because

had a lot of detail, a lot of moving parts, opening doors. There was

no competition up until 68 when Hot Wheels released their first 16.

In the Matchbox world, the boxes are everything. A lot of the value is the

condition. Most of the collectors that buy the Matchbox cars, they only want to

buy them with the boxes and everything complete.

You got the coordination coach.

They've made 200 to 300 of these pieces when they coronated Queen Elizabeth.

This is a really, really rare piece. I've seen these go for $1 ,200 to $1

You've got the BP tanker with the gray wheel. That's a $1 ,000 piece right

there. Also, you've got some of the king -size pieces here.

These can go $300 a piece.

You have some jewels in these boxes here.

This collection is amazing.

I mean, boxes, condition, rarity. It has all the factors going for it.

So what are your questions about this collection?

What's it all worth?

Everything's pretty mint.

It's a pretty complete collection. I would put a price in the collection at

,000 to $28 ,000 on the whole collection.

I'd have to disagree with that.

All right, what do you think it's worth?

I'd put it at $75 ,000 myself.

Okay, I mean, that's like top -end retail.

I would say about 10 years ago at the peak of the market, you would have

probably been closer to that number. I would say probably $28 ,000 on today's

value. Thanks, Johnny.

You're the best.

No problem, man. If this guy doesn't come back and pick up this collection, I

hope Rick gives me a call because this is the kind of stuff I love to have in

store.

All right, my man. You're looking for a $20 ,000 loan. I've got no problem

giving it to you.

$20 ,000 is a big loan. With loans like this, you've got to make sure you're

crystal clear and completely fair.

Even if that means dishing out advice, the last thing you want is some guy

claiming you weren't up front with him.

You got to understand, man, my typical loan is $100.

I strongly suggest you do not take a $20 ,000 loan.

Think of a number that you absolutely need because you got to pay me back,

And believe it or not, the more money I loan you, the more money I make. Right.

It's a 120 -day loan.

You don't pick it up. The stuff's mine.

Fair enough.

So what do you want to do?

I need the $20 ,000.

It's not what I want. It's what I need.

All right. Write them up, son.

All right, man. Deal.

Thank you.

I appreciate the fact that they attempted to lower my loan amount.

loan amount is what I was needing, and I will see them soon to retrieve my car.

How's it going?

Pretty good. How you doing? Good. I have the ultimate WWF wrestling collectible

for you. I have a Papa Shango prototype.

They call it a test shot from the toy company.

And with it looks like maybe a blueprint?

Yes, it's a blueprint.

They would do one for each of the wrestling figures.

This blueprint actually goes into depth kind of like the actions that I was

going to do. And it says right here, the boxer mechanism.

So I guess they were giving him the punch.

Right. I got my Hasbro prototype and my blueprint from a Hasbro employee.

I let them know I was the number one Papa Shango fan, and I wouldn't leave

alone until they finally made me a deal, and I could add it to my collection.

I'm hoping to get for the figurine and blueprint $2 ,500.

It's worth it.

This is cool.

I'm actually super excited to see this. I myself am a wrestling fan. I still

watch a little WWE, but WWF is my era.

So Papa Shango kind of did voodoo magic.

He did control the lights kind of like The Undertaker, so that was pretty cool.

He was doing it even before The Undertaker, right around the same time.

skull, it would smoke.

It would smoke, and then he would put wrestlers out by doing voodoo to them.

So I loved it.

But... You know, a few years after 93, the Attitude Era really started to come

in, and Papa Shango was rebranded into the Godfather. When the Godfather came

out, he blew up. Of the time period, you know, obviously you have the Stone Cold

Steve Austens and, you know, the Undertakers, and, I mean, the Godfather

right up there with these guys. He has a cult following. People love all of the

characters he did. It's kind of cool, because a lot of the time when your

character gets rebranded, it's because it wasn't working.

And somehow, he was able to rebrand every time and make it work.

I really love that about his career.

This blueprint looks to be a copy with maybe some hand -drawn corrections on

here. It's really cool, though, to see it on one large piece of paper,

everything from the WWF logo laid out. It's even showing the scale.

I absolutely love it.

What are you looking to do with this?

I'm hoping to get $2 ,500 for both. OK. I'm not sure what I'd pay for it. I

mean. I know I'd want to put it in my collection, though.

I want to research it just a bit. I also want to have someone come down and take

a look at it. If I can get some eyes on this, I can be sure that it's a

prototype. I'm going to go make a phone call.

Can you give me a few minutes, and I'll come back and let you know what's going

on? Sure, no problem. Perfect. I'll be right back. Thank you.

The train has arrived!

What's going on, chum? How you doing, my brother? Good. Good to see you as

always. Papa Shango, a .k .a. The Godfather. Nice to meet you.

Well, thanks for coming by. I have something really cool here. It is a

of Papa Shango. I think this was your first action figure.

His story is that it is a prototype, and if this was a prototype, then the man

who it's made after would have definitely seen it.

Wow.

I have only seen one of these before. There's only a handful of them, but I

haven't seen one in a long time. It is legit. It is the one. And I see you have

the prints, too.

That's impressive. That's old. They're very rare.

So what was it like around, you know, 93, 94, right here in the WWE when they

were making them? Oh, my. I was having the time of my life.

We were living like rock stars.

We were on TV three or four times a day.

The WWF at the time would have loved to kept running with that character.

But you know, it was better for me to take a break for a while. So were you

involved in the process at all, or making this? Back then, you know, you

just happy to get one. That was my first action figure.

Man, I don't even have one. Well, if I buy this, you still won't, because I'm

putting it in my collection.

Oh, Joe.

Man, it's rare.

Yeah, well, the Papa Shango figure on its own, the general release, it holds

really good value. There's a lot of money in these 90s WWE figures.

But I've seen all kinds of prototype toys.

Right. I've never seen a prototype wrestling toy.

Yeah, it's the real deal. Hard to get. I wouldn't even know what the value would

be on something like that. I've done some research on my own. I'm going to

to buy it. I'm really happy you got to come down and see it.

Oh, man, always a pleasure seeing you, my friend. Always a pleasure.

And you, good luck with that, okay? Thank you, Godfather.

Pretty cool, huh?

Awesome. All right, well, the Godfather likes it, and I like it.

I hope you don't like it more now.

I'm liking it more every minute. All right, so price is impossible to find on

this. It's kind of one of those things you're going to get what someone wants

pay for it, only if you're willing to sell it at that price. Would you go $1

,300 for both of them?

I really don't want to go that low. I really want to get $2 ,500 if I can for

both. Okay.

I would love to buy it. I think maybe $1 ,400 is the most I could pay, though.

What do you think about that? Are you just firm on your $2 ,500?

Yeah, I'm pretty firm on the $2 ,500. There's no way you could do that?

I can't right now, you know. Maybe in the future I'll try to get in contact

you and buy it for my personal collection, but today I'm going to have

Okay, I understand.

Well, thanks for bringing it in. I appreciate you, and I hope you enjoyed

meeting the Godfather.

Oh, you're very welcome. That was a great, great day for me.

All right. There you go. You can leave it with me if you want, or you can just

take it with you. I'll have to take it this time. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you,

Chimley.

What? What are you doing?

Nothing.

Playing with the train.

It's not a toy.

Yeah, it is.

It is a fine piece of machinery, and you're not going to mess with it.

I knew the second I bought this, it was just a matter of time before Chum

started messing with it.

At least tell me how it works.

You know, Chum, I'm not even going to tell you how it works because you're

to end up messing with it, and you're going to break it. How do you turn it

You just don't turn it on. You have to build up steam pressure and some other

things like that. Is that what this knob's for?

No, I'm not telling you. It's kind of hot down here. And give me my hat. It's

getting hot.

Chum plus a model train equals trouble.

Chum plus a $2 ,000 model train?

I don't even want to think about it.

Take the trash out and quit playing with it, all right?

Chum, the hat.

What hat? The hat.

Don't play with it.

Okay.