Take a walk down memory lane.
Excuse the mess.
MIKE WOLFE: Oh, this isn't messy for us.
FRANK FRITZ: Uh-uh. - These are what I really like.
- Do you? - Oh, yeah.
This is the largest collection of Marx toys on display
anywhere in the world.
Collecting toys is a fever.
I hope there's no cure.
MIKE WOLFE: There's, like, so much stuff to see in here.
I love it.
You know you're getting older when
the toys that you played with as a kid
are now considered antiques.
So Francis, is everything I'm looking at here for sale?
A lot of stuff is for sale.
Here's a really nice toy.
This one was made in Great Britain.
You don't see too many march toys made in Great Britain.
FRANK FRITZ: A lot of these toys I've had, or still have.
But the Goofy toy--
I don't have this one.
Missing one ear, though.
FRANK FRITZ: It is missing one ear.
But the ears are made out of rubber.
You can make them and put it back in.
Or you can just leave it the way it is.
Does it work?
Oh, oh, oh.
It's kind of a funny toy with his legs going everywhere.
FRANK FRITZ: That is so cool.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Kind of reminds me of my wife going
around in circles all the time.
FRANK FRITZ: [laughs] Is this something you would sell?
Yeah, I would sell--
$475.
It's in great condition.
And what the seller is is when Frances bombed it up
and it did the full circle right in front of me.
He had me at the first lap.
How about $450?
$450?
- We're so close. - So close.
I can do it. - $450?
- $450. - All right.
It's not scuffed up.
It's in great condition.
It works.
I think it's worth at least $700.
What about the Buck Rogers one?
Buck Rogers was a pulp fiction hero from the 1920s
that traveled through space.
He started out in books.
Then he went to comic strips, then he went to the radio,
then he went to television and video.
He's been around for generations.
So naturally, Marx licensed the character to make toys.
What I liked about these is, you know,
they have flints inside of them.
And what would happen is when you wound them up,
it would have shot sparks out the back.
Flint would come out and take your nog off.
Something like that.
Yeah, I don't need the thing hitting me in the eyes.
Kids toys today are digital.
Whatever they're doing, they're not actually doing
it, because it's on a screen.
These toys are cool because you had to have an imagination--
flying that through the air, you know,
winding it up, seeing the sparks shoot out.
That was a big deal back then.
[toys clatter]
- Ah, hear that? - I know.
That's good. I like that.
I like that sound.
FRANCIS TURNER: Very high quality toys.
They still run, just like they did
back then when they made them.
These toys are going to be running 60, 80 years from now.
FRANK FRITZ: Which one is rarer?
I would think this would be the earlier one.
FRANK FRITZ: Now, both of them have some condition problems,
but they're still very collectible.
One's made in the '30s, one's made in the early '40s.
Just to see a toy that's 80 years
old, that it still exists--
these are the kind of toys you just can't find anymore.
What would you have to have on this one?
This one's a little--
it's got a little damage on it here.
It's been played with on here, you know.
- Yeah. $450. - $450.
What would you do if I bought both of them?
$900?
Ooh, that's not two-- that's still another $450.
I mean, if they were mint in the box--
yeah, then we'd be talking $500, $600.
But the way the condition they are,
I've got to get them for a cheaper price.
Let's do like $650 or so. - $650?
Yeah.
No, no.
We couldn't do $650.
How about $700?
MIKE WOLFE: When you're very little,
you want to show off your toys.
You bring them over to your friend's house,
and you guys play with each other's toys.
And you might even do some trading.
And that's where you learn to deal.
$775-- they're yours.
$725.
So when Francis and Frank are going at it--
$750.
It just reminded me of that.
- $735. - OK.
- All right. - I'll do it.
OK.
It was awesome to see little Frankie in his element
with Francis.
Francis, what can you tell me about the Charlie McCarthy?
This reminds me of my first girlfriend.
FRANK FRITZ: It's a nice example of a Marx toy.
How about $100 and a half?
FRANCIS TURNER: I can do it.
All right, you got it.
What can we do on the car here?
It's in really great condition.
It works.
When the bumper hits on the front, the heads pop up.
How about $1,200?
Make it $1,250 and it's yours.
I mean, I don't come across this stuff.
I think I can get $1,500 to maybe $1,800 out of it
to the right guy.
And now, these toys you've got here--
these are the same concept as Charles McCarthy.
- Yeah. - It has the same motor.
Probably the same guy cast the same stamping and everything.
It's just with different comic characters.
What would you have to have for these three characters?
You have B.O. Plenty, which came from Dick Tracy.
FRANCIS TURNER: With a nose like that, that has to be Pinocchio.
That's no lie.
Then you have Dopey, one of the seven dwarfs.
Like, I could do maybe $675, and I
think that would be the best.
You got a deal.
This place is getting me junk drunk.