what do we have here I have here my
antique space explorer toy cool this is
a Marc's 10 toy slowly through the years
there's been like this massive collector
community for things like this
especially to find one of these things
in great shape this is something little
boys played with and you know how little
boys are we destroy everything I still
do sometimes it's an awesome piece
I love the litho it runs it does
everything the toys supposed to do I'm
hoping for $3,000 today the antique toy
is worth so much because of its rarity I
cannot find anything on this piece and I
have tried to look everywhere this is
pretty damn cool you know much about the
Marx toy company not too much no they
were literally like the biggest toy
company in the world they've been around
since the 1920s they were like the first
guys gonna like Japan and Hong Kong and
start making the stamped out metal toys
this was like the early Japanese stuff
right after World War 2 right if you
look at pictures of Japan right after
World War 2 just about everything was
bombed out and they were looking for you
know being able to manufacture things
with what they had left and inexpensive
toys made that a sheet metal was their
thing after World War two one of the
things the Japanese manufacturing base
made was inexpensive metal toys and
quite frankly the quality was pretty bad
so they didn't last long
so it's absolutely amazing to see one of
this kind of shape so how much you want
for it well I looked all over the place
for this and I found in an old toy
magazine where it was listed for $5,500
now that's with the box of course but I
figured 3000 would be a good price to
ask for okay
this is what the Holy Grails this is one
of the big ones and this looks like it's
beat up a little bit this incredible
shape I really like my friend to come
down and take a look at it gave me a
better idea of a price okay so my
buddy's not around I think I know enough
about this thing when you saw price 450
500 that is with the box right and I'm
just telling you that's a hundred times
more rare especially for a toy like this
I'll give you a thousand bucks for it
you know even when it comes to toys
comes to anything like this condition is
everything
mm-hmm okay it's an incredible shape
I'll give you that but it's definitely
not perfect right
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17:50 no I'll give you 1,200 bucks I
have to resell this thing right
they are very collectible but maybe one
out of twenty thousand people collect
old sheet metal toys and then you gotta
find someone willing to pull that kind
of money out of their pocket would you
do 1,300 let me do 1250 sure all right
all right thanks man I'll meet you right
over there and we'll just paperwork okay
thanks I think I do enough about this
toy to make a good deal like I always
say a little bit of knowledge can be a
really dangerous thing so I'm gonna
bring it down to Johnny just to ease my
mind Hey look what I bought oh sweet man
Oh lime our toy uh-huh it's all there
it's in really good shape Wow
every time you come with something
better and better these are part of pop
culture in the 50s and 60s you know
every little kid would have been exposed
to that on the news with the space race
going on so you know kids had ray guns
and then they had tin robots and then of
course little space vehicles this is
part of pop culture from back to him
so I tried to call you come down the
shop but you weren't there so I bought
it I think I made a good deal on it and
they just wanted to see what you thought
it was work cool well let me take a
closer look in the collector world these
are enormous ly popular collectors go
nuts for these and this is definitely
you know up there as far as some of the
rarer tin toys from that era all of the
colors are really bright and look at the
red on the astronaut the nose is clean
what I like the most about this this is
a friction toy so I mean young boys
would have just been revving it up all
day long and that whole bottom surface
is just gorgeous so what'd you pay for
this 1250 if I lose money it's your
fault you weren't here well let me tell
you something man I mean with the
condition that's a sin you could sell
this easily for 2,500 cool man
so you'll do well with this expense all
right it's really risky for Rick to buy
a toy without me seeing it but Rick
definitely did a great Buy it's super
rare and condition was great he should
have no problem selling it in the shop
you