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Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 15:12
by Newswseller
Hi All
Just wondering for standard version vehicles (i.e. not german) which ones MISB or with unused contents are the hardest to track down?
For example I don't think i have seen an unused green wolverine before?
Thanks
Jonathan
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 15:56
by Coosbay_pirate
In no particular order.
MMS (picture box)
Laser Exterminator (picture box)
Z Force Jeep (picture box)
Green Wolverine
Shadow Trak (picture box)
Attack Canon (picture box)
Hyena V2
Boat Patrol (picture box)
ATC (AF version)
Hyena (alternate photo box)
Silent Attack with Recondo
Sat Defence (picture box)
Swordfish (picture box)
Lucky to get some of these loose in box ...
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 17:01
by Newswseller
Thanks, did you mean something else when you said : Swordfish (picture box)?
Funny how they are all the picture box versions? you would think with them being later releases they would be the ones with plenty of overstock..
I've seen about 4 laser exterminators with the picture boxes unused on ebay over the past year, so didnt realise they were that rare! one sold for as little as £80
Does anyone have a green wolverine then? that won is my personal grail, as was my favorite toy when i was a nipper.
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 17:44
by The Kraken Wakes
Newswseller wrote:Thanks, did you mean something else when you said : Swordfish (picture box)?
Funny how they are all the picture box versions? you would think with them being later releases they would be the ones with plenty of overstock..
I've seen about 4 laser exterminators with the picture boxes unused on ebay over the past year, so didnt realise they were that rare! one sold for as little as £80
Does anyone have a green wolverine then? that won is my personal grail, as was my favorite toy when i was a nipper.
I have lovely mint one. Box that is, nothing in it.
Id possibly exclude this from the list, they pop up pretty often around Europe, ive had three or four pass through my hands - Attack Canon (picture box)
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 18:40
by paul463
The swordfish only came in a picture box.
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 19:55
by The Baron
There's been absolutely no sign of a 1985

Commmand Centre. I suspect they were all

overstock. There was one photo in a catalogue with

and

in place of

and

, but I've yet to see a variant instructions sheet or box.
Yes, we've only ever seen a carded, red Q logo Swordfish box. As the rest of the 1983 range switched from windowed to carded boxes in 1984, logic says that there should have been a window box yellow Q logo 1983 release, but none have been found.
I've also never seen a carded 1984 Cosmic Cruiser box.
The only box that doesn't fit the theme is the Z Force Battle Tank, carded with a window for the figure only. I'm fairly certain that it was the same for both 1983 and 1984.
I think the card box

Boat Patrol is the rarest. I know of three, we're very lucky to have decent pics for the archives and guidebook.
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 20:42
by Coosbay_pirate
I meant Stingray
Laser Exterminator picture box is rare yes.
I've a Green Wolverine box, not MIB, no insert but a box at least.
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 22:41
by England Joe
There is a laser exterminator with a photo on the box of a red shadow sitting in the seat on eBay in the USA.
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 23:03
by The Kraken Wakes
England Joe wrote:There is a laser exterminator with a photo on the box of a red shadow sitting in the seat on eBay in the USA.
Thats the one with the really really battered box i think. Nice price for what it is.
Re: Rare unused boxed items..
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 23:17
by Newswseller
That auction has got the wrong figure though, it's still meant to come With red laser even though it has a picture of red shadow on the box