This was legit one of the nost insane things I've ever witnessed. Serious roller coaster ride. And also scary to know how easy it is to fake a "sealed" boxed toy like this.
Yeah, you are basically paying for the sealing tape to be in mint condition. Now if you are gonna open it so you are guaranteed an absolute mint condition toy then maybe I could understand it.
FYI, you don't have to cut the glue to open it. Mattel used an industrial hot glue (EVA), which is higher temp than your normal home hot glue (LDPE). You can heat up the box and the glue will resoften. Initially it will pull open with the glue looking like taffty. But heat it a little more and it will just come open easily. It requires the glue to hit a temp around 350F uniformly. Home hot glue melts around 250F. The problem is after the box is open and you do what you need, you have to heat it again to reseal it. And you have to be really careful to not damaged the contents with heat. A large hotplate that just heats the flap without burning the cardboard is your best bet to not damage contents (compared to an oven). The outer printed layer on your box will discolor (turn brown) from the heat at around 390F, so you have to be very careful. Better to use a lower temp (exactly 350) and longer duration to heat, vs higher temp and shorter heating cycle. 80's Mattel Barbies used the same glue to seal the boxes. So it might be something cheaper for you to practice the technique on. Its also good because the cardboard is thinner, so you have to be more gentle not to crease. If you perfect the technique with Barbie, no problem with something like a Grayskull or Slime Pit. The bad news is that means there is a method to open any "factory sealed" Mattel glued flap, and then reseal it with the same original glue that is on the box! The good news is that if someone resealed with a moden chemical glue and not a heat glue, you will know it because even under heat, if won't open. So you can easily test for inauthentic resealing. Or if they used something like a common home hot glue it will be easily detectable when open. Factory sealed is an illusion... and you pay for that illusion.
It's both sad and relieving at the same time. While I'm glad they didn't ruin the value of a very vintage toy It's sad how much money they lost paying for it
I don't know why I am crying, I had that as a 5 year old boy. My Mom and my Aunts and Uncles bought that for me. I was told this was the only gift I was getting. The art, the pieces I can remember laying on the floor slowly putting it together shaking cause I was so Excited. Glad my Mom put on the stickers for me. Ahhh that Red back print !!! Thank you for showing this!
I still remember opening mine from when I was a kid. It was either Christmas 82 or 83. I love to be able to do something like that now a days. Maybe when I'm rich!!!??
Same here!!!....Xmas morning of 83 i think ....me and my brother woke up to Masters of the Universe Castle Grayskull and the wave of first figures! I never forgot that day!
Unreal what people will do .. I’ve been rebuilding my collection and just got a carded Kobra Kahn and boxed road ripper. Also got Scare Glow for Christmas
HELL THE F*CK YEAH - YES yes I know it's just a toy but yet having the $$$$ and 'trust' of this be in authentically unopened condition just snatched and lost like that... :-P
😮wow.. I was soo looking forward to seeing the castle come out of that box just how it looked in the 80’s. But a part of me was like.. what it’s a frickin re-seal 😩😩
Makes you wonder just how many people have items like this in boxes in their collection that they still think is factory sealed and have been totally burned like this and it goes to show the massive risk you can take putting money on the table for it , i really feel for that guy you can see as he walks away how badly that hurt ...
First Narc & the attic hunters then Ed’s Retro then Toy Fed and now here! Dan is all over all my favorite RUclips channels lol of course he was one of the first I ever started watching. Now if I see Froggy Flips here or meet up with Dan lol
I've watched tonnes of horror movies, they're not scary to me.... But this is way tense.... I'm stressed and biting my nails watching it, till I comically fell down after I see the condition of it..... Lol
I was so blown away that it was a fraud, but it a good video to show that this can happen . So when buying what seems to be to good still need to examine it closely.
While it's disappointing that it's not an actual vintage sealed castle grayskull, on the vright side at list you didn't destroy the value of an actual sealed one. Also you didn't have to see Pixel Dan suffer a mental breakdown over seeing something so horrifying
@@eterniadreams This outcome was not at all what I expected, but I was certainly not the only one... 🤣 ….what a plot twist! If this had happened to me, I don't know if I would have reacted so calmly. Looking forward to your next video! 👊🤓
I remember my Castle Grayskull growing up, it was worth between $25-$30 in 1983. I remember my next store neighbor Mark Olivas next store neighbor on 4634 West 141 st Street Hawthorne CA 90250 had a Castle Greyskull in his garage in the early 1980's. Your Brother-in-Christ Stephen Perry
Castle Greyskull was most often $24.99 brand new off the shelves in 1982. Some stores might have sold it for a little more. I remember in the early to mid 90s you could find a Castle Greyskull at flea markets for $10 dollars. Now, loose complete and mint for for a few hundred. A sealed box one for thousands. It's crazy.
that is beyond criminal forcing someone to pay out huge amounts in hopes they never unseal it and then when you do it just flop packed up and resealed I hope you find were it came from and get back that money. A very sad event for all those fans.
I'm mostly a sealed, in-box collector so this was tough to watch. It's sad that even in the collector community there will always be those who will take advantage of others just to make a buck and another reason why window packaging is so important.
Wow that was unbelievable, one minute thinking that it was still factory sealed. Then being nothing more than resealed by a truly scummy person, who in turn pressured the vendor into buying it. Hopefully karma or consequences of their actions catch up with them.
Any date on the newspaper? This really makes me re-think the notion of getting anything sealed. It's not worth it. It needs to be complete. And I have had instances with Lego sets that were sealed, then we opened it up, and pieces were missing.
Oof, what a loss. Hopefully everything turns out as well as it can. I think stuff like this is why I never dabbled with sealed things in my long tenure as a hobbyist and collector.
That's just flat out Dirty. If you open the box and it's Used say so. Don't rip someone off. Saying it's sealed in box. Then opening it and finding it in that condition. Errrr someone is just wrong for that.
The question is where in the chain of ownership does this shit happen? Makes me scared to own anything sealed cause if I ever resell it I don't want someone pointing the finger at me.
I would never spend that much on a childhood memory an even if I did an did open it an found out it was already opened not complete an in that condition I’d be going to jail an someone else would be going in the ground
Yeah, I'm not going to blame the victim, but c'mon man. There HAS to be some kind of way to establish if it's sealed proper or not. What do the people who grade and certify use? We know that there are scummy people out there and people fake things all the time when money can be made.
@@eterniadreams on another site didn't you post it on your other platforms I know someone did I saw it I knew this happened over a week ago. I even showed my mother last week the video so I know I'm not making that up. Unless this is the 2nd time now this has happened recently. I read the comments people saying weeks ago check the newspaper what State etc to find the person who did it. Someone who recorded it posted it before this if you didn't that I can tell you because I've seen it just not on here.
This was legit one of the nost insane things I've ever witnessed. Serious roller coaster ride. And also scary to know how easy it is to fake a "sealed" boxed toy like this.
So glad you were a part of it with us though!
I know right Just re glue everything. could get scammed that way. Have to be careful with people now these days.
Super upset 😡
@@maribelbecerra3774 This was hard to watch!
Almost smashed my phone!!!!
Imagine how many of us are looking at a "sealed box" right now and sweating with a blade in our hand........
This happens in the whiskey world too, except its full of tea.. Collectors have pretty much agreed to never open anything to preserve the price.
It would be cool if grading companies could x-ray boxes to guarantee authenticity
Some can
A perfect example as to why sealed collecting is silly. How many items that are entombed in acrylic and graded are like this?
Yeah, you are basically paying for the sealing tape to be in mint condition. Now if you are gonna open it so you are guaranteed an absolute mint condition toy then maybe I could understand it.
That was his plan
Wow! That sucks . Caught me by surprise watching . Great video!
Caught us by surprise!!
Dan has opened up tons of new toys but seeing his reactions is priceless
Haha. Right!?
Is there an update to what happened after this?
PixelDan showed his media acumen when he asks is it going to be good for the video. It definitely was, and I subbed to your channel because of it. 🙂
Thanks for the sub!
FYI, you don't have to cut the glue to open it. Mattel used an industrial hot glue (EVA), which is higher temp than your normal home hot glue (LDPE). You can heat up the box and the glue will resoften. Initially it will pull open with the glue looking like taffty. But heat it a little more and it will just come open easily. It requires the glue to hit a temp around 350F uniformly. Home hot glue melts around 250F.
The problem is after the box is open and you do what you need, you have to heat it again to reseal it. And you have to be really careful to not damaged the contents with heat. A large hotplate that just heats the flap without burning the cardboard is your best bet to not damage contents (compared to an oven). The outer printed layer on your box will discolor (turn brown) from the heat at around 390F, so you have to be very careful. Better to use a lower temp (exactly 350) and longer duration to heat, vs higher temp and shorter heating cycle.
80's Mattel Barbies used the same glue to seal the boxes. So it might be something cheaper for you to practice the technique on. Its also good because the cardboard is thinner, so you have to be more gentle not to crease. If you perfect the technique with Barbie, no problem with something like a Grayskull or Slime Pit.
The bad news is that means there is a method to open any "factory sealed" Mattel glued flap, and then reseal it with the same original glue that is on the box! The good news is that if someone resealed with a moden chemical glue and not a heat glue, you will know it because even under heat, if won't open. So you can easily test for inauthentic resealing. Or if they used something like a common home hot glue it will be easily detectable when open.
Factory sealed is an illusion... and you pay for that illusion.
It's both sad and relieving at the same time. While I'm glad they didn't ruin the value of a very vintage toy It's sad how much money they lost paying for it
Shrödinger’s Castle Greyskull
Underrated comment.
I don't know why I am crying, I had that as a 5 year old boy. My Mom and my Aunts and Uncles bought that for me. I was told this was the only gift I was getting. The art, the pieces I can remember laying on the floor slowly putting it together shaking cause I was so Excited. Glad my Mom put on the stickers for me. Ahhh that Red back print !!! Thank you for showing this!
Great story!
I like this story, thanks for sharing it. God bless you 🙏
I still remember opening mine from when I was a kid. It was either Christmas 82 or 83. I love to be able to do something like that now a days. Maybe when I'm rich!!!??
Same here!!!....Xmas morning of 83 i think ....me and my brother woke up to Masters of the Universe Castle Grayskull and the wave of first figures! I never forgot that day!
Christmas 1985 I got Greyskull, Snake Mountain, and about a dozen MOTU figures. Best Christmas ever!!
Unreal what people will do .. I’ve been rebuilding my collection and just got a carded Kobra Kahn and boxed road ripper. Also got Scare Glow for Christmas
Realllyy excited for this one!
What did you think?
Would you be upset?
HELL THE F*CK YEAH - YES yes I know it's just a toy but yet having the $$$$ and 'trust' of this be in authentically unopened condition just snatched and lost like that... :-P
Hell yeah man, that’s crazy and yeah I’m reeled in lol. Had to see if it was atleast some what complete still 🤷🏻♂️😂
Ooof.
Damn that's fucking criminal, hopefully all resolves itself damn that's a kick in the gut. Great video all the same guys
I would be heartbroken
so what was the date in the newspapers inside???
January of 2023.
@@vengeance1701 thanks!
Great video....AND with pixel dan!!!!😊
Thanks 😁
😮wow.. I was soo looking forward to seeing the castle come out of that box just how it looked in the 80’s. But a part of me was like.. what it’s a frickin re-seal 😩😩
Us too!
Makes you wonder just how many people have items like this in boxes in their collection that they still think is factory sealed and have been totally burned like this and it goes to show the massive risk you can take putting money on the table for it , i really feel for that guy you can see as he walks away how badly that hurt ...
Yea, it’s a cautionary tale for sure!
There are probably a lot of people who have stuff like this, not knowing that they got burned bad.
Well this confirms I will never pay for anything "sealed" in a box.
What’s the dates on the newspaper.? Would be cool to see when it was re-packed
Jan 2023
@@eterniadreams😮😮😮
First Narc & the attic hunters then Ed’s Retro then Toy Fed and now here! Dan is all over all my favorite RUclips channels lol of course he was one of the first I ever started watching. Now if I see Froggy Flips here or meet up with Dan lol
I guess the seller accounts on the fact that you wouldn’t have opened it in the end.
Absolutely insane. That's always the fear when I see valuable vtg sealed. I sometimes wonder if it's really even in there. Sucks
Gotta open it all!
Imagine finding out in 10 years. Or never.
Always one of the highlights of my week
So glad to hear that! Let us know what you think!
Is there a difference between the vintage Castle Grayskull and the modern ones that have come out?
Yes
Loved the video, one of my favorites for sure
Glad you enjoyed it!
Need an investigation to find out who in possession of it back in January (the date of the newspaper)
New series for the channel?! Hunting him down!? haha
I got this on my birthday, it was all set up to go. My dad (god rest his soul) went through the winter with only a summer jacket to get me it 😢
i wonder how many sealed graded vintage toys are like this in the world kinda scary
Bet a bunch dudes got em in acrylics scared to open😅
The date of the news paper says it all 😂
Cool collection ❤😊
Crazy to see that!
Isn’t it?!
It just makes you think how many of those graded sealed toys are legit.
Did the buyer manage to get his money back?
Stay tuned for future episodes!
I've watched tonnes of horror movies, they're not scary to me.... But this is way tense.... I'm stressed and biting my nails watching it, till I comically fell down after I see the condition of it..... Lol
Haha. Yea?
When he said he was cutting across the cardboard pixle dan looked like he was about to throw them hands boy😂
Did you watch the follow up video?
@@eterniadreams yes I did
I was so blown away that it was a fraud, but it a good video to show that this can happen . So when buying what seems to be to good still need to examine it closely.
Yea. Very informative we think.
The best part of watching stuff like this is the education you gain. I appreciate you taking the L so others may learn!
You’re welcome
nice box
Very nice box
That sucks so bad!! Wow!!
While it's disappointing that it's not an actual vintage sealed castle grayskull, on the vright side at list you didn't destroy the value of an actual sealed one. Also you didn't have to see Pixel Dan suffer a mental breakdown over seeing something so horrifying
Was it graded? Or did I mishear?
He bought it sealed so that he could open it to grade it loose.
I am not even into motu… just love the content! 👊🤓
That's fantastic! So glad you're hear! Let us know what you think of this episode!
@@eterniadreams This outcome was not at all what I expected, but I was certainly not the only one... 🤣 ….what a plot twist! If this had happened to me, I don't know if I would have reacted so calmly. Looking forward to your next video! 👊🤓
I remember my Castle Grayskull growing up, it was worth between $25-$30 in 1983. I remember my next store neighbor Mark Olivas next store neighbor on 4634 West 141 st Street Hawthorne CA 90250 had a Castle Greyskull in his garage in the early 1980's. Your Brother-in-Christ Stephen Perry
Castle Greyskull was most often $24.99 brand new off the shelves in 1982. Some stores might have sold it for a little more. I remember in the early to mid 90s you could find a Castle Greyskull at flea markets for $10 dollars. Now, loose complete and mint for for a few hundred. A sealed box one for thousands. It's crazy.
Amen
that is beyond criminal forcing someone to pay out huge amounts in hopes they never unseal it and then when you do it just flop packed up and resealed I hope you find were it came from and get back that money. A very sad event for all those fans.
That really sucks man.. Im glad I watched the video before reading the comments too! What a twist ending.. lol..
Damn thats terrible! I have a sealed greyskull that I bought pre-pandemic and now I'm worried!
You should be!
@@eterniadreams😂😂😂
I'm mostly a sealed, in-box collector so this was tough to watch. It's sad that even in the collector community there will always be those who will take advantage of others just to make a buck and another reason why window packaging is so important.
Yep!
AFA or other?
This is criminal fraud
This is why i buy feom Eternia Dreams. I know what im getting
Oh wow! Thank you!
I watched this live and was heartbroken. Did the buyer end up getting a refund?
Stay tuned to future episodes!
Wow that was unbelievable, one minute thinking that it was still factory sealed. Then being nothing more than resealed by a truly scummy person, who in turn pressured the vendor into buying it. Hopefully karma or consequences of their actions catch up with them.
Karma is coming
Any date on the newspaper? This really makes me re-think the notion of getting anything sealed. It's not worth it. It needs to be complete. And I have had instances with Lego sets that were sealed, then we opened it up, and pieces were missing.
He read it out: January 2023
That sucks and the main reason I like having windows on figures
Yep!
That sucks. Feel so bad for guy who forked over 3k. I’d feel bad laughing even though you guys were not trying to be shitty.
Dan, really hoping for a follow up where the guy gets his money back.
What idiot waste 3000 on this?
That sucks! I hate that for you guys. Of course, I was eyeing the Blackstar Ice Castle. Hope that’s not the same way. 😱
Watching the whole village opening a 3 thousand bucks toy while I'm eating 4 thousand dlls prosciutto from Spain. This kiddos. 😂
Oof, what a loss. Hopefully everything turns out as well as it can. I think stuff like this is why I never dabbled with sealed things in my long tenure as a hobbyist and collector.
Yea.
So if your scam is to sell a falsely sealed toy, why even bother actually putting the toy in the box?
Adequate weight distribution. A brick would probably be too obvious. Lol.
That’s why I always unboxed my stuff you can have newspaper thinking, is castle many years later open it in his newspapers 😂😂😂😂😂
Unbox for life!
Ill take the box....
Did you watch the follow up?
OMG bin sprachlos .Das war jetzt aber gemein. Hoffe das konnte sich regeln und die Knete ist nicht ganz verloren.
Damn, that sucks. Good news, it wasn't sealed, so the pain is minimized.
Did you watch the follow up?
WTF! I'd be pissed!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 got him
Unscrupulous people suck…
Eternia Broken Dreams
Ha! Should we change our name!?
This was so heartbreaking 😢
Wasn’t it!?
Wtf wow... That's sucks now i have to open every box before i buy any😂
Unbox Everything!
Man i shit u not bought a 2021 tmnt party wagon and when i saw ur video i opened the damn box the toy in the box is from 2013 the box is 2021 smh
@@manuelescovedo1457Oh man...
That's just flat out Dirty. If you open the box and it's Used say so. Don't rip someone off. Saying it's sealed in box. Then opening it and finding it in that condition. Errrr someone is just wrong for that.
Yea really crappy
The question is where in the chain of ownership does this shit happen? Makes me scared to own anything sealed cause if I ever resell it I don't want someone pointing the finger at me.
Yep. Don’t buy to resell. Buy because you want it and open it up!
Luckily I collect loose primarily, but I got a Macho Man statue upstairs that this makes me scared as hell may not even be in the box.
Open it up!
@@eterniadreams maybe I need to do a video... 👀
@@theonslaughtyeah open it
OUCH!!
Why even include the castle inside it at that point? If it's a scam, just put weight in it
Wow man ! Bummer but goes to show ya Some peeps can really be... Well You know
Yep!
Sorry guys that happend and was a great video...Subscribed now@@eterniadreams
So did he get his money back??
Stay tuned! More to come in following episodes
One less this fresh in the world.😞 This is a lesson,It wasn’t meant to be!🙂Box is really nice though!
Doh!
Whatever happened with this, was he able to get his money back?
Our next few videos follow us at Retro Toy Con where this happened. So you’ll soon see what happened!
I would never spend that much on a childhood memory an even if I did an did open it an found out it was already opened not complete an in that condition I’d be going to jail an someone else would be going in the ground
When the owner walked out it broke my heart.. the fact you folks are laughing and joking about Is disrespectful m
He was laughing too
Wow… talk about one of your all time screw jobs. That original seller should be taken out back to the wood shed and whooped. 😩😩
it feels bad the guys who bought it....
Yeah, I'm not going to blame the victim, but c'mon man. There HAS to be some kind of way to establish if it's sealed proper or not. What do the people who grade and certify use? We know that there are scummy people out there and people fake things all the time when money can be made.
Ahh Man. I feel so sorry for the Guy. That really sucks. Shame on Whoever did this.😡🌩⚡
He's in good spirits now!
@@eterniadreams The spirit of Castle Grayskull? That's good to hear.
This is the toy equivalent of 9/11.
Seen this video last week
How?
@@eterniadreams on another site didn't you post it on your other platforms I know someone did I saw it I knew this happened over a week ago. I even showed my mother last week the video so I know I'm not making that up. Unless this is the 2nd time now this has happened recently. I read the comments people saying weeks ago check the newspaper what State etc to find the person who did it. Someone who recorded it posted it before this if you didn't that I can tell you because I've seen it just not on here.
This should be illegal
Wow that's horrible 😮
Good video, sucks and all but its a big deal to show when things dont go as planned.
Yea. Definitely a cautionary tale!
got me
Got you?
also thought is was sealed@@eterniadreams
Ah. Yea. Got us too
😮😮
Sad.. payin that much for a sh*tty one.
Sad.....😢
Very
I just threw up lol
Us too!
Funny
Funny?
If you can’t laugh about it, you’d cry
True
God, people suck...
Sometimes