For all calling this fake. I would also if it didn’t happen to me. I wish I video more. I was just going to throw the video on twitter but then decided the make a YT out of it. A dumb dumb mistake that I can’t believe I made. All I can say it the figure was there when I walked in. Can’t say how it got there, how it was found. It’s hard to believe I know. Maybe I got a big prank played on me. Seems hard to believe also. Believe it not. Doesn’t matter in the end. All I can add is it was there when I walked in. Also if you look at my other videos. I don’t do things just for views or do anything fake. I don’t think. Thanks
I can see this happening. If they are moving racks, clearing out boxes in the back or just breaking down old shelves stuff falls behind or a collector hid it years ago and someone found it. If it was BS I don't think the UPC code would have scanned. I remember when K-mart went out in Daytona some really odd stuff was on the floor for sale.
Total BS the figure in 1983-84 was originally less than $3 $.2.99 on Toyworth. What you did was scan a newer figure that was priced at $8.99 and reduced to $3.49 according to your video and said it was the vintage planted figure. I had these original figures and they were no more than $3 at the stores. So I say this take that figure to a Kmart or Walmart, Target or a Toys R Us and actually video you scanning that figure or quit deceiving people for views. I am willing to bet it will not show in their system or even be able to be scanned.
Don't worry, man. The majority of the people who watch your videos are fans of yours, and that means that we've been following your videos and Twitter feed and podcast for awhile. And that means that we know your track record of being a straight-forward and honest guy. I can't think of one instance where I thought you were embellishing or sensationalizing anything. It's really not that hard to imagine that a toy would have fallen behind the rack in the storage room of a crappy Kmart store, and it laid on the floor back there behind the bottom rack for a few decades until the crappy Kmart store finally started to completely clean out the back room because they were closing up. Anyway, great story, and great video as always!
In 1991 I was in Toys R Us desperately looking for star wars toys because I was a huge fan. My mom explained that the stores didn’t carry them anymore but I couldn’t be dissuaded. I ended up finding a Return of the Jedi Desert Sail Skiff mini rig on the bottom of the rack, covered in GI Joe figures or whatever had fallen off the pegs. It was a victory I have never forgotten!
A lot of vintage Star Wars figure turn up when store management moves aisle fixtures. Merchandise falls behind or under figures all the time. Often, these valuable collectibles are no longer “in the system.” Someone from the back room usually assigns the UPC to a generic description.
This is a cool find. Back in 2013 in Wal-mart I found a 1999 Darth Maul hologram figure with holoprojector and I was so confused as to how it could still be in a store.
The last vintage kenner Star Wars toy I bought at the store was at Sears in Hawaii right before Christmas in 1988. It was $0.50 and it was the the Rancor Keeper.
That's crazy!!! I remember my K-Mart in the 80s having a huge isle that was covered in hundreds of figures and playsets, vehicles. It closed down about 3 years ago. I bet anything there was something hidden in the back from back then. I saw a video of a guy that worked at a K-Mart that was closing down and they found a vintage figure under some stuff in the back and they gave it to him because they knew how much he loved collecting SW figures. Man, junkman we gotta find that time machine.
I found Ewok & Star Wars comics at a liquor store in a 1 road town in the 90's. They'd probably been there 20 years given the layer of dust on them. These things turn up some times :) Cool find you had there
This is fake. If you believe this you are extremely gullible. He doesn't even show the figure being scanned. Makes it a point to keep it out of the camera range. Why would it be hung near little kids toys. Smells bad, looks bad. Haha
I found a store when I was visiting Denmark that was FULL of original 80's toys in their original packages selling for the original retail price. Transformers, GI Joes, Lego, etc. I loaded up on Transformers - filled 2 suit cases full of them. I still have them to this day and they are very rare!
Its crazy whats out their. There is a vid I saw on youtube of some rich guy who owned warehouses I think in California where he just kept all Vintage toys. We are talking new old stock in tonage here. The guys in the vid played a game of pool at the end to decide the price on the toys that they picked from the warehouse. They played the game of pool in the actual warehouse as the guy who owned it sort of made it into a part man cave. Cool ASF.
Most of my ROJ figures came from Kmart in 83. I still recall seeing the Gamorean Guard, the red Royal Guard, and Jedi Luke with the green saber on the rack for the first time.
Not unheard of. The local supermarket White's Regal still had Charlie's Angels figures and Planet of the Apes board games into the 1990s. My cousins had the Star Wars board game on the shelf of their grocery store's toy aisle into the 1990s before they sold the shop.
Agree. I wouldn’t believe it if someone else posted it. So not going to defend it. All I can say is it happen. Maybe someone did it a joke on me, maybe I got lucky. All I know is it was there. Do wish I video it more. It was in shock and was going to throw it up Just on Twitter. Then decided after the fact to no a YT video. Dumb dumb me for not planning it out. Believe Me if I was faking it I would have filmed a lot more. But understand anyone that doesn’t believe this. I get way
Well in any case I appreciate your reply. I remember being at TRU in the early 90s and they still had a small selection of ROTJ figures (the first POTF line didn't come to Canada). They were selling for about $2 but I only bought a couple because by then SW wasn't cool anymore LOL
Hey guess what I found a 41 back Yoda hanging at a Shell gas station just the other day myself then I drove my flying pig all the way home and told everyone
For those calling this video fake, shame on you. This stuff does happen. I've worked retail for more than 20 years now and where I've worked we've found toys in the back and out on the salesfloor that were being sold over 20 years ago. those toys aren't even in the system anymore. well they kind of are but they don't register a price. I don't know how many Marvel, Star Wars, Gi Joe when they got rereleased, and Lego sets from the past suddenly show up in boxes that were misplaced, fell behind shelves or were hidden. but it happens.
Awesome find, A couple years ago I went to a K-mart in my town to get the Jodo Kast figure in 2010 and seen they had a bunch of 90's POTF figures but not vintage figures.
Not sure how true or not this is. Given the circumstances of stores closing that have been open for years, I have worked in storage rooms in the back of brand stores and sometimes they have shit forgotten since before time. But 35 year old toys seem like a stretch. But anything is possible.
Obviously fake. You don't even show the toy itself being scanned...the scanner just says "star wars figure boxed", it could be any figure. I can't believe anyone would fall for this
Yeah so fake, no store in the World has 80:s star wars figures lying around boxed like that, everyone knows they are valuable, someone in the staff would have bought it or taken it for themselves.
I believe it. maybe around 2011-2012 I was in a Kmart that somehow still had some POTF2 figures on a peg. They were terrible figures but it was still weird to see. I figured they just found them in the warehouse somewhere and decided to try and make a buck on em.
I remember just a few years ago there was a copy of Sonic 2 for the Sega Genesis that sold on a retail POS system and people were stupified how it happens, I assume they just found it in the back somewhere?
I had this happen in an old general store, Bobby Collins general store in 1989. There was some giant comics of empire strikes back and some of the 12 inch figures from star wars.i also saw a rare star wars film cartridge that you could manually turn the crank and watch it and control the speed. I wanna say fisher price but if I'm not mistaken it said 1977 on back.
I worked at a Toys R Us in the mid-90's that was going through major renovations, and all the walls and fixtures of the video game section were disassembled and removed. Hidden inside one of the walls I discovered an ancient Nintendo Mario Bros. handheld game with two screens. Also during my time there, someone tried to return an old Photon gun & sensor set, mint in the box. When the returns girl told the person TRU couldn't do a return on it, they just left it there and walked away.
When I was a teenager- working at Albertsons (1st job) -mid 80's I remember them having boxes of the old carded star wars figures from the first 3 movies upstairs in the storage area-room where they kept old stock and clearance stuff...man If I only knew then I would have grabbed every left over box...
yep, you are right cause no one can have two toys in there hand at one time. And anyone sneaking a vintage toys in to a store and putting in on a peg with other toys, would never every lay down the 'other' figure in his hand to record the planned fake out. Its not like I went in and pick up something star wars related and then saw the vintage card and took my camera out. That is to hard to believe. So much easier the believe someone would go to the trouble of sneaking something in to a store but not the trouble of pick up a 'fake scan' toy between shots.
In 2000 a neighborhood market with a small attached drug store finally went out of business. I went it to see what they were getting rid of. The guy who owned the drug store had storage in the loft above the store. He put out boxes of stuff that were up in the loft. I found two beat up Bespin Guards, the black ones, and a GI Joe Scarlett, swivel arm. The cards were garbage, and Scarlett’s rubber band had broken. But I bought them both. That was only roughly 14 years later, and it’s a small non chain store. Anything is possible
I was in Portugal late 90s and happened across a toy shop that had vintage carded star wars figures in the window display. I couldn't quite believe it, the bubbles were very yellowed but I asked if there was more and they pointed me to some shelving. In all there was 5 carded Teebo figures and several mail away Scout troopers in Kenner bags. I obviously bought them all, at a couple of quid each.
Hey everyone I found an old toy shop down a street I didn't know existed and found hundreds of vintage Star Wars figures on their cards including 20 vinyl cape Jawas all priced at $1.09. Can you believe these were all missed by collectors for almost 40 years. It's true I tell ya, it's all true honest. I know Star Wars Junk will believe me.
I actually had three dreams like that last year where I found rows of them on the bottom rack at a store and I only had enough cash to buy one....no credit or debit....I can't even win in my dreams!
I would say this is an epic fail for K-Mart's inventory system, but for you and us here at home, it's a pretty dang epic win. It's crazy to think there still could be other vintage carded figures out there on some rusty old pegs, or stuck in between an aisle wall.
I thought the Gammorian Guard was one of the better Figures to be honest. Lot of bang for the Buck. Had great Details and was a hefty figure too. Wish I could find one now. :(
I’ve come across older Star Wars figures at toys r us from time, but nothing that old. A few years ago I picked up a BAD era tpm obi wan and a shirtless darth maul. They rang up for a penny a piece. Cashier was dumbfounded. Total was 2 cents. I had him break a single
I believe you and this probably did happen. I worked large retail for years and you would not believe what you would find underneath large fixtures that have not been moved for thirty plus years. It is easy to assign a price and a vague description to any item to clearance it out of the store in a computer. The management prob had no idea it was that old though.
The K-Mart I was working at, something like this happened except with Marvel Legends Toy Biz Legendary Rider series Wolverine, Scarlet Witch, Grey Hulk and a Bullseye found under the base plate shelving, so it looked like someone hid them there and completely forgot them or they were fired.
Amazing piece of luck, although every toy shop (department store) employee would know a vintage Star Wars figure and would have bagged that one up so you were extremely lucky to have spotted it and paid under 4 bucks.
The Roo cause the hard to hold my phone and stuff I was going to pay. IF I went to trouble of taking a figure into a store don’t you think I would have not had anything in my hand. Could easy picked up something once the camera was off. I don’t plan it. So I had what was in my hand. I went there to buy stuff. It’s not that shocking I had something else in my hand. If it was some master plan i wouldn’t have it in my hand cause it’s planned it. I would have sat it down and picked up before walking to the scanner.
Star Wars Junk woah I just found the idol from Raiders Of The Lost Ark in the Disney Store stuffed behind a Pooh Bear, luckily I had this bag of sand that was roughly ( or so I thought the same weight) and so I made a break for it and grabbed the idol. Unfortunately I got the weight wrong and all these little poisonous arrows started firing at me from small holes inside the walls and the store began to collapse on itself. I managed to get out through the entrance, just, only for a big ball to come flying from the back of the store ( not sure if Disney stores have some kind of standard set up where a big ball is ready to be released at any time) but I managed to outrun that, only for this French guy to steal it off me as I got outside. At this point all the Disney store workers were half naked except for a piece of grass up there arse and armed with spears, blow arrows and bows proceeded to chase me out of the shopping complex. Now I'm running my butt off to try and make it to the plane, without my idol might i add and being pursued by a couple of dozen angry Disney store workers( who I could now clearly see looked Central American, how did I miss that one) anyway I just made it to Jock's plane omly to find he's only got a bloody snake which I hate.
Darin Staley the store is closing Sunday and it’s pretty gutted. All the racks and stuff been taking out. I can only guess someone found it or someone played a big joke on me :)
Hey Junkman, I know I’m about a year late to this video. I once found a bunch of the Kenner Aliens line a decade after they had been released. That was at a Zellers. I also found a Secret Wars Kang figure about 20 years after it had been released at a Home Hardware so yah, it does happen! I figure it’s Good Karma reward.
I understand it isn’t the same situation, but about 3 months ago I went to my local target and went to the Star Wars section and pulled up on the shelf. Under it were about 3 clone wars figures from 2011. I took them to the register and an employee scanned them and they didn’t show up, so she just gave me them for 5 dollars each.
The odds of K-Mart having a toy from 20+ years would be zero to none. I can see a really small department store in a small town because I seen some of those stores having toys from between 5 to 10 years ago in them as well the owner can't afford new toys for the store and I regard not buying some of the toys after seeing their worth now. But the store is fully closed forever now.
How does a Kmart in 2018 still have Return Of The Jedi figures from the early / mid 80's? How did they manage to have stock that old and not know about it?
RJC 72 I am guess it was just the one guy. The store is closing and they have removed 90% of the old racks and stuff. Either than or someone played a joke on me and huge it lol
That is an incredible find.....I would say, unbelievable. But then again, if it fell behind a rake, it could sit there for year on the floor, but if it fell behind a rack in the back room, it could sit there for decades. In all honesty Junk man.....keep it, its a great story piece to add to your collection. To someone who watches your videos, it'll just be another collectable.
Maybe this happened. I’ve found fishing lures from the 60’s in old bait shops but everyone in the planet knows how valuable those old figures are. Seems unlikely
I dont know , you had something else star wars in your hand that you dropped. Lol Don't care, I believe it. I use to hide toys all in the back room when I worked retail.
The plastic blister is very yellowed. not completely out of the question for a Kmart going out of business. they have all kinds of junk in the back they might have found. I got 90% off halloween kmart stuff once I have more flying ghosts than I need lol I've been to store's close out bins and find things that are one of kind like they bought it at a garage sale and dumped it into a bin. one that comes to mind is a Detroit red wings stanley cup CD of the radio commentators in a meijer in ohio. they have meijers in MI too. it was an audio CD not even a DVD well after they won the cup lol MTFBWY
Joe Zapata Not so crazy.. Our store had PS1 stuff when they closed their electronics department. I also found Nintendo Game&Watch before new old stock at a toy store.
spikey911usa PlayStation 1 games are still available at GameStop, a toy from 1983, and he doesn’t show us the toy scanned I find it hard to believe. Not to mention he is a Star Wars collector with RUclips channel highlighting Star Wars figures. He probably scanned another Star Wars item..
Not to mention that technology didn’t exist then to scan a toy. So it wouldn’t be scanned in at all. My wife works for a retail toy company and those numbers are recycled, and that it wouldn’t pop up at all on scanner, bc those numbers are recycled.
Daniel Coy what are you talking about fruit? He doesn’t have a receipt and didn’t scan the item. It’s bullshit. A “Star Wars toy hunter” finds a rare find for his RUclips channel, how ironic! It’s bullshit...
Bull crap . You had a new figure in your hand . Why was it mixed in baby toys instead of starwars . And why didnt you show when it rang up at cashier and not price check ?
For all calling this fake. I would also if it didn’t happen to me. I wish I video more. I was just going to throw the video on twitter but then decided the make a YT out of it. A dumb dumb mistake that I can’t believe I made. All I can say it the figure was there when I walked in. Can’t say how it got there, how it was found. It’s hard to believe I know. Maybe I got a big prank played on me. Seems hard to believe also. Believe it not. Doesn’t matter in the end. All I can add is it was there when I walked in. Also if you look at my other videos. I don’t do things just for views or do anything fake. I don’t think. Thanks
Can't wait until you give it away!
I can see this happening. If they are moving racks, clearing out boxes in the back or just breaking down old shelves stuff falls behind or a collector hid it years ago and someone found it. If it was BS I don't think the UPC code would have scanned. I remember when K-mart went out in Daytona some really odd stuff was on the floor for sale.
Total BS the figure in 1983-84 was originally less than $3 $.2.99 on Toyworth. What you did was scan a newer figure that was priced at $8.99 and reduced to $3.49 according to your video and said it was the vintage planted figure. I had these original figures and they were no more than $3 at the stores. So I say this take that figure to a Kmart or Walmart, Target or a Toys R Us and actually video you scanning that figure or quit deceiving people for views. I am willing to bet it will not show in their system or even be able to be scanned.
Don't worry, man. The majority of the people who watch your videos are fans of yours, and that means that we've been following your videos and Twitter feed and podcast for awhile. And that means that we know your track record of being a straight-forward and honest guy. I can't think of one instance where I thought you were embellishing or sensationalizing anything.
It's really not that hard to imagine that a toy would have fallen behind the rack in the storage room of a crappy Kmart store, and it laid on the floor back there behind the bottom rack for a few decades until the crappy Kmart store finally started to completely clean out the back room because they were closing up.
Anyway, great story, and great video as always!
In 1991 I was in Toys R Us desperately looking for star wars toys because I was a huge fan. My mom explained that the stores didn’t carry them anymore but I couldn’t be dissuaded.
I ended up finding a Return of the Jedi Desert Sail Skiff mini rig on the bottom of the rack, covered in GI Joe figures or whatever had fallen off the pegs. It was a victory I have never forgotten!
A lot of vintage Star Wars figure turn up when store management moves aisle fixtures. Merchandise falls behind or under figures all the time.
Often, these valuable collectibles are no longer “in the system.”
Someone from the back room usually assigns the UPC to a generic description.
This is a cool find. Back in 2013 in Wal-mart I found a 1999 Darth Maul hologram figure with holoprojector and I was so confused as to how it could still be in a store.
The last vintage kenner Star Wars toy I bought at the store was at Sears in Hawaii right before Christmas in 1988. It was $0.50 and it was the the Rancor Keeper.
Wow I know it's been 4 years since you found this . But what an awesome find
Oh man, I would have opened it just to sniff it. That old Vintage Kenner whiff.
That's crazy!!! I remember my K-Mart in the 80s having a huge isle that was covered in hundreds of figures and playsets, vehicles. It closed down about 3 years ago. I bet anything there was something hidden in the back from back then. I saw a video of a guy that worked at a K-Mart that was closing down and they found a vintage figure under some stuff in the back and they gave it to him because they knew how much he loved collecting SW figures. Man, junkman we gotta find that time machine.
I found Ewok & Star Wars comics at a liquor store in a 1 road town in the 90's. They'd probably been there 20 years given the layer of dust on them. These things turn up some times :) Cool find you had there
This is fake. If you believe this you are extremely gullible. He doesn't even show the figure being scanned. Makes it a point to keep it out of the camera range. Why would it be hung near little kids toys. Smells bad, looks bad. Haha
Gamorian Guard is the winner of the vintage Star Wars hide n seek game. No one found him for like 34 years.
This does happen, I found Detective Comics #27 the other week in an Old Grocery store. Pages were pretty yellow but it didn't have many creases etc.
I found a store when I was visiting Denmark that was FULL of original 80's toys in their original packages selling for the original retail price. Transformers, GI Joes, Lego, etc. I loaded up on Transformers - filled 2 suit cases full of them. I still have them to this day and they are very rare!
Its crazy whats out their. There is a vid I saw on youtube of some rich guy who owned warehouses I think in California where he just kept all Vintage toys. We are talking new old stock in tonage here. The guys in the vid played a game of pool at the end to decide the price on the toys that they picked from the warehouse. They played the game of pool in the actual warehouse as the guy who owned it sort of made it into a part man cave. Cool ASF.
I would have shipped boxes of them home!
3:03 "this Wal-Marts going out of business"
If you showed the receipt and talked to an employee about it, no one would call it a fake. BUT...
Most of my ROJ figures came from Kmart in 83. I still recall seeing the Gamorean Guard, the red Royal Guard, and Jedi Luke with the green saber on the rack for the first time.
Not unheard of. The local supermarket White's Regal still had Charlie's Angels figures and Planet of the Apes board games into the 1990s. My cousins had the Star Wars board game on the shelf of their grocery store's toy aisle into the 1990s before they sold the shop.
The cousins (via my granddad) were John and Chet Booker. The grocery store was in Dugger, IN. White's Regal was in Bloomfield, IN just to clarify.
Come on, you're a Star Wars collector and you find a vintage figure and act like you're just casually taking your Sunday dump. Hard to believe.
Agree. I wouldn’t believe it if someone else posted it. So not going to defend it. All I can say is it happen. Maybe someone did it a joke on me, maybe I got lucky. All I know is it was there. Do wish I video it more. It was in shock and was going to throw it up Just on Twitter. Then decided after the fact to no a YT video. Dumb dumb me for not planning it out. Believe Me if I was faking it I would have filmed a lot more. But understand anyone that doesn’t believe this. I get way
Well in any case I appreciate your reply. I remember being at TRU in the early 90s and they still had a small selection of ROTJ figures (the first POTF line didn't come to Canada). They were selling for about $2 but I only bought a couple because by then SW wasn't cool anymore LOL
Hey guess what I found a 41 back Yoda hanging at a Shell gas station just the other day myself then I drove my flying pig all the way home and told everyone
mws755 😂😂😂😂
Bahahaha!!!!
110% agree. This whole video is bs
For those calling this video fake, shame on you. This stuff does happen. I've worked retail for more than 20 years now and where I've worked we've found toys in the back and out on the salesfloor that were being sold over 20 years ago. those toys aren't even in the system anymore. well they kind of are but they don't register a price. I don't know how many Marvel, Star Wars, Gi Joe when they got rereleased, and Lego sets from the past suddenly show up in boxes that were misplaced, fell behind shelves or were hidden. but it happens.
Great find! Makes you wonder what other goodies might be lurking on pegs in ailing stores, doesn't it?
Squid head was my first ROTJ figure, but the Gommorean Guard was my favorite of all them
Awesome find, A couple years ago I went to a K-mart in my town to get the Jodo Kast figure in 2010 and seen they had a bunch of 90's POTF figures but not vintage figures.
Not sure how true or not this is. Given the circumstances of stores closing that have been open for years, I have worked in storage rooms in the back of brand stores and sometimes they have shit forgotten since before time. But 35 year old toys seem like a stretch. But anything is possible.
Obviously fake. You don't even show the toy itself being scanned...the scanner just says "star wars figure boxed", it could be any figure. I can't believe anyone would fall for this
Yeah so fake, no store in the World has 80:s star wars figures lying around boxed like that, everyone knows they are valuable, someone in the staff would have bought it or taken it for themselves.
Fredrik Nilsson also, it wouldn’t be in the stores system so it wouldn’t recognise it
I believe it. maybe around 2011-2012 I was in a Kmart that somehow still had some POTF2 figures on a peg. They were terrible figures but it was still weird to see. I figured they just found them in the warehouse somewhere and decided to try and make a buck on em.
I remember just a few years ago there was a copy of Sonic 2 for the Sega Genesis that sold on a retail POS system and people were stupified how it happens, I assume they just found it in the back somewhere?
I had this happen in an old general store, Bobby Collins general store in 1989. There was some giant comics of empire strikes back and some of the 12 inch figures from star wars.i also saw a rare star wars film cartridge that you could manually turn the crank and watch it and control the speed. I wanna say fisher price but if I'm not mistaken it said 1977 on back.
I worked at a Toys R Us in the mid-90's that was going through major renovations, and all the walls and fixtures of the video game section were disassembled and removed. Hidden inside one of the walls I discovered an ancient Nintendo Mario Bros. handheld game with two screens. Also during my time there, someone tried to return an old Photon gun & sensor set, mint in the box. When the returns girl told the person TRU couldn't do a return on it, they just left it there and walked away.
Freebies!!!!!
Believe it or not I have been in small towns where there is only 1 Walmart in the entire county. Anything is possible. Good for you dude!
could that be the last ever original sw toy sold from a store. man that is soo lucky a find congratz.
Calling bullshit. Wheres the receipt and where is the proof of you putting it out thrrough the checkout?
It was still in their system???
When I was a teenager- working at Albertsons (1st job) -mid 80's I remember them having boxes of the old carded star wars figures from the first 3 movies upstairs in the storage area-room where they kept old stock and clearance stuff...man If I only knew then I would have grabbed every left over box...
I call bullshit.
Michael Cooper I second that
He doesn’t show it scanned, switched to a different toy! Bullshit is right
Third
Absolutely bullshit
Plant !
Until the early nineties there was a store near me that had a lot of ROTJ stuff.
Stuff like this doesn't happen everyday. Legendary find!
Would be more convincing if you actually showed it being scanned... and we all saw another star Wars toy in your hand.
yep, you are right cause no one can have two toys in there hand at one time. And anyone sneaking a vintage toys in to a store and putting in on a peg with other toys, would never every lay down the 'other' figure in his hand to record the planned fake out. Its not like I went in and pick up something star wars related and then saw the vintage card and took my camera out. That is to hard to believe. So much easier the believe someone would go to the trouble of sneaking something in to a store but not the trouble of pick up a 'fake scan' toy between shots.
In 2000 a neighborhood market with a small attached drug store finally went out of business. I went it to see what they were getting rid of. The guy who owned the drug store had storage in the loft above the store. He put out boxes of stuff that were up in the loft. I found two beat up Bespin Guards, the black ones, and a GI Joe Scarlett, swivel arm. The cards were garbage, and Scarlett’s rubber band had broken. But I bought them both. That was only roughly 14 years later, and it’s a small non chain store. Anything is possible
Junkman-with all the Toys R Us closing, you think there might be more finds like this?
Juan C we can only hope!
I was in Portugal late 90s and happened across a toy shop that had vintage carded star wars figures in the window display. I couldn't quite believe it, the bubbles were very yellowed but I asked if there was more and they pointed me to some shelving. In all there was 5 carded Teebo figures and several mail away Scout troopers in Kenner bags. I obviously bought them all, at a couple of quid each.
Saul Wilks great find!
I know this is most definitely a fake video. It could be real though considering I once found a Power Of The Jedi figure at Kmart in around 2012.
which one?
Hey everyone I found an old toy shop down a street I didn't know existed and found hundreds of vintage Star Wars figures on their cards including 20 vinyl cape Jawas all priced at $1.09. Can you believe these were all missed by collectors for almost 40 years. It's true I tell ya, it's all true honest. I know Star Wars Junk will believe me.
Rebok01 damn lucky!!!
About a year or two ago, I found a Brains figure from the 1993 Thunderbirds line by Matchbox in the bargain section of a toy store.
I actually had three dreams like that last year where I found rows of them on the bottom rack at a store and I only had enough cash to buy one....no credit or debit....I can't even win in my dreams!
Same thing always happens in my dreams
I mean, I found unopened Batman beyond toys in deals and discounts today, so not that much of stretch.
In 2017, I found a 2010 Iron Man 2 toy in Walmart... Thats nothing compared to this, great find!
I would say this is an epic fail for K-Mart's inventory system, but for you and us here at home, it's a pretty dang epic win. It's crazy to think there still could be other vintage carded figures out there on some rusty old pegs, or stuck in between an aisle wall.
I thought the Gammorian Guard was one of the better Figures to be honest. Lot of bang for the Buck. Had great Details and was a hefty figure too. Wish I could find one now. :(
I’ve come across older Star Wars figures at toys r us from time, but nothing that old. A few years ago I picked up a BAD era tpm obi wan and a shirtless darth maul. They rang up for a penny a piece. Cashier was dumbfounded. Total was 2 cents. I had him break a single
I believe you and this probably did happen. I worked large retail for years and you would not believe what you would find underneath large fixtures that have not been moved for thirty plus years. It is easy to assign a price and a vague description to any item to clearance it out of the store in a computer. The management prob had no idea it was that old though.
The vintage collection star wars stuff could have aided the confusion. Even if it is not real it's a fun story.
That’s what I call vintage vintage.
THAT IS AWSOME!!! totally unbelievable!
That’s one of the greatest TVC figures ever! The Gamorrean Guard.
I want it but I don't got Twitter so 😕
The K-Mart I was working at, something like this happened except with Marvel Legends Toy Biz Legendary Rider series Wolverine, Scarlet Witch, Grey Hulk and a Bullseye found under the base plate shelving, so it looked like someone hid them there and completely forgot them or they were fired.
Seems like a employee would have bought that.. this seems impossible
Amazing piece of luck, although every toy shop (department store) employee would know a vintage Star Wars figure and would have bagged that one up so you were extremely lucky to have spotted it and paid under 4 bucks.
I’d love this my return of the Jedi. I lost my original when our house burned down
Giving it away to a fan? That's very nice of you!
This is so wank you see the other Star Wars figure in his hand for a second, the real one when he's at the shelf.
guess so cause no one can have two star wars items and no store carries two star wars things
Star Wars Junk so why does he poorly try and hide the other item. Derp, debunked
The Roo cause the hard to hold my phone and stuff I was going to pay. IF I went to trouble of taking a figure into a store don’t you think I would have not had anything in my hand. Could easy picked up something once the camera was off. I don’t plan it. So I had what was in my hand. I went there to buy stuff. It’s not that shocking I had something else in my hand. If it was some master plan i wouldn’t have it in my hand cause it’s planned it. I would have sat it down and picked up before walking to the scanner.
Star Wars Junk woah I just found the idol from Raiders Of The Lost Ark in the Disney Store stuffed behind a Pooh Bear, luckily I had this bag of sand that was roughly ( or so I thought the same weight) and so I made a break for it and grabbed the idol. Unfortunately I got the weight wrong and all these little poisonous arrows started firing at me from small holes inside the walls and the store began to collapse on itself. I managed to get out through the entrance, just, only for a big ball to come flying from the back of the store ( not sure if Disney stores have some kind of standard set up where a big ball is ready to be released at any time) but I managed to outrun that, only for this French guy to steal it off me as I got outside. At this point all the Disney store workers were half naked except for a piece of grass up there arse and armed with spears, blow arrows and bows proceeded to chase me out of the shopping complex. Now I'm running my butt off to try and make it to the plane, without my idol might i add and being pursued by a couple of dozen angry Disney store workers( who I could now clearly see looked Central American, how did I miss that one) anyway I just made it to Jock's plane omly to find he's only got a bloody snake which I hate.
For the record I believe you. this stuff happens. It is awesome that you were the one who stumbled on this.
If someone was playing a joke on me, it worked.
I have dreams of going into a big box store and seeing a display of vintage figures.
That's an awesome find. Wish I had Twitter.
How did Kmart still have a toy from around 1983 on sale?
Darin Staley the store is closing Sunday and it’s pretty gutted. All the racks and stuff been taking out. I can only guess someone found it or someone played a big joke on me :)
Yeah that someone was you or one of your friends found it at home and brought it there and it was hung on a peg right before you started recording it
Hey Junkman, I know I’m about a year late to this video. I once found a bunch of the Kenner Aliens line a decade after they had been released. That was at a Zellers. I also found a Secret Wars Kang figure about 20 years after it had been released at a Home Hardware so yah, it does happen! I figure it’s Good Karma reward.
So cool
I understand it isn’t the same situation, but about 3 months ago I went to my local target and went to the Star Wars section and pulled up on the shelf. Under it were about 3 clone wars figures from 2011. I took them to the register and an employee scanned them and they didn’t show up, so she just gave me them for 5 dollars each.
Josh G that’s certainly possible. But not a figure from 83’ turning up on a peg 30+ years later.
The odds of K-Mart having a toy from 20+ years would be zero to none. I can see a really small department store in a small town because I seen some of those stores having toys from between 5 to 10 years ago in them as well the owner can't afford new toys for the store and I regard not buying some of the toys after seeing their worth now. But the store is fully closed forever now.
That's a great find Junkman. They're still out there
Wow an unreleased on the salesfloor star wars figure. It's been how many years?
This is pure fiction. A ruse. Maybe his intentions are good, but this never happened.
Sorry buddy, I think this video is completely fake
Zombobby Understandable. So would I
My local toys r us had Mego hulks and Star Wars mini rigs skiff on the shelves as late as 1992.....about the time the action figure craze hit....
In the video you say Walmart😒
I’ve seen this before. Must have been five years ago. So weird. There were 3 of them. At the time I just didn’t think too much of it.
which three?
The last one I bought was boba fett in England in 1986
Wow incredible I wish I found something vintage at a store like that
I found a couple vintage figures at my Kmart that went out of business..... found some vintage hotwheels too.....
No way when my Kmart was going out of business I found a vintage Star Wars return of the Jedi Ewok
Almost cannot believe it but wow! ! What a find! ☺
Would be an awesome conversation piece for your collection.
How does a Kmart in 2018 still have Return Of The Jedi figures from the early / mid 80's? How did they manage to have stock that old and not know about it?
RJC 72 I am guess it was just the one guy. The store is closing and they have removed 90% of the old racks and stuff. Either than or someone played a joke on me and huge it lol
I have an answer. They didn't
mws755 he's pulling off you guys to get more viewers?
Woah I can’t believe you found a K-mart! Lol(I see this video is 3yo)
Remake?
That is an incredible find.....I would say, unbelievable. But then again, if it fell behind a rake, it could sit there for year on the floor, but if it fell behind a rack in the back room, it could sit there for decades. In all honesty Junk man.....keep it, its a great story piece to add to your collection. To someone who watches your videos, it'll just be another collectable.
sucker
one does not "move away from toys"
Didn't they go for $2.99 back in the 80's?
Plus the glue would be crap by now. N color would kinda be faded.
Maybe this happened. I’ve found fishing lures from the 60’s in old bait shops but everyone in the planet knows how valuable those old figures are. Seems unlikely
We have a big k here. I found some early 90s Trojan condoms , wonder if I should use them?
No.
Man that's insane!!! Good find!
Wow that's amazing! Really cool find!!
YOU MAY BE THE LAST PERSON IN THE PLANET TO BUY A VINTAGE TOY AT COST FROM A STORE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!
I dont know , you had something else star wars in your hand that you dropped. Lol
Don't care, I believe it. I use to hide toys all in the back room when I worked retail.
As if
The plastic blister is very yellowed. not completely out of the question for a Kmart going out of business. they have all kinds of junk in the back they might have found. I got 90% off halloween kmart stuff once I have more flying ghosts than I need lol I've been to store's close out bins and find things that are one of kind like they bought it at a garage sale and dumped it into a bin. one that comes to mind is a Detroit red wings stanley cup CD of the radio commentators in a meijer in ohio. they have meijers in MI too. it was an audio CD not even a DVD well after they won the cup lol MTFBWY
Man, that is crazy!
That. Is. Awesome!
A very lucky find!!
Now if only I could find a Kmart.
I don’t think this is real find. He didn’t show the scanned toy..almost impossible to find something like that, odds are crazy
Joe Zapata Not so crazy.. Our store had PS1 stuff when they closed their electronics department. I also found Nintendo Game&Watch before new old stock at a toy store.
spikey911usa PlayStation 1 games are still available at GameStop, a toy from 1983, and he doesn’t show us the toy scanned I find it hard to believe. Not to mention he is a Star Wars collector with RUclips channel highlighting Star Wars figures. He probably scanned another Star Wars item..
Not to mention that technology didn’t exist then to scan a toy. So it wouldn’t be scanned in at all. My wife works for a retail toy company and those numbers are recycled, and that it wouldn’t pop up at all on scanner, bc those numbers are recycled.
Daniel Coy what are you talking about fruit? He doesn’t have a receipt and didn’t scan the item. It’s bullshit. A “Star Wars toy hunter” finds a rare find for his RUclips channel, how ironic! It’s bullshit...
How is this here
did you give away the star wars action figure yet
Bull crap . You had a new figure in your hand . Why was it mixed in baby toys instead of starwars . And why didnt you show when it rang up at cashier and not price check ?
That's insane, dude! It must've been there since 1983! 😃
its bullshit bro. haha
@@GJLCreativeStudios Im still seeing Last Jedi figures on pegs that aren't selling and look like they're going to be there another thirty years.