Lads, I adore your channel, I'm not a toy collector perse (yet), but you lads seem such nice guys, and as an 80s kid, the nostalgia is so comforting! Keep it up chaps!
This is one of the most wonderful productions I have stumbled on on YT! Production value being outstanding aside, the three of you have captured something pretty amazing. Gen-X nostalgia is somewhat unique. Almost the last pure era of physical toys at the whim of true designers and artists. The 'breaky' bits come from the production teams realizing their vision."You want that specific blue, or that shiny metallic? Let me ring up BASF and get their latest!" You folks get this. The wonder, though, comes from the shared experience this tour gives everyone who did not grow up in each of the countries you visited while very much so including yourselves in this feeling! That mix of world-wide 'canon' with items that are just a little shifted, or even completely absent, from our local toys exposes a shared, clearly gestalt, lineage myself, and many others, weren't aware of. I have a personal connection to many of the keystone toys of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and Aughts here in the US through my work with my father as a commercial photographer. Milton Bradley is a hometown company and a client of his until the end of their local HQ. This continued for many years after Hasbro's purchase, right until they bugged out for RI leaving only Cartamundi as a shell of their former self. At one point or another, every MB game was in his studio, often in prototype form for packaging or Toy Fair here in Feb, for three decades. To this day, after producing work for, and attending NY Toy Fair many years, i still feel a certain stress in January although I am no longer in the field. Early on, when LEGO had created their first NA Marketing Group, he was their contract photographer, I still have pieces in my kid's LEGO of my LEGO from the artwork he shot... It is very likely that the "Spirit of St. Louis" pieces I have in a bin were on the US box. Not a boast, but purely a strange happenstance. Up until they closed their CT headquarters, friends of ours were their exclusive creative group. Now they are not. Sadly. My long-winded point is this. My little part of the world just happened to be the origin for many of the timeless classics, and by pure coincidence of birth I was in the middle of it for many years... To see both it's world spanning influence, and the absolute absence in regions is amazing. It has expanded my thoughts a bit deeper than just toys. The idea of Nostalgia for an unshared past is something else! Thank you for this, I look forward to the next journey!
Another little note... The fact that you feature toys spanning every genre, blurring the definitions of 'boy' vs. 'girl' toys is pretty excellent too. A quality toy, or an awesome crappy toy, is a toy regardless of who the marketing group cooked it up for!
You guys are the best! I've been singing your praises to everyone I know, including other YT channels, that they have to watch Toy Shop on Tour. I hope they do! As a side note, every time you squeaked that Toy, my dog came running.
Seeing Joe's face with the Blackstar Castle reminded me of getting a 'sealed' Japanese G1 Black Zarak in the early 00s, taking him out of the polystyrene and his gold foot stayed in the box! Absolutely gutting.
Is there anything as exciting as having a rummage through a box of old toys ?...even when you've only just bought them yourself !! :) Such a great video and lovely series chaps. It's just happy viewing. And I love the Kryptonite ! :) :)
Gav definitely has a fondness and knowledge for girls toys and the more unusual items, balances the team out well. I don't see a lot of women vintage toy collectors on RUclips but i assume the nostalgia bug penetrates their sensible / adult mindset every once in a while lol.
hi guys another great episode , what some great buys well done , as for the kryptonite some things can be so bad they are good i think its cool with the box art and leaflet good find👍
What a nice treat, bonus episode! Hopefully get to say hello in person as you may be coming to see my mate Paul, can commiserate about the ice castle. Merry Christmas gents!
Love this!!!!! Great work and video as always guys! Lovely stuff 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😍👍👍👍👍😉 Dark Dimensions was still my favourite shop. All that sweet Starcom for me can't top that! 😉
@@leicestervintagetoyshop Thankyou guys 😉👍 been a hard year this year with my loved ones sadly passing away....and these videos and coming in the shop to see you guys etc has really got me threw it and cheered me up. Your great guys best shop in Leicester if not the UK 😉😉😉👍👍👍👍👍
Who doesn’t love a bonus episode. I am impressed you saved all of these and wow what great items! I think Nono from Ulysses and the Starfleet XBomber figures would get my vote for best pick up although I do love the Black Hole items as i love micronauts magnetic figures, it’s great to see another line using the same mechanism. I may have to add those to my wish list. Thanks again for another great series 👏
It’s probably already been said, but the Nono is a bubblegum toy. He splits apart at the waist and there used to be a piece of bubblegum in the middle. I remember buying one in Spain in the 80’s
I agree that MAC display should be sold as a whole piece Perhaps one day you'll tell us what you saw in that basement you couldn't show on camera I bet it was some real holy grail stuff too
37:50 We got these dragons for Christmas in the late 80s. I think they were flea market purchases even back then. Man, we looooved them! Still got them somewhere.
Amazing Amazing cool stuff only came across this channel this week and me and the other half are hooked ! We also collect toys and retro gaming ( small video on our channel ) keep up the good work guys wow mega wow !!
Great series Guys! Love the squeaky pig! It's the sort of thing I'd normally not look twice at...until I heard the squeak, and then I'd want it, just 'cos! Used to have a couple of Eagles, the Commander with the weird bowl shaped helmet that just used to rest on top of his head and slip to one side and look stupid. But not as stupid as he looked with a blob of Blu tack on top of his head to hold it on... also had that crude Capture Copter thing they did which I got complete from a jumble sale in the 80s. Gone now.🎶Dunno where, dunno when...🎶 And DON'T diss mr Dean! He's connected...never mess with somebody who has a Gay King And a May Zinger on speed dial!🤭 Dragon Flyz looked rubbish at the time. It seemed a lot of money to pay for something that you Knew you'd use once and send it flying up onto a neighbours roof to be lost forever...still, it'd be company for the Action Man Parachutist who ended up there about 6 years earlier. I had horrible neighbours. Or was I a horrible kid? Come to your own conclusions... As for the Kryptonite rock, they got away with selling 'Pet rocks' in the 70s. Some people will buy Anything, won't they...Joe? That Magna Maximillian looks interesting, looks like it could be made to mix and match with the Micronauts Magna figures! Baron Maximillian Karza! It has a ring to it, don't you think? S.T.A.R.R. Force Commander! Right, that's enough. Genuinely sorry about the Ice Castle, a real pity but sort of to be expected. The Kenner Death Star was robust in comparison! Great series, a lot of fun! Cheers, Guys!😁👍👍👍🍻
I loved Mobile Action Command when I was a lad. Those are amazing! Those Dragon Flyz were banned in the US. Stupid children kept shooting them at each other causing injuries. Yeah Blackstar Ice Castles are notorious for shattering in the box.
Oooh to buy so many toys, that you forget what you bought... that NEVER happened to me, as long as i live, granted, i don't own a store, nor a website to sell toys. I want that giant michelangelo and Raideen though, been looking for those original giant turtles for more then 10 years xD
I have enjoyed watching every episode of Series 1 and 2 this week so thanks to the 3 of you for making these films.......one question though, if you were importing those toys I presume you would have to pay duty so when you brought them over on the ferry were they not inspected by French custom officers ?
Were Blackstar toys ever released in the UK. I'm the right age to remember it 9 years old in 83 I don't remember the cartoon and it is the sort of thing I loved at that age and definitely wouldn't have forgotten.
@@leicestervintagetoyshop were they widely distributed? Maybe toy shops thought they were a knock off of he-man because they were so similar and opted not to stock both because I never ever saw any at all and I really loved figures especially sword and sorcery type stuff. I live in Bristol by the way if that makes a difference?
@@leicestervintagetoyshop oh wow maybe you could post that on your channel. I love seeing the old displays it brings back fond memories of being in Alladins cave and that sense of wonderment you felt as a kid in a good toyshop.
No because we don’t know. A lot comes down to finances. However we start filming a mini series in February and we have some U.K. specials planned for the next 6 months or so
Shame about the black star castle and with dust on it probably was on display at somepoint. I need to come to see your shop and do a tour of it and see what I can find for my collection.
I've never encountered a Blackstar Castle in person. I gotta ask: is that plastic as thin as the stuff Ben Cooper makes were made from? I've never seen plastic thicker than those crumble at the edges like that.
7:48 Just go watch The Black Hole film man, it's 2023, you can watch damn near anything instantly now. :\ Lol at the Zorro aside "Sounds the same both times to me...oh Zo-rro versus Zor-roh ah I see.", never really crossed my mind about the pronunciation. ;)
Gutted about your Blackstar castle man! But if that toy had never been out of the box, was there no plastic shards inside the box? That would be the giveaway if it had never been out before. Are the Star Fleet toys going on sale?
It was open at one end. There are a few bits but it’s not really fixable. Starfleet toys sold as soon as we put them out but we are getting some more in the new year. Thanks for watching!
Lads, I adore your channel, I'm not a toy collector perse (yet), but you lads seem such nice guys, and as an 80s kid, the nostalgia is so comforting! Keep it up chaps!
What a series 👏👏👏 The joy in each episode should be prescribed on the NHS! Great work all 👍
Thanks very much!
Laughter is the best medicine.
This is one of the most wonderful productions I have stumbled on on YT! Production value being outstanding aside, the three of you have captured something pretty amazing. Gen-X nostalgia is somewhat unique. Almost the last pure era of physical toys at the whim of true designers and artists. The 'breaky' bits come from the production teams realizing their vision."You want that specific blue, or that shiny metallic? Let me ring up BASF and get their latest!" You folks get this.
The wonder, though, comes from the shared experience this tour gives everyone who did not grow up in each of the countries you visited while very much so including yourselves in this feeling! That mix of world-wide 'canon' with items that are just a little shifted, or even completely absent, from our local toys exposes a shared, clearly gestalt, lineage myself, and many others, weren't aware of.
I have a personal connection to many of the keystone toys of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and Aughts here in the US through my work with my father as a commercial photographer. Milton Bradley is a hometown company and a client of his until the end of their local HQ. This continued for many years after Hasbro's purchase, right until they bugged out for RI leaving only Cartamundi as a shell of their former self. At one point or another, every MB game was in his studio, often in prototype form for packaging or Toy Fair here in Feb, for three decades. To this day, after producing work for, and attending NY Toy Fair many years, i still feel a certain stress in January although I am no longer in the field.
Early on, when LEGO had created their first NA Marketing Group, he was their contract photographer, I still have pieces in my kid's LEGO of my LEGO from the artwork he shot... It is very likely that the "Spirit of St. Louis" pieces I have in a bin were on the US box. Not a boast, but purely a strange happenstance. Up until they closed their CT headquarters, friends of ours were their exclusive creative group. Now they are not. Sadly.
My long-winded point is this. My little part of the world just happened to be the origin for many of the timeless classics, and by pure coincidence of birth I was in the middle of it for many years... To see both it's world spanning influence, and the absolute absence in regions is amazing. It has expanded my thoughts a bit deeper than just toys. The idea of Nostalgia for an unshared past is something else!
Thank you for this, I look forward to the next journey!
Another little note... The fact that you feature toys spanning every genre, blurring the definitions of 'boy' vs. 'girl' toys is pretty excellent too. A quality toy, or an awesome crappy toy, is a toy regardless of who the marketing group cooked it up for!
Great watcing you two unbox the toys it is like Kids at Christmas
It was soooo exciting!!
Lol love the squeaky pig. Great season again lads…. Really enjoyed it. :)
Thanks for watching!
Joe and Gav are awesome! This feels like a legit old skool telly programme. Beautifully shot by Matt. Wonderfully presented by the lads. ❤️👌
Ah thanks very much what a lovely compliment 😊
A surprise episode, what a treat! Best get the kettle on first :)
Whole series as been AWESOME. Watching at home poorly sick and it's proper cheered me up.
Can't wait for the next series and specials
🐢Markelangelo🐢
Get well soon Mr Mark! Look forward to coming to see you guys @4eveRetro
Another great episode guys. Love the content. The genuine excitement & enthusiasm you have for the toys you find is superb.
Thanks very much!
Nice1 lads really enjoyed seeing all de great toys you bought on tour again all de best to 3 entertaining fun lads Steve🇬🇧👍🏻
Thanks very much Steve!
Wonderful, just Wonderful.🤖👍
Thanks for watching!
Just awesome lads we want more
Thanks very much! More coming soon!
You guys are the best! I've been singing your praises to everyone I know, including other YT channels, that they have to watch Toy Shop on Tour. I hope they do! As a side note, every time you squeaked that Toy, my dog came running.
Thanks so much we need all the help we can get! We seem to have upset a lot of dogs today as well 😂
Thanks for spreading the word.
Fantastic way to wrap up series 2. Look forward to your next video!
26th of December! Keep em peeled usual time usualMike!
Seeing Joe's face with the Blackstar Castle reminded me of getting a 'sealed' Japanese G1 Black Zarak in the early 00s, taking him out of the polystyrene and his gold foot stayed in the box! Absolutely gutting.
They were tinkers for that weren’t they. Gold plastic! Breaky, Breaky!
@@leicestervintagetoyshop I never bought another one haha.
SUPERB! Such a great series! Italy was my absolute favourite - who knew it would bear so much fruit! Roll on series 3!!! xxx
Thanks very much!!
Is there anything as exciting as having a rummage through a box of old toys ?...even when you've only just bought them yourself !! :)
Such a great video and lovely series chaps. It's just happy viewing. And I love the Kryptonite ! :)
:)
Thanks Tony!!
lots of cool stuff
Gav definitely has a fondness and knowledge for girls toys and the more unusual items, balances the team out well. I don't see a lot of women vintage toy collectors on RUclips but i assume the nostalgia bug penetrates their sensible / adult mindset every once in a while lol.
No comment 😂
I enjoyed series 2 a lot. Hope to visit your store sometime.
You’d be more than welcome 👏👏
I've learned so much watching all of these, well done!
@@abishop6368 thanks very much! We’ve bought a lot more this time!!
hi guys another great episode , what some great buys well done , as for the kryptonite some things can be so bad they are good i think its cool with the box art and leaflet good find👍
It definitely lands in that category!
Perfect way to end the European tour, so many beautiful toys! That plastic Nono you found is a candy container, it opens up at the waist.
It does! Ace did wonder what it was used for. Thanks!
Brilliant! - This just popped up in my YT feed! LOVE this series. Thanks Joe and Gavin (and Matt) 🙏💫
Thanks for watching!
Great seeing all the goodies you collected on your travels, a real variety of stuff! I love the Alf toys and merch 😊
That Alf tape is amazing!
What a nice treat, bonus episode! Hopefully get to say hello in person as you may be coming to see my mate Paul, can commiserate about the ice castle. Merry Christmas gents!
See you soon!
Fantastic show and great to review what you purchased in Europe 😎
Thanks very much!!
Guttex for you joe , but the tour was even batter than the first one , so heres to the fthird season 👍
Thanks for watching!! We can’t wait to do more!
Love this!!!!! Great work and video as always guys! Lovely stuff 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😍👍👍👍👍😉 Dark Dimensions was still my favourite shop. All that sweet Starcom for me can't top that! 😉
Thanks Andrew!
@@leicestervintagetoyshop Thankyou guys 😉👍 been a hard year this year with my loved ones sadly passing away....and these videos and coming in the shop to see you guys etc has really got me threw it and cheered me up. Your great guys best shop in Leicester if not the UK 😉😉😉👍👍👍👍👍
Great recap for a great serie! Great job guyz!
Thanks very much
Love you guys thx for this great content!
Thanks for watching!!
09:09 child hood memory unlocked 🤣 I wanted captain planet and got him instead I dubbed him "sweetcorn man" and was devastated.
I think it's great you guys are into different toys. It let's us see a wider range when you visit these stores.
Who doesn’t love a bonus episode. I am impressed you saved all of these and wow what great items! I think Nono from Ulysses and the Starfleet XBomber figures would get my vote for best pick up although I do love the Black Hole items as i love micronauts magnetic figures, it’s great to see another line using the same mechanism. I may have to add those to my wish list. Thanks again for another great series 👏
Thanks for watching! So many cool toys in Europe
Next time you go@@leicestervintagetoyshop can you take me with ya 😂😉
Found you guys recently I’ll be catching up from the first episode soon !!
What a haul lads. Love it!!
Thanks for this series. Have a great Xmas and New year. Cannot wait for USA.
Love this channel and I'm not a toy collector. I've been amazed at how much toys from my youth now sell for lol…Great show can't wait for series 3.
Thanks for watching!
Loved addition of 'The Editor' in series 2, could have been cheesy but worked very well. Kudos to the impressionist.
Thanks very much!!
It’s probably already been said, but the Nono is a bubblegum toy. He splits apart at the waist and there used to be a piece of bubblegum in the middle. I remember buying one in Spain in the 80’s
I agree that MAC display should be sold as a whole piece
Perhaps one day you'll tell us what you saw in that basement you couldn't show on camera
I bet it was some real holy grail stuff too
Yeah we’ll spill some of the beans at some point. Look out for an announcement in the new year re a Q&A live on RUclips
37:50 We got these dragons for Christmas in the late 80s. I think they were flea market purchases even back then.
Man, we looooved them! Still got them somewhere.
Amazing Amazing cool stuff only came across this channel this week and me and the other half are hooked ! We also collect toys and retro gaming ( small video on our channel ) keep up the good work guys wow mega wow !!
Thanks for watching!!
Great series Guys! Love the squeaky pig! It's the sort of thing I'd normally not look twice at...until I heard the squeak, and then I'd want it, just 'cos!
Used to have a couple of Eagles, the Commander with the weird bowl shaped helmet that just used to rest on top of his head and slip to one side and look stupid. But not as stupid as he looked with a blob of Blu tack on top of his head to hold it on... also had that crude Capture Copter thing they did which I got complete from a jumble sale in the 80s. Gone now.🎶Dunno where, dunno when...🎶
And DON'T diss mr Dean! He's connected...never mess with somebody who has a Gay King And a May Zinger on speed dial!🤭
Dragon Flyz looked rubbish at the time. It seemed a lot of money to pay for something that you Knew you'd use once and send it flying up onto a neighbours roof to be lost forever...still, it'd be company for the Action Man Parachutist who ended up there about 6 years earlier. I had horrible neighbours. Or was I a horrible kid? Come to your own conclusions...
As for the Kryptonite rock, they got away with selling 'Pet rocks' in the 70s. Some people will buy Anything, won't they...Joe? That Magna Maximillian looks interesting, looks like it could be made to mix and match with the Micronauts Magna figures! Baron Maximillian Karza!
It has a ring to it, don't you think?
S.T.A.R.R. Force Commander!
Right, that's enough.
Genuinely sorry about the Ice Castle, a real pity but sort of to be expected.
The Kenner Death Star was robust in comparison!
Great series, a lot of fun! Cheers, Guys!😁👍👍👍🍻
Thanks Dave!!
I loved Mobile Action Command when I was a lad. Those are amazing! Those Dragon Flyz were banned in the US. Stupid children kept shooting them at each other causing injuries. Yeah Blackstar Ice Castles are notorious for shattering in the box.
Wonderful!
Yeah the Bond Jaws van...because it was the 70s wasn't in the film lol
Lenticular shields 🛡️ lol I went out with her last week 😅
That Hogan costume is insanely rare. It is a totally Italian creation not sold in any other market.
Oooh to buy so many toys, that you forget what you bought...
that NEVER happened to me, as long as i live, granted, i don't own a store, nor a website to sell toys.
I want that giant michelangelo and Raideen though, been looking for those original giant turtles for more then 10 years xD
30:47 Reminds me, Joe : have you seen the new Playmobil Asterix range?
Yep. Like it. Dangerous. Trying to not look.
My dog was going bonkers when you were sqeaking that blow vinyl toy pig
Sorry!! 😂😂
First Canine viewer of TSOT?
@@mgl76 He's a huge fan is my Bruce.!
@@leicestervintagetoyshop Is that Hogan GIG costume still available
Yes although it is not out on display it’s in the basement at the shop
I have enjoyed watching every episode of Series 1 and 2 this week so thanks to the 3 of you for making these films.......one question though, if you were importing those toys I presume you would have to pay duty so when you brought them over on the ferry were they not inspected by French custom officers ?
We sent some back but we were just waved through in the van.
22:45 Alf ate cats back on Melmac but not on Earth, the Tanners wouldn't stand for it.
Were Blackstar toys ever released in the UK. I'm the right age to remember it 9 years old in 83 I don't remember the cartoon and it is the sort of thing I loved at that age and definitely wouldn't have forgotten.
Yes they were 👍
@@leicestervintagetoyshop were they widely distributed? Maybe toy shops thought they were a knock off of he-man because they were so similar and opted not to stock both because I never ever saw any at all and I really loved figures especially sword and sorcery type stuff. I live in Bristol by the way if that makes a difference?
@@leicestervintagetoyshop that's funny I never saw them.
@@davidnorton2473 somewhere we have some pictures of them on shelves over here
@@leicestervintagetoyshop oh wow maybe you could post that on your channel. I love seeing the old displays it brings back fond memories of being in Alladins cave and that sense of wonderment you felt as a kid in a good toyshop.
c'mon you got to make another one with gav, toy store team up? love the content!
Not up to us, go talk to Mr Gav 👍
Can you disclose when the new series will start filming?
No because we don’t know. A lot comes down to finances. However we start filming a mini series in February and we have some U.K. specials planned for the next 6 months or so
The Angelorso seams to be pretty old. Maybe care bears are a knockoff of those like Barbie is from Bild-Lilli?
Shame about the black star castle and with dust on it probably was on display at somepoint. I need to come to see your shop and do a tour of it and see what I can find for my collection.
"amazin"
I've never encountered a Blackstar Castle in person. I gotta ask: is that plastic as thin as the stuff Ben Cooper makes were made from? I've never seen plastic thicker than those crumble at the edges like that.
It’s not thinner but just very very brittle. It’s unbelievably breaky
Sometimes European companies got the licence to produce own figures, so they are no knockoffs.
7:48 Just go watch The Black Hole film man, it's 2023, you can watch damn near anything instantly now. :\
Lol at the Zorro aside "Sounds the same both times to me...oh Zo-rro versus Zor-roh ah I see.", never really crossed my mind about the pronunciation. ;)
so the ice castle has the same construction as a ben cooper mask?
Worse!
Gutted about your Blackstar castle man! But if that toy had never been out of the box, was there no plastic shards inside the box? That would be the giveaway if it had never been out before. Are the Star Fleet toys going on sale?
It was open at one end. There are a few bits but it’s not really fixable. Starfleet toys sold as soon as we put them out but we are getting some more in the new year. Thanks for watching!
Hello Gav, Joe & Matt. I have seen you in The UK, France, Germany and I think Italy. Do you ever go to 🇬🇷 Greece? 🙂😊
Hey Irene, one day we hope to go to Greece!
@@leicestervintagetoyshop oh hi! Thanks, cheers! 😉🤩
Is the three headed dragon 'King Ghidorah'?
Possibly, not our strong suit to be honest. We are off to Google!
@@leicestervintagetoyshopthanks for another great episode that was a pleasure to watch
Traditionally Ghidorah is more of a golden colour and has three tails but it's certainly got those vibes...
@@ExcelsiorsDomain winged aswell if my memory serves? As soon as I dropped the comment I thought, 🤔 wings? 😂
@Ned collects Yes absolutely winged, he was a Godzilla space monster so of course he needed wings. Because wings are essential in space. Obviously.
How does paying import taxes on those toys actually work?