Anyone here collect old action figures? Issues with a time capsule...

[redrumloa]

My mother mentioned a year or so ago she found this box, and I got it the other day. Before she mentioned it, I had no clue they still had it. I do think it is literally 30 years since I laid eyes on these.

This may be the only physical tangible link to my childhood. The only problem is that all of the legs are either extremely loose, or have fallen off. The legs are apparently held in place by a rubber strip. That rubber has deteriorated over time and is failing. i wonder if anyone has recreated this rubber piece? I'll be Googling around, but wibder if anyone here has experience with 80s action figures?

 

[redrumloa]

...and Google seems to have my answer.

Any of ya'll ever encountered a time capsule?

 

[ilwrath]

A lot like yours, not really a time capsule, but I occasionally stumble across something I had long thought was lost to time. I wasn't an action figures kid. I was a cars and Lego kid.

Closest to a time capsule is the fairly large crate of well packed Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars from when I was a kid that I haven't opened in a good 25 years or so. I know exactly what and where it is, and I've moved it along with me as I've moved. It's getting about time to bust that thing open and see what all is really in there, as my memory has grown a bit hazy. I'll see one of the YouTube "Marty's Matchbox Restorations" or whatever, and it'll be a casting I know I have. And, every so often my son will find a newer car that is a casting I remember, too. No idea if any of mine would be valuable. They reproduce a lot of the little parts for the models, now, but most of mine are complete or nearly. I know some of the rubber treads and things are in bad shape, though. They were back when they were packed. I'm sure they now make replacement parts for the early action figures, as those have a lot of the same problems of lost little accessories and decaying rubber, and such.

I also remember I was looking for something over at my parents house, and opened the wrong bin downstairs and was greeted by a fully assembled Lego dune buggy from one of the early Technic sets, complete with my own customizations to it. No idea how that never got taken apart. I left it. Probably still there.

Oh, and I still have a bunch of Bally Astrocade stuff, but was surprised to realize that along with our original Astrocade that was pretty dodgy, it did still include all the old sheets we hand-wrote our high scores on and such. I can't imagine suffering through 30 levels on Wizard of Wor on hard, anymore. I think I made it through 4 last time I tried. 30 would have included surviving, what, 7 or 8 of the deathpit empty levels, and they reach max speed really quickly... Watch the radar, run up and down the sides, and don't fire across the screen. Strange what you remember.