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found a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Power board game for a buck. complete and in excellent condition.

Sweet.  :ninjaturtle:

 :ninjaturtle: :ninjaturtle: :ninjaturtle: :ninjaturtle:

Nice. :)

I got outbid on a BEZERK board game. Kinda wished i'd bid a little higher now.

that's a nice one too. I got my Berzerk at a Salvation Army a coupke years ago.

found 20 Dragon Ball Z videos today. 95 cents each.

An ebay win but a good one me thinks. :)


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6506661900


Ton of McFarlanes, some videogame related ones I don't even know what they are from, lol most of them I'm not sure what they're from. They are for my game room, to guard the collection. :)  Once I build the shelves that is.  Don't have space yet  

I see Angus Young lurking in the back of that photo. quite a mix there.

btw, long time no see man!!!

Welcome VGA.

Go HERE (http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=classic;action=display;num=1086703181)

Hey VGA!  Where have you been at for the last year?

Those are some pretty cool looking figures, VGA.  McFarlane does amazing work.  Seems like a great price, too.

And it's good to see you around again!  The site has come a long way since the last time you visited, so hopefully you like what you see.  I also sent you a PM before I saw your post here.

another collection of mine and one that my daughter really enjoys is Legos. I've been on a Lego hot streak lately. In the past couple weeks I've found Legos at thrift stores about 6 times.

much like getting games cheap it's pretty cool snagging a set for a buck that still has the original price tag of $25 dollars on it.

I have some interest in a bit of Lego, there was an adaptor made for the motot unit, to connect to a home micro computer, and you could build robots, kinda like a LOGO turtle.

It's can take a long time hunting to find that particular ZX Spectrum interface.

Sounds like the Lego Mindstorm line.  I picked up a few add on sets for that a few weeks ago in a thrift store.  They were new in the box and only $3 bucks each.  I am still hoping to find one of the main units that can interface with the computer.  The kids are still young so the regular lego are cool for them but I would like to blow them away in a few years with one of those sets.

Today, I got for £3  Street Fighter Alpha the movie DVD.

Bought a 10 year old Thoroughbred mare (horse) for $1000.  She is a granddaughter to Seattle Slew (a famous race horse).
Am so stoked to have a horse big enough and trained enough for me to ride, finally!
I have a pic but don't know how to insert it...  I'm not good at the interweb |D

that really is general chat territory though.

yeah definately worth more than a mention in the non-gaming finds thread.

Friday night I found a Super 8 reel of silent black 7 white clips of Star Wars complete in a little box with Han & Chewbacca on the lid. $3 bucks. can't play it but a neat lille knick knack to put on the shelf.

yesterday I found a Viewmaster viewer and 20 reels. all from between 1948 and 1952. $10 bucks. the reels are all of famous sights around the world, Pike's Peak, the Black Hills, Africa and others. this was back when Viewmaster was not merely just pictures from kids shows and movies.

I found a box of about 40 vhs tapes sitting on top of a garbage can. I looked both ways and stuck it in the car.

Was there anything good in it?

No.

I'll occasionally buy unlabeled VHS tapes from thrifts just to see what's on them. it's mildly entertaining. I've seen peoples goofy home movies, episodes of Jeopardy from the 80's, lame movies off the family channel and such.

a few have had some old video game commercials which were cool to see again. I should try to compile those onto another tape or DVD.

I found a quarter on the floor today.
I picked it up and kept it.
It was a California state quarter.

I also found money the other day.  It was a nice dollar bill.  There wasn't even poop or spit on it; I checked.

then you licked it and wiped your ass with it right?

found this last night:

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?S=4560-1

paid 3 bucks for it. not sure how complete it is yet but I have the transformer, engine and track. these Lego train sets go for around $80 to $100 bucks new. I was pretty pleased.

also picked up 7 Star Trek novels for a quarter apiece.

it turns out the train was indeed complete and it works. some of the accessories had missing pieces but no biggie. $3 bucks for an item that was over $100 new ain't a bad deal.

My mom picked my up a mix bag of trading cars for a quarter.
There was 200 cards in it.
Mostly Yu-Gi-Oh cards which included the imfamous Blue Eyes White Dragon some first edition cards and some cards with metallic text i know they are rarer but don't remember if they are differnt versions of a common card or their own entity.

Magic cards - only one rare in there a few older cards but mostly common stuff

and some Dragon Ball Z cards i know absolutely nothing about these.
I own 1 packs worth that came in some magazine i got years ago.

So things came full circle:

I found the Lego Hogwarts Castle for $2 bucks the other day.

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?S=4709-1

It was missing a few pieces, mainly a small archway section and some of the figures. The main parts of the castle are complete and it had the box and manual.

found 12 more Star Trek novels yesterday. I hard bound, the rest paperback. they were from various series, TNG, Voyager, DS9, the original series and New Frontier.

the store I got them at sells books at 5 for a dollar. 12 books for $2 bucks. can't beat that.

another load of Star Trek novels, 13 this time. one looks kind of interesting, it's called "Spock, Messiah".

I hope Star Trek: Ice Trap wasn't one of them, it's not very good.

heh, I do have that one. I was sorting through all my Star Trek books last night. I've got quite a few but there seems to be a ton of these things.

I had a close encounter of the non-gaming kind yesterday.  I stopped by a local thrift and found a Lego Mindstorm Robotic Invention box sitting on the shelf.  The only problem was when I opened it up it was almost empty (maybe 20 small parts and the manual).  I might have picked it up just for the box and manual but they wanted $10 which seemed high.  Talk about your rollercoaster of emotions!

that sucks. that would have been a nice one. I've had really good luck with Lego finds and they are always dirt cheap around here. I've also found quite a few unopened sets at thrifts and those are just as cheap.

I might have grabbed that too but $10 for a box and manual is a little crazy.

I have a couple of Mindstorm addon sets and a book that I have picked up but so far no control unit.  My last Lego find was a huge box full for $10, it had 15 or so complete sets.  I asked the guy at the store why it was priced so low and he told me he prices them to go because he hates to have them in the store.  He said everytime he has one on the shelf some kid get it open (no matter how well it's closed) and spills it all over.

that's an interesting point. I've seen a few things I might have bought had I got there before the kid who tore the box apart and scattered it all over the floor.

my last Lego find was Hogwarts Castle, not complete but pretty close. my best was a Lego train with track and transformer, roughly a $1000 set for peanuts.

do you collect Lego's or just grab the occasional set?

HOLY CRAP!!!!!

How much was that new? Or is it a rare set?

whoops!!!

that would be $100 not $1000

sorry.


still not bad for the $2 bucks I paid.

OHHHH Ok thats a little different. And yes still a very nice find.

No I don't collect, I just have 3 young boys (4, 5, & 8!)

uh.. yeah mine are actually for my daughter too.

I was looking around at a thrift store and found this:

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a27/mr_thrifty/43400004.jpg)

I already have a 10 gallon tank, and this was a steal for only 10 dollars.  I don't know how many gallons it is (my guess is about anywhere from 20-30) it just needs to be cleaned up a little bit, light still works and everything

sweet. we used to have a 30 gallon tank. now my daughter has a little 2 1/2 gallon job with 2 tetras.

I like how you took the picture of the tank in front of some controlers just so we all know you are still with us. haha.

found 10 more Star Trek books for the collection so far this weekend. 4 for the original series and 6 for The Next Generation. Included were Star Trek III, the Search for Spock and First Contact. I only need Insurection and Nemesis to have all the movie adaptations.

A couple were hardnound for $2 each, the rest were all a quarter apiece.

I just got back from a big machine-gun shoot in Louisville (Lots of fun, go to one if you're interested in guns and don't mind lots of VERY loud noise.) with my grandpa, my dad, and a friend of mine.  When we got back to my grandpa's house, he gave me a whole lot of really interesting (and mostly old) books.  Here's a list:

- The Anarchist Cookbook (You've all probably heard of this.)
- The Plumber's Kitchen: The Secret Story Of American Spy Weapons
- The Shooters (A historical book about REAL cowboys.)
- Spite, Malice, & Revenge: The Complete Guide To Getting Even
- Stonehenge Decoded (It's about stonehenge.  Looks really interesting, IMO.)
- Survival In The Outdoors
- Finding Your Way In The Outdoors
- The Green Beret's Handbook (That's what my grandpa said it was.  It's a little black binder with information on how to make stuff you need when you're on the field, I think.  I haven't really looked at it much, but I'm really excited about this one.)

Most of these books are 20-30+ years old.  I'm really happy to have them, because I'm finding this kind of stuff much more interesting than I used to.

- CFB

lol, yeah didn't mean for it to be that way, I'm just running out of room for stuff.  I'm actually using it to stack stuff on for right now haha

from a dollar store called Deals I foung a bunch of anime VHS tapes. mostly Yu Yu Hakusho, which is cool because that's a show my daughter and I like to watch.

I found a boat load of cheap anime this week. some new some used.

VHS:

Nadia
Lily Cat
Robotech Macross Saga 1
Robotech Macross Saga 2
Dragon BAll GT - Creation
Dragon Ball GT - Revolution
Angel Cop - 1
The Slayers - 3

DVD:

Better Man - the Awakening
S-Cry-ed - the Lost Ground
Ronin Warriors