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Time Travelling Shopping Trips!
Lady Frostbite:
Here's a fun game that I sometimes like to think about when I see retro toys or general 90's things:
If you had the chance to travel back in time and purchase items - assuming you had unlimited funds and in the correct currency, what would you buy?
I don't mean the usual 'buy stuff that's super rare in the future', more what you would buy for your personal pleasure, what you wanted as a kid but never got, the odd things you swear you saw but can't name and have no trace online.
Personally, I would go back and get: Biker Mice from Mars stuff, early Monster High, a LOT of Playstation games, McFarlane figures, more manga that has long gone out of print, and I would wander around all the Woolworths shops I can find! I would also go around John Menzies, Toys 'r' Us from the 90's as I never went, Blockbuster, try Irn Bru before the recipe change and sausage rollsf rom Greggs as that had a change too!
I would also buy SO MUCH The Lion King merch!
lovesbabysquirmy:
Sailor moon stuff! Takara ponies! Miffy things, also Poochie....
And lady lovely locks everything
SpacePinto:
Probably things that I can't find on eBay now or would be very hard to complete, like all issues of Dinosaurs! from DeAgostini, all six original Attack Pack toys, all six Woodland Folk books, tons of different discontinued snacks and of course a brand new Wind Whistler, Fizzy and few other ponies...
Harmonie:
Naturally, I'd love to go back to the G1 and G3 MLP eras to be able to pick up the ones I wanted off of the shelves. That'd be so neat!
Also, I collected beanie babies when I was really young, and I think it would be super neat to go back and time and collect some of the ones from the first runs. I remember the dinosaur beanie babies that were really rare.
Music-wise, I just can't resist the idea of being able to go back to olden times and get instruments from each era. Although that would prove a very complicated adventure, it would be so cool to get an oboe from the Baroque era and lots of the winds from the Renaissance era. I'd get multiple of each, so I could have ones to keep in pristine condition and other ones to play. Lord knows I'd die to get to play a Baroque oboe! That instrument is so gorgeous!
Okay, I went off there, sorry.
freezestime:
Oh so many things!
SpoilerI dreamed about finding the Sailor Moon toys and merch as a child, I'd probably time travel to Canada/America when Sailor Moon first came out, then when it reached the height of it's popularity and as it's popularity was dying off, then head to Japan and do it all again! Then I'd go to Australia, document what was being sold (if it was ever aired here) and then go to Italy when Sailor Moon was being re-aired and get those nice big dolls.
Then with My Little Pony, I'd go to America whenever a line was released that I had interest in. Like the first big brothers, Prom Queens, Sweetheart Sisters, Twins, Newborns, Bride ponies, TAF ponies, Playsets, Family sets, Babies, Teeny Tiny Babies, some misc ponies and items before I'd head over to boot sales and garage sales to see what I find. Then I'd go to American toy fairs to take photos of prototypes, concepts, ect and see if I could dumpster dive some stuff or get the locations of storage warehouses.
Get catalouges then head over to Europe to get cookery ponies, mountain boys, newborns, babies, then go to toy fairs, take photos and grab catalouges along with the comics before heading to Germany for Baby Buttons, nesthacken babies and regenbogan ponies.
Then I will go to Australia to establish when each release came out, get all the major stores catalouges each month, go to as many toys stores as possible, both rural and metro. Take photos of the isles, displays, go dumpster diving for displays, defect toys, ect.
Go to all Hasbro offices, get to know who's who, dumpster dive, get gossip from them, go to the national Australia Toy Fair, take photos, get catalouges, get unwanted items from their stall. Do that and verify which Nirvana was sent here from UK/Europe/America.
Then I'll go to Europe to get the G2 ponies I want, then head to France for their releases later in the line. Then back to Australia, where I'll buy the playsets that were released world wide, pick up catalouges, go to the toy fair, take pictures, get the catalouges, get display stuff, go to the Royal Fair to get G1 show bags and G2 show bags, plus whatever misc stuff they have in store.
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