HQ eBay, sealed!

[Daedalus]

It's a game. It's meant to be opened.
I've never liked or even understood the collector's market for mint stuff.

My old friend who had been Zargon back in the day told the story of another friend who attended toy conventions on weekends. He bought several copies of the toys he thought had collecting possibility, then boxed, labeled, and stored them in his attic. Each year he opened the 10-year-old boxes and sold them. The market for the good ones returned a 10 to 20% annual yield. Even with costs for travelling and mediocre purchases factored in, he had lined up an excellent investment mechanism and was following his interest to boot.

[whitebeard]

It's a game. It's meant to be opened.
I've never liked or even understood the collector's market for mint stuff.

Better yet, how do you know it isn't a defective copy in there with all of the cards cut wrong, packaged with the clue board, and missing a sprue of minis???? Or a copy someone resealed?

Gotta open that up!!!

[j_dean80]

It's a game. It's meant to be opened.
I've never liked or even understood the collector's market for mint stuff.

Better yet, how do you know it isn't a defective copy in there with all of the cards cut wrong, packaged with the clue board, and missing a sprue of minis???? Or a copy someone resealed?

Gotta open that up!!!

If you are a collector it wouldn't matter cause it will forever be sealed and none the wiser.

[Goblin-King]

It's a game. It's meant to be opened.
I've never liked or even understood the collector's market for mint stuff.

Better yet, how do you know it isn't a defective copy in there with all of the cards cut wrong, packaged with the clue board, and missing a sprue of minis???? Or a copy someone resealed?

Gotta open that up!!!

If you are a collector it wouldn't matter cause it will forever be sealed and none the wiser.

Schrödinger's HeroQuest!

[whitebeard]

It's a game. It's meant to be opened.
I've never liked or even understood the collector's market for mint stuff.

Better yet, how do you know it isn't a defective copy in there with all of the cards cut wrong, packaged with the clue board, and missing a sprue of minis???? Or a copy someone resealed?

Gotta open that up!!!

If you are a collector it wouldn't matter cause it will forever be sealed and none the wiser.

But I am "the wiser" and I call B.S. on your "authentic shrink wrap".

I say the cat is dead!

[knightkrawler]

It's a game. It's meant to be opened.
I've never liked or even understood the collector's market for mint stuff.

Better yet, how do you know it isn't a defective copy in there with all of the cards cut wrong, packaged with the clue board, and missing a sprue of minis???? Or a copy someone resealed?

Gotta open that up!!!

If you are a collector it wouldn't matter cause it will forever be sealed and none the wiser.

But I am "the wiser" and I call B.S. on your "authentic shrink wrap".

I say the cat is dead!

Maybe there's the metal prototype figures inside or 12 combat and 4 black movement dice with golden symbols...
I say the cat is very much alive and needs to be saved. If it's dead, you can still play with it...

[whitebeard]

Maybe there's the metal prototype figures inside or 12 combat and 4 black movement dice with golden symbols...
I say the cat is very much alive and needs to be saved. If it's dead, you can still play with it...

You're right. I'm a "cat is half dead kind of guy".

[Decipher]

I'm waiting for someone to clean out some old warehouse somewhere only to find a full pallet of boxed Milton Bradley HeroQuest boxes. I would hope, should this happen, it would drop the eBay prices to rock bottom.

In 2007, I was driving through West Virginia, where my grandmother lived and decided to stop at a Magic Mart department store. When I walked into the toy isle, I couldn't believe all the stuff I was looking at. There was a huge section of the isle that was full of toys and electronics from 1986 or so. They had Nintendo Entertainment Systems still sealed in box, NES games sealed, Kenner Star Wars toys, Hasbro Transformers even some old board games of the time, all sealed. I pondered where all this stuff came from and went to talk to the manager. He told me that a few days before, they had cleaned out a semi trailer they were using for storage which was sitting behind the store. He said then they finally got to the back, they had pallets of toys, games, electronics, you name it from Christmas 1986. He told me the head office told him he was to put it all in the trash compactor to be crushed because they couldn't legally sell it. But he couldn't do it and put it out anyway. Everything was so cheap, like a Luke Skywalker action figure from Return of the Jedi was $0.50. He just wanted it all gone. I didn't have but $20.00 on me so I jumped in the truck, drove back to my grandmothers and begged her to let me have a hundred bucks and I would pay her back the following week. She gave me $50 and I hauled butt back to Magic Mart. In the 2 hours it took me to get back, someone had come in there and bought most of it. The manager told me two guys, each with a buggy, just left with it. I didn't see anything worth buying that was left.

I'm rambling... Anyway, finding a huge lot of old merchandise does happen and maybe one day someone might find a stash of HeroQuest.