ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

This weekend’s Bay Area Collectible Toy Show was touted as the event to attend if you missed SDCC ‘08.  A slight case of wishful thinking perhaps, as this Oakland affair was geared more toward mainstream kids toys and a handful of celebrity guests whose heyday occurred long before the attending children were even conceived. Nonetheless, I owed it to Oaktown to give the show a walk-through. While the majority of toys were Star Wars, Hot Wheels and sports memorabilia, I saw a few tokidoki items, a single lonely Living Dead Doll and a 10th anniversary DC Sandman figure set (which I snapped up for half price due to its dusty crushed box). There was also a small selection of nostalgia toys like Smurfs, My Little Pony and Care Bears. For $25, you could get your picture taken with Richard Kiel of Moonraker fame and Jon Provost who once upon a time played Timmy on Lassie. Oh, but the best thing I saw was a stack of t-shirts boldly proclaiming that TOY HUNTERS GET ALL THE “LADIES.” The only thing funnier than that slapstick slogan is the fact that “ladies” is in quotation marks. Does that mean “ladies” with a wink-wink and a shout out to Eddie Murphy? Here’s a few pictures I took at the show…