Top 20 Most Valuable Toys From The 1970's

[00:00:00] Don: So today we're looking at the top 20 toys from the 1970s that are selling for some phenomenal money right now. Hey, it's Don. Today we're going to look at the top 20 most valuable vintage toys from the 1970s. Some of them may be surprising at the value some of these can sell for. Without further ado, let's hop right over and look at the top 20 most valuable toys from the 1970s. Now they're not in a specific order or rank. We're just going by value and these are the top selling ones right this very minute. Now this first one here is the original first edition, first release of the Evil Knievel and Stunt Cycle boxed playset. Now there's many versions of this. The first one is usually the most valuable one out there. This one went for over a thousand bucks plus shipping. Now you may be surprised about this one. This is Water Wiggle and this is an old original one. This is not the first release. This is from 1973. Basically connected up to your hose and waved around and splashed water on everybody. It looks like it was never used as well. This one sold for well over two thousand bucks. Now in 1977 the big push for movies was Star Wars. They didn't have toys ready when the movie was released when the materials started hitting the market. So what they did, they pre-sold a gift certificate that you would send away and they would send you four Star Wars figures in the future when they were ready to go. Now this is the boxed version. It comes with some stickers and some other things that came with the set as well. Basically it was an empty box with a promise to send you some toys. This routinely sells in excellent condition like this one here for over a thousand bucks. Now here's what the boxed coupon would have gotten you. An early bird Star Wars action figure set. You have Luke, Leia, Chewie, and you have R2-D2. Now this one comes with the box. It looks like they are still sealed as well. Thousands of dollars these can sell for very easily. Individual Star Wars as most people would know also carries some horrendous value. This is the vinyl cape Jawa. Most people remember it coming with a cloth cape but in some areas there was some production run of vinyl caped versions. They have been found still sealed on their blister pack. They can easily go for 10 or $15,000 if they grade high and they have been authenticated like this one here. This is one of the more desirable variants. This is the large size blue snaggletooth. This one was only available through a Sears cantina set. Kenner did not have a full picture of the actual character. The actual character in the movie is small and he's wearing a red outfit. The only way to get this figure back then was through that set. Through a mail order catalog. This one routinely sells for well over $1,000. This one went for almost $2,000. Now here is the Sears cantina set which you can clearly see the large blue snaggletooth on the box. The incorrect version. This is the boxed set as it was issued from Sears. You can see as well it sold for $3,500. Now when Darth Vader was originally released in 1977 some of them had a double telescoping lightsaber. Most of the common ones the ones that I remember seeing only had a single piece that would slide up and down. This one had two sections and here you can see the end of the lightsaber itself. It's not even in the greatest condition. It's still just a rare figure. Now some toys are valuable because they didn't make many of them. It was an odd figure, an odd character, one that maybe most people wouldn't actually want. A good example of that is the fembot from the Bionic Woman series. Now the whole idea of fembots was even used in modern times in the Austin Powers movie series. This one routinely in the box sells for hundreds of dollars. Even loose without the box it will still get you some good money. Another toy tied to the six million dollar man is the Venus Space Probe. I believe this only appeared in one episode for a very brief time. This is a toy that was released in limited quantity. Most people who were around back in the 70s when these came out may not have even realized these were released back then. It routinely sells for around a thousand bucks in the box. Now here is an interesting one by Mego and this is the large sized Linda Carter as Wonder Woman doll. This one's more designed towards those who would have been playing with say Barbie dolls. She comes with several outfits here. You could buy different versions also. This one easily sells for over a thousand dollars in the box. Now with Wonder Woman some of the outfits were very limited in production. They were only released in certain areas. And this right here is the Grecian outfit. And this one's exceedingly scarce which is why it sold for almost three thousand dollars for just the clothing. Now here's another Mego. This is Spider-Man from the world's greatest superheroes. This is a box version. Still comes with the box. Now there are several different types of suits that Spider-Man wore that the figure would have had on. This one has a circle pattern on the front. This one as well will easily sell for over a thousand bucks. Now here's a very interesting one. This is Dick Grayson. Robin's actual alter ego. Bruce Wayne has a figure also from the Mego early ones. Some of these may have been mail-aways as well. This one is fairly scarce. Most people would have just wanted Robin. So it wasn't produced in any large quantity and it will easily sell for over a thousand dollars as well. Now Mego wasn't the only company that produced Mego style figures. You will also run into AHI and many other companies. Large numbers of these were produced. This is Count Dracula. This is designed after Bela Lugosi and these routinely sell for over a thousand bucks as you see it here. Now everybody should know the name G.I. Joe. This is from the original large size G.I. Joe's. Some of the outfits are extremely scarce. They very rarely show up especially still carded like this one here. This box set does not include the figure itself. It's just the outfit and it's sold for over two thousand dollars. The right version of G.I. Joe himself can also sell for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Again if it's in the box like this here. Now one area that surprises many people are model kits. This is a one-twelfth scale sealed model kit for Mean Maverick and as you can see it's sold for over twenty seven hundred dollars with a ton of bids. Not a lot of these would have survived. Most of these would have been put together and the box would have been discarded and they would have been played with and the condition may not be very good. So to find one in the box is really key to the value in this specific one here. Now you can't talk about the 70s without touching on Hot Wheels. Specifically the red lines. There's red line across the tires. Many of these can sell for thousands of dollars. Even loose like this one here. This is one of the original first ones. The color itself is fairly scarce. There's many different varieties and versions of these as well. You've got to be very careful in identifying these. Some Hot Wheels red lines are extremely rare and there's only a handful of known examples of some cars. This is a yellow Oles 442 with the white interior. Sometimes the interior may be different. Sometimes the window the windshields may be tinted. The tires may be different. There's also different variations or versions of the red line tires themselves. The original ones the tires actually can be removed. There are literally hundreds of red lines that can sell for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Now another item that was issued in the 70s were Dungeons and Dragons items. They are extremely scarce to find these original tactical studies rules items anywhere these days. They are originally printed in limited quantity to begin with. Who knows how few of these are even left at this point. A box complete set with the original dice and booklets. The whole works can sell for a thousand or more any day of the week. Now an interesting play set from 1975 is the Amsco Marvel world. This is basically a cardboard play set. The box actually creates the base as you can see here. Now someone's put it together to display it together to display it for this. On the back side there is interiors and what you would get were little cardboard figures and stands. So you didn't actually get action figures but you got the whole world. It had a ton of characters for them. You can see right here it has the instructions on how to put it together and the whole works. These can easily sell for hundreds if not thousands of dollars depending on the condition and the completeness of the set. Now one of the largest play sets from the 70s was Wayne Foundation. It's for the Batman and Robin Migos as you can see here. There they are inside of it. This is a very large boxed set. It was very expensive for the time frame as well. Not many of them were produced. It didn't show up at every toy store as well. So if you find it in the box and it's complete you can easily get a thousand bucks for this one as well. Now a major line from the 70s was Shogun Warriors. One of the most expensive toys from the Shogun Warriors lines is the Godzilla figure. This is the large 19 inch version. There were also smaller versions of most of the Shogun Warriors. Some of the original Shogun Warriors are die cast metal and plastic. Now even with this Godzilla there are many different versions and variations of this very same figure. There may be a little difference in the tail or the fists or something along that line. They all can sell for a thousand bucks or better if you have the box and they're in excellent condition like this one here. Now here's another Shogun Warrior. This is Ray Dean. He's 24 inches and original. These are very large toys. This one still is in the box. It looks as though he was never opened or played with still sealed in the plastic with excellent looking stickers as well. He can easily sell in the thousand buck range in this condition. Now a long forgotten toy line from the 70s is the Lord of the Rings action figures. Now most people only know the modern day trilogy that came out. This was actually based on a cartoon from the 70s. Most of the toys if they're in the packaging like this one here can sell for hundreds if not thousands of dollars like Frodo's horse here. Here's just another one. This is Frodo himself. We just saw the horse. Knickerbocker made this line. They weren't very well known for action figures. Many people may not even be aware these ever even existed nor about the Knickerbocker toy company either. This one as well sold for well over a thousand bucks. Now one I can't forget is the 18 inch alien action figure from the alien movie. This is often referred to as big chap. This is the largest action figure that I am aware of for the alien movie series ever made. He was very limited in production as well. In the box he's extremely rare and usually sells in the thousand dollar range. Now the toy manufacturer from what I've understood made this in limited quantity because the movie itself was made for adults. So they didn't expect a bunch of kids to be piling on to buy this toy but is extremely scarce and very sought after because of that. But anyway that's what I have for you today. Well there we have it hopefully that gave you some ideas some thoughts. If you enjoyed this video please hit that like button down below. 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