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Home News Skylanders Go For $1262.68 On eBay, I Start Buying Skylanders

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Skylanders Go For $1262.68 On eBay, I Start Buying Skylanders

Posted on Monday, February 20 @ 09:00:00 Eastern by

When I was in sixth grade, I'd visit my local card shop on a regular basis and drool over the foil Charizard they had under the glass case in front. It was priced at over $100. I was 10 and if I had had $100 I would have felt like the kid in Blank Check.

I would have bought it if I could, but I resigned myself to buying a bunch of booster packs and hoping, praying, for the card to be within. It's been over 10 years now, and somehow the market on obscenely overpriced children's fads has multiplied by just as many years.

An eBay auction for 6 Skylanders figures has topped out at US $1262.68. Gold versions of Chop Chop, Flameslinger, and Drill Sargeant were bundled with silver versions of Eruptor, Boomer, and Dino-Rang. I have no idea what the fuck I just typed.

I guess Activision's Spyro experiment could be considered a success, but where the hell is Spyro?
Tags:   Skylanders, Activision, culture


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  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 9:16 am
    Where's Spyro? Rolling around on mounds of cash.
    0 0
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
    No that's Scrooge McDuck.
    0 0
  • thedarkstar
    thedarkstar
    Joined: Feb 2011
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2012 at 6:37 am
    Life is like a hurricane, here in Duckberg.
    Race cars lasers, airplanes, it's a Duck Blur!
    Might solve a mystery, or rewrite history!
    DuckTales, Woo-ooo!
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  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 11:00 am
    When I was a kid I had a handful of Saint Seiya saints with armor and all that which somehow got "lost", and now I hear they are selling each for $70-120, how I wish I still had mine...
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  • Odbarc
    Odbarc
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
    I saw my nephew playing this game. It's some kind of video game where these statuettes enable you to play said character.
    Of course, the one he likes best also happens to the strongest simply because he played the the most. And doesn't seem to understand that RPG concept of levels.
    Watching him succeed over the complicated looking areas only to fail at the simple tasks is hilarious though.
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  • thedarkstar
    thedarkstar
    Joined: Feb 2011
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
    My nephew has it as well. Seems like a neat concept, but holy hell, that is WAY too much money for a bunch of action figures for a video game.
    0 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
    Yeah. I remember those pokemon cards. I wonder if I still have them somewhere. MTG was still cooler, my mom just thought it was more evil or 'of the occult' blah blah. Crazy moms.
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  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
    i remember when i got my charizard in a booster pack. the look on my face. the look of envy and awe on my friends faces. i. was. God.
    if only i had that sorta luck when i buy scratchies...
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
    Haha, same here. I always get a bunch for my birthday. People give me $20 worth of scratchers. I only win like $5. Just give me $20 next time.

    Was it a foil Charizard?
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  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
    it certainly was. but some bastard kid stole it off me years later when i was living in Amsterdam. i have quite a few foil cards from the first edition release back home, including a Blastoise. it'd be interesting to see if they're worth anything nowadays. maybe wait a few more years.
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 20th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
    Probably won't be worth anything until TCGs start lighting up again.
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