Old toy prices

Muir hill 101 · Feb 21, 2023

Looking at the old catalog made me go look at see what I paid for some of the old stuff in the 80s. In those days it have been hard to buy from a catalog when you could walk into almost any store and buy a tractor or truck . The dealers in those days had a pretty good stock of toys and even the grocery store and Kmart and shopko had toys . One line of toys I never could find was 1/64 scale case steam engines and threshing machines . Paid 12.45$ For the R and 12.71. For the A

Muir hill 101 · Feb 21, 2023

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rrlund · Feb 21, 2023

I've got two boys. I remember paying $25 each for two 8630 Deeres for them for Christmas. That seemed like a huge amount of money at the time.

I remember looking at the TSC Blue Book when I was a kid, wanting toys for Christmas. Most were $1.75 to $2. I didn't dare ask for a wide front AC 190 or Case 930, they were $2.25.

Muir hill 101 · Feb 21, 2023

Things have definitely changed thats for sure . I remember when implements were 80 cents For the 64th scale . I dont buy as many I used to with the price of fuel and everything else to keep the real ones going its hard have money to buy a lot of toys

rrlund · Feb 22, 2023

I pretty much gave up on new toys when Deere came out with so many all the time and the prices for those got so out of hand. I started collecting the 2 Cylinder Club tractors as they came out. They started out at about $40, which was awful high at the time, but one year they came out with a new one and all the vendors at toy shows wanted $100. They claimed it was because they didn't make very many. You could go to toy shows ten years later and the same vendors still had new ones unsold.

I gave the hundred at a show as soon as they came out, but I came home so disgusted that was was ready to put all of my toys on a wagon and put them in the front yard. That was the straw that literally broke the camels back. The toys never meant the same thing to me after that. It wasn't a fun hobby anymore. It was a greed driven ripoff scam. It was the last 2 Cylinder Club tractor that I bought, I'll tell you that much.

rustyplow · Feb 22, 2023

90 cents for the wagon. 1.80 for the 880 tractor. No date on it but must be around 1960.

rrlund · Feb 22, 2023

I remember seeing an ad like that for Oliver 70 tractors, a case of 12. I don't recall exactly what the price was now, but seems like it was 25 cents each. Do you remember seeing that? It might have been in Oliver Heritage.

tractorguy2 · Feb 22, 2023

The newer toys have gotten so expensive you can't afford them. Like the new Ertl series Prestige Select. Those toys start out at $600. Ertl priced a lot of collectors out of the hobby with that series.

I mostly collect models of tractors I remember dad's customers having back in the 70's which were mostly tractor from the late 30's into the mid 60's.

I find it funny the two cylinder club no longer makes two cylinder toys! I think if TCC would make common two cylinders like a slant dash A or a collectly detailed model like a 38 D they would sell better than all the odd ball special purpose models they made in the past.

I'm going to be featured in the April issue of Toy Farmer magazine with my 74H Oliver corn picker and other custom toys.

rrlund · Feb 22, 2023

Glad to see that picker is getting recognition. It's a thing or beauty. I'll still buy nice Oliver toys if they cross my path. Dale Tibbe sold me a nice Oliver 77 and picker a year and a half ago. I bought a nice original 880 a few years ago with a Carter picker that's nicely modified in to an Oliver model 4.

I bought two 3010 Deeres at a flea market a few years ago. I gave eight dollars for one and ten for the other. I didn't have any real desire to have any more of them, but for that price, well, it was less than I paid for lunch that day, so I couldn't pass them up.

Muir hill 101 · Feb 22, 2023

Its gotten expensive. They finally are starting to make some decent implements like a real air drill and some decent plows and actually putting some detail on the piece unfortunately its 30 years to late now have to use money to live and farm hard to buy many toys . I dreamed of the day they would make an anyhydrous rig I think Im gonna splurge and get that one now if they made a decent grain drill instead of a pos end wheel

Muir hill 101 · Feb 23, 2023

I have a book with a bunch of these old ads in them Ill look and see if they have a date or not

Muir hill 101 · Feb 23, 2023

Like the 1000.00$ steel combine ? Then it turned out that the detail wasnt that great and not very many features especially considering the price ? I bought a plastic model of the same combine at tsc after Christmas special for 30$ and from what i understand its as good as the thousand dollar one just different material

DR. EVIL · Feb 25, 2023

WOW, $12 for a scale model Deere R diesel? Spring of 1964 Dad bought me MY Tractor an R, even put Char-Lynn power assist steering on it because the Two foot diameter steering wheel wasn't enough leverage for a small 10 year old to run the thing! Pretty sure that 2 cylinder beast hammering away thru that joke of a muffler for hour after hour is why my ears ring constantly now. No matter what job you had to do that R made it harder and take much more time to complete. We had a gas Super M-TA that I ran some the year before. R should have pulled a 4 bottom plow, and I did for a day or two, in alfalfa sod, 2nd gear and had to drop into 1st on one hill. Rest of the spring I pulled a 3-14 IH #8 plowing old corn ground in 3rd, about 1/2 mph slower than the SM-TA would pull the same plow. The R disappeared with 16 acres left to plow, local road commissioner thought it would work good dragging roads.
Yep, at the age of 10 years I should have had a toy R, not a real one. And why ANYONE wanted a real one is a mystery to me.

Muir hill 101 · Feb 25, 2023

We pull 4 bottoms with 130 horsepower. That must have been a sweet super m

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