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My friends and I used to hit up tons of flea markets and yard sales during high school and into college, hunting for vintage toys, Americana, and all kinds of random junk. We were pretty serious about it, we even had walkie-talkies and had seperate categories for the most part: vehicle toys, action figures, Japanese robots, Star Wars stuff, and so on. My obsession was advertising figures and brand mascots, e.g. Smokey the Bear, Pillsbury Doughboy, even a Ritalin promo figure at one point. About 99% of my collection was sold off in the span of two years, mostly at Mandarake in Tokyo and eBay. What’s left are my cold dead hands, obscure, can’t be replaced crew of pocket-sized figures I’ll never part with. There are few more but the are my favorites.

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