To this day, the LJN “ThunderCats” line is still being sought out.
Well the prices of LJN TCats toys certainly has gone up since the debut of the new show, but whether they are really worth that much is open to debate.
Some sellers on Ebay are just plain greedy. :mad: One seller puts up an exorbitant price for a TCat toy and then another seller sees that and follows suit, thinking that perhaps the value has increased and before you know it, every seller has hiked the price for EVERY TCat toy. How else would you explain someone asking US$70 for a loose, weapon-less Lion-O or US$50 for Bengali’s hammer or US$30 for just Lion-O’s sword!!! Come one, they are not THAT rare! :eek:
I understand that a MOC or MIB toy or even a loose toy with delicate parts intact (e.g. Stinger with wings) would surely sell for a couple of hundred bucks. And to some extent I think that it is worth it, not for the actual toy itself but you are actually paying the owner for his/her efforts in preserving the toy in mint condition for all these years (and resisting the urge to rip open that bubble card!) A serious collector would pay top dollar for a such a piece if it completed his/her collection. No arguments there.
But the majority of the people buying or looking for TCats toys aren’t serious professional collector’s. They have a fondness for these toys because they were part of their childhood and probably bring back a lot of good memories. They just want to own a toy that their parents couldn’t afford when they were young. So an incomplete loose, dusty, paint-worn, broken-action, played-with toy, shouldn’t cost the average Joe a month’s salary!!
I think some sellers are just exploiting the childhood memories of TCats fans for money. Even if I were Bill Gates and could afford to buy these toys at sky-high prices, I wouldn’t because it’s simply wrong. “The question, my friend, that you should always ask yourself before doing anything is not whether you CAN do it, it is whether you SHOULD do it.”