My antique space Explorer toy.

Cool.

This is a marks 10 toy.

Slowly through the years, there's been like this massive collector community for things like this, especially to find one of these things in great shape.

This is something little boys played with.

And you know how little boys are we to story?

Everything still do.

Sometimes it's an awesome piece.

I love the Lippo it runs.

It does everything the toys supposed to do.

I'm hoping for $3000 today.

The antique toy is we're so much because of its rarity, I cannot find anything on this piece on, and I have tried to look everywhere.

This is pretty damn cool.

You know much about the Marks Toy company?

Not too much?

No, they were literally like the biggest toy company in the world.

They've been around since the 19 twenties.

They were like the first guys to go like Japan and Hong Kong, and start making both stamped out metal toys.

This was like the early Japanese stuff right after World War two.

If you look at pictures of Japan right after World War two, just about everything was bombed out and they were looking for being able to manufacture things with what they had left and inexpensive toys made at a sheet.

Metal was their thing.

After World War 21 of the things the Japanese manufacturing base made was inexpensive metal toys.

And quite frankly, the quality was pretty bad, so they didn't last long.

So it's absolutely amazing to see one of this kind of shape.

How much you want for it?

Well, I looked all over the place for this, and I found an old toy magazine where was listed for $5500.

Now, that's with the box, of course, but I figured 3000 would be a good price to ask for.

Okay, this one, the Holy Grails.

This is one of the big ones, and this looks like it's beat up a little bit, that this incredible shape I really like my friend to come down and take a look at it.

Give me a better idea of a price.

Okay, so my buddy's not around, but, um, I think I know enough about this thing when you saw price for 5500.

That is with the box, right?

and I'm just telling you that's 100 times more rare.

Especially for a toy like this.

I'll give you 1000 bucks for it.

You know, when it comes to toys, comes to anything like this condition.

Is everything okay?

It's an incredible shape.

I'll give you that, but it's definitely not perfect, right?

17.

50.

No.

I'll give you 1200 bucks.

I have to re sell this thing, OK?

They're very collectible.

But maybe one out of 20,000 people collect old sheet metal toys, and then you gotta find someone willing to pull that kind of money on their pocket.

Would you do 1300?

Let me you 12.

50.

Sure.

All right.

All right.

Thanks, but I'll meet you right over there, and we'll just paperwork.

Okay, thanks.

I think I do enough about this toy to make a good deal.

Like I always say, a little bit of knowledge can be a really dangerous thing.

So I'm gonna bring it down to Johnny just to ease my mind.

They do.

What's up?

Hey, what's up?

Look what I bought.

Oh, sweet man.

Old Lyme.

Our toy, huh?

It's all there.

It's in really good shape.

Wow.

Every time you come, it's something better and better these air, part of pop culture in the fifties and sixties.

You know, every little kid would have been exposed to down the news with the space race going on.

So, you know, kids had ray guns and then they had 10 robots and then, of course, little space vehicles.

This is part of pop culture from back then.

So I tried to call you come out of shop, but you weren't there, so I bought it.

I think I made a good deal on it, and they just want to see what she thought it was worth.

A cool.

Well, let me take a closer look in the collector world, these air enormously popular collectors go nuts for these.

And this is definitely, you know, up there As far as some of the rare tin toys from that era.

All of the colors are really bright.

And look at the red on the astronaut.

The nose is clean.

Um, what I like the most about this this is a friction toy.

So I mean, young boys would have just been revving it up all day long and that whole bottom surface is just gorgeous.

So what you pay for this 12 50?

If I lose money, it's your box.

You weren't here.

Well, let me tell you something, man.

I mean, with the condition that it's in, you could sell us easily for 2500.

Cool, man, so you'll do well with this expends.

All right, It's really risky for Rick to buy a toy without me seeing it.

But Brick definitely did a great buy.

It's super rare, and condition was great.

You should have no problem selling it in the shop.