UNIDOME ANTIQUE SHOW 2012

Here in my hometown of Cedar Falls there is an annual antique and collectables show held at the Unidome, which is a huge sports arena next to the University of Northern Iowa campus.
I found out it was going on when I took my daughter Sam to a local store in the afternoon called 18th Street Vintage. The guys at the store happened to mention it was going on and had hoped that some of the people that came into town would visit their store also.

So Sam and I decided to hurry over to the antique show since we knew there would be a lot to look at and could take quite a while. Thankfully I had the day off work. I've been to this show a few times and I knew it could take hours to look the place over.


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Sam and I scoured the place and saw all kinds of excellent stuff. I took some photos of the stuff I thought was cool.


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I've seen these old Mr. Potato head sets online before, but never one up close.


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Here's Mr. Potato Head's pal Frankie Frank.

Here is a neat Howard the Duck glass from 7-11.




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This magazine was a Mad Magazine knock-off that never made it past the first issue. When I went back to the booth to buy it, someone had beaten me to the punch.


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A fat Albert figure I'd never seen before.


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A non-talking PeeWee doll? I have one of these that was supposed to talk but the string broke. I saw another one of these at the show that was larger with a ventriloquist dummy mouth also.


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These wind-ups were $2.50 a piece. I tried to talk the lady down to $1.00 but she refused.

I found all these Evel Knievel dolls still in the original package.


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I also ran across three pieces of Pixieware which was popular during the late 50s and early 60s. They are jars and dishes with pixie heads on them. there are some really awesome ones if you get a chance to Google it sometime check out Howard Holt's "Pixieware".


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I saw lots of vintage Marx figures including Nutty Mads, and my favorite classic monsters.


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Here's a pic of a California Raisin puppet I'd never seen before.


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I sold some stuff to a couple dealers there which was nice and I made $50. I only bought two things. I got a Topps garbage candy container, and I paid for a whole box of Star Wars ships just to get a gremlin figure that I saw in there. I came out quite a bit ahead.

When I got home and sorted through everything I found some neat figures down in the box including a Dungeons & Dragons figure, a Star Wars Taun Taun, and a dusty old Evel Knievel doll.


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Overall it was a great time and a nice "daddy-daughter" day.

GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MAGNETS 2012

The new Garbage Pail Kids magnet series has finally arrived in stores. This is the fist ever GPK all-magnet set. It includes 16 magnets (12 brand new kids) and comes with 2 gummy candies per package.


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The box is really neat. I usually try to buy out the last packs in a box so the store will let me take it home. I've got the boxes from most of the GPK series so far.

There are four different wrappers for this series and each one has one of the classic GPKs from the the old series. Each pack also contains the card of the character shown on the wrapper. I thought that was pretty neat. Also, I don't know if it is true in every case but I found that you can complete the whole set by just buying one of each of the four different packs. It worked for me. This was quite different from previous GPK series where I ended up with hundreds of "doubles" attempting to complete an entire base set.


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The back of each card pack has the checklist and nutrition facts and stuff.


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I found there are three different types of gummy candy (heart, severed foot, and eyeball). There are two in each pack and come individually wrapped.


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The best things about this set are first of all the old series look with simple backgrounds and the original Cabbage Patch spoof look that was seen in those cards from my childhood. Second of all I like the ease of completing a set without having to buy a whole box full. It's a refreshing change especially for a tightwad like me.

The first four magnets in the set are from the old series GPKs (Adam Bomb and Potty Scotty from series 1, Ghastly Ashley from series 2, and Beasty Boyd from series 9) the rest are new concepts painted by Mark Pingitore #5-16. I posted scans of the cards along with his original artwork from his Facebook page.


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Mark Pingitore put his initials on the children's block I see.


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I always wonder how they keep coming up with new ideas for Garbage Pail Kids. I swear they have done everything you can think of and have even doubled and tripled certain ideas. There is some nice fresh stuff in this set.

Go out and buy some. They look great on the refrigerator.