Monster Monday or Micro Monday?

     As I had stated earlier, there is an auction every Monday night at Harris Brothers Auctions, and that is where most of my material will come from. I want to post something about every Monday night experience. That being said, life happens and I haven't been able to write about Monday, November 26th, until now.
     When you walk into the auction house on a Monday night it can sometimes be a little overwhelming. Why? Because you walk around the corner and see this:

     Fifteen booths of stuff from fifteen different consigners. Every Monday night there are well over a thousand items to look over and search through. Toys are MY specialty so the first thing I do is look for toys, whether they are from the 1920's or today. This particular Monday there were quite a few to choose from. My secret weapon(Andrea, my wife) and I ended up winning the bid on two boxlots in particular. We won a boxlot containing two sealed packages of Micro-Machines, and a boxlot containing two loose Monster High Dolls.


     Micro-Machines were made by the company Galoob in the late 1980's. They are miniature diecast vehicles that were normally packaged five in a package. They made just about every vehicle you can imagine. The biggest claim to fame Micro-Machines have is the fact they were featured in one of the highest grossing movies of all time, Home Alone. Kevin uses Micro-Machines in a trap he made for the two burglers. Needless to say this boosted their sales bigtime!
     Andrea and I won the boxlot containing the Micro-Machines for $11. There were other sealed diecast cars in the box with them and you can see those on my eBay account teen_titan_fan. This is the first post where you can view the eBay auctions while they are going on and find out with me if I made a good purchase or not. The links:
Micro Machines Lot #1
Micro Machines Lot #2


     The first wave of Monster High dolls came out in 2008 and were made by Mattel. The cartoon has become very popular with little girls most recently and their merchandise is flying off of the store shelves. Well, in 2008 that was not the case. They were produced in a more limited run and most of the dolls actually went to the clearance shelves. If you could have predicted the future you could have bought first wave Monster High dolls for $7 each in the box and sell them anywhere from $60 to $120 a piece!
     We won the box with the Monster High dolls, along with other goodies, for $15. When I give an update to the post telling what everything sold for that I have links to, I will also give totals on the other items if they too have sold. Monster High links:
Monster High Cleo
Monster High Frankie

     So will it be a Monster Monday or a Micro Monday? I will give an update to this post to see how we did. I will also be writing the December 3rd post shortly so look for that: SPOILER ALERT... Andrea did most of the bidding so she'll get her first featured post! As always, "Keep Your Eyes Open."