10 Toy Photography Accounts to follow on Instagram

Well, well, well. Look who we have here? If it isn't Hoard World The Blog. Come crawling back to the blogosphere did we? Yes indeedy, Steve Macreadie.

Just like Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott and Dave Chapelle, sometimes they come back to their old shit.

Sometimes they shouldn't have. Sometimes it's alright. You can decide what this is for yourself. I'm not your real dad.

Once you've figured all that out, you can come with me on a journey to the magical world of instagram.....

TONNES OF NEW STUFF FOR SALE IN THE ALL STAR COMICS MELBOURNE TOY CABINET! HULK! STAR WARS! SPICE GIRLS! HE-MAN! MAD MONSTER PARTY! SIMPSONS!

Whenever Anti-Venom attends a Mad Monster Party, he always brings some Los Pollos Hermanos chicken.

Hi everybody,

As some of you may already know, for a good while now, I've been fortunate enough to have been given the unique opportunity to host some of my wares for sale in the Toy Cabinet at All Star Comics Melbourne.

Yes, it's all true. If you're a local you totally have a shot at owning items that have been personally fondled by yours truly.

That said, while the allocated shelf space has varied from one to a couple over the last almost three years - All Star Comics move to Queen Street heralded a new age of display option wonderment for this little plastic dog and pony show of mine. An entire cabinet!

As awesome as that is, I have even better news.

For TWO DAYS ONLY this weekend May 30th - May 31st I have been given access to an additional TWO cabinets.

This is a dream come true because not only do I love selling off my pieces from my personal collection to new forever homes, I really dig creating toy displays. During my previous life as a comic shop worker back in the early to late 00s, it was one of my favourite things to do! (Apart from being lovely all the time and obviously spending most of my earnings on STUFF.) Some of my fondest memories at that now defunct store include re-arranging entire walls of action figures to pretty much whatever I felt like. Good Times.

Here's the other two spaces I'm occupying for this very limited period......

90s Star Wars figures! Whoa. They're super rare, right? Right?
And yes, those are Spice Girls dolls.

Is there any other store in Melbourne that has an entire toy shelf dedicated to The Hulk? You're welcome.

And here's the toy section as it looked right before I left it earlier this afternoon.....

So if you're living or staying in Melbourne right now and feel like dropping some coin - there's no better time than now!

But don't take my word for it, check out this special video sneak peek courtesy of The Hoardstagram.

And that's it!

yr pal,

HOARDAX.

TROMA 4 LYFE.

EXCLUSIVE: VINTAGE AUSTRALIAN TOY CATALOGUES FROM THE 80s AND 90s!

1985 Masters Of The Universe Competition found in an Australian Magazine
(not 100% sure which one, but it has been narrowed down to either TV WEEK, WOMAN'S WEEKLY or NEW IDEA)
I wonder who won the Masters Of The Universe SUPER 550 Competition? Was it YOU?

Greetings Hoard Worlders!

Earlier this week, one of your fellow Hoard Worlders (Mr. Brendan Ryan) approached me with some rare scans from his personal archives!

Many of them, I have never seen before (in real life or online) but a lot I do vaguely recall from my own childhood.

Nevertheless, I couldn't possibly keep them to myself and with Brendan's blessing they have been released back into the loving eyes of the viewing public.

This is all very exciting and a little bit of a Hoard World Exclusive since I have had difficulty locating ANY of these elsewhere.

Never-before-seen Toy Catalogues? Well, not quite. But it's been a long time since anyone's seen these.

Let's begin, shall we? I have such sights to show you.

DEAR SANTY: A HOARDSMAS WISHLIST.

I was already planning a Christmas Wishlist episode here on Hoard World but upon recently discovering the existence of The League Of Extraordinary Bloggers, it seemed even more worthwhile!

The League was created and spearheaded earlier this year by Brian over at the website Cool And Collected to basically spread the blogging love by sharing a topic across as many participating websites as possible each week. Imagine that! A whole host of independent blogs coming together and uniting with different takes on the one topic! Then, they all link to each other's entries - increasing traffic, exposing new readers and growing the community!

Giving and sharing is supposed to be what Christmas is all about so I can think of no better time than now to join The League Of Extraordinary Bloggers with my own take on this week's assignment: Wishlists.

"The big guy is on his way! What's on your Christmas wish list this year?"

WE MUST ISSUE A RARE *SPOILER* ALERT FOR THOSE WHO CAN STILL ENJOY CHRISTMAS. 

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.