Comments on: Super Powers Highlight – Shipping Cases!

By: Kevin Moorhead

Kevin Moorhead — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:20:09 +0000

Chip, I’m looking for an update on the money you owe me. Can you e-mail me?

By: Mike Maz08

Mike Maz08 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:23:28 +0000

Hey guy’s. New to the blog, but a couple of you might remember me or know me off ebay, as your names are familiar. I know i’ve bought or sold some SP stuff from some of you in the past. Chip, just saw pics of your collection for the first time. Impressive indeed! I can’t imagine how much time and money you’ve spent putting that together. You must have a second mortgage, lol! Myself, I just really collect the minty mint, USA stuff. I’m a picky s.o.b. when it comes to conditions of ‘unpunched’ cards. I was buying a lot of the AFA stuff off ebay for a few years, until I realized I was just ripping myself off. I’ve put together a handful of AFA 90 pieces, just to sell them off due to financial issues. Regretful, yes! As far as AFA, I’m done buying graded fig’s or sending them to be graded. I think it’s a waste of money (imo) and I’ve had graded fig’s that should of been graded higher (again, imo) and vise versa… Well, just wanted to say hello to some of you and it’s great that there are some out there that have an appreciation of a line of toy’s that are considered to be the best. When I was 11yo when these first came out, I thought so and I still do.

By: CantinaDan

CantinaDan — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:54:37 +0000

Who would’a thought a blog about shipping containers would be this interesting. And I’m not even a Super Powers collector! You’re an SP Archeologist, Chipster! Cool stuff. SS Kresge, heh.

By: Chip Cataldo

Chip Cataldo — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:41:03 +0000

Sounds like time to have Abby move into the shed in the back yard so you have room to display the SP goodness.

By: JuliusMarx

JuliusMarx — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:19:59 +0000

That was the old place. I have all my loose ones out and some other key pieces, just not the carded collection right now.

By: Chip Cataldo

Chip Cataldo — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:11:27 +0000

Thanks, Dan! Why can’t you display your collection? I thought it was all pinned up on that one wall…or was that from your old place?

By: Chip Cataldo

Chip Cataldo — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:35:52 +0000

Thanks for the compliment, man. Unfortunately whereas the Star Wars Collector’s Archive has all the top collectors working together for the good of the hobby, the top 4 or 5 Super Powers collectors will never be able to work together due to secrecy and stubborn-ness. I know that because the only one who would be willing to showcase everything he has for a common project is me.

A sad state of affairs, but I’m sure a very nice, somewhat comprehensive book could be created with those of us here at AFi going all-in. Also, I’m pretty sure I could get Derek Ho to lend us his key piece accomplishments in Super Powers…of which there are many. Ben Holcomb did a fantastic job with his Mego book, and believe it or not the 67600 case seen in this blog came from his personal collection.

By: lightso

lightso — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:02:25 +0000

Your blogs are pointing more and more to an eventual book – which, as Super Powers gains more years will be necessary reading for collectors. It reminds me of the kind of, ahem, obsession Ben Holcomb put to good use with his Mego book (look what those old Mego case boxes go for now). But, it would require someone getting access to this uber-rare stuff locked away. Even for just photos and info it would benefit all collectors. These A-list collectors aren’t doing anyone any good. They can keep their museum – the rest of us would at least like to see it, so I for one appreciate your efforts Ch’p.

By: JuliusMarx

JuliusMarx — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:34:52 +0000

This is awesome Chip. I’ve seen pictures from afar of these in your collection but I love that you did a feature on them.

I always try to pick up shipping cases for figures anytime I can for storage since the are the perfect size to keep the carded figures since that’s what they were created for. I’d love to find a couple of these too since right now I don’t have the room to display my carded collection.

By: superfriend

superfriend — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:21:19 +0000

The thing I remember about this figure is that it peg warmed. Along with Flash and Lex Luthor. And due to the extra size of the figure, did not fit well in a box with the others (Did not play nice with the others?). I still blame the inclusion of the New Gods as the downfall of the toy line even though they were heavily featured on the show.

By: The Penguin

The Penguin — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:11:06 +0000

Hobby. Obsession. Illness. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!) Thanks for keeping Super Powers alive. Looking forward to your next blog. I’d like to see Mattel re-launch Super Powers with scaled down DCUC figures, or something along the lines of the current Marvel Universe figures. Little guys, little packages (meaning the package that they are packed in, not the package that they are packing), great scupts, and a lot of articulation….all under the Super Powers banner. That would be even better than the Mego re-launch.

By: Chip Cataldo

Chip Cataldo — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:00:55 +0000

Jason, there aren’t any samples of a carded Clark that we know of. I am aware of one person that knows what collections the three existing Tower of Darkness engineering pilots are, but he won’t tell me.

That bothers me a bit…there are things locked away in private collections that we’ll never see. I’m betting there are a couple Kent carded samples out there somewhere.

By: Jason Geyer

Jason Geyer — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:44:22 +0000

I never realized that Darkseid was also a different price point than the rest of the line, Very interesting…

Also interesting is how far Clark Kent got to being produced, yet hardly any samples exist of the packaging, apparently. TOD and ATT didn’t get as far, but we’ve seen lots of examples of work in progress from them.

By: Mario

Mario — Sun, 01 May 2011 04:56:39 +0000

You da man, period.

By: demoncat

demoncat — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:30:27 +0000

cool another nice article. not to mention. another rare thing for very few collectors keep the shipping boxes of whole cases not to mention never knew darkseid was so nasty he had to be shipped all by himself. plus also found it cool to see the order sheet the stores used to order super powers back in the day

By: Chip Cataldo

Chip Cataldo — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:20:24 +0000

Erik, how you spelled my name was the highlight of my day. Thanks for the comments!

By: superfriend

superfriend — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:04:12 +0000

Ch’p,
Great blog. As a former Hasbro employee, I have several cartons similar to these from Star Wars and Aliens that I picked from their trash that I use to store various MOC figures. I also have at least one Toy Biz carton from one of their Marvel lines in the 90′s. I remember the checkout clerk telling me I could not buy the entire case and then showing them that I was only buying a few figures and wanted the case to store them in. With a somewhat confused look, they let me take the box.

By: Chip Cataldo

Chip Cataldo — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:14:37 +0000

Thanks, bud. I’m glad you enjoy the blogs. I need to write some more of them this coming week.

By: Jason Geyer

Jason Geyer — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:22:03 +0000

As always, Chip, you leave me delighted and amazed by your great detective work on this line!