Insanely expensive unopened 1967 Star Trek paint-by-numbers
This original, unopened 1967 Star Trek oil paint-by-numbers is for sale on eBay. It could be yours for just $1800! The seller has a slew of Star Trek memorabilia for sale. 
This original, unopened 1967 Star Trek oil paint-by-numbers is for sale on eBay. It could be yours for just $1800! The seller has a slew of Star Trek memorabilia for sale. 
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Kirk and Spock look so intimately acquainted on the package. Did we interrupt something?
The sellers name isn't Melllvar by any chance?
Khannnnnntjusifyit! @workingcfilms
I had one of these, and yeah, loads of fun but *honestly* I wouldn't pay more than $1100.
This is being sold by the Intergalactic Trading Company. It used to be owned at least partially by Marjel Barret. It always had the best Trek stuff, a lot I think from their personal collection. I would not be surprised to see that they are cleaning out her personal collection now that she has passed on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett
I remember the catalog from the seller "intergalactic trading company" from the 80's. You could have bought the entire stock back then for the asking price of just one of these tasteless artifacts.
Schrödinger's Collectable:
Worth more unopened, so the contents are never evaluated. It could contain anything!
I'd rather get the $10K Worf and Troi plate set. Even Martha Stewart would agree that it's the perfect way to present microwave pizza.
Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a banker!
I'd rather get the $10K Worf and Troi plate set. Even Martha Stewart would agree that it's the perfect way to present microwave pizza.
No, it's the perfect way to present cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting.
Uhhhh. . . looks like the 40-Year Old Virgin DID get a girlfriend finally.
There's always someone selling some obscure piece of pop-culture detrius on ebay for some ridiculously inflated price. This price is actually pretty reasonable compared to some of the crap I've seen-- like some guy trying to sell four Johnny Cash 8-tracks for $10,000, or the various people who are currently asking $200k for a copy of "Thriller" in the days after Michael Jackson died (idiots-- it was the best selling album of all time, it's not like its RARE!).
I always found most 60s and early-mid 70s TOS merch to be disappointing--Roddenberry or Paramount seemed willing to sign a contract with anything that had a pulse, so you'd get this generic ray-gun that looked like exactly none of the props on the show, only it would have a "STAR TREK" sticker on it. Even when there were model kits of the hand props, they were way smaller than life-size. (The funny thing was, if you read The Making of Star Trek, Roddenberry says that some of the props--the tricorder and the communicator especially--were designed to be potential merchandise tie-ins, but it wouldn't be until, basically, about now that there would be decent toy props of them.)
kirk was a stupid dick. philosopher king picard 4evar!
Pffft, those paints are dried out by now.
Oil paint doesn't dry out if its sealed from air and light. It dries by a reaction with oxygen catalysed by light. I used to have a lot of perfectly usable tubes of paint that belonged to my great grandfather.
'Rare' mass produced stuff like this would be is going to start being faked if prices get that high. Four colour litho + cast plastic pots + folded cardboard - tricky to get right, but a bigger return than banknotes.
When I was a kid, I remember coming across some sort of Star Wars roleplaying game book at a liquidation store while visiting the US with my parents.
They were selling for $0.25 each, so I bought two, one for me and one for a friend.
Upon returning home, I looked it up in my well-worn Star Trek/Star Wars Price Guide (which in retrospect, I find interesting, since I have never sold a single piece of memorabilia in my life) -- only to discover that the item in question was worth $12.00!
For a long time I had dreams of returning to that store to buy the remaining stock (they had hundreds, if not thousands of these games sitting around in bundles)....
A 4700% return-on-investment was a surefire path to fortune and happiness!
I've never seen one of these games since, nor have I ever figured out just whom I would find to buy this lot from me once I had obtained it.
Just as well -- the game wasn't even any fun.
#17: THAT, my friend, is a good idea.
/goes off to research/
What are the pills for in the picture?
Sadly, the vast majority of Trek memorabilia isn't even worth what I paid for it originally. Because it's from TOS and unopened, people think it's naturally worth a lot. There just isn't a market for it anymore, not even with the new movie.
Piers W,
I meant the drying out comment as a joke, but that's crazy! Can people create their own colors and save them?
If I was a millionaire, I'd buy this and other star trek memorabilia and create videos of myself ripping open the packaging and painting it really badly in all the wrong colours, or playing with the figurines as if they were characters from star wars. The fits of apoplectic rage it'd induce in star trek fans would totally make it worthwhile.
If you really like star trek, and don't mind cutting back to basic cable tv, or just drive your car a little longer before trading it in, then you can have it. What's $1800 for something that you enjoy, doesn't wear out, and you can sell when you're done? There are so many ways to truly flush $1800.