Sunday, December 23, 2012

Help with Wild Mood Swings toys?

Can anyone help @moggieboy with this?
"contemplating buying this as late Xmas pressie. Is it legit?"

I remember someone posting a bit of history about these toys a few years back, and also someone posting a place that sold some of the toys much cheaper than EIL does. If you can help, please post or email me. Thanks!

Update: Found the post from 2010 about buying some of these at Jesters, and they still have the clown and panda.
Posted by Craig at 12:03 PM

22 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    It's legit but wayyy overpriced, like most Cure items on EIL. Those toys were available for around $35, can't remember where from but maybe someone here can help. My advice, don't buy from EIL.

    Also this particular toy was not used on any Wild Mood Swings single/album cover.

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  2. Fabien GDecember 23, 2012 at 12:17 PM

    I don't remeber the story you are writing about, but personnaly I had the opportunity to buy the '13th' bear and the 'WMS' clown for let's say 15€ each no more. Ok they were not original from the 50's but reissues (in 2003 in think), but this one seems to be a reissue as well, so I wouldn't buy that for that price.

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  3. aaronjlawDecember 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM

    Way too expensive but love the fact you can get two of them for £6 each!

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  4. Fabien GDecember 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM

    I can't find the WMS commercial anymore on youtube, does someone know the link?

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    1. CraigDecember 23, 2012 at 4:09 PM

      This one?

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    2. Fabien GDecember 23, 2012 at 5:37 PM

      thanks Craig, but no, very short, like 10-15 seconds only, but featured only tin toys moving around on yellow background. Remember it. Or was it only on french tv and never surfaced on Youtube?

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    3. Fabien GDecember 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM

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  5. altr2eliseDecember 23, 2012 at 9:23 PM

    Check ebay - I bought all my toys from there - bucketloads cheaper. Don't search for "Cure" search for things like "clown on scooter", "drumming panda", "little traveller".

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  6. altr2eliseDecember 23, 2012 at 9:24 PM

    bwahaha - just checked the post from 2010 and I basically wrote the same thing back then:

    My two cents... never pay for "The Cure" name for these tin toys. Just keep an eye on eBay under TinToys. Search on things like "Clown On Scooter", "Drumming Panda", "Little Traveller", "Man with Suitcase", "Monkey Riding Horse/Pony". Mint Car was the hardest to find and I think I had to succumb to The Cure name and pay through the nose. But you can definitely find the others without the price tag of them being labelled "Cure".

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  7. Fabien GDecember 24, 2012 at 4:14 AM

    Off topic, Merry Xmas to you all.

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  8. MoggieboyDecember 24, 2012 at 7:01 AM

    Thanks for all the help on this one - think I'll put on the back burner for a wee while. Merry Xmas!

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  9. rvaixDecember 24, 2012 at 8:46 AM

    I've got mine that I bought in 96 somewhere. The full collection: Panda, car, clown, monkey etc... I was thinking of selling them somehow.

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  10. AutumnCureDecember 24, 2012 at 1:46 PM

    I see two pandas up on Ebay now - http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Cure-toy-wild-mood-swings-Drumming-Panda-used-for-cover-the-13th-/200869084549?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_146&hash=item2ec4bafd85

    and http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Cure-Drumming-Panda-Rare-96-promotional-only-drumming-tin-toy-13th-single-/261143417489?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccd5c5291

    and FYI - here is a photo of a few other WMS toys.

    http://www.picturesofyou.us/misc/96-wms%20toys.htm

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  11. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:33 AM

    These were just cheap Chinese tin toys there were no official ones some people stated they had Fiction stickers on them but there were never any official promo's, places like Harpers Bizarre etc used to and still do in some cases sell them

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  12. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:40 AM

    http://www.thingsfor.co.uk/acatalog/Tin-toy-clown-on-a-scooter--465.html

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  13. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:41 AM

    http://www.thingsfor.co.uk/acatalog/Tin-toy-Panda-on-a-coach--904.html

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  14. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:42 AM

    http://www.thingsfor.co.uk/acatalog/Tin-toy-drumming-panda-442.html

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  15. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:42 AM

    http://www.thingsfor.co.uk/acatalog/Tin-Toy-Ice-Cream-Boy--953.html

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  16. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:43 AM

    All the above are £5-10 and found with a quick google search :)

    Merry Xmas all

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  17. UnknownDecember 25, 2012 at 5:46 AM

    For the USA buyers http://tinmantintoys.com/tin-toy-categories/animal-exposition-tin-toys/

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  18. mitchDecember 25, 2012 at 4:19 PM

    Merry Christmas to all Cure fans around the globe ! And a very specal thanks to Craig for all his work. For 13 dream ? Cheers, Michel from Switzerland......yes we are COF connected also there !

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  19. KateJanuary 28, 2013 at 2:34 PM

    :)

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