Kenner ALIEN toys with boxes released in 1979 are surprisingly common. You can always find them listed on eBay with just an easy search. What about such boxed samples of the toy that include the shipping box from chain stores? There, now that’s genuinely rare. One such sample has become available for auction on the service recently. It includes the action figure, original packaging and mailer box. Bidding starts at US$5,500. Lordy!
This item would have been purchased via the JCPenny catalog and accordingly posted to the purchaser via mail inside the corrugated cardboard mailer box included in the listing. Such mailer boxes are very rare. This one is in great condition but the high starting bid is difficult to justify. If you are looking for a perfect condition and unopened sample of the nefarious Kenner toy at this price, this item will not satisfy your expectations. The blue themed package has been opened and the front window is loosening around the bottom of its frame. The figure itself is in fantastic condition, true; and the presence of the ratchet zip ties continuing to fasten it to the red insert card is testimony to this fact. There’s also a poster included but it’s seen better days with multiple undesirable creases though it. This item is far from being a pristine and unopened sample that such prices can command and the presence of the third party mailer box is a great inclusion in the sale; but it hardly warrants the overly high starting bid. It’s a great addition to be sure but to escalate the value of the Kenner toy to this level simply because some postal packaging is present is likely to raise more eyebrows than interested bidders.
-windebieste.
