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Andy’s Toys

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The oldest vintage toy shop in Missouri. Specializing in pre-1989 toys & pop culture. STL Vintage Toy Show OCT 19 TV credits: Antiques Roadshow, A Toy Store Near You, NBC, PBS, AppleTV. Price guide writer. 8460 Watson Rd - Ste 132. Route 66 #stl Mo 63119

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Nov 27

We are in this season! The show is available on YouTube, AppleTV and more to come! #toys

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A Toy Store Near You - Season 7 - Andy's Toys (FULL EPISODE)

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 12h

Another family wrote in facing health care premiums that would nearly double next year. A woman from Macomb County told me that her health care premium is going from $272 per check to $516 per check starting on January 1.
Share your story: slotkin.senate.gov/letters

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 1d

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY Oct 19, St Louis Vintage Toy + Advertising Show at Orlandos Center. (63125) #stl

St Louis Vintage Toy & Advertising Show at Orlandos Center Oct 19; on I-55 at Union and Hoffmeister. 63125

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 1d

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY Oct 19, St Louis Vintage Toy + Advertising Show at Orlandos Center. (63125) #stl

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 7d

I posted that this morning before I heard there will be another 90 to 100% tariff ADDED to Chineses goods. Retailers will buy the bare minimum going into January so stock up on what you want for yourself (or for the holidays) in the next few weeks. Seriously. #tariffs #retail

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 7d

🤖 You might not want to think this far in advance, but this weekend & next week will most likely be the lowest prices you can find on holiday gifts in the collectible & toy categories unless you wait for Christmas week. There are more price increases coming & a smaller selection slated for November.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 7d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 7d

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 12d

A brief story of the first Spirit of STL toy airplanes. The owners of Carter Carburetor were friendly w/Charles Lindbergh. Carter Carburetor bought into a toy company in North STL (1925) which would go on to produce some of the first mass produced Spirit of St Louis toys after Lindbergh’s flight!

Spirit of St Louis by Metalcraft, a toy airplane kit

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 13d

Fun stuff in our STL vintage toy shop…

The Rice Krispies elves. Trolls? Whatever

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 13d

P.s. - I was fired from a well known monthly toy price guide job for predicting the Beanie Baby crash. 😂💀👻

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 13d

#stl Vintage Toy + Ad Show, Sunday Oct 19 @ Orlando’s Event Center (Off I-55) 🤖

Orlando’s. 4300 Hoffmeister at Union Rd - STL County 63125
9am - 2:30 $5. Children free.

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · 13d

Very true. Common ones $1. “Better” versions $4 to $20 on a good day. 🫠

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sunday, Oct 5, I’ll be giving a presentation of pre-WW2 toys made in St Louis, MO at the historic Field House Museum, downtown, 634 S. Broadway, 1pm. (Eugene Field & Family) #stl

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Sep 3

The St Louis Vintage Toy & Advertising Show will be Sunday OCT 19 at Orlando’s Event Center, #stl MO I-55 at Hoffmeister (63125) #vintagetoys #popculture

STL vintage show. Orlando’s Event Center 9am to 3:30

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Aug 23

Petrified Homer Simpson Candy Pop from the 1990s. In our shop. Don’t eat it. If you do, please film it. 🧐 🍭 #Simpsons #cartoon

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Aug 16

Happy Voltron Day! Vol. 9 w/ @4handsbrewingco.bsky.social and @2ndshiftbrewing.bsky.social craft beer! #stl #supportLocal

Orig Voltron toy with the new Voltron Volume 9 IPA beer in a can.

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jul 20

He’s so “savage”! One of the rarest #motu figures, the mail-away He-man (Wonderbread but not Wonderbread) 😆 Now in our #stl vintage #toy shop. #80s #actionfigures

He-man action figure but with brown loincloth, black boots available in a mail away BOGO promo in the 1980s

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you have a claim against Diamond Comics and/or Diamond Select Toys, it looks like you need to make your claim by July 14 in the bankruptcy case. #comics #toys

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jun 16

Let’s ride this week! A rare battery-op headlighted toy motorcycle #vintagetoys #motorcycles #castiron

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jun 9

Fun items I spotted at the STL Vintage Toy & Ad Show today. #vintage #60s #70s #80s

Odd Pevely Drive-In sign with live monkeys there at some point, maybe mid 1960s.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Jun 7

I don’t have when the vehicle came out because it happened so fast. This is the moment after when the crowd realized people had been hit.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · Jun 7

One woman holding an American flag, shouting at federal agencies here in Paramount, CA. Still lots of chemical munitions, pepper balls, foam batons.

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jun 6

This SUNDAY June 8, #stl vintage toy & ad show! Orlando’s Event Center, off I-55. (STLCo 63125) 🚀

STL toy show. 4300 Hoffmeister. A Pre 1999 Toy and Advertising show with dealers from 14 states.

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jun 5

We went down a rabbit-hole searching for better information on toys with unsafe lead levels in the 1960s and 70s. The pigments are the main source of lead and other heavy metals, the worst offenders according to the NEHA are the colors: brown, orange, green and yellow. More at a later date.

Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · Jun 1

#twiggy purse! #vintagetoys #60s

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Andy’s Toys @andystoys.bsky.social · May 10

Orig Kenner #starwars Vader’s Tie Fighter minty w/box, unused decals, see it at the June 8 STL Vintage Toy Show, Orlando’s Event Center (63125) . #stl #vintage #toys 🚀