Cadillacs And Dinosaurs

There are toys that I want to collect rather seriously like the GI Joe ARAH line (both foreign and domestic, carded and loose), and eventually the Super Powers line, Secret Wars, TMNT, and Toy Biz's Xmen from the early 90's.  The original Star Wars line if I win the lottery.  The list could go on and on.  But for the most part, I want to collect stuff from my childhood.  

On the other hand, sometimes I want to collect toys that are kind of random and have no meaning or nostalgia for me.  You know, toys that just seem cool.

That's what I'm doing with Tyco's Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, a show that lasted one season in 1993 before going extinct like the..........wait for it.............dodo bird.  (Ha!  Bet you thought I was going to write dinosaurs.)
  
 

   
Anyway, it's kind of shocking that a show featuring Cadillacs and dinosaurs couldn't last longer than a year.  It sounds like a money maker to me.  Kids like cool cars.  Kids like dinosaurs.  You mix the two together and what do you get?  Obliviously a dud if you are Cadillacs & Dinosaurs.  But I love the idea of it.  Even if I never watched the show.     

Maybe the show sucked.  Maybe it couldn't hold a candle to the popular cartoons of the day like X-Men and Batman the Animated Series.  But they had some cool toys.  The figures could be better since they lack enough articulation (they can sit and move their arms--woo hoo).  But the vehicles are awesome!  And I think Tyco would have really hit their stride with a second wave since they would have had a better idea of the show and characters.  Toymakers start on the first wave before the show comes out and have to rely on photos and a description to create the initial toy line.  Think Kenner's Blue Snaggletooth of the Cantina Playset. 

It's a shame the show got canceled.  Because the toy line definitely had potential.  But that's the best part about collecting a random and obscure toy line.  Prices are not sky high like the popular stuff.  I'm looking at you, Vintage Star Wars and early-to-late 80's GI Joe.  

I added Jack Tenrec's Cadillac, Mint In Sealed Box (MISB), for a little over $20.  The box is super nice, nearly perfect.  The edges are sharp, man, like the fins of 1950's Caddy.  Very sweet deal.  Very awesome toy car.  

And that's the point.  You can't get that kind of value from the popular toy lines.  Not unless you rob somebody (DISCLAIMER: Jail is not fun; don't rob anybody).