Toy enthusiasts gather at Vagabonds on Saturday
BUTLER TWP — Experienced collectors, wide-eyed children and everyone in between enjoyed perusing the new and vintage toys available for purchase on Saturday at the Butler Area Toy Show.
Ken Frederick, who organized the second annual toy show at the General Butler Vagabond Center with his partners, Rob Craig and Greg Ochaba, said the July show attracted about 500 collectors and toy enthusiasts.
“We’re on pace to do about the same today,” Frederick said on Saturday.
Toy lovers lined up in the Vagabonds hallway and lobby before the show started to have the best chance of grabbing that one-of-a-kind vintage toy missing from their collections, Frederick said.
Craig said the most popular collectibles are Masters of the Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Star Wars pieces from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
New toys, like the popular Funko Pop! Vinyls figures, also were abundantly available at the event.
“We tell people, ‘Come see us if you didn’t get what you wanted under the Christmas tree, even if it was in 1978,’” Craig said.
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