Slapping super high prices on all the vintage toys will only result in them sitting there for years and collecting dust. I know the sellers want a good profit but there should be some middle ground. 🤷🏻
I grew up in Rowland Heights and the Wednesday and Saturday trips to Frank & Son were a MUST especially for hard-to-find bootleg dvds, custom tshirt printing, posters and so many collectibles! A great place to go xmas shopping.
@ronscott7 hell yeah! I used to live off of Fullerton and Mescal so we'd hit up that Tommy's all the time! Also, It's all about Happy Wok on Columa and Fairway! IYKYK
Very cool; I get extremely overwhelmed seeing anything about collectibles, remembering all of what I used to have growing up, not knowing the future value of today. If only...lol
Thanks, that was amazing. I would find myself there every paycheck, I’m sure. The prices are high though. One day they will detach from them and accept much less. Glad to see a place like this exists.
I've been going to Frank & Son for years, ever since they were in the old location. This one is definitely bigger and better. It's like a Gen X toy museum. That's really cool seeing the He-Man and WWF action figures. The princes they're asking range from affordable ($40) to unbelievable ($200). These things used to cost a few bucks new in the store, and are basically just plastic and rubber. It's the nostalgia that you're paying for. One thing that's changed is there isn't anymore bootlegs being sold anymore. You used to be able to get them at the old Frank & Son. It was stuff you couldn't find in a proper release. My friend got a Johnny Sokko and His Giant Robot compilation on tape, and I was able to find the '80s Hulk cartoon. My other friend bought a bunch of GI JOE and Transformers cartoons there. We didn't have streaming or anything back then, and I think this stuff has been released on digital now.
Great Video! I went on Saturday with my son! It was great buying Transformers from the guy at the end of the first aisle you went down. The bad thing was the weather and the rain gutters had water rushing down them like a water fall! I got soaked walking to my car because hey who needs an umbrella in LA right?
I had a dukes of hazzard and chips lunch boxes. I wouldn't pay a penny for those funko pops, they're so ugly. Someone gave me the cheshire cat one once, and I gave it to someone else. They don't look anything like what tney're supposed to, and they all look alike. People started buying them for the sole purpose of having something to make a video about. They're just a waste of money and space, they're never going to be worth anything. Im glad companies started making action figures from older movies and series, though. The 1/6 scale ones like hottoys are insanely over-priced, though. But then what isn't these days. Lot's of cool vintage stuff in there, though! Love to have an 80's surviver bmx bike.
I visited the old location a couple of times back in the mid 2010s when I lived in LA. This new location still looks like a Sam's Club but with toys lol
I actually have been going to FnS since before their last location. They were a trucking and warehousing company and held their “show” in the extra warehouse space. It was the go to place for my friends and I in the mid-90’s when playing/collecting some of the various trading card games. I live about 3 hours from there now so I’ve only been to the new place twice. Do the lines still wrap around the parking lot when it first opens?
Live down the street used to be better now its more commercial and bobble head at every corner. Old frank and sons was wayyy better had more of a indy hidden place feeling.
Usually prices at franks are decent because there’s a lot of competition at franks. Once in a while there’s a unicorn and it’s super expensive. There’s one particular dealer who has tons of older toys, but their prices are ridiculous. (They are right up front) and although I like looking at their items I have never bought from them
Interesting but those prices are crazy. I can't imagine almost anyone people paying those prices. You'd have to look through the whole store just to buy your one favorite thing. Then you'd might forget where it was and just leave.
Thanks for sharing your visit there. I assume those Thrashin' figures are custom? Don't recall ever seeing those. One reason for card prices increasing (sports & non-sports) is due to grading and flipping during covid. Those places end up just being window shopping. They can shove those prices up their arses. I still have some loose Karate Kommandos, Karate Kid and Rambo figures for great prices!
Awesome,I've never seen so much expensive nostalgia under one roof😁
Slapping super high prices on all the vintage toys will only result in them sitting there for years and collecting dust. I know the sellers want a good profit but there should be some middle ground. 🤷🏻
I grew up in Rowland Heights and the Wednesday and Saturday trips to Frank & Son were a MUST especially for hard-to-find bootleg dvds, custom tshirt printing, posters and so many collectibles! A great place to go xmas shopping.
We would always go to Frank and Sons and then we had to do a Tommy's chili run on Fullerton Rd afterwards. That was our tradition
@ronscott7 hell yeah! I used to live off of Fullerton and Mescal so we'd hit up that Tommy's all the time!
Also, It's all about Happy Wok on Columa and Fairway! IYKYK
Enjoyed all the vintage eye candy, and also the part who you gonna call... yo momma!
Very cool; I get extremely overwhelmed seeing anything about collectibles, remembering all of what I used to have growing up, not knowing the future value of today. If only...lol
That's really awesome! Brings up some many memories. I wish I knew about this place when I visited LA
Thanks for sharing. I love these 80’s 90’s toys. So many good memories. Greetings from Oceanside California
THIS PLACE IS SICK!
That "Yo mama" had me 😂😂😂
Very cool. Thank you for giving us a tour.
That is very cool, but the prices are ridiculous. Fun to see things I had back in the day!
Thanks for sharing, I’m in So. Cal about once a year, definitely going to check this place out!
Thanks for the tour! Great job as always
Thanks for watching!
A collectible store I would love going to collectible stores 👍🛍️🏬
Really enjoyed this. Thank you for taking us there.
Kirt, you missed the $7,000 Spider-Man bobble head at 8:16
Great video. I wish we had something like this here.
Awesome place
Never heard of Frank and Son's. I live in Vegas. Looks like a really cool store.
It's actually a bunch of stores in the form of a convention exhibit hall, except it's open 3 days a week
This is amazing. I live in So-Cal and never heard of this. I wish I had kept my 80s toys. Those prices are crazy!!!
I could spend so much money in that place. So much cool 80s stuff.
Lol…I’ve had so many of these toys when I was kid. Imagine if we all still had them
Thanks, that was amazing. I would find myself there every paycheck, I’m sure. The prices are high though. One day they will detach from them and accept much less. Glad to see a place like this exists.
I've been going to Frank & Son for years, ever since they were in the old location. This one is definitely bigger and better. It's like a Gen X toy museum. That's really cool seeing the He-Man and WWF action figures. The princes they're asking range from affordable ($40) to unbelievable ($200). These things used to cost a few bucks new in the store, and are basically just plastic and rubber. It's the nostalgia that you're paying for.
One thing that's changed is there isn't anymore bootlegs being sold anymore. You used to be able to get them at the old Frank & Son. It was stuff you couldn't find in a proper release. My friend got a Johnny Sokko and His Giant Robot compilation on tape, and I was able to find the '80s Hulk cartoon. My other friend bought a bunch of GI JOE and Transformers cartoons there. We didn't have streaming or anything back then, and I think this stuff has been released on digital now.
Cool 😎👍😊😂🤣😂@That 80s volg ✌🏼
@ 10:59, guy looks like he's having a blast 😂
That guys funko booth was beyond high on prices 😂
The Commando figure was also in the display case. Just watched it over the weekend 😍
So much nostalgia there.
That was cool! Really nice tour!
Hell ya, I grew up in La puente until 6th grade… the back to the future mall shot! ✌️❤️
Frank and Son's was awesome. I've never been to the newer one.
Happiest place on Earth! Thank you
Great Video! I went on Saturday with my son! It was great buying Transformers from the guy at the end of the first aisle you went down. The bad thing was the weather and the rain gutters had water rushing down them like a water fall! I got soaked walking to my car because hey who needs an umbrella in LA right?
Nuke the Fridge was awesome a few years ago. The new Frank and Son's location is more convenient 👍. Biggest toy/ collectible spot in California 🙃👍
One great place to visit. Not too far from where I live. One thing though, bring enough money cause you ain't leaving with one item only...
Great episode, brother!
Thank you!
Thanks for showing the prices.
Thanks for the Video, btw, Danny De La Paz starred in American Me and Boulevard Nights.
I had to go check my video to see what you were referring to. Can't believe I didn't catch myself saying Blood in blood out. Oh well.
Daniel Villareal, who played little puppet was at that booth next to him.
I had a dukes of hazzard and chips lunch boxes. I wouldn't pay a penny for those funko pops, they're so ugly. Someone gave me the cheshire cat one once, and I gave it to someone else. They don't look anything like what tney're supposed to, and they all look alike. People started buying them for the sole purpose of having something to make a video about. They're just a waste of money and space, they're never going to be worth anything. Im glad companies started making action figures from older movies and series, though. The 1/6 scale ones like hottoys are insanely over-priced, though. But then what isn't these days. Lot's of cool vintage stuff in there, though! Love to have an 80's surviver bmx bike.
Saw Mickey Mantle at the old Frank and Sons. Joe McDonald, "the big nasty" was a sports radio guy that used to hang out there all the time.
I thought that place was abandoned, I would always see it with an empty parking lot when I would drive by it. Good to know that it's not.
Who you gonna all…..your mama !!! Blew a boog on that one😅
Haha
Wow, I didn't know that they moved. I would go on Wednesday nights mostly, but Saturdays were cool...
I go to this place every once in a while in case I've missed anything. This new location is great too because it's near the Back to the Future mall
I wish we had a place like that
How fun Let’s go
When it comes to signings, Danny De La Paz is like Virgil (RIP) he pops up any and everywhere
Recently visited for the first time and discovered it's directly across the freeway from the infamous BTTF filming location at Puente Hills Mall
Awesome place and video. If there is a place like this in Michigan someone please let me know. Cali is too far. Great video too bro
9:19 that was hilarious!!!!
5:22 emergency lunchbox had it too!
I visited the old location a couple of times back in the mid 2010s when I lived in LA. This new location still looks like a Sam's Club but with toys lol
I had that blue BMX Bike with white mag wheels around 6:39 in the late 1980s
That building was an old Toys R Us store. That’s why the big sign is in side
Maximum overdrive great movie i also have a tattoo from it. I was always a GI joe collector anything action figures really 80s 90s
The pandemic had a positive side affect on the collectible card trade 💯 🙋
About 3 years ago I took my nephew there and he bought a whole box of gpk for like 75 bucks.
That's the prices I'm down with.
Those funkopops are so expensive in America! I buy those for less than 20 dollars (17 euro) at the local Large.
I need to make it to this one day! Man what’s happened to southern California weather? You guys are getting as much rain as Florida now!
I remember watching someone do an interview here with Cory haim
I would not pay more than $10 bucks for a funko
Agreed
Ain't nobody buying those pops!.
I actually have been going to FnS since before their last location. They were a trucking and warehousing company and held their “show” in the extra warehouse space. It was the go to place for my friends and I in the mid-90’s when playing/collecting some of the various trading card games. I live about 3 hours from there now so I’ve only been to the new place twice. Do the lines still wrap around the parking lot when it first opens?
That is pretty cool 😎
Amazing. How long have they been in business doing this?
You should have got Lurch’s autograph at 9:48 😂
Live down the street used to be better now its more commercial and bobble head at every corner. Old frank and sons was wayyy better had more of a indy hidden place feeling.
Need something like this place in boring Illinois
Usually prices at franks are decent because there’s a lot of competition at franks. Once in a while there’s a unicorn and it’s super expensive. There’s one particular dealer who has tons of older toys, but their prices are ridiculous. (They are right up front) and although I like looking at their items I have never bought from them
Didn't see any Robotech but then again I'm only 3/4 of the way through the video..... 💯 🤔
I'm sorry will say a prayer.
@froggyflips needs to go to cali for a trip!
Danny De La Paz was NOT in Blood In Blood Out! He was Chuco from VGV in Boulevard Nights & Big Puppet from American Me & Road Dogs
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Wow
Thanks for showing this. I was interested, but dang those prices are nuts! A beat up and headless Voltron red light for $90!???
Frank walked by the camera at 3:08.
reminds me of daze with jordan
What Vector Hold song did you use in your intro?
I miss GPK and MadBalls! I've never been big on anime too but I love Studio Ghibli and Hatoro Miyazaki 🙏
16:35 Pee-Wee's Playhouse lunchbox is $15 on Ebay. You weren't kidding about the prices there...highway robbery
I purchased that TRU sign and sold it to the person who owns it now.
I have been wanting to go there. Do they have any lounge fly backpacks
Wow thats too expensive, Im not paying those prices
I had the bike that the covers on the wheels, but it got to a point to many of the plastic nuts/bolts came off so I had to take them off.
I don't see how you can stop people from stealing those trading cards. In Portland OR, very few would be left.
Interesting but those prices are crazy. I can't imagine almost anyone people paying those prices. You'd have to look through the whole store just to buy your one favorite thing. Then you'd might forget where it was and just leave.
Great tour of this place!! Hubby & I always drive by it!! Was there any Hello Kitty stuff by chance?
You would have to pay me $4,500, to take a LeBron doll!
Great prices. Thankfully he didn't let a little thing called inflation, get in the way of us nostalgics, Oh wait ..
its a tour site now for un knowledged collectors just a place to visit
you miss the $7,000 Spider-Man funko
Thanks for sharing your visit there. I assume those Thrashin' figures are custom? Don't recall ever seeing those. One reason for card prices increasing (sports & non-sports) is due to grading and flipping during covid. Those places end up just being window shopping. They can shove those prices up their arses. I still have some loose Karate Kommandos, Karate Kid and Rambo figures for great prices!
How much is one of those Hosoi skateboards? I have always wanted one, but never got it. I rode a Tony Hawk and a Mark Gonzalez for a long time.
Where is this frank & sons at?
It used to be great prices
Maximum overdrive
It was a toys r us
Peewee lunchbox in good shape for 20 bucks on ebay
I’m sad that Toys “R” Us has to Closed for Business