I travelled through Ohio and Pittsburgh on one massive American vintage toy hunt — visiting the Great Ohio Toy Show, incredible old-school toy stores, hidden back rooms, a basement packed with vintage toys and one of the biggest private toy collections I’ve ever seen.
This is the full Toy Overdose American adventure, bringing together the best of the trip into one huge vintage toy hunting journey through some of the best places I found in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
We start at the Great Ohio Toy Show in Xenia, hunting through thousands of vintage toys and collectibles before heading out across Ohio to Toys Time Forgot and the incredible back room at Happy Pappy’s.
Then the trip moves into Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where things get even bigger. We visit D&E Collectibles, head downstairs into an incredible hidden vintage toy stash at Pop Culture Connection, and finish inside Chad Ploof’s enormous private toy collection.
Along the way there are vintage toys from the 1980s and 1990s including Masters of the Universe, TMNT, Transformers, Ghostbusters, Madballs, Shogun Warriors, Power Lords, Sectaurs, Visionaries, Centurions, WWF, Japanese toys, bootlegs and plenty of obscure stuff I wasn’t expecting to find.
If you grew up with 80s and 90s toys, collect vintage action figures, or just enjoy seeing incredible toy shops, toy shows and collections, this is three hours of American vintage toy hunting.
LOCATIONS FEATURED:
Great Ohio Toy Show — Xenia, Ohio
Toys Time Forgot — Canal Fulton, Ohio
Happy Pappy’s Action Figure Extravaganza — Canton, Ohio
D&E Collectibles — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pop Culture Connection — Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Chad Ploof’s Vintage Toy Collection — Pennsylvania
00:00 Great Ohio Toy Show – The hunt begins
26:26 Toys Time Forgot – An old-school toy paradise
44:29 Happy Pappy’s – Inside the back room
1:02:55 D&E Collectibles – Pittsburgh gets unreal
1:27:04 Pop Culture Connection – The basement stash
1:56:43 Chad Ploof’s collection – The biggest stop of the trip
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