Atari 2600 lunch box!!

[ATARIPITBULL]

I have always wanted one of these as a kid and every time one would come up on ebay, I would get my ass handed to me by people bidding $60.00 and up, well today I just won one complete with its thermos in good shape for just $20.00, if I knew how to post the ebay link I would.

 

I am just sooo happy!!!!!!!!

 

[video game addict]

Linky

[kheffington]

Nice pickup

[Curt Vendel]

I've seen two of those in person, that look fake.

 

 

Curt

[povlok1]

I've seen two of those in person, that look fake.

 

 

Curt

 

looks real to me,, and I had one when I was a kid:)

 

Its missing the grape jeally stains that I remember tho

[ATARIPITBULL]

What looks fake about it? I don't see why anyone would take the time to make a fake Atari lunch box only to make a $20.00 sale, it would seem like a lot of work.

 

[Curt Vendel]

The plastic looked very fresh on the two I'd seen, like they were just made, not 20 years old, and the decals also looked way too new, very thick and not in the same thin/cheap decals more common of 80's consumer products....

 

 

 

Curt

[Hydian]

Think he's saying that the two he saw looked fake?

[Tempest]

Who on earth would want to fake an Atari lunchbox? That would be a sad day indeed...

 

Tempest

[hhwolfman]

What looks fake about it?  I don't see why anyone would take the time to make a fake Atari lunch box only to make a $20.00 sale, it would seem like a lot of work.

 

       

 

It is not fake buddy.

 

There was a warehouse find on these about three years ago. IT is real cool i have a couple of em.

 

[video game addict]

HH crazy collector of old lunchboxes! Think he would know. I wonder now thou places like hot topic in malls and all the retro junk that comes out, maybe someone has made Atari lunchboxes in the past couple few years? Might be what Curt saw??

[hhwolfman]

Hmmm Could be. The orginal is cheapley made any Way. I have never seen a bootleg of this lunch box, But you never no.

[MegaManFan]

I'm kind of in the middle ground on this one. While I don't at all doubt that an Atari lunchbox could and would have been a very marketable product, all of the ones I've seen (which probably are legit anyway) look for all the world like a generic blue lunchbox with the same set of Atari stickers slapped on them. I'm sure they were actually manufactured that way but it's just not impressive. If they had cast an actual mold where the Atari logo was recessed or embossed onto the plastic, it would be more convincing. If the Atari artwork was a full panel on each side instead of stickers on one side, it would be more impressive. The catch out of this auction to me is actually the thermos itself, the only piece that implies some level of effort in making the product.

[ATARIPITBULL]

Most of what you say is true, but for me it was the fact that people I knew had these these lunch boxes when I was a kid and I never had one even though I loved Atari and now I have one.

 

[Galaga_Freak]

I can vouch for its authenticity, I had this exact lunchbox as a child. It's also the reason I cannot, to this day, eat cottage cheese.

 

It did teach me a valuable lesson however: Even though it is in a thermos, after 2 days, milk will spoil.