• @GCanuck
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    1613 hours ago

    If the top gun tape is the Pepsi promo it’s apparently worth $17500. If it’s not, it’s worth about $15.

    • AtomicbunniesOP
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      613 hours ago

      I’ll have to look at that. What makes the Pepsi promo worth that? Rarity? How can you tell if its that one? I just collect the tapes and watch them I don’t do much research.

      • @GCanuck
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        913 hours ago

        Honestly I just searched “top gun vhs tape worth”. I know absolutely nothing about vhs collecting.

        Looks like the Pepsi promo one will be obvious. It’ll have a promo cover. I doubt you have it (sorry).

        • AtomicbunniesOP
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          8 hours ago

          Aww man you got my hopes up 🤣🤣 I guess I’ll just watch my normal pleb one haha. Just kidding!

          Edit: I just want to say this has been a fun interaction. This is a great community!

        • @trolololol
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          612 hours ago

          Why are people paying extra to work for Pepsi marketing department? It’s messed up.

          • djsoren19
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            410 hours ago

            There’s just less of them, and it’s technically a piece of movie history, even if it’s a really shitty bit of history.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        411 hours ago

        If I understand right, that was the first ad subsidizing the cost of a vhs movie. “trouble with your refreshment system”

          • Captain Aggravated
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            28 hours ago

            Not saying it isn’t, but it was a home video release of a huge hit movie well into the adoption of VHS (some folks might have been still clinging to Beta players in 1986) that was made quite inexpensive by the addition of a diet pepsi ad. It should have sold like hotcakes. I’ve got a copy with the ad on it.

  • @[email protected]
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    914 hours ago

    Wait, we posting VHS pics now? Is my hoarding about to pay off in sweet, sweet internet points?

    …no, because that would require me digging things out. >_>

    • AtomicbunniesOP
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      513 hours ago

      Didn’t know where else to post haha. I’m new, I’m new I don’t know what to do!

    • AtomicbunniesOP
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      No idea. A lot of them were aviation related. I work as a mechanic. I’m guessing they were left over from back in the day.

      Edit: there was three boxes of tapes