Which is not going to happen overnight… Have you had any other leads that have given you a better answer?
Given my past experience, I wouldn’t waste my time. Are you saying that this tv show site will also take things for sale?
Ha! That’s what I was thinking about. 
Yes, they buy the toys to resell. May not be full retail, but they have the connections to sell them to high end clients if it really is that collectible. Good luck finding someone willing to drop $10k on a toy by just listing it on eBay. With this, you may get $8k, they make $2k.
Have you never seen Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Hardcore Pawn, American Restoration, or any of the myriad of shows where people run their business of buying and selling collectibles? Antiques Roadshow just appraises for what they think you should insure it for which is usually well above auction price (which will cost you the auction house commission.) The hardest part of the deal is finding someone with $10k of spare cash to buy the one rare toy airplane that nobody else has ever heard of to complete their collection. This is the kind of place where you may find them.
Please don’t take this personally, but my guess is that your plane is worth somewhere between $15 and $50. It was never used in the series… it really has no connection to the fans, and people don’t remember it from their childhood as something they always dreamed of.
I would love for you to prove me wrong though.
Why are you getting hostile with me? I never said what I thought it was worth did I? In fact, if you go back and look at what I DID SAY, I thought $10k was absurd - which is why I wanted an objective estimate.
And by the way, I’ve sold gold coin sets for several thousand dollars on ebay so don’t think that buyers with the cash aren’t out there if you have the merchandise.
Who’s the one getting hostile here? Please re-read my posts.
You asked a question… someone said it could be worth $10k. You responded you had one but needed a place that could give you a fair appraisal. I provided you a place that could do just that. You thanked me for the contact (you’re welcome) and then complained that you hadn’t heard back within 24 hours if it was worth so much. I pointed out that it doesn’t work that way… you said if you realized it was a TV show you wouldn’t have bothered. I asked why you felt that way and if you had gotten a better lead. You asked if the link I gave you actually bought toys or just appraised them… I explained that they do indeed buy them, but not for full retail, but the benefit is you don’t have to be the one trying to find the one in a million buyer.
You don’t seem to want to wait, so I gave you my opinion which was the exact same one as in the first response to your OP “Just because it’s rare doesn’t make it valuable”. Post number 4 echos the same point, but for some reason I’m the bad guy.
I’m sorry somehow you think I’m being hostile… good luck in selling your toy, and please keep us posted on your progress.
p.s. If you can melt your toy into something that is traded internationally for a given price then your analogy to gold would make a little bit of sense.
Yeah, you’re not being hostile. My mistake. Fortunately I’m not especially concerned either way, but it’s good to know that all is well. 
I really do hope you have the holy grail of Star Trek toys.
I watch shows and they find all these things that they thought were junk and find they are worth thousands. I find things that I think are worth thousands and find out they are junk.
I guess that is why I don’t have a TV show.
Seriously, I hope you keep us updated on what you find out (however long it may take).
My bad.
I’ve seen that episode several times and never realized it was the pilot.
FYI, I have a membershp to that Worthpoint site linked to above and that reproduction sold for over a hundred bucks. I don’t know what the original would really be worth, but it must be decent for a repro to sell for a decent amount like that.
ETA: Honestly, your best bet in selling it is probably eBay. Take lots of great pictures from different angles and put together a well-written description. The people that are serious collectors, the ones with money to spend, will always be on the look out for great rare items like this to pop up for sale. If you put up a 10-day auction with a low starting bid (even around $9.99) and good detailed info/photos - I have no doubt that you’ll get top dollar for it. What top dollar means, who knows, but I think it’s your clearest and easiest path to selling it.
I just saw some Remco Star Trek train sets on eBay in the box that sold for $500-600. So that’s at least a starting point for you think about, I believe.
Thanks. I would normally agree except that for something that might have a limited audience of willing buyers at any given time, I think you really need to have a reserve and to do that you need some ballpark idea of fair market value. At this point, I can’t even get it down to plus or minus an order of magnitude.
The star of that Toy Hunter show is Jordan Hembrough and he’s on Twitter. You might try sending him a few tweets asking if he knows what the market is like for that item, he might already have a buyer looking for one. He seems to reply to people on there a lot, so you’d likely get some kind of reply if you bug him enough.
Well, for all of the internet hype about the rarity of these toys, ‘holy grail’, yada, yada - there are currently 2 for sale on ebay. That is unusual as I’ve had alerts set for years looking for these and they’ve never been triggered before.
One auction will end in a few hours and it looks like it will only sell for a few hundred bucks. The other has a starting bid higher than that so it will be interesting to see if it gets any bids at all.
Scott Bakula apparently wanted to keep his uniform as a souvenir when Enterprise was cancelled and was told no. He said a couple of years later, somebody showed up with it at a convention and asked him to sign it.
Well, the first one did better than I would have expected and sold for almost 5 bills.
[Über-nerd hat]
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paper covers boulder,
boulder crushes lizard,
lizard poisons Spock,
Spock disassembles phaser,
phaser stuns lizard,
lizard eats paper,
paper disproves Spock,
Spock with a Type 1 or 2 phaser vaporizes boulder,
and most importantly here,
boulder smashes all hand-held phasers!CMC fnord!
Who’s currently watching The Lizard-Spock Expansion episode of The Big Bang Theory.
What about a cloned Nimoy? All you need is a healthy human ovum and some DNA