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TrooperWill

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so this might take off, or it might die faster than a speeder bought from a Jawa, but id love to hear your moans, groans, queries and observations about our hobby, grading, eBay, Idiots, repro stuff ect.

my main one that has been bugging me this week is:

Why on earth did Kenner decide to add that ridiculous top blaster to the AT-ST scout walker?!? its nearly always missing in played with collections, it ruins the profile of my otherwise favourite vehicle, its now cheaply reproduced because it was so easy to lose therefore eBay is suddenly full of them. Then, to top it off, it wasn't there in the movie!

There, my grown up crying about his favourite 35 year old toy is complete.
 

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Mine was the flimsy door struts and hinge on the Falcon. My Falcon stayed almost intact except for the hinge and ramp struts. It's in pieces now held on only by a bit of brown dried out sellotape. I can't remember it ever in working order. So that seems to me I broke it early on in my many battles and adventures I had. Everything else on the Falcon is pretty much intact considering the battering it took.
 

TrooperWill

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Mine was the flimsy door struts and hinge on the Falcon. My Falcon stayed almost intact except for the hinge and ramp struts. It's in pieces now held on only by a bit of brown dried out sellotape. I can't remember it ever in working order. So that seems to me I broke it early on in my many battles and adventures I had. Everything else on the Falcon is pretty much intact considering the battering it took.

sounds well loved, like you had a lot of fun with it. my ramp is doing ok, but the pins that hold the quad cannon together are long gone, had to use toy pollois method using Lego as I'm very loath to glue anything. its almost like they didn't expect us to be playing and avidly collecting the toys nearly 40 years later. :wink:
 

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One of mine is a Star Destroyer shaped like a small box.... really?

Never had or seen one as a kid but as an adult I think it was a poor / lazy idea, surely it couldn't have hurt to make a ****ing badass long ship almost the length of your average living room rug, other toy franchises made massive long ships like with aircraft carriers etc, so it clearly could have been done. Instead they produced a full size room with enough room to fit a few figures in along with the meditation chamber, and a roof at the height of a mansion ceiling in comparison to the figure's height, and looks nothing like a ship. The Death Star was understandable because of the shape, the toy worked and it looked great as a cross section play set, and most of the space station's shape is there.

But they should have done a long Star Destroyer with sections of the top that come away just like the Falcon to reveal a play set inside, it could have been amazing, along with cleverly placed handles to pick it up and move it, sure it wouldn't have been anywhere near to scale as the figures but imagine the fun!!
 

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Well firstly, I have to say that I love the vintage toys (like everyone here, I hope!). That said, there are soooo many things I wish they'd done better or differently. I'll limit myself to just one for now: The door hinges on the Palitoy Cantina... What pieces of crap! Shiny silver stickers which always came off the plastic door frame, making batwing doors fall off. And being stickers, if you tried to remove them from the doors to reattach the doors to the frame again, you tore the litho on the super-cheap cardboard doors! I adore Palitoy, but this design was shite! :-D
 

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subzero said:
One of mine is a Star Destroyer shaped like a small box.... really?

Never had or seen one as a kid but as an adult I think it was a poor / lazy idea, surely it couldn't have hurt to make a ****ing badass long ship almost the length of your average living room rug, other toy franchises made massive long ships like with aircraft carriers etc, so it clearly could have been done. Instead they produced a full size room with enough room to fit a few figures in along with the meditation chamber, and a roof at the height of a mansion ceiling in comparison to the figure's height, and looks nothing like a ship. The Death Star was understandable because of the shape, the toy worked and it looked great as a cross section play set, and most of the space station's shape is there.

But they should have done a long Star Destroyer with sections of the top that come away just like the Falcon to reveal a play set inside, it could have been amazing, along with cleverly placed handles to pick it up and move it, sure it wouldn't have been anywhere near to scale as the figures but imagine the fun!!
I won't defend it cause it looks like a pile of crap but it is listed as a playset and not a ship, so I think Kenner we're going for playability over aesthetics. Many people that owned it say that it had excellent playability.
 

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TheJabbaWookie said:
subzero said:
One of mine is a Star Destroyer shaped like a small box.... really?

Never had or seen one as a kid but as an adult I think it was a poor / lazy idea, surely it couldn't have hurt to make a ****ing badass long ship almost the length of your average living room rug, other toy franchises made massive long ships like with aircraft carriers etc, so it clearly could have been done. Instead they produced a full size room with enough room to fit a few figures in along with the meditation chamber, and a roof at the height of a mansion ceiling in comparison to the figure's height, and looks nothing like a ship. The Death Star was understandable because of the shape, the toy worked and it looked great as a cross section play set, and most of the space station's shape is there.

But they should have done a long Star Destroyer with sections of the top that come away just like the Falcon to reveal a play set inside, it could have been amazing, along with cleverly placed handles to pick it up and move it, sure it wouldn't have been anywhere near to scale as the figures but imagine the fun!!
I won't defend it cause it looks like a pile of crap but it is listed as a playset and not a ship, so I think Kenner we're going for playability over aesthetics. Many people that owned it say that it had excellent playability.
Well in fairness, I owned one as a child and yes, I enjoyed it because it was Star Wars, but I was also under no illusions that it in any way resembled what it claimed to be! The likeness was crap, but the playability was there... even though the sodding bulb in my meditation chamber never did work! :cry: :lol:
 

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Well if the meditation chamber had misty smoke creeping out of it I may have given it a thumbs up. :lol:
 

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I think my only grumble was the cheap thin plastic hooks kenner / palitoy used in the tie fighters to attach the wings most of mine broke and are now fixed using the toy polloi method but its not perfect and one did break again on the tie interceptor, those wings are to heavy and long for such a thin hook. The x wing had a few issues too, with having to turn r2 around when the release button edge wore out, who knew all this as a kid we just had to suffer falling off tie wings and x wings that would not stay open after a 1000 odd "fix wings in attack formation" :lol:
 

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I don't really have many grumbles other than repro stuff.

That and some insane prices, prices which keep many genuine collectors who have been in the hobby a long time from owning certain pieces, finishing certain runs etc. I think that is a shame.

One observation I have:

No Moff Tarkin figure, I think he (or even Greedo) would have been a better first 12 figure than Death Squad Commander, I find it odd that they never gave "The Moff" a figure
 

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I am forever grumbling about the lack of MOC Palitoy Logo'd stuff to buy, it doesn't get me anywhere but sometimes I feel the need to moan about it.
 

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What a list of "first world" problems!
Aren't we all very lucky?!?
:wink:
 

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Wreck-It Ralph said:
I am forever grumbling about the lack of MOC Palitoy Logo'd stuff to buy, it doesn't get me anywhere but sometimes I feel the need to moan about it.

I almost never see one show up anywhere, on here and not even ebay.

Rare as hens teeth!
 

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Stupid, greedy prices are currently boiling my piss. See the Facebook thread in off topic
 

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indianawars said:
I cannot stand people that try to profit from postage costs... especially overseas.

Well said :D

When I sell on Ebay, I always go with the postage estimator, I have had my pants pulled down a couple of times with postage, especially when I have bought more than one item from the seller, asked for combined postage and they ended up charging me for two lots of postage when they could have popped them in the same envelope :roll:

Russ :D
 

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Ruby2511 said:
indianawars said:
I cannot stand people that try to profit from postage costs... especially overseas.

Well said :D

When I sell on Ebay, I always go with the postage estimator, I have had my pants pulled down a couple of times with postage, especially when I have bought more than one item from the seller, asked for combined postage and they ended up charging me for two lots of postage when they could have popped them in the same envelope :roll:

Russ :D

That's usually when I request to cancel the sale and it gives the seller a boot up the arse :lol:

I know it's right that if something is not mentioned in the description then not to expect it, but when it comes to postage if I order 5 different items each with say £2 postage and the seller is sticking to demanding £10 when it really still costs £2 to send them all, then postage should be combined out of courtesy anyway.
 
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