Current prices ....

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Prices currently seem through the roof and apprar to rise daily. I do fear that we are at the stage where people of my age that are now all nostalgic for their childhood toys, and perhaps with a bit of disposable income, are just driving the market to an artificial peak.

What happens when all us 50ish guys and girls stop collecting? Will the younger generations continue to value these great old toys as we seem to now or will the prices collapse. Yes these items are only getting more and more scarce and Star Wars is huge, but will the classic sets and figures make way for the Hasbro sets as the new generations prize their era toys? And the repro market is doing nothing to preserve the integrity of these items. It can only devalue as buyers become less confident in what they are paying for is genuine and worth the outlay.
 

theforceuk

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Depends what your after I think, Luke Stormtrooper prices have gone through the roof, but then Luke Jedi has cooled right down. Prices are all over the place and have been for years.
 

Ruby2511

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Depends what your after I think, Luke Stormtrooper prices have gone through the roof, but then Luke Jedi has cooled right down. Prices are all over the place and have been for years.
I agree, I'm after the last 17 now and looking at prices!! I'm shocked at how high they are.
 
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I guess when you take a 20 year break from collecting the increases seem that much more outrageous. A decent Blue Snaggletooth now goes for 5 or 6 times what I was paying back then. Yak too.

Even less desirable items like a Rancor monster crippled or more in price.

Then some things in the higher side of the market seem to have not changed hugely like 12 back carded figures. There was an auction a week back that had a carded palitoy vinyl cape jawa. The guide was originally £20k to £25k. They revised it to £25k to £30k. It started fairly slow but made it up to £25k. In the current market I thought it would have made its £30k estimate or more. They also had one of the discovered case fresh Palitoy Death Star playsets. That blew past the estimate and finished around £8k to £9k. I guess when you get that rare and costly it kinda eliminates 90% of collectors so it's all down to the day and who's in the virtual room. Just about every item in the £100 to £3k estimate range flew past the top estimates and kept going.
 

welshwookie

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I guess when you take a 20 year break from collecting the increases seem that much more outrageous. A decent Blue Snaggletooth now goes for 5 or 6 times what I was paying back then. Yak too.

Even less desirable items like a Rancor monster crippled or more in price.

Then some things in the higher side of the market seem to have not changed hugely like 12 back carded figures. There was an auction a week back that had a carded palitoy vinyl cape jawa. The guide was originally £20k to £25k. They revised it to £25k to £30k. It started fairly slow but made it up to £25k. In the current market I thought it would have made its £30k estimate or more. They also had one of the discovered case fresh Palitoy Death Star playsets. That blew past the estimate and finished around £8k to £9k. I guess when you get that rare and costly it kinda eliminates 90% of collectors so it's all down to the day and who's in the virtual room. Just about every item in the £100 to £3k estimate range flew past the top estimates and kept going.
Probably more people has a chance on the Death Star price wise than the VCJ. I would have gone for the death star, out of preference, although I wanted the Ben, but would rather give a seller the money rather than a auction house take their cut. Depending what deal the seller managed to negotiate.
 
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Probably more people has a chance on the Death Star price wise than the VCJ. I would have gone for the death star, out of preference, although I wanted the Ben, but would rather give a seller the money rather than a auction house take their cut. Depending what deal the seller managed to negotiate.
Would love a nice condition Palitoy Death Star. Won't be mint sealed like that one but be nice to have a decent box for display and a complete and intact playset.
 
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