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The Last Jedi (2017) – Review by Matt Fox (May The Toys Be With You) I had tickets safely booked in several weeks before release. I’d be watching The Last Jedi at the local Curzon with my family, including two young daughters who’d both very much enjoyed The Force Awakens. However, as a keen...

Painted in 1977 for the UK release of Star Wars. Heads up, if you don't have this and you might potentially want one, then this is the last opp to buy at the reduced price of £195, price will be £245 from Jan 1st. Makes a great xmas present... :D To learn more about the poster and to order...

This poster was indeed a free giveaway with an issue of Empire Magazine, I had a copy myself from years back. Sadly no value to it.

The listing for this has gone live now... the DT Ben Kenobi is up to $26k already if anyone fancies a little flutter. https://www.hakes.com/Auction/CollectionDetail/314/RUSSELL-BRANTON-STAR-WARS-COLLECTION

There has just been an article on this very subject on the swca blog, well worth a read: http://blog.theswca.com/2017/10/ I don't think we are even remotely close to the hobby declining. Just you wait till the 'I grew up Star Wars' generation reaches 65 retirement age and then you'll see some...

Thanks for the new episode, another lovely rambling present for us vintage boys to listen to! It was unusual listening to you have a slightly morose discussion about falling out of love with the hobby (and Stu's confession that he's been cheating on Star Wars with a Game Of Thrones collection -...

No, I don't think he participated much on the forum, but he did buy and sell some of his Palitoy 20 backs with some names I recognised. Cant be too many have done the full 20 run!

It's actually Matt, but you can call me Max, I aint mad!

That is indeed the UK version, sorry I didn't have mine in hand to see that it also mentioned dollars too! Not a second edition or a reprint, that is the bonafide UK version.

Laurence, the rarest (and imho the best!) is the British version. If you bought it off Ebay UK there might be a chance you have this version. Look at the page with all the cast/credits and at the bottom you'll see a reference to ordering more copies. If this is a UK address and the amount is in...

I had the opening of May The Toys Be With You exhibition at Gosport Discovery Centre on Saturday and I met a local collector called Darren (he has been on this forum as Daz B). He had a run of the first 20 on Palitoy cards, and at the time he thought he was only one of 3 to have done that...

48 hours ago, an experiment began to see if community members could collectively target and remove the listing for a specific repro item on ebay. By my tally 37 took part on here and on Echo Base – thank you all for taking the time to ‘Report Item’... Disappointingly, the result is that the...

BTW these are now on ebay and the Han is already north of £500+

jonathan, in your description you describe this as sealed? Can you be more specific?

I suspect many of those 68 views from the past 24 hours have been as a result of this thread and the one on echo base. subzero, regarding EBay's policy on repro, I'm not sure that blog article represents it as it was written 8 years ago by a collector and is just his opinion. EBay's official...

Haha, nice one! I posted this on Echo Base too, and we have 4 reports here, 10 there, so we are up to 14. This is really a stress test to find out how many cases of Report Item need to be made before the listing is shut down (either by ebay algorithm or a worker). Keep them coming guys...

I think the collecting community has done brilliantly to mostly remove / ban the sale of repro from forums and facebook groups and respect to all those who have adopted the 'no repro' stance. However the problem of ebay remains, and on that front the repro mostly definitely appears to be...

I think Ron Howard was an upgrade over Lord + Miller, and I think JJ Abrams is an upgrade over Colin Trevorrow. Maybe it's being English, and used to seeing football managers sacked and replaced on a weekly basis but this doesn't trouble me in the least.

Six years i've hunted for these, and today I have them. Unapplied stickers from the Palitoy Death Star... Bless the child who didnt stick these on. My fave item in the whole vintage line is finally 'NRFB' completed...

It was a full day for 3 people. Setting it up is a lot more fun than taking it down!