Carboot

[Dorsetmark]

Thanks Mark

Your welcome
But Alan Hall can burn in hell :mrgreen:

 

[spoons]

Action Man is really wierd in that sense. Alan Hall's books are fantastic reference books but then he goes and throws a massive spanner in the hobby.

It would be like Kellerman making repro MOCs.

The 40th stuff is not as frowned on as repros are in Star Wars. I'm not sure why that is - slightly older collectors or maybe because Hall made them.

 

[Clawrence]

The initial rush of finding vintage usually blinds you to the obvious mistake you're making.

:lol: Sometimes it's only when you get home (and calm down) that you realise what you have brought. I Once brought a hand solo (without his Trench Coat) bagged with a slave 1 carbonate block from a guy from a car boot....thinking it was a last 17.
would'nt worry about it...just put it down as experience...we have all done it.

 

[spoons]

The initial rush of finding vintage usually blinds you to the obvious mistake you're making.

:lol: Sometimes it's only when you get home (and calm down) that you realise what you have brought. I Once brought a hand solo (without his Trench Coat) bagged with a slave 1 carbonate block from a guy from a car boot....thinking it was a last 17.
would'nt worry about it...just put it down as experience...we have all done it.

my worst was a Lando General in a Squid Head cape - thought I had a bargain until I got home and checked Sansweets book and realised the error (pre-internet) :roll:

 

[naughtyjedi]

I suppose a repro weapon is better than no weapon.....

Nope. Glad you're feeling more philosophical about it, but a vacuum is much better than a repro weapon. Burn 'em!

I heard the 40th AM stuff has really ruined the market. It is from the same moulds used for the original stuff, then?

I have stuck them in a tub in my Star Wars bits and bobs, regarding the Action Man the dolls are the same but different if you know what I mean. The first lot of 40th uniform releases were very good they even had the proper tags in the uniforms, they then removed the tags in later releases as people were selling 40th as the real stuff.
It is not the uniforms tho that's the problem, it's the medals or the little medic pac or the tiny pencil on the scramble pilot, this stuff if vintage goes for good money. Now they are ten a penny, in the past some so called dealers were peddling them as vintage items.
Nothing the Vintage Star Wars collectors aren't battling against, the fakers have no conscience it seems as some so called dealers haven't.

please consider burning them and think of the community and how much ongoing that will save fellow collectors. if those get out one day, etc etc

 

[kingshearer]

I must admit I'm not feeling as bad as I did earlier, I suppose a repro weapon is better than no weapon, I'm just going to display them in one of my cabinets. The feeling of elation I got from coming across the bag was an amazing feeling. I really need to knuckle down and read up on things so I don't make the mistake again. It saddens me the repro stuff has found itself on a carboot, not sure I could blatantly lie to somebody about the athentisity of something.
I am just glad I got out of Vintage Action Man collecting when I did, the 40th stuff has ruined the community I once loved to be a part of.
My hunt will continue again next weekend on the carboot front, I am also going to the Doncaster Toy far next Sunday, I'm sure I will find something original to buy.

Go back next Sunday and get your money back mate and tell him he's a lying toerag. What a knob saying they're from his childhood.