First MOC Figure - Now and Then

[phreatobite]

A couple of days ago I saw a MOC Amanaman with some bubble damage go for £175 on EvilBay and it made me think as this was the first MOC I bought when I started collecting. (It's mint - I think I got it from Iain for £60 ...later I got a ROTJ Stormie and a MiM Vader from Iain ...he is awesome.)

I thought that this is pretty good appreciation for six/seven years! ...if I ever sold it, which I won't!

I just wondered what your first MOC was and what you paid then compared to market price now?

 

[edd_jedi]

I'm not 100% sure as it was so long ago - it was either a Palitoy ROTJ Logray which cost me £12, or a Tri logo Klaatu which was £7. Both were in around 1994 and were my first two MOCs.

 

[fuzzybuzzytoys]

My first MOC was a 12 Back Ben Kenobi as it was the first figure I brought as a kid. It was (is) an AFA80 although I had no idea who AFA were and was surprised to find I couldnt open the case

Paid £350 for it.

 

[theforceuk]

EV-9D9 was my first MOC in 1999, think I paid £200 for it. :roll: It got AFA 60 think it's probably worth about £60 now! :? Good job I'm not in the hobby to make money. :lol:

 

[palitoyjunky]

My first MOC as a collector was many moons ago in the mid 90s. I paid £15 for a clean Kenner 8D8!

Miss those 90s prices :wink:

 

[edd_jedi]

Miss those 90s prices :wink:

Actually I think as theforceuk points out above many things were more expensive back then! Certainly lesser condition things were, this quest for perfection AFA has driven didn't exist. If something 'rare' came up, you would buy it regardless of condition.

 

[peekaygee73]

My first MOC was a Kenner Teebo back in about 1993 - think I paid about £5. I definitely miss the early 90s prices!

 

[phreatobite]

I've looked back through my old emails and found a receipt for a MOC Ree-Yees I picked up for £2.77 in 2008. OK, it was a bit of a beater :wink: but you couldn't buy a loosie for that.

 

[x-pack]

First back then was either DV or Greedo. Not 100% sure which

In around 1991 I picked up an Endor Leia MOC for around £5

 

[Mr-shifter]

Think I brought 6 MOCs from a car boot sale in circa 1993 ish. There was a ree yees, prune face, trilogo stormtrooper which was a reseal which looked like it had been done with one of those glue guns at st pilot, imperial commander and another I can't remember. I think I paid about £30 for the lot but none of them were in great condition and some were resealed.

I still have a couple of these. Highlights for me back in the day were around 1994 -1995 I picked up a ROTJ Yoda moc I still have in great shape for £22 and a trilogo Romba in fantastic condition for £20. Both came from a shop long since gone in Brighton called Jabbas Hut.

 

[tiefighterboy]

12 back vader...mint...$50....in the early 90's. People thought I was stupid.

 

[Stargeezer]

12 back Jawa AFA 80 about 5 years ago. I paid 200£ shipped.

 

[Fishtalk]

I got a Kenner 77 back Death Star Droid from an ad in Model and collectors mart in 1999, for £55. In retrospect I think I overpaid, they don't go for much more than that today, especially ungraded and with a bubble as yellow as the one I received.

 

[Grant_C]

FACK!

Han trench- Autumn 1995- £15

 

[Michael Sith]

My first were bargain bin ROTJ for my young son at the time,
As I recollect...Gammy Guard 50p I think!

 

[brownbear29]

My first and only vintage moc, from my old dear - one she'd bought for herself back in '85 because she liked Yoda so much... £0 - she gave it to me earlier this year

 

[Cazza]

First was a Palitoy Logray for £7 from a comic shop in Cheltenham in around 1995.

Best appreciating moc is probably Pali 30-back Lando I picked up in the mid 90's for around £30. Not totally sure what it's worth now, but should think it would be well north of £500.

 

[SOJ]

ESB TIE pilot 2003 £30

 

[Doomseeker]

Like a few of the other guys ROTJ Palitoy Logray from NU EARTH in york about 1996...the shop went many years ago but I still have the figure and paid £12 for it.
the things you remember!!!

 

[palitoyjunky]

Miss those 90s prices :wink:

Actually I think as theforceuk points out above many things were more expensive back then! Certainly lesser condition things were, this quest for perfection AFA has driven didn't exist. If something 'rare' came up, you would buy it regardless of condition.

I partially agree with u regarding average round of the mill stuff! Collectors would certainly b far more excited at Fairs(a sensation I certainly miss) because they couldn't find stuff on the net like today so the Fairs were where the stuff was at! My mate had a shop in the 90s and would get £20+ for certain v average condition figures-as u say no AFA and there was a real buzz because SW was being rediscovered what with Hasbro launching POTF2 and the special editions being released!
Today those figures would b less than a tenner! However back then a perfect condition figure say an original Leia Organa may have topped out at £25-30 but today a perfect example would top out at £50+ and indeed there is a good chance a piece in that condition would b graded and therefore poss command a 3 figure sum :!: :?

Also the days of paying $300 for a mint 12 back Kenner Luke, $1500-2000 for a mint Kenner 12 back VCJ or £80 for mint Palitoy 30 back Luke Bespin are long since gone :!: Those days were indeed in the 90s and that was my point!

So overall I disagree with u and think collectors had a better deal back in the 90s even though they may have had to put more effort into searching :|