Hi Everyone
ok its time to clear up another untrue story that's been going around for 20 years so let the debate begin and lets see the truth come out on here like it did on the Toni figures that history can be found and set straight.
This forum has been a place that the truth can come out on even when people did not like to here the truth and that is very important i feel for the collecting world .
This is the background / History to this figure.
The history of the item is exactly what i have stated for the past 20 years.
The Trooper came from several small traders in the Coventry area back in the 90s who used to sell at Allen Gill's sic-fi show in Coventry that was held twice a year in the early 90s.
I originally paid between £4 to £12 ? Each for them , one trader had around 4 of them at one show and after I bought them I ask him to look out for more as I would buy more if he could find more , then the next time at the show this same trader brought in 2 more and another trader also came in with another 2 more I think ? I know one of his had been badly damaged by bring bitten by a kid or a dog of something but i only paid £2 for that one
At the same time the main trader also sold me 21B micro bacta fluid centre an unpainted figures and fx7 figures both unreleased figures , these cost me back then very little I think it was like £8 to £12 each, i resold these micro figures for around £50 to £60 each i think back then as they were very much sorted after?.
Some other traders that was around at this show was Jim Stevenson, Alan Gill the organiser David Oliver, Kev Paul , Gary Mcgwier I think he was there also , i think they will vouch that these events did take pace ,some my remembers me buying them back then ? Maybe not as it was a long time ago.
The interesting thing about the troopers are the longer I had them the darker they became , i do not know for shore, but the limb plastic must have been a fluty or a second plastic and the sun affected the colour it seemed, so the more they were exposed the darker they became and if you damaged the surfers of the plastic the wight colour was still underneath but again over time the new exposed white plastic gos grey ,
So its in the plastic not something pained onto it. i think they may have been rejected by Palitoy and just ether given to the staff or just dumped when the factory closed ? anyway in the early 90s there were there for the picking
I put a price on the Hoth trooper for around £30 each back then and it took along time to sell them as most people did not care about them back then.
I took some with the me to sell in Florida and did sell one or two there , I also took one Hoth trooper to Mike Standards Toyrific show in pasadena in the early 90s, at that show a German prop maker and star wars collector Tim Katzer asked me lots of questions around the figure and said it was just painted , I explained to him what I understood that the plastic has changed colour and I thought it was to do with sunlight affecting bad plastic and it was not painted he insisted that it was painted and I remember say that's fine then your not interested in buying it then so do not worry about it as I just could not be bothered about expelling something to someone that dose not want to listen, I had a reputation of never being on my stand ever when I was a dealer
and when I was away from my stand Tim took the liberty to take a pocket Knife and cut into the foot and see if it was white under the surface , which is was , he then went around the show saying it was painted , the fact that he damaged someone property with out asking did not seem to bother this guy who I have never had any time for him after this day as he created this story and never wanted to listen.
Now that is how this story started so I think its now time to get to the TRUTH in the open so these figures history is not lost for everover a stupid lie.
Now I have just found one of these figures in my storage and I have talked to Lee Bullock about looking into these figures to find out once and for all what they are made of ?.
Lee tells me that there are test that he can do on this figure to find out what they are made of, I think he said that he was a chemist ? Sorry Lee if I have under credited you mate but anyway he has offered to do some tests on the figure.
When I meet up with Lee next I will give him this figure and he will test it , I know 100% that these are genuine figures as I bought them back in the day and for very little , I know this will all be proven that they are not painted and everyone will feel the same way about them as I do then.
what I feel would help us all now is what these figures are and want to know now is what info the lose figure collectors can shine on these to help with there history, I have taken some photos of this figure so maybe some info can be gained by looking at these figures in detail and there markings ?
Any help or info on this figure would be very much appreciated
I look forward to its history to finally come out
Jason
ok its time to clear up another untrue story that's been going around for 20 years so let the debate begin and lets see the truth come out on here like it did on the Toni figures that history can be found and set straight.
This forum has been a place that the truth can come out on even when people did not like to here the truth and that is very important i feel for the collecting world .
This is the background / History to this figure.
The history of the item is exactly what i have stated for the past 20 years.
The Trooper came from several small traders in the Coventry area back in the 90s who used to sell at Allen Gill's sic-fi show in Coventry that was held twice a year in the early 90s.
I originally paid between £4 to £12 ? Each for them , one trader had around 4 of them at one show and after I bought them I ask him to look out for more as I would buy more if he could find more , then the next time at the show this same trader brought in 2 more and another trader also came in with another 2 more I think ? I know one of his had been badly damaged by bring bitten by a kid or a dog of something but i only paid £2 for that one
At the same time the main trader also sold me 21B micro bacta fluid centre an unpainted figures and fx7 figures both unreleased figures , these cost me back then very little I think it was like £8 to £12 each, i resold these micro figures for around £50 to £60 each i think back then as they were very much sorted after?.
Some other traders that was around at this show was Jim Stevenson, Alan Gill the organiser David Oliver, Kev Paul , Gary Mcgwier I think he was there also , i think they will vouch that these events did take pace ,some my remembers me buying them back then ? Maybe not as it was a long time ago.
The interesting thing about the troopers are the longer I had them the darker they became , i do not know for shore, but the limb plastic must have been a fluty or a second plastic and the sun affected the colour it seemed, so the more they were exposed the darker they became and if you damaged the surfers of the plastic the wight colour was still underneath but again over time the new exposed white plastic gos grey ,
So its in the plastic not something pained onto it. i think they may have been rejected by Palitoy and just ether given to the staff or just dumped when the factory closed ? anyway in the early 90s there were there for the picking
I put a price on the Hoth trooper for around £30 each back then and it took along time to sell them as most people did not care about them back then.
I took some with the me to sell in Florida and did sell one or two there , I also took one Hoth trooper to Mike Standards Toyrific show in pasadena in the early 90s, at that show a German prop maker and star wars collector Tim Katzer asked me lots of questions around the figure and said it was just painted , I explained to him what I understood that the plastic has changed colour and I thought it was to do with sunlight affecting bad plastic and it was not painted he insisted that it was painted and I remember say that's fine then your not interested in buying it then so do not worry about it as I just could not be bothered about expelling something to someone that dose not want to listen, I had a reputation of never being on my stand ever when I was a dealer
and when I was away from my stand Tim took the liberty to take a pocket Knife and cut into the foot and see if it was white under the surface , which is was , he then went around the show saying it was painted , the fact that he damaged someone property with out asking did not seem to bother this guy who I have never had any time for him after this day as he created this story and never wanted to listen.Now that is how this story started so I think its now time to get to the TRUTH in the open so these figures history is not lost for everover a stupid lie.
Now I have just found one of these figures in my storage and I have talked to Lee Bullock about looking into these figures to find out once and for all what they are made of ?.
Lee tells me that there are test that he can do on this figure to find out what they are made of, I think he said that he was a chemist ? Sorry Lee if I have under credited you mate but anyway he has offered to do some tests on the figure.
When I meet up with Lee next I will give him this figure and he will test it , I know 100% that these are genuine figures as I bought them back in the day and for very little , I know this will all be proven that they are not painted and everyone will feel the same way about them as I do then.
what I feel would help us all now is what these figures are and want to know now is what info the lose figure collectors can shine on these to help with there history, I have taken some photos of this figure so maybe some info can be gained by looking at these figures in detail and there markings ?
Any help or info on this figure would be very much appreciated
I look forward to its history to finally come out
Jason
