Grey Limbed Hoth Stormtrooper

[Cazza]

Hey up,

How much do these fetch nowadays?

Cheers

 

[Clarkspie&chips]

I've always wanted one of these so if you're selling, I'm buying!

 

[lejackal]

I personally think 50 quid but I wouldn't be surprised if someone said 10 times that

 

[lejackal]

[mention]walkie[/mention] ?

 

[Cazza]

Scott, afraid I haven't I haven't got one. Asking for a friend of my son- he wants one.

 

[Mini99]

[mention]Cazza[/mention]
The last one that I can find on FB was sold in 2017 for...£510! :shock:
So I suspect that you can add a fair chunk to that now...assuming you could find one.

 

[walkie]

Over £1000

 

[Cazza]

Wow! Thanks guys.

 

[walkie]

are you looking to sell? I know quiet a few interested people

 

[Cazza]

are you looking to sell? I know quiet a few interested people

Afraid I don't have one, Stefan. Was asking for one of my son's friends, who wants one. I suspect he won't be getting one now though!

 

[coomber75]

not sure ive ever seen one

 

[walkie]

here's mine...

 

[Cardbackkid]

Is this a legit variant or just Degradation ?

 

[lejackal]

Is this a legit variant or just Degradation ?

Can.
Worms.
Opened :lol:

I'm on the side of degradation but I know that I
(a) have I evidence to speak of
(b) will be told I'm wrong, probably also by people with no evidence

 

[coomber75]

don't know if it's degradation or not but they look cool

 

[theforceuk]

I love these as well, don't see them for sale though. I'll keep an eye out from now on and post here if I see one.

 

[coomber75]

I love these as well, don't see them for sale though. I'll keep an eye out from now on and post here if I see one.

good man

 

[theforceuk]

I love these as well, don't see them for sale though. I'll keep an eye out from now on and post here if I see one.

good man

Oh no, pressures on now! :lol:

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

here's mine...

I love the look of this figure are there other characters with contrasting limbs like this one?

When you say it is degradation does that mean that all Hoth Stormtroopers limbs are grey beneath the white or does the white somehow change colour to grey?

 

[poncho]

There all came from a bad patch of plastic forming and were thus treated as rejects as they went grey pretty quickly that is all.

There white on the inside they've just turned grey on the outside.

Interesting curio

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

There all came from a bad patch of plastic forming and were thus treated as rejects as they went grey pretty quickly that is all.

There white on the inside they've just turned grey on the outside.

Interesting curio

Are there other figures with contrasting limbs similar to this Hoth Stormtrooper?

Would loose figure collectors class this as a variant?

 

[poncho]

High end variant collectors would consider it a variant also the yps comic book hoth trooper

 

[DarthHamblin]

I've never seen one in person looks cool though

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

Here are some useful links guys if you want to read more and are members of some of the FB groups:

Confirmation following the Palitoy talk
https://m.facebook.com/groups/152246575220345?view=permalink&id=547109979067334

Where Lee Bullock gives his findings
https://m.facebook.com/groups/244754502759184?view=permalink&id=262223877678913

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1640698419587897?view=permalink&id=1848631932127877

https://m.facebook.com/groups/152246575220345?view=permalink&id=334136383698029

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JabbasCourt/permalink/2593478657643197/

 

[kvavik]

There all came from a bad patch of plastic forming and were thus treated as rejects as they went grey pretty quickly that is all.

There white on the inside they've just turned grey on the outside.

Interesting curio

100% agree. It's from a spanish mold. None of these gray limbed has been found in spain, so probably a batch that was shipped to UK, rejected, and sold by some former empolyee. So it probably having some value, but people are selling these as possible first shots, pre prodcution pieces, which I think is wrong. Palitoy certainly did not have the spanish molds and did test shots themselves.

Sadly, I think the people who are paying £500 for one, do not do so because it's a bad batch of plastic.

 

[Cazza]

Pretty sure these must've made their way into the Palitoy factory shop. All sorts of rejected stuff ended up in there. I remember seeing quite a few of these over the years in the 90's. There were plenty around back then.

 

[Cazza]

One up for auction over on Jabba's- https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158476911304034&set=pcb.1233028140374925

 

[Clarkspie&chips]

Thanks for the link Andy, for those not on Facebrick it went for £1000.