How many vintage MOC figures exist today?

[Bonsai_Tree_Ent]

Over 300,000,000 vintage Star Wars figures sold globally - this seems to be the official number that is used in reference books and on wikipedia. A mind boggling statistic, and if only 1% percent of those were preserved MOC then that would still be a staggering 3 million carded figures in existence today!

Clearly no one can accurately say how many MOC exist now... but if you had to make your 'best guess' what number would you say?

 

[maxf]

I think 1% is probably too many - maybe 0.1%. Obviously that still puts it at a massive number - but how many SW collectors are there globally? 50,000? That's only a handful each if we're talking averages.

Big numbers but massive community. 50% of what's left is probably Klaatu anyway

 

[Joe]

Don't forget that estimate of 250,000,000-300,000,000 figures is a total for all figures produced not actually carded. That means all those shipping boxes full of Luke Jedi baggies and Threepio baggies are included in that total too (as are all other bagged figures and figures in 3 packs etc).

I have no idea how many survived but it's quite a lot, more than enough to meet collector demand that's for sure.

 

[Section 8]

If 300 Million were sold, then you could say almost all 300 Million were opened.

The number of MOC's will almost be the number not sold.

With the demand for figures and mocs there a probably far more collectors than you think. I'd say maybe up to 1 million are out there somewhere.

 

[sith-smith]

I'd imagine the number is easily in the 10's of thousands

 

[palitoyjunky]

It's a hell of a lot :!: One way to realise is to check the AFA population report(if indeed it has been finally sorted to view :| ) What in theory should exist less in number is the early MOCs, some Kenner 12 back examples exist in the hundreds-and that is just the graded ones :!: So considering all the others it's in the many thousands

 

[sith-smith]

I reckon our small community on here probably have collectively in the 1000's

 

[benny100]

I reckon our small community on here probably have collectively in the 1000's

It'd be interesting to find out what the average number of Mocs is on here.......


Well maybe not that interesting, but curious none the less!!

 

[jedisearcher]

It's got to be hundreds of thousands. Never mind the collections we know about, there are probably hundreds of collections that have never seen the light of day all over the world.

 

[ChallengerFox]

I always wonder why so many were not opened ? Surely people back then no one knew they would be sort after ?

 

[sith-smith]

Some people did I'm sure.

Plus a lot of unsold stock.

You often hear the unopened presents story as well

 

[jedisearcher]

You often hear the unopened presents story as well

You sure do

There are loads of stories, mostly from America, of full sets of things like 12 backs that people collected because they liked the designs, or the figures etc. and just put them away for years. I know some of the Toyhunter stuff is staged, but he's found many collections like that and not just Star Wars.

 

[Bonsai_Tree_Ent]

It's a hell of a lot :!: One way to realise is to check the AFA population report(if indeed it has been finally sorted to view :| ) What in theory should exist less in number is the early MOCs, some Kenner 12 back examples exist in the hundreds-and that is just the graded ones :!: So considering all the others it's in the many thousands

You have to register with the AFA I guess to see this report? Does it give a total overall number of Star Wars MOC they have graded?

Some good thoughts here, if I personally had to guess I think I would come in around 200,000 bonafide MOC remaining. But am probably way off...

 

[x-pack]

I think that's the real question - how many Star Wars collectors are there worldwide. From there you could probably begin to do the maths

 

[edd_jedi]

Impossible to put a number on it but certainly hundreds of thousands, there are probably thousands on this forum alone. As a percentage even if 0.1% survived, that's still a hell of a lot!

As others have mentioned this is not accurate across the board - for every 12 back that survived there are 1000 overstock Klaatu's that never even left the factory. The vast majority of figures in circulation were not bought from shops, which is why you can't say things like '12 backs are more common than 41 backs' because it just entirely depends on what did and didn't sell at the time. General Madine is obviously a good example - one of the most common Kenner figures, one of the rarest trilogos.

 

[Grant]

How long is a piece of string.

 

[sith-smith]

Twice as long as half

 

[Grant]

Twice as long as half

And a half being twice as long as a quarter, so we're right back to where we started lol.

Since we're now deep into Imagination Land. Possibly if you can find the genius to answer the OP's question you can also ask him what the meaning of life is AND maybe what the answer to the universe is... On a side note If your talking with 2 white mice don't believe them if they tell ya it's 42. :wink:

Ask a stupid question...

Disclaimer, I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I'm just a sarcastic bast*rd. Some say it's the lowest form of wit. Guess I'm the lowest form. 8)

 

[sith-smith]

I'm 42

So I am the meaning of life....

 

[sith-smith]

Like many have said, we can never really know how many there are but it's certainly counted in the thousands (be that 10 or 100's of thousands) and not in the hundreds or in the millions.

What is said is that whatever the magic number is, it's getting less, not more...