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[Grant]

Nice buys everyone. Ed you had a good idea a while back about putting an elastic band round the bubble. This might have saved poor Yoda. :|

 

[peekaygee73]

Mark: Gorgeous ESB R2 MOC - still on my list of wants! Is it a 41 back a/b/c by any chance?

It's a 41B.

Nice! Just ignore me whilst I drool away in the corner... :wink:

 

[Joe]

Very pleased to add this chap to my trilogo run, have been looking for one for ages. Big thanks to our resident detective Joe for the heads up

Oh that looks way better than I thought it would! Nice pick up Edd, no probs!

 

[edd_jedi]

Ed you had a good idea a while back about putting an elastic band round the bubble. This might have saved poor Yoda. :|

It works very well on later non-stem Kenner and Palitoy bubbles, not so good on trilogos or miscard bubbles due to the shape and usual damage.

 

[spoons]

more great pick ups chaps. Jimbo's Vectis haul looks absolutely mint, and a real shame about Yoda - the card was peachy

I'm kicking myself today for damaging one of my latest buys. A 48B Han Hoth, yellow bubble aside it was mint bar a pen price that looked easy to remove. It probably was easy to remove by someone with half a brain but not by me and my impatience - removed some of the litho in trying to remove smudged ink

I stopped before it went too far and I'll see if Steve at UKG can salvage something. Genuinely feel a bit sick inside - damage in the post is one thing. Damage by me is worse

On the plus side only one Han Hoth to go to finish the Kenner run and a Pal diecast Falcon arrived today too

Just the landspeeder and x-wing now to complete that run

better view of my cackhandedness

 

[Richard_H]

You want more palitoys? Very well then. Popped back today to see if any others had appeared. He told me these were Kenners but clearly they are not:

 

[edd_jedi]

Bloody hell looks like you've struck gold! Did you buy these too?

 

[Richard_H]

I did, just need to find a home for the 3PO. None are/were for me - just want these to get into the right collectors' hands and not flipped on ebay and stuff.

 

[timbo72]

Love the Luke Bespin

 

[mr_palitoy]

Love the Luke Bespin

Quality piece. I has the only known example as a cardback up until now.

Jason

 

[steve obi wan]

Nice pieces ,

Great scores guys !

 

[sith-smith]

Some more great buys

 

[ScruffyLookingNH]

Love the Luke Bespin

Quality piece. I has the only known example as a cardback up until now.

Jason

So is this the only known MOC to exist, then?

 

[andy x-wing pilot]

Amazing looking Luke Rich.
Great score

 

[_Lee_]

Love the Luke Bespin

Quality piece. I has the only known example as a cardback up until now.

Jason

So is this the only known MOC to exist, then?

That is a sweet piece, but i wouldnt say its one of a kind. That term is being overused nowadays.

 

[_Lee_]

I did, just need to find a home for the 3PO. None are/were for me - just want these to get into the right collectors' hands and not flipped on ebay and stuff.

What a gent you are Rich

 

[_Lee_]

Just gone back 10 or so pages as i dont often get time. Great buys by everyone, but gutted about the Tri Yoda. That hurts man

Anyway, keep it up chaps

 

[stormcab]

Wow these pages are flying recently. I assume because people's Vectis wins are arriving in droves. Sad seeing what happened to the Yoda, and brings home this year's early memory of 2 12 backs that arrived damaged, with one fully open via the eBay Global Shipping program. Just how many figures are lost each year because of transit damage?

Anyway, great pick ups everyone. Lots of MOCs (my thing). Nice clear Squid Tri looks the nuts. The lovely mixed haul of 5 there. It's like a mini Christmas everyday checking this thread each morning when I wake up.

 

[pikdin]

Hello everyone!
I'm new here so I don't know much about the forums, but I hope I am posting this on the right thread.

At a local auction where I live, I recently found an auction including 5 seemingly new and sealed Star Wars figures. The only information I have about the figures is a picture.

Do these figures look original or are they fake?
The bidding ends in a couple of hours and the current bid as at around $200. If they are real the figures should definitely be worth a lot more than that, right.

What do you think, is it worth bidding on?

 

[greedole]

I would say deffo fake.
The 2 on the top left and Right don't actually exist as a Vintage MOC.
The Punchtabs on the rest look like they are Repro too …..
Guilty by association...
Walk away.

 

[laurencedyer]

Been out shopping again

 

[steve obi wan]

Got to love the Palitoy !

Great collection going there Lawrence

 

[MarkG]

Two more mocs today. Picked up from Brighton Comic Con.

Palitoy 65bk Luke FB and Meccano Jawa.

 

[timbo72]

Man I love that LFB moc, might have to start looking for one

 

[stormcab]

I would say those 5 cards are fake. Bit like a fake bank note. Just needed to glance at them for fraction of a second to see something is off with the colours.

Lovely Palitoy bags

 

[TwistedMetal]

My latest pick ups, chuffed with all of them. Thanks to the guys I bought them off.

 

[BruceW]

Great pic ups, guys. Loving those Palis, Richard!

Haven't picked up too much lately. I recently upgraded and added some vintage Japanese bottle caps to the "oddball" section of the Leia collection.
I think the bottle caps are a very cool and overlooked area of vintage collecting.

Top rows are the old ones, bottom rows are the new:

And this one is my favorite, as the image is the same as the Princess Leia card back art:

But my most recent and major purchase is a Kenner 12A Princess Leia Organa MOC!

Card has a bit of wear, and is slightly curved, but the figure and bubble are in great shape. And she looks great in that GW Acrylic case!
So, that leaves me with 5 more Leia MOCs to complete the Kenner run. Still need 12B, 12D (32 sticker) and three of the crazy Boba Fett sticker offer variations. The hunt continues!

Cheers!

 

[steve obi wan]

Another great pick up Mark ,

Nice leia moc , love the bottle caps , nice yak and can't go wrong with the wee jawa

Great buys guys

 

[Grant]

Great pick ups everyone. Bruce that Leia 12-A back is sweet. 8)

 

[Ross_Barr]

Awesome pick ups, Bruce. I LOVE the bottle caps.