Latest Modern Acquisitions

[Jediknight3263827]

latest haul from Burnley today

 

[grinchy]

love the han and luke, do they come with the helmets?
Finally my local asda had some stock in, not much and they were right at the top of the shelf, so Karen had to use a spare lightsabre to knock them down to me, lol, 9 quid each and the 6 inch phasma was seventeen, not a bad haul just glad to finally see stuff out in the wild

 

[Jediknight3263827]

no they don't come with helmets but they deffo look cool in my collection
think these are my favorites of all the 31 inch line

 

[naughtyjedi]

Major thanks to Iain Sanderson for helping me acquire this item.

I don't like using the item 'grail' for a modern piece as I've not travailed the misty lagoons of old kingdoms, avoiding seductive wenches and squiffy maidens on my quest.. I saw it on ebay and got someone to buy it for me.. but it is a hard figure to get and being a stingy sod, I decided that the last one I saw about 2 years ago which I lost out, I should not pass this chance up.. this was a BIN and worth it. There is currently a lesser quality one on ebay that came online just after I got this one.. I guess someone smelt the cash. Only realising that only a loon like me would spend cash on an item like this.

The figure itself is common its just the cardback. A canadian starburst Original Trilogy Collection (the packaging makes no mention to prisoner or slave). I have another hard to find slave leia card coming soon.. pictures will arrive when it gets here. Some of the prices of Slave Leia on ebay across all the ranges have sky-rocketed recently. Where I was picking up even the VC figs recently, they are being listed for crazy money. Maybe its to do with this myth that nobody is making slave leia stuff anymore..

yeah.. right. And if anyone is going to SDCC please get me the slave leia itty bitty exclusive for me..

 

[Collins1987]

Nice find mate, how come the Canadian version is rarer than other versions of this series?

 

[naughtyjedi]

No idea why that decision was made, it does look cool,

http://www.rebelscum.com/OTCcanada.asp

However, the other regular cardbacks are great display pieces, as they have movie backdrops
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?image=/OTC/otc0426lukebespincardfr.jpg

Here's the Slave Leia regular one
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?image=/OTC/otc0433leiaslavecardfr.jpg

And my ever increasing Rey collectable today comes from Japan

 

[Sinniberg]

Hello group, I'm not sure if anybody has bought and posted about the 1'6 Hasbro TFA Tie Fighter.

When I came across it on Youtube although my jaw hit the ground the £180 price tag made me hold off but then about two weeks ago I saw that Amazon was selling them for £88 with free delivery so there was no argument!.

I have to say it is huge and where to put/display it is a problem :lol:

One thing I noticed is that the box itself was covered in dust so it made me wonder if they've been struggling to sell them.

My intention was to buy it and just store it in the attic for the time being but when it arrived that quickly went out the window!.

The Fighter Pilot figure is a little tricky to get positioned into the seat but with a little patience it does go.

This thing is quite simply awesome and although I haven't looked if they're still available on Amazon for £88 my advice would be to grab one while you can.

 

[Grant_C]

Wow! that's is crazy cool.

Thank god I don't collect 6 inch as I have no room for that.

 

[chiffy]

I'm personally waiting for it to come down from £88 as i think it'll soon be even cheaper! Also, i thought it was for 3'3/4 black series figures? I'm sure the figs you get in the box with it are only standard size?

 

[grinchy]

great pickup, I've had my eye on one of these for a while now, just got nowhere to display it, lol they are for the six inch figures, check out the reviews on youtube, such a great piece

 

[chiffy]

I cant be arsed to check out the youtube stuff as i trust you guys with my life and thats good enuff for me! I have no interest in the 6 inch range but was gonna get this tie but youve saved me the cash, not that i had any anyways, cheers fellas :mrgreen:

 

[Collins1987]

Today was a good day, love the tarkin figure.

 

[MarkG]

R5-M4 arrived the other day to complete my current run of the carded Disney Droids..

 

[grinchy]

gotta love those astromechs! they do look cool, I assume its an ongoing series?, I have a soft spot for the droids, heres my shelf with a couple more loosies added

Also need to rejig my boba focus, running out of room for the two shelves I have on the go

 

[robpmarsh]

VC Leia Hoth and a few other bits for my focus

Latest Action Figure Variant cover (shame they haven't updated the logo to ESB)

 

[db94]

VC Leia Hoth - very nice pick, well done

 

[ianbrooke]

must start on getting some modern stuff for my Leia focus
Do you have any pictures of your full focus?

Ian

 

[ianbrooke]

Picked this up for £15 from Tesco

 

[robpmarsh]

4 Elite Series I never thought I'd manage to get in the UK (massive thanks to Simon for bringing these back from the US for me)

Just need the elusive Fett with cape to be up-to-date now

 

[Woolyniner]

So I've started my modern vintage collection with these 3 cards, sorry about the poor quality, my camera is crap.



I unashamedly love Jar Jar and when I saw a vintage style card with him I had to have it. I'm slowly going to build up on the PM line, I like the film despite the awful acting.

I also purchased some VOTC mocs:



Now with these I could collect the VOTC line, but instead I thought I'd pursue the Lando and Vader cards over the various modern vintage lines. I do dabble with Lando on pure vintage collecting too.

 

[Woolyniner]

Love the VC Leia Rob, and VOTC Fett Grinchy, great cards.

 

[grinchy]

Some great pickups guys, glad a few of us are still picking up modern stuff as well as vintage, just nabbed these 3 on ebay for twenty quid delivered, not bad though the limited edition vader at one of fifty thousand makes me laugh a bit, not limited at all , I've been after the vader for a while so the bonus getting the other two is pretty good

 

[grinchy]

Checked out our local asda and they finally had a black series han in 6 inch scale, great stuff, they had chewie on clearance for 8 quid, which I thought was a bargain

 

[Woolyniner]

Nice new pick ups Grinchy, particularly like the Back Series Han. I've got a few new TPM VC over the last few weeks, as soon as I pinch a camera off a family member I'll post them up.

 

[TRILOGY COLLECTOR]

Hello everyone --- I'm a new member -- Loving the forum -- Just wanted to share my picture of my part collection of figures that visited the dentist today for their annual checkup

 

[grinchy]

great set of figures, I love this line, such a classy look to them in the starcases, interesting pic, are you a dentist?

 

[TRILOGY COLLECTOR]

Thanks thought i would post a more interesting picture to amuse - work as dentist indeed :lol:

 

[chiffy]

Hi there. Anychance of giving me the r2 and 3po otherwise i wont like you very much :wink:

 

[TRILOGY COLLECTOR]

Hi Chiffy

I am working hard to complete the full collection - once i decide to sell - will give a shout chiffy 8)

 

[Dorsetmark]

No vintage for my birthday, but did get this beauty