just been having a think back to the last time i saw toni and it was about april 99 only a few months before episode one came out, back when he had a stool at alfies antiques off the edgware road, i thought i'd chance my arm and take a load of loose doubles down there and see if he would do a swap for ones that i needed.
from what i can remember he seemed all very un-interested in the whole star wars thing, he said keep your figures they'll be worth more once all these new films are out and then sell them, anyways i managed to talk him into it but he seemed so un-interested, in the end i managed swap about 10 loose beaters for an anakin and an uncomplete luke poncho so was quite happy with that but at the same time a bit dissapointed he didnt have much to say about the figures and told me he was more into planet of the apes stuff and japanese robots so the recarding thing thats going on did suprise me a bit. (also i do seem to remember him having quite a few signatures from movie stars)
but then skip forward to summer 2011 (one of the days the london riots were happening) i visited snoopers paradise in brighton and noticed this stool that looked all too familiar, lots of overpriced loose figures and some very minty looking and reasonable priced carded figures, i was sucked in and asked to have a look, there were 2 in particular that i looked at one was a c3p0 and the other was an imperial dignitary, both had very clear bubbles but what really put me off was on the back there was a lot of rubbing where the bubble was joined which rung alarm bells and also the dignitary came with a luke jedi blaster??? anyways i avoided these luckily. the bib fortuna and barada he had had the yellowist bubbles ever so i think those were the real deal, sneaking in a few recards amongst the real stuff would be the way to do it i guess? it was only a few months later speaking to a few on here i realised this was also toni's stool from back at alfies.
