RETROBLASTING- Fix your vintage Star Wars

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Hey Guys,

Retroblasting is great if your interested in fixing your vintage toys.

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Is it just me or did he destroy the original stickers on the snowspeeder when he was cleaning it ? :cry:
 
The Falcon vids were riveting :) I liked his rationale on using repro print out decals and not buying them from sellers. Also the repair to the motor was interesting. It was always my guess that motors would oxidize and stop working as opposed to actual play wear ...that's unless you did what I did and put it in the bath :lol:

Not sure I would go the lengths of actually stripping the Falcon. Would probably just give it a good scrub and dry off best I could. Cleaned my AtAt like that. It's fine. There's no denying that this guy did a cracking job though.

As for the modern Falcon, I was thinking how **** it was until the light show was switched on. Pretty cool 8) Always thought the vintage should have had lights up front.
 
Just watched a few of these and thought they were really good. Here's one that makes a good point -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPQvRahIzis&list=PL8D228A2E065C4F79&feature=c4-overview-vl

This one also -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3QteI7L2Y

This looks like a really interesting watch as well -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnWEBn7CyXE

It's good that someone is taking the time to do these and I enjoyed watching a few of the non Star Wars ones as well, the real ghostbusters ones are really interesting.

Cheers for pointing them out!

Ian
 
Hey everyone,

This is Michael from RetroBlasting. I happened to get a link to this thread from a friend. Very humbled to see my videos discussed among fellow vintage collectors. Thanks so much for the kind words.

I saw some questions and, like you I'm a serious vintage Star Wars enthusiast, so I wanted to address some of them if that's cool.

Regarding the snow speeder stickers: That particular toy was by definition, toast. In fact, it shouldn't have been a candidate for restoration by any sane person. However, I knew in the back of my mind I would surprise Juan by returning his donated speeder to him. I wanted to take something not worth fixing and take it to the nines. I won't tell you how much that restoration cost me because it wasn't a matter of money - I was giving a friend his actual childhood memories back - not just a vintage replacement. Because of the extreme needs of that toy, especially in the cleaning, I made the tough decision to strip off the remaining stickers - but make no mistake, they were SHOT.

In regards to the height of my pants belt: We're all built a little differently. I'm 6'3ish, but I have the unfortunate situation of having a torso length like someone who's 5'10 and then very long legs. As such, when you can't see my feet, I can see how my belt would look too high, but if I wore my pants "low-rise" as is the style these days, it wouldn't look right either. I'd look like Eminem.

Thanks for the compliments on my Falcon restoration. That's my childhood Falcon and I wanted to do it right. I didn't have to strip off the stickers, as was suggested. The stickers had all dried up and VERY EASILY just popped right off. Which was awesome because I was able to reuse all of them (that were still there)!

We just repaired a vintage Sectaurs flyer on video, we're about to restore a TMNT Sewer playset and coming up I'm going to simultaneously restore a white and a grey vintage X-Wing right before I restore a rare Arco MCB-1 and then I'm tackling a good friend's vintage childhood B-Wing that was unfortunately broken by his young son. So, lots more to come! :)

Also, if you go to the RetroBlasting Facebook page, you'll see a photo gallery of a repair I did to a vintage Tatooine Skiff that might interest you.

Michael - RetroBlasting
 
nohandluke said:
Hey everyone,

This is Michael from RetroBlasting. I happened to get a link to this thread from a friend. Very humbled to see my videos discussed among fellow vintage collectors. Thanks so much for the kind words.

I saw some questions and, like you I'm a serious vintage Star Wars enthusiast, so I wanted to address some of them if that's cool.

Regarding the snow speeder stickers: That particular toy was by definition, toast. In fact, it shouldn't have been a candidate for restoration by any sane person. However, I knew in the back of my mind I would surprise Juan by returning his donated speeder to him. I wanted to take something not worth fixing and take it to the nines. I won't tell you how much that restoration cost me because it wasn't a matter of money - I was giving a friend his actual childhood memories back - not just a vintage replacement. Because of the extreme needs of that toy, especially in the cleaning, I made the tough decision to strip off the remaining stickers - but make no mistake, they were SHOT.

In regards to the height of my pants belt: We're all built a little differently. I'm 6'3ish, but I have the unfortunate situation of having a torso length like someone who's 5'10 and then very long legs. As such, when you can't see my feet, I can see how my belt would look too high, but if I wore my pants "low-rise" as is the style these days, it wouldn't look right either. I'd look like Eminem.

Thanks for the compliments on my Falcon restoration. That's my childhood Falcon and I wanted to do it right. I didn't have to strip off the stickers, as was suggested. The stickers had all dried up and VERY EASILY just popped right off. Which was awesome because I was able to reuse all of them (that were still there)!

We just repaired a vintage Sectaurs flyer on video, we're about to restore a TMNT Sewer playset and coming up I'm going to simultaneously restore a white and a grey vintage X-Wing right before I restore a rare Arco MCB-1 and then I'm tackling a good friend's vintage childhood B-Wing that was unfortunately broken by his young son. So, lots more to come! :)

Also, if you go to the RetroBlasting Facebook page, you'll see a photo gallery of a repair I did to a vintage Tatooine Skiff that might interest you.

Michael - RetroBlasting
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Hi Michael,

Great to hear from you and I wanted to thank you for all the hard work you've put in with your videos.

I've been a fan a vintage toys for a fair while now and grew up with the very first release of the Star Wars figures here in the UK. I also collect other vintage lines (mainly action figure based), and also found your non Star Wars videos to be really interesting as well as of lot of fun. I can tell you cherish these toys from yesteryear and hope you keep up with the good work you're doing.

Here's a link to some of my restoration work - http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13119

It needs updating when I get the chance but I'm sure you get the idea.

All the best and keep them coming! :D

Ian
 

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