SWTOTW, Week 44, 2019 Tie Interceptor Vehicle

[Pomse2001]

and my Box 6

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Wow, Lars! That's a lot of boxed Interceptors! What a fantastic collection, and your boxed Glasslite is wonderful!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks mate for the very kind words

 

[Pomse2001]

The TIE Interceptor. Basically a neat way for Kenner to reuse the same old Darth Vader's TIE Fighter body and wing connectors yet again, this time slapping on some new (and frankly enormous!) wings... and yet it works really, really well! The Lucasfilm design for the TIE Interceptor is a thing of real elegance and beauty, IMHO, and the Kenner version cannot help but capture some of that same magic. I do wish they'd come up with something more movie-accurate with respect to the rear of the ship and its clunky battery compartment, but you can't have everything. Make no mistake, this is a great ship and a terrific toy!

On the downside for collectors however, the box it comes in is frankly over-sized and rather flimsy, which makes finding a good one (like Capetown's superb example above) really difficult. Mine's a perfectly respectable example, but like most these days it's a very long way away from being mint, so it's another tick in the 'try to upgrade one day' box! :-D

Wow another nice Tie Interceptor 8) I agree the box could be better, the picture on the box could have been better. Could have been cool if they had used a space background, I have never understood the orange background on the box.

Thanks, Lars

As for the picture on the box, I agree it's certainly an odd choice to use the orange background, but I think it's even stranger that they didn't use a TIE Fighter Pilot in the ship! What the hell is a stormtrooper doing in the cockpit?!

I agree what the **** is that stormie doing in the cockpit, I would say the glasslite front of the box looks a lot more like what I would have the kenner box to look like. But also that one is not perfect, I still think it looks strange with vader on the front it does not match with the rest of the front of the box :?

 

[Pomse2001]

and my Box 6

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Fantastic item Lars in great condition.
Even this box has a lot of orange on it.
I always thought it was meant to be Cloud City, not sure why. :?

What the hell is a stormtrooper doing in the cockpit?!

Probably stealing it? :lol:

Thanks mate for the kind words maybe the stormie is a rebel :lol:

 

[Pomse2001]

and my Box 6

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Fantastic. They definitely did a much better job with the box on the glasslite. And thanks for the kind comments guys.

Thanks mate for the very kind words, I agree 100% with you, they did a much better job with the glasslite box

 

[theforceuk]

Great contributions on here. Tie-Interceptor is a great ship, only Tie style ship I had as a kid.

 

[Pomse2001]

Great contributions on here. Tie-Interceptor is a great ship, only Tie style ship I had as a kid.

thanks mate, do you still have it ? I think we all also want to see your interceptor :wink:

 

[Alisdairmac]

and my Box 6

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Fantastic item Lars in great condition.
Even this box has a lot of orange on it.
I always thought it was meant to be Cloud City, not sure why. :?

What the hell is a stormtrooper doing in the cockpit?!

Probably stealing it? :lol:

Thanks mate for the kind words maybe the stormie is a rebel :lol:

It's kind of looks like the stormtrooper is being told off by Darth vader

 

[theforceuk]

Great contributions on here. Tie-Interceptor is a great ship, only Tie style ship I had as a kid.

thanks mate, do you still have it ? I think we all also want to see your interceptor :wink:

Yeah its up the loft, want to get a case for it and get it on display. I'll see what I can do. :lol: I know Edd has got a factory sealed one. 8)

 

[Pomse2001]

Fantastic item Lars in great condition.
Even this box has a lot of orange on it.
I always thought it was meant to be Cloud City, not sure why. :?


Probably stealing it? :lol:

Thanks mate for the kind words maybe the stormie is a rebel :lol:

It's kind of looks like the stormtrooper is being told off by Darth vader

Maybe the stormie is a family member to Finn from the new star wars movies, I think they are all rebels in his family :lol:

 

[Pomse2001]

Great contributions on here. Tie-Interceptor is a great ship, only Tie style ship I had as a kid.

thanks mate, do you still have it ? I think we all also want to see your interceptor :wink:

Yeah its up the loft, want to get a case for it and get it on display. I'll see what I can do. :lol: I know Edd has got a factory sealed one. 8)

What is going on does most of the forum members have their interceptors on the loft in this thread :shock: :lol: Sounds cool with a sealed one, get edd out of the closet or down from the loft so he can share it with us in the thread :lol: :wink: