The item you've had the longest in your collection ?

[welshwookie]

Out of interest, what are the item/ items you have had the longest in your collection ?
My first purchases from Ebay was an Imperial troop transporter. At 19 years..

 

[edd_jedi]

The vast majority of my collection has been bought over the last 6 or 7 years as I sold up in 2009 and took a couple of years out. But I do have a couple of old timers in my collection. Firstly my only remaining childhood figures, I've had these five since I ripped them off cards 35 years ago (I only rediscovered them in a box in my parents loft a few years ago.)

And secondly this carded Luke X-Wing that I have owned since 1994. You may have heard the story before but this is one of the figures I had stolen in 2007 (which led to me selling up) but I was reuinted with it in 2012 when Joe from this forum (who sadly doesn't visit much any more) helped track it down for me.

 

[StarWarsFan]

POTF 2 Luke Jedi, first ever figure.

 

[welshwookie]

Yes, not a nice story at all Edd.
I wish I had my childhood toys.

 

[coomber75]

sadly its all packed away at moment otherwise i would habe posted a pic, but as some will know i have palitoy snag moc and about 20 figs from my childhood in the early 80s that i found in the loft in oct 2013. i found this forum to ask about selling and was happily urged to hold on to them... oh and one of the loose figs was a vcj :roll: :lol: as you can guess7 yrs on and still collecting :lol: and have way more than i did as a kid :roll:

 

[theforceuk]

Great idea for a thread, I'm lucky enough to still have pretty much all my childhood collection. These are some of the figures that I know I had before we moved to Cornwall in April 1984. I have Chewbacca and Han but can't be arsed digging them out!

 

[AndyPreston]

This ... 42 years and counting!

 

[quins]

Good thread and Posts.Great to see .
Mine is this along with a Darths Tie. My son plays with them now along with his modern hotwheels ships!
Only 2 things left from childhood along with a rotj sticker album

 

[db94]

My original R2 - first and favourite figure

 

[Pomse2001]

Great thread

Very hard for me to say which item I have had in my collection the longest. In the 90s I gave my little brother my star wars toy in 2001 I got it back :lol: but I was so stupid so I mixed my childhood collection with new items that I bought so today I can only ID a few items from my childhood and some of them could have been sold, but I know all weapons from childhood is still in my collection but again I can only ID a few of them because I was so stupid to mix them with what I bought in 2001 :roll:

But one of my first figures I can always ID, my farmer luke that was sold with a bespin saber on a tri-logo card, none of my friends had a farmer luke so I thought until 2001 that the bespin saber was the correct saber for luke farmboy and that there was not a yellow telescoping saber :lol:

Here is my 35 years old farmer luke and I have played with him for many hours :lol: he has also been with in the bath when I was a kid, all my figures was with me in the bath even r2 and r5 so they got damaged stickers

 

[lejackal]

I've had this since about 97/98, perhaps a little earlier

 

[welshwookie]

Thanks all, it`s great to see your pictures and the stories behind them.

 

[Bonsai_Tree_Ent]

When I pulled my childhood collection down from my loft in the mid Nineties and started buying more figures, I just mingled them all together.

I was buying up job lots and amassed easily a couple of thousand toys and figures so no way of knowing which were my originals. In truth I'm not super sentimental about them, and would rather have a mint example than a playworn one (even if it was little me that did the playing!).

My Palitoy Death Star however is the one I had since childhood so that's got to be the longest.

 

[Cazza]

Excellent thread! Got these two on my seventh birthday- Zodiac Toys in Swindon. Love them to bits and will keep them forever.

 

[spoons]

Nice idea for a thread, this Fascal sticker I've had for around 40 years and the Rebel Soldier and Sand Person are also childhood ones, although lost in a flowerbed for 15 years.

The Klaatu is one of the first as an adult collector. Bought carded in 1991/92 from a toy shop in Bradford and been displayed ever since. There was a bin full of them all with bubbles half falling off. Don't feel too bad about opening even though they were different times.

 

[chipsteak]

This die-cast Falcon will be exactly 40 years old on 25th December. I keep this one childhood thing from my few childhood survivors, the absolute oldest, in my display.

What a piece of junk!

 

[jedi_mister]

I bought this early 78 in Woolworths. I was blown away by the cover and its claim to be the greatest film of the century. I didn't get to see it at the cinema until April but by then I'd read the book a few times. It was many years before I found out what a remora was!

 

[Mini99]

Love this thread...
This is mine...a Speeder Bike that I have only finished finding the missing parts to complete it.
I don't know when I bought this, and assumed that I had sold it along with everything else in the early 00's so most likely picked it up in the 90's.
When I was clearing out the loft when we moved earlier this year I found this in a box missing a few bits, but now it is complete and looking nice again.

 

[Ruby2511]

This is the piece my boy bought me in 2017!! Kicked off the collecting again

 

[gammoguard]

I'm lucky to still have my original figures from when I was a kid so getting on for almost 40 years now :shock: I'll always remember going up the escalator of my local Woolworths and when reaching the top seeing 'the wall' of figures - back then it felt like hundreds all mixed up on the arms and you had to go through every arm to check for a figure that you hadn't got
It was in that shop that I saw the first diorama - an AT-AT with Taun Tauns, Snowspeeder and various action figures all in an acrylic display box......I can still see it now Great memories.

 

[Ruby2511]

[mention]gammoguard[/mention] Woolies was always our go to shop when we were kids. Saturday morning with Mama was a tradition, pick a figure from woolies then off to Wimpy for a burger and chips and share a knickerbocker glory

Happy days indeed

 

[StarWarsFan]

This is the piece my boy bought me in 2017!! Kicked off the collecting again

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Wow lovely condition.

 

[Snaketibe]

Sadly, I kept none of my childhood figures and toys :-( ... but I did keep all my books and posters, plus a ruler and pencil (see https://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29936), so it's not all bad news . On that basis therefore, this is the single oldest piece in my collection from 1978, when I was bought it:

And although not the oldest thing in my collection, this deserves an honourable mention as it's nearly as old and was probably my most read childhood book!

 

[Robstyley]

Items I've had longest in my collection:
1. Childhood X-Wing, Snowspeeder, Scout Walker, Taun Taun and Wampa, 81'- 83'.
2. Childhood Speeder bike, 83'.
3. Childhood Squidhead - only childhood figure left, 83'.
4. Tub of beaters - first thing I bought as an adult collector, 07'. My original loose collection, now my kids play with them.
5. Chewie - first MOC I bought as an adult collector, 10'.