What happened to your childhood collection?

[edd_jedi]

Can't remember if we've discussed this before or not, but hey I'll ask again

Some of you are very luckly to still have your childhood figures, but most collectors do not. What happened to yours?

I remember the day we took all of ours to the local dump/tip in Brighton. It must have been about 1988. I had moved on to collecting MASK and Centurions by then, and to be honest all our Star Wars toys had been completely destroyed, so I guess my mum thought there was no point keeping them. I remember emptying the box of toys (figures, Falcon, AT-ST etc) out on to the huge pile of rubbish at the tip, and instantly people started routing through it all. I'll never forget it!

 

[steve obi wan]

I kept most of mine until about 2008 , yes stored it at my parents house for years , then thought it would be a good idea to sell all my figures and ships . Most figures were mint with accessories . Big regret , tried to get some back a few years later , but no luck .

I have only 1 piece left , a Palitoy Hoth wampa with his box , he will be staying with me forever

 

[SublevelStudios]

I really envy all you guys that have childhood pieces - I'd give almost anything for just a handful of my original figures - or better still my original Talking R2.

A huge chunk of my stuff was sold to my mates little brother - I went off and bought computer games with the cash. Anything I had left over I sold at a carboot sale on a pub carpark in 1987. It sold within seconds of me putting it on the table. A friend was there with his mum on the next pitch and I vividly remember him pulling out box after box, and a riot almost ensued - mind you, when you only want £2.50 for a boxed Turret & Probot it's ever likely.

A couple of years later and I started collecting again :roll:

 

[spoons]

I sold off all my childhood toys in 1984 or 5 in a garage sale. I bought a BMX helmet, white tyres and finger brake levers - must have used the BMX for six months after that, what a waste.

My dad bought my Britains soldiers off me, which I now have and am grateful to have some part of my childhood.

Otherwise I have a couple of SW figs that were found in the garden 20 years later - these now have pride of place on my shelves

 

[Grant]

Sold it in 2002 ish in a local newspaper. What a dummy after having It in my possession for 20 years. :|

 

[lejackal]

I sold everything to a dealer that advertised his number in the local paper when I was in my early teens, or possibly slightly younger. I reckon I got about £30 which would have gone straight into the till at the local Games Workshop or possibly on Starcom stuff.

 

[Fishtalk]

Well, I'm one of the lucky ones who still has my childhood figures, cardbacks and weapons/accessories. Wish I could take the credit for being so forward thinking, but I was going to throw them out and my Mum was so angry she insisted I keep them all. I shoved everything in my old school bag and threw it in the loft, where I promptly forgot about them until the late Nineties.

Interesting to read other peoples stories of selling their collection, In my case what didn't go in the loft went to the tip, 4 bin bags full of Palitoy goodness (X-wing, Landspeeder, Tie-fighter, Cantina, Land of the Jawas, boxed Death Star, all the die-casts, guns, lightsaber, 12" Vader, Stormtrooper and Threepio, various model kits and all the comics and posters). I also helped my friend dispose of his toys by bonfire and fireworks. It was part of growing up I guess, I couldn't move on until I had purged Star Wars from my life.

 

[Mr-shifter]

I sold all of mine at a car boot circa 1994. Although I deeply regret it, I actually started my moc collection the same day. All of my stuff was pretty beat up and missing everything. After I had flogged all of my junk (I had loads of other stuff there as well) I went for a wander and found a guy selling a load of Mocs. I spent all my new wealth on six if memory serves. I still have a couple of these in my collection.

My mum couldn't believe I had sold all of my Star Wars stuff to go and buy more. She didn't understand that these were different to the smashed up dog eared stuff I had sold earlier in the day.

It started me on a different path though. They were from that day no longer toys in my eyes.

 

[peekaygee73]

All our SW collection was bought by a woman who worked with my Mum around 1988. This was various ships (including Falcon, Slave 1, Rebel Transport, X-Wing, Snowspeeder), playsets (Land of the Jawas, Star Destroyer) and figures (most of the first 65). I still remember boxing everything up (yep, we'd kept all the boxes) and noticing one of the tabs on my Falcon ramp had broken - cue packing it away with a casual "nothing-to-see-here" whistle! I don't know how much we got for them but I'm pretty sure the cash went straight into our building society accounts (cue the old favourite "You'll thank us one day"). Luckily one item escaped this purge - a hoth backpack which I found amongst our lego about 10 years later (my parents kept the lego because they thought either my brother or I would want it when we had kids. Ironically neither of us have had kids.). There was some excitement about a year ago when my parents claimed to have found a lightsabre during some redecoration in my old bedroom.... but that turned out to be lego. :roll:

I remember selling my Action Man stuff to my cousin for her son in the early 90s (all long gone now) and binning my Games Workshop lead figures 'cos I just didn't know what to do with them :shock: We also sold some other toys at a car boot in the early 90s - I remember the plague of locusts descending as we arrived!!

 

[Ian_C]

I have most of my childhood toys, at least when it comes to Star Wars. I know any vehicles/playsets/creatures are still my originals, except my dewback, which I sold after upgrading.

Most of my figures are still here. I did sell some after upgrading them in the 90's, and have since upgraded almost all of them (I used to beat the hell out of them), but the difference now is my childhood beaters are mostly in the hands of my own kids, who are adding their own memories with my old toys.

I owned three 12" figures. Still have all three, but they are in rough shape. Vader, Boba, and 3PO all suffered at my late 80's obsession with pro wrestling. They were bigger than my LJN WWF figures, but that didn't stop me from using them in matches. Fett in particular, being better articulated, suffered countless piledrivers and body slams.....

Ian

 

[tronprogram]

I regretablly sold 99.9% of mine down at a boot sale over 20 years ago

All I have left is the B-Wing fighter with a shattered canopy. Something is better than nothing

 

[JimboUK1979]

Me and my cousins used to dig a hole in the garden fill it with water and put the soil back in....this was our Sarlaac pit. In a garden in Bawtry about half a foot down there is a small cache of my childhood SW figures.

 

[edd_jedi]

Me and my cousins used to dig a hole in the garden fill it with water and put the soil back in....this was our Sarlaac pit. In a garden in Bawtry about half a foot down there is a small cache of my childhood SW figures.

That reminds me, when my parents ran a restaurant in Louth in the mid 80s there was a hole in the floor boards that we did the same with. I dread to think how many mint figures are down there, I'd love to rip up the floor boards one day!

 

[Matthieu]

I still have almost all my SW toys from childhood. As some of you may have seen on FB I recently found my old VCJ that I thought was lost forever!! It's actually my 8-year-old son who found it in his toy box :shock:

 

[maxf]

My figures are long gone - but I still have my boxed At-At, Falcon and Rebel Transport as well as a loose snowspeeder and a second boxed Falcon I bought from a friend when we were about 15.

I should probably dig them out and get some acrylic cases made up.

 

[iDrew]

All of my collection went to 'bring and buy sales' or to charity, with the exception of Boba Fett and the odd accessory that I found in with my childhood Lego.

 

[Robstyley]

The whole ****ing lot went to a boot sale in Shoeburyness, Essex in about 88' or 89'! A guy bought my Falcon and all the figures (that were in it) for his boys, but ..luckily no-one wanted the rest of it and it all came home again. If that bloke had bought it all I'd have nothing. What was left (X-Wing, Snowspeeder, Scout Walker, Speeder bike, Taun-Taun, Wampa and mini rigs) went into a big box and was stashed at my Mums until about 2006/2007 when I discovered it again. Soon after I started collecting. Strangely 1 figure escaped Falcon man - Squidhead

 

[Clarkspie&chips]

I still have all my childhood figures except 3.

Chewie met his fate in St Ives after I dug a sarlac pit on the beach, dropped him in and covered it up. I remember frantically digging but he never surfaced.

I was showing off how Boba fett can fly to a mate whilst I was waiting for my mum outside our village coop and was throwing him in the air. I got over excited and ended up lobbing him onto the roof.

Trying to recreate vaders electrocution and battle damage me and my brother put his face over the advent candle one Christmas. His head caught fire and we had to throw him out to save getting a bollocking.

 

[Robstyley]

I still have all my childhood figures except 3.

Chewie met his fate in St Ives after I dug a sarlac pit on the beach, dropped him in and covered it up. I remember frantically digging but he never surfaced.

I was showing off how Boba fett can fly to a mate whilst I was waiting for my mum outside our village coop and was throwing him in the air. I got over excited and ended up lobbing him onto the roof.

Trying to recreate vaders electrocution and battle damage me and my brother put his face over the advent candle one Christmas. His head caught fire and we had to throw him out to save getting a bollocking.

Quality stories, love it!

 

[Jedi Master 1]

I sold all my star wars stuff back in 1990 at a bootsale! I remember how quickly i sold everything as well! All my figures were complete and almost brand new condition. I had the ewok village, Jabba the Hutt, 2 tie-fighters, tie - interceptor, 2 X-Wing fighters 1 battle damage one, 2 snowspeeders, millennium Falcon, 2 AT-ST's, 3 AT-AT'S, 2 speeder bikes, cloud city ship, wampa, rancor monster, Jabba's band, Imperial transporter, all the mini ewok stuff like catapults, flying wings, mini tank, rebel radar, mini sand skiff, shuttle, rebel transporter ship, B-wing , 2 Darth Vader storage cases and nearly 100 figures most of which had all the accessories & weapons. I had so much but i regrettably sold it all under 2 hours and only got £150 for everything! Now i'm trying to collect them all again.