Who's Who - Introduce yourself!

[Taffius]

Name: Richy
Age:48
Single/married: Married
Residence: Scottish Borders
Occupation: Cop

Hi Richy and welcome to the site. An awesome place for vintage goodness!

 

[titusillu]

Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself since I am new to the group:

Name: Titus
Age:48
Single/married: Married
Residence: Berlin / Germany
Occupation: Illustrator
Kids: Boy and Girl
Collecting Focus: Carry Cases and Landspeeder
Character Focus: Stormtrooper
Wants list: right now looking for laser Rifle Case with cardboard box, canadian Vader Case, canadian Vinyl EsB Yoda Case

Life as a freelancer can be pretty stressful, but Star Wars (and some other Toylines of the 80ties mostly) are my retreat. I was mad about the toys as a boy, completed my loose set during student times, but it wasnt until 1998/99 that the collecting actually started. Luckily i got the stuff I really wanted before prices increased.

 

[Ruby2511]

Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself since I am new to the group:

Name: Titus
Age:48
Single/married: Married
Residence: Berlin / Germany
Occupation: Illustrator
Kids: Boy and Girl
Collecting Focus: Carry Cases and Landspeeder
Character Focus: Stormtrooper
Wants list: right now looking for laser Rifle Case with cardboard box, canadian Vader Case, canadian Vinyl EsB Yoda Case

Life as a freelancer can be pretty stressful, but Star Wars (and some other Toylines of the 80ties mostly) are my retreat. I was mad about the toys as a boy, completed my loose set during student times, but it wasnt until 1998/99 that the collecting actually started. Luckily i got the stuff I really wanted before prices increased.

Hi Titus, welcome to the forum mate

Lots of really nice folks on here.....enjoy 8)

 

[Taffius]

Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself since I am new to the group:

Name: Titus.

Hi Titus and many warm welcomes. Its a great place to be!

 

[Snaketibe]

Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself since I am new to the group:

Name: Titus
Age:48
Single/married: Married
Residence: Berlin / Germany
Occupation: Illustrator
Kids: Boy and Girl
Collecting Focus: Carry Cases and Landspeeder
Character Focus: Stormtrooper
Wants list: right now looking for laser Rifle Case with cardboard box, canadian Vader Case, canadian Vinyl EsB Yoda Case

Life as a freelancer can be pretty stressful, but Star Wars (and some other Toylines of the 80ties mostly) are my retreat. I was mad about the toys as a boy, completed my loose set during student times, but it wasnt until 1998/99 that the collecting actually started. Luckily i got the stuff I really wanted before prices increased.

Yes, welcome Titus! This forum is a great place with lots of friendly and knowledgeable people, so stick around and enjoy yourself

Jeremy

 

[Pomse2001]

Welcome to the forum Titus and Richy

 

[Plastikheld]

Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself since I am new to the group:

Ahoi mate, great to see you here. To be honest - if you like vintage-forum-action, this is the place to be ... :wink:

 

[waxman]

name: Chris
Age:43
Single/married: Married
Residence: Austin/Texas
Occupation: mechanical engineer
Kids: x2 Girls
Collecting Focus: vintage and new
Character Focus: girls love Ahsoka, my vintage collection skews to Vader

Just joining the group, haven't been actively collecting since the late 90's, and really was most active in the old usenet RASS before star wars got so big they split it into multiple groups. I used to collect mostly loose since I was a poor college kid at the time, but I do have some carded figures, and my oldest convinced me to dig them out tonight. One in particular brought me to your forum- Princess Leia Bespin turtleneck 45 back ROTJ, 45C, Palitoy, with Netherlands/Dutch clipper white sticker as shown on Mr Palitoy https://www.freewebs.com/mrpalitoy/rotj45ccardback.htm. Just seemed really unusual, but I used to trade with a Dutchman in college via the usenet (before ebay) and I acquired the figure from him in 96/97 so I figured I'd ping this European group. Seems like it's a pretty rare figure? Thanks ya'll!

 

[UKS]

Hello! The post above triggered my registering! I am a very old school Star Wars fan (Posting on theforce.net/Texas A&M since the late nineties!)

I collected my original set of loose figures back... well I never stopped actually. I obviously had a fair few figures from the first time I entered Debenhams looking for Space Britains figures, and finding ESB stuff! I was about 4, and I bought with my birthday money an X-wing, Leia Bespin fatigues, an Ugnaught (or two!) and maybe Luke Skywalker Xwing fatigues. This must have been around xmas 1981? Maybe 1982? I collected pretty much solidly from then until the end of the range. You know, the standard AT-AT for one xmas, a Falcon for another, a TIE interceptor for another! As a poor child I was always into cheap deals at ASDA etc - So I picked up some of the final range off the shelves then. (EV 9D9, Imperial Gunner, Lando General fatigues, Romba etc) then picked up things like the Rancor boxed in Fine Fair for about 3 pound, bags of bagged figures at the same location, a few pound. (Sand people, General Madine, ANH Luke, etc etc) I picked the rest my figures up in the late eighties/early nineties from car boot sales and newspaper ads. Most at rock bottom prices. (10p a Stormtrooper, so picked up about a dozen!)

I put my collection to bed around the mid/late nineties when the new POTF figures came out and they out ran my (feeble!) student spending power! Girls and beer also got in the way...

Fast forward twenty years... I saw an article about the toy store with the large horde of old toys. This has always been my dream! Walking into an Aladdins cave of old toys! This led me to Vectis.

Vectis led me to the darkside. I am now about 30ish MOC(ish) figures into a MOC Star Wars Kenner set.

I've joined the forum (basically) so I can finish that set off. I am trying to not spend mad money on this, but it seems some figures have gotten really pricey MOC.

I am not card precious, as I only ever had one "original back" card as a kid. (Greedo) Mine where mostly ESB, ROTJ and Trilogo. (Luckily I still have a lot of the backs, as I stored them away - With the names cut out alas so I could get my Nien Numb, Ackbar etc!)

Anyway, I am married with children and due to the nature of my work, I stay as "UKS" on the galactic interweb!

Short version for the bored: I am here for reasonably priced carded (real not replica) SW figures.

UKS

 

[Ruby2511]

Hi Chris and welcome to the forum. Sounds like you have an impressive collection, hopefully you can complete your moc's here as we have some really great members on here.

Russ

 

[Mini99]

Hi to our new European, US and UK members, I'm sure that you will enjoy your time here.
Welcome.

 

[Pomse2001]

Chris welcome to the forum :wink:

 

[titusillu]

Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself since I am new to the group:

Ahoi mate, great to see you here. To be honest - if you like vintage-forum-action, this is the place to be ... :wink:

Cheers plasticheld and thanks for the warm welcome!!!

 

[Mr-Trilogo]

Hello everyone, I just registered so here is my introduction :

Name: Anthony
Age: 42
Single/Married: in relationship
Residence: France
Occupation: Selling rocks :mrgreen: .
Kids: 1 year old daughter.
Pets: None
Collecting Focus: MOC and loose figures.
Characters Focus: Chewbacca, Klaatu, Nikto.
Collecting Interest: ROTJ Carded figures. Tri-logo MOC.PBP MOC, Meccano, Palitoy, Kenner figures. Variants.
Looking for: ROTJ Meccano MOC Chewbacca/Chiquetaba.
Other Toy interests: POTA Mego, Action Man.

 

[Pomse2001]

Hello everyone, I just registered so here is my introduction :

Name: Anthony
Age: 42
Single/Married: in relationship
Residence: France
Occupation: Selling rocks :mrgreen: .
Kids: 1 year old daughter.
Pets: None
Collecting Focus: MOC and loose figures.
Characters Focus: Chewbacca, Klaatu, Nikto.
Collecting Interest: ROTJ Carded figures. Tri-logo MOC.PBP MOC, Meccano, Palitoy, Kenner figures. Variants.
Looking for: ROTJ Meccano MOC Chewbacca/Chiquetaba.
Other Toy interests: POTA Mego, Action Man.

welcome anthony to the forum

wow can you live and pay your bills with selling rocks as a job ? :shock:

Great to see another tri-logo and also another variant collector on the forum

 

[Mr-Trilogo]

welcome anthony to the forum

wow can you live and pay your bills with selling rocks as a job ? :shock:

Great to see another tri-logo and also another variant collector on the forum

Thank you for the welcome,

haha that was meant as a joke but I assume you figured that out. Sometimes jokes can be lost into translation.

Yes tri logo is all my childhood, and variants something that grew on me as an adult.

Cheers.

 

[Pomse2001]

welcome anthony to the forum

wow can you live and pay your bills with selling rocks as a job ? :shock:

Great to see another tri-logo and also another variant collector on the forum

Thank you for the welcome,

haha that was meant as a joke but I assume you figured that out. Sometimes jokes can be lost into translation.

Yes tri logo is all my childhood, and variants something that grew on me as an adult.

Cheers.

About the stones, I was thinking are you obelix :lol: :wink:

The same here variants also grew on me as an adult :lol:

 

[Mr-Trilogo]

About the stones, I was thinking are you obelix :lol: :wink:

I sure wish I had his strength , his brains ....no so much :mrgreen:

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

Welcome Titus, Chris, UKS and Anthony. Nice to get some new members.

 

[Pomse2001]

About the stones, I was thinking are you obelix :lol: :wink:

I sure wish I had his strength , his brains ....no so much :mrgreen:

I guess you do not want his body :lol:

 

[AlT3D]

New guy over here!

Thanks for the Add.

 

[Snaketibe]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Mini99]

New guy over here!

Thanks for the Add.

Hi...welcome.

 

[Pomse2001]

Welcome AlT3D to the forum

 

[Michael Sith]

Welcome aboard to all the new members

 

[alanpw]

Age: 48
Single/Married: Single
Residence: London
Occupation: Tool & Plant Hire Manager
Kids: None
Pets: None
Collecting Focus: Loose Vintage figures & Marvel UK comics
Character Focus: None so far

 

[Pomse2001]

alanpw welcome to the forum

 

[Taffius]

Welcome all. This an awesome place to be and a huge resource for vintage and modern. Enjoy!

 

[coomber75]

welcome one and all nice to see new addition

 

[chazb73]

Not a new memeber but I've been absent far too long!

Good to see some familiar names here still