Who's Who - Introduce yourself!

[Snaketibe]

Hi am new to this page as well just want to post some of my stuff

Welcome to the forum.

Those are some very nice items, so thank you for sharing them. However, the correct place to share photos of your collection is in the 'Vintage Showcase' section here:

https://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=2

If you start a new thread and post your photos there, more people will see and enjoy them

Jeremy

 

[TwistedMetal]

Hey guys, just wanted to say hope you're all well, I've started collecting a few bits again, so I may pop up from time to time and just wanted to say hello

 

[Snaketibe]

Hey guys, just wanted to say hope you're all well, I've started collecting a few bits again, so I may pop up from time to time and just wanted to say hello

Hello, and welcome back! :-D

It's always nice to see collectors coming back to the hobby.

Jeremy

 

[witchfinder]

Hi there, I've just signed up as I'm looking for a few valuations but it's only polite to introduce myself first

I'm Mat and I was born on May 4th so Star Wars fandom was inevitable. Like most poeple my age I had the Kenner/Palitoy toys when I was a kid and sold them all in the mid 80s to fund a Transformers habit!

I started collecting them again while I was at Uni in the mid 90s and picked up around 95% of my collection before the prices started to go crazy in the early 2000s. I had all the newer POTF2 range and lots of vehicles and playsets but thined the collection down a bit about 15 years ago, just retaining a complete set of vintage loose figures, a few carded ones, my favourite vehicles and lots of R2-D2s as he's my favourite character

Nowadays I don't buy much to add to the collection, although I have been trying to improve the quality of a few of my figures over the last couple of years and occasionally pick up something newer if it takes my eye.

Here's a few recent pictures of some of my collection (I also collect retro video games). Sadly I can't display the full set of loose figures so I rotate them around once a year.

 

[Mini99]

Welcome...
Nice collection, great selection of R2's, and a nice twin pack and Revenge proof.
I'm sure [mention]edd_jedi[/mention] will be interested in another retro video game collector.

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi everybody,

I've just joined the forum as I await the arrival of my first 3 vintage figures. I've always loved Star Wars since I saw them in cinemas when they were rereleased in the 90's. I'm only 31 so wasn't around for the original release but have always loved the look and history behind the vintage toys.

I've decided to attempt a loose graded run, starting with the first 12. I have two daughter aged 2 and 6 so I didn't want loose with weapons and things in risk of getting lost or eaten so thought graded loose was a good way to go. I've always loved Stormtroopers so if I see a moc going for a nice price I might pick one up.

I will post a picture on the latest acquisition page when I get my first 3 figures. Looking forward to joining in some good discussions and getting to know you all.

Cheers
Joe

Welcome joe to the forum and good luck with the new collection :wink:

 

[Pomse2001]

Hello to all...

Firstly what a great place you have here!

I'm Justin, huge Star Wars fan, saw A New Hope as a 5 year old and was instantly hooked... 43 years later I still am and genuinely feel lucky to have grown up with the galaxy far far away never too far from my consciousness.

My earliest Star Wars figure memories are if pestering my parents in Toy n Hobby Chester for a figure before eagerly ripping the bubble off, binning the card...

The childhood collection was literally played with to death, I remember a Luke farmboy tied to the end of a shoelace and left hanging from next doors aerial for what seemed like years, then a Han small head unearthed from our front garden years after his burial... fond memories of the best line of toys that's ever been.

I've always had the collecting bug and started amassing a collection in the 90's, loose mint figures and cards with some nice scarce items too. Then it's marriage... a child (she's 10 now and a massive Star Wars fan too)...

I've started to collect again, I've lots of nice stuff to trade, I'm looking for a couple of items that I'll post else where and I'm looking for info on Euro ROTJ bi/tri logo boxes and variations of.

Looking forward to contributing/helping if I can and once again congratulations on a fantastic space.

Hi Justin, welcome to to the forum. I am sure that you can find info here from other members about bi and trilogo variants :wink: I wish you good luck with your collection

 

[Pomse2001]

Hello again. It's been several years since I sold up my collection. It was about 3 months before the toy Toni drama kicked off. I've just read through the whole thread. Last time I visited it was about 40 odd pages.

Since I sold up I've been collecting Hot Toys which is fairly enjoyable and joined the 501st. I currently have a cleared Sandtrooper, Praetorian Guard, First Order Stormtrooper and am currently building a sith trooper.

Anyway, I've just dipped my toe in the vintage world again. I've been putting a loose run together. I currently have the first 21 so I'll be going on to the next wave soon.
I see there are still a few familiar faces on here. Look forward to getting involved again.

Lee

Hi Lee, welcome back mate. I remember you from bedore toy toni, great to see you are back on the forum

I wish you good luck with your new focus and cool that you joined the 501st

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi, I've been collecting vintage figures on and off for the last 30+ years and delve back in every now and then. Currently with the covid lockdown I've been going through my collection and seeing what variants I have. When I first started collecting it was the visible differences I looked at (colours, paint, accessories etc), then next time it was COO's and now it appears people have gone down to the minute detail .
Now looking actively for various figs again. However with all the fakes out there now its a bit of a minefield, but I have been using TIG to help.

While on Vintage Star Wars collecting breaks I have collected (and still do), Star Wars & Marvel Lego and Arcade Pinball machines. The pinball all started off from buying a Star Wars pinball (what else )

One of my biggest regrets was selling 25 vintage POTF carded figures . Decided I didn't have room to display them and they were only sat in a box so sold them. Also again sold all my ships and vehicles for the same reason. Still have all my loose 3" and 12" though which are all on display and can be enjoyed.

Cheers

Hi todler, welcome to the forum, sorry to read about your regret sales, but I guess we all have done sales that we regret. I have for sure sold something that I regret I agree variants is a minefield today and weapons and moc is also a huge minefield today

 

[Pomse2001]

Hello I am new here so id better introduce myself
My name is Martin
I have recently got back into collecting vintage loose. I used to have a collection as a kid which my brother sold at a boot fair for 20p each (I dare say lots of people have similar horror stories) Also had a collection of 90s onwards stuff but ended up selling it as my parents wanted the space back and my Mrs wouldn't have it all at ours
So around 6 months ago I took the plunge back into vintage. Bought the first 12 off ebay but ended up giving them away as I wasn't happy with the weapons (a couple of repos but that cast doubt on the rest, even after spending ages looking on tig) A learning curve there !
I have since replaced every thing and only need a few to complete ESB before I move onto ROTJ
Anyway hello all

Hi Martin welcome to the forum sorry to read about the repro that you bought on ebay. Ebay is a minefield today with a lot of repro Congratulations with nearly completing your esb collection. I wish you good luck with the ROTJ hunt :wink:

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi everyone, I'm Dale and I'm new here,after going through my loft and finding my old loose collection along with a couple of boxes of Lego Star Wars I thought I would get back into collecting loose figures. I've been searching through the forum and finding all of it very interesting and the knowledge some of you guys have is unbelievable and very helpful.
Thanks everyone

Hi Dale, welcome to the forum Great that the forum can help you, I wish you good luck with your collection

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi am new to this page as well just want to post some of my stuff

Welcome GeoBack82 to the fourm, nice collection that you have, my favorite is the ugnaught moc 8) thanks for sharing your items

 

[Pomse2001]

Hey guys, just wanted to say hope you're all well, I've started collecting a few bits again, so I may pop up from time to time and just wanted to say hello

Welcome back mate, great to see you again on the forum :wink:

 

[Ruby2511]

Hi there, I've just signed up as I'm looking for a few valuations but it's only polite to introduce myself first

I'm Mat and I was born on May 4th so Star Wars fandom was inevitable. Like most poeple my age I had the Kenner/Palitoy toys when I was a kid and sold them all in the mid 80s to fund a Transformers habit!

I started collecting them again while I was at Uni in the mid 90s and picked up around 95% of my collection before the prices started to go crazy in the early 2000s. I had all the newer POTF2 range and lots of vehicles and playsets but thined the collection down a bit about 15 years ago, just retaining a complete set of vintage loose figures, a few carded ones, my favourite vehicles and lots of R2-D2s as he's my favourite character

Nowadays I don't buy much to add to the collection, although I have been trying to improve the quality of a few of my figures over the last couple of years and occasionally pick up something newer if it takes my eye.

Here's a few recent pictures of some of my collection (I also collect retro video games). Sadly I can't display the full set of loose figures so I rotate them around once a year.

Hi Mat

Welcome to the forum, lovely collection you got their, thanks for sharing

Regards

Russ

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi there, I've just signed up as I'm looking for a few valuations but it's only polite to introduce myself first

I'm Mat and I was born on May 4th so Star Wars fandom was inevitable. Like most poeple my age I had the Kenner/Palitoy toys when I was a kid and sold them all in the mid 80s to fund a Transformers habit!

I started collecting them again while I was at Uni in the mid 90s and picked up around 95% of my collection before the prices started to go crazy in the early 2000s. I had all the newer POTF2 range and lots of vehicles and playsets but thined the collection down a bit about 15 years ago, just retaining a complete set of vintage loose figures, a few carded ones, my favourite vehicles and lots of R2-D2s as he's my favourite character

Nowadays I don't buy much to add to the collection, although I have been trying to improve the quality of a few of my figures over the last couple of years and occasionally pick up something newer if it takes my eye.

Here's a few recent pictures of some of my collection (I also collect retro video games). Sadly I can't display the full set of loose figures so I rotate them around once a year.

Welcome to the forum mat thanks for sharing your awesome collection, damn I would love to have that leia hoth, chewie and yoda moc 8)

 

[TwistedMetal]

It's been along time mate thanks my friend

 

[Ruby2511]

Hey guys, just wanted to say hope you're all well, I've started collecting a few bits again, so I may pop up from time to time and just wanted to say hello

Hi, welcome back to the forum

 

[tusken1]

Hi everyone,

Would like to introduce myself, my name is Alan and like a lot of others I fell in love with Star Wars as a kid, I had all the palitoy first 20 figures back in the day

I ofcourse played with them , ripped open all the bubbles with anticipation.

I decided to join this forum as I have started collecting again, For me the palitoy range is the one for me and whilst reading this forum over the last few years I decided I would take the plunge and join.

I would love to try and complete the Palitoy first 12 to start with and perhapes see if it's possible to collect the first 20 further down the line.

So far I have managed to obtain Palitoy 12a and 12b vader, 12b r2D2, 12b C3PO, 12B Death Squad Commander and 12b Sandepeople moc's.

Also managed to get hold of the Palitoy Landspeeder and Vader's Tie Fighter so my collection is quite small atm.

Anyway thought I would say hello to you all and hope everyone is safe and well during these strange times we find ourselves in.

Heres some pics I took earlier of my collection.

Cheers Alan

 

[Ruby2511]

Hi Alan,

Welcome to the forum, nice looking collection you got their, lots of lovely people on here you chat with

 

[Snaketibe]

A warm welcome to all the new members! Good to have you here

 

[Bob_Acid]

Hi all

I'm Bob. Born in '70 and have fond memories of hunting figures and mega Christmas and birthday bonanzas full of Palitoy fun.I even recall the guilty pleasures by the time Jedi came out and I was meant to be a hard man skinhead_Rude boy popping down the toy shop to spend a quid. I never let my original figures go and they were always to hand, getting them out every so often, more than I'd admit then. Let's face it, Simon Pegg, Kevin Smith and co have made being a nerd cool now, but back then it was a very different story.

In 87 I was staying for a weekend with my then girlfriend, now wife, in Hastings and found a thrift shop selling all sorts, he had quite a few bits of Star Wars toys, including loose and carded figures and boxed ships. I broke my cherry buying a carded ESB Han Bespin for £15. I went back a few times that weekend and bought more.

Over the next few years I went on the hunt, initially at toy fairs, which at that time had just the odd Star Wars bit and were mostly trains and toy soldier kind of places. I met an old guy at one who was a train dealer that had a 12 back Palitoy Vader on his stall, he let me have it for £10. Turned out he had more so I followed him to every fair he did and pestered him, getting quite a few Palitoy first 20's from him for a tenner a pop.

Around 88-89 the scene blew up and science fiction specific toy fairs started to appear, I remember one having a complete set of carded figures for sale for £1800 and thinking you have no chance mate.

One fair had a bin full of Tri-logo Luke Endor and Anakins' for a fiver each.

I paid £90 for a mint cardboard Death Star and that was my biggest buy.

Sometime in the early 90's I drifted away having found Acid House and not long after I sold the majority of what I'd collected, half to a dealer but kept the good stuff and sold that later to a collector, it was great to see his eyes light up when he turned up. All i kept was my original stuff.

A few years later I woke up to my mistake and It has taken this long to start collecting again.

Gutted doesn't quite cut it. It was a nagging demon that wouldn't go away for many years.

But, I started again with Lego when my son got into it and gave me the bug. Then I started buying the Vintage collection stuff and got hooked on the Black Series figures, which are , let's face it, excellent.

Now I know it's frowned upon but I've since started to recard what is left of my original collection, figures display best on a card I think and these figures went through me and my son both and I'm enjoying cleaning them up and putting them back on the wall.

I'm still trying to work out how to post pictures, forums was always photobucket but that doesn't work any more. I'll try and get some pictures of what I had and what I have up soon, Watch this space.

 

[Ruby2511]

Welcome to the forum Bob, cracking background to your SW collecting, looking forward to seeing your collection mate

Russ

 

[Snaketibe]

Hi all

I'm Bob. Born in '70 and have fond memories of hunting figures and mega Christmas and birthday bonanzas full of Palitoy fun.I even recall the guilty pleasures by the time Jedi came out and I was meant to be a hard man skinhead_Rude boy popping down the toy shop to spend a quid. I never let my original figures go and they were always to hand, getting them out every so often, more than I'd admit then. Let's face it, Simon Pegg, Kevin Smith and co have made being a nerd cool now, but back then it was a very different story.

Welcome Bob. Thanks for the great background story, and enjoy the forum! It's great, so stick around and make full use of it

Jeremy

 

[Bob_Acid]

Here's my collection as it was around 1989. Sorry about the quality of the pictures.

 

[Bob_Acid]

What I have now...luckily the wife is sympathetic

 

[Mini99]

Hi all

I'm Bob. Born in '70 and have fond memories of hunting figures and mega Christmas and birthday bonanzas full of Palitoy fun.I even recall the guilty pleasures by the time Jedi came out and I was meant to be a hard man skinhead_Rude boy popping down the toy shop to spend a quid. I never let my original figures go and they were always to hand, getting them out every so often, more than I'd admit then. Let's face it, Simon Pegg, Kevin Smith and co have made being a nerd cool now, but back then it was a very different story.

In 87 I was staying for a weekend with my then girlfriend, now wife, in Hastings and found a thrift shop selling all sorts, he had quite a few bits of Star Wars toys, including loose and carded figures and boxed ships. I broke my cherry buying a carded ESB Han Bespin for £15. I went back a few times that weekend and bought more.

Over the next few years I went on the hunt, initially at toy fairs, which at that time had just the odd Star Wars bit and were mostly trains and toy soldier kind of places. I met an old guy at one who was a train dealer that had a 12 back Palitoy Vader on his stall, he let me have it for £10. Turned out he had more so I followed him to every fair he did and pestered him, getting quite a few Palitoy first 20's from him for a tenner a pop.

Around 88-89 the scene blew up and science fiction specific toy fairs started to appear, I remember one having a complete set of carded figures for sale for £1800 and thinking you have no chance mate.

One fair had a bin full of Tri-logo Luke Endor and Anakins' for a fiver each.

I paid £90 for a mint cardboard Death Star and that was my biggest buy.

Sometime in the early 90's I drifted away having found Acid House and not long after I sold the majority of what I'd collected, half to a dealer but kept the good stuff and sold that later to a collector, it was great to see his eyes light up when he turned up. All i kept was my original stuff.

A few years later I woke up to my mistake and It has taken this long to start collecting again.

Gutted doesn't quite cut it. It was a nagging demon that wouldn't go away for many years.

But, I started again with Lego when my son got into it and gave me the bug. Then I started buying the Vintage collection stuff and got hooked on the Black Series figures, which are , let's face it, excellent.

Now I know it's frowned upon but I've since started to recard what is left of my original collection, figures display best on a card I think and these figures went through me and my son both and I'm enjoying cleaning them up and putting them back on the wall.

I'm still trying to work out how to post pictures, forums was always photobucket but that doesn't work any more. I'll try and get some pictures of what I had and what I have up soon, Watch this space.

Welcome Bob.
Great introduction.
Posting pictures is easy, below this text box are two tabs, one is in blue which says "attachments".
Click that, select "add files" and then chose pictures from your library.
There's nothing about recards frowned about here as long as the parts are original, in fact it's encouraged to bring these toys back to life.
And yes we've all made the mistake of selling and then regretting it...

 

[Bob_Acid]

Thanks Mini, I've found it.

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi everyone,

Would like to introduce myself, my name is Alan and like a lot of others I fell in love with Star Wars as a kid, I had all the palitoy first 20 figures back in the day

I ofcourse played with them , ripped open all the bubbles with anticipation.

I decided to join this forum as I have started collecting again, For me the palitoy range is the one for me and whilst reading this forum over the last few years I decided I would take the plunge and join.

I would love to try and complete the Palitoy first 12 to start with and perhapes see if it's possible to collect the first 20 further down the line.

So far I have managed to obtain Palitoy 12a and 12b vader, 12b r2D2, 12b C3PO, 12B Death Squad Commander and 12b Sandepeople moc's.

Also managed to get hold of the Palitoy Landspeeder and Vader's Tie Fighter so my collection is quite small atm.

Anyway thought I would say hello to you all and hope everyone is safe and well during these strange times we find ourselves in.

Heres some pics I took earlier of my collection.

Cheers Alan

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Hi alan welcome to the forum and what a cool collection you have

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi all

I'm Bob. Born in '70 and have fond memories of hunting figures and mega Christmas and birthday bonanzas full of Palitoy fun.I even recall the guilty pleasures by the time Jedi came out and I was meant to be a hard man skinhead_Rude boy popping down the toy shop to spend a quid. I never let my original figures go and they were always to hand, getting them out every so often, more than I'd admit then. Let's face it, Simon Pegg, Kevin Smith and co have made being a nerd cool now, but back then it was a very different story.

In 87 I was staying for a weekend with my then girlfriend, now wife, in Hastings and found a thrift shop selling all sorts, he had quite a few bits of Star Wars toys, including loose and carded figures and boxed ships. I broke my cherry buying a carded ESB Han Bespin for £15. I went back a few times that weekend and bought more.

Over the next few years I went on the hunt, initially at toy fairs, which at that time had just the odd Star Wars bit and were mostly trains and toy soldier kind of places. I met an old guy at one who was a train dealer that had a 12 back Palitoy Vader on his stall, he let me have it for £10. Turned out he had more so I followed him to every fair he did and pestered him, getting quite a few Palitoy first 20's from him for a tenner a pop.

Around 88-89 the scene blew up and science fiction specific toy fairs started to appear, I remember one having a complete set of carded figures for sale for £1800 and thinking you have no chance mate.

One fair had a bin full of Tri-logo Luke Endor and Anakins' for a fiver each.

I paid £90 for a mint cardboard Death Star and that was my biggest buy.

Sometime in the early 90's I drifted away having found Acid House and not long after I sold the majority of what I'd collected, half to a dealer but kept the good stuff and sold that later to a collector, it was great to see his eyes light up when he turned up. All i kept was my original stuff.

A few years later I woke up to my mistake and It has taken this long to start collecting again.

Gutted doesn't quite cut it. It was a nagging demon that wouldn't go away for many years.

But, I started again with Lego when my son got into it and gave me the bug. Then I started buying the Vintage collection stuff and got hooked on the Black Series figures, which are , let's face it, excellent.

Now I know it's frowned upon but I've since started to recard what is left of my original collection, figures display best on a card I think and these figures went through me and my son both and I'm enjoying cleaning them up and putting them back on the wall.

I'm still trying to work out how to post pictures, forums was always photobucket but that doesn't work any more. I'll try and get some pictures of what I had and what I have up soon, Watch this space.

Welcome to the forum bob and thanks for sharing your story :wink:

 

[Pomse2001]

What I have now...luckily the wife is sympathetic

Great collection that you had in the 80s and you also today have a great collection, thanks mate for sharing it with us