Who's Who - Introduce yourself!

[weasel]

Hi guys,

Hope you are all doing well Been a long time since I darkened the forum so I thought I would drop by and say hello. Moved house recently and I just finished converting the attic into a space for my collection. It has been in storage for the last few years and the time has come for it to come out of storage, hopefully over the Xmas holidays.

I'm not sure if I am gonna start collecting again or what is going to happen but I am feeling very excited about seeing it again. I have been lurking on here over the last couple of weeks checking out my old collection pics and reminiscing about the past. Gonna see the new movie tomorrow night and I'm feeling a bit of the buzz again.

Here are a couple of old links to my stuff in vintage showcase. I had a Yoda focus, 47a Focus and collected a bit of everything toy related.

Collection:-
http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4058&start=30

My 47As:-
http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6041&p=90784#p90784

My Yodas Rebelscum:-
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1002373/

My Collection Rebelscum:-
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t952524/

Hey mate, LONG LONG time no see. How's things! How's the family?
Not many if us auld timers left on here now.

Ps, you moved any closer to civilisation or are you still out in the sticks?

 

[bwarrp]

Hello everyone,

I've just started collecting POTF2, vintage baffles me at the moment and with my first child on the way, budget limits me!

I am really interested in the different variants, having found a few already!

any advice on collecting POTF2 is greatly appreciated!

Look forward to getting to know you all!

Laurence

 

[cocofstar]

Hey mate, LONG LONG time no see. How's things! How's the family?
Not many if us auld timers left on here now.

Ps, you moved any closer to civilisation or are you still out in the sticks?

Alright lad :wink: Family are good mate. We have a boy and a girl now so hands are pretty full

Moved to Aghalee :shock: , 1 whole mile away from where I used to live. So technically I'm even further out into the sticks now

 

[Bunglebubs]

Thought it was about time I posted and said hello after joining a wee while ago.

Always been slightly obsessed with StarWars since seeing the original release of New Hope in the cinema at the grand age of 7 years old and Jabba the Hut was actually a fat man. Anyway usual story never kept any of my original toys but over the last couple of years I have began to collect again but my main interest is in the mailers strangely, I think it's to do with the fact the figures are still sealed in the baggies and that you get unique inserts etc that were never part of what the shops sold but I do like the carded firgures too. I also collect the original Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica figures and also the modern Black Series StarWars 6 inch firgures. A bit of a mix but I like them all.

The information on this site is fantastic and for the people who provide all of this especially on the mailers I would like to thank them all. At some point I will hopefully post up some photos of the collection I have, although ive yet to get some of them graded (yes I know some of you aren't fans of it) but I like the way the cases present them and I get them UV protected so they will last longer than me.

 

[lejackal]

Thought it was about time I posted and said hello after joining a wee while ago.

Always been slightly obsessed with StarWars since seeing the original release of New Hope in the cinema at the grand age of 7 years old and Jabba the Hut was actually a fat man. Anyway usual story never kept any of my original toys but over the last couple of years I have began to collect again but my main interest is in the mailers strangely, I think it's to do with the fact the figures are still sealed in the baggies and that you get unique inserts etc that were never part of what the shops sold but I do like the carded firgures too. I also collect the original Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica figures and also the modern Black Series StarWars 6 inch firgures. A bit of a mix but I like them all.

The information on this site is fantastic and for the people who provide all of this especially on the mailers I would like to thank them all. At some point I will hopefully post up some photos of the collection I have, although ive yet to get some of them graded (yes I know some of you aren't fans of it) but I like the way the cases present them and I get them UV protected so they will last longer than me.

Welcome to the forum, if you're looking for nice cases and UV protection without being interested in the sticker with the grade on you can't do better than GW Acrylic. Cheaper to, you'll see a thread in the vintage for sale section. On top of that Christian is a good guy to deal with.

 

[weasel]

Alright lad :wink: Family are good mate. We have a boy and a girl now so hands are pretty full

Moved to Aghalee :shock: , 1 whole mile away from where I used to live. So technically I'm even further out into the sticks now

Good to hear the family is doing well. Aghalee? You missing electricity yet? :wink: :lol:

 

[Bunglebubs]

Welcome to the forum, if you're looking for nice cases and UV protection without being interested in the sticker with the grade on you can't do better than GW Acrylic. Cheaper to, you'll see a thread in the vintage for sale section. On top of that Christian is a good guy to deal with.

Thanks for the welcome lejackal

Yes I have seen those cases and will need to get some of those ones for some figures I have that are still in their baggies but like I said I do like the fact that they are sealed in a nice presentation and nobody that visits me can open them up and could potentially damage them.

 

[RBT84]

Hello, I'm Rob 31 from the Midlands.

I used to collect Vintage and POTF2 in my teens, I stop around 10 years ago, Recently I have been thinking about collecting again after picking up a few figures etc for my Nephew who is 11 and knows more about Star Wars than me :lol:

 

[SpaceViking]

Hi, I'm new. I'm a long term star wars fan and I used to collect but honestly, I am running out of room for everything. I need to downsize the collecting, as my current profession concerns making historical costume and cosplay stuff and room for that takes priority. I am 53, a mum, and I was at school and college when the first three Star Wars films first came out (when the things I have to sell come from) and loved it from the start. Now my kids are enjoying it too. I recall when Jedi came out and my best friend and I went to see a showing of all three films back to back. Good times.

I am the proud possessor of a plush soft toy Kenner Chewbacca, with bandolier, but have not found any reference to him anywhere. He's about 18" tall, long brown fur and a big grin. My favourite. Anyone throw any light on him, I would be grateful. I'll mention it when I find the appropriate forum.

Nice to be here, and to meet people with a passion for collecting.

 

[Grant]

Welcome new comers. Happy Holidays to all.

 

[sith-smith]

Welcome to the forum folks

 

[steve obi wan]

Welcome to the forum !

Great place to learn and share SW

 

[binbrook74]

Hi . Thought i better introduce myself.

I have been a fan of star wars since it first came out as a younger child (Im now 41 )and collected just about all the toys they made.
Sadly a divorce cleared all my collection out several years ago so just stuck to my other hobby of restoring my old Jet fighter cockpit.
All of a sudden i have decided to start to rebuild a collection and so far got about 20 figures , 1 ship and a mini rig in just over a week so constantly searching now for bargains to slowly increase my collection so looking forward to having a good look through here to see what i can find.
If there is any other collectors in the north Lincolnshire area please say hi as would be good to find people with the same interest close to home.
Well thats it for now as need to find some bargains.
Looking forward to posting on here as my collection grows again
Many thanks
Darren

 

[rhyfelyser]

Hi . Thought i better introduce myself.

I have been a fan of star wars since it first came out as a younger child (Im now 41 )and collected just about all the toys they made.
Sadly a divorce cleared all my collection out several years ago so just stuck to my other hobby of restoring my old Jet fighter cockpit.
All of a sudden i have decided to start to rebuild a collection and so far got about 20 figures , 1 ship and a mini rig in just over a week so constantly searching now for bargains to slowly increase my collection so looking forward to having a good look through here to see what i can find.
If there is any other collectors in the north Lincolnshire area please say hi as would be good to find people with the same interest close to home.
Well thats it for now as need to find some bargains.
Looking forward to posting on here as my collection grows again
Many thanks
Darren

Welcome Darren. Noticing at your user name binbrook74 makes me think your jet fighter cockpit you're restoring must surely be an EE Lightning in 74 squadron colours?

 

[binbrook74]

Ha Well you close actually I live on the former station Binbrook and the 74 is my birth year but yeah i have a lightning cockpit but not 74 Its ex92 sqn. The famous one off the side of the A1 at Newark XN728

 

[rhyfelyser]

Just seen pics of her when flying, what a beaut! Good luck with the restoration. Let us know with the progress in the "Off topic" section of this site.

http://www.xs420.com/xn728-restoration.html

 

[timbo72]

Hey Binbrook74,
I'm a Grimsby Lad and Chiffy is from Cleethorpes so there are a couple of Lincolnshire lads on here

Welcome to the forum, it's pretty good on here

 

[binbrook74]

Hy Timbo. I close as at Binbrook so not far away from you .
Thanks for the welcome

 

[ScruffyLookingNH]

Welcome to all the new guys and gals A friend recently pointed out the masses of new users appearing here and it's awesome that some have taken the time to post and introduce themselves.

I hope those of you who are collecting find this place as awesome as I do for research, knowledge, buying and selling. And I hope those of you who may be considering selling up reconsider and rediscover your SW mojo, or at the very least advertise your bits and pieces here

 

[Dorsetmark]

Name: Mark
Age: 42
Marital Status : Single ish
Hi all
I'm from Dorset and have been collecting Star Wars on and of since the films finished ( remember buying of Star Wars Jim in Model Mart)
Sold my loose collection a couple of years ago
Could have payed mortgage off if waited
Luckily kept Vinyl Cape Jawa
Been buying the HotToys and odd Palitoy carded
Figures
Would love to add more carded figures and a mint Palitoy Snow Speeder

 

[Markobucko]

Name: Mark
Age: 37
Marital status: married with kids
Living in south Ireland in a place called Drogheda..30 minutes north of Dublin airport
Hi guys,
Always been a big Star Wars fan and had a lot of branded toys through the years. Also been big into anything Lego in Star Wars but slowly running out of space now that the kids are needing their own rooms.

 

[DARTH VADER]

Hi all,

My name's Carl and I have been browsing this wonderful forum over the last few years, finally signed up a few weeks back. Like most on here, massive fan of the original trilogy - and the latest Episode too

Collecting wise, had the lot, sold it as a teenager and now slowly putting it all back together!

All the best to one and all, hope 2016 is a happy and healthy year with lots of Star Wars items for you all!

Carl

 

[Richard_H]

Welcome to all the new guys

 

[theforceuk]

Hello all new chaps and happy new year, welcome to the forum.

 

[Gadders]

Name: Adam
Age: 40
Marital status: married with kids

Hi all, I've only just been told about these forums, but having had a browse over the last couple of days they seem like a decent place.

I was quite heavily into collecting vintage stuff up until about 12 years ago, but then buying first house, getting married, having kids all put paid to that. However, that new certain new film has awoken the collecting bug and I'm now back.
I'm amazed how things have changed with the hobby since I was last active.... prices have rocketed.

I always had my original toys from when I was a kid, and back in the mid nineties I decided to try and get all the figures (loose). That was achieved fairly quickly and easily as prices then were a lot less crazy than they are today. At some point during this, I picked up my first MOC figure (one of the ewoks, which was miscarded - one ewok figure on another ones card). Cost me £15.
Along the way I picked up most of the ships and playsets, mostly boxed. I'm missing a couple - remote control Sandcrawler (never gonna afford that these days), boxed MLC-3, boxed MTV-8 and a box for the Vader TIE.
Carded figure wise, I'd like to get a carded example of each figure. I currently have about 46 MOC's although two of those are Kenobi, and two are Yoda.

I've also got a number of the carry cases.. I think theres just a ROTJ box one I haven't got...but I might be wrong on that front.

My primary collecting goals for 2016 are to get the 2 minirigs, and try and add some more MOCs to the collection. If anyone can help with those, or a DV TIE box, please let me know.

But before I can do any of that, I need to get back in touch with the hobby and get a feel for the current prices of everything.

If anyone wants to chat Vintage SW, or give a returning collector some tips on the current scene, then please give me a shout as I'd like to make some new contacts and friends in the hobby.

Cheers

Adam

 

[Carl Waterworth]

GADDERS! Where the bloody hell have you been? Welcome back mate, I myself have been getting back into it after a few years absence!

 

[Joe]

We've certainly noticed an increase in new members since TFA came out, I've worn out my "approve first post" button :lol:

Welcome (back) Adam and everyone else that's signed up to SWF recently, great to have you here and hope you enjoy, contribute and take the piss out of weasel!

 

[Mikesavavage1984]

Name: Mike
Age: 30 something
Married
Occupation: Utilities
Lives: Northwest

Had loads of SW's as a kid, literally used to pick it all up from sale items in toy shops and car boots for peanuts. Then sold it all as a teenager and bought a pair of skates a motor bike! What I'd give to go back and buy again in the mid 1990's!

Started collecting again, two years ago, just loose stuff and some boxed. No on cards and not hung up on condition. My goal is to collect all 90 odd figures (loose) and from there I'm not sure, it's pretty addictive but prices are crazy :?

 

[Mr-shifter]

Hey mike.

What do you do for the utilities industry? I am a field engineer for uk power networks (formerly see board) in the south east.

 

[Mikesavavage1984]

Hi, didn't want to go into to much detail as you never know who's watching. But Im an engineer for the leading water and wastewater undertaker in the northwest