Yak Face figure advice please!

[Wikicollecting]

Hi there,

A writer has submitted this page http://en.wikicollecting.org/yak-face-star-wars-collectible on the open source collecting encyclopedia Wikicollecting, for which I'm a moderator.

It regards a type of Star Wars collectible known as Yak Face.

Not being an expert on Star Wars figures, I was wondering if the experts on here would be kind enough to take a look at it and tell me if:

• This page was accurate and useful?
• Is there anything missing?

Here at Wikicollecting we aim for our site to be as accurate as possible.

Any advice or amendments you can make, either on the page itself or this forum, would be much appreciated.

We would also be interested to learn if there were any particular pages on Star Wars collectibles that you would like to see on Wikicollecting, and if you have any suggestions for some top 10s.

Thanks in advance

Dan

 

[Joe]

Couple of things -

I know that it has been said that Kenner dumped toys towards the end of the line and chomped them all up and buried them but that wasn't specific to Yak face as the page suggests- it was just a general clear out of toys.

Yak face was packaged on a dual language POTF (power of the force) card which was sold in Canada and also turned up in Australia (where a lot of SW toys were sent to basically get rid of them)

He was however also released on a European card called a Trilogo, where he was packaged mostly without a weapon.

While not sold in the states on US cards he did come back over from Europe on those trilogo cards when the overstock was sold to US cheapo stores to get rid of, so in a roundabout way he was found in America.

The value section on the page is a bit misleading, "an average quality figure could achieve sums in the region of $1,000" etc- someone reading that who has just stumbled upon their loose figure might suddenly think they have a goldmine. In fact those prices are high for the CARDED POTF version.

Loose prices : $60-120 (bad condition to mint)
Trilogo carded prices : $300-600 (condition is key)
POTF carded prices : anywhere from the $1,000 stated on your site to 2-3k depending on condition. Dealers will always try to flog them for a lot more than they are really worth especially if graded.

Also- "Saelt-Marae, based at Jabba the Hutt's palace, had a very small speaking part in the film"

Did he speak? I think in the extreme case he "shrieked" when the barge was blowing up but I am not ultra into the films and all the tiny details (like his modern name Saelt-Marae) so I might be mistaken.

 

[PGowdy]

Nice info Joe. Perhaps pictures of both Yak's available moc types would help.

 

[Wikicollecting]

Thank-you very much for your help - I will update the page with these extra details, unless anyone on this forum beats me to it!

Thanks again

Dan

 

[Wikicollecting]

I've now updated the page with the help of your comments:

http://en.wikicollecting.org/yak-face-star-wars-collectible

The same writer has put up another Star Wars page, this time regarding a Blue Snaggletooth?! I'll post up another link to it in its own right but you can take a look here:

http://en.wikicollecting.org/blue-snaggletooth-star-wars-collectible

Thanks

Dan

 

[Joe]

Lol for starters the picture is a custom figure painted in a horribly off colour blue

I will tackle the text later lol

 

[PGowdy]

Re Blue Snaggletooth-
I would also change "said to be the rarest" as "one of the rarer..." as this figure a) is not that rare, certainly not the rarest by a long shot and b) many variants and foreign released figures are way rarer eg; DT Ben etc.

 

[PGowdy]

Also- "Saelt-Marae, based at Jabba the Hutt's palace, had a very small speaking part in the film"

Did he speak? I think in the extreme case he "shrieked" when the barge was blowing up but I am not ultra into the films and all the tiny details (like his modern name Saelt-Marae) so I might be mistaken.

Yeah, Saelt-Marae did not speak in the film. He appeared briefly in 2 scenes. First In the Jabba's palace scene and then briefly on Jabba's sail barge.

 

[PGowdy]

Also, the value of a loose Blue Snag is around $175-$225 (or $200 to round)

 

[Joe]

I think the Yak Face article is better now, I appreciate how time consuming it is to go back and edit pages and reword them (especially if you haven't written them) so that they are correct. You definitely have the right idea in mind with your collecting wikipedia site

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

I agree Joe it looks much better now.