Your first experience of Blue snaggletooth?
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tiefighterboy
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And that exact same blue snags is still with me in my collection to this day.
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Was around 97 would have been 10, I asked a dealer what the rarest Vintage Star Wars figure was. He said blue snag and showed me a picture of it. About 4 years later got one for £75 from a mate, still have it in my collections to this day.
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I thought he looked a weird shade of blue as compared to the photos in books I'd seen. Finding one with nice boots very very difficult.
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If I say when exactly my first experience was then I'm lying. :? It was some time in the 90's, probably after 95.
This thread has made me think how I remember putting the blue snaggletooth in the same bracket as VC Jawa, holy grail type backet. I brought both and still have both, problem is the VC Jawa is fake. I hardly ever think about the Blue Snaggletooth, but the VC Jawa grates big time.
This thread has made me think how I remember putting the blue snaggletooth in the same bracket as VC Jawa, holy grail type backet. I brought both and still have both, problem is the VC Jawa is fake. I hardly ever think about the Blue Snaggletooth, but the VC Jawa grates big time.
1980 for me...I first saw on the back of the Meccano 20 backs whilst on holliday on the French island of Corsica. Me & my bother went mental trying to find him (and drove my parents nuts) but as it turned out there were hardly any figures to be found anyway - just Leia, Ben & C-3PO, all of which we bought as the packaging was so different. The 12" range were much more readily available and for around a tenner - much cheaper than back home where Chewie was a staggering £25 in our local independent toy shop. I guess we were used to seeing toys that were different or unavailable from the catalogues (notably Dewback and the white prototype spaceships) so perhaps concluded finding a carded Blue Snag was a lost cause!
Also recall the Motta (?) ice cream from this holiday (the only time we went abroad) and never being able to get the free collector cards advertised... (10 year old me unable to speak a word of French pointing repeatedly to the wrapper flash and a French cafe owner getting impatient cos I wasn't giving in!) I still have a wrapper as a memento - it may not be a carded blue snag but better then nothing.
Also recall the Motta (?) ice cream from this holiday (the only time we went abroad) and never being able to get the free collector cards advertised... (10 year old me unable to speak a word of French pointing repeatedly to the wrapper flash and a French cafe owner getting impatient cos I wasn't giving in!) I still have a wrapper as a memento - it may not be a carded blue snag but better then nothing.
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Tickion said:
That's it! Back of my 20 back Meccano Jawa, always had a picture of one!
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First time I heard about him was in the mid 90s when I was rediscovering SW. My now friend was proprietor of "The New Curiosity Shop" local to me and was buying and selling SW and told me he picked up two blue Snaggs in the US for $60 each and sold them for £80 each. Didn't actually see one till 96/97 at a local toy fair. Ha! My friend also mentions he picked up 10 loose Yaks for £35 each a little b4 the blue Snagg pick up :!:
Those were the days 8)
I picked up the blue Snagg I own today in 99. He is factory sealed in his baggie 8)
Those were the days 8)
I picked up the blue Snagg I own today in 99. He is factory sealed in his baggie 8)
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