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Post by wukkie on Mar 18, 2024 16:16:45 GMT
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Post by blumineauxnoir on Mar 18, 2024 16:30:29 GMT
I`m going to have to check any 50p`s I have ! Didn`t even know they`d released some last year, of the characters.
41 years since Return of the Jedi came out ! Still remember the excitement I felt, when learning a chap up the road had a pirate copy of it on VHS, that was doing the rounds. When it finally came to our turn, it was like Christmas Eve, waiting for tomorrow to come, and finally watch it !
That was how we pirated things back then, by passing around video cassettes, none of this streaming mullarkey !
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Post by wukkie on Mar 18, 2024 18:04:47 GMT
Usually a very bad and unwatchable copy.
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Post by blumineauxnoir on Mar 18, 2024 18:41:30 GMT
I dont know, they were often better than the ones you get nowadays, that are filmed in a cinema, and you see people`s heads moving across the screen, and people coughing !
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Post by heyheyalanshoulderl on Mar 23, 2024 8:31:49 GMT
Anyone out there, with a collection of Star Wars, and in particular - the cardbacks. Have a look and see if you have one of these.. View AttachmentKnown as a General Madine on a Tri-logo cardback, to some, this is the "Holy Grail" of Star Wars collecting, and rare as rocking horse poop, as my Father would say. The figure on its own, you`ll struggle to get £1 for. But for the cardback, if you still have one, they can fetch £1K+ And if you somehow have the whole thing, unopened, like the one above, then you`re in for a big payday, as there is currently one on sale over in the US, and it`s current price is $21K and climbing. I had that one but no cardboard was ever kept
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Post by blumineauxnoir on Mar 23, 2024 8:46:09 GMT
I had him as well ! But don`t think it was that specific cardback, it was rare in the UK.
I left all my cardbacks in storage, and then forgot about them, so whoever found them, would have made over £1K flogging them. Gutted !
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Post by heyheyalanshoulderl on Mar 23, 2024 9:09:12 GMT
I had him as well ! But don`t think it was that specific cardback, it was rare in the UK. I left all my cardbacks in storage, and then forgot about them, so whoever found them, would have made over £1K flogging them. Gutted ! Ah, mine was probably the bog standard one as well tbh I wouldn't even remember it now either lol Well at least you kept the card, I probably tore mine trying to get at the figure
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Post by blumineauxnoir on Mar 23, 2024 9:50:31 GMT
I used to tear mine off the card, without thinking about how valuable they might be in the future.
And the plastic bubbles that they came in ? They made AMAZING freezing chambers for Han Solo ! I`d fill them with water, and drop various figure in them, and pop them in the freezer, ready for my next adventure rescuing someone from Cloud City.
FFS Son ! pizza`s go on the top shelf of the freezer, not Princess Leia & Chewbacca !
And this was a well timed bump, as the figure in question that I mentioned had a current auction price of $21K, has now sold.
And it made $42K in the end, and it wasn`t even a good quality one, but they`re so rare, people will pay silly money for them.
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Post by wukkie on Mar 24, 2024 15:04:22 GMT
As a kid you don't think about how valuable this could be in years to come and you actually want to play with the toy. Most of the folk who bought to keep as it is must have been the junior Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
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Post by blumineauxnoir on Mar 25, 2024 7:42:33 GMT
I could almost cry when I think about how many boxes for Star Wars toys, went in my bin.
A good condition box for a Star Wars item, from 1977-85, can make silly money, but what shocked me when watching the listings for that genre, was how much people will pay for the brown cardboard inserts, and clear plastic bags, that the toys came in.
A few years back now, but I saw a bidding war over a piece of brown cardboard, that housed an X-Wing in the box.
No box, no X-Wing, just a piece of brown cardboard.
It ened on £137, although I`ve never seen a piece make that kind of money since. But it made me happy I have the same piece of cardboard in a boxed X-Wing that I won, although I don`t ever want to have to sell it.
Couple of years ago, I won an Imperial Troop Transporter, still in the box, for £55.
That same week, I saw the same box on its own, without the vehicale, sell for just over £50.
I then sold the Transporter I got, and it made £62. So covered my outlay, and got to keep the box. Love it when that happens !
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Post by wukkie on Apr 12, 2024 13:47:01 GMT
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Post by blumineauxnoir on Apr 12, 2024 15:40:51 GMT
That`s the collection that gets taken around the country all year around, making the owner loads, given the entry prices I saw a while back !
But what a collection it is, all the different variants in there as well. It would never leave the house if it was mine.
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Post by 09sider on May 11, 2024 6:59:57 GMT
Currently holidaying in Minehead and saw this in a backstreet shop window, if it's one of those anyone's been after, let me know and I'll get gut the shops contact details for you;
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If the link doesn't work, it's an Eagle transporter kit from Space 1999, it's a 40th anniversary edition made by MPC.
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Post by blumineauxnoir on May 11, 2024 7:05:38 GMT
Image isn`t showing 09sider !
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Post by 09sider on May 11, 2024 7:13:08 GMT
Image isn`t showing 09sider ! Sorry not the best on phone tech, I've added the basic details.
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