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My dad made me clean up my old bedroom a few years ago, and I discovered all my old figures and vehicles in this trashbag in a huge box. That's the good news. The horror story is that I discovered the batteries had never been removed from the vehicles.
Batteries from the early 80's leaked alot anyway, but 25+ years later? It was like an acid soup in the bottom of that bag and all over the vehicles.
At least my figures were stored in my Darth Vader case. No vinyl cape Jawa, but I still had my telescoping Luke and Vader. And I discovered I had a pinhead Solo. And man, was my stormtrooper dirty and scuffed up. Now that is battle damage.
Batteries from the early 80's leaked alot anyway, but 25+ years later? It was like an acid soup in the bottom of that bag and all over the vehicles.
At least my figures were stored in my Darth Vader case. No vinyl cape Jawa, but I still had my telescoping Luke and Vader. And I discovered I had a pinhead Solo. And man, was my stormtrooper dirty and scuffed up. Now that is battle damage.
abstractharmony
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I have a little brother.
Isn't that how the best stories begin? My bro is 5 years younger than me. I was born in 1975 so it's in my genetic make-up that I love Star Wars as much as I do. That combined with the fact that my Parents spolit me as a wee bairn meant that I had almost an entire collection of vintage including ships and figures.
However when the first wave of ROTJ figures came out I REALLY wanted a Han Solo in Carbonite (for some reason my Slave 1 was missing the one you got with that...) what I used to do was wrap my Bespin Han in white toilet tissue, run it under the water, shape it to the rectangle and highlight some of the figure by running my thumb down the outside then stick in in the Freezer. Coming back and hour later and voila - Carbon Freeze.
Anyway, one day my bro must have seen me do this and one day, as I cameback from a sleepover at my friends house I went into the bathroom to find, in the bath, a hell of a lot of my collection covered in immense amounts of toilet paper that had dried onto the figures and ships as they had been left soaking overnight.
Not really a problem with the figures (a little paint loss here and there) but my snowspeeder, X-wing and Falcon had all of the stickers ripped as I tried desperately to remove the dried paper.
Then a couple of weeks later I was playing downstairs when I hear an almighty crash, me and my mom run to the bottom of the stairs to find my now stickerless Falcon in bits. My brother had thrown it down the stairs to see if it could really fly. Unfortunately, it had also hit my At-At which took off a leg, head and smashed the side door to pieces (I still have no idea how a 5 year old kid could muster that kind of strength).
The final insult came when I was mowing our (heavily overgrown) front lawn for pocket money when I started to hear sickening crunches, thinking that it was just sticks from next doors trees I carried on only to be halted by the site of a biker scouts left arm and Hammerheads legs flying through the air. My brother had been playing 'ewoks' in the front garden and had left a lot of my figures buried in the grass.
You'd think that by that point I would have guarded the remaining figures with every inch of my life but no. To my shame I allowed my brother to continue to decapitate, burn, maim and destroy the rest of my collection until it boiled down to a knackered X-wing, Cap-2, several figures and Jabba's throne (but no Jabba).
I'm now on my 4th collection of vintage figures (the other two having been completed and sold - it's the hunt that drives us anyway right?) and still treasure those remaining figures as though they were gold.
My brother. What a tool!
Isn't that how the best stories begin? My bro is 5 years younger than me. I was born in 1975 so it's in my genetic make-up that I love Star Wars as much as I do. That combined with the fact that my Parents spolit me as a wee bairn meant that I had almost an entire collection of vintage including ships and figures.
However when the first wave of ROTJ figures came out I REALLY wanted a Han Solo in Carbonite (for some reason my Slave 1 was missing the one you got with that...) what I used to do was wrap my Bespin Han in white toilet tissue, run it under the water, shape it to the rectangle and highlight some of the figure by running my thumb down the outside then stick in in the Freezer. Coming back and hour later and voila - Carbon Freeze.
Anyway, one day my bro must have seen me do this and one day, as I cameback from a sleepover at my friends house I went into the bathroom to find, in the bath, a hell of a lot of my collection covered in immense amounts of toilet paper that had dried onto the figures and ships as they had been left soaking overnight.
Not really a problem with the figures (a little paint loss here and there) but my snowspeeder, X-wing and Falcon had all of the stickers ripped as I tried desperately to remove the dried paper.
Then a couple of weeks later I was playing downstairs when I hear an almighty crash, me and my mom run to the bottom of the stairs to find my now stickerless Falcon in bits. My brother had thrown it down the stairs to see if it could really fly. Unfortunately, it had also hit my At-At which took off a leg, head and smashed the side door to pieces (I still have no idea how a 5 year old kid could muster that kind of strength).
The final insult came when I was mowing our (heavily overgrown) front lawn for pocket money when I started to hear sickening crunches, thinking that it was just sticks from next doors trees I carried on only to be halted by the site of a biker scouts left arm and Hammerheads legs flying through the air. My brother had been playing 'ewoks' in the front garden and had left a lot of my figures buried in the grass.
You'd think that by that point I would have guarded the remaining figures with every inch of my life but no. To my shame I allowed my brother to continue to decapitate, burn, maim and destroy the rest of my collection until it boiled down to a knackered X-wing, Cap-2, several figures and Jabba's throne (but no Jabba).
I'm now on my 4th collection of vintage figures (the other two having been completed and sold - it's the hunt that drives us anyway right?) and still treasure those remaining figures as though they were gold.
My brother. What a tool!
Ultimate Weapon
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One of the few figures that I did not have was the POTF Luke in Stormtrooper gear.
One day when I was in middle school a good bit after the POTF line was released and interest in Star Wars was fading, I was at a local drug store scoping out the magazines and playing video games with some friends (remember when stores used to have arcade games in them?). I was probably about 12 years old and in my mind, growing out of toys. I had five bucks on me. I had decided to pick up a copy of Rolling Stone, it was the cool mag to read and I was getting into music. I wandered over by the toys and there on the pegs was a POTF Stormtrooper Luke. This was the only one I had ever seen. I only had enough money to buy one thing; the figure or the magazine. I thought long and hard about getting it, but in the end decided I was too old for toys and left with my first copy of Rolling Stone.
I finally bought a Stormtrooper Luke a couple of years ago on ebay for a good bit more the the 2.99 the drug store was asking.
One day when I was in middle school a good bit after the POTF line was released and interest in Star Wars was fading, I was at a local drug store scoping out the magazines and playing video games with some friends (remember when stores used to have arcade games in them?). I was probably about 12 years old and in my mind, growing out of toys. I had five bucks on me. I had decided to pick up a copy of Rolling Stone, it was the cool mag to read and I was getting into music. I wandered over by the toys and there on the pegs was a POTF Stormtrooper Luke. This was the only one I had ever seen. I only had enough money to buy one thing; the figure or the magazine. I thought long and hard about getting it, but in the end decided I was too old for toys and left with my first copy of Rolling Stone.
I finally bought a Stormtrooper Luke a couple of years ago on ebay for a good bit more the the 2.99 the drug store was asking.
Customikey
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MaulFan said:Not when you're 6 foot 4 inches tall
I', 6' 4" as well! You, me, and Abraham Lincoln!
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I chewed on my brothers Leia Boushe helmet like gum.
Customikey
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Okay, here's another one. On the move from Hawaii back to Korea (we made this jump a couple of times), a single box was lost. Of all the furniture, knickknacks, clothes, pictures, books, lamps, belongings etc. One. ONE box was lost.
One box, containing:
Every. Single. Star. Wars. Toy. I. Owned.
One box, containing:
Every. Single. Star. Wars. Toy. I. Owned.
Customikey said:
I used to want to be 6'6" like Michael Jordan growing up, but now when I can't find pants, or shoes, or vehicles that fit me in the mainstream world, I think back and tell myself "IDIOT!"
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I "customized" all my vintage SW figures, you know, the first 12? Painted Luke's lightsaber blue, painted Chewbacca to better match his real color scheme, etc.
Sold them all when I turned 18, didn't get much for them.
As a kid I thought comics looked much cooler without their covers, so I ripped off the covers of all mine and my brothers' comic books - X-Men Giantsize #1, Shazam #1, and others of that era.
Sold them all when I turned 18, didn't get much for them.
As a kid I thought comics looked much cooler without their covers, so I ripped off the covers of all mine and my brothers' comic books - X-Men Giantsize #1, Shazam #1, and others of that era.
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i buried so many of my action figures when i was a kid. i used t smash up my matchbox cars with a block or a hammer. i would dig a pit in my backyard and put the ghostbusters slime in and drop everything into it. it usually was a huge drawn out battle with smashed cars and figures flying. id have to cover the slime pit up when my dog would come outside and i left so many figures in the backyard. i just stole my brothers toys after that. but there are definitely 20 gi joes, 15 starwars, some m.a.s.k. and those guys with the holes all over there bodies. centurions or something. i royally messed up that whole line. i play rough lol
abstractharmony
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Customikey said:
...and me!
Didn't know Abe Lincoln was such a tall drink of...
Me, too. In the 90s I was always the tallest one in the room. Now that's no longer the case.
I had a sort of an identity crisis when I was nearing the end of elementary school and decided that I didn't want any of my toys so I threw away about a dozen trash bags full of beautiful vintage stuff including a vinyl jawa, a blue snaggletooth, a death star, star destroyer, a near complete collection of figures from ANH to just before the Power of the Force, a bunch more playsets and ships; a bunch of the die cast ships; the plastic ships and playsets (everything but the Falcon and Hoth's Ion Canon) with their metal figures; a complete collection of Raiders of the Lost Arc figures and playsets; and a bunch of GI Joes before and after the kung fu grip change.
Aside from the Death Star playset, I miss the Raiders stuff the most.
Customikey said:
I had a sort of an identity crisis when I was nearing the end of elementary school and decided that I didn't want any of my toys so I threw away about a dozen trash bags full of beautiful vintage stuff including a vinyl jawa, a blue snaggletooth, a death star, star destroyer, a near complete collection of figures from ANH to just before the Power of the Force, a bunch more playsets and ships; a bunch of the die cast ships; the plastic ships and playsets (everything but the Falcon and Hoth's Ion Canon) with their metal figures; a complete collection of Raiders of the Lost Arc figures and playsets; and a bunch of GI Joes before and after the kung fu grip change.
Aside from the Death Star playset, I miss the Raiders stuff the most.
Customikey
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gdb said:
Sooo, you raped your own childhood?
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I lost mt Bespin Lando one year, back in 81 I'm guessing....The following year my mom was putting up our fake Christmas Tree and Lando fell out of one of the branches!
I used to take a pack of Baseball cards and tape the the cards together with masking tape and wrap Bespin Han around the cards with Aluminum foil. To create my Carbonite Han! I found one of these packs of taped together cards YEARS later in an old toy box. The card on top of the deck, mostly covered in tape... was a Rickey Henderson Topps Rookie card....DOH!!!
My favorite toy ever had to be my Millennium Falcon...Which I have till this day. back in the 80's I was playing with my cousin and his Star Wars toys and he said that his Tie-Fighter had a secret weapon that could destroy the Falcon. I gullibly said, "what is it"? And he threw 2 size D batteries at it and damaged the removable back cover. I wanted to kill him!!!
I used to take a pack of Baseball cards and tape the the cards together with masking tape and wrap Bespin Han around the cards with Aluminum foil. To create my Carbonite Han! I found one of these packs of taped together cards YEARS later in an old toy box. The card on top of the deck, mostly covered in tape... was a Rickey Henderson Topps Rookie card....DOH!!!
My favorite toy ever had to be my Millennium Falcon...Which I have till this day. back in the 80's I was playing with my cousin and his Star Wars toys and he said that his Tie-Fighter had a secret weapon that could destroy the Falcon. I gullibly said, "what is it"? And he threw 2 size D batteries at it and damaged the removable back cover. I wanted to kill him!!!
but also very sad
. I wish I still had my old vechiles, but I still have my figures and a fey brand new in the box items grandma never game , well until about 5 years ago:chewSimilar threads
