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Title: EU Figures
Post by: Dimetrodon on August 2, 2003, 06:11 PM
a place i visit every now and then called Planet Retro had a lot of EU figures in and well..
me and the guy there got into a conversation about who was and wasn't rare.

i recall mara jades, and dark troopers hard as hell to find...

now mara jades are easy to come by and thrawns are the hard ones...

its all whacked out...

how was it for you guys finding these figures?
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Reconsgt on August 2, 2003, 06:47 PM
I never saw any of these at retail in my area. Now it seems that if I want any of them I can get them with out to much trouble, but the trade off is that the price is usually more than I am willing to pay.   I know that the dark trooper is still one of the harder ones to get and comands the most $$.

 I have been able to work some of these into recent trades so that helps.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: roguestormtrooper on August 2, 2003, 09:04 PM
I did not see any of these at the retail level.  I was fortunate enough to work out trades for my EU figures a good while back.  As I recall,   the Darktrooper took the most barganing to get.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Dimetrodon on August 3, 2003, 12:38 AM
Darktrooper i've never seen in person...

i await the day that i shall assuem command over some.

I think i've seen every one but the Darktrooper actually...

Sigh, its a hard game.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Diddly on August 3, 2003, 12:01 PM
I saw a few of them at Retail, but I passed on them because I didn't know who any of the characters were. That was the only time I saw them.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: dustrho on August 3, 2003, 12:29 PM
I never saw them in retail either.  I have seen them in person at flea markets and toy shows, but dealers are asking for WAY too much money for them.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Valtar on August 13, 2003, 11:43 AM

i recall mara jades, and dark troopers hard as hell to find...

now mara jades are easy to come by and thrawns are the hard ones...

its all whacked out...

how was it for you guys finding these figures?

The Reason Thrawns are so hard to come by is because of customs he was the only Imperial officer that sported the white uniform,  Thus making him a great Figure to customize.  As far as Mara Goes I never did find her at Retail and I haven't won one on E-bay as of yet.  :-\  Dark Jedi Luke also is a tough one for me still dont have.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: CorranHorn on August 13, 2003, 10:55 PM
I had the fortunate chance to find 5 of the 9 EU figs at retail, Luke, Palpy, Leia, Imp Sentinel and Thrawn, of course I had already ordered my EU figs from the Fan Club (back when figs didn't cost an arm and a leg from the FC (not the new ownership, the last 2 owners)). I however only saw the figs at 1 Target and 1 KB, they either got picked up really quick or just never hit my area hard. Still some of my all time fave figs...
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Jesse James on August 14, 2003, 05:36 PM
I personally don't label the EU figures as "rare" at all, but not because I found them at retail.  I didn't either.  Not one...  These were not common at all in Pittsburgh, that's for sure.

But they were made (All of them) widely available at the Fan Club for a reasonable price, and for quite a long time actually.  

The 2 that kept selling out at the Fanclub were Darktrooper and Spacetrooper though, as I recall, and they even eventually made it to the point where a month later you could still log on the site and order a set of those 2.  

Next in line for selling out was Kyle, Mara, and Thrawn...  The Sentinel, Luke, and Clone Emperor seemed to be the weakest sales-wise of the EU series.

I wish we got some new EU figures...  Jedi Knight/Outcast Kyle baby!!!
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: figureaddict on August 26, 2003, 02:43 PM
The only two I never found at retail where the Darktrooper and the Spacetrooper, I think I paid 10$ apeice for them on E-bay back in 99', MOC, of course I opened them like I do everything.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Ben on September 20, 2003, 12:09 AM
I found all but Leia, Darktrooper, and Spacetrooper at after-Christmas clearances in '98-99. I eventually got the Troops through the FC, and it wasn't until 2001 that I finally broke down and ordered Leia through Brian's Toys. Of course, they failed to tell me that the card would have a big Japanese sticker on the back. Dicks.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: T16skyhopp on July 31, 2005, 10:46 PM
i think i got mine from the fan club, one at a comic con, and i think i may have found my kyle and luke at retail. still need emporer and leia though.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: evenflow on August 2, 2005, 07:46 PM
I found them all at retail. The 2 troopers in the wave were the toughest to find. I wish we could get some more EU figures.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: alexandertrooper on August 2, 2005, 09:03 PM
personly I'm still trying to track most of them down for my collection.  But some of them have massive prices such as I saw a spacetrooper at a flee market for 75 is that good?
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Jesse James on August 2, 2005, 09:29 PM
Not by a longshot Alexander...  Scour Ebay and you'll get a better idea what they SHOULD be selling for.  It's the best resource when you're looking for current going rates/values on figures.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: alexandertrooper on August 2, 2005, 09:45 PM
thats what I thought hense why I didn't buy it.  Thanks though.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Darth Slothus on August 17, 2005, 12:45 PM
I was content completing finally my collection of these by desperately picking up the troopers at 'Big Lous' in Culver City,CA for $20 and 25$ a couple of months ago. This is consistent with the LEES current price in the price guide(which is based off internet sales) 75$??? Whatta rip
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: zachmoe on August 31, 2005, 08:26 PM
One of my neighborhood comic book stores has some of the EU figs for around $15-20 or so...PM me if you want and I'll take a look the next time I go and let you know the actual price...may be cheaper than eBay...
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Reid on October 3, 2005, 08:23 PM
I'd like to get a DarkTrooper sooooo bad, but prices on eBay and online retailers are so high I just don't bother. Rerelease please Hasbro?
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Spectre on December 31, 2005, 12:08 AM
I found all of them at retail. They hit all of the local toy stores in the same week and I more or less just hopped from one to another until I had all of them (and multiples of the Troopers and Sentinels). Sadly, my customizing funds were limited at the time or I would have stocked up on a few extras of each character for parts (the Clone Emperor has a cool retro-sci-fi outfit on under the removable robe and who couldn't use more female base figures?).

I have since broken down Luke and Lei for customs as I replaced them with better "default" versions of the characters (Saga Jedi Luke and a custom Leia incorporating some parts from the EU figure).
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Darth_Anton on January 3, 2006, 11:00 AM
These were hard for me to find at retail, but I did find a complete set. Then, I walked into TRU one morning and they had an entire bin of these for under $3. I picked up an extra dark trooper, space trooper and guard and then went to another TRU looking for something else and found the same thing, but didn't buy anything. Who knew? I'm kicking myself now because these didn't last the day.

Most resently, a few months ago, I found a set on ebay with a BIN for retail price. I almost bought it for trade fodder, but never seem to be able to make stuff like that work for me. :P
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Morgbug on January 3, 2006, 11:05 AM
That darn Dark Trooper continues to elude me.  I'm just too cheap to buy one on ebay.  I have noticed that most of the other figures in this line that were previously selling above retail are now pretty much dirt cheap on ebay. 
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Jesse James on January 4, 2006, 01:29 AM
Some spaz at the local Toy SHow in early December tried offering me a Dark Trooper in his "cheap figure box" for the low low price of *drum roll*

$80 (included getting a Sentinel too).

WTF?!?  What a tool.

I got my EU off of the Fan Club store at the time and got extras when I could.  They were impossible to find in Pittsburgh.  From what I've heard from the locals at the time, they either lucked into a few at TRU one day and never saw them again or they didn't see them and did what I did.  I've never heard of them being found by any of my local friends at any store but TRU, though at the time I don't THINK we had Targets.  That was about 1998 if I recall and Target hadn't opened here yet save for maybe out near the airport.  We didn't get a Target store till the exclusive Y-Wing shipped.

Wal-Mart stores were more sparse at the time too and I didn't hear of them getting any, nor KB or KM.

Sad because the Darktrooper's amazing really, and I would buy a couple Katarns for customizing.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Morgbug on January 5, 2006, 10:30 PM
I remember reading those reports online years ago.  Sadly they never came north, so I paid $13.00 USD (?) from the fan club for mine.  For whatever reason I never received the Dark Trooper.  It's about the only modern hole I have.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Nathan on January 6, 2006, 02:03 AM
It's about the only modern hole I have.

To QOOC (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=7441.0) or not to QOOC, that is the question.... ;)

Ahem ... sorry, do carry on.
Title: Re: EU Figures
Post by: Alpha_17 on January 8, 2006, 05:09 PM
The only EU figures I was able to find were the shadows of the empire figures. I never came across any of the other figures.