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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JD Fantasy Football 2007
« on: August 9, 2007, 04:16 PM »
He's signed up.

Anyone have anyone else in mind?  I'll start asking around if we don't...


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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC Wave 4 - Jabba's Palace
« on: August 9, 2007, 01:33 PM »
YOu could dremel the missing tab off and super glue it to the other half.

I wonder what it would take to sand all of it down and refinish it smoothly.

I think I'll try it.


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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC Wave 4 - Jabba's Palace
« on: August 9, 2007, 10:28 AM »
Those straight pieces are too long - now we'll all have to nag Hasbro to make a short, mid-section for the U piece.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JD Fantasy Football 2007
« on: August 8, 2007, 07:59 PM »
The league settings say it is capped at 12 teams.  The girlfriend's dad wants to play in our league and I'd love to include him.

Any objection to him signing up?

We still have one slot available - and if you guys intended it to be a 10 team league, would anyone object to adding 2 more teams?



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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: What HDTV to buy - LCD, Plasma, DLP
« on: August 8, 2007, 10:03 AM »
Nice.

I found the Toshiba in a Fry's ad for $160 less - so I went back to Best buy and they gave me $191 back.

So, it ended up being quite a deal.


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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC McQuarrie/Concept Figures
« on: August 7, 2007, 06:34 PM »
If anyone needs one, shoot a PM over to PAUL.  He ended up with a few extras he's looking to move.


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Vintage Kenner / Re: Latest vintage acquisition
« on: August 7, 2007, 05:09 PM »
Thanks!

My collecting habits have definitely changed this year.  I started getting into Gentle Giant busts and Vintage a lot more.

The problem is that I'm still buying assloads of modern stuff.  Hopefully that will slow down.


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: What HDTV to buy - LCD, Plasma, DLP
« on: August 6, 2007, 11:08 PM »
Well here we go... I just bought one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-REGZA-42HL167-1080p-HDTV/dp/B000MXYD0I


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Most of mine are piled up behind the things that build up the 'bleachers' on my shelves, or worked into areas where a character might fit in more than once..

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Everything Rebelscum
« on: August 6, 2007, 01:13 AM »
Similar thing happened after Neyo came out.  A seller in Japan who had 16 of them posted in the classifieds that he wanted $220 each.  I had an extra Green and Malak which I tried to trade this guy.   He wasn't interested, and a third party came in, gave me $220 for my pair, which I sent to the guy in Japan.

Everyone was happy - I got my Neyo for the price of the Gree and Malak ($120), the guy in Japan got his $220, and the third guy got his busts for about $50 less than it would have cost him on eBay - but Phillip came in and locked the thread and banned the guy.

Meanwhile, even if I'd been paying straight out of pocket, this was still $70-$80 less than they were going for on eBay.

Oh well.

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Beats the crap out of me - apparently the Wal-mart that Paul frequents is clearing out Wave 3 - and put out several fresh cases worth at the same time.  It's lunacy, it's got to be some sort of mistake, but that's how they're ringing up. 

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Latest vintage acquisition
« on: August 6, 2007, 01:06 AM »
Which 4 are you down too? Blue Snag, Vinyl Jawa, Luke Stormtrooper, Yak Face...

Thanks guys!

The four are Blue Snag, Luke Stormtrooper, Yak Face, and Pop-up Artoo (the one in there is a Droids one, and it has a repro saber).  After those, I'll probably try to get into the Droids line.

Rob,

That's a great collection you've put together in such a short time. It's good to see you've caught the bug, collecting vintage can bring a lot of joy as you reminisce and look back on your own toys to add to the display.

Cheers!


For the record, most of those loose figures were assembled slowly over the last 5 or 6 years - I bought most of them in college and got down to needing about 10 and then took a 3 or 4 year break.  In the last few months I've added 1977 Luke, Leia, Artoo... A-Wing Pilot, Han Carbonite and the Max Rebo band.  I've also upgraded a few that weren't up to the standard I'm trying to set, leaving four - 5 I guess if you count that VC Jawa - which I do want to get eventually.  I'd also like to pick up a Smiling Lando, turtle neck leia, brown hair luke, etc...  I've got a few more I'll upgrade, like Warok and the Death Star Droid.




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Looks like I landed 8 more today - at $3.00 each.

Go figure.

34 total.

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Latest vintage acquisition
« on: August 5, 2007, 11:46 PM »
Well after a lot of q-tips and cleaning and a lot of eBay rummaging for missing parts, I've completed all the items from my co-worker.  This whole thing has me completely back into vintage now... I've tracked down most of the figures I still needed to finish off my loose collection (4 to go) and started buying Kenner Baggie figures.  Here's some pictures of the latest stuff:


Leia is new, got the gun from the co-worker and won her on ebay for an astonishingly low $4.25 - the pictures were blurry and the cape was real dirty - but it all cleaned right off and the paint is pretty much perfect.  Luke is new - I'll need a saber with a tip eventually.  Ben's saber is new too (the old one was missing the tip).  Artoo is new, he's pretty much perfect and is the third one I've owned to find a good one.  2 of the Jawas came from the co-worker and Small Head Han is a new addition too.


One of the Ugnaughts came from the co-worker, and Brown Haired Luke is a new pick up.


Han and Carbonite is a new pick-up


Best acquisition yet, Yarna!  Also the Jedi Luke and his weapons came from the co-worker.  I'm pretty sure mine had repros, and he had a nose ding.  This one has perfect paint and now I know the weapons are original.  I kept the snap-cape from my other one.


A-Wing Pilot is a recent pick up (eBay) - as are 2 of the Biker Scouts (from co-worker)


The Dewback is new.


The Playset and Mini-Rigs came from him (had to buy the base for the playset online).  The Baggie Figures are my new joy... Klaatu, Weequay, Hoth Han, and Madine are in the mail now...


Slave one was a bitch to clean up - sticker gunk everywhere... replaced the cockpit glass and had to get a boarding ramp for it.  Missing some stickers but otherwise great.  Even with the cockpit glass and ramp I spent under $35.


Ewok Village was a big clean up too - he gave me what he had for free on this one.  I bought two of the rails, the fire pit, the drum, the glider, the rock, and the net on eBay... Came out real nice given the before pictures.  I think I spent about $25 total on the village and $12 or so on the Glider.


The Y-Wing is from him too - he said it was one of the last toys he got as a kid... like new, has the bomb, required very little clean up.  The Snowspeeder is complete except for the Harpoon Block - which I should have soon.  That one was a gift from someone else, but I recently got the Harpoon and the rear exhaust cones added.


The AT-AT came from him, I gave him $30 for it - had to buy a side door ($15) and clean the crap out of it.  The chin guns are legit... the legs have those yellowed sections but other than that it came out fantastic.  For $45 total I'm definitely not complaining.


Lastly, the AT-ST and Cloud car were his too - had to get a second canopy (thanks Paul if you're reading this) and had to buy a side gun for the AT-ST, but both came out great.  Spent about a total of $30 for the pair.


And there you have it.  It was a lot of work, but there's something real rewarding about bringing these toys back and getting them cleaned up and into the collection - not to mention the reduced cost on a lot of them.  So it's onto the next project...  Baggie figures, Blue Snag, Stormtrooper Luke, Pop-up Artoo, Yak Face, turtle neck Leia, Brown Hair luke, an upgrade to warok... POTF Coins, and more vehicles/playsets are up next.

I've definitely re-caught the bug.

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Modern Trading / Re: JD 30AC Coin Trading Thread
« on: August 5, 2007, 11:18 AM »
Wow - damn, didn't know about that one.

Need one of those two.

Got the Indy coin, just looking for the SDCC and CE coins.


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