Just bought the 2005 Official Price Guide to Star Wars Memorabillia by Jeremy Beckett.
   

I want to know the name of the person that signed off on this figure, and said "Oh wow, that looks really good, looks juts like Leia.  It  gets my stamp of approval.  Go ahead and make it!!!!!!!"

Yeah, that was tough to swallow.  I had tons of old and new news articles, and they were all (I mean at least 60 articles) all stuck together into one bricklike mass.

There were a few oddly typed things.  I think was trying to explain that I have all my figures, posters, etc. all encased or in cases and she went off on soem tangent about bubble packs ?  No idea.

Fun anyhow.

As with most toys today unfortunately they aren't made like the old metal Tonka trucks that today, I would feel safer sitting on and rolling down my hill in than my Hyundai. ;^)   

Yeah the springs I think have a tendancy to go, I've hear a few other stories with one here and there going, I think one the waist failed to turn properly.   My guess is people playing want to really try and pull these things back too far causing them to snap or break.  I don't play with mine, so I don't have a first hand account.

Funny, they just don't make toys like they used to.  Either way, it's still a pretty fun line.  I'd somewhat expect with a toy of this nature some wear and tear would occur, and expect some to break from time to time.

Welcome aboard!

That oddball nostalgic stuff like the magazines and toothbrushes and all..........that's some of the best stuff to collect, I love that stuff.

I was a big fan of the POTJ line for the same reason.  Lots of the obscure characters/aliens.  and the common/main figures they did for the 10th time they seemed to do add a nice little touch to make them a little different, like chewie with his hands behind his back and the dejarick table, or Vader with the emperors wrath see-through helmet, etc. nice features, especially for someone like me who keep them carded. 

I'm not a huge opener so I don;t necessarily look at figs in the same light as Jesse, where he really likes the articulation and customixing (occationally, if I get an extra fig as a freebie or a deal or trade, etc. I may open one here and there).
since I don;t open, I always like to hear his take on the figs.

Kind of a case where we both appreciate the figs, just for different reasons.  We each look at things in a different light.

Hard looking back to pick which line I really liked the best. They all had thier good and bad points.
 

All the sabers are getting some $$$.

I switched gears a few years back and went back to trying to get the role playing stuff.

Numerous reasons from a collectors standpoint other than it's pretty cool stuff:

A) The kids all seem to clamor for these, and around the Holidays the parents seem to always have them in the carts

B) That could mean A LOT of these getting opened/played with vs. figures, which even the kids today seem to want to "collect" and keep carded.

C) A lot of people buy these through the years and the $ always spike for Halloween (you'll see this now in Aug., wait until Sept. some decent prices for the common role palying guns/sabers)

D) A lot of costumers (which seem to alwways multiply year after year) will buy the "cheaper" ones and paint them/modify them for thier gear.

E) No hard evidence but as far as the supply side I would guess there are a lot less $20 blasters and sabers produced and sold than $6 figs.

Lots of reasons to collect the role playing items.  BTW anyone out there have a nice "role playing focus???   ;^)



 

JJ have an extra Jawa for you!

Some general thoughts on the BK toys now that it's over.

At the the Pgh show a few booths had the toys for about $3ea.  A few had maybe a handful of random loose they would part with for a little less.  Full sets were about $40+.

My Burger King (one that's kinda near Jesse too) would take the plush and put all of those in the kids meal bags, so any of the kids typically would get the plush unless they asked for somethign different, making the plush a little harder to snag.  I would imagine they weren't the only ones that might have done this.  This would lead me to beleive that down the road the plush ones may eventually be just slightly harder to find(just a hunch), plus one of the employees also said a lot of times theres a brother and a sister, so they would try to give the sister a plush or a Padme.

One or two booths would give me the same story that Maul was $5, Fett was $7 and Vader was $10 (these were the HTF ones is what they would say)

Persoanlly all said and done, from a collectors standpoint I thought the promotion was kicked off poorly, I found the Vader first day, but was a hassle to get. The employees at first didn't have a clue as to what the prices were, how many figs you could get, etc. but after the first week it ran smoothly.  I the actual toys themselves were great (for what they are) both from a collectors view and from a kids view.  Also, I think with 31 toys available, these will hold a collectible "value" better than the toy promos of the past.  They all in general just seemed kinda hard to find(lots of BK would be sold out of them), and you don't see hundreds of thousands of these lying around leftover like the Pizza Hut cups or Taco Bell SE and EP I toys.  I really didn't see a ton of them at the Pgh. toyshow like I had imagined I would.

so, maybe that gives a general idea of what the "market" on the BK toys will be like   just my general thoughts, observations, and opinions.