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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #60 on: December 16, 2011, 10:26 AM »
I'm still looking for black hole and LOTR figures for a decent price. The only one that I found so far is Maximillian.

Most if not all of the prototype Droids castings came from Ryan Shaw (bantha5) many moons ago. Greg Glasgow (glasman6) and I would collect them and make casts for each other. If I could find someone that I could trust to make good casts maybe we can start that up again. I wish I could find the Ewok prototype casts. I saw them on ebay one time and never since.

I want this guy:
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #61 on: December 18, 2011, 10:34 AM »
The good news is there is a custom prototype Chief Chirpa on ebay right now. The bad news is someone upped the bid to over $100. Damm!  Maybe I should put up my extra Gaff?



There is a Jessica Meade and a poorly painted Governor Koong too.

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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #62 on: May 17, 2012, 04:42 PM »
I have a MOC R2-D2 and C-3PO that my dad saved.  Of course my mom cut out the upc for the Boba Fett but I still have them with a hole in the back.  Every other Star Wars toy from my childhood was sold around 1988.

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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #63 on: May 17, 2012, 04:48 PM »
My mom sold all my ships, but I still have all the figures I had as a kid.  A few have been swapped out for upgrades over the years.  My prized possession from childhood is an R5-D4 where the leg snapped off.  My dad drilled a new hole and popped a screw in the leg, essentially creating a removable leg R5.  I remember my buddies at school raving about how cool it was - really a neat, unique item for a kid when most parents probably would have just tossed it away.
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #64 on: May 24, 2012, 12:32 AM »
That's a very cool story.  8)

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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #65 on: June 1, 2012, 09:42 PM »
Great pics, so guys guard your collections safely
i only summoned 54 action figures from vintage time
but i will buy some of the rest if I could.

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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #66 on: October 8, 2012, 02:38 PM »
I have a MOC R2-D2 and C-3PO that my dad saved.  Of course my mom cut out the upc for the Boba Fett but I still have them with a hole in the back.  Every other Star Wars toy from my childhood was sold around 1988.

Finally took some pictures last week.


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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #67 on: October 8, 2012, 03:33 PM »
My first Star Wars figure was that R2-D2. I found him at Thrifty when my dad and I went in for ice cream after picking out a Christmas tree outside.
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #68 on: October 8, 2012, 11:14 PM »
I have a MOC R2-D2 and C-3PO that my dad saved.  Of course my mom cut out the upc for the Boba Fett but I still have them with a hole in the back.  Every other Star Wars toy from my childhood was sold around 1988.

Wow Spider! I have built up a lot of vintage carded figures over the years, but I don't have any from when I was a kid.  Very cool to have two nearly mint versions of the droids from your actual childhood.  Thanks for sharing.
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #69 on: October 9, 2012, 02:15 PM »
Posted this elsewhere a few days ago...  Found these in grams attic this weekend.  Been digging around in her attic for 15 years.  Thought I found ALL my SW stuff I had as a kid over the years.  Guess not, and am pretty excited...neat little find:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v212/bobafett14/?action=view&current=IMAG0464-1.jpg&newest=1#!oZZ1QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fsmg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv212%2Fbobafett14%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DIMAG0465.jpg%26newest%3D1

Sweet!
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #70 on: October 9, 2012, 09:24 PM »
The only vintage items that I still have from when I was a child are a Bespin Luke figure, Boba Fett figure, Darth Vader figure, & Yoda with orange snake.  I won't get into how I lost all my other childhood vintage items because it's too painful...   
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #71 on: November 28, 2012, 12:19 PM »
I finally unpacked my vintage collection. It's in our bedroom. I'm still working on finding all the guns. The BSG figures have their accessories.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/phruby/Office/021-1.jpg

A year later.. but tell me about the unpainted Yarna?  Looks like Ryan's mold but I've never seen one that wasn't painted.

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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #72 on: November 28, 2012, 12:20 PM »
Vintage from when I was a kid... these two figures are all that's left:




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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #73 on: December 4, 2012, 09:27 AM »
Neim Nunb looks well loved.
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Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« Reply #74 on: February 15, 2013, 08:05 PM »
I still have quite a bit of my childhood figures and ships.  Most are well played with condition.  But I have a Darth Vader case and a case full.  A few mini-rigs and ships.  The X-wing is the saddest of the bunch.