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Collectibles => Past Hasbro 3.75" Lines => Power of the Force 2 => Topic started by: Nathan on July 15, 2005, 04:00 PM
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I got the idea from CorranHorn's analogous thread in the Vintage forum. Obviously this is a question for us younger collectors.
I think I still have all the toys I had as a kid. Somewhat arbitrarily I'm going to declare "pre-2000" as my "childhood" period. I've been accumulating (it wasn't really "collecting" at first) SW toys pretty much continuously since 1995 or 6, so it's hard to pin down an exact cutoff point--not like the people who stopped and then resumed many years later.
I was 13 when TPM came out, somewhere around when I stopped seriously playing with the SW toys. To be sure, I still open them and mess with the action features and have supercool lightsaber battles between Mace Windu and Darth Vader, but it just ain't the same anymore. :-\
Plus I picked up some neat loot in the mythic Great Toys R Us Purge of 2000. I will count those as well since mentally they're pretty tough to extricate from the others.
Anyway, here we go:
Orange card series
Boba Fett (my first SW action figure actually)
C-3PO (was later painted silver to replicate the Cloud City "Go shove it" droid. ;))
Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight)
Luke Skywalker (X-Wing Fighter Pilot Gear)
R2-D2
R5-D4
Deluxe Crowd Control Stormtrooper
Deluxe Han Solo
Deluxe Luke with Tatooine skiff thingie
Luke's Landspeeder
Death Star Escape Playset - 1996
Shadows of the Empire
Dash Rendar (still one of my fave figures)
Leia (Boussh Disguise)
Green card series, FF, Flashbacks, etc.
ASP-7 Droid
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi
Emperor's Royal Guard
EV-9D9
Hoth Rebel Soldier (beard)
Malakili (Rancor Keeper)
Saelt-Marae (Yak Face)
Weequay
Flashback Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Hood Up)
Flashback Darth Vader (Double Cape)
TRU Millennium Minted Coin Emperor Palpatine
Jabba the Hutt w/Han Solo
Ronto w/Jawa
Expanded Universe Concept speeder bike
Endor Luke with speeder bike (could have been orange card or post-2000, not really sure)
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I was an adult when they came out... So, I'm not quite sure how to answer this question. ???
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Then go away. ;) This thread is for those of us who were kids when the POTF2 came out. :P
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Good Grief! Kids these days and manners... :-\
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I was trying to be humorous. Thus the smilies. Sorry if I offended. :-\
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Also, trying to be funny... :-*
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D'oh ... I thought that might be the case, but I wanted to err on the side of caution. Sorry for the confusion. :)
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Runs about in confused amokness..
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D'oh ... I thought that might be the case, but I wanted to err on the side of caution. Sorry for the confusion. :)
It's all good! Now... back to the topic. I didn't have any when I was a kid, but I have a couple now. ;D
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Cool to know that I inspired a thread. :D
I'm too old to answer the question, my first POTF2 figure was a C-3PO I got for my 18th birthday. I am curious though to know how you younger guys felt when finding POTF2 figures. Based on Valin's first post, you were about 9 or so when the POTF2 line first came out, so you had no exposure to the vintage line in stores (except for the clearanced stuff that laid around). Were you excited to find SW toys at the store for the first time in your life? To me of course it was like seeing an old friend back in the limelight again...
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LOL, I think I was 28 when I started collecting this line :-*
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Hmm, I will have to pass on this thread also as I am now 40, and was an adult back then.
I will say one thing that was nice about the end of the line. When TRU got in cases of stuff and put it on clearance prices back in like 99 or 98!
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I'm in kind of a gray area here... I was 15 when the line started - and I bought them all. But within a few weeks I decided that they weren't for play and that I was collecting them.
So essentially I have them all still...
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Based on Valin's first post, you were about 9 or so when the POTF2 line first came out, so you had no exposure to the vintage line in stores (except for the clearanced stuff that laid around). Were you excited to find SW toys at the store for the first time in your life?
Frankly I couldn't tell you--I assume I was. This was about the same time that I became interested in the SW films, so it wasn't as if I was a fan from a very young age, and had been wishing for new figures. At the time I don't think I realized it was a "new" and special thing to have the toys readily available.
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I was about 6 when POTF2 came out, and here are the ones I still have:
Figures:
Tusken Raider
Endor Han
CommTech Stormtrooper
Deluxe:
Mandolorian RocketPack Boba Fett
Vehicles:
EU SOTE Swoop Bike w/ Imperial Swoop Trooper
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I've kept all the Star Wars things (thankfully) since I was a kid.
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Ahh, my old POTF2 figures. Also known as "the majority of my present collection." :(
I say the card type to specify era; these are all loose of course, some with joint and paintwear.
Orange Card:
"Buff" Luke "Shwartzineggar" Skywalker (He's missing his grappling hook gun)
Luke Skywalker in Snowsp- err, X-Wing gear (why are the gloves and boots white and the suit so thickly padded, hmm?)
Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker (still one of my favorites; I got one with the darker vest and black cloak. He has high heels though...)
R2-D2
"Karate-wielding Superman" Han Solo
Han Solo in Carbonite
"Steroid Victim" Darth Vader
"Kevin Sorbo in Wookie Disguise" Chewbacca
C3PO
"Hangin' at the Gym" Lando Calrissian
Boba Fett (poor Fett; I lost his cape/braids and his antenna broke off :( )
Obi Wan "Ben" Kenobi
"Monkeyface" Leia Organa (actually, she came on a green card because I couldn't find her for the longest time and got a reprint later in the run)
Stormtrooper (one came on a Green Card actually) X2
TIE Fighter Pilot (don't remember the cards) X2
Green Card:
Lando Calrissian in General Gear (for some reason I like him, but... obviously he's a bit flawed, eh?)
Lando Calrissian in Skiff Guard Disguise
Han Solo in Endor Trenchcoat (blue pants version)
Han Solo in Hoth Gear
Luke Skywalker in Hoth Gear (still a favorite)
Luke Skywalker in Dagobah Fatigues
Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper disguise (what possessed me to make a kitbash from this figure?...)
"Escape the Death Star" game Luke in Stormtrooper Disguise
"Escape the Death Star" game Darth Vader (with removeable helmet part, turning right wrist, and swiveling right elbow)
Grand Moff Tarkin
Jawas x4 (that is to say, 2 cards' worth, since they were 2-packs)
R5-D4 (I loved him for being R5-D4, but I somehow forgot the scene where Luke was starting to take him home, only to have the droid split in two as a giant missile launched from his core...)
Admiral Ackbar
Nien Nunb
EV9D9
Tusken Raider X2 (this is the only POTF2 figure I still have one of MOC actually; though the card's far from mint)
Weequay (Skiff Guard)
Emporer Palpatine (still one of the best sculpts of the evil old geezer, IMO, and great for the parts when he was standing)
Cinema Scenes:
Jedi Spirits (Anakin, Obi Wan, Yoda)
Vehicles:
Electronic X-Wing (the first one, not the FX one)
Luke's Landspeeder
The Millenium Falcon (I saved allowance for a few months <3 The stickers never made it all on and many are peeling off now. Fitting Han and Chewie in the cockpit was... interesting, and didn't happen much. General Lando dreams of ever sort of fitting. Even now, the cockpit is empty...)
Boba Fett's Slave I
Leia's Speeder Bike (includes a Leia Endor Gear figure)
Bogus Scout Trooper on Speeder Bike with this revving mechanism thing
I pretty much have everything I had, except a few broken lightsabers and lost weapons and of course the paintwear on the orange figures. That is, until I decided to decapitate poor Stormtrooper Luke... he will be avenged! Or at least replaced...
I've bought a few POTF and EU figures in recent times, but they shouldn't really be mixed with this list. My newer old figures are:
Han Solo in Bespin Gear (always wanted one, but never could find him in stores)
Luke Skywalker in Ceremonial Gear
Flashback Luke Skywalker (with suave moisture farmin' gear- he goes great with the Landspeeder)
EU Grand Admiral Thrawn (a definate favorite)
EU Dark Empire Leia Organa Solo (she came loose and incomplete, so no cloak unfortunately)
And ripe for the kitbashing:
Commtech Han Solo
"All New Likeness" Leia Organa
EU Dark Jedi Luke Skywalker (actually, I plan to give him another Luke head after stealing the current one, and keeping him in my collection as a Dark Jedi Luke thereafter)
A second Buff Luke
Yep, that's my collection... sans a small group of Prequel figures (actually ROTS Vader is displayed with my original trilogy figures right now), my Evolutions Clones/Sandtroopers (the majority's "oh wow more armybuilders" is my major improvement of course; I had no clones before I bought these!) some TSC figures, and two POTJ figures.
"You'll find I'm full of surprises!" *falls backward to the ground and drops weapon within the next few seconds*
"Impressive... most impressive."
"Really?"
"NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
:)
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I was 3! :P
I stillhas figures though! ;D
I think I still have a PoFT2 Stormtrooper, its all discolored and dirty.
Darth vader was definite, ceremony luke, a load of others.
I also have vaders tie.