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Title: Collection Losses
Post by: CHEWIE on June 19, 2006, 02:40 PM
Just wondering... has anyone ever "lost" stuff that you never could find again?  Or somehow threw stuff away on accident?

I am 99.99% sure that all of my POP's for the VSTC figures got thrown out by my wife.  Here is what I had -

Scout Trooper - 12 POP's
Tusken Raider - 6 POP's
Luke X-Wing - 4 POP's
Han Solo - 4 POP's
Greedo - 2 POP's

I had them all in a nice little stack on the coffee table, and I think in the shuffle of 3-weeks worth of mail, it got mixed in and thrown away.

Pretty frustrating.

 :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Roton7 on June 19, 2006, 04:24 PM
Yet you still end the post with a smiely face--what an optimist!

The only thing I recall losing is my TPM Naboo Padme in the car.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: CHEWIE on June 19, 2006, 05:18 PM
I really didn't need them too bad, as I think the Lucas figure is kind of lame considering they used the Commtech Stormie body.  But I had planned on getting at least one and helping others with the POP's, but oh well.

 :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Jayson on June 19, 2006, 05:24 PM
The only thing I ever remember losing was the Vintage Jawa blaster down in the bowels of my parents couch (when I was a little kid). I searched and searched amidst the cookie crumbs and dog hair, but for the life of me I couldn't find it.  :'(
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: evenflow on June 19, 2006, 05:44 PM
I remember losing my vitnage Amanaman staff as a kid. About 10 years later I found it mixed in with my Masters of the Universe Eternia playset  ;D
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Clone Hunter on June 19, 2006, 07:49 PM
Eternia??????? Now that things was AWESOME!!

My Cloud City Capture Chewie fell from a shelf and his blaster went........???

Chewie, I have extra scouts pop if you want one. Anyone really, I have 6?
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: speedermike on June 19, 2006, 08:01 PM
Sly Moore fell from a shelf two years ago, and for the life of me I can't find her gun.  However, next month we are converting my studio into a third bedroom and the room will be stripped down to nothing.  I'm hoping it shows then.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: CHEWIE on June 19, 2006, 08:46 PM
Actually, a few weeks ago I found my Zam Wesell on the ground and can't find her damn arm.

 :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Diddly on June 19, 2006, 09:13 PM
I lost the stand to that Saga Watto. I think the Vaccum got it. I've also lost one of Djas Purr's blasters.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Dressel Rebel on June 19, 2006, 09:32 PM
This is why I caution people against having wives.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Darth_Anton on June 19, 2006, 10:07 PM
I lost one of the gun shields from the modern At-At and a gun to the Lego Gunship. Lost lots of stuff as a kid (although I became a Nazi about keeping track eventually) and had a small amount of stuff "borrowed" by kids down the street. One noteable theft, the hands to our original Optimus Prime.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: MetalJedi on June 19, 2006, 10:27 PM
I lost the lightsaber to my ROTS Holo Yoda. He fell off my shelf and it was never found again. Not a total loss since he never used his saber in a holo transmission.  :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Dressel Rebel on June 19, 2006, 10:31 PM
In an apartment I rented in Boston for one year the pistol in POTJ Zutton's holster fell to the floor and I could not find it despite an exhaustive search.  When i moved out of my apartment, and I mean when I had just about every last thing out of there and into the new place, I was walking around barefoot, spackling all the thumbtack holes in the walls where my carded figs were hanging, when I felt something stuck under my toes as I walked.

Don't piss him off.  Zutton is armed again.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: P-Siddy on June 19, 2006, 11:40 PM
I had a vintage Cloud Car pilot when I was a kid. I used to play with him all the time along with the rest of them. One day, I couldn't find him. He wasn't in my case or in the usual places. I was upset. Then I went to my neighbor, who collects SW figs and he hadn't recently acquired one as well... made me wonder....  >:(

Shoulda force choked him and did the Jedi mind trick on him and brought the pilot back to Cloud City.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: CloneCommander1 on June 19, 2006, 11:50 PM
Dropped an evo Maul, never saw his saber again...
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: CHEWIE on June 20, 2006, 12:41 AM
It's funny how you can drop a figure, or one falls off a shelf and the weapons are just gone...

The funniest damn thing happened tonight too.  A friend came over and we were in my Star Wars room talking about stuff, and I pointed out that the Zam Wesell figure's arm was missing, that she had fallen over and her arm disappeared...

Right then, he says "There it is."

There is a magnet at the end of the arm, and it was sticking to the shelf about a foot from the floor.  The shelves are metal.  Funny, especially since I just ordered a new Zam Wesell last week.

 :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: ruiner on June 20, 2006, 11:45 AM
My son somtimes asks to play with my figures and for the life of me, I can't say no.  After he goes to bed I recover the figures and place them back on the shelves.

His favorite figure (now) is the animated CW Dooku - well lo and behold, you can guess what happened.


I must've forgotten to recover the figure because now I can't find him anywhere.  The thing with Chase is he likes to "hide" his toys.  We're talking plants, closets, magazine baskets - crazy places.

Oh well, could've been worse I guess - could have been a missing shock trooper or VOTC stomie!

 :D

Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: IncomT65 on June 20, 2006, 02:03 PM
I remember losing Yoda's cane back '85 or something  :-[. Apparently it got sucked in by the vacuum cleaner. My mom even turned the whole thing inside out, but the Lost Cane was never seen again...

And I lost some more vintage weapons, like both pikes of my two Royal Guards. They broke in two and glueing didn't work.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Jayson on June 20, 2006, 02:20 PM
Shoulda force choked him and did the Jedi mind trick on him and brought the pilot back to Cloud City.

Forget that... he deserved a punch in the stomach and a hair pull followed by the dreaded "typewriter"  :P
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Darth Broem on June 21, 2006, 02:16 PM
Well this is all to common of a story.  But my mom, when I was younger of course, decided to purge my closet of some toys for a garage without asking my permission.  She ended up selling my complete vintage 12 inch IG-88 and Boba Fett.  But of course left my rag-tag 12 inch Chewie with one arm dangling on it's rubber band by a thread.   

I was mad about it then.  Then several years ago I mentioned it to mom.  She saw much both had shot up on the secondary market.  At that time Boba was over $100 and IG-88 was over $300.  This was before Ebay. 

Anyway, my mom and dad bought me both figures for me shortly after that.  Pretty cool on their part I thought :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Rob on June 21, 2006, 03:23 PM
When my girlfriend decided to go to graduate school, we put a desk underneath my main loose figure shelf area. 

Figures fall off all the time - if you close the door too quickly, after a dusting or re-arranging etc...

So anyway, one time one fell and I found the gun but couldn't find the figure anywhere.  I assumed it had fallen under the bed or something.


A day later, he turns up - at the bottom of a coffee mug, limbs stained brown as hell, torso fresh white.

Had to toss that one.

Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Brian on June 21, 2006, 03:27 PM
A lot of the vintage stuff I lost through the years when it wasn't with me in college - when my younger brother inherited stuff while I was away.  I actually used to keep all my weapons in those little cases included at the end of the Chewbacca bandolier figure holder dealie.  I'm sure I lost a couple, but for the most part, I kept them in there.  When I came back and picked up/dug out my Star Wars stuff - not a weapon was to be found, and there were a couple figures missing here and there too.  Most are in really played with condition, but its still fun to hang onto them.  I've had weird stories of modern stuff falling off shelves and weapons flying to God knows where.  They usually show up eventually, but it will be in the strangest places sometimes.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Gatillo on June 21, 2006, 04:12 PM
I have lost a lot of weapons that eventually turn up.  But there are two things I have never recoved.  1st and most important is my Vintage AT-AT.  When I came to the states for college it was in my bedroom.  A few years later it was not. That was the only vintage vehicle that survived my childhood and yet it did not survive the college years.  I have pieces of playsets but that is about it.

Also the little green missle from the AOTC clone pilot's turret that you can hook up to a gunship.  I have 4 pilots and all 4 turrets are on two gunships.  I lost one of the rockets 2 years ago and I still cannot find it.  I know it is something insignificant but it really chaps my...
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: CHEWIE on June 21, 2006, 04:47 PM
Actually, I remember about a year ago, I noticed one of the front guns on my AOTC Gunship was missing... that pissed me off royally.  Eventually one day when rearranging a diorama, I found it on the other side of the room.  I guess the spring action on the gun went off.

 :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: iFett on June 21, 2006, 07:36 PM
If I recall correctly, the Emperor was offered as a mail away figure for ROTJ, no?  Be that as it may I remember bringing him with me for show & tell or whatever it was called in kindergarten and I lost his cane 3 or 4 times that day out in the playground which kept me frustrated for most of the day until I lost it for the last time in the grass when I ultimately gave up on finding it again.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Ook on June 21, 2006, 07:51 PM
I just broke my POTFII Hammerhead's neck this month, after I got TSC HH. :'(
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Gatillo on June 21, 2006, 09:19 PM
on purpose?  I know the new HH is a much better sculpt but for nostalgic reasons I am keeping the old one. 
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Ook on June 21, 2006, 09:47 PM
on purpose?  I know the new HH is a much better sculpt but for nostalgic reasons I am keeping the old one. 

No, I loved him. I think his neck joint was always stiff; I'm not actually sure that I didn't break in the past, but I definitely noticed it for the first time this month. I was comparing the 2 Hammerheads after buying the new one; I twisted too hard, trying to loosen that joint, and noticed a good tear in neck. :( I guess he'll live if I stop messing with his head. He can still hang out in the cantina. I might buy the retool/redeco that came with the stool, too. You can never have enough hammerhead cantina patrons. :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Famine on June 21, 2006, 11:33 PM
I guess the spring action on the gun went off.

"Baby, I swear this doesn't happen often!"

Kevin
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Ook on June 24, 2006, 11:37 AM
I guess he'll live if I stop messing with his head. He can still hang out in the cantina.

The head came off. :(
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Gatillo on June 24, 2006, 08:34 PM
DUDE :o


You just kept tugging at it until it did.  Have you no self control?
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Ook on June 28, 2006, 11:04 AM
Have you no self control?

I wish.

I glued his head on last night. Wish I'd've thought to try keeping the glue away from the torso, leaving just the ends of the neck post stuck back together; his head might actually swivel now. That would've been a satisfying irony.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: CHEWIE on June 29, 2006, 01:52 PM
You know, you could just use that old Hammerhead for a custom.  I've made a few figures using that old sculpt and I've seen a lot of other customizers come up with some really creative customs.

If you really need one though, I am pretty sure I have a few extras.

 :)
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Artoo on June 29, 2006, 06:22 PM
My cat knocked over my four arm Greivous never saw a blue saber again,so he looks like he 's not using one of the sabers. Also lost TSC Anakin's non-holding saber hand. Also Evo Mual's bionoculars.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Nathan on June 30, 2006, 04:41 AM
Years and years ago I lost the combined rifle/backpack thingie from Dash Rendar. I'm thinking it's behind my dresser or some piece of furniture in my room, but it's never seemed worth the effort to do the serious excavating of turning the place inside out for it. I'm fairly confident it will turn up someday.

It wouldn't surprise me if I'm missing a few guns and missiles too.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Ook on June 30, 2006, 06:03 AM
My cat knocked over my four arm Greivous never saw a blue saber again,so he looks like he 's not using one of the sabers.

The hilt broke in half on one of mine. I think I've glued it twice.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Artoo on June 30, 2006, 10:47 PM
Once I get the GB Dooku & some Sep leaders I may give him my SP Greivous saber.
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Fritzkrieg on July 12, 2006, 11:46 PM
A few years back my roomate's cat chewed the cannons off of my Trade Federation Tank. I hate cats >:(
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Bobafett77 on July 14, 2006, 11:02 AM
My cat took my OTC Dagobah Luke's handstand head off my computer desk and I haven't seen it since. I tried to grab it from him but he growled and ran off. I think he ate it! :o
Title: Re: Collection Losses
Post by: Gatillo on July 14, 2006, 04:02 PM
Check that litter box. :P