Latest vintage acquisition

[Rob]

No secret, just eBay.  After ten years of wanting to, I decided this is the year I spend a small fortune to try to finish.  I have about 25 or 30 more items on the list.  It’s pricey, but I figure it’s only going to get worse if I keep waiting.

The main list is:
Sise Fromm
Tig Fromm
Droids C-3PO
Thall Joben
Uncle Gundy
Kez-Iban
Jann Tosh
Cartoon Ewoks Wicket

Vehicles-wise I still need an Imperial Shuttle, Battle Damaged X-Wing and a B-Wing.

Then there’s that Ewok Battle Wagon, a bunch of bland play sets that I don’t care
Too much about, and the five or so mini-rigs that are less produced and run anywhere from like $200 to $400 each. 

Oh, and I need a split belly Taun Taun. 

[Dave]

Impressive. 

I've got infinitely further to go than you do, but I've had the same feeling lately as I've stepped back from new 6" figures and there just aren't that many new TVC items. 

I've picked up a few vintage items that are somewhat expensive off of eBay, but at this point its more interesting than what TVC has coming down the pike.

[Rob]

Yeah agreed.  Lackluster modern offerings have definitely been a part of the change in focus.  I'm stying current on modern stuff, but there's been less of it and I'd rather get the only figures (literally) that I don't have from Droids and Ewoks rather than army build at $18 a piece. 

Discovering the Stan Solo and Pro Custom Figures stuff also made vintage fun somehow for me.  I'm nearly caught up on those. 

[Rob]

Jann Tosh showed up today.  The list is Wicket, Thall Joben, Sise Fromm, Tig Fromm, Kez-Iban, C-3PO (low priority, I have a reproduction for now), and Uncle Gundy.

[Rob]

Working my way down this list still... Battle Damaged X-Wing got here on Friday...

[Matt_Fury]

That X-wing is in great shape!  Do the electronics work?

[Rob]

Not sure, but I don't think so.  I don't even usually bother to ask, I don't ever really want to put batteries in these things anyway.

[Matt_Fury]

You should at least test them.  I restored my vintage Snow speeder because I had a battery explode in it.  The sound mechanisms are fairly simple and are surprisingly resilient.  The only question might be the light in the nose.

[Rob]

Kez-Iban got here just now... the entire list of figures I know I don't have is down to:

Droids Sise Fromm
Droids Tig Fromm
Droids Droids C-3PO
Droids Thall Joben
Droids Uncle Gundy
Ewoks Wicket
Kenner Brown Hair Luke
Kenner Brown Snake Yoda

And I've got a Brown Hair Luke in the mail...

[McMetal]

Do you have orange hair Luke, Rob?

[Rob]

I don't. 

Seems those come up pretty rarely and are really pricey.  I could see myself trying to add one once I get through the rest of the Droids / Ewoks list.  But right now it's not on my radar.

I did get that Brown Hair Luke yesterday though.   

[Rob]

Welp... here he is, Sise Fromm.  This is the most expensive figure I've ever bought, and hopefully the most expensive figure I ever will buy.

[Matt_Fury]

I always thought Vlix was the most expensive from that line.

[Dave]

I always thought Vlix was the most expensive from that line.

Does Vlix even count?  I kinda consider him like Rocket Fett.  Sure it was distributed, but the numbers are so small that getting one is not realistic without dropping $20k.

That is a figure that if I wanted it represented in my collection, and didn't win the lottery - I'd just buy a custom/repro and call it good.

[Rob]

Personally I don't count Vlix.  It's unobtainable as far as I'm concernend.  There is one on eBay right now on the card and they want $45,000 for it.

I bought the Mark Poon customs for that and that will do.

I've read that only about 2,000 of them ever got sold.  That to me doesn't count as the figure having been released.