It's time for another update of me. Here's a few new additions to my POCH/PBP collection....



1.Dengar (POCH) - Mixed Family Legs from COO's #1 and #2 Both of which are marked ©1980 LFL!! Plus some well dodgy paint work.
2.Darth Vader (POCH) - Not the most exciting of variants but the below image highlights some of the typical POCH traits.
3.Princess Leia Organa (POCH) - Melt marks, poor sonic welding, pale hands and a PENIS!!!





4.Snowtrooper (PBP) - This was part of a Christmas display in my local vintage collectables shop. The owner made me wait till he'd changed his display over which wasn't that bad is he only asked for a tenner for this super minty PBP snowtrooper!!
5.Han Trench Coat (Kenner) - Another variant I'd somehow never bothered to look for but managed to pick up off SWFUK. I'm not sure what collectors call him but the face sculpt is more "simple" on these COO#2's compared to the COO#1's.

Nice additions.

Nice Stef , dengar and leia poch are 2 I still need ....  awesome

can you take a pic of vaders head close up front and back , your looks a bit different than my poch vader

.... and I always heard the han trenchcoat refered to as the soft sculpt .

Stef - nice new loosies. Love the camo lapel Han and you got a bargain with the minty-looking Snowtrooper  

Yzerman wrote:

Artoo_Detour wrote:

Nice pickups!

Tommy - cracking posters with great art. I haven't seen those before, were they part of a promotion or the type you'd sometimes see displayed and rolled up for sale in shops back in day?

Thanks for the comments about the posters, guys!

I haven't researched the posters so much. I think the ROTJ might have been an in-store bonus gift or a poster you could order through the fan club.

The two smaller posters from ANH are promotion ones from Proctor & Gamble. Perhaps you had to buy something to get them. I don't know. I haven't done my research  

Tommy, I found some info on the posters on an auction site from 2015: https://www.vintagemovieposters.co.uk/shop/star-wars-proctor-and-gamble-1-of-3/

been looking for a really clean meccano death star droid for years .....
BUT that's just not gonna happen with this variant as they all seem to be beat to hell....

so my no coo raised blank bar meccano death star droid
at least he was cheap

Mine looks almost like that and I still paid $100 US to get it. Just a hard to find figure and when they come round you better be ready to grab it because others are in line. At least they have been, but it seems like variant hunters are more interested in the Spanish lines or the ledy line than these few French figures (myself included). I have chased down the full ledy lineup, but still don't have the meccano luke, rebel soldier, etc...

Nice one Bill, those DSD are a bitch to find in the wild, although didn't I see that one on eBAY?

it was actually , I talked the seller down which was cool of him . mine is just so beat up but they all are aren't they . Bryan does yours stand up? stef? mine the limbs are the loosest of any figure I own . hes just leaning basically in the back in my display. as far as being "focused" im am absolutely not , I just grab whatever variants I can that interest me . I do feel some people are just jackasses these days , anyone see the dark brown rebel soldier that's above 1400 us on ebay ... idiots

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anyone see the dark brown rebel soldier that's above 1400 us

crazy thing is one sold on ebay 3 days ago for £395.00 !!!!!!!

No mine wont stand on his own either. Easily one of the loosest jointed figures I have. I use those doll stands for these loose ones think they are called Kaiser doll stands?

The dark brown rebel soldier is another one I really want, but I cant force myself to pay those kind of prices. Wasn't even a year ago they were selling around $250. Then suddenly it seemed they jumped to ridiculous amounts. Same thing happened to ledy for a while, the burgundy bib and red squid head are both still high in that line. I don't buy much of anything star wars now days as prices are killing my collectables wallet.

Artoo_Detour wrote:

Stef - nice new loosies. Love the camo lapel Han and you got a bargain with the minty-looking Snowtrooper  

Yzerman wrote:

Artoo_Detour wrote:

Nice pickups!

Tommy - cracking posters with great art. I haven't seen those before, were they part of a promotion or the type you'd sometimes see displayed and rolled up for sale in shops back in day?

Thanks for the comments about the posters, guys!

I haven't researched the posters so much. I think the ROTJ might have been an in-store bonus gift or a poster you could order through the fan club.

The two smaller posters from ANH are promotion ones from Proctor & Gamble. Perhaps you had to buy something to get them. I don't know. I haven't done my research  

Tommy, I found some info on the posters on an auction site from 2015: https://www.vintagemovieposters.co.uk/shop/star-wars-proctor-and-gamble-1-of-3/

Thanks for the info! I will try to find the third one with Vader and Obi-Wan

hellhippie wrote:

Nice Stef , dengar and leia poch are 2 I still need ....  awesome

can you take a pic of vaders head close up front and back , your looks a bit different than my poch vader

.... and I always heard the han trenchcoat refered to as the soft sculpt .

Bill, he's an album with some pics of vaders helmet

https://imgur.com/a/9Xabw/all

Stef is it possible that this is a hybrid with maybe Kenner parts? The reason I ask is it is thought that the poch Vader has a head with an epm on the rear.

http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t4427p285-the-poch-pbp-guide-discussion-thread-part-one#85447

http://swspaceclub.com/wbobafett/poch/poch-variants/darth-vader/

walkie wrote:

hellhippie wrote:

Nice Stef , dengar and leia poch are 2 I still need ....  awesome

can you take a pic of vaders head close up front and back , your looks a bit different than my poch vader

.... and I always heard the han trenchcoat refered to as the soft sculpt .

Bill, he's an album with some pics of vaders helmet  

https://imgur.com/a/9Xabw/all

cheers stef , your photography skills are always amazing ...

on another note my poch vaders head is different for sue , mine has the epm in the back but its not as
'chewed" up as wolff describes in his guide either as always poch variants never cease to amaze and intrigue me

I checked over but Marco's & Wolff's write ups. Guides are guides at the end of the day and the subject matter (POCH) is a tricky one before we even start.

It's widely thought that POCH imported parts from HK so why the saber and head on the Vaders would be "chewed up" or "rough" doesn't really make sense to me. Now I haven't had chance to compare my POCH Vader to a Kenner one of the same COO as I don't own one, so the first question is do all the Kenner one's in this family have the EPM mark on the back of the head?

As for my example it came from Spain and has the following traits...

Correct COO = Y
Meltmarks = Y
"Penis" between legs = Y
Unique Cape = N (Mine appears to be a Kenner with zipping)
EPM on back of head = N
Tilted Head = Y

 not trying to star anything controversial here just getting some info as I don't know many that do own poch vaders .... thanks for the info ,

Mine has originated from spain as well.........


Correct COO = Y
Meltmarks = Y
"Penis" between legs = Y
Unique Cape = N (Mine appears to be a Kenner with zipping)
EPM on back of head =Y
Tilted Head = N

The body on mine also appears "violet-ish" in bright light

Sorry Bill I didn't mean to come across as rude or anything. Its my understanding that yes there are POCH hybrids like my dengrr with mixed up legs, but as to what makes a true POCH vader I'm not really sure.

Didn't mean to get anyone upset. I was just asking as I don't collect the Spanish line much anymore. Does Oscar have one? Someone might be able to reach out to him and see what he has to say if they desire to do so. Javi might also be willing to help out with an answer (to bad his book isn't out yet).

no one came off as rude no worries, it just seemed that I might have started a heated discusiion a bit , sorry for it really , poch is a bitch for sure , just seeing who else has what and what he variations of figures are around. we are all friends here , didn't mean to hijack the recent purchases thread . perhaps the poch guide is where I should've asked questions and such

Nice addition, Bill!

What's next on the short list?

Edit: Although it's not vintage, I got this as a gift recently!

cool addition matt , by the way , what the hell is it ????

hellhippie wrote:

cool addition matt , by the way , what the hell is it ????

Hahaha.. I should've used a better angle. It's a sign/ wall display. I think I've seen them at the Hobby Lobby.

I was thinking some kind of wall art piece. I like these type of things even if they are modern.

Part new purchase, part original childhood Darth Vader tie fighter.  Bought a junker that had all the missing parts I needed and she is ready for battle again. Yes I foolishly bit the ends off of my lightsabers when I was a child because I thought they looked stupid with the ends.

Always awesome to have childhood toys become whole again. On the saber thing your not alone. I am sure many removed the small ends or they broke off over time.