Hey all. Many of you probably have seen my setup on RS but as I'm new here, I figured I'd contribute by posting some photos of my Star Wars room. I just got done with cleaning and straightening so the camera came out seeing as things are looking neat and tidy once again. Enjoy!

WHOAH!!

Dude that's kickass! First off, the Wampa wallpaper on the Mac is hysterical ! I dont know where to begin. Love the POTF Yak/Anakin , the Fett Cell, the mailers, I could go on and on.

Great stuff and great to see you here.

I believe I commented on this before on another site and think it is AWESOME! Beautiful room and I really think you did a great job my friend.
-Steve

Fantastic displays! I love the wallpaper and curtains you have up to compliment everything.

Great collection and very well displayed.

Thanks for sharing , Bobby!

Curious, what are your current collection goals?

Is that just an ornamental Chewbacca head or is it a mask?

Either way it's cool, I'd like one.

I love collections like this with a bit of everything in it from Moc to boxed to oddball

Are there any more boxed items on your wishlist? Like some foreign licenses for example?

The curtains are a great touch and I noticed the cool SW record tote on your desk too. Any nice records in that?

Thanks for sharing here +1

Very nice collection. It is well displayed and very clean looking. The early bird set and ESB Droid Factory are my faves..

Awesome Bobby. Great collection, well organised. What are the coins in the cabinet?

Thanks for the feedback folks. I'll do a round of answers here.

- The Chewbacca head you see is one of the earlier Don Post masks. It was one of my earlier collecting acquisitions. My father starting asking people where he worked if they had an Star Wars stuff and a coworker of his had it lying around at home. I was 12 years old. I called him, made a deal, and rode my bike 15 miles to his house to get it. The start of many a wheeling-dealing toy trip....

-The coins in the cabinet are my Droids and Ewoks coins, plus the small Luke prototype coin. I'm still looking for a Fett Droids coin to complete that set.

-As far as current collecting goals so, I'm looking to get some work done on my Japanese '78 bottle cap set. I only have 2 right now. I'd also like to round out and polish a few other aspects of my collection: finish my set of unpainted Micros, snag the appropriate Kenner baggie for the R2 in my Early Bird mailer, upgrade a few of my MOC figures. I'd also really like to score a nice, unused ROTJ vinyl carrying case.

-As far as foreign licenses are concerned, I'd really like to eventually land a nice trilogo Leia Hoth....for obvious reasons. It's totally rad. I've also been considering integrating one MOC figure from each foreign (to U.S.) licenses into my carded set. I think it would be a neat way to showcase the various MOC offerings while also reflecting the worldwide appeal that this toy line had.

-Not too many more boxed items on my radar at the moment. This is really all the space that I have available for display so bigger boxed items really don't work with my collection right now. The only other thing I'd like to add to the display is my Palitoy Death Star. I have a great display base for it but need to order an acrylic hemisphere to go over it. Once I get that together, things will be tightened up just the way I want them.

BobbySharp wrote:

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-As far as foreign licenses are concerned, I'd really like to eventually land a nice trilogo Leia Hoth....for obvious reasons. It's totally rad. I've also been considering integrating one MOC figure from each foreign (to U.S.) licenses into my carded set. I think it would be a neat way to showcase the various MOC offerings while also reflecting the worldwide appeal that this toy line had.

Hey hey , back off dude. I don't need the competition

Really nice collection
thanks for sharing

Hi Bobby,

Can you please tell me about your display cases? Did you purchase these as they are or did you make some modifications to them? They're fantastic! Can you tell me how I can acquire them?

The quality & diversity of the items keep me looking at the pictures over & over again
Now where are the 'basement find' pictures?

I have seen your setup on RS before, Bobby! It's a great display and because I love MOC the most I really enjoy your POTF Anakin and POTF Yak Face.

Welcome to TIG!

grabes1980 wrote:

Hi Bobby,

Can you please tell me about your display cases? Did you purchase these as they are or did you make some modifications to them? They're fantastic! Can you tell me how I can acquire them?

All the fixtures in the room are from IKEA, mostly the BILLY system. All the display cases are BILLYs including the narrow and shorter ones. I swapped out the included wood shelves for glass ones, installed NON lights, and added on the MOREBO glass doors. The small computer desk is also from IKEA but I can't immediately recall the specific design.

I really like the BILLY stuff. The cabinets are only 11" deep which keeps items from being buried behind other things like you might see in deeper showcases. The system is also versatile as the various sizes of the cases, doors, and other BILLY offerings makes it easy to adapt to any room. Best yet, it's very affordable. I think each full-sized case with glass shelves, doors, and lights will run you just a few bucks over $200 (U.S.). Other showcases that size (if bought new) can run much, much more. All told, I only have about $1200 worth of fixtures in the room.

One issue that I did have with them is that with the glass doors installed, the cases are extremely front-heavy. So much so that the case will simply topple over with both doors open. The doors weigh quite a bit. I had the cases set up for about a year before I purchased the doors so I had to anchor them into the wall studs permanently. IKEA does give you some anchoring hardware with each BILLY case but it's a small, rinky-dink little thing so I purchased my own anchoring hardware.

aussiejames wrote:

The quality & diversity of the items keep me looking at the pictures over & over again
Now where are the 'basement find' pictures?

Heh heh. The diversity of items is a direct result of me being unable to develop any specific focus over the years. My collecting decisions have been fueled mostly by a love of the toys, a tendency to collect smaller sets of things that display well, items with which I have a direct nostalgic connection, and the oddball category of things I consider too cool not to own. I've never been a "collect everything" kind of guy, but certainly a "collect many different kinds of things" guy.

Impresive collection and very clean display , i like it !!
I really would love to own one of those Early bird mailer ...one day!!
thanks for sharing Bobby!!
BTW wellcome to TIG
Cheers
Javi

A very impressive collection and a clean tidy looking well laid out display room, well done and keep up the good work.

Gorneesh wrote:

A very impressive collection and a clean tidy looking well laid out display room, well done and keep up the good work.

My Early Bird mailer was a part Frankenstein, part rescue project. I had a bagged DT Luke for quite some time before I ended up purchasing another set of EB figures from someone that had them as a kid. The only ones he opened were Luke and the R2. Leia and Chewie were still bagged but the tray/box was long gone. Another box and tray I got years later. I ran an ad for buying collections and got a call from a woman who lived near me. While I was looking over her small selection of toys, I noticed the mailer box in a wastebasket near the table on which everything was set out. It was getting tossed with the rubbish!

BobbySharp wrote:

My Early Bird mailer was a part Frankenstein, part rescue project. I had a bagged DT Luke for quite some time before I ended up purchasing another set of EB figures from someone that had them as a kid. The only ones he opened were Luke and the R2. Leia and Chewie were still bagged but the tray/box was long gone. Another box and tray I got years later. I ran an ad for buying collections and got a call from a woman who lived near me. While I was looking over her small selection of toys, I noticed the mailer box in a wastebasket near the table on which everything was set out. It was getting tossed with the rubbish!

Wow. What a great story. Very nice collection, diverse and well displayed. Love the POTF Anakin and Yak Face, welcome to TIG

Have you given any thought to a name , I mean Gus has the bobacabana , Sansweet has rancho obi wan ..... maybe the Sharplac pit ?


Great updates , the pics look good but when I stopped by ... well I am still in awe . Outside of the collection itself , really dig the new set up though !

Gotta grab a beer soon , I'll bake a vader cake haha

A truly awesome Display there!

You have so much of everything that the display has something for everyone to like!

There's so much to see I don't know where to start but Kudos for the Early Bird set! ... it still on my bucket list to aquire for my mailers. hopefully you can get the correct baggie soon to complete it.

I love the fact that you managed to display everything so cleanly too. Well done and thanks for Sharing!

Always a pleasure to see this collection and display. You can see you really put some effort into it.
And of course, the wallpaper rocks

Eric Taylor wrote:

Have you given any thought to a name , I mean Gus has the bobacabana , Sansweet has rancho obi wan ..... maybe the Sharplac pit ?


Great updates , the pics look good but when I stopped by ... well I am still in awe . Outside of the collection itself , really dig the new set up though !

Gotta grab a beer soon , I'll bake a vader cake haha

Eric, I'm on summer break so lets make that beer happen. No name for the collection. Gus and Steve have names...but those fellas' collections are a bit more prolific than mine. Heh heh.