The_Dark_Artist wrote:

I agree. So many Blue Snags are touched up, especially on the boots. I think yours is great, just as is : )

Im with you TDA, couldnt agree more.

I go either way with the subject. I regarded him as a variant. Now I have one, he's a figure.

This one has a good head of hair (!) and a clear lightning bolt. The bits of wear elsewhere make me think he isn't touched up. I bought him from a poorly photographed/described auction so I got slightly better than I was expecting. He's now sitting inside an old SW Collectors Case alongside the first 21.

Nice! I love Blue Snags! It took me a little bit, but I absolutely believe he should be counted as his own figure, not just a variant. He is such an iconic figure for the line! Congrats!



After almost a month of waiting, I finally got a package in from Brasil today with this nice Glasslite Luke Farmboy!
He is in really nice shape, but not perfect including some factory paint blobs.
But I do love his saber! It is thicker, harder and longer than any other. lmfao..  
All kidding aside, it is very, very unique.

Here he is:



cheers!

Jay, Congrats on landing your lastest Luke has it seriously been a month since winning it?, how time fly's.

Does he have a bit more girth in the legs too?

I said 'girth'.  

chipsteak wrote:

Does he have a bit more girth in the legs too?

I said 'girth'.  

hahaha... no... but I had to laugh a bit more after I posted when I realized where the paint blobs were!

Well if you're gonna swing a lightsaber of that thickness, you need to have a sturdy base from which to do so!

Nice additions guys, loving the variety of items on show here!

Time for my own update for new acquisitions!

Both of these items have a strong bond with my childhood where I fondly recall slurping my way through numerous icy-poles on a hot Summer's day.





These are unused vintage Icy-pole wrappers produced by Pauls here in Australia and both featured mail away offers from Toltoys. There were four different Popsicle wrappers available, Orange - Chewbacca, Raspberry - Han, Lemonade - Luke, Pineapple - Leia. The Jedi Jelly only had the one version with Vader on it as far as I'm aware. I'm still a little uncertain about some of the details of the company though as I know that these Icy-poles and offers were available Australia wide but in some states it was Pauls that sold them, in others it was Peters.

It appears that Pauls was available in Queensland and Peters was established in Sydney, manufactured Ice cream in Melbourne, was eventually bought by a company in Adelaide in the late 80's and remained as Peters in Western Australia after the company was purchased by Nestle until 2009. Peters also sold ice cream to Japan under the Lady Borden name and in New Zealand it was known as Tip Top Ice Cream. Peters is now owned by Pacific Equity Partners as of last year.

So based on this info it seems that Peters had most of the country while Pauls had Queensland, although details in the wrapper for the promotion indicates that the offer "excludes employees and their families of Australian United Foods, and Peters Ice Cream (W.A)". Any other Aussies out there have any extra info to add to this? So despite two separate companies selling the Icy-Poles they were effectively the same and had the same offer available.

The Popsicle offer was for an Admiral Ackbar figure which did not feature as a mail away offer on the figure cards here in Australia. The offer expired 30 Apr 1984. This detail helped fill in a blank for me as I knew there were a number of Ackbar mail away boxes floating around here but I never knew where they came from. Chances are they were from this offer although I have yet to see any Ackbar box with specific Toltoys details on it (I believe they are all blank and were possible mailed out in an envelope).

The Jedi Jelly offer was a little more complex with 2000 unnamed action figures available as an Instant Win. There was also a Second Chance draw which each week was 100 double passes to see ROTJ or 100 action figures, plus at the end of the promotion all Second Chance offers were entered into a major draw where the prize was 5 sets of 48 action figures plus 10 vehicles (each set valued at approx. $500 so if the figures were valued at $4 that leaves almost $300 of vehicles, so we're definitely not talking mini-rigs here!). There were also 100 Thermos Darth Vader Lunch Boxes to be given away. The offer commenced 25 November 1983 and expired 10 Feb 1984 with the major prize draw occurred on 1 Mar 1984.

I have no idea what the figure was for this promotion and initial thought it might have been the Emperor but would seem unusual that the Emperor would be available as a mail away before the Ackbar figure. The timing also doesn't make sense when you consider that the US offer for the Emperor expired on 15 Apr 1984 and given the standard delay in receiving items in Australia there's just no way we would have received the figure before the US. More likely we would have it about 6 months after. I've had one collector suggest it might have been left over Ackbar figures which is quite plausible, or it might have just been a random assortment of carded figures although I think that's less likely.

Unfortunately I never won anything for either promotion and neither did any of my friends at the time so I can't offer any extra info but I would welcome any personal insight from fellow Aussies

Oh, and here's a POS display for the Jedi Jelly Icy-Poles.

As you can see this one has the Peters logo on it instead of the Pauls logo and it is printed on thick card with an in-built stand for counter display.

I hope you enjoy seeing these items as well as reading some of the details to go with them.

"5 sets of 48 action figures plus 10 vehicles" wow what a prize(s)

Excellent new additions Dax, and thanks for the great write up.
Learned something new today.
I wondered where the ackbar offers came from?.

Congrats everyone on some amazing vintage goodies  

Dax wrote:

Dax - congrats on your Ice-Poles wrappers, great pics and a nicely written piece to accompany them too. The prizes they offered were way generous!!
I Wonder if any Aus magazines/comics at the time ran adverts to promote it too?

if you like, can you copy paste the pics & info into this thread: http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t4891-tig-world-of-odd-food-items-premiums

would be great to have that info for our oddball section  

Cheers, Paul.

I found this in a box of beaters at a car boot sale yesterday & I got enough change from a fiver to pay for a celebratory beer!

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Thanks Alex!

You got a serious bargain at that auction. When I attend auctions the vintage SW stuff usually sells for more than market value, and then there's the 15% buyers premium to add on.

 
Still pains me to this day when I think about that.

£80.00!!!

Guys I'm still jealous of these tri-logo fetts, I'm still trying to find a painted dart one for myself.

Wow! That Fett is in GREAT condition : ) Congrats buddy  

General Kahn wrote:

My local auction doesn't advertise to well and there's not many local collectors I don't think. A few years earlier my Dad took me down to the auction to view some Star Wars stuff, but I had no money so I never went to the auction as it would have just upset me. In it there was a pretty much complete set of boxed/carded modern POTF 2 stuff and piles of vintage stuff including several carded figures including Ewoks canadian figures, a display cabinet with the entire last 17 in it and loads of vehicles including a mint white tie fighter and a complete Imperial Shuttle. Turns out it was a bailiff job for a bankrupt local collector. I found out a few years later from a buddy who has a collectors shop who also missed out on it because it wasn't advertsied that the whole lot sold for 80 quid

 
Still pains me to this day when I think about that.

WOW All that for 80 Quid Gutted for you Alex  

Can we stop talking about it now please, the pain is returning  
 

I wish I'd never mentioned it now, I'm going to find a corner to sulk!
;(

walkie wrote:

I wish I'd never mentioned it now, I'm going to find a corner to sulk!
;(

Find your own corner, I'm sulking in this one  

The_Dark_Artist wrote:

Wow! That Fett is in GREAT condition : ) Congrats buddy  

Thanks Steve!

Finally both halves of my birthday present arrived...



Glasslite Droids R2-D2 / Kenner POTF R2-D2 (Upgrade)

Congrats on the Fett, Steve  

the force is strong with your bargain pickups lately  



Stefan - congrats on the R2s, awesome bday pressies!