Wow 3 months, that must have been a long wait to see the stuff you bought.
I can tell by the pink sticker that you bought that Luke Farmboy cardback from Kevin (give-in-2-hate).
Nice Buys for all you guys, just to much to name it all.

Nice haul eljawa!!

That's a nice Welcome Home!

wow really nice pick ups everyone, what a cool haul of stuff to come home to after 3 months eljawa

@ PT- congrats on the amazing grail piece. So Jay you gonna set your Jawa free, Or will you keep him locked up to help retain his authenticity value?

Clint - Great Bike!!

Jay - Nice assortment man!

Eljawa - I come home to expired meat and sour milk, you know how to do it!!


Got this in today, not sure though. I may trade it. Sweet piece but I have no space !!

eljawa wrote:

So I was away from home for three months but was buying from Ebay the whole time. Heres what I came home to. 40 carbacks, Jawa 20 back afa 75 (from Kelllerman collection), Jawa Meccano 20 back, Kellerman book, 3 Lee toy review mags, 27 loooose figs, 10 extra weapons, 100 fig stands, (one repro cape Booo!),

Very nice man! And most of those troopers look oh so minty white! NICE!

chris.75 wrote:

@ PT- congrats on the amazing grail piece. So Jay you gonna set your Jawa free, Or will you keep him locked up to help retain his authenticity value?

As long as I don't stare at him drunk, he has to stay cased up soley for the AFA factor. If I paid 10-100 over normal loose VC Jawas, I definitely would bust that sucker out!!!! But, it was a little more than that so, he will stay entombed until I die (or need to sell him to replace one of my own body parts!)

DarthBerizing wrote:

Nice! It looks familiar, but the real question is, IS IT FULL!?!?!?!?

Congrats everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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As long as I don't stare at him drunk, he has to stay cased up soley for the AFA factor. If I paid 10-100 over normal loose VC Jawas, I definitely would bust that sucker out!!!! But, it was a little more than that so, he will stay entombed until I die (or need to sell him to replace one of my own body parts!)

yeah it would be so tempting wouldn't it. But grail pieces like VC jawas and Dt Luke, Vader, ben, Vlix etc.. is definitely what loose AFA grading is really meant for, not regular figures, imo. Congrats again my friend.

@ John- very nice box mate, what if you flat packed it and wall mounted it, just a thought

Some of these figures are in the bootleg section but I want to show you them together, all of them are form 80's and are very rare to find even here in Mexico because many bootlegs were made at 90's even in old molds but plastic, paint and experience can help to identify, I hope you like this set

Thanks for the comments everyone. It was like coming home to Christmas!
Stargeezer - Kevin is my cardback hero, ive paid his bills for the last 6 months (haha).
DarthBerizing - I just never buy Meat or milk from ebay.
psybertech - "If you wanna be my trooper it dont matter if your yellow or white."

Wow a ton of great additions everyone. I really like the mexican bootlegs Mr Ledy. I have never seen the snowtrooper without a wierd mouth piece on him before. And that royal guard all in white is really a nice looking figure.

John, I think someone else already said it but it would be a great way to display it is to make it like a box flat and frame it.

Beautiful and colourful Mexican bootlegs, Christian.

NICE!

TIG and SWFUK must be guys with deep pockets, these threads are too much to handle, congrats to all, too many to mention!

Been spying on this thread for a good while, but rarely posting, if at all, will rectify that!
There has been so much stuff on here it's amazing, and I have to say, after I sold my stormies, it started itching
to get back in.

The whole collecting thing didn't seem right after my grandma died so I wanted it all gone.
It felt good for a while, but then it struck me, I saw Star Wars for the first time at my grans house, so that kinda justified getting back in.
(I know, I've been on and off like a child on crack.)

Got my Popy back first, which was awesome, then a 12back reseal, which appears the stormie never has been taken out, an ESB reseal, and an unpunched POTF!!

tundra9 wrote:

....deep pockets...

I can only speak on my own behalf, but its called beer, a horrible sense of responsibility and credit cards.

I will be paying for last few months for the next few months years.

Nice stormies, man! I just have a yellowed bubble, cracked at the top ROTJ 77 back. I like it, but its far from pretty.
I have been eyeballing and resisting temptation about a certain 12 back Takara from the classifieds here. Evil people flaunting pretty things at good prices!

cheers!

OH.... and I love and want that Mexican Bootleg Leia! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

psybertech wrote:

Nice stormies, man! I just have a yellowed bubble, cracked at the top ROTJ 77 back. I like it, but its far from pretty.
I have been eyeballing and resisting temptation about a certain 12 back Takara from the classifieds here. Evil people flaunting pretty things at good prices!

Thanks!
Yeah, I've been drooling over the Takara one myself!

Thanks for your comments

trappedtexan
Marco
psybertech



Cristian

Thanks to eagle eyed Pat for spotting this for me


Loving the pink Ewok

tundra9 wrote:

psybertech wrote:

Nice stormies, man! I just have a yellowed bubble, cracked at the top ROTJ 77 back. I like it, but its far from pretty.
I have been eyeballing and resisting temptation about a certain 12 back Takara from the classifieds here. Evil people flaunting pretty things at good prices!

Thanks!
Yeah, I've been drooling over the Takara one myself!

it still there

Congrats to all Nice Buys for all you guys, just to much to name it all.

aussiejames wrote:

Thanks to eagle eyed Pat for spotting this for me


Loving the pink Ewok

So thanks were that R5 got to

aussiejames wrote:

Thanks to eagle eyed Pat for spotting this for me


Loving the pink Ewok

Hey James . Fantastic R5 Sorry about the noob question butwhats so special about that R5 mate?

Thanks!

Liam

The small right rectangle top left on the sticker, popular variant in the US (unconfirmed)

Alex - Fett is the man! and nice overstock luke head
Cejay - Nice looking collection there with all the MOC's and boxed items
Clint - Nice canadian Speeder bike
Jay - Sweet pair of leia's, the blonde ledy leia is on my WTB list
eljawa - That is one monster haul even for 3 months !!
John - Nice shipping box, and the big question empty or full?
Christian - Loving the Vader wrestler and the white ERGs
Jorn - Welcome back to vintage star wars collecting
James - So much for not buying

Some good news for me and my missus, a few weeks back we were both up for redundancy at work but we have both been told our jobs are safe

I have therefore decided to buy something special which is currently in transit. Updates soon......

walkie wrote:

Some good news for me and my missus, a few weeks back we were both up for redundancy at work but we have both been told our jobs are safe
I have therefore decided to buy something special which is currently in transit. Updates soon......

Thats great news Stefan, i'm glad things worked out well for you and your missus. I look forward to seeing what the something special is

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I have some figures with exactly the same pink on the legs as shown on the right one of this R5.
Figures coming from different lots and origin countries even..
I wonder if this is discoloration or a kid with magic marker. In that case it's very coincidental that i have seen at least 4 or 5 figures with this color. Any other ideas?

I'd love to own one of these unconfirmed variations, so the hunt is on! Thx for showing.

Way too much to keep commenting in this thread, awesome purchases guys!

http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t3151-r5-d4-variants

R5-D4 can come with the upper right rectangle (his upper right - upper left if you are looking at him) unfilled (common) or filled in red (variant). It also comes with either a 1977 date stamp or a 1978 date stamp - not sure if you can get both date stamps with both stickers (I try to avoid such combinations as it would drive me mental trying to track them all down!) see pic below

1977 | 1978 | Red rectangle

post from the treath ..

Hi, new to to the forum so I'd start off with some pictures of my most recent new additions.
I have started a collection of Tri Logos recently, with a few of them coming from this forum as well.



After being absent from collecting for more than a year due to budget restraints and family, this is what brought me back about half a year ago

Bonglee - Great Stuff and welcome !!

Jorn - Nice to see you back in collecting, hope it brings good memories of your grandma

AJ - Nice R5D4

Cristian - Great Bootlegs and some colors!!


Got this in the mail, so cheezy I needed to get it

John: Nice Kenner box. You had any plans with it?
Nice bootleg blaster, great artwork on the card.

Jorn: Good to see you are in the game again with some really nice Stromtroopers additions! Cheers, mate!

James: Cool R5 variant, kudos for Pat for pointing it out to you!

Stefan: Thanks for writing down the small review, and great news that you and Ms Walkie both can retain their jobs.
Curious what you bought to celebrate this....Don't let us wait too long.

BongLee: Wilkommen bei TIG!
Nice Tri cards. The boxed A-Wing is a great piece, and a great start for igniting the collector's flame again.

Cheers