It's that time of year again. Our annual tradition of giving a bit of star wars joy at Christmas is just around the corner.

For those that don't know how the secret Santa works basically we get everyone to do a wish list confirming they are in for the exchange, the wish list is locked up after a certain time period, you are given the name of one person who is on the list to send them an anonymous gift.  The gift sending limit is around $50.  

I will make a separate wish list thread in the vintage chat section and link it in this post.  For now please sign up in this thread and begin your wish list in the other one and I will send you a pm to get the address information.  Please understand if you sign up, someone else will be getting you a gift so don't forget to get theirs.  Also in order to be more efficient I think we can lock the wish list thread around October 15th, and that way hopefully all presents can be bought and shipped out by November 15th.  This will allow adequate time for everyones gifts to make it around the world in time for Christmas.

**Not a requirement but part of the fun is sharing pics of your gifts here after we open them. We generally wait until Christmas Eve or Christmas day depending on your own tradition of when you open gifts.**

Here is the wishlist thread:
http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t9144-secret-santa-2017-wishlist#157936

***Please be vigilant that the item you buy for your fellow Tigger is not reproduction or paint touched up.  Mistakes do happen, so you wont be hung if it is, but you might get a pretty good flogging.  ***

As usual a few pics to get you in the Christmas spirit:




Participants:
Aussiejames
Arohk
Mastertyvokka
Craig T
Darthmatt22
Darthberizing

I am in

Count me in as well.

And now for your viewing enjoyment Santa's little helpers








What Santa's an equal opportunity employer  

Larry

I am in as always!  Still have to post what I received from last year.  I'll try to figure out which box of star wars stuff its in this weekend.  The unpacking process has been slow.

Hot cross buns are not supposed to be eaten until Easter!

I'm in!!!

Just cool you fellas down heres a lovely lady that will do just the trick

Good to see participation in this; its always a lot of fun. AJ is lucky I cant ban him (he outranks me) with the near naked man..........and Larry.............just...........what the...........NO!!!! That's all I can say about that last pic.

Still plenty of time to sign up, but don't forget. This is always a bit of fun. yeah, you could spend your own money and buy yourself something but the surprise of what you got is fun for everyone.

I'm in!

Just a bit over a week left. Be sure to sign up if you want in.

Not a ton of time left to sign up if you want in. Cutoff is going to be the 15th. All those who are signed up please remember to hit the wishlist thread so people have an idea of what to look for.

Whoops, sorry I'm late!

Last night to get in on this. Gonna lock it down when I log in tommorow, so hit it tonight if you want in.

Also, if you signed up please hit the wishlist thread asap. You will be getting pm messages from me sometime tomorrow.

Everyone should now have a pm with who their "child" is.

I am using my phone at the moment so it is difficult to send the addresses with this copy and paste function (it is my fat fingers that make it hard to highlight stuff ). I will send the addresses out later this week when I can log in at a computer.

Participants, you should all have a pm now with the address of your recipient. Hope you guys have fun shopping.

Miss Claus wanted me to hit this thread and remind everyone that we would like gifts mailed by November 15th. So about 3 weeks from now.

Little under 2 weeks to get gifts posted out to their recipient.

One week to get these mailed out. Only a couple have confirmed they have mailed theirs. Please let me know when you get them mailed and for those who receive theirs, also let me know that. Thanks.

Guys, one day left. Please let me know when you have sent AND when you have recieved. Thanks.

One Santa left to send, he has assured me it will go out very soon.

4 have not mentioned recieving yet. Hopefully they will start being delivered soon.

Any more recieved? Some of these should be arriving any time now given the time they were mailed.

Just got word from someone so........according to my notes, all have been visited by Santa now. Please you guys share the pics in here when you open them either on Christmas Eve or Christmas day. The sharing is a big part of the joy in this. Thanks guys for making this year smooth and easy, and i hope Santa brought everyone some really cool stuff.

Well for myself was confuseds as both I got were sent direct from companies. Now that would be fine if I wasn't on another SW forum as well,  I was now unsure what was what. A week ago that was solved when a third one arrived from the other one.

So I am putting the two here as I would guess at least one was from here for sure lol.

So the two I opened were both Star Wars Bandai model kits.

One is this awesome 1/6 Bobb Fett


Ana a very cool 1/144 U-WING FIGHTER & TIE STRIKER, and this is way bigger then one would expect.

Not only did I receive my very first Clipper piece, I also received my very first Palitoy piece!

And two awesome characters to boot!

On top of that, two guns to complete figs!



Thanks S.S.!

Well I am sure both of what I got are from here now, and I have truly no idea of who my Secret Santa is lol.

Anyway I got two awesome Bandai model kits, I was really holding for one but got two
I got a very cool Bona Fett, and a U-Wing with a Tie and tanks .

I love Santa.