Vintage Star Wars Action Figures Doing What They Do Best
Buying Notes for the Vintage Blue Snaggletooth Check out the current listings for the vintage Blue Snaggletooth here. The Blue Snaggletooth is a highly-coveted vintage Kenner figure and therefore fetches higher prices. Depending on the condition, you can expect to pay between $70 and $140. That’s a fair amount of ka-ching so by all means […]
Buying Notes on the Vintage Stormtrooper Check out the current vintage Stormtrooper listings here. The vintage Stormtrooper is among the most iconic of the vintage Kenner figures. The good news is they’re plentiful and you can pull a gorgeous, like-new one off the auction table for not much dough. Certainly no more than $15 delivered. […]
It wouldn’t take much to convince me that Han Solo rates best-in-class among the original 12 Star Wars action figures. Kenner succeeded on so many levels here. Dashing good looks. A blaster arm bent for quick draw in a duel. Excellent detail in both sculpt and paint from head to toe. At least that’s the […]
Thirty years ago the 2-1B action figure didn’t present a lot of game for me. That character in the Empire Strikes Back only had one or two spoken lines and his main gig was poking at dead Tauntauns and a near-dead Luke Skywalker. Kind of horrifying actually. Now (much as I’ve done with all 2nd-, […]
Most of the time with these pics I like finding the right selection of figures, typically in groups of 2 or 3. The interplay creates either agitation or harmony in the frame, and a new narrative starts to spill out. That’s exciting. And then other times its just one expressive character that refuses to share […]
This is a satisfying re-shoot of a recent and badly rushed attempt to capture the vintage Endor Han and Leia action figures doing their thing. Phew! I feel much better now.