Vintage Star Wars Action Figures Doing What They Do Best
This is a Part 2 in a rethink of an earlier post. Second of two shots in the installment. Buying Notes on the Vintage Snowspeeder Check out the current vintage Snowspeeder listings here. If you’re a collector of loose Kenner vehicles from the vintage Star Wars run and you don’t own the vintage Snowspeeder yet, […]
Blown away. No other words to describe what it felt like to unwrap my very own X-Wing Fighter(!) – given to me as a gift during Hanukkah, December of ’78. Buying Notes on the Vintage Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot Check out the current vintage Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot listings here. Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot was […]
Buying Notes on the Vintage Snowspeeder Check out the current vintage Snowspeeder listings here. If you’re a collector of loose Kenner vehicles from the vintage Star Wars run and you don’t own the vintage Snowspeeder yet, it’s time to turn that ship around. Ounce for ounce, this is my favorite vehicle for the whole ’78 […]
The B-Wing Fighter at rest looks pretty nice. But with the wings spread out the ship transforms completely and easily becomes one of the coolest vintage Star Wars vehicles out there. I’ll need to spend some time on a worthy shot that captures all that in-flight glory. Until then I’m afraid you’re stuck on the […]
The Bespin Luke Skywalker was probably the last action figure acquired for my childhood collection that I was really nuts about. The Bespin Han Solo clearly wasn’t bad, but he just couldn’t compete with the be-hooded Han Solo (Hoth Battle Gear) which was many times more awesome. Puzzle #01: Here’s a challenge for all you […]
The Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight figure tends to cause a major stir among collectors. Why? If you’re not already immersed, let me introduce you to the concept of variants. Thirty years ago, when the original line of Star Wars action figures was first in production, the toys were made by different factories in a range […]
Buying Notes on the Vintage Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot Check out the current vintage Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot listings here. Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot was a toy sold by Kenner from 1978 to about 1985. So there were (and still are) great numbers in circulation, and a fair number of these are still in excellent […]