Walking Wookiee Down the Hall.
Happy New Year to all the passionate followers of this blog. You know who you are. Messing around with all these wonderful toys is fun, but it’s your involvement and encouraging words that really
Tag: Stormtrooper
a.k.a. Little Big Gun.
The AT-ST. Is it heavy artillery or just a lightweight little bro to the AT-AT? Difficult to say!
On Board for Anything.
The vintage AT-AT is so huge and so wonderful a toy, it would be impossible to capture its essence all in one photo. Better to capture details in the macro (like the personnel bay door on the AT-AT’s lee side shown above) and work up to something that’s greater than the sum of its parts. […]
Power Droid.
Strange coincidence: it’s three years almost to the day since I last snapped a photo of the celebrated Power (or ‘Gonk’) Droid. Glad to see him back!
Darth Vader.
Buying Notes on Vintage Darth Vader Check out the current vintage Darth Vader listings here. A nice vintage Darth Vader action figure is pretty much the alpha and omega of any collection. This is true for the beginner and advanced collector alike. A classic toy reaching back to 1978, the vintage Darth Vader has spun […]
Deep Ties to the Empire.
The vintage TIE Fighter vehicle by Kenner is awfully sweet. The wings pop off in distress when you press secret buttons and another button lights up a chin gun and makes a cool laser sound to boot. I didn’t have one of these as a kid but was always deeply envious of my little buddies […]
Threepio.
Just cleaning out some old directories and came across this outtake from a set-up I put together almost two years ago. If memory serves me well, the Biker Scout was the only figure that I actually bought from the ROTJ line back in the summer of 1983. At the ripe age of 12 I was […]
The Dark Proceeds.
This post marks a potential sea change in this blog. See, about 9 months ago I was given an extraordinary camera for my 40th birthday. The Lumix DMC-LX5 captures our toddler’s every movement with piercing clarity and speed. But I’ve been reluctant to introduce it into these pages of action figure photography for fear that […]
Via Beast.
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. […]
Entourage.
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. […]