The Imperial Shipyards
Kenner / Hasbro Collecting => Vintage => Topic started by: Reconsgt on November 14, 2009, 04:13:57 PM
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Just curious as to what was the first items that you received either as a kid or as an adult collector that got you into the SW line.
For me I told this story countless times, but I was sick at one point and when I woke up my mom and dad had a Landspeeder, Luke and C3PO waiting for me. That more than likely led to the landspeeder being one of my favorite toys, I hunted down 2 prototypes that are added to my collection, ( you will see those soon when I write the prototype article) I narrowly missed a chromalin proof sheet from Cloud City years ago and still regret not pulling the trigger on it. After that I was hooked, SW left an impression but I was really awed by Empire, still my all time favorite but those first toys stuck with me all this time.
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I don't remember the VERY first one, likely one of the original wave of figs, but I do vividly remember tearing into the Creature Cantina playset on Christmas morning one year. Awesome memory!
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I don't remember getting any of the figures from the first wave when they came out but I do remember getting hammerhead and r5-d4 from the second wave when they first came out.
I do rember that my first playset was the awesome Death Star playset. Man, what a big box that seemed like at the time. I remember being bummed that I wasn't allowed to open it till I got home and poured over the images on the box during the whole trip. Kansas city was the nearest place it could be found and at the time, with the speed limit being 55, that was a two hour trip.
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Man, this is a tough question! The first figures I remember getting were Hammerhead and Jawa. I know I got Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and Vader pretty early on as well. My mom's best friend worked for Toys R Us and got them as soon as they arrived. I think my first vehicle was the Snowspeeder, which I got as a pick-me-up gift when I was sick. It was always fun to get a new item, I didn't care what it was: I was HOOKED on Star Wars!
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Ah.... the "firsts"..... who can forget? My very first SW items were Luke Skywalker (Bespin Fatigues), Lando Calrissian (Skiff Guard Disguis) and a CAP-7 mini-rig. You see, in the summer of '83 my dad took me out to see the Sunday afternoon matinee of Return of the Jedi (pronounced "Yaydee" by me back then) and for Sinterklaas (a typical Dutch kids' festivity in early December) I asked for a couple of SW figures. My mom said I coud choose a couple as long as they weren't violent, as in wearing guns or something like that. So I picked Lando, because I actually thought he was a palace janitor ;D. Luke was some sort of teacher with that coloured wand and the CAP-7 was some sort of cargo vehicle. How 'bout that?
I still have those figures, much like most of my vintage figures, and the CAP-7. Although the latter has received new legs and a new canopy along the line.
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Darth Vader with the red telescoping light saber. Man, I wish I still had my original. Daggone he was the best villian ever!
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as a kid my parents couldn't afford much in terms of star wars but when they did i would always get a figure or 2... from memory i think my first figure would have been chewie and than Darth Vader and so on.... they could never afford to get me any vehicles so i only got figures, ( i guess that's why NOW my Star Wars Room is FULL of SW Vehicles for filling my childhood dream LOL, i also have a vivid memory of taking 2 biker scouts to School one day and the teacher confiscating them off me and was told i would get them back at the end of the week, well that week ended about 21 years ago and i still didn't get them back!!!! they where my only troopers i ever had.... now i can understand why i have so many Troopers now (be it Clones) so i will never have any taken away from me again!! LOL
i think the teacher gave them to another kid... so he said!! but i think he kept them for himself >:( now i will never go with out a trooper again!!........ i Believe i need help, maybe we need a forum with a therapist to resolve our childhood emotional trauma......
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I have a similar trauma with a GIJOE ripcord figure, my man.
I had the jedi luke in black uniform and I remember thinking he was such a cool hero, I also had the blue boba, which I found out just today was actually the droids boba, lol. Then later on, I got yard sale figures, mostly I remember some hoth guys(which I still have) and a snowtrooper(which I still have, and his gun, :) ).
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On my birthday I received, the Death Star playset and three figures--Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Princess Leia. It was a great birthday.
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Christmas, 1977. I hadn't yet seen Star Wars - that would be later in the spring with some sort of re-release to the theaters in OKC. But I knew the basics of the story and I knew the figures. Well, when I tore into presents, I found - among other things - a new desk, a new bike, a Jawa, and a Stormtrooper. I still have them, too. (well, I'm not sure where the desk is, now, but the fig's are in a DV head and the bike is in a pile of stuff across the road at dad's place.)
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The very first one i dont remember,but i do remember playing with these some 30+ years ago, one of the first figures i do remember well, is Darth vader. I still have him today even though he is heavilly played with, scratched, and the lightsaber tip is broken off. He remains my favourite piece to this day even in his pittyfull state. To me he is irriplaceable. He was accidentlly found about 10 years ago by my folks when they packed up and moved house. They found him behind the boufett cabinet which had never been moved in years. When they aproched me with vader in hand, they asked if i remember him. He was incredablly dusty and dirty, but after some washing and scubinng, i had my childhood toy back. Finding him again stranglly ignited my passion to this day for collecting SW toys.
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He was accidentlly found about 10 years ago by my folks when they packed up and moved house. They found him behind the boufett cabinet which had never been moved in years. When they aproched me with vader in hand, they asked if i remember him. He was incredablly dusty and dirty, but after some washing and scubinng, i had my childhood toy back.
Great story! I found my first Luke Skywalker after missing him for years myself.
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My first SW toys were the Death Squad Commander, R2, Leia & Imperial Troop Transporter...
They were played with to death!! (I still hope to pick up a beater transporter to repair mine.) Talking of which I've been cleaning off and repairing my original figures so that I can recard them and mount them on the wall of my den :D
I've displayed my vintage ships with my modern figures. My Den also includes my collection of vintage gaming hardware too - I love escaping up there!!!
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That is a grerat looking display! I love the vintage cards and figures!
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R2-D2 on easter of 1978, My mom and dad put him in one of those plastic eggs and I was so excited, he was the only SW I had and I played with him for days.
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In think it was back in 1978 when I fist saw the figures in the local toyshop.
I liked Han Solo and asked my mom to take my allowance and buy him for me.
Guess what? She brought back Luke Skywalker...
The day after she took me to town and I got my Han figure, though.
But for the record, my first vintage toy was the Luke action figure.
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My first one was a Tusken Raider. Me and my brother both got one and he told the cashier he didn't want the tax, only the figure. She thought it was so funny she paid the tax herself.
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My first one was a Tusken Raider. My and my brother both got one and he told the cashier he didn't want the tax, only the figure. She thought it was so funny she paid the tax herself.
That is funny. :D I'd be inclined to pay the tax for some kid myself.
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1st ever SW figure (now vintage) in approx 1982 was a Hoth Han Solo.
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My first Vintage Star Wars item was the Early Bird set. The wait for the figures to arrive felt like an eternity.
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I was 7 years old when my mom took me to Rink's (retail store no longer in business) to get a SW fig. The excitement matched that of Christmas. I was allowed to choose one. I chose Sandpeople. I still think they are one of the coolest dudes in SW. Now 35 years later I am one figure away (EV-9D9) from having every original vintage figure...woohoo!
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I thought that was you. You will have to show us a pic of your vintage collection including that most recent rare acquired item.
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Wow, one figure away from having them all? I would like to see you start up a collection thread.
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It was the Saturday before Easter in 1978. My mom and I were at Walgeens where, sitting by the checkouts was a cardboard display of Figures. They had everyone but R2, 3PO, Jawa, Tusken raider and the Death Squad Commander. Mom put everyone on Layaway but Luke and the stormtrooper. She said we'd get them next week.
What she didnt tell me was she had a friend from work pick up Luke and the Stormtrooper a week or so before.
Hell, my memory for my figures is so good, I could probably tell you were I got each on of my vintage figures, and probably in the order I did. ;D
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Qrest first off welcome to isy,
Second I would love to hear you deliver that story. What a journey that would make.
Wouldn't it be cool to see you start with your first one and then go down the line in the order you got them?
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Of course, after I make such a claim, I'm trying to remember!1
So, Ok, It would have been 3-35-78 that I got my first two figures Luke and the stormtrooper. After leaving walgreens I must have been driving my mother nuts because she gave them to me that afternoon. A friend of hers had gone to the toy store on the other side of town the week prior and had her get them for her.
I got the 5 (Han, leia, Chewbacca, Ben and darth vader) off layaway the Friday that Donny and marie aired theier SW episode. I ended up missing the episode but got the figures after bad events of the early evening.
Got R2-D2 and C-3po and Richman Gordman on the west side of town some time later.
I remember getting The tusken raider at K-mart near my house.
Now, the first one I'm not 100% sure of. The Death Squad Commander. I think I got him at K-mart the same day I got the tusken raider. But for some reason, I want to say I got him at Target.
As for the jawa. One Sunday at the JCPenny's store down town, went there with Mom for who knows what. They had a waits high display case in the basement near the toys that I often looked at since it had one of the Star Wars jewelry necklace displays on top. It would spin around and had star wars necklaces on it. R2, 3PO, Vader's helmet, chewabacca and the x-wing. So this sunday I walked up to it, looked it over and one one side, in the display case was the Jawa w/ cloth robe.
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In exact order
1. Boba fett x2 (didn't realize it till I knew what SW was)
2. X-wing (just the shell) (flea market)
3. Falcon (just the shell) (trash day)
4. Jabba (missing arm) (trash day)
After that I was collecting and got w/e was gifted to me or found cheap...
- Han hoth
-chewbacca
-3po (org.)
-Leia hoth
-Yoda (complete!)
The rest I cannot really recall in order since I got heavily into it and tried my hardest to get or make known I wanted best condition and complete.