Topic: New Star Wars Purchases

[Darth More]

There's a collector in Bavaria with a massive Rebel Alliance collection. He's currently selling a few figures and offered three 5-Packs of Rebel Pilots for 130€ each. Last week he sent me an offer of 110€ on ebay. So I sent him a counter offer of 80€ per set. I didn't expect him to accept my offer, but he did!
So here they are for 16€ per figure. I still need to figure out if some of them are custom head-swapped.
I put them on my watch-list mostly because of the Comic Pack figures.
Looking forward to doing some research now:

https://galacticfigures.com/star-wars-figures.aspx?type=profession&typeName=x-wing%20pilot

https://rebelscum.com/hasbro.asp

[Starchaser]

Most of those look like originals, not headswaps, though there might be one or two in there.

[Darth More]

Thank you, Jeff. You were absolutely right. The set on the bottom row came with 3 head-swaps and wrong helmets. The female pilot in the bottom right corner is Juno Eclipse on a Plourr Ilo body. So this figure is just a bald head apart from being worth quite a snickers.
One other female pilot is indeed part of the Rebel Pilots Legacy III Evolutions Pack - a set that I had given up on ever owning.
The other two head-swaps are from the rare Yavin Pilot Pack - which I found on AliExpress and hesitated to open...


Source: http://www.rebelscum.com/Yavin-Pilot-Pack-2012-Movie-Heroes-Multipack.asp

[Starchaser]

Oh yeah ... I didn't notice Juno in the bottom corner.

[Darth More]

I decided to get the smaller edition of Paul Duncan's Archive books. The big ones for $75 are impressive with bigger images, but the small books are easier to read and to handle. The small ones retail for $25 and I got them for 15€ each used and like new - in German, but that's okay.

[Darth More]

This is a longer story. Feel free to ask any questions. I found some incredible auctions by accident and won 4 of them. And here's what I got.








And this is not like any other lot from Hoth I've ever seen. I'm going to give you a detailed look at its specialties. You can already take a look at the masterpiece which these pieces were part of.
Please, take a look at Hangar 7 over the the German forum Lichtgeschwindigkeit:

https://www.lichtgeschwindigkeit.de/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10900&sid=4ee4c1ded1d5c06df8cd815b26698c4d&start=420

https://www.lichtgeschwindigkeit.de/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10900&start=450



I also got the TLC A-Wing with pilot and the TAC Y-Wing only missing the astromech droid (which I have extra, so no biggy). Both together were 130€ and a friend of mine was so kind to pick them up for me in his town.

[Darth More]

Found these three ships for 35€ plus 6,75€ shipping. When they arrived I recognized that Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter is the TVC version with darker grey weapons and a slightly thinner missile compared to the original ROTS release. I bought this set to complete the Y-Wing, but primarily for the speeder from SOLO. The design is so brilliant, it could be the perfect vehicle for the Rebels or Empire!




Initially I wanted to give this speeder a repaint so that it could be a Pyke speeder as seen in the book of Boba Fett. But now that I have it in hand I could also see it next to a Rpublic Swamp Speeder...so many possibilities!

[Darth More]

Since I have a few extra missiles from the Clone Wars line, I decided to get those chain guns: 12 for 14€.
The Clone Trooper was 10€, so I got everything for 25,80€ shipped.

The Klatooinian Raider came all the way from China: 11,07€ including shipping.

[Darth More]

A local online vendor had some offers that were too good to pass on them. At the moment he even has 15% discount 'til March 23, 2025.
I still made a good deal on these:

- 4x TBS 40th ROTJ Gamorrean Guard: 90€ instead of 26€ each.
- 2x TVC Zeb for 15€ each
- TVC Vader: 10€
- TVC HK-87 Assassin Droid: 10€




Smart packaging as we pledged for over the course of a long week.

[Darth More]

The same dealer whom I got the stuff above from, has a 15% off promo running store wide 'til March 23, 2025. So I visited him yesterday. Imagine a flat full of figures in Billy shelves from IKEA! Everything is full with boxes and shippers - even the bathroom. 

Here's what I got from him:





I saw those protector cases for TVC figures on Amazon USA, too.



The prices were already awesome! And for 15% off I shut up & gave him my money:

- TBS The Phantom Menace: Duel of the Fates 3-Pack: 80€ 68€
- TBS Jedi Master Sol: 15€ 12,75€
- TBS Jedi Master Indara: 15€ 12,75€
- TBS Doctor Aphra (Publishing): 15€ 12,75€
- TBS Bix Caleen (ANDOR): 12€ 10,20€
- TBS Senator Mon Mothma: 12€ 10,20€
- TBS Emperor Palpatine (40th ROTJ): 19€ 16,15€

- TVC Jango Fett (Deluxe): 15€ 12,75€
- TVC Kanan Jarrus: 10€ 8,50€
- TVC HK-87 Assassin Droid: 10€ 8,50€

- 25 pcs Protector Box for TVC Basic Asst.: 49€ 41,65€
Also available on Amazon USA:

- BST AXN Sauron figure 1/18 scale LOTR: 18€ 15,30€
- AVATAR AMP Suit 1/16 scale McFarlane: 22€ 18,70€

[Darth More]

Found these figures on AliExpress and they were delivered in great condition within a week.
I took advantage of their Spring Sale and redeemed a coupon code. So prices were:

43.61€ for 5 TVC Artillery Stormtroopers instead of 49.53€
23.89€ for TBS Cal Kestis instead of 28.99€ which was a fair price already!

[Starchaser]

Nice finds! That Cal is a great figure design, I wish they'd do that version in TVC (I'm not a TBS buyer).

[Darth More]

Thanks, Jeff! Yes, I hope so, too. Always hope to see all TBS releases in TVC form as well. And yesterday I learned that this Cal Kestis figure is sold on eBay between 50-80€ already!
StarActionFigures had it for 27 Pounds for a while, but I missed it.

Let's hope that TVC remains because The Black Series is definitely NOT in a good state here in Germany (and the UK from what I know). And back in 2013 I swore to myself to not collect TBS. But here I am 12 yers later with over TBS 100 figures...screw me.

[Darth More]

AliExpress combine orders when to comes to shipping, which makes total sense to me. I was looking for a small plastic bag in my mailbox, but didn't find it. I almost threw the bag for the order above away, when it  fell out. And here's what was inside:
15 lightsabers for 6 inch figures. It's nice to see Maul's lightsaber in green. Paid 18€ for 15 lightsabers in 1/12 scale with free shipping from China. No tariffs! Lucky.