WANT!

[Windigo]

Star Wars hard case luggage. See it in the airport luggage stores everywhere. Only slightly more cool than a Dora backpack.

[avrotim]

[Staggerwing]

Cool! When I was a kid I had one of those die-cast Yellow Submarine toys with all the little hatches and pop-up Beatles inside. I'm afraid to speculate on what it would be worth now...

[Barthheart]

I like the fact it has a 10+ years age limit on it... like anyone under the age of 50 is going to buy it!  \m/

[BanzaiCat]

Cool! When I was a kid I had one of those die-cast Yellow Submarine toys with all the little hatches and pop-up Beatles inside. I'm afraid to speculate on what it would be worth now...

I'm afraid to speculate on the value of ANY of the toys I had when I was a kid. My mom and I reminisced about my huge Star Wars collection from when I was a kid. :(

[Windigo]

One of my stepsons liquidated some of his Star Wars collection on eBay. Some obscure character still in it's original cardboard and plastic wrap went for a couple hundred. It was some cheap 4 buck figurine about 3 inches tall ....

[mirth]

[Windigo]

I want one!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Cool! When I was a kid I had one of those die-cast Yellow Submarine toys with all the little hatches and pop-up Beatles inside. I'm afraid to speculate on what it would be worth now...

I'm afraid to speculate on the value of ANY of the toys I had when I was a kid. My mom and I reminisced about my huge Star Wars collection from when I was a kid. :(

My parents kept mine stuff in their garage.  I took it down to sell to a nerd store in Vancouver when I was going to move to Poland in order to get some extra cash.  The lady offered me $500 bucks for the lot.  I said no and instead suggested that she take everything and sell it and we'd split the profits 50/50.  Nearly everything sold in 4 weeks and I netted $1400.  Apparently I had some rare stuff that went for a bundle.  (rare Jawa figure, some Death Star set that was only sold by Sears, and some mail in Kenner figure accessories).

[BanzaiCat]

That Death Star set, I remember clearly. I lived in northern Virginia at the time - think it was 1978 or so - and they were sold out completely in the area. My mom had to ask my stepdad's mom in Texas, whom found it, and sent it to us in Virginia on a bus (of all things; I guess they carry/carried cargo too). I loved that playset and wore it out.



:'( :'( :'(

[Sir Slash]

Which kid is you BC? The one that looks like Luke Skywalker or the one that looks like Han Solo?  ;D

[BanzaiCat]

Fortunately I was never THAT nerdy to the point of wearing Star Wars costumes. Not even at Halloween.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

That Death Star set, I remember clearly. I lived in northern Virginia at the time - think it was 1978 or so - and they were sold out completely in the area. My mom had to ask my stepdad's mom in Texas, whom found it, and sent it to us in Virginia on a bus (of all things; I guess they carry/carried cargo too). I loved that playset and wore it out.


:'( :'( :'(

Mine was one you could only get from Sears Canada via mail order.  It was all cardboard but it was pretty god damned sweet!  I also sent away to Kenner for some special weapons and accessories for the figures that you could only get by cutting out a bunch of proof of purchases.  Took about 2 months to get the stuff but it felt like forever when I was 8.

[BanzaiCat]

That IS a pretty cool-looking Death Star. Looks cheaply made but I bet it's worth a small fortune today, intact and in good condition.

Not that the Star Wars Death Star plastic monolith wasn't cheaply-made...like I said I wore it out. The cardboard walls, the trash compactor, the elevator, they all one by one fell apart after constant play, sort of like a Yugo.

[bayonetbrant]