YOUR LATEST PICK UP'S - VOLUME 4

Awesome pick up Chris, love the Kmart stickers!!

Those cards look ace, love the backing cards, i have a pile of them filed away, shame they should be on display, so much stuff so little space

Great pick up on the Transition cards Chris

Thanks, guys!

James, that's a fantastic find.

Especially with the Torture Chamber and Bacta Tank figures. Well done my friend.

wow what a great score, on those micro collection figures James. Well done mate
It's awesome that you were able to pick up those unreleased figures too. Will you keep them as they are, or do you plan on painting them?

Wow, some stunning figures there mate, glad you got them, those unreleased figures look great!

Great find James some really nice pieces there mate
I like the Han carb, very cool

Thanks Guys  

chris.75 wrote:wow what a great score, on those micro collection figures James. Well done mate
It's awesome that you were able to pick up those unreleased figures too. Will you keep them as they are, or do you plan on painting them?

I'll definitely leave them as is as I plan to sell them once I have done some more research on them and taken good individual pics for our library . I know that the paint can be stripped off of the ones that came with the playsets . I am pretty sure that a lot of the unpainted figures I see sold on ebay (and elsewhere) are simply stripped figures , frequently incorrectly described as prototypes or whatever .

There are a few things about these that make me fairly confident they are authentic unpainted factory overstock :

The seller I bought them from didn't know they were Micro Collection figures and had incorrectly listed them as West End Games figures .

The buy it now was quite reasonable and I can't find a trace of paint on any of the figures .

The seller didn't have any more Star Wars items for sale and hasn't sold any other SW items recently .

After I actually received the figures I contacted the seller to ask if they knew any history behind them . The seller told me that he bought them at a Flea Market in Ohio from a older couple who weren't even aware that they were Star Wars . Since the majority of Factory overstock figures would have only made it out in the hands of Kenner employees , these being bought in Ohio is a good sign .

The figure selection and number of duplicates also point towards them being Factory overstock - lots of doubles and triples . A couple of the hoth soldier figures have multiples of 6 and 10

wow that's really cool that you managed to get a bit of backstory on the figures James. The link to Ohio definitely puts them in the right place to have come directly from a Kenner employee at some point. Plus as you say all those multiples lends credibility to the theory that they are most likely factory overstock. very cool

Holy molly! What a score on the diecast micro figures. Is was well worth checking in tonight

Congrats Clint the image of Luke especially looks very cool mate

Best luck on getting a trade for the Vader you need bro

Thanks Andy. These are very hard to find. So I'm not holding onto any hope of finding a Vader.
Unless a collector is selling off their collection.

Lovely cereal boxes

Those boxes are ace! very cool scores mate, i hope you find the vader one

nice score on the cereal boxes Clint. Hope you manage to pick up The Vader at some point

Ebay link (not Canadian though)

do you have the Yoda mask?

Thanks Chris, Ian & Chris.

Unfortunately, they only had the 4 masks here in Canada. C-3PO, Luke, Vader & Stormtrooper.

brilliant score mate!

Well done on picking up that Poch DSC Andy, It's in fantastic condition mate
you've picked up some amazing pieces over the last few years mate. It would be awesome to see some pics of your collection as a whole

chris.75 wrote:Well done on picking up that Poch DSC Andy, It's in fantastic condition mate
you've picked up some amazing pieces over the last few years mate. It would be awesome to see some pics of your collection as a whole

Cheers Chris mate I am meaning to get one of those cabinets from IKEA to get a display going, currently most figures are in acid free bags stored in shoe boxes and old biscuit tins

Andy, Nice DSC.
Is it the "disco boots" version?

Commander Clint wrote:Andy, Nice DSC.
Is it the "disco boots" version?

Cheers Clint No unfortunately not Disco boots mate, that is top of my want list , Chris has one though