When was the last time you saw a carded figure out in the wild?

TrooperWill · Feb 24, 2018

Like a year ago in Glasgow. I went for a walk around the old antique shops.: A Palitoy boxed rebel transport, complete and box in good conditions. When I asked the guy for the price I was in shock: He asked for £20!

Obviously, I have got it

lucky git,

my local antiques shack has had one for ages, no box, missing the gun deck, the card inserts in **** condition and broken attachments on the trap door...... and he's after £80 for it! I have asked several times where they got that price from, guessing eBay! yet another idiot who read a daily mail article and thinks every loose beater will net him a few hundred quid....

and yet I got a complete, though slightly yellow falcon there for £45 a few years ago

Taffius · Feb 24, 2018

A whole stall of them in Weston-super-mare carboot, mid 90s.
Not checked my local antique areas for years but planning to!

ScruffyLookingNH · Feb 24, 2018

Crumm said:
1988 in Blackpool.

I bought three from a guy selling them from a pop-up pasting table on the promenade.

Han Carbonite
Luke Poncho
R2D2 Sensorscope I think was the other one.

That's really interesting.

'94-'98 I was at University in Liverpool. It was the last time I really collected with a passion. I paid for some beer and all my SW by buying and selling SW. Picking up childhood collections for £40 was easy enough back then and I never ever paid over £100, no matter what was there. Ahhhh, the good old days.....Anyway, to the point: I cannot be 100% absolutely certain who told me the story but I'm pretty sure it was a guy who had a cool little toy booth in The Palace on Slater Street, Liverpool (anyone remember that? Brilliant place

). Anyway, the guy down there told me a mate of his (yep, always the start of a good yarn) had been walking along Blackpool seafront a few years earlier and come across an old chap selling stuff out of a suitcase (not a pasting table in this story). Amongst the bits were a handful of SW MOCs. He paid the chap whatever and the seller piped up "I've got some more of those". Apparently, the buyer arranged to meet the old fella the next day and is let into a warehouse (probably storeroom, but exaggeration in such stories is encouraged) where he found cases and cases of SW MOCs. He, apparently, bought the whole lot for about £5,000. It may have been £10k, I can't remember precisely.

What makes this story now more believable in my mind is the pretty precise location and that he specifically mentioned the last 17 when recounting it to me. I'd always told myself it sounded like BS but yours is the very first eye witness account of a street trader on Blackpool seafront

As an aside, I still have the Lego display sign "It's a New Toy Everyday" that the teller of this story had up in his shop. It was the same day he told me the story I persuaded him to sell it to me.

scooternick · Apr 22, 2018

These two were at cheddar car boot today. About 60 quid each I think. Zoomed out photo gives perspective

Snaketibe · Apr 22, 2018

Circa 1992 in Forbidden Planet in London. They had a whole rack of Tri-Logo MOCs, mostly ewoks, and I remember thinking the prices were outrageous... £8.99 if memory serves! They also had some Jedi boxed AT-AT's, which I think were around £50-£60, but I'm half-guessing on that price after all this time.

Mini99 · Apr 22, 2018

scooternick said:
These two were at cheddar car boot today. About 60 quid each I think. Zoomed out photo gives perspective

Well spotted, you must have keen eyes.
I struggled to see them in the first picture.
Did you buy them?

scooternick · Apr 22, 2018

Ha ha. No, they were a bit too beaten for me but probably a fair price. Bet the guy was glad it didn't rain!

Mini99 said:
scooternick said:

These two were at cheddar car boot today. About 60 quid each I think. Zoomed out photo gives perspective

Click to expand...

Well spotted, you must have keen eyes.
I struggled to see them in the first picture.
Did you buy them?

StarWarsFan · Apr 22, 2018

scooternick said:
These two were at cheddar car boot today. About 60 quid each I think. Zoomed out photo gives perspective

Nice would have snapped them up.

Starrider · Apr 22, 2018

Cant remember any figures on regular toy shelves past the late 1980's, but I distinctly remember a mint boxed AT AT sitting unwanted for years in a toy shop called Dines in Grimsby, it was there till around 1993 priced at £29.99. Sadly I hadnt got back into Star Wars at the time so didnt show much interest. The same shop had Masters of the Universe figures till the mid nineties and I remember taking a punt on two mint carded Battle Armour He Man figures at 50p each. Unfortunately I passed on a Dragon Blaster Skeletor for £1.50 because it had a small rip to the card.
I later sold the He Man figures when interest was just returning in the early noughties but if I'd held onto them about another ten years I'd have got a really significant return on that £1 investment.

Dr_Ball_MD · Apr 23, 2018

I remember seeing a tri-logo FX-7 in London Forbidden planet sometime in the 90's.

Crumm · Apr 23, 2018

ScruffyLookingNH said:
Crumm said:

1988 in Blackpool.

I bought three from a guy selling them from a pop-up pasting table on the promenade.

Han Carbonite
Luke Poncho
R2D2 Sensorscope I think was the other one.

Click to expand...

That's really interesting.

'94-'98 I was at University in Liverpool. It was the last time I really collected with a passion. I paid for some beer and all my SW by buying and selling SW. Picking up childhood collections for £40 was easy enough back then and I never ever paid over £100, no matter what was there. Ahhhh, the good old days.....Anyway, to the point: I cannot be 100% absolutely certain who told me the story but I'm pretty sure it was a guy who had a cool little toy booth in The Palace on Slater Street, Liverpool (anyone remember that? Brilliant place ). Anyway, the guy down there told me a mate of his (yep, always the start of a good yarn) had been walking along Blackpool seafront a few years earlier and come across an old chap selling stuff out of a suitcase (not a pasting table in this story). Amongst the bits were a handful of SW MOCs. He paid the chap whatever and the seller piped up "I've got some more of those". Apparently, the buyer arranged to meet the old fella the next day and is let into a warehouse (probably storeroom, but exaggeration in such stories is encouraged) where he found cases and cases of SW MOCs. He, apparently, bought the whole lot for about £5,000. It may have been £10k, I can't remember precisely.

What makes this story now more believable in my mind is the pretty precise location and that he specifically mentioned the last 17 when recounting it to me. I'd always told myself it sounded like BS but yours is the very first eye witness account of a street trader on Blackpool seafront

As an aside, I still have the Lego display sign "It's a New Toy Everyday" that the teller of this story had up in his shop. It was the same day he told me the story I persuaded him to sell it to me.

Nice one! glad I could help verify the story you heard!

The guy selling in Blackpool was right next to Tussaud's Waxworks if I remember correctly, and most of the stuff he had was indeed last 17 (I do remember that, as I purchased two of them

). He did have a fair amount of figures on display when I bought from him, I would say about 50 or 60.

Dannywhiteley · Apr 23, 2018

Not SW, but in early 90's they had racks of Transformers G1 carded Cliffjumpers for a pound each in B&M Bargains in Southport. I bought two and saved them for many years selling them around 2005 for about £40 each.

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