Hello. I used to be a member on here years ago and a collector of vintage SW figures. My membership details are lost in the mists if time.
Life and family meant that I haven't even thought about my collection in years. Until my lad started playing with some of my old beat up figures from when I was a lad. I got my collection out the loft, got interested again and an tempted to build another complete set with my lad. Unless he gets bored (I'll probably carry on anyway).
Now I built my collection years ago. 1999 was when I started. Although later on I did buy from eBay, I mainly bought from people. Real live people.
It seems every single one of those people have disappeared, rather depressingly.
So two questions:
1. Is collecting vintage SW going to be an online endeavour nowadays? Do people still have such things as shops. Yes I sound like an old fart
2. Anyone else remember these guys? In descending order of the masses of figures I bought from them. Would love to know what happened to them all:
Bob in the antiques market in the barbican in Plymouth. Spent hundreds there
Mark Hignett aka Spikes collectibles In torpoint. Used to do memorabilia at the NEC
The chap in Gloucester docks. Dave from memory. In fact there were two big dealers there. One on the third floor and one ground floor. Was very depressed when I went back to Gloucester to find nothing there
Purple Haze in Plymouth. They didn't have much on sale but they did trigger my interest with their full set on the wall at the back of the shop. Kathy's comics too although they didn't have much
Speckled Hen in Exeter.
Sellers at memorabilia at the NEC. Luminous Beings? Another bunch of guys who were heavily into variants. A chap who was selling tri logo boba fetts for 15 a pop out of a big bag. Wish I could remember the names now. I sent their again for old times sake circa 2005ish. There was nothing vintage really and never went again.
Anyone out there?
Life and family meant that I haven't even thought about my collection in years. Until my lad started playing with some of my old beat up figures from when I was a lad. I got my collection out the loft, got interested again and an tempted to build another complete set with my lad. Unless he gets bored (I'll probably carry on anyway).
Now I built my collection years ago. 1999 was when I started. Although later on I did buy from eBay, I mainly bought from people. Real live people.
It seems every single one of those people have disappeared, rather depressingly.
So two questions:
1. Is collecting vintage SW going to be an online endeavour nowadays? Do people still have such things as shops. Yes I sound like an old fart
2. Anyone else remember these guys? In descending order of the masses of figures I bought from them. Would love to know what happened to them all:
Bob in the antiques market in the barbican in Plymouth. Spent hundreds there
Mark Hignett aka Spikes collectibles In torpoint. Used to do memorabilia at the NEC
The chap in Gloucester docks. Dave from memory. In fact there were two big dealers there. One on the third floor and one ground floor. Was very depressed when I went back to Gloucester to find nothing there
Purple Haze in Plymouth. They didn't have much on sale but they did trigger my interest with their full set on the wall at the back of the shop. Kathy's comics too although they didn't have much
Speckled Hen in Exeter.
Sellers at memorabilia at the NEC. Luminous Beings? Another bunch of guys who were heavily into variants. A chap who was selling tri logo boba fetts for 15 a pop out of a big bag. Wish I could remember the names now. I sent their again for old times sake circa 2005ish. There was nothing vintage really and never went again.
Anyone out there?