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Another wave of SW toy collecting nostalgia here but also a genuine interest in how we all stored our figures back in the day.
I started buying figures in early 1981 but about 3 and a bit years later pretty much gave up on Star Wars mid to late 1984 with the exception of a mail-away Anakin in early 85 I think plus a Luke figure as a Xmas present December 1984. Up until 1982 I stored my figures and cardbacks in a shoebox I believe but then moved on to a empty plastic sweets container jar that my Aunt who worked in the local village café at the time brought back for myself and my brother (her nephews who lived next door) and her son, all of us big SW fans.
While the other two used their jars for keeping their Lego in, I opted to store all my SW figures in there and then would seal them off for safety with the lid. Whenever I opened the lid to take out the figures and accompanying weapons and accessories the smell of plastic was so strong that I forever associate it with my childhood and playing outdoors in the sun - sheer nostalgia, I know! The plastic jar is where they remained for the best part of 17 years up until I foolishly sold off my entire vintage toys in the summer of 1999 and then deeply regretted it mere weeks later. Anyway, over the past seven or so years I have bought up all the figures I once owned and chanced upon a few extras along the way but drew the line at the Last 17 for the most part as I don't have any connection to them having never seen them first time around.
Recently I decided to buy a few of the old plastic sweet jars from eBay (my daughter got the extra couple to use as toy storage of a more modern kind!) and transfer the figures that I originally owned back into an almost identical jar for the sheer nostalgia of it. Enclosed is a set of poorly taken pictures that show the stages where I have placed sets of figures into the jar, case by case, figure wave after wave as I pretty much first bought them. I've also photographed next to them the figures that I didn't own at the time of first collecting but now do 30 years on but that can't go into the jar under my 'keeping it true to the first time round' rules.
The question is now - do I keep them in there for another 17 years to build up the vibe again?!
Would love to hear about your own figure storage tales from back in the day.
I started buying figures in early 1981 but about 3 and a bit years later pretty much gave up on Star Wars mid to late 1984 with the exception of a mail-away Anakin in early 85 I think plus a Luke figure as a Xmas present December 1984. Up until 1982 I stored my figures and cardbacks in a shoebox I believe but then moved on to a empty plastic sweets container jar that my Aunt who worked in the local village café at the time brought back for myself and my brother (her nephews who lived next door) and her son, all of us big SW fans.
While the other two used their jars for keeping their Lego in, I opted to store all my SW figures in there and then would seal them off for safety with the lid. Whenever I opened the lid to take out the figures and accompanying weapons and accessories the smell of plastic was so strong that I forever associate it with my childhood and playing outdoors in the sun - sheer nostalgia, I know! The plastic jar is where they remained for the best part of 17 years up until I foolishly sold off my entire vintage toys in the summer of 1999 and then deeply regretted it mere weeks later. Anyway, over the past seven or so years I have bought up all the figures I once owned and chanced upon a few extras along the way but drew the line at the Last 17 for the most part as I don't have any connection to them having never seen them first time around.
Recently I decided to buy a few of the old plastic sweet jars from eBay (my daughter got the extra couple to use as toy storage of a more modern kind!) and transfer the figures that I originally owned back into an almost identical jar for the sheer nostalgia of it. Enclosed is a set of poorly taken pictures that show the stages where I have placed sets of figures into the jar, case by case, figure wave after wave as I pretty much first bought them. I've also photographed next to them the figures that I didn't own at the time of first collecting but now do 30 years on but that can't go into the jar under my 'keeping it true to the first time round' rules.
The question is now - do I keep them in there for another 17 years to build up the vibe again?!
Would love to hear about your own figure storage tales from back in the day.