Hi,
I like to display my loose vintage figures in the order the waves were released, and then within each wave, in the order of appearance within the saga, e.g. the Early Bird 4 were the very first figures released globally, and so I display them first in my cabinet in the order: R2-D2, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and then Chewbacca, since that is of course the order those characters first appeared in the original Star Wars.
From the 20 backs onwards, I am happy that I know the correct figure release order, but I am slightly fuzzy on what is 'correct' for the release order of the remaining eight 12 back figures. Were they all released together, or were they released in waves? I am looking for the order in which they first appeared anywhere in the world (i.e. if they were all released together in America first, but were then released in waves in the UK later, then I would treat them as being released all together for the purposes of arranging my loose figures).
I have searched on-line for a definitive release order, but cannot seem to find one, and yet I am fairly sure I remember reading somewhere that the 12 original figures were not all released at once, but rather were themselves released in waves after the Early Bird 4. Now of course, I may be completely wrong about this, or it may perhaps have been a Palitoy only thing here in the UK, but I wonder whether anyone here knows whether there is a definitive release order for the next 8 figures after the Early Bird 4, please?
Again, I may be quite wrong, but I'm old enough to remember actually buying Palitoy 12 backs when they first came out, and it seemed to take me forever to find a Jawa; I even remember the lady in Ware Toy Shop making some comment about him 'being rare' to my 6-year old self, which may be because he was short-packed and hence always sold out first, or may be because he was not in the early cases. Perhaps it was delayed due to the running change from the vinyl cape, or perhaps it is indeed because the Jawa was in the last wave (a wave of 1?) of the first 12 figures to be released. Or is my mind playing tricks on me and they were all released together after all?
Can anyone help me with a definitive release order for these 8 figures please? My loose collection is just begging to be rearranged into the 'correct' order (and yes, I probably am being a bit anal about this, but hey, that's collecting! )
Many thanks.
I like to display my loose vintage figures in the order the waves were released, and then within each wave, in the order of appearance within the saga, e.g. the Early Bird 4 were the very first figures released globally, and so I display them first in my cabinet in the order: R2-D2, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and then Chewbacca, since that is of course the order those characters first appeared in the original Star Wars.
From the 20 backs onwards, I am happy that I know the correct figure release order, but I am slightly fuzzy on what is 'correct' for the release order of the remaining eight 12 back figures. Were they all released together, or were they released in waves? I am looking for the order in which they first appeared anywhere in the world (i.e. if they were all released together in America first, but were then released in waves in the UK later, then I would treat them as being released all together for the purposes of arranging my loose figures).
I have searched on-line for a definitive release order, but cannot seem to find one, and yet I am fairly sure I remember reading somewhere that the 12 original figures were not all released at once, but rather were themselves released in waves after the Early Bird 4. Now of course, I may be completely wrong about this, or it may perhaps have been a Palitoy only thing here in the UK, but I wonder whether anyone here knows whether there is a definitive release order for the next 8 figures after the Early Bird 4, please?
Again, I may be quite wrong, but I'm old enough to remember actually buying Palitoy 12 backs when they first came out, and it seemed to take me forever to find a Jawa; I even remember the lady in Ware Toy Shop making some comment about him 'being rare' to my 6-year old self, which may be because he was short-packed and hence always sold out first, or may be because he was not in the early cases. Perhaps it was delayed due to the running change from the vinyl cape, or perhaps it is indeed because the Jawa was in the last wave (a wave of 1?) of the first 12 figures to be released. Or is my mind playing tricks on me and they were all released together after all?
Can anyone help me with a definitive release order for these 8 figures please? My loose collection is just begging to be rearranged into the 'correct' order (and yes, I probably am being a bit anal about this, but hey, that's collecting! )
Many thanks.