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The item you've had the longest in your collection ?
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The vast majority of my collection has been bought over the last 6 or 7 years as I sold up in 2009 and took a couple of years out. But I do have a couple of old timers in my collection. Firstly my only remaining childhood figures, I've had these five since I ripped them off cards 35 years ago (I only rediscovered them in a box in my parents loft a few years ago.)
And secondly this carded Luke X-Wing that I have owned since 1994. You may have heard the story before but this is one of the figures I had stolen in 2007 (which led to me selling up) but I was reuinted with it in 2012 when Joe from this forum (who sadly doesn't visit much any more) helped track it down for me.
And secondly this carded Luke X-Wing that I have owned since 1994. You may have heard the story before but this is one of the figures I had stolen in 2007 (which led to me selling up) but I was reuinted with it in 2012 when Joe from this forum (who sadly doesn't visit much any more) helped track it down for me.
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POTF 2 Luke Jedi, first ever figure.
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Yes, not a nice story at all Edd.
I wish I had my childhood toys.
I wish I had my childhood toys.
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sadly its all packed away at moment otherwise i would habe posted a pic, but as some will know i have palitoy snag moc and about 20 figs from my childhood in the early 80s that i found in the loft in oct 2013. i found this forum to ask about selling and was happily urged to hold on to them... oh and one of the loose figs was a vcj :roll: :lol: as you can guess7 yrs on and still collecting :lol: and have way more than i did as a kid :roll:
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This ... 42 years and counting!
Great thread 
Very hard for me to say which item I have had in my collection the longest. In the 90s I gave my little brother my star wars toy in 2001 I got it back :lol: but I was so stupid so I mixed my childhood collection with new items that I bought so today I can only ID a few items from my childhood and some of them could have been sold, but I know all weapons from childhood is still in my collection but again I can only ID a few of them because I was so stupid to mix them with what I bought in 2001 :roll:
But one of my first figures I can always ID, my farmer luke that was sold with a bespin saber on a tri-logo card, none of my friends had a farmer luke so I thought until 2001 that the bespin saber was the correct saber for luke farmboy and that there was not a yellow telescoping saber :lol:
Here is my 35 years old farmer luke and I have played with him for many hours :lol: he has also been with in the bath when I was a kid, all my figures was with me in the bath even r2 and r5 so they got damaged stickers
Very hard for me to say which item I have had in my collection the longest. In the 90s I gave my little brother my star wars toy in 2001 I got it back :lol: but I was so stupid so I mixed my childhood collection with new items that I bought so today I can only ID a few items from my childhood and some of them could have been sold, but I know all weapons from childhood is still in my collection but again I can only ID a few of them because I was so stupid to mix them with what I bought in 2001 :roll:
But one of my first figures I can always ID, my farmer luke that was sold with a bespin saber on a tri-logo card, none of my friends had a farmer luke so I thought until 2001 that the bespin saber was the correct saber for luke farmboy and that there was not a yellow telescoping saber :lol:
Here is my 35 years old farmer luke and I have played with him for many hours :lol: he has also been with in the bath when I was a kid, all my figures was with me in the bath even r2 and r5 so they got damaged stickers
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Thanks all, it`s great to see your pictures and the stories behind them.
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When I pulled my childhood collection down from my loft in the mid Nineties and started buying more figures, I just mingled them all together.
I was buying up job lots and amassed easily a couple of thousand toys and figures so no way of knowing which were my originals. In truth I'm not super sentimental about them, and would rather have a mint example than a playworn one (even if it was little me that did the playing!).
My Palitoy Death Star however is the one I had since childhood so that's got to be the longest.
I was buying up job lots and amassed easily a couple of thousand toys and figures so no way of knowing which were my originals. In truth I'm not super sentimental about them, and would rather have a mint example than a playworn one (even if it was little me that did the playing!).
My Palitoy Death Star however is the one I had since childhood so that's got to be the longest.
Excellent thread! Got these two on my seventh birthday- Zodiac Toys in Swindon. Love them to bits and will keep them forever.
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Nice idea for a thread, this Fascal sticker I've had for around 40 years and the Rebel Soldier and Sand Person are also childhood ones, although lost in a flowerbed for 15 years.
The Klaatu is one of the first as an adult collector. Bought carded in 1991/92 from a toy shop in Bradford and been displayed ever since. There was a bin full of them all with bubbles half falling off. Don't feel too bad about opening even though they were different times.
The Klaatu is one of the first as an adult collector. Bought carded in 1991/92 from a toy shop in Bradford and been displayed ever since. There was a bin full of them all with bubbles half falling off. Don't feel too bad about opening even though they were different times.
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I bought this early 78 in Woolworths. I was blown away by the cover and its claim to be the greatest film of the century. I didn't get to see it at the cinema until April but by then I'd read the book a few times. It was many years before I found out what a remora was!
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Love this thread...
This is mine...a Speeder Bike that I have only finished finding the missing parts to complete it.
I don't know when I bought this, and assumed that I had sold it along with everything else in the early 00's so most likely picked it up in the 90's.
When I was clearing out the loft when we moved earlier this year I found this in a box missing a few bits, but now it is complete and looking nice again.
This is mine...a Speeder Bike that I have only finished finding the missing parts to complete it.
I don't know when I bought this, and assumed that I had sold it along with everything else in the early 00's so most likely picked it up in the 90's.
When I was clearing out the loft when we moved earlier this year I found this in a box missing a few bits, but now it is complete and looking nice again.
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I'm lucky to still have my original figures from when I was a kid so getting on for almost 40 years now :shock: I'll always remember going up the escalator of my local Woolworths and when reaching the top seeing 'the wall' of figures - back then it felt like hundreds all mixed up on the arms and you had to go through every arm to check for a figure that you hadn't got
It was in that shop that I saw the first diorama - an AT-AT with Taun Tauns, Snowspeeder and various action figures all in an acrylic display box......I can still see it now Great memories.
It was in that shop that I saw the first diorama - an AT-AT with Taun Tauns, Snowspeeder and various action figures all in an acrylic display box......I can still see it now
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