Snaketibe said:Come on guys, I can't be the only person to own one of these. It's not exactly Vlix! :lol:
I'm looking forward to seeing other member's examples, and hopefully even a MOC or two, since I don't have one to share. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Lars. Hopefully some other members will be willing to share their figuresPomse2001 said:Snaketibe said:Come on guys, I can't be the only person to own one of these. It's not exactly Vlix! :lol:
I'm looking forward to seeing other member's examples, and hopefully even a MOC or two, since I don't have one to share. Can anyone help?
Sorry mate I am so busy at the moment, I will read your post later when I get some more time. The pictures looks fantastic, great collection you have,thanks for sharing it
Snaketibe said:Thanks, Lars. Hopefully some other members will be willing to share their figuresPomse2001 said:Snaketibe said:Come on guys, I can't be the only person to own one of these. It's not exactly Vlix! :lol:
I'm looking forward to seeing other member's examples, and hopefully even a MOC or two, since I don't have one to share. Can anyone help?
Sorry mate I am so busy at the moment, I will read your post later when I get some more time. The pictures looks fantastic, great collection you have,thanks for sharing it
Two super examples! I do love a POTF card and I think the green on C-3PO's makes for one of the best looking ones out there. Also, your baggie looks spotlessly clean and fresh.Mini99 said:Sorry about the late entry, I've not been about for the last week so much.
Here are my two, a POTF MOC and my one and only baggie.
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Another super baggied example!spoons said:Amazing how few 3POs are owned by us :shock:
I can add another baggie, and will own a carded one some day
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Snaketibe said:Another super baggied example!spoons said:Amazing how few 3POs are owned by us :shock:
I can add another baggie, and will own a carded one some day
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Thanks,Snaketibe said:Two super examples! I do love a POTF card and I think the green on C-3PO's makes for one of the best looking ones out there. Also, your baggie looks spotlessly clean and fresh.Mini99 said:Sorry about the late entry, I've not been about for the last week so much.
Here are my two, a POTF MOC and my one and only baggie.
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Thanks for sharing
I'll try and photograph mine tomorrowSnaketibe said:Come on guys, I can't be the only person to own one of these. It's not exactly Vlix! :lol:
I'm looking forward to seeing other member's examples, and hopefully even a MOC or two, since I don't have one to share. Can anyone help?
Excellent! I look forward to seeing itTheJabbaWookie said:I'll try and photograph mine tomorrowSnaketibe said:Come on guys, I can't be the only person to own one of these. It's not exactly Vlix! :lol:
I'm looking forward to seeing other member's examples, and hopefully even a MOC or two, since I don't have one to share. Can anyone help?
Snaketibe said:It may have been a pretty easy retool / reissue for Kenner to change this figure to make its limbs removable back in the 80's, but it's hard to deny that it didn't add a ton of play value to the toy! A brilliant yet simple idea, and presumably quite cheap for Kenner to do as well, but it resulted in a really neat figure which could recreate his unfortunate encounter with Dark Helmet's troops back on Bespin ;-)
I do like this figure, but my one big complaint about it is that it was never really gold enough. There may have been some fading in colour over the intervening decades, but I still remember my removable limbs C-3PO back in the 80's looking significantly less gold than my fixed limbs one. That gripe aside, this is a great little figure that even comes with a bag to shove him in when Chewie wants to go backpacking :lol:
I can't say I've ever found a huge amount of visually different variants with this figure. The gold paint does seem to come in a few different shades (again, this may be down to fading), ranging from goldish to practically silver, but the only 'noticeable' sculpting difference (and let's face it, it's not that noticeable!) is that some variants have small circles below their knees (see below).
As for mine, I have three different variants, two with circles, one without. They are all different shades of gold, but photographing them is a nightmare with my camera! Using a flash makes them appear mostly black, and using no flash requires a lot of colour correction in Photoshop to get them looking anywhere near how they actually do. In short, the colour difference (and surface details, for that matter), I have found quite tricky to capture in pictures. I've done my best though and also included both flash and no flash versions.
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Mini99 said:Sorry about the late entry, I've not been about for the last week so much.
Here are my two, a POTF MOC and my one and only baggie.
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spoons said:Amazing how few 3POs are owned by us :shock:
I can add another baggie, and will own a carded one some day
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TheJabbaWookie said:I have two loose examples, both no coo. The one on the left is the common Raised Bar No Coo. This example came was bought with its original baggie for both figure and cargo net. The other example is the much rarer Smooth European CoO (so called Lili Ledy European counterpart). Apart from the CoO helping to identify this variant you can also determine it from the copper colour on the end of the limbs where it snaps into the figure. This particular example is unusually gold as most documented examples are much more silver in appearance.
In addition I also have a baggie and a Palitoy ROTJ 45 back.
Thanks Lars. Just wish I had the room to display itPomse2001 said:TheJabbaWookie said:I have two loose examples, both no coo. The one on the left is the common Raised Bar No Coo. This example came was bought with its original baggie for both figure and cargo net. The other example is the much rarer Smooth European CoO (so called Lili Ledy European counterpart). Apart from the CoO helping to identify this variant you can also determine it from the copper colour on the end of the limbs where it snaps into the figure. This particular example is unusually gold as most documented examples are much more silver in appearance.
In addition I also have a baggie and a Palitoy ROTJ 45 back.
Thanks mate for sharing your collection and thanks for the info, it was great reading Your collection looks fantastic :wink: