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The Action Figure and Toy Collecting and Discussion Thread!

In addition, these are two of my recent additions featured cinematically in the dramatic retelling of attack on the Tantive IV!

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Cool Flame trooper
Another thing is I dont really like the main star wars movies like when i was a kid but i fascinated by alot of EU material witch is more interesting then the core movies
Thanks. I keep meaning to post more detailed pictures of the trooper. While I have not enjoyed at the SW material, the EU stuff always proves extremely interesting to research in to and explore more of it.
 
The Exo-6 figures are some of the best look Trek figures I've ever seen. Although I'll always have a soft spot for the old Playmates figures, which are pretty good for your tradition figures. I used to collect them as a kid and I probably have at least 100 of them. I have all (or at least almost all) of the main casts from TNG, DS9, and Voyager and a lot of the recurring characters like Q, Dukat, and Seska.
The only main characters I'm not sure about are Ezri Dax and Seven of Nine. I don't have many TOS characters since I didn't get into it until I was older.
 
Thanks. I keep meaning to post more detailed pictures of the trooper. While I have not enjoyed at the SW material, the EU stuff always proves extremely interesting to research in to and explore more of it.
The Old republic universe (witch is sadly non cannon now) is much more interesting then any of the main sires stuff
 
It depends, but this is not the thread for that;)
Unless, of course, there are action figures. :techman:
For instance, several years ago there was a two-pack action figure pack of Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma from "Tales of the Jedi," one of my favorite Star Wars storylines ever. I wish I had gotten those figures. The price on the current collectors' market is cost-prohibitive for me. Especially since I would want to open it and set up a diorama scene or something.

And TOTJ is still in my head canon. It took place thousands of years prior to the movies, and there's nothing in new Star Wars canon that flat-out contradicts it or makes it impossible to fit in.

Kor
 
A lot of those Legacy Collection Era Comic Book 2-packs command insane prices right now. Basically if it was a Walmart exclusive or had an EU Jedi or Sith in the set then expect to pay stratospheric prices.
 
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At last, I've gotten around to ordering a Vintage Collection 3.75" "Island Journey" Rey.
We were discussing it here in 2018. And I vaguely recall that early on the figure wasn't widely available, and the prices were pretty high. Now they're all over eBay pretty cheap. Funny how those things go.

I wish they had made the "Jedi Training" Rey in a Black Series/VCC version with more articulation etc. I have the basic five-point articulated one that they did, but it's quite limited. I've found somebody online that does a custom version, so guess I'll be ordering that soon even though it costs as much as five basic figures!

Kor
 
Unless, of course, there are action figures. :techman:
For instance, several years ago there was a two-pack action figure pack of Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma from "Tales of the Jedi," one of my favorite Star Wars storylines ever. I wish I had gotten those figures. The price on the current collectors' market is cost-prohibitive for me. Especially since I would want to open it and set up a diorama scene or something.

And TOTJ is still in my head canon. It took place thousands of years prior to the movies, and there's nothing in new Star Wars canon that flat-out contradicts it or makes it impossible to fit in.

Kor
I found TOTJ too annoying.
 
At last, I've gotten around to ordering a Vintage Collection 3.75" "Island Journey" Rey.
We were discussing it here in 2018. And I vaguely recall that early on the figure wasn't widely available, and the prices were pretty high. Now they're all over eBay pretty cheap. Funny how those things go.

I wish they had made the "Jedi Training" Rey in a Black Series/VCC version with more articulation etc. I have the basic five-point articulated one that they did, but it's quite limited. I've found somebody online that does a custom version, so guess I'll be ordering that soon even though it costs as much as five basic figures!

Kor

So now I've got that custom figure on order. :cool:

I also couldn't remember if there was ever a 3.75" Rey in the white outfit from TROS. So I looked it up and there was one in the Vintage Collection in 2019 but they didn't produce very many figures in that line. And apparently it suddenly shot up in price early last year, and hasn't gone back down. I managed to find one loose with all accessories for $45, much less than what it goes for in the package but still more than I want to spend on one of these. So I snatched it up since that's probably the cheapest it will ever be... who knows if they will ever re-release it.

Bye-bye paycheck. :sigh:

Kor
 
I'm still catching up on Star Wars stuff from the last few years that I never got around to getting until now. I got a 3.75" Black Series Luke Skywalker (Jedi Master). Cool figure, just a couple of little issues. Uh, little issues because these are little figures. Right? *crickets chirping*

Anyway, the left hand popped out really easily when I was just rotating it and not actually trying to take it out at all. It should have been made more secure than that unless it was meant to work with interchangeable hands, which it doesn't have. And at this size they would be easy to misplace anyway. I think I'll put a tiny piece of a removable glue dot into the socket just to help the hand stay in place while still allowing it to rotate. That's what I did for the blaster on the Rey Island Journey figure, since it kept falling out of the holster.

And Luke's belt has a hook that's obviously for hanging a lightsaber hilt with a loop on it, which the figure doesn't come with. Actually I can't think of any recent 3.75" figures that came with a deactivated lightsaber hilt with a loop on it, that I could potentially use for this (yeah yeah, I know he didn't have a saber in the movie with this costume, but that hook stands out to me). TROS Rey has a lightsaber hilt, but it doesn't have a loop. And TLJ Jedi Training Rey has the lightsaber with the blade, that has a loop on the hilt. But obviously it wouldn't work to have an activated lightsaber hanging from one's belt.

Kor
 
Great score, @Tom Hendricks ! Just this past Sunday I finally got a Koska Reeves, the last figure in her Black Series wave I'd been looking for. She reuses the Bo-Katan body with repainted armor and just one holster whereas Bo-Katan comes with two holsters. The Sasha Banks head sculpt on Koska Reeves isn't nearly as good as the Katie Sackhoff one but Hasbro is really knocking it out of the park lately with Real Photo paint apps on the faces!
 
I've been participating in this thread for so long but never actually shown any of my stuff. Here is a small squad of 3.75" Reys, showing her progression through the sequel trilogy. From left to right: Black Series - Jakku, Vintage Collection - Island Journey, Basic line/Force Link - Jedi Training, and Vintage Collection - The Rise of Skywalker. There are more accessories; I only included the ones that fit with the poses I was going for.

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The Jedi Training figure with basic five-point articulation is about to be replaced by a custom version I ordered from a third-party craftsperson, featuring full articulation. :cool: I must say, the plastic robe things make posing the legs a little tricky. I wish they could have done those in fabric.

Edit: There's supposed to be a picture in this post. It seems to be having intermittent trouble loading up. Maybe something's up with the image hosting site I use.

Kor
 
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