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Post by Bravo on Dec 8, 2012 14:45:54 GMT -8
Ordered Lumat, Prune Face, Weequay and A Naboo Pilot for under $30 total on Amazon. Lumat was $8, Prune Face around $7...Weequay $10. The pilot was $4...I really don't care about most episode 1 characters, but what the hell. The vintage one comes with two helmets, which is better than 3D glasses the wal-mart one came with.
Maybe I should've gotten Ahsoka. I dunno, IIRC she was still $13. I want Original Trilogy stuff above all else these days, since retail was barren this year.
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Post by Felix on Dec 10, 2012 9:45:27 GMT -8
That rocks :-) I too have also ordered a bunch of stuff from Amazon with the Original Trilogy as my primary focus. If you can find the deals with the free shipping, there's some pretty good scores to be had.
I'd get Ahsoka if I were you, I also ordered Aurra Sing. Gonna keep both on the card.
I ordered Luke Skywalkers Tauntaun, I've never had a Tauntaun, so I'm very happy to finally be adding him. Some other Hoth stuff, Snowtrooper with E-web canon, the gonk droid and R-3PO. Nien Numb, Colonel Cracken, Wicket, Logray, and Lumat. I can't remember what else. Oh, a Slave Leia off ebay. That's my most expensive purchase.
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Post by Felix on Dec 10, 2012 17:04:13 GMT -8
My Tauntaun and slave Leia arrived today. The Tauntaun is incredible. Slave Leia, the one with the switch out legs is pretty nice. The paint on the non-poseable legs could be better, but overall Leia looks much better in person than I've seen in pictures.
As far as Original Trilogy stuff goes, I just need a couple more things for Jabbas Palace: The Rancor, Rappertunie (might pass since it's just a special edition loser), and I'd love to get a Vintage Yak-Face :-)
The Cantina will take me a while to complete, don't really have anything for that display yet.
Hoth, Mainly just need Han and his Tauntaun, a Wampa, and a Probe Droid.
Rebel Hanger is mainly complete.
Bespin, not sure if I'll do this... I probably will, but it will be the last thing I work on.
Death Star Hanger, I don't know how much effort I would put into this, most likely not too much, but I do want a couple of those new Imperial Royal Guards.
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Post by Zarana-X on Dec 10, 2012 21:08:07 GMT -8
Remember the Cyclone I got a year or so ago?  I finally got around to cleaning it up, and making it into a custom of Rand's Cyclone. I need to make the armor plates on the front wheel, as this had none on it, and the ones it comes with are the missile launcher ones like on Scott's. Color matching that weird green color is gonna be a pain.  I was also thinking of making the saddle bags.   I'm pretty pleased with it, I'm thinking about painting Scott's now, since its kinda fucked up, anyway. I can only make it better.  |
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Post by Felix on Dec 11, 2012 0:43:30 GMT -8
Very impressive. Cyclones are so awesome.
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Post by Swindle on Dec 11, 2012 9:14:44 GMT -8
Destro riding it cracks me up.
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Post by Zarana-X on Dec 11, 2012 20:47:25 GMT -8
Destro riding it cracks me up. I just happened to get those both from the same ebay seller, so I put him on there for the pic. I've been brainstorming on how I could make Lancer's or Rook's. But then I would need a Lancer. That's another thing, been thinking on how to make customs to fill out the missing cast for Next Gen, and replace figures with bad sculpts like Rook. I think I could make Lunk out of Roadpig, and Marlene out of Covergirl. (Og Lunk is super rare and pricey, but then again, so is Covergirl.) Ive seen a custom Lancer made out of Corg, with Rand's torso. |
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Post by Felix on Dec 12, 2012 5:09:05 GMT -8
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Post by Zarana-X on Dec 12, 2012 5:30:15 GMT -8
I like how Bosk appears to be gasping at the guy on the floor, and the tauntaun is flipping out behind the guys in the breifing.  Who is the black guy in the brown coat? Looks like some regular guy just wandered in off the street. |
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Post by Bravo on Dec 12, 2012 8:10:00 GMT -8
Who is the black guy in the brown coat? Looks like some regular guy just wandered in off the street. Talon Karrde, he's from a comic pack, came with Grand Admiral Thrawn. Karrde is some crime boss or something in some Post-Return of the Jedi novels. The figure is plain enough to use in Star Wars or modern Earth setting (he's too short to use with current Joes, though). Felix's pictures remind me there's quite a few figures I've never got around to getting. Like Yarna, Rancor Keeper, Bubo the dog monster. Never carded for the Special Edition band, though. Maybe if the figures had not been so preposed. |
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Post by Swindle on Dec 12, 2012 19:15:40 GMT -8
Jabba's palace has some of the coolist characters.
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Post by Felix on Dec 13, 2012 0:39:39 GMT -8
Thanks guys. :-) I ran out of memory on the card before I got to the Jedi, which are on the same shelf with Luke at the moment. Those band guys aren't too bad for what they do. Amanaman is torturing the main special edition band guy with his stick I'd love to do a custom with the new Oola for the third Asian twi-lek. Finally opened up my Ewok five pack, man those little guys are fun to play with  I'm going to do an Ewok village for sure. |
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Post by Bravo on Dec 15, 2012 19:40:05 GMT -8
Toy R Us is getting cases of Pursuit of Cobra/30th in lately. Found Shadow Tracker at Toys R Us today. Bought him. His ebay prices are $15 and up. Not sure I'll keep him.
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Post by Zarana-X on Dec 17, 2012 14:18:41 GMT -8
Some people say they don't like gift cards or cash. "If you don't know what to get me, you don't know me that well." Fuck that, I'd rather pick my own gifts anyway. I already have a bunch of shit I don't want, don't need more just because its a gift. Anyway, I got an ebay gift card and already did some Christmas shopping, for myself! Dolza, mint on fucked up card. Looks worse in person, almost like cardboard lasagna. I opend him www.ebay.com/itm/251189701355?ssPageName=STRK That's no GO Bot, It's an Alpha Fighter. Reboxed Rook's Alpha Fighter. I had this as a kid, before I knew what it really was. Did a crappy job as it was my first mech model, and is fairly complicated. www.ebay.com/itm/181027648673?ssPageName=STRK Also not a Go Bot. Lancer's Cyclone. I have this kit, I painted it the way it should be, as Lancer, but that was 20 years ago, and I want another go at it. www.ebay.com/itm/181030435188?ssPageName=STRKMore than I wanted to pay for this, but they only show up on Ebay once a year, if that. There are 4 cars in this series. This is the most common one, but all of them are incredible hard to find. I'm partly nuts, because I also already have this kit. It's a survivor from when I was 13, and I recently rebuilt mine. www.ebay.com/itm/281011537919?ssPageName=STRK |
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Post by Zarana-X on Dec 17, 2012 14:36:36 GMT -8
Here's the models I already have, that I just bought, again...  Before:  After:  |
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