I’ve been ridding myself of old Star Wars toys over the last couple of weeks. Haven’t sold them all, but since I’ve gone back to work after the baby I didn’t want to sell a whole lot. Well I found an old Chewie 12" figure, except he had no arms and I don’t have them any more. Since I had other stuff up I figured why not see what I could get for him.
Well it seems an armless Chewie is worth about $12.51. I never would have guessed, and the 12" Vader I sold only went for $10. If that link doesn’t work then it’s item 6040589696.
I’m picturing someone who’s been sitting (so to speak) on a pair of Chewie arms for 10 years or so seeing your sale and shrieking in delight. Of course, that shriek might have been some kind of result of sitting on the Chewie arms – the picture, blessedly, starts getting a little bit vague at that point.
(Now kicking myself for giving my nearly-complete collection of Star Wars toys away in 1985 because I’d “outgrown” them and didn’t want to take them with me when I left hom.) :smack:
All of the 12" figures, all the Kenner ships except for the B-wing in, all the 6" figures with many duplicates, most of the Kenner playsets, a buttload of die-cast ships and vehicles – put in boxes and carried down the block to some ten-year-old neighbor kids. “Hey kids, want some toys?”
Now even the wind-up R2D2 that I valued not at all (because it walked on two superfluous legs) is valuated at over $300. I had two.
Crap. Those little bastids better have enjoyed the hell out of those toys.
Well I used to throw the original stuff down the stairs so I know how it goes. My parents thought I was still into the Star Wars stuff at like 12 and bought me all the disconuted stuff. My mother kept it in the attic until a couple of years ago when she made me come get it all. Too bad I’m missing a good amount of parts though or I could make a killing.
My cheap ass BIL bought my nephew some action figures from a movie that bombed that went on sale for 90% off regular price(all collectively for under $10). Twenty-five years later, he sold them for over $1000! One even had chew marks from their dog! :eek:
I am on the buying end of this nonsense- my 4 & 6 year old boys have discovered the old Toho Godzilla movies, so we have bought them a bunch of toys.
Whoever holds the rights to the Godzilla stuff needs to loosen their damn grip… I am paying $50 for a set of rubber monsters that probably retailed for about $8 US in Japan…
Garage sale about 1985. Star Wars figures, the original 12 with the neato stand that you could only get by mailing in proof of purchase logos from the cardboard backing.
A nearly complete set given away to a friend’s bratty sons during a “too cool to have this in my possession” moment back in college. I still had the original Death Star playset with the foam chunks in the trash compactor! The original X-Wing and TIE Fighter, hell I had Ben Kenobi with the dumb plastic lightsaber still in his arm!
