From a bit I read on io9:
Yeah, he recently said that the toys kept coming and coming, like something out of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Weird. I guess it’s a testament to the faithfulness of lawyers in combing through the word of every contract they receive and copying it into other contracts that rely on the first for their power. You’d have thought that after a few decades and thousands of branding deals that this would have been silently dropped at some point.
Annoying to be the guy who just got a deal to make a toy in Azerbaijan for Azerbaijany children who has to figure out Hamill’s address and send it.
I wonder what the collection is worth, both the face value and the collectible value. And who would buy such a thing?
Maybe Disney could use it for an exhibit in one of the theme parks.
So someone out there is being paid to find and send toys to Mark Hamill? I wonder how much it pays? What would the job title be?
You’d figure that they’d include that in the deal.
“Okay, yeah, sign here, indicating that you’ve read and understand you need to send one copy to this address in California.”
“Right, is that the Star Wars Hall of Fame museum or Lucas’ ranch?”
“No, it’s the Hamill private reserve.”
Does he have a Cocknocker figure as well?
Some of them are worth big bucks, especially unopened. I doubt Jar Jar is worth much.
I’ve also heard that Matt Groening refuses to let any Simpsons toy on the market until he sees and approves it. He has a warehouse full of rejects that I would pay (or kill) to get into.
A few years back Nickolas Cage sold his comic book collection most of the comics went for something like 3 or 4 times there value just because he owned them. I could see Mark Hamill’s collection selling for at least that much.
What would really be neat was if he opened the Mark Hamill Museum of Star Wars Toys.
I think as a complete collection it’s got to be orders of magnitude more, never mind the association with Hamill. If it’s truly every toy ever made, it must be worth…at least tens of millions.
I’m hoping that includes all the Lego sets. That alone would be worth a mint…
Think about this- A collection that large, with new pieces arriving all the time- He’s got to have someone on staff to work in the warehouse. (Or else hired a warehouse service) Somewhere in California, there’s a guy who’s job is to shelve Mark Hamill’s toys.
Reminds me of that story about Barbara Streisand- supposedly she loves shopping so much that she had a replica of a mall -Complete with clerks- built in the basement of one of her mansions, and stocks it with the things she buys.
I just paid money to go to the National Farm Toy Museum. It is, as the name would suggest, a museum of farm toys. I thought it was really cool.
A National Star Wars Toy Museum would be like 10 time cooler, and would attract a larger audience than just aging guys who grew up on farms. Sounds like an idea!
I wouldn’t go out of my way to see Hamill’s toy museum, but Lucas is building a museum of narrative art. He was going to build it in Chicago but they dicked around too much so it’s going to be built in CA, maybe LA or SF area. I could see Hamill’s collection getting an exhibit in that.
Not everything is still in collectible condition.
JAQ, is a farm toy a toy about farming (like a barn playset with plastic cows), or is it a toy that actual farm kids would play with (like a doll made from an old feedsack)?
And I thought it was cool enough that he was getting one of every toy, but learning that he gave them to his kids to actually play with? That pushes it over into completely awesome. This guy gets it: Toys are meant to be played with.
Toys that are replicas of farm machinery. So you can farm just like your dad.
Such as this. The common scale is 1/16.
The museum also has dioramas of farm scenes. Dyersville is the original location of Ertl, the company that produces the majority of farm toys.
I saw Tom Selleck on the Letterman show years ago; he brought along with him a prototype Magnum: P.I. action figure of his character. He said he’d insisted, as was his right under his studio contract, on seeing a mockup before he’d approve it for mass production, but then refused to give his approval, just so that he’d have the only one.
Seemed like a dick move to me.
Barbra Streisand has an entire boutique shopping mall in the basement of one of her houses. There’s a one-man play about the (imagined) “mall manager” and his relationship to the B. (ETA: “Buyer & Cellar.”)
(And… years ago, Bill Gates built a new house and the DJ reading the item got to the “…$2.5 million caretaker’s house.” She repeated the phrase several times. Then added, “CAREER CHANGE!”)
So, apparently Mark has taken it to the next level, and is making a reality show about collectors and their collections- “Mark Hamill’s Pop Culture Quest”. Airing on Comic-Con HQ, whatever that is. Also, his co-host is some kind of muppet. Why not?
I have to wonder, though, how popular Magnum P.I. action figures and playsets would have been. Was it ever a big show with kids? I was a kid/preteen then and never watched it - it was something my grandmother liked!