What Star Wars toys do/did you have?

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1

I used to have a fair number of them, but like most of my toys, I gave them to my younger cousins eventually. :sigh: Oh well. I still haven’t picked up any of the newer Lego toys, one of these days. So let’s see, I had:

Battle Damaged X-Wing with Luke in pilot outfit
Imperial Shuttle with Emperor and Imperial Guards
either TIE Fighter or Interceptor, don’t remember which, with pilot
Y-Wing with pilot
Snow Speeder, don’t remember who it came with
Hoth set with soldiers
Darth Vader
Obi-Wan

A friend of mine had the Falcon and Slave I, and we both had other figures. I can’t remember now who had what exactly because we were always leaving stuff at each other’s houses.

2

I never had Star Wars toys as a kid but I’ve got some now.

A small (six in) x-wing.

The Micro-machine Sail Barge with the tiny plastic figures that hurt like hell when you step on them bare foot.

A fun light saber dueling game from TPM.

And Darth Vader lip balm. (have you seen this guys lips? I don’t think getting his endorsement is such a great thing for this product.)

Plus I have the following christmas ornaments.

Han
Luke
Leia
Falcon

3

My sister and I had a number of action figures. I can remember Luke, Leia, Han, C3PO, R2D2, Yoda, and Darth Vader. We might have had one or two more.

The serious fans might want to skip ahead to the next message now.

My father built us a house for them out of some produce crates from the grocery store. We usually played that all of them except Vader (who was of course still the Bad Guy) were roommates in the house. They’d go out and save the Galaxy, and then come home and argue about whose turn it was to cook and who left the smelly socks in the laundry room. :smiley:

4

i had a ton of figures, my favorites being luke, han, boba, and darth vader, of course. i had darth’s tie fighter, with the octagonal wings, which i thought was pretty dope. the taun-taun with the stomach you could shove luke into was cool. luke’s little brown two seater joint from tatooine was a favorite. i also had a c3p0 that you could pulll the arms and legs off of. oh yeah, the speeder bike from jedi was one of the last star wars toys i (as in my parents) bought.

my parents were too cheap or poor to get me the big stuff. but my friend had the millenium falcon, the jabba playset, and an at-at, so it wasn’t a big deal.

5

I had a medium size bunch of toys as a kid: (jedi luke, hoth luke, bespin han, hoth han, vader, cloud car pilot, lobot, pull apart 3po, r2 w/periscope, ig88, chief chirpa, logray, teebo, wicket, skiff guard lando, star destroyer, speeder bike, taun taun w/open stomach, black carrying case, yoda puppet, maybe a few more figures, empire atari game, jedi arena atari game.)

That all burned up in a fire. (moved out of old house. new house not built yet, stayed in bungalo for 3 months, put stuff in storage. storage place burned down.)

Had nothing for a long time, then Phantom Mencae came out and I started buying again. The completist bug bit me, and I’ve been buying ever since.

Now I have: Every figure from episode 1, every figure from episode 2 up to the royal guard, bespin luke, removable cloak vader, emperor’s wrath vader, empire yoda, old obi-wan, stormtrooper luke, bespin han and leia, skiff guard lando, ketwol, hammerhead, emperor, mechanic chewie, slave leia, most of the legos, most of the beanie buddies, a bunch of micro-machines, 2 lightsabers, a life-size cardboard yoda, and a bunch more…

I realize how sad this is…

6

One Darth Maul action figure, sitting on my cubicle.

I’ m considering getting the new AotC R2-D2 as well, just because he’s got the light-up eye and beeps when you push the button. :wink:

7

I had more than I can list … my favorites were my A-Wing, Imperial Cruiser and B-Wing.

Colin

8

Oh, here we go…

I’ve got most of the Episode I figures and most of the currently released Episode II figures. But…I’m a much bigger fan of the Lego stuff, because it’s all modular. (You can crash your X-Wing and then reassemble it, good as new? Hot-cha!) These include:
The X-Wing, the Y-Wing, the A-Wing, the B-Wing, the Millenium Falcon, the Imperial Shuttle, Vader’s Tie, standard Tie, Slave-I (standard), Slave I (Episode II version), the Mos Espa Podrace, the Trade Federation AAT, the MMT, the Twin-Pod Car, Anakin and Obi-Wan’s yellow car, Zam Wessel’s speeder, an Imperial AT-ST, the Ewok Attack, the Imperial Speeder Bikes, the Count Dooku set, and oh yeah, a Mindstorms AT-AT and the Mindstorms R2D2, which I’ve been modifying over the last two years to make more realistic.

Whew! I could have paid my way through law school with all the Legos I’ve bought…

9

I still have my entire Kenner action figure collection, which amounts to about 90% of the line. I stopped collecting before I could get all the RotJ figures, but I have the rest. I also have the Han Solo blaster pistol and (I think) the blaster rifle, minus the folding stock.

I also used to have some of the vehicles – Luke’s landspeeder, an X-Wing, a TIE fighter and Vader’s TIE Advanced. These are gone, though.

10

I only had a handful of action figures from the original trilogy. I had Leia in her white outfit from Episode IV and in her Bepsin gown from Episode V. I had Luke in his tan jumpsuit from and Han in his brown pants, navy jacket - both from Episode V. I had an R2-D2, C3PO, and a Yoda as well.

My best friend had more action figures. It was hard playing with our SW figures because there was only the one girl. For a time, we drew straws to see who got to be Leia (and therefore date Han). That proved unsatisfactory, so we invented another female character named Marcina (???!) to serve as Luke’s love interest. (I think we based her off of a brief glimpse we had of another women stitting at a computer terminal in one of the Hoth scenes in “Empire.”) Marcina was still unsatisfactory because both of us only cared about dating Han. (Poor Luke!) Later on, we used Han and Luke as boyfriends for our Dazzle Dolls™. The guys were a little shorter, but the girls were supposed to be high-fashion models so it was OK.

11

I was a HUGE Star Wars fan as a little girl. I think I saw ANH about 9 times when it came out-and I was only 5! So I mostly got SW stuff for my birthday that summer and for Christmas.

I’ve got lots of action figures–All the main characters inlcuding Obi Wan and Darth, 3PO & R2, Leia, Han, about 5 storm troopers, regular Luke and fighter pilot Luke, two Jawas, two Tusken raiders, plus some various monsters whose names I don’t know. The cool thing is that I still have almost all their little plastic capes and weapons. Can’t believe I didn’t lose every single one of those as a kid.

I have two Millenium Falcons (got both for my birthday and only played with one–I think the other is actually still in the box and I know it has all the pieces. Wonder what that’s worth?)
Also have Luke’s speeder from Tatooine, an X-wing, a Y-wing, tie fighter and the Cloud City Pod thingy.

And my very favorite is the Death Star play set. I don’t know anybody else who had one when I was a kid and I’ve still never heard of anybody who’s got one now. It’s a three story tower thingy, with the “control center” on the top story, the second story has the retracting brigde for Luke & Leia to swing over and the bottom story has a removable trash compacter with a trap door, complete with styrofoam “trash” nuggets and a green trash compactor monster. There was a crank on the side that you could turn and it would move the wall in, compacting the trash. I played the heck outta that thing. Anybody else have a Death Star Playset?

After seeing AotC, I have asked for a light saber Yoda for my birthday. Before we saw the movie, I was in Target with hubby and I saw a picture of lightsaber yoda on the back of one of the other action figures and predicted that it would be the perpetual sold out toy. Now that I’ve seen the movie, I’m sure it will be! If anybody knows where we can find one, let me know so hubby can get it for my b-day!

12

When I was a kid, I was THE MAN for awhile because I had the Millenium Falcon (sans radar dish, which my 4 year old sister broke off about five minutes after the toy was assembled).

Then this kid named Brandon down the street got the Death Star playset. Totally stole my neighborhood thunder. That 'lil bastard.

I had a whole mess of figures and a couple of other vehicles (X-wing, landspeeder and snow speeder spring to mind), but the Falcon ruled.

13

I still have all my SW/ESB toys at my parents’ house. They’re in pretty good shape, but I played with them a ton, so they’re not in the original packaging or anything. Over X-Mas I got them out - what a trip. Here’s the highlights:
[ul]
[li] Millenium Falcon, sans the laser cannon chair. (But is still has the radar dish, secret floor compartment and chess table).[/li][li] Death Star playset, sans the foam garbage. Still has the monster and the orange garbage compactor with moving wall, the retractable floor panel, and the elevator.[/li][li] TIE fighter w/the detachable wings[/li][li] Slave I, with frozen Han[/li][li] AT-AT[/li][li] Twin Pod Cloud Car[/li][li] Snowspeeder - still the best “gun” effect of all the toys. Still has the harpoon, although I think the string is some of my Mom’s thread[/li][li] Giant Darth Vader head that holds all the action figures and guns, including some “extra” toys and guns that I ordered with proof-of-purchase seals, like gas masks.[/li][li] Cylon raider with the missles that actually shot out. (OK, not SW, but it’s in there with the rest of them.[/li][/ul]

14

Not many. I had a GI Joe-like storm trooper, who, like Octavia’s Han and Luke lived with small fashion dolls. I don’t think he was anyone’s love interest though, more of a roommate to the weird diver guy with the octopus. (I had lots of toys I can’t identify properly)

and a 1.5 inch high Yoda that used to live in the little boy’s room of my doll house. It made a nice toy for the boy :slight_smile:

Considering how much I’ve always disliked the orginal trilogy, it’s surprising I had even those.

15

I have three action figures. Darth Maul, Darth Vader and Yoda.

Here’s a hijack. How come if Lucas makes so much money from Star Wars merchandising and people will cough up SIX DOLLARS for a fucking action figure why can’t he get better action figures made? I remember the old 3 inch GI Joes from the eighties that were fully articulated while the Star Wars action figures were just statues with a hinge here and there. I’m sure if making those kinds of figures there’d be plenty of virginal fanboys who’d cough upwards of ten bucks per action figure.

16

Did anyone else find this figure remotely disturbing?

I picked up the Jango Fett figure recently, but I’m a little pissed because his head doesn’t come off.

17

Having been to several Transformers conventions and talked to the toy company representatives there, I can say that the industry is highly attuned to what the market wants (and extremely paranoid, to boot).

Given that, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the Star Wars toy division did a bunch of market research experiments, and concluded that Joe-style articulation would draw a lot of grief from the collectors who wanted more detail and cinematic-style poses. Unlike most other toy lines, I believe the Star Wars toys get more sales from adult collectors than from the 8-12 “young male” demographic (the reasoning being that the collectors will snap up one of everything plus all the accessories they can afford, while the kids will be more selective and only buy their favorites).

The amount of anal-retentive research and decision-making that goes into the toy industry is staggering… :wink:

18

Sunshine i’ve got the Death Star playset too! That thing is the coolest! I remember all the hours of fun smashing things up in the trash compactor, and the green trash monster is sweet! I’ve still got all of my old stuff, which is about 99.5% of the toy line. The only ones I didn’t have were the A-wing and the Tiderium Shuttle. I’m thinking of dusting them all off, matching the guns/accessories with the proper figure, and having one huge Ebay auction. But part of me never wants to let them go…

19

Well, I have two Star Wars 3D puzzles… They count as toys, kind of! One is a Millenium Falcon and the other is R2-D2… he actually whistles and bleeps!

It excites me.

Then, of course, I have the obligatory action figures, all resting nicely upon my windowsills…

And pez dispensers. Every Star Wars Pez dispenser.

20

Now this takes me back… I have most of what Dooku has mentioned, but instead of the Death Star playset, I had the Star Destroyer playset. It was a big long rectangular thing with two trenches down either side and Vader’s big “meditation chamber” from ESB. I can’t remember what else it had. I also had the Hoth Ice Battle playset, a big white plastic thing with all sorts of “exploding” ice bits. I’m surprised everything stayed together all these years.