Star Wars/Sci Fi

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Star Wars/Sci Fi

Reply #15 – July 31, 2007, 06:58:34 PM

I put all of my star wars stuff in a box back in 1983. I still have the box and haven't opened it in 24 years. I hear about how much it could be worth, but I don't wanna know, yet. Also have the actual shooting cylon raider and viper from B.G. in it too.

As for my wife, Stargate SG1 FTMFW

edit: the box is an old washing-machine box.

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Reply #16 – July 31, 2007, 06:59:21 PM

Quote from: 5.0willgo;164962

Spaceballs kicks Star Wars A$$

+4 to that! Only one person would dare give me the Raspberry. Lonestar!

Quote from: Chuck W;164971

"I'm surrounded by assholes"

Yes, but you deal with it very well:D

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Reply #17 – July 31, 2007, 07:39:35 PM

I love Star Wars and all that. Grew up with it. Never got much into the games though, I don't have that kind of attention span. We used to watch alot of Goonies and labrynth and what not too. All them old movies that nobody really hears about anymore....
:birdsmily:

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Reply #18 – July 31, 2007, 07:52:51 PM

When I was younger, that was all I ever thought about. I think I almost knew as much as Lucas himself (extreme exaggeration).

I was also Star Trek, B.G., The Last Starfighter... well pretty much anything dealing with space.

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Reply #19 – July 31, 2007, 09:36:58 PM

. I still have a TON of starwars CCG cards. I beleive I also have 2 COMPLETE premeir series sets it sealed fireproof safes, and at least one complete set of all the expansions. I have a complete set (Black Border) of the Star trek CCG also.

I have a lot of old figurines still in the boxes too. I was really into that stuff back in the day. I have quite a bit of money sank into it.

I've read all of the star wars books too. LOL I'm such a nerd!

The best series hands down was the Dune seires by frank herbert. His son has now went back and wrote 6 prequal books based on his fathers notes, and two books at the very end of the series. I just read "Hunters of Dune" and the next book (The entire finale) calle "the sandworms of dune" is supposed to be out in August. Its my Harry potter. :)

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Reply #20 – August 01, 2007, 12:56:45 AM

Eric,
Oh really? Nerd! I have to have a winter hobby, it snows and the racetrack closes :hick:

Chuck,
That's farkin sweet!

5.0,
Hells yeah! I even bought the Collector's Edition DVD! "And try to save the car"

xr7,
Wow, the Last Starfighter. I haven't seen that in ages! I wonder if it's on DVD yet?

On another note, go buy all 6 books by Ian Douglas. The Heritage Trilogy and the Legacy Trilogy (Semper Mars, Luna Marines, Europa Strike, Battlespace, and 2 others). Hands down the best BELIEVABLE original Sci-Fi series of the last decade. Rail guns an no FTL travel FTW! AWESOME series!

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Reply #21 – August 01, 2007, 01:04:15 AM

Quote from: 5.0willgo;164962

Spaceballs kicks Star Wars A$$

Use the Schwartz!!!

When I was younger I liked Star Trek. I built models of the Enterprise and other ships. Now I just watch it if I catch it on TV.

At least no one here is the dress up and bitch about stupid errors in episodes kind of sci-fi fan:shakehead

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Reply #22 – August 01, 2007, 09:43:43 AM

Quote from: thunderjet302;165134

At least no one here is the dress up and bitch about stupid errors in episodes kind of sci-fi fan:shakehead

Give it a while longer, probably not everyone has seen the thread yet.

I'm a big time Sci-Fi fan. Star Wars is, and will always be my favorite and I would be willing to challenge Eric with my own collection. :hick:

Anyone else here a member of the R2 Builders Club?
http://astromech.net/Default.htm

Brent

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Reply #23 – August 01, 2007, 09:59:24 AM

Oh C'mon! I can't be the only SG1 fan!? I love that show! My DVR records it and Stargate Atlantis, come to think of it I have three or so episodes to watch tonight :)

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Reply #24 – August 01, 2007, 10:03:58 AM

Brent, I have a Pepsi R2-D2 cooler...that's about as motivated as I get LOL. But it's awesome if you're into that.

I have just about everything from back in the day. My parents taught my brother and I the value of saving money from a very early age. We got an allowance of $2 every week which we then saved up to buy Star Wars stuff. It was very difficult...my birthday is a week before Christmas so it was famine most of the year, then feast around the holidays, as far as money went. Anyway, because money was so sparse in our pockets we bought the toys with our own money and, unlike 90% of kids in those days, did NOT subsequently blow them up with firecrackers, shoot them with BB guns, or destroy them in wars with GI Joe toys. Hence, a pristine collection, entirely complete. All figures have weapons, all ships have boxes and instructions, everything is there.

We also learned that, if you were diligent, Kenner would send you stuff for free. One day my brother and I were pushing the landspeeder in the gravel driveway and we lost Princess Leia's gun (I realize that having Leia on the landspeeder was not quite Lucas canon but hey, we were kids). Black driveway + black gun = lost forever. We were bummed because, at the time, we'd split the cost of the figure. Buying a new one would net a new gun...but we'd still have one without a gun. So at the prodding of our mom, we wrote to Kenner explaining the situation.

The next week we got a bubble package in the mail. Inside was a clear plastic bubble containing every single gun, lightsaber, weapon and cape produced for every SW figure to that point. This was in 1979. Kenner listened to their customers, hands down. And this was also free of charge. That's how I got a correct vinyl cape for a Jawa (alas, no rocket for Boba's backpack). We were able to put together many other complete figures from that package; I still have the majority of the rest of the stuff. It's like sitting on a goldmine.

It also sucked to be 14 years old and still buying kids toys. But long after all my friends stopped collecting, I soldiered on and completed the collection after ROTJ. Some of those last figures are very difficult to find. Now is the payoff...the last appraisal of just the original Kenner SW figures was somewhere around $3K.

I stopped collecting in general in 1998, after I had surgery and had to shell out $30K to pay for it. In retrospect that was probably a good thing, since there's just waaaayyyy too much stuff to keep track of now. I'd rather buy rare care parts. As I said, I have a life LOL.

However, I still have a soft spot for SW trading cards. That was the one thing I always enjoyed collecting, and it seemed that I was always in the right place at the right time. I don't have the more recent stuff but up until 2001-ish it was absolutely complete. The only card I never got was the rare P3 Yoda promo that Lucas banned. A friend had one...he sold it for $1500 but not before he made an excellent copy for me.

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Reply #25 – August 01, 2007, 12:16:34 PM

Well, between the two of us, I’ll bet we would have it pretty much covered.

Money was also tight for us when I was a kid, and I didn’t get an allowance so my childhood SW items were few. Like you, my parents taught me the value of things so I still have 90% of them and they are in great shape.
I got out of the SW thing as I got older and into the BMX thing and then of course the car thing but I still had a soft spot for SW and when the OT movies were released on Laser Discs I bought a player just so I could watch those 3 movies.

A few years ago I introduced my son (he will turn 6 this month) to SW and he bit hard. We now cruise the toy isles any time we can looking for anything new. His enthusiasm has had an effect on me and got me into collecting again. Fortunately I can be a lot more selective in what I purchase now and it can get very expensive very quickly.
I’m mainly into the “non-living” thing of SW. Even as a kid, I was always more fascinated by the droids, the lightsabers, and the spaceships in SW more than the characters themselves. So my collection does not have too many action figures in it.

What I have found strange though is that my son is just the opposite. He is really into the action figures part and not the spaceship part. When I was his age, I was heavy into Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars but as much as I try, he doesn’t get into them. Oh, well maybe this means he won’t be begging me to drive the Cougar in about 10 years.

I stumbled across the R2 builders site a couple of years ago and I have been slowly acquiring what I need as the funds become available. I always wanted my own full-size R2-D2 when I was a kid and I now have a chance to meet that goal. It will take a while, but I figure I have waited 30 years so far, another 3-4 years isn’t that much longer.
The funny thing is that, most of the finished club droids turn out far nicer and much more “functional” than the ones used in the films. If you have ever seen one of the “real” ones up close, they are pretty disappointing to look at, but I suppose most movie props are like that.

My wife surprised me a couple of years ago and planned our vacation to be in Indianapolis during SW Celebration III, we spent one day at the event. I had never been to a convention before and it was definitely a fun time, but it was also pretty eye-opening as well. I had heard about people dressing up at these conventions but I was surprised by the amount of people that were in costume.
I decided to have a little fun with them and as we were walking by a group, I had my wife ask me “What character is that person dressed as?” loud enough for them to hear us. I responded very sarcastically with “How should I know, I’m a Star Wars fan…not a fanatic!!”. We got quite a few dirty looks, it was fun.

Brent
:cougarsmily:

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Reply #26 – August 01, 2007, 12:30:05 PM

That's awesome :hick:

The only true geek thing I did was got to the Smithsonian Institution when they had all the original Star Wars props on display. The Falcon has a Holley Carbs 1/24 decal on the starboard headlight :hick: Seeing all the model props was seriously cool. They even had Vader's suit and Yoda in there.

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Reply #27 – August 01, 2007, 12:36:46 PM

Brent, do you have the SE laserdisc box set? 1,977 made. I think it was like $150 new but it's gone up in value over the last 10 years.

I also have a complete, mint, third set of Dark Horse SW comics, all of them unread first runs, that I've been trying to get rid of. Everything from 1993-ish to 1999. Let me know if anyone is interested.

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Reply #28 – August 01, 2007, 01:08:47 PM

Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;165221

The only true geek thing I did was got to the Smithsonian Institution when they had all the original Star Wars props on display. The Falcon has a Holley Carbs 1/24 decal on the starboard headlight :hick: Seeing all the model props was seriously cool. They even had Vader's suit and Yoda in there.

We went to see that exhibit last year at COSI and my son recently asked "can we go see the Star Wars stuff" again. So we are planning to see it again in Chicago this fall. We aren't going to tell him about about it and surprise him when we get there.

Quote from: EricCoolCats;165222

Brent, do you have the SE laserdisc box set? 1,977 made. I think it was like $150 new but it's gone up in value over the last 10 years.

I was very close to spending the money on that set a couple of years ago, because I was under the impression that they were coded in AC-3, but when I found out they were just Dolby Surround like the ones I have, I backed away.
Since they are now on DVD with a 5.1 remix, I 'm not sure why I really need to keep these that I have anymore.
Now I'm waiting for the Blu-ray versions for my 100 inch HD projection set up I'm working on. :D

If you have any older SW Insider mags, I would be interested.

Brent
:cougarsmily:

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Reply #29 – August 01, 2007, 01:16:13 PM

I've always been an SF geek. Never a collector, except I can't ever part with my boxes of paperback books from my youth.

My all time favorite hands down author is Larry Niven and his Ringworld series. Next comes anything that Robert Heinlein wrote, especially Time Enough for Love. Of course Stranger in a Strange Land will always be a classic.

Also love Aurthur C. Clark and the beautiful style of Ray Bradbury, even though he isn't a 'hard science' writer. I also read a lot of Pohl Anderson, and really liked the Gordon Dixon Dorsai novels.

I got addicted to SG1 when I was laid up with a knee surgery, and we bought the entire series on DVD. Also a bigtime Dr. Who fan. and I never missed a Star Trek Next Generation episode either back in the day! Too bad the last Star Trek Enterprise series didn't make it, it had real potential I thought.

On an even more eclectic level, I have all the Red Dwarf episodes, and some memorabilia from that quirky 80's-90's series.

I'm still wanting a Buckaroo Banzai DVD for my (rather extensive) SF-related library! Maybe I can get Dirk Gently (spelling?) to do a holistic search for me?

Live Long and Prosper
Jim