Not a collector quest post but a good one anyway

Have you heard the news ?
You probably have , but , It's very exciting anyway!



For years people have wanted more Star Wars movies. Then the prequels were released. Then people read the Star Wars series by Timothy Zahn.
And now Disney , the most commercial company in the world, have bought Lucasfilm!

Expect episodes 7 through to 9 , 7 being released in 3 years time, 2015. If it does well , they may release 1 movie each year !

Here is the second part.

Nothing to do with the first part.


Have you ever wanted to be in the 501st or Rebel Legion?

Are you under 18?


Then this is the place to go. The galactic academy ( Click here for the website) is absolutely free and is open to kids and teens who love to dress as Star Wars characters. It's great!

The bootlegs

I was on eBay quite a while ago , when I discovered a set of Hasbro Star Wars Galactic Heroes micro figures. I bought them , because I hadn't've seen any like it since I started collecting. It was a set of 10 figures , and the set was £10. It was from Hong Kong , and it kept saying it did not ship to the UK. I believed it wouldn't arrive, until a couple of weeks later, a small packet arrived in the post. It was marked " Singapore Mail. Contents : figure. "

The next day I was looking at them. It was a rather strange looking Han Solo, a Biggs Darklighter ( looking suspiciously like Luke ), a Hoth Luke ( looking like his X wing micro figure ), a strange Nemodian type figure ( perhaps the Seperatist ruler of Ryloth during the Star Wars the Clone Wars CGI  series ( now showing on Cartoon Network! ) Ryloth trilogy), a Young Obi - Wan Kenobi figure ( surprisingly accurate to Ewan McGregor in Star Wars : the attack of the clones ), an Episode 3 anakin figure, a shock trooper, a Wicket W. warrick (real) figure and an R2-Q5 figure.

Most of them didn't have the name imprinted on the foot, like most Galactic Heroes and instead printed Hasbro China. As I picked up the R2-Q5 figure, I saw that it did have an imprinted name. R2-D2. I looked at the figure again. It had the same colours as r2-q5. Then I looked at Steve Sandsweet's collectibles book again. And sure enough , they looked like bootlegs.

But bootlegs are bootlegs, so they're quite hard to find after Lucasfilm bans them, and the remains are scarce. I guess it was a disappointment at the time, but now I'm pretty happy to own a set of 10 rare Star Wars bootlegs. Not many people can say that.

The book

I was looking through my collection today, and I noticed a Return Of The Jedi book that I had bought at a car boot sale a while back.




The book is from when the Return of The Jedi was first released , and probably part of a series of promotional picture books. It was produced by Random House , and is definitely a collectible , due to it's time and the rising popularity of the furry tribesbears of Endor (ewoks)!

The figure

A couple of months ago, I was sifting through my Star Wars collection when I noticed something. It was the same Obi-Wan Kenobi twelve-back series figure that I had seen in Steve Sansweet's Star Wars 1,000 collectibles book. A twelve- back figure is a figure from the original Kenner series promoting Star Wars :  A New Hope. The figure looked roughly like this :




,but without the cape or lightsaber. The figure is loose ( not in it's packaging) but is original , so still perhaps a  collectible?

The Quest Begins

This is the Star Wars Collector Quest.

My Quest is to get as many Star Wars collectibles as I can, as rare as I can and as cheap as I can.

It'll be hard , but I already have a couple of items already.

May the Force be with me.

THANKS TO THIS BOOK.