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.