Vintage Star Wars Endor Luke & Leia Poncho replacement guide - Toy Polloi

The Ponchos on these vintage Last 17 and Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are often if not always missing. They feature a neat camo pattern which made them that extra bit tricky to make.
With a little effort and a couple of prototypes I was able to make something that is a close match to the originals. Check out how I got on and how you can make your own.
Grab the pattern from toypolloi.com
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The fabric I use can be found here: www.aliexpress.com/item/32819...
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Making the pattern
2:49 Fabric & Cutting out
6:04 Sewing the capes
14:54 Adding the Camo pattern
17:56 Making a belt
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[@michaelroche4559]

What you’re doing here is great. You’ve given these toys a second life, which I think is pretty cool.

[@toypolloi]

Thanks so much!

[@justinreilly6619]

Now Like is properly attired, he can take on the whole Empire! Great job! 👍

[@sdavifcom]

Very nice. I did not know it was possible to "paint" fabric without making a huge mess. Thanks Dave.

[@itsgeekbeat]

I just love your videos with you fixing a toy. The unboxings of donations not that much because I get jealous. ^^

[@toypolloi]

Glad you like them!

[@tonym431]

I actually like your Luke poncho more than the original, Good work! The color seems a bit more accurate . Always look forward to your vids!

[@mikesmith2718]

The amount of work that went into that luke poncho is amazing. What a great job.

[@zarnistastudios]

This is Fantastic! Thank you for showing us how and the templates. Now I just need to get cracking and get my Endor Luke a proper poncho.

[@toypolloi]

Very welcome!

[@macorourke2222]

Very Cool Brother. Thanks for sharing Your Fun😀👍❤🇨🇦🇬🇧🎉🎉👏👏👏👏🎉🎉💯💯

[@toysbackzen]

Love it, I voted for this video because I’ve had the fabric for mine which I have no original in hand to go by. It’s been 2 years, I’m going to try this finally. Thanks for your tips!

[@Tim-57]

Hey Dave Another great tutorial. Liking the sewing and cutting tunes, especially the original one🙂 Take care of Yourself

[@AllysonA8281]

Great work, Dave!👍 The ponchos really make all the difference with these figs and these turned out exceptionally well. The process is a bit tedious with all the sowing but it’s still extremely simple. Thank you for more amazing content, sir.🙏

[@Jes196]

Perfect timing! I just got my Endor Luke in the mail. 😊

[@billybobbarklow8289]

Top notch video Dave ole boy. I suspect that if I attempted this project, it would wind up looking like the Fred Flintstone's outfit, LOL. Keep bringing the videos PLEASE. I pick up ideas of my own with each one of them. Hope all is well with you and yours. Have a great one my friend.

[@Jack.pirate]

Great tutorials. Has anyone ever thought using the helmet from the Endor rebel soldier... the later blue EPII packaging. I have and fits well looks good for fraction of the price if your not bothered about 100% accuracy. Infact I think its an improvement

[@FraDonaghyMusic]

Yes! I've been waiting for this one. Thank you Dave

[@opuscrap4322]

Thank you sooo much. I've been looking forward to this video since you first teased it on Facebook.

[@toypolloi]

You are so welcome!

[@ICHIBANDIPPER]

Always a pleasure Dave, thanks mate. Ross

[@ras79r]

Cable tie is a great idea, the buckle part of it you could pretend it’s a little ammo/utility pocket especially possibly paint some detail on it to add a texture illusion

[@unclemattsworkbench6667]

Thank you for the link to the fabric. I have searched for this so long and found nothing.

[@eltenda]

Fashion skill level 100%:)

[@jonboldrey5339]

Luke looks realy good dave!

[@georgemartinez1720]

Good idea I use regular cheap marker to draw Camouflage pattern on Plastic and filled in it with paint

[@gieselats]

Fantastic. Looking really convincing. Keep up the good work. Stay safe. Stay healthy.

[@yourcaptain1]

Your work is brilliant.

[@nyquist75]

better than new

[@TheBadger74]

Top work! That took some dedication.

[@daverage4729]

Have to admit the buckle of the cable tie actually looks like an ammo pouch on his belt.. Win, win in my book!

[@cphughes100]

Awesome work again Dave. Brought them back to life.

[@Scopay73]

Those are fantastic!!

[@antman2919]

Thanks Dave. Great sewing skills.

[@korydoe4813]

Those look really good! 👍

[@malcr2325]

Very effective and well done for the fiddly needle point!

[@The_Knifey_Moloko]

Would it make the sewing easier if you attached the unsewn hood to the unsewn cloak at the neck first (that way you could likely hold it and sew it in as more of a straight line as opposed to dealing with the tiny circle) then sew the back seems up at the same time as one long straight line? I hope I'm explaining my thought right... either way, Excellent and super helpful video!

[@Pidcaso]

Loving them matey

[@johnblack9885]

There’s certainly no mistaking these from originals. I think the camo marker looks better on the inside. Maybe draw them on inside out? I would have dyed the Leia in an acrylic paint wash first.

[@classicalvintagecollector]

You are so creative! Nice work!

[@toypolloi]

Thank you! 😊

[@b-retrogamer2324]

Very nice

[@carlo2384]

I bought a repro Endor luke poncho off an eBay seller -- and damn it looks pitch-perfect! even the material looks and feels authentic. I also grabbed a repro belt that also looks and feels authentic. If only this video was out 3 months ago I might have taken a different track! Thank you.

[@TheToyBoy1978]

Definitely one i might try myself, i would seek an alternative to the Zip Tie (maybe some 3mm flat black elastic) i just prefer something a bit more generic + no square lump at the reverse of the figure, but the Poncho's themselves really do look extremely convincing, Great job!

[@samuzamu]

Well done, they look great! For the belt, you could turn the cable-tie inside out, so that the serrations are on the outside and not engaging with the locking tab. Would be easier to remove and they still stay together, usually. Also, the lump would be in towards the cape and maybe less visible. Haven't tried it, but it might be an alternative way of doing it.

[@thetworoos]

A very impressive and effective fix. The complexity of this one is surprisingly high; the amount of creativity and work that goes into a little poncho is incredible! Once again Toy Polloi has rescued some figures and really improved them. I wonder if you could add the little belt pouches to the zip ties with milliput, or perhaps even adding a couple extra zip tie connectors cut from other zip ties (maybe sanding them down a bit)? In any event it looks awesome and takes some figures from plain to wonderful. Great work as always!

[@Diabolik771]

Looks like good material to make improved cloaks for Jedi figures. The first Plo-Kloon figure has a plastic/rubber cape which renders him unposable.

[@darkestempire]

Great video! Doing this ASAP! Would have never thought of using a cable tie as a belt. Brilliant! I've dyed toy knit before to match the colors a bit more. I dyed it to match the color for the General Lando cape. Going to see what color toy knit fabric I have left and buy some Rit dye to match it close enough to make Luke's poncho.

[@toypolloi]

Glad it was helpful!

[@katenunyabizness9221]

I took my Luke poncho and put it on my Mercion cleric figure because I lost her tabard years ago. Nice job you did! Sorry, just realized mine is actually the cape from Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight Outfit) Return Of The Jedi

[@tntsk868]

Excellent video! I have been waiting for this for along time! I did not know there are holes on Leia's cape for the belt, have to take a look at my Leia Endor Poncho.

[@toypolloi]

A lot of people don't know what the holes are for. They often out the arms through. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers

[@clear_gray_sky539]

We have a camouflage here in america called atacs foliage or atacs fg. It looks a lot like the camouflage from the movie

[@80stoymania]

Awesome video Mr. Dave!!!! I wonder if you were to soak Leia's cape in some green food color if that would pick up the tint.

[@toypolloi]

You might be able to dye the fabric, worth a try.

[@wade4102]

I would recommend a fabric die and make sure it has been thoroughly washed before you let it around the figure.

[@elkrighn]

Awesome!!! How about making an endor solo trench coat?

[@booknut312]

I think this just leaves Bib Fortuna's robe as the only one you haven't done yet.

[@booknut312]

Edit: Just remembered Trench Coat Han.

[@toypolloi]

There are a few more than that. Another cape video in the next few weeks for one not mentioned here. Cheers

[@FraDonaghyMusic]

@@toypolloi Prune face? I imagine you could probably improve on the original. One of the worst capes in the vintage line.

[@TheDarthMushroom]

On the leia, try to stick the cloth to a piece of A4 paper, you might be able to print the camo to it. I’ve printet onto cloth for lego sails and so on before.

[@PSNStarpilot]

great idea , also you can buy lego endor helmets that would fit leia

[@toypolloi]

That's a good idea. I'll have to try that.

[@ljbeng4475]

Thanks! Can you please, please show us Starbuck's and Adama's cape?

[@tayron27]

I use survival kit belts. Bit more than a cable tie, but way cheaper than an original endor poncho.

[@toypolloi]

I'd forgotten about those. None in my collection as I don't see them often at all.

[@andrewwebb4919]

I think I would sew the hoods onto the poncho before I sewed the hoods closed it you get my drift

[@Bearingcab]

Do you have any tips or video on smoothing out areas where people have pried open an old toy and left gaps? Sometime the gaps are raised. I was thinking a plastic binder and some sandpaper/polish?

[@johnpadel]

Amazing how you create and fix. Can you show how to fix Hot Toys Chris Reeve Superman figure?

[@toypolloi]

Thanks. Those figures are a bit modern for me.

[@johnpadel]

@@toypolloi thanks for your answer. Great work.

[@ImSonnyBurnett]

How about leaving the neon green fabric in the sun to fade it a bit?

[@rumblehat4357]

Any reason why there is that slit cut at the back of the poncho? Was it to make it easier to sew on a machine?

[@toypolloi]

I think that is most likely why. It also gives a bit of shape to the back of the poncho.

[@Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy]

Sorry for this stupid question but I just bought a y wing, and I don’t know which r2-d2 to put in it. Is it a special one? Please help. Thanks.

[@toypolloi]

Any vintage R2 or R5 will fit in there. Cheers

[@Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy]

@@toypolloi thank you as always man!

[@georgemartinez1720]

Tou should si stop Motion animated short film

[@MeanJohnDean]

Your original Lea's poncho is longer in the back than the front.

[@brianartillery]

Great fix, Dave! I have a question based on the Luke figure - Is it possible to swap his head with that of a Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight) figure? I ask, because it always annoyed me that the Jedi figure is in the clothes he wears in Jabba's palace, but the Endor figure wears the correct gear for the 'Final Duel', but has a non removable helmet. Do they have the same head fixings, so that a 'boil and pop' can be attempted?

[@horrorfan1455]

Yes Dave did a video on your question look in his channel playlist Star Wars repair and restoration

[@toypolloi]

I've already covered that one a while back. Here is a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hImndZRsgJtlp6M

[@brianartillery]

@@horrorfan1455 Thank you!

[@brianartillery]

@@toypolloi Thank you!

[@rolandkatsuragi]

Would fabric glue be an option for attaching the hood and collar to the ponchos?

[@toypolloi]

Sewing is better and how they were originally made.

[@Nick-nk1sq]

It's not on the dark side. It's not on the light side. It's on the tricky side.

[@grahampeat6945]

To paraphrase a line from another franchise - Toy- Polloi , when someone asks you if you are a god, you say YES !!

[@GhostGL]

Broken Vader was enjoying the video up until the cable ties.