Vintage Star Wars Han Solo Hoth Limb Repair - Toy Polloi

[@justinreilly6619]

The problem is, when you find figures like this, in shops, charity shops and car boots, is that the 'missing bits' are almost never with the figure. Which means you need to get two or three figures to make one 'good' figure. But the thing is, if you do this, you end up with one good figure rather than two or three damaged and incomplete figures that are highly likely to be simply thrown away (or kept in a box in the attic, never again to see the light of day). Which is why posts like this are so important to keep the legacy of such wonderful and well-loved toys alive! Great post Dave!

[@bountyhunter779]

One of the best Intro ever !!!

[@TENACI0USP]

I was waiting for a “and I thought they smelled bad on the outside” quote when you started drilling into the figure 😄

[@r.davidhill7639]

Oh man that would've been too funny.

[@thereallantesh]

That Lego axel peg trick is pretty cool. The joints all came out great.

[@mlindy7125]

More Star Wars figures saved from hitting the trash 👍🏻👏🏻

[@paulb3476]

Never knew that the coo stamp meant that the mold could be different from other figures Learned something new today Thanks Dave!

[@emilflognoid1532]

I just love the concept of this channel! Also I’m always impressed with your outside the box solutions!

[@toypolloi]

Thanks. I'm hoping people will catch on that you can fix most things with stuff you already have and don't need to spend huge amount of money. And that even broken toys are fun.

[@tootyuk]

Gave it a like Dave, i wasnt aware when the ratings were hidden that they still count, so anyones video ive watched whose disabled that ive never bothered to like (as i didnt think it counted,i'll remedy that moving forward) this is Stuart from your Facebook page btw (we had an exchange of comments re this)

[@toypolloi]

I've hidden then from the start. I never saw the point in them. To open for abuse. But keep on clicking. Cheers

[@tootyuk]

@@toypolloi will do mate

[@bdaspny]

Great fixes! I was really hoping to see you make a brand new foot out of milliput. Maybe next time?

[@MichaelKnight821]

Hey Dave, Great ideas as always 👍🏼 A removable limbs Han Hoth would be a nice custom figur idea 🤣😂 Cheers and stay Healthy and your wife

[@r.davidhill7639]

I've watched you for couple of years now so I try and guess which past methods you'll use to fix things before I watch the whole video. I figured you go with the Teflon tape and axel rod. I then thought you would use milliput to resculpt the missing leg. Great job as always. I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

[@horrorfan1455]

very interesting video Hoth Han is one of my favorite in the original vintage line

[@andrewnaeseth8490]

Great intro love it . Big fan

[@eltenda]

Nice repair video!

[@gamerid6507]

nice fix as usual

[@ScruffyLookinRGB]

I really enjoy your star wars reptorations. Very good work my friend

[@TypicalTonk]

Thanks Dave. I always wanted a way to make my top ball bigger.

[@ia5662]

Very cool! Would love to see a mustache guy on a regular Hoth Rebel and vice versa. That would make a nice troop custom two different ways.

[@dattallaudiophile236]

Damn who are you?? Dr. Ebazan? Hahaha so nice to see someone taking care and restoring all of those wonderful action figures.

[@lostonwallace1396]

I really like the way that arm went back on, Dave! My favorite bit in this particular video happens when you switch the rebel soldier head onto the Han figure. That bit of customizing looked great! I might have to try modifying some beater figures, as I like that look! A little primer and paint to a Hoth Han body, and you could make some interesting Rebel subdivision squadrons or patrols! It always makes my day to get to watch a new Toy Polloi video, so thank you once again! Cheers! PS: I wore one of my teespring Toy Polloi t-shirts while I was shopping at a very large and local role playing/gaming shop in town, and a fellow commented to me: "Toy Polloi! Awesome! I love that guy!" lol. I just thought that you'd like to know that you're creating more and more fans here in the U.S.!

[@toypolloi]

That's great! Thanks for spreading the word on Toy Polloi! There is certainly plenty of custom potential with the hoth troopers. When I get more beaters I will be making some myself. Cheers

[@johnlewis3358]

Thanks Again Mate!

[@davidtexmex1616]

Awesome as always. I was quite intrigued by the leg colour difference between the no-name Han and Hong Kong Han. Also keen for the clean up and painting of these figures.

[@toypolloi]

The color differences are most likely just sun damage and age. But also some production differences in various factories. As these are beater figures I don't tend to do any paint repairs on them.

[@davidtexmex1616]

Toy Polloi ahh understood, I was hoping for some unique paint customisations with those cool head-swaps.. I’m getting beyond myself 😄

[@MichaelJShaffer]

Love the mix-and-match idea. Don't know why I never considered it but I'm certainly going to try it. I have found the exact same problem with my Hoth Hans, too. Weakness in the head.

[@Tim-57]

Great fix and video Dave. 🙂

[@charranjitsingh6742]

Love the intro 😂🔥

[@Hoonozit]

I enjoyed watching this video, thanks.

[@grahampeat6945]

Loving the customisation part of this especially, I’ve not long since read the Battlefront novel “Twilight Company” part of which is set on Hoth ,so I can see me creating some of those characters in the future using hoth beaters 👍

[@PieAndChips]

Just used the Lego trick to repair a 1977 Darth Vader that I picked up on eBay for 99p whose head sadly parted ways with his torso! I now have a really nice displayable figure!

[@toypolloi]

Brilliant!

[@MrStarfighter14]

Awesome job!!!

[@brianartillery]

I think that the problem with the heads is that the vinyl of the head reacts with the acrylic of the body, and fuses the two plastics together over time, to the point where they cannot be separated, and the acrylic becomes brittle, and snaps if the head is turned.

[@darthethan1995]

Another good thing to use for making a peg is screws. I use screws for swivel pegs.

[@TheNightBadger]

Look at that Rebel Army! The Empire better be ready for them! I notice that there's only one lonely Leia though... seems to me that Leia's figures from the first 2 movies are much harder to get than the Luke's and Han's.

[@toypolloi]

I don't have a like either yet in this army. Han seems the most common by far.

[@CaptainArrrgh]

I think the heads come off so easily on the Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back figures because the part inside the neck usually has a mold edge that gets stuck. Somebody turning the head can't tell. All they know is the head isn't turning easily. They turn it a little harder, and it gives way.

[@BlackieNuff]

My dad used to fix my SW figures who lost their heads and limbs by sawing off the head of bolts and screws and using them to reattach the parts. Of course some drilling was required for heads that have the peg/knob broken inside, or limbs that had their pegs broken clean off. I wonder if my dad would have found the LEGO approach any easier?

[@gertmana1789]

Cool, thats the way i allways do it for my son.

[@TheCasualFanatic]

Have you ever considered trying to create an injection mold to repair/replace that broken foot? Or possibly sculpting a new foot from some equivalent material over a wire skeleton attached to the remaining part of the leg? That would make for an interesting video.

[@darklycan8132]

Another great fix

[@garym6315]

"You never know when they'll come in Han-dy." 🤣

[@danje748]

I so love this intro =) not saying that the other intros ar bad, the opposite is in fact true. Just this A-Team intro is my fav =)

[@greenlanternhg5141]

And this is the reason why I buy beat up figures 😂 Great video 👍🏽✌🏽

[@TheToyBoy1978]

If you're going to build army build, this is definitely the to do it.

[@hanleysoloway7965]

Love the intro

[@destinycaptain247]

No mold making and resin casting for the final figure? Might be an easy solution.

[@yunoyuluvit]

How well would the boil and pop method work on arms and legs?

[@davidmcfadden1763]

When you brought out that drill, I was like "OH MY GOD, HAAAAN!" Lol!!

[@wampaslapyo]

If you were to repair Luke Hoth, what are the steps? Hydro perxiode the white, the repaint the areas on need? You don't have a video for that yet do you?

[@toypolloi]

Clean it and paint it mainly. Depends what is wrong with him.

[@dazgreensmoker669]

Wonder how han would have looked with white and cream camouflage like the other hoth figures 🤔

[@kaylemathewcomendador7614]

Those were some nice fixes you did there. And do you think you could show how to fix up some G1 Transformers minibots? They all seem to suffer from loose joints.

[@toypolloi]

I covered loose joints on transformers very early on on toy Polloi. The video is still available. Cheers

[@kaylemathewcomendador7614]

@@toypolloi I hope those techniques work for all of the minibots then.

[@Portal2099]

Something like this, but create a removabe hand, Bespin Luke!

[@TheMoulie]

I dread to think how long I have been watching your vids for, yet I am still surprised each time you use a honking big drill rather than a dremel for your drilling 😋

[@toypolloi]

Just trying to show you don't need special tools. Just use what you have.

[@pablojimenez9481]

Hey Dave, great videos. If I wanted to fix some storm troopers. So e have white torsos, some are yellowish. These are not for trade or sell but for my collection. How do you take off the limbs without breaking them?

[@toypolloi]

Check out my videos on boil and pop, or the Han Solo head swap video. That will show you how to do it. Cheers

[@UnicronHound]

The reason it breaks is because of the coloring they used, it reacts funny and turns things brittle. Same thing happens more often with Gold/Metal like plastics. For example, the gold on Transformers' G1 Slog, and BW Transmetal Megatron. You look at them the wrong way, and they crumble.

[@toypolloi]

I've seen the issue on hold and silver plastic. Battle armour he-man has that problem.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

How do you trim the edge of when the peg is glued?

[@toypolloi]

I just use a knife to cut it away. It's very easy so didn't show it.

[@brianjohnson5063]

Could put broken foot han in the tauntaun looking for Luke

[@antonioprado4816]

Toy Polloi, what size Lego axle pin do you use? Or is it all one size?

[@toypolloi]

There is only one size. Check out the bricklink website. Cheers

[@curtisschultz6976]

Toy master i have a 1978 death star droid and someone seem to clip off his hands any advice how to fix it

[@toypolloi]

You could try sculpting some new ones from milliput. Watch my recent videos on bullet man for more on that.

[@grimmace2131]

Toy Polloi: Fixing Fiddly Bits and Bobs since 2014.

[@nerdcraftercoley7305]

Have you ever a sculpted a foot like you have the hands on some figures.

[@toypolloi]

I haven't, but it would be the same process. Something inside to give support and the sculpt on top of it. I don't have many figures with the feet missing. It's always the hands that suffer.

[@MrDrokkul]

Maybe that last figure (the one with no head & one foot) could be "Shot by AT-AT Hoth Soldier" in the ranks.

[@ivangonzalez8415]

👌

[@gibbie80s61]

Broken off hand or foot probably means left on the floor and stepped on.

[@russellmaedianaskany8066]

Where can i buy those pegs¿

[@toypolloi]

Ebay is where I get mine from. But there are loads of places that sell Lego.

[@Portal2099]

Make a peg leg for that footless han, and another head with an eye patch.

[@stevenholt458]

I've still got my Bespin Luke.

[@KaiserVon]

Love in intro lol

[@KabigonCollects]

Wooooooo!!!

[@zuioprt]

insta-thumb for the intro

[@brendal5175]

I love the Star Wars series. I just think they need to be renamed. SW 1: A New Pope. SW 2: The Umpire Strikes Out. SW 3" 3: Return of the Dead Eye. SW 4: The Praying Mantis. SW 5: The Attack of the Clowns. SW 6: Revenge of the Pith Helmets. Sw 7: The Farce awakens. SW 8:The Last Red Eye. SW "Rouge Won" and "How Low?"

[@manko8852]

Wampa damaged Han make a custom card and there you have it.

[@Horizon344]

Why were you banned from the forums?

[@toypolloi]

Star Wars collectors have a very strict idea of what you are allowed to do with toys. I prefer to enjoy them.

[@Horizon344]

@@toypolloi I see, I guess that partially has to do with the rising commercial value these days of the originals, & people not wanting to buy damaged goods that have been cleverly repaired to the point the repair isn't obvious on purchase. Have you thought about creating a small branding mark of some sort on the models you repair to indicate this state, perhaps the would remove the antagonism you've been met with a bit?

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

Mostly all my Star Wars figures were mostly all chewed up by my dog

[@potstella]

👍👍👍🌿🌿🌿🌿

[@mandalorian-justice3726]

There are easier ways to build a figure. If you can crack the body open,you can replace the head peg on most figures. I have done that a few times,and they come out just fine. I would never use Lego pieces,I would only use real star wars parts. I would never sell something modified in the original vintage figures,unless it was branded as a custom figure. I had a broken headed Boba Fett once,and made a new neckline & added a jango fett head,and dremmeled out the original Fett head so it would be a removable helmeted Boba Fett. Instead of the tape you are using,you could always use apoxy to make the neck the way you want it. I recommend using the 2 part Apoxie Sculpt...