Why were some 1990's POTF2 Modern Star Wars toys particularly hard to find? A modern analysis

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@ciscodeer9094 Жыл бұрын

In the earlier years of the POTF2 era you could have found whatever figure you wanted (if it wasn't for scalpers) but towards the later seasons nobody wanted that are now in comic book shops.I prefer this line than the newer stuff.

@williamwilkinson6665 Жыл бұрын

I'm remember finding this wave at a Walmart when I was in college.. One of the few times I have been able to find a good box of unopened figures waiting to be opened.

@MrDrokkul Жыл бұрын

I remember there was a variant Leia also. Something about the design of the belt and the easiest way to tell was the number on the back of the card ended in .00 rather than .01 or vice versa. I remember searching for her at the time and finding some, but it's been so long ago now I don't remember the specifics of the variation.

@Beedo_Sookcool Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the "three lines" vs. "two lines" belt variants. I managed to find the 3-lines version, and as soon as a better Leia figure came along, I used the Monkey-Face Leia for custom fodder.

@christopherdilloway4836 Жыл бұрын

Sadly, even today, retail stores don't particularly care about putting things in the right places or on the right pegs unless they are setting the planogram for the first time or maybe while doing inventory...but even that is iffy. I've long wished I could go around my local area and tell the stores they need to get rid of these pegwarmers and get some new stock in and generally keep up with things for them since they have no capability to do it themselves.

@GenerationX-WingPodcast Жыл бұрын

Im a huge Ree Yees fan. That was THE fig I was going to find back in the day. I would travel to the US (from Vancouver) so I could get it month or 2 earlier. and it WAS hard to find. I dont even remember seeing it in Canada. Now, years later I can find it (and the other from that wave), but, as you said, not as widely seen as all the others.

@cyrusq5999 Жыл бұрын

Love the original 1983 KENNER Ree-Yees action-figure. I was surprised to hear it wasn't a popular figure with collectors. It's an interesting creature design and nicely detailed sculpt.

@GenerationX-WingPodcast Жыл бұрын

@@cyrusq5999 me too! I'm currently building a Ree Yees costume with a blaster that looks like the original gold-bronze 1983 blaster from the figure. Check out my vlog if interested

@Beedo_Sookcool Жыл бұрын

We didn't see them anywhere in the stores in our area of Ohio; we had to order that wave from the official magazine / catalog. And then they re-released the mould a couple more times over the years, anway.

@pemberto82 Жыл бұрын

Regarding how waves ship: I’ve noticed that Marvel Legends are starting to show up on pegs less as assortments and more as what seem to be full case packs of single characters (it seems to have started with the Age of Apocalypse wave?), and now even retailers like BigBadToyStore make you buy full Legends waves a la carte. Can you speak a little to this change? Do you think Hasbro has fundamentally changed the way they SKU Legends?

@3Storms Жыл бұрын

It's easy to be a toy-snob about it now, but back then it was fun as hell collecting it. Of course all the adult collectors over-collecting it to where there's still tons in perfect MOC/MISB condition is the main reason why it's largely worthless, but it was still fun. Also the removeable helmet isn't the only thing going for Vader with removable helmet. It's also the first time Vader was depicted correctly with that second half-cape around his waist, which previous versions always managed to leave off.

@RetroActionUK Жыл бұрын

6:59: Even Kenner had distribution issues. The Darth Vader (Removable Helmet) figure is one of my favourite POTF2 figures and I mentioned the rarity of it compared to most POTF2 figures previously on thus channel.

@empirednw6624 Жыл бұрын

I loved that these figures were nice and sturdy too. Paint always stayed on as well.

@CardboardGalaxy Жыл бұрын

A key component to these waves from 1998 getting such limited release that wasn't mentioned here was the glut caused by the rerelease of all the figures from the previous two years worth of waves so that they could come with the new "freeze frame" gimmick. Even new figures early in the year like Biggs, Lak Sivrak, and the Ewoks 2-pack were much harder to find at retail because they shared cases with figures everyone already had. By the later waves, things were completely jammed up.

@theiconiac9751 Жыл бұрын

Great video Scott! I remember in the first wave of POTF2 that monkey face Leia was short packed and initially very hard to find. I remember going into a comic shop and seeing her with a $70 price tag...I pity the person who shelled out $70 for that thing 🙁

@Beedo_Sookcool Жыл бұрын

Same here, excpet she was $50. And then I found one at retail for one-tenth that amount. And hacked it up in a failed customising attempt.

@katiepersons6575 Жыл бұрын

Very few figures seem to hold their value any more. Even modern ones. My Earthrise Ironhide for instance used to go for $150 on ebay just a year ago. As soon as SS86 Ironhide was announced? Prices crashed to nothing. As soon as new vintage collection star wars figures come out, their PoTF variant crashed hard.

@Daoloth Жыл бұрын

There still figures I think about getting from that collection as they seem pretty nice. Luke in the Strom Trooper gear or things like that. Once Lucas sold its clear they wont be making certain figures ever again haha. That is funny how them doing the colors for the boards ended up shafting the line. I know recently I saw were still selling the Leia I got from Jabba Palace on card for like twenty on Amazon. I had no idea about the Bobba Fett having the thing on his hand as circle or semi circle. I mostly have original figures so I don't even think I knew this line existed until The Phantom Menace line. I graduated HS in 90s so its like was well beyond collecting in ways. Yet was doing Comic Shows as Dealer so still did know or collect :).

@brianartillery Жыл бұрын

I have every figure you mention here. I had no trouble finding Ree-Yees, or the Death Star Trooper; here, in the UK, you could get them from Toys 'R' Us, which is from where I got mine. I gave up buying these figures when Hasbro started releasing multiple, and overlapping waves. Here, they were not cheap - £9 - £11 each, so when you have got, say, 25 new figures, and then, a few weeks later, on a trip to a comic shop, you see a wall of new figures you never knew existed, it's disheartening, and it gets to where you think: 'F**k you, Hasbro, enough is enough!' They're like a dealer feeding the cravings of addicts. I walked away. The last Star Wars figure I bought, was Bo'Shek, but only because the figure's face sculpt bore an uncanny resemblence to that of a family friend.

@Beedo_Sookcool Жыл бұрын

I remember walking into a small independent toy store in Torquay back in 2002, wen AOTC and 200X MOTU were still going strong, and asking if they'd be able to order stuff for me, and the owner said "Yes," and she handed me the catalogues for Mattel and Hasbro . . . with half the products labelled as "NOT AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE U.S.A." Enh, at least we got a bunch of end-of-the-line rarities out of those lines.

@Beedo_Sookcool Жыл бұрын

Cool video! Thank you! Heh. I used to live in NE Ohio, which was an absolute GOLDMINE for collecting in the 1980s and 1990s. The only things I think we didn't get in our area was the Ree-Yees / Death Star Trooper wave. We had to get those through the official magazine / catalogue. Oh, man, the stories! The one I like telling best is bagging the entire brand-new "Expanded Universe" wave for half-price at TRU during their pre-Christmas clearance, then going across the street to Target and seeing stacks and stacks of Action Fleet E-Wings & TIE Defenders . . . then leaving them there, because we didn't collect Action Fleet. Scalpers snapped them all up in less than 48 hours.

@chrislongbeard Жыл бұрын

How many thousands of POTF2 figures I stocked in the late 90s? And how many "good" figures I passed on grabbing, one will never know.

@MTB214 Жыл бұрын

I to pay more for the bartender of the cantina and Darth Bane. Most others have been 3 to 10$.

@wadehinden5940 7 ай бұрын

The power of the force figures are a good line. They made jawas with vinyl capes, Luke and Vader and obi with lightsaber longer than the figures. Lots of other figures that were better articulated than the 77- toys. Nice pod cast

@LabRatWarfare Жыл бұрын

I have that Ree-Yees wave man!! If I'm not mistaken, I was working at a Toys R Us in WV at the time when it came in!! 🤘🐀

@crispyblacon1 5 ай бұрын

Wasn't the one in Parkersburg by chance?

@LabRatWarfare 5 ай бұрын

@@crispyblacon1Barboursville actually, near the Huntington Mall! 😜🤘🐀

@crispyblacon1 5 ай бұрын

@LabRatWarfare ah okay! I know that one too but I think had only ended up there once or twice. I grew up close to WV so tripped over fairly often back in the day haha

@crispyblacon1 5 ай бұрын

@LabRatWarfare Also that's some really sick content on your channel, gonna listen to some!

@LabRatWarfare 5 ай бұрын

@@crispyblacon1So cool, such a small world sometimes! Haha I really miss TRU!! Best store ever!! 😁

@bigbird2240 10 ай бұрын

The original release was crazy Because Princess Leias figure was only 1 per box and everything else was 2 and one had 3 per box of 24 . So immediately she was worth like 25 cash at flea market and they sold them for 50

@robblumenberg5965 Жыл бұрын

The AT-AT and AT-ST in STAR WARS was made made because of the popularity of giant robots in Japan and was inspired by the OLIPHAUNTS in LORD OF THE RINGS.

@polarboy5862 Жыл бұрын

People in the collector community seem to get confused about economic ideas, buying something that doesn't have an intrinsic material value (an action figure or a pokemon card is technically a lump of plastic or a piece of cardboard as opposed to a silver coin which will always be worth at least the silver value) in the hopes that you will be able to sell it later for more then you initially paid is speculation. An investment is generally something that creates an ongoing profit, such as rent collected on a rental property investment or dividends paid on shares. If you go to any financial adviser they are not going to recommend putting your savings in action figures or having your pension fund diversify into lego sets. Particularly in relation to Star Wars, the action figures are probably going to eventually become worth less and less for the simple reason very few people born in the last 30 years particularly care about Star Wars. The somewhat confronting truth is your average Star Wars fan is around about 45 to 55 years old. In forty years very few people will be interested in mint on card original Kenner figures little own packaging variations of later figures.

@3Storms Жыл бұрын

You're right. Stuff from the 50s and 60s already passed peak value like 15- 20 years ago because of it. But on the happy optimist side 20+ years from now those of us Gen-X toy collectors that are still around will be able to pick up vintage stuff at good prices. 😁

@NicholasHallows Жыл бұрын

Speaking from my own experience, I think many collectors fool themselves into thinking they're buying something as an investment whereas really they're just buying them because they like them (or have some kind of compulsion). I sold off most of my toy collection and it was often the things I hadn't purposefully collected that sold for most. A lot of the "collectibles" I just ended up giving away and donating. Now I have a very 'minimal' collection of SW toys - I don't care about keeping boxes, variants or any of that stuff. I know they won't make money so I just enjoy them for what they are.

@MB-pc4cs 2 ай бұрын

As far as I remember, these were easy to find. I think they were elusive at first, but I remember stumbling onto them and buying toms of them, my brother too. They sucked. As a fan, I thought they sucked. They were nice action figures, especially suits like Boba Fett Vader, nice action figures, but they looked ridiculous all jacked up. Some of you might find this blasphemous, and I might have been dumb of me to do it, this is not me trolling, I threw out a pail of these things loose not that long ago. I think there were some Phantom Menace first line figures in there, loose figures. I didn't even look to see what they were, I was cleaning, doing heavy declutter and dump, I grabbed the pail, emptied it into a garbage bag and into the garbage. Dumb in hindsight, I have an eBay account, I didn't like them, I see no value in them but might have been able to make something out of thm What I think happened here is during and after Return Of The Jedi, He-Man was starting to take over the show. I distinctly remember going into a Toys R Us type store, I may have been TRU but it might have been something else in Ottawa Ontario in the mid 80's there were tons of Star Wars figures with coins, Star Wars in general but ROTJ is long gone. What hope is there for star wars at the time? Then you have another isle with Masters of the Universe these colours, features, interesting characters. If you look at the Retro Collection Luke Skywalker Jedi ROTJ, his head looks like He-man. But my point is with the lack of Star Wars in the mid1980's and everything replacing SW in the toy store, Hasbro knows this was the downfall of the first SW line. They all sat down a table in the 90's discussed this as a committee planning the new Star Wars, and as a result, everyone in Star Wars became ripped muscle choads. Which sucks.