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Star Wars Kenner Action figures

  • 26-07-2007 9:20am
    #1
    Lexus1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering do many people on this board collect Star Wars figures...

    If so are these bought as a hobby or an investment?


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  • #2
    irishthump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭irishthump


    I have a fairly large collection now. Have'nt bought any in a few years and the whole lot are stored away in the attic since moving hose a couple of years ago.

    As to whether it's a hobby or investment.... bit of both really.


  • #3
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    I used to collect all the modern ones (hasbro) but just ran out of space, and they kept re-releasing figures which pissed me off. So then I sold them all and now just collect the vintage (kenner) ones.

    There are 97 basic figures and think i have about 60 of them, all c10 mint - got them on ebay and at comic con last year in san diego.

    Def not an investment, prices won't rise that much on vintage at this point and modern ones sometimes actually fall (based on case packings)


  • #4
    Lexus1976
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    When do you think they will rise on vintage?


  • #5
    irishthump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭irishthump


    Lexus1976 wrote:
    When do you think they will rise on vintage?

    To be perfectly honest..... probably never.

    It's not like the original toys that Kenner released after the first trilogy. People have been buying these figures in droves, there's just too many of them in circulation. Anybody looking for a quick buck on these things is going to be seriously disapointed.


  • #6
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    I've never considered collecting until now. I've hung onto all the ones I had as a kid (and I had good lot of them) but nothing more than that.

    However I am considering buying carded versions of the ones I had as a kid "just to have". I think I'll get non-mint versions of the whole range also. Probably seen as a waste of money to most people (I know it felt that way to me) but now I don't know, I've recently just got the urge to get a set. So that's what I'll do. :) Certainly not doing it for profit anyway.

    It's like the reverse 40YearOldVirgin. I've had the women and now I want the toys :)


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  • #7
    mark73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭mark73


    Just looking for some advice on where might be best for selling a collection of some figures? They have been sitting in a box since I moved house

    Mark73


  • #8
    irishthump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭irishthump


    I would have to say Ebay.


  • #9
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    mark73 wrote: »
    Just looking for some advice on where might be best for selling a collection of some figures? They have been sitting in a box since I moved house

    Mark73

    Ebay!

    Note that If your figures aren't in very good condition (or are missing their weapons) then you should sell them on Ebay as a single job lot rather than as individual actions.

    Collectors aren't interested in participating in auctions for individual figures that aren't in a good condition because postage will be huge relative to the items final price which will inevitiably be low.


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