What are your Prized Collectibles & Holy Grails?

Got a pic? I'd suggest searching recent eBay auctions to see if any have sold and what they went for without an autograph.

 

Humm is it a Don Post mask? Or was it Halloween quality? If it was Don Post it might be worth quite a bit, I know his early masks are pretty highly sought after.

 

A frame with all the Star Wars posters and the original film strips that Lucas used when cutting the movies.

 

These are two pieces I added to my collection recently

 

That Chewie is in great shape! Congrats!

 

I love the Kenner role play weapons!

 

Thanks. The Chewie came from ebay and I was surprise how soft it was. I think it was hardly played with.

The Kenner blasters are great, they don't look small in an adult hand and are pretty authentic for the time.

 

I used to have the ESB version of Han's blaster above. Really regret selling my childhood Palitoy/Kenner collection back in 2008. As a job lot. Arghh!

 

As far as vintage goes, my goal some day is to own the original 12back Figures, which Vader being the one I want the most.

 

Oh man, I missed out on one today on Ebay, Tusken Raider! But card was cut, but there will be some opportunities in the future to grab one, maybe even Vader!

 

My most prized collectible of a Blue Snaggletooth may have been topped when i purchased a lot that included a Yak Face! Has some paint loss but after selling most from the lot it paid for him so i cant complain...a free Yak Face after selling is an unbelievable achievement. Managed to get that Tusken Raider 12 back also!

 

Color me Jealous - he and Stormtrooper Luke are the 2 vintage figures I still need to finish my collection.

 

Ha just lucky that the lot i bought him in had rare figures from other countries MOC. To tell you the truth i get just a big kick of finding items like a Republic Gunship at a thrift store for cheap. That is an awesome feeling too. Great find.

 

Wow, great pick-up whostheBossk! Lots are tricky, but if you get lucky you can get the figure(s) you want and piece out the rest, paying for them in the process.

 

1. 1977 Rumpf Chewie tankard
2. Original teaser poster (reprint), covered with autographs

 

Beyond the movies, I'm mostly into getting copies of books (the novels) that I like.

I'd kind of like to upgrade all my old books to the new "Legends" reprints, but I'm not sure how badly I want to spend the money on that (I've gotten most of mine used for a few bucks).

 

Either my hand-made ANH Luke lightsaber:


Or my SW: Rebels replica E-11 I made from a Rubies Halloween prop:

 

Very nice Dinos4Ever

 

well my holy grail is the Robert Tonner Queen Amidala porcelain doll with her trunk of clothes. I see one every now and again, but I never have a couple grand laying around when I see them.

I have a life size ANH Leia. Actually I need a new body for her, the body she has right now is almost 6' tall. I admit I haven't been looking for one though. also I have a drawing of Padme with Leia as a toddler in her lap and Luke looking out the window. It was made for me by Phil Sims, not well known in star wars circles but he is very well known in tattoo circles. One of these days I am going to get it professionally framed, hopefully a day sooner than later. .

 

Some incredible things in some of the collections here! Both my collection and my grails feel quite humble, but I'm relatively new to actively collecting Star Wars stuff (only over the past 2-and-a-bit years, and mostly on a student's budget), so I've got plenty of time and hopefully future money to get more ambitious.

Probably my main grails so far are the Hot Toys Hoth Leia and Rey with BB-8, and the D23 Premium Elite Series Hoth Leia. Since I almost don't want to go down the slippery slope of Hot Toys, I'd say the latter is what I'd be most tempted to cough up for now if I had a sudden windfall.

If pushed to pick one favourite from what I've got so far, I'd say I'm perhaps most fond of either my Rey Pop with the X-Wing helmet - which I'm not entirely sure ever even officially made it to any big UK retailers - or my Black Series Rey's Speeder (or rather, the accompanying Scavenger Rey figure, whose use of soft goods I adore). Both easy enough to get hold of in many places, but finding them affordably in the UK at the time was no mean feat and I treasure them both.

 

My most treasured SW ship model is my Venator. It's my favourite ship design, and the diecast models are really expensive second-hand these days.

Sure, the control towers of the model are angled weirdly, but it's worth it for the chance to have a Venator.

 

Collection holy grail would absolutely be an Action Fleet TIE Defender mint in box. That was the finest toy line when I was a kid, playing with scale models with operable parts.

And if I pick one up off eBay because they’re for sale there constantly, I’d probably take it out of that box.

 

Most prized - photo with Mark Hamill from Celebration
Most sentimental - POTF Jedi Luke figure, my first Star Wars figure
Grail - can't say I'd put much thought into this as it would probably be something from the films (like Luke's lightsaber) and way, way, way above my price range even if the opportunity did come up! More in the realm of maybe possible if I get incredibly lucky would be getting George Lucas to autograph either my blu-ray Saga set or my 97 Special Edition video set.

 

Going to be honest, my Holy Grail is probably the Droids A-Wing.
Coolest looking ship, and definitely one of the hardest to find from the 80's molds.

 

Definitely my Vaders Vault lightsaber collection. I have an ESB Vader coming from them in the next week or two with their awesome new plecter pixel blades. I'll post it when I get it