The Mysterious Speeder Bike found at a Comic Shop!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- A Star Wars Speeder Bike toy was found in a comic shop and it sent Star Wars collectors wild trying to figure out what it was and how it got there!
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Makes me wonder what kind of adventures my collection will have after I die. I hope it all ends up with people who will appreciate it.
Hope it doesn't end up in an investment portfolio in a storage shed never to be seen again
@@MrTripcore I left instructions, but I have doubts about my family actually following them.
But I always hated that toy as a kid.
It never seemed to "snap" back together and stay.
I remember it being such a headache, that we just used the "saddle" as the entire bike.
We zip tied ours together!
Interesting, I knew nothing about this mysterious speeder bike. Thanks for the information , Junks!!!
I was hoping this was about a full sized replica lmao. Then I thought since it was metal it could have been an actual prop from ILM. Turns out it's just a prototype toy from Kenner from the 80s...I guess that's cool?
That's fascinating... I'm curious as to why they would send physical items overseas to be photographed.....just send photographs?
Really cool video.
Tonight on Unsolved Star Wars Mysteries...
Oh man, I remember when this went down. It's crazy how 2003 is now considered 'back in the day.'
Great story. I had one of those when I was a kid back in the 80's. Loved the blow up feature.
Now Jon Favreau can use it in a future Mandalorian Episode. haha THUMBS UP!
Pretty interesting story junkman
To be fair, there were lots of kenner toys that were misrepresented to us in the UK back then. When first in catalogs, jabba the hut was a blue white and his throne looked very different from the official release we got. Other toys were the same with parts put on upside down or back to front. Keep up the awesome work my friend! 😁👍
Man , that is extra messed up, considering the number of actors ,especially in the first film, that were from the Kingdom of Albion. Especially , one Sir Alec Guiness. Who,with his clout and acting talent gave merit to Star Wars. Without Sir Alec, I really don't think that peoples' love for Star Wars would be quite what it is today .
A prop from the film?
Thank you! ☠️🏴🖤🐦
Cool video! By the way, it's Chris Georgoulias, not Cornelius.
Is this guy Eric Cartman all grown up? His voice sounds exactly how I would expect him to sound as an adult.
Since you're toy channel I'll share something I found odd as a kid. In 1999 when Star Wars Episode I came out, there was an action figure of Mace Windu with a blue lightsaber. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but after Episode II came out I thought about that toy with it's wrong lightsaber. I know we didn't know what color it was going to be since we never see Windu's lightsaber in Episode I, but it's still kinda funny.
Holy crap, I'm in the UK and I vaguely remember having issues with SW toys, I had, not looking like pictured ones and had arguments with relatives or friends about how they should be put together either as the picture shows or as it is in the films.
It's the fookin master. I built plenty of sci-fi for mould masters. You make it then split the parts down to make the moulds.
Luckily it wasn’t given away to somebody’s kid
Funny i came across this vid just now after going through one of my old file cabinets in the garage, and finding my 2 home made speeder bikes i made back in the 80s out of cardstock and leftover model runners..Great video junkman😁
Mystery history! Suicycle solved.
😮...It was upside-down...🙃
I'm going to connect the front fork upside down on all my speeder bikes from now on..
I'm halfway thru the last action figure show and you have never seen Dune. Unsubscribed.
@@thetvbaby83 The sleeper must awaken. The spice must flow.
@@bobrobert319 Beer is the mind killer.
I was a rabid user of the forums at the time and remember it well!
Very interesting.
I have a question about a store display Naboo fighter,about 5 feet long wing tip to wing tip, that was in a large retail chain I used to work for.
I dont have any pictures of it.I was going to get it ,but one of our asst. mgrs. got a wild hair and it ended up in the big compactor.I wonder if anybody would have wanted it.
Great video! Very interesting.
A nice piece for sure. No matter the price.
Great video! What's it worth?
So how much did that Chris guy pay for it we all wanna know. Junkman give me an estimate on what you figure this thing'd go for.
Hard to price a 1 of a kind item
The images listed at 2 minutes 36 secs are still available. If you go to Archive.org and type them into the wayback when machine box, exactly as they are written here (capital letters where they appear) then you will be able to see the images
Yes. Those are images of the model. I was referring to images of the prototype.
Great video and you're right! What a journey for a toy (and a prototype one !)
Really often Kenner sent items to General Mills subdivisions company around the world. In France, Miro-Meccano subdivision received and snap a Blue Snaggletooth figure and print the picture on the back of the card. As a kid we were wondering where that figure come from and only start to know about the story behind in 1990 when I bough T.N. Tumbusch "Space Adventure Collectibles" book in an import comics shop in Paris. That book was like reading the bible for Star Wars Toys collectors back then !
Interesting story; I bet the front section broke off in transit to the UK and the person unintentionally glued it back on upside down - how would they know? It was the first time they had seen this vehicle 😉
Oh at 5:15, I think you meant to say “Biker Scout” instead of “Scout Walker”.
no the scout walker is what was missing, the biker scout isn't missing
@@ThatJunkman
Oh sorry; I thought you meant that the Biker Scout was missing from the poster because the poster shows a storm trooper riding the Speeder Bike rather than the regular rider that would be the biker scout.
Whst happen to the missing scout Walker?
No one knows yet
Thats so cool!
This was a really interesting story! Thanks for compiling all of this together into one nice video, J.M. It was really interesting to see it all unfold.
It reminds me of that time in 1983 when Australia also got the America's Cup from you, that was found a year or so later in an antique store & taken back home by a Texan.🐨🇦🇺🏆 Cheers J.M🍻👍🏻
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Great video, I remember when this popped up but I don’t think my attention span stuck around long enough for the final judgement, back then.
This video was absolutely fascinating Junkster!! I didn't think I would give two hoots but I was hooked!! Keep up the great work mate. Know your having a crap time trying to make the channel more successful but that comes with the territory!! If you decide to make some changes go for it,, but keep your channel going mate. I like to think that I have made a friend in you and that means a lot to me. Looking forward to the next video Junkster!! Love and peace
Lol...I wonder how close I came to buying that prototype at Comics "R" Us in Bourke Street, Melbourne. I went up those stairs every week in the early 2000s and bought quite a bit of crap there.
Great video. I though the bike might have eventuated to be a bit of a backyard kit bash. I'm glad it was the real deal. Your Intel is awesome !!
Damn. Always learning something new on this channel. Very cool watch. Thanks
I wonder if a British collector moved to Australia taking his collection with him, and from there ended up in the comic store
Great little video!!👍
Sometimes it's the story behind a certain toy that is more interesting than the toy itself!
Very interesting my friend, awesome story Junkman, thank you! 😳
Reminds me of that Scifi tv series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Was this real, or was it a work of pure fiction...
Gamelys, fantastic shop, got bought out by the Entertainer
Chris "Cornelius". Is he the guy that started the "loogey"?
Cheers JunkMan
Palitoy not Paltoys
Isn’t*
That is an amazing journey and story. Glad it ended up in the right hands.
Good video. I didn’t know anything about this story.
being an Australian its pronounced melburn not melborne
Cool story - nice work, Junkman.
Isn’t that from Gijoe Zartans bike
Digital cameras were a around in 2003.
Yes we know but it wasn’t as common as a phone with a camera in your pocket. Just cause something was around doesn’t mean most people had them.
@@ThatJunkman Amen and Hallelujah. Preach to 'em Junkman. It was 2008 before I even owned a cell phone.
Yeah phones had 'games' too like that one with the snake. Your point?
a 3 megapixel digital camera cost a minimum of $US500 in today's dollars in 2003. About 50 million were sold worldwide that year. They weren't that common. I was taking a photography course in Melbourne, Australia at the time and only one student in my class had access to a digital camera more advanced than the piece of crap you'd get on a cell phone back then. The cameras on our cell phones were of such low resolution that no one would have been able to tell the difference between a nude pic and an image of a prototype sarlacc
I had a crappy webcam that I had to hold ever so still to take a fuzzy picture. After that I had an Olympus digital camera but that thing cost like $900 and was the size of a brick!
my guess would have been a knock off.
Great story, narrative and happy ending
Did you say, Chris "Cornelius"?
This is the stuff legends are made of 😲
Cool video mate, thanks 👍
Dude in 2003 I had a camera phone!
Yes this doesn’t mean everyone did or had that was good enough
I hope you spent a lot of time connecting it to your PC and then uploading the 600x800 pixel images to website forums..? Yeah I thought not, lol
@@Zan_Jayna Granted the pictures were not like mega big ... but was making point, 2003 camera phones existed lol
This was a really interesting one. You should do a series of videos like this. Toy mysteries...
That’s a lot of my videos lol
Man, you always come up with topics that no on else covers!
I try
Very fascinating
Awesome
Fasinating Junkman !
The way you say Australia is hilarious.
Typical American mispronouncing foreign words.
But recently found out that aluminium is not actually the right spelling so you got this one right.
Junkman is out of ideas...Mystery solved!