1977 Vintage Star Wars Double Telescoping Luke Skywalker - Retro Showcase #15
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- On this retro showcase Dan takes a closer look at the rare double telescoping lightsaber Luke Skywalker from 1977s vintage Star Wars line.
While not as rare as a double telescoping lightsaber Darth Vader or a rocket firing Boba Fett, this Luke Skywalker is still rare and a pretty cool piece of history.
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Repros are my only way to play with New "Vintage" toys.
Repros for the win
The problem isn't with repros / reissues in of themselves. It's the fact that knock offs are being passed off as the real thing (i.e. fake labels that say 1978, etc). If they'd have honest labeling on the figure (i.e. 2018 Hasbro or ToyHobby 2005) then you'd now which is the real thing. Hasbro does reissues of their classic Transformers to this day (complete with retro packaging), but both the box and figure clearly indicate that they're modern reissues.
After mine broke,I used the colored toothpicks instead. They fit perfectly!
A very lucky find you've got there!
+Toy Polloi Never thought I'd own one. Crazy stuff.
Wait, wait, wait... that little plastic thing on the end extended out? I could have had longer lightsabers to play with?!? This... this is so unfair.
Only the double telescoping these were not the standards that didn’t move
I was talking about the telescoping ones. What is your point?
@@RandomAmerican3000 well majority were not telescoping and looked the same they just didn’t come out. So only a rare few have this is what I meant haha
I don't care about a cheap repro cause I'm not going to sell it just have and let people know it's a repro when talking about it
After I saw Star Wars in 1977, I was asked to participate in a survey about how a felt about potential Star Wars toys. The prototypes were Darth Vader, R2-D2 and this version of Luke Skywalker. My 9 year old mine was blown. These were amazing. On top of that, they gave me a “whooping “ $5 for my time. Maybe the best day of my life.
bullshit...
So I'm supposed to go without weapons for my cheapo vintage figures so guys who can afford $1,000+ for freaking toys don't get fooled by reproductions of small, thin pieces of plastic? Sorry, but no.
The problem isn't with reproductions / reissues in of themselves. It's the fact that knock offs are being passed off as the real thing (i.e. fake labels that say 1978, etc). If they'd have honest labeling on the figure (i.e. 2018 Hasbro or ToyHobby 2005) then you'd now which is the real thing. Hasbro does alot of reissues for their classic Transformers to this day (complete with retro packaging), but both the box and figure clearly indicate that they're modern reissues.
Saying no to repos is only maintaining the value of rare complete expensive collections. Some people want to finish off their collection without paying £10,000 for a vinyl cape. There is a place for limiting repos like guitars and watches where it genuinely infringes on a trademark but not a plastic minature toy gun with an intrinsic value of 0.0001p. A lot of my collection is original but it's too late to stop the rush of fake stormtrooper blasters.
I say yes to repros, watchu' gonna' do, huh?
+Esteban Rodríguez I guess I can't really stop you.
Well, you turned to the dark side but I sense there is still good in you. Don't do it.
How about repros that have blue sabers instead of yellow? Get it cheaper, make it better, get it faster, make it stronger, all is solved, it's a homer, debate's done, it's f***ing over.
I say yes to repros also, because I don't understand why you need to pay way more than you should have over a toy. Some people want to play with repro toys without messing up the old ones. Some kids actually want to live those moments that their parents had.
@@SecretGalaxyTV The problem isn't with reproductions / reissues in of themselves. It's the fact that knock offs are being passed off as the real thing (i.e. fake labels that say 1978, etc). If they'd have honest labeling on the figure (i.e. 2018 Hasbro or ToyHobby 2005) then you'd now which is the real thing. Hasbro does reissues of their classic Transformers to this day (complete with retro packaging), but both the box and figure clearly indicate that they're modern reissues.
Ben Kenobi become the rarest of all 3 DT saber and the price skyrocket for those figures with this device. I only have Luke with DT saber and the smallest part is really bended but still I'm very happy to have one in my collection.
how much would he be worth if he was graded bu AFA loose figure 85?
I just bought 16 vintage Star Wars today.I got the same Luke sky walker
Why was it yellow? That's a Toy Galaxy video waiting to be made...
leave one for the next collector says the man with like 300 boba fetts
Wow, that Hot Toys Luke has some... gifted binoculars.
Love it... another fantastic vid!!
Think I have one.
Can you confirm?
No, if you see two, buy two and then taunt your friend who is also a collector but who doesn't yet have one.
Rey has Luke's light saber. Duh. That wasn't intended as innuendo but eh. Take it how you want.
+DrewsiferXXX We'll see how gross this comment is when Episode 8 comes out.
As far as the Death Star goes, the plan was to look like an ordinary old stormtrooper, lay low while Ben deactivated the tractor beam, and then boogie out of there. When they went out to rescue Leia, it was already bad enough that Luke was a little short for a stormtrooper -- he didn't need a lightsaber dangling from his belt to call more attention to himself. And there really wasn't anywhere else he could put it that would allow for easy access.
+Jozabad I don't know, man. You're walking into a place called "The Death Star" I think you assume that you AREN'T coming back and you take everything you need to give yourself a fighting chance.
Toy Galaxy ...Without any training, he would've probably increased his chances of being killed if he took that thing with him.
I have double telescoping Luke, Ben kenobi, and darth Vader
Got all 3 as well, from a small shop in Oakland Maryland along with Steve sansweets star wars scrapbook waaay back in 1998. I never knew they existed, being from NZ i thought these might be US issue only. Pretty sure there were no repros back then? Great score as it turns out ... up til then I had a couple of loose vinyl caped jawas which I knew were rare, so probably worth $200 back then 😁😁😁
I got one.
I have the empire strikes back versions of Han, Leia, Luke, Chewbacca, r2, and c3po. I'm hoping to get the original versions but they are crazy expensive
In Attack of the Clones, Lucas should have depicted the Jedi younglings all using yellow lightsabers, and establishing yellow as a training lightsaber.
I got this figure with blonde hair beige pants and a red/orange telescope saber. Dat gud?
The problem isn't with reproductions / reissues in of themselves. It's the fact that knock offs are being passed off as the real thing (i.e. fake labels that say 1978, etc). If they'd have honest labeling on the figure (i.e. 2018 Hasbro or ToyHobby 2005) then you'd now which is the real thing. Hasbro does reissues of their classic Transformers to this day (complete with retro packaging), but both the box and figure clearly indicate that they're modern reissues.
Wrong
Normally, I would say "WOAH IES MAN 3-PO IS BACK I CAN'T BELIEVE IT", but he never left for me. He was always there. Always. There.
+Esteban Rodríguez keep him close to your heart.
Can there be unprinted vintage lightsabers. no markings on the hilt?
Leave one for the next collector? Just how many Boba Fetts DO you have ? But that's ok, I have mine from the day ,so keep up the good work.
There's an exception to every rule. The Boba Sett is mine.
I am a collector and I got a DT Luke at a toy shop for $20 recently. Since the saber was pushed in, the guy who was selling it thought it was broken 😂😂😂😂
Nicely done! That's a heck of a deal!
I love the 80s Great video!! Great channel!! You guys rock!!! Subscribed!!!
Thank you very much.
Great video!
Hope one day this figure could be part of collection
Lucky dog! Lol I want one SO BAD, but hey, maybe one day it'll come my way at the right time. Thanks for the awesome review and I love the vintage touch on the video! Great job guys and MTFBWY
+BanthaPooDOOM (BanthaPooDOOM1) You know, I've never particularly cared for that Luke figure (DT saber aside). Bespin, Hoth, Jedi... I liked all of the others waaaay more.
Hey there Dan. Love all of the 80's toy reviews. Still try to collect Kenner Star Wars. GI Joe original. MOTU and transformers Gen 1. Thank you for all you do for my 80's memories.
Thank YOU for watching and commenting!
I think I had a Vader figure with the telescope light saber, but I cut the tip off, because it just looked odd to me.
You and everyone else.
Great review. I didn't know there was a double telescoping one that was rarer, it is before my time frankly. Vintage figure collecting isn't my focus but this one does look cool.
+Darth Deuces The DT Vader is even MORE rare. Luke can sell in the hundreds, a Vader recently sold on ebay for $7500.
Toy Galaxy Wow. Someone definitely has a lot of money to spend on toys lol.
wow, and I had one. played on my dad's helicopter trailer like it was either the Falcon or the death star depending on the day. took it in the pool, fishing, everything. guess that's WHY these are so valuable now...
+mantis999999999 "Helicopter trailer?" What does THAT mean?
+Toy Galaxy its a big metal trailer you pull behind a truck, designed to carry a small helicopter. hard to explain but it made for a cool play area.
+mantis999999999 Yeah but... did he have a helicopter?
I would remove Luke's saber and use the hilt as a blaster. Even had the barrel of an old GI Joe (12") rifle I cut off to insert in the hole. Worked great even without that. Definitely intended for play scenarios beyond the movie. Now why it was yellow is a whole other ball of wax... Err.. Plastic. No. Wax.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? This is the craziest thing I've ever heard (I'm exaggerating but it's still pretty sweet).
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..I guess they just wanted to differentiate it from Obi-Wan's blue lightsaber. (They weren't too worried about movie accuracy back them.) I used to put an extra blue one in there when I was a kid. Also, after the Empire figures came out, I discovered that the Bespin Luke lightsaber (which was a full, seperate saber) would fit perfectly in that hole of the original Luke. So I painted one of those blue. When I was older, Toy originality was more important, and I just put the yellow sliding one back in.
So Luke's Bespin Lightsaber being yellow was just continuity for Kenner? I gotta get to the bottom of this...
I’m 15 and I have a mint one
Ah a classic...
Fantastic. Do you own this figure Dan?
Also: Did you catch the Jordan "Toy Hunter" Hembrough shill auction held late last year in some random Star Wars toy group?
+Hjälte Björkdahl I do own it, yes. I did not catch the toy hunter auction on FB. I liked his show well enough for the toy pr0n. Didn't think HE was particularly charismatic. Some of the "finds" were very clearly planted, but I knew I was watching a tv show when I tuned in.
Toy Galaxy Sums up the show well enough I think.
Yeah, he auctioned off three Lukes around $1200 each, after buying them on the show for $150-£$200 each. Once the mob asked why he was selling them, he announced all had been sold, mentioned his show with a (now broken) link and deleted his post. I might find some blog post about it if I Google around but it was well weird.
+Hjälte Björkdahl I won't fault the guy for running a successful business built on toys. I know the community tends to frown on that type of stuff, but at the same time, every single one of them would trade places with him in a second. His on-camera persona just wasn't particularly engaging for me.
Toy Galaxy I hear ya, but that particular auction was so weird, right?
If you look up his website, the pricing isn't all that bad, there are even some cheap stuff on there. Especially if you live in the US.
EU scum like me get hit with extra shipping costs (as is the name of the game) but if I make a trip over the pond, I'll make sure to buy some stuff and ship it to some friend over there in advance. :D
Those original lightsabres were rubbish. I removed them as soon as I opened the figures - it looked like a coloured car aerial, rather than a lethal weapon. I replaced them with sections of fluorescent plastic fishing floats, which could be sanded down to a rounded point, and fitted perfectly in the arm slots of the three figures. And the colours were correct. Luke and Ben, blue, Vader red, and what's more, they shone brightly under blacklight.
Wait, there are repros?!?
Not of D/T Luke but yeah, regular Farmboy Luke.
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"Just say Nos to Repros".
I have mixed feeling on repros. On the one hand, i like them. As a collector, I have over 4,000 loose figures and providing them all with vintage weapons would lead to my divorce. Also, repros give the buying public a cheaper alternative to original weapons, so it helps keep the price of real weapons from going even more crazy than it already has (check the price of a black Endor Blaster). So as a collector, I like that. But on the down side, they are now making repros that float and look almost identical to the real thing. This allows for sellers to "accidentally" pass off fakes as real and the buyer can get screwed. So I guess my real problem isn't with the repros, but with fraud and uneducated sellers. But since I can't eliminate those from the market place, I have to hate repros in general. Uggg.
I got a bag of repro weapons for my Star wars figures and I compared them to the original weapons and they are like night and day. First off they feel cheap and fragile compared to the originals. You would have to be blind as a bat to not notice the difference.
Have one. CC hilt. It makes me happy.
+Joseph Mama How the filament? Most have some waviness to them.
+Toy Galaxy pretty straight actually. Has a bend where it must have gotten creased but not wavy at all.
MORE C3-PO!!!!!!
+Bit Bro Didn't think he was going to show up again so soon, but it worked there.
haha you said "outer rim " ! hahaha
Parsecs?
Do people who have jobs working on the outer rim, have what is called "outer rim jobs"?
lordnagatron ...That was my first genuine LOL! Thank you.
Holy crap, dude! You have a blue Snaggletooth!? *bows down*