Vintage Star Wars A-Wing Landing gear repair - Toy Polloi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2019
- One if the rarer vintage Star Wars ships is the A-Wing fighter, released under the droids line. It was released again in the 90's under the POTF2 era from Hasbro. Both version are made from the same moulds, and have the same issues. Normally the landing gear mechanism fails. In this video I show you how to fix that.
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I was at my local hobby store over the weekend. There was a kid in there maybe about 15-16 years old. He asked the employee if plastic nippers "like the kind TOY POLLOI uses" we're in stock. All of a sudden we had an impromptu discussion about your channel. CHEERS!!!
That's brilliant! Thanks for sharing the story :D
We are lucky enough to someone like you to show us how to repair our vintage toys. Thank you
Nice Y-wing and a-wing best Star Wars ships
Thank you for uploading this! My little brother got one of these at a vintage shop, and we had the exact same issue. Just waiting now for the glue to dry and he is very excited!
Glad I could help!
Way to impressive as always.
I bought an old Droids one for a lot of bucks on Ebay and it looks amazing, but unfortunately the landing gear does not work, like it should ... I never ever thought, that I would find such a video. But nothing is unpossible. :-) Thanks a lot, master! This is so cool! But nevertheless I have to be careful. You will always get only one chance to repair it, without destroying more ... :-o I would love to have such great talent like you man.
I had the exact same issue with my POTF A-Wing! I fixed it with superglue, but as you estimated, it broke again. Thank you for sharing this video and showing us a better technique to fix it. I might work with resin the next time.
Hasbro need to give us an all new A-Wing for TVC.
Best regards from Germany!
This is the video I've been waiting for for years! I can finally fix my A wing! Thank you Dave!
I'm happy you did this video because on my droids version the motor doesn't work
The motor will more than likely start if you turn it over by hand a fee times with power going through it. The brushes inside just get dirty.
Nowadays we get spaceships with rubber wings... Toys were awesome back then.
Nice! I want to repaint a POTF awing into a blue colours ... the new one looks cheapo.
I have one of these, and always wondered if it would be possible to use the battery compartment to hold batteries to power some LED lighting in the engines - they already come with transparent pieces in them, so it might have been an option in the past.
Another end of the week, another toy saved!! Thanks for sharing!
Center punch, tap and die set. I’m writing your Christmas list.
Nice job, looks better with the stickers! Great video👍☯️👍
I'll have to look at my A wing POTF see if the landing gear needs looking at . I picked up on EBAY
A thought for the future, possibly a fiberglass or carbon spar instead of a screw as reinforcement? Saves you the trouble of lining it up like you did with the screw, and where you have this kind of uneven break you can get a perfectly keyed alignment, and if all is well, the repair is nearly invisible.
Gracias por tu video, acabo de restaurar mi A-wing del 97, soy tu fan #1 de México
aweseom I have one those A-wings with busted gear. good to know its restorable :D
Hey Dave
Another interesting fix.
Thanks and I hope that you have an awesome weekend.
nice fix as usual
love the channel ,, everyday i want more ... cant wait to see the custom on this a wing, cheers!
Great post as always, I would be interested in seeing your paint custom on this vehicle.
Good fix, great video!
I suppose the last time that I was fixing a lot of toys like this was nearly 40 years ago and at that time I always had poly cement lying around from putting together Airfix and Matchbox kits. In more recent years I had to try and fix my kids toys and I found that super glue didn't adhere that well to the plastic. As far as using an old screw to replace to a broken part trick, I learned that one when I was still a kid. Most of my Action Men were the blue pants or late 70s ones. The knee joint broke on one of them and after an unsatisfactory repair with electrical tape I "borrowed" from the old man I decided to split the thigh and screw an a small woodscrew into the lower knee joint. I then stuck the thigh back together with modeling glue.
Awesome! Great repair friend! 😁👍
I've been waiting for you to do an A wing for a while. My rear landing gear is broken but this should be enough information to work this problem out.
Wow Great Job Sir...
Great job as usual
Muchas gracias pude reparar mi a wings del tren de aterrizaje. Thanks i could repair my a wings from the undercarriage
T.P, FAB video; you make me wish I still HAD all my Star Wars toys/vehicles!
I can’t wait for the vintage conversion video
Love the channel and watched this video when it first came out - have been holding on for the vintage conversion follow-up. Any plans to release this at all? I have two projects standing by: A 1999 A-wing into which I'd like to fit a spare X-wing motor plus the removal of the Hasbro 'weathered' paint and a 1999 POTF2 Tatooine Skiff, which I'd like to remove the weathered paint and re-pint the rails and deck grey (or duplicate the parts in grey). Lots of collectors focus on the core Star Wars vehicles and exclude these two POTF1 and Droids vehicles due to their insane prices, while the later POTF2 models from the same mould are cheap and easy to find. So having a way to complete the movie canon vehicle collection without breaking the bank would be great!
Nicely done, Dave! I always love your fixes. Have you ever thought about trying to improve the existing mechanisms in toys such as this one by first repairing the part, but then recasting that part using a stronger plastic than it originally had? Or even in a stronger material like metal? I know that would be much more involved, but one day, I'd love to see you go the extra mile to do something of this nature as an experiment. :) Those vintage DROIDS A Wing Fighters go for over $1000 MIB in the states, so very few collectors are likely to have them, unless they had them as a kid, and managed to keep them all of these years. I love your videos, and I'm very glad to get a new one! Please let me know if you still want to get a commission from me in the near-future. Take care!
This is a damn good video.
A+
Great video. Thanks. Awesome idea to strip the paint and repaint like a vintage. I hope you get to that one day :)
I’m thinking about doing that. Is there a good way you have got to remove paint, cos it would be hard to submerge the whole thing in Oven Cleaner?
Yey! first Dave lol! great video mate! ....and no Legos harmned 🤣
yes please repaint it!!
Do you have any spare rear landing gears? I have one with broken off peg
Nice fix there. Exited to see what's next, like those new GI Joes you've got.
PS: Do you think you could make a video on removing broken foot pegs from the foot holes of figures someday?
just guessing here, and I don't have anything to try it out on, but could you drill a small hole then put in a screw and pull it out that way?
I want to strip the paint and redeco like the vintage version too. I might beat you too it! ;) Have you thought of an easy way to strip the paint off it? I know you have showed oven cleaner. But it’s gonna be hard to submerge it?
Been awhile since a comment has been made, but I picked on of these up at a toy show today and it had this exact problem. It had even broken in the exact same spot! I also have a peg broken off one of the rear landing gear struts so I will try to repair that or just get another one. Thanks for you always informative videos - they have helped me through all of my restorations of my vintage vehicles and playsets.
Did you ever get a video ("Part 2") of the A-wing conversion to install a motor and possibly getting the paint removed and redone?
Glad it helped. I've not returned to this ship. Never say never. Cheers
THANKS., My problem is with the switch not strong enough.
Hey Dave ,any chance you could do a video on the Action Mans' Germans' guards' box from the Colditz castle? I remember when I was a lad you saved up the stars and sent away for it
Not something I own. But if I find one, I will certainly cover it. Cheers
You can tell from the surface that it failed by a combination of old plastic brittle fracture and torsion. You might find that if the superglue fails in the future, the arm will twist again. But if you're careful, unlike a kid would be, it should be fine.
Nice fix! That landing gear is pointlessly complex though!
Just out of curiosity why do you favour using super glue rather than modeling cement which can give a stronger bond on plastics? Most modelers would only use super glue on photo etched parts, while bonding the plastic parts together with the equivalent of Humbrol or Tamiya poly cement.
Its because the point of his videos is how to cheaply with every day household items repair vintage toys. That is why he always uses Lego bricks to make / sculpt the parts he needs for repair and not the 3D printer. The same goes for super glue :)
Correct! :D
How hard would it be to put lights on the cockpit? 🤔 even on the blasters 🤔 I see lots of potential to customize 😁
Don't forget the engines!
Hi, nice video! are you planning any vintage star wars mini rigs restorations?
What mini rigs have the most problems? I haven't ever bothered to collect them.
@@toypolloi usually MLC-3 might have a broken canopy, CAP 3 also or even worst missing (make replacement for these would be a challenge). Also the speeder bike is usally found without the back flaps (all these parts might be found on ebay but the prices are outrageous...). Also Cap 3 and the energizer have these suck plugs that most they break easy after all these years.
Do you have a fix for the Falcon? My kid plays with my PotF2 one and the landing gear always collapse under the weight of the ship. I remember how frustrating that was for me as a kid.
I've tried bending the tabs outward with boiling water, but it inevitably collapses under its own weight after a day or two.
My PotF2 A-Wing still works. I'll rewatch this the day it gives us grief!
Found a fix. Jammed a bunch of aluminum foil up into the hollow of the landing gear so that the upper parts of the tabs are pushed out and they only retract when pinching the tabs as was the design's intention. You can't see the foil.
If that creates enough stress to break them down the road, I'll spring for the OTC 2004 landing gear. I see they finally addressed this design flaw!
Now to figure out why the front landing gear is wobbly and easily collapsible when extended and saggy when retracted....
I picked up an 2006 Snowspeeder, the spring for the landing Gear is Missing, any ideas?
I've seen similar ones on eBay, but never bought one.
How do you remove the canopy without breaking it?
I can't say remember. I've not worked on this toy since this video was filmed.
I probably would have heated the plastic first.