THE VINTAGE STAR WARS DEATH STAR DROID PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
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The vintage Kenner Star Wars Death Star Droid is unfortunately one of those figures that just does not hold up well, but there is a solution.
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Hey Dean, glad you like the DSD, nice to have a shiny one with stiff limbs, I think our Stanleys got 3 originals in his collection, and non of them can even stand up, so he was happy I made this also lol. Keep up the great work
Chris (Stan Solo) 👊🏽💥
Thanks Chris. Once again, you've knocked it out the park with this figure.
@@AllThings80s Thank you very much, to be honest, I wouldnt of thought of doing it... But I had soooo many requests due to the state they are prone to be in, I thought why not 👍🏽
@@Chris365Smith You're welcome.
The Death Star Droid and original Leia were the first two figures I recieved as a child, and my collection unfortunately retained neither, so I had to buy an old one and do some restoration work to get one recently. Now I wish I had waited for this bad boy. Thanks Dean, cracking figure!
Once again, Stan Solo delivers the very figures we need. There's nothing quite like a gleaming, shiny Death Star Droid.
Now that Death Star Droid is a beaut! I've actually been pondering getting some Stan weapons to re-arm some figures I acquired from a flea market a couple years ago. I did manage to find a DSD for $6 from a comic shop, though with that being said, he is floppy as all get out, and the finish leaves quite a bit to be desired. He was also a childhood favourite, and was even my de facto TIE fighter pilot, as I somehow managed to conflate the DSD with the TIE pilot at that time.
I've actually heard other people say that they used the DSD to pilot the Tie Fighter.
When I moved from my boyhood home in the mid 90s, we found a Death Star Droid buried in the ground. It was missing a foot and virtually all of its paint. I don't remember burying it, but there were no other kids around, so it had to be me.
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SS have done a great job. My Death Star Droid is from when I did a swap as a 10 year old and I still have it nearly 40 years later. As a kid I painted it with a metallic silver pen and black marker and it looks like hell, but it’s never leaving my collection
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The Fans are doing the best work! I'll vouch for Stan Solo figures. Picked up a number of them and every one is a gem.
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Yeah now that is one beautiful looking Death Star droid. I don’t have any Stan solo in my collection yet but certainly intend to pick some up at some point.
Great look and comparison Dean, no fear of repro here .
Thanks for sharing man 👍
Thanks Luke. These SSC figures are the way to go if you want minty fresh looking figures for your collection but don't have the deepest of pockets.
Great figure! Picked one up to go next to my Stan solo R5D4. Sooooooo pretty!
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Wow that looks amazing 🤩 A perfect reproduction will become a classic toy in a few decades, people shouldn’t complain about quality products like this.
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I patched up my original using Toy Polloi's techniques. Molotow chrome pen, black paint and plumber's tape for the loose limbs 😁.
That said, Stan Solo's version is excellent.
Toy Polloi !
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Stan Solo Rocks!!! Beautiful Reproduction.
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As a kid I asked for the “two robots from Star Wars”. Imagine my face when I was presented with the Death Star Droid and R5-D4🤣🤣. I loved them anyway and still have them to this day, loose limbs and all.👍
The second I read the first line of your comment, I knew you were going to say you got the DSD and R5-D4.....LOL
Thank you for the report, Dean. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and have a blessed holiday season.
Thank you so much. Same to you!!! 👍🏻
You can stiffen the limbs by putting a drop of superglue in the joint and every 20 seconds or so give it a slow turn.
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I keep adding the Stan Solo one to my cart but haven’t followed through with the purchase yet. With that said I have bought many figures from him including General Lando which looks amazing on the shelf.
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O, for a moment there I completely forgot that I also got the big version of the DEATH STAR DROID from Gentle Giant.
He too shines & glitters pristinely & immaculately. So quite possibly he is my favourite Gentle Giant.
He comes identical to the Kenner one, but massively scaled up in size!! Therefore I would like to very highly recommend him.
[ So, I'm immensely happy to own a copy myself, but of course everyone has to make their mind up for themselves. ]
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Came back to watch again, I’m about to order this one and a couple other SS figures with my Xmas money. Thanks again for telling me about the US seller. 😻🤟
You're very welcome. 👍🏻
That is one fine looking droid.
It sure is. Thanks 👍🏻
Looks amazing, Dean! I would say money well spent.
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Another comprehensive and entertaining video from Dean, for All Things 80s.
This comparison video clearly demonstrates the differences between a vintage Death Star Droid and a Stan Solo Death Star Droid, without causing, or meaning to cause, any offence to either vintage or modern collectors.
And yes collectors, at the end of the day, the choice is entirely yours, but with videos like these, your choice can now be an informed one and surely that's a good thing.
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Almost 10k congratulations Dean 🎊
Thank you so much!!!
People have to realise just because something has the "star wars" label on it does NOT automatically make it valuable... There have been many items with the star wars label on them that were worthless (worth no more than the price they originally sold for) and are worthless now.. As Steve Sansweet said to a fan at a convention when asked how much a particular toy is worth he replied matter of FACTLY "it's worth what you paid for it".
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Awsome video Mr Dean. I would pay the 42 bucks for that figure.
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The left one is the derelict Threebee protocol spy droid. He looks all scarred, bruised & beaten up. He's the one that was left behind
in the Jawa Scavenger Sandcrawler that crossed the vast deserts of Tatooine in "Episode IV - A New Hope". For sure he doesn't need any
weathering effects anymore ! ! He was banned from the Imperial Administrative Bureau on Coruscant long ago, during the era of the Clone Wars
-because of a faulty translation job during important negotiations. But his erroneous interpreter programming wouldn't even let him communicate
with the many moisture vaporators on the remote & arid planet of Tatooine. That's why this worthless peace of junk was left behind in the clutches
of those double-dealing treacherous Jawa scavengers in the first place.
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I don't even think my original Death Star Droid was that shiny right off the card! Nice looking figure.
This is not the first time I've seen SSC figures look better than the real thing.
I love that figure.
I always thought was ridiculous how easily I could scrape that black paint off with my fingernail if I wanted.
It's so soft!
I think that's another SS figure I need to go after. :)
Thanks for the video.
Love the channel. :)
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That SS version looks stunning Dean. Nothing wrong with replacing a badly worn original one on the shelf with that.
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IT helps a lot not to handle it too much. I got 3 threepios in a lot. One is decaying, which i usually handle for display. The other is all shiny and i keep it wrapped in a thin piece of clothing. The third one is the removable limbs one so its naturally worn out. I also got the death star droid and i never touch it since i realized your fingers rub off the Metallic Effect
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My original DSD from 1978 is till stiff but I got annoyed how easily the paint scuffed and scraped it all off with my fingernail. I'll have to haul it out to see how the vac-metal held up.
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Hi Dean, I knew you were going to tell us about the Stan Solo version before I watched your video :) It looks glorious doesn't it? He has also made a black version with silver eyes, like the actual Death Star Droid from the movie. The silver one is actually seen in the Jawa's Sandcrawler looking dazed... Another Kenner quirk :)
My old one died years ago- first the limbs went loose, the metal and paint wore off, the left hand broke off, as they were prone to do, and at some point he lost his head. I found him recently in an old box of toys, with an awful green paint job I must of done as a child, after his injuries.
Seeing the price of them now, I have to agree that repro is a good option in this case.
I love these SSC figures as it means you can get a brand new, pristine figure for less than beaten up genuine Kenner figures.
Probably I'll buy the Stan Solo copy of the Death Star Droid some time later on.
Indeed: it took quite some time, effort and a whole lot of money to obtain a mint copy for my collection.
I bought several carded instances of the silvery vac droid action figure & quite possibly spent (much) more than 1000 eurodollars
before I was able to procure myself one in acceptable mint condition. (But I want at least one specimen of each original of the 96 Kenner action figures.)
So, probably I'm a fool & joker, but when it comes to STAR WARS... I can get very serious & I'm not joking around about that obsession from my childhood.
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I purchased these figures back in the 1970s and 1980s... the Death Star Droid always looked to have quality issues, even "mint on card" to the best of my memory. Poor black paint application.
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Nice comparison Dean! A common problem with the DSD. For loose legs on vintage SW figures I usually use sealing tape, wrapping it around the limbs. Makes the limbs stiff as a dead body. I haven't seen the Stan Solo version. Looks very, very nice and is shiny as hell. Indeed, you pay a lot of dollars on these loose vintage DSD's, not worth the money i.m.o.
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One thing I think of with this droid and most Star Wars universe is that every was in rough shape. Dusty dirty banged up looking. So this droid looking a bit worn is a good look. Especially the one the Jawas had in their possession
That's true
there is chrome marker u can use to re chrome items and figures and such its the best marker to use check out some videos on
I have the chrome pen, but in my opinion, it's good for small touch ups but I wouldn't use it on a whole figure.
Haha you have me convinced I bought 1 of the astromechs I have no problem with repro I just like to know the quality
No issues with quality on these SSC figures.
You could use the vintage, pitted one for the jawa sandcrawler droid. I have a few stan solo items but not that figure. All his stuff is great. Still patiently awaiting the bantha that I backed a while back.
Yeah, the SS stuff is top notch. 👍🏻
You are not kidding about loose limbs. Of all my old Srar Wars figures the Death Star Droid has the loosest limbs.
It's something to do with the plastic it was made from
Hello Dean, great looking figure. Personally if I had that Stan Solo droid I wouldn’t mind putting him in the collection next to the original vintage Star Wars action figures. So I guess ur not done collecting them. I know I’m not.
Thank God for SSC as it means there will always be something to collect.
Hey dean, doesn’t Stan solo have a distributor site in the US? I love the figs but the shipping cost kills me.
Yes he does. The seller onebad07 on eBay is the "official" US seller.
@@AllThings80s awesome thanks so much
@@catsnotcops77 You're welcome.
I second that.
Is there anywhere that you can send in figures to be vac-metalized?
I'm sure there is, but it'll be very expensive.
Thank goodness for repro!!! Stop spending stupid money on vintage toys people!
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To each his own
The only problem I see is the reselling
Or trying to pass it off as the original
But at the end of the day it's your collection and should make you happy
I use stand in in my collection
For example the clash of the titans line didn't make a madusa figure the closes ive come to finding is a
tv Hercules figure it works for me😎
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I still find it weird after all these decades that the Death Star Droid should be shiny black, not silver.
Funnily enough, Stan Solo actually make a movie accurate black Death Star Droid as well.
Do you still take seroquel?
I haven't taken it in over three years.
that droid was never on the death star he was on the Jawa sandcrowler lol
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I think i would display both,you cant out your original to much history to discard the poor old boy.
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$700 wt$ that's crazy. The whole entire re card kits from restore nation maybe even the potf won't add up to that much. I do have a carded original death star droid o e of four carded figures I got in 2006. It's on a return of the Jedi card. I paid $100 I think from Brian's toys. The bubble is dark and Bailey see him. My original figure from a child is in poor shape. Because I didn't want to re card my figures from childhood I have been re collecting the figures. The death Star droid I got was in bad shape and had to touch up the eyes shoulder. If it new about the SS creations I would rather have purchased that. I paid $20 I think for the figure.
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Maybe I'm wrong and if I am I will put my hand up but wasn't this droid seen in the jawa sand crawler and NOT the Death Star? . I don't remember seeing it on the death star so I find it odd they call it the death star droid if it wasn't actually on the death star. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's always been my impression.
@Projekt Kobra while that is true it still baffles the mind why they called it what they did... Then again the COMPLETELY screwed up snaggle tooth and wrongly caked Zuckuss 4-Lom and 4 - Lom Zuckuss. Lol. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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This is the sandcrawler droid, in the movie, it looks, rather appropriately, that it's on it's last legs. Later, a similar droid in all over shiny black is briefly seen in one of the Death Star corridors. The makers probably thought that "Scrap pile droid" might not be an attractive name and/or that they had enough black figures with Vader and the TIE fighter pilot.
@ 5:58 does it look like the seller did the Teflon tape in the joints trick? Not necessarily a bad thing if you list it that way. Do the old ones look good after a clear coat? That’s normally the last step in manufacturing and might be easy to replicate. The Stan solo copy seems nice for $48. But from a vintage automobile guy’s view, they really need to put the year on it to keep it fair.
What is there to keep fair? It's stamped SS so there's absolutely no confusion whether this is genuine Kenner or not.
@@AllThings80s Respectfully disagree. Unless you are aware of Stan Solos work, the letters “ss” are not a clear declaration of the company name or the date of manufacture. The date part could be arguably a bigger problem.
@@machineman6498 I'm not for a second suggesting that anyone deserves to be ripped off, but at this point in time, if you believe that the SS stamp is in any way connected to Kenner, well..........
I noticed this
What did you notice?
@@AllThings80s the pros and cons of these figures
@@batty2259 Right. Got it 👍🏻
And he can be yours for around $41-60.
That's correct.
A 40 yr old figure vs a new one? Lol
Eh no. A $40 figure vs a $600 figure.
Obviously a new figure will be better. Trust me, I’m not against repro at all but your comparison is invalid.
I'm sure this is what Dean is saying, everyone is different... And people prefer just Kenner originals, some dont?? All different opinions, so Dean is SIMPLY giving us his opinion so it's not invalid at all.
Well, for a start, this wasn't a comparison. I was pointing out that for forty bucks, you can get a brand new, shiny DSD instead of spending five or six hundred for an original Kenner.
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