TDW 1258 - Starting My Vintage STAR WARS Toy Collection

0:08 here. That's a Star Wars poster hanging

0:08 in my kitchen. It is raining outside,

0:12 which is kind of rare for Southern

0:14 California. When I say raining, it's not

0:16 pouring. It's just kind of drizzling a

0:17 little bit. But you know what? We will

0:19 take what we can get out here. It's my

0:22 second channel, Daily Vlog channel. It's

0:24 the daily Woo. Why am I starting with

0:26 the Star Wars poster? Because this vlog

0:29 is going to be about Star Wars. Now,

0:32 it's not about the phenomenal, hyped up

0:36 movie that is coming out less than a

0:37 week. The Force Awakens will be rearing

0:39 its head into our lives. I am talking

0:42 about old school Star Wars. Star Wars or

0:47 Empire Strikes Back or even Return of

0:49 the Jedi is what I'm referring to. Now,

0:53 as a kid, this trilogy of films meant a

0:56 lot to me. And I used to have a lot of

0:58 the toys, especially from Return of the

1:00 Jedi, some from Empire Strikes Back and

1:03 some from the original Star Wars. But in

1:07 the last few days, I have actually had

1:09 this

1:11 very, very strong thought process that I

1:15 need to rekindle my joy of Star Wars

1:19 toys from my youth. that

1:22 unfortunately as I got into my teenage

1:25 years, I sold off at a garage sale.

1:28 Sadly, I used to have one of those Darth

1:30 Vader

1:31 uh figure holders full of all the Return

1:34 of the Jedi figures, and I sold those at

1:37 a garage sale for an

1:39 exorbitantly cheap amount of money back

1:42 a long time ago in probably the mid to

1:46 late 80s. And I still regret doing that.

1:50 And I have decided that I now that I

1:53 actually have a place to reside and I

1:56 actually have a little bit of area to

1:58 put some knickknacks and patty wax and

2:01 if I had a dog I would give him a bone.

2:03 But pets are not allowed here so there

2:04 is no dog or a bone. But there is

2:07 room for Star Wars toys. And I would

2:10 actually like to bring you in to my very

2:14 first old school vintage Star Wars toy

2:19 purchase starting today. This is a

2:21 historic occasion. I have pretty much

2:24 decided that I'm probably going to spend

2:26 20, maybe $30 a month over the next year

2:30 or two. This will probably not

2:31 accomplish my goal, but I don't want to

2:33 spend too much. I'm hopefully finding

2:35 some toys at garage sales, estate sales,

2:39 thrift stores, antique places, maybe

2:41 even on Craigslist or eBay. And this is

2:43 where I want to bring you into my world

2:45 and ask your opinion on where you can

2:48 get vintage Star Wars toys at a

2:52 reasonable price. Now, not necessarily.

2:53 I really do not necessarily need them in

2:56 perfect pristine A+ mint condition if

3:01 you follow Beckett's baseball card

3:04 rules. You do I do not need all that. I

3:06 just need the memories. I need the

3:09 figures. I need the vehicles from the

3:11 original trilogy. I don't need the Power

3:13 of the Four stuff or whatever came later

3:16 on when they put the movies back out in

3:18 the theater. I want the original 1970s

3:21 into the early 1980s toys. Not

3:24 necessarily having to have like all the

3:26 lightsabers and the guns. I just want

3:29 the figures. Not necessarily on the

3:31 cards, meaning they're in new shape. I'm

3:33 actually going to play with my toys and

3:36 pretend I'm Han Solo and pretend Jabba

3:38 the Hut is in there in the fortress. I

3:41 want to do all that. I want the Ewok

3:43 village and the rancor eventually over

3:46 time. I want all that stuff. And pretty

3:48 much since I do not want to spend an

3:50 exorbitant amount of money on these

3:53 vintage OG, you could call them Star

3:56 Wars toys, I will probably end up

3:59 getting basically the toys I will

4:01 probably be getting will have lots of

4:02 scuffs on them, a lot of damaged areas,

4:05 but that does not matter because it's

4:07 all about rekindling the toys I had in

4:10 my youth. And I have started this

4:13 process with something that is in this

4:17 bag. You can probably see what it is

4:20 right here. This is not a very good a

4:22 good hidden bag, but I actually picked

4:25 something up at a garage sale and I have

4:27 not cleaned it. I have not done anything

4:29 to it since I purchased it. And I would

4:32 like to show you what is going to start

4:35 this new actually old but new Star Wars

4:40 collection that I am actually starting

4:43 today. So that's what this vlog is

4:45 about. If you're looking for an updated

4:48 detailed Star Wars toy vlog, this is not

4:52 the vlog you're looking for. This is not

4:54 the vlog you are looking for. I am a

4:57 beginner. I am not a self-proclaimed

5:00 afficionado of toys. I just wanted to

5:02 bring the joy that I am actually feeling

5:05 right now and the future joy that

5:07 hopefully I will be developing over the

5:09 next year or two by collecting the

5:12 original Star Wars. I have to focus on

5:15 those words. The original original three

5:18 before the prequels came out before the

5:21 Force Awakens. I'm not really interested

5:23 in any of that newer quote unquote newer

5:26 toys and the newer stuff. I want the old

5:28 school. I want the nittygritty, the

5:30 dirty, the down and dirty trilogy is

5:33 what I am looking for. And I started

5:35 today by actually getting and finding at

5:39 a garage sale Luke's speeder. Look at

5:45 this. It's Luke's speeder right here.

5:49 And here's the

5:51 seat. Look at this.

6:00 I picked this up

6:00 today. I picked this up today at a

6:03 garage sale and it's in pretty good

6:05 shape. It is not in perfect condition.

6:07 And I actually texted my friend Count

6:09 Stankis who is actually a expert. I

6:12 would call him an expert on toys. He has

6:15 the toy room of insanity. And I texted

6:18 him and I said, "Is this worth getting?"

6:20 and he said, "The things you want to

6:21 look for are these stickers underneath

6:24 here and the stickers underneath the

6:27 windshield here. And you want to make

6:29 sure that the gear shift knob actually

6:31 works. I tested it out and it actually

6:34 works. And I got a pretty good deal on

6:37 Luke's Star Speeder. Look at this. Now,

6:40 I have not cleaned it. Now, I'm actually

6:42 going to take some cleaner, clean it

6:44 off. But I wanted to show you basically

6:46 what I picked up for a heck of a deal.

6:49 starting my old school Star Wars

6:52 collection. Look at this. And here is

6:55 that gear shift I was talking about

6:57 right here. Watch

6:58 this. So, basically, you shift the gear

7:02 and look what's inside of here. We have

7:03 some kind of like a little piece of a

7:04 berry or a nut or something. Some sort

7:07 of outside outside thing that was stuck

7:11 inside of there. So, let's get rid of

7:12 that. But basically, you just take this

7:17 and you can shift the gear and the tires

7:20 come up and

7:22 down. See, watch that. Look at that. The

7:25 tires go up and down on the bottom of

7:27 it. So, it's actually in working good

7:30 working shape. The springs are inside

7:33 there working perfectly. And look

7:35 underneath. You can actually see the

7:37 date stamp on it saying the late 1970s.

7:40 And also there is a old Star Wars

7:43 sticker that someone whoever owned this

7:45 either a child or an adult has stuck on

7:48 there. And part of the sticker if you

7:50 take these seats out part of the sticker

7:53 is still in here. So let's see if we can

7:55 see the sticker. Oh, look at this. Look.

7:58 Look at this. I forgot as well. There

8:01 are a couple of weapons that were inside

8:04 there also. There's a couple of weapons

8:07 in

8:08 there. Now, I cannot find that sticker.

8:11 There was a sticker from the bottom of

8:13 it in there as well. Part of that

8:15 sticker had fallen off. Oh, here it is.

8:17 Look at this. This sticker has a date

8:20 stamp of 1980 on it. 1980 sticker, which

8:24 was that sticker. Of course, this toy

8:27 was from

8:29 1978. Kenner Products

8:33 1978. But look at that. The stickers

8:36 there on the front are still there. It

8:40 rides along and glides pretty good.

8:42 Glides pretty well. The gear shift works

8:46 great. That is so cool. Look at that. Of

8:49 course, you got to put the seats in. I'm

8:50 going to clean all this up. It's still

8:52 in its very dirty stages, but I'm going

8:55 to clean it up. Got a couple guns. Got

8:57 that 1980 sticker on the bottom of it.

8:59 And check this out. Inside here, this

9:02 actually works, too. This pops open.

9:04 You pop open the hood and look at

9:07 that. Look at that. There's a sticker

9:10 still there from the

9:13 late 1970s. And here's a number here. I

9:16 don't know what this number maybe you

9:17 guys know that know more about toys than

9:18 I do. There's a number stamped there. It

9:20 says

9:22 01780. I don't know what that means. if

9:24 it's some sort of authenticity number or

9:27 the model number or that maybe is the

9:29 number in order of how they produce

9:32 these. But that is very very cool. Works

9:35 great. Now I just need to get Luke and

9:38 C3PO in there. Now I love all the old

9:41 school Star Wars toys. I want to get the

9:44 Star Wars stuff. Return of the Jedi

9:46 holds a special place in my heart. I

9:47 want to get the Ewok Village. I want to

9:49 get the Java playset. I want to get the

9:50 Rancor. I want to get the Rancor Keeper.

9:52 I want to get the Gorian guards. I want

9:54 to get the Emperor's royal guards. I

9:56 want to get all that stuff. Over time,

9:58 I'm going to be building up a

10:00 collection. But I thought you guys would

10:02 like to know I'm starting with this.

10:05 This is what I am starting with. Very

10:08 cool. Please chime in if you have any

10:10 any suggestions on where I can get

10:12 different toys around Orange County,

10:14 California. I'm always open to

10:16 suggestions to find stuff like this. Do

10:18 you get your toys? If you are a

10:20 collector, do you get your toys on eBay?

10:23 Do you get them at a store? Do you get

10:24 them at garage sales? Do you trade other

10:27 collectors? What is the best way? Now,

10:30 I'm going to actually be tapping into

10:31 the brain of Count Stankus, my good

10:33 friend, who actually does toy reviews on

10:35 his channel, Count Stankus. He has a lot

10:38 of store Star Wars toys. He has a room

10:40 called the toy room of insanity. Check

10:43 out his channel. He is going to be my

10:45 Jedi. He is going to be my Yoda. and

10:47 he's going to be helping me complete my

10:49 collection. It's not going to be

10:51 accomplished in a short time. It's going

10:53 to take a very just like becoming a Jedi

10:55 does not happen overnight. And getting

10:57 all the original trilogy toys will also

11:01 be a lifelong process. Leave some

11:04 comments and I'll see you guys tomorrow

11:05 in the next vlog. Hope you enjoyed this

11:07 one. See you later. Goodbye.

TDW 1258 - Starting My Vintage STAR WARS Toy Collection

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