Toys & Action Figures

I spent the better part of the last 15 years collecting Star Wars toys. I kick myself every time I look back at how much money I've spent. Some of it went to the newer toys, some went to getting the things I never had but wanted and the rest went to getting back the things I did have but somehow had lost.

4 particular items stand out for me for best toy ever.

1. 1977 Death Star playset with the original box. This was given to me as a Christmas present by my girlfriend (now my wife). She got me this as a present during our first Christmas together. I knew I had to do whatever it took to hang on to her.

Death Star Playset

2. Han Solo in Bespin Outfit. I have it opened and still in the package.


3. Bespin freeze chamber micro playset. Something I had as a child but had to re-buy. It's worth it.

Bespin Freeze Chamber

4. The best memory I have with toys. Han Solo in Carbonite action figure. My grandfather bought me this. Not long after, he developed something called peripheral neuropathy and slowly wasted away. Playing with this toy with him is one of the few happy memories I can remember that deal with my grandfather.


my bad toy memory is when i got optimus prime for christmas, left it in the floor in the living room and my dad stepped on it in the middle of the night and broke off the leg. my parents wouldn't buy me another one to teach me a lesson that i should pick up my toys when i'm done playing with them. it's a good lesson, just sucked the way it went down at least for a 7 year old

i still have most of my star wars stuff. i gave two 50 gallon rubber tubs of the newer stuff to the local children's home two christmas' ago during their toys for tots drive. those poor kids could have alot more fun with it than I was having to store it.

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Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

or Slag 'cause trikes are my favourite dinosaurs. For some reason though I never had a Grimlock.

dude slag was so awesome. I wanted swoop because pterdactyls (sp?) are my favorite but my parents could never find it. Not sure if they even made it.

I like the Incecticons also. I had the grasshopper and the beetle. I don't remember their names.

I had He-man and ninja turles stuff too until my mom went on a religious kick. according to her, He-man was evil because of magic and ninja turtles was evil because my mom saw on the turtles arcade game that Splinter worshipped Zen and that flipped her lid. So I had to get rid of those toys. I'm glad she snapped out of it. Too bad it was after my toys were sold at a garage sale. It was too evil for me to have but who cares whether some other little kid had it, right....

damned christian extremists.

There's nowhere I can't reach.