Friday, April 26, 2013

The Astromech Action Figure Collection

A few of us in our garrison have collected astromech action figures, including myself.  I've been collecting for about four years now and have a pretty good start.  Here are a couple links to droid action figure lists:
http://donsolo.wordpress.com/
http://www.rebelscum.com
Google Docs List
http://astromech.farbauti.de/  (added after initial post)

And now pics of my collection so far:

I found some bamboo desk dividers with ends that slide out at Big Lots a couple years ago.  Droid figures fit in it perfectly.  I'm intending to add a couple more "shelves" on the left side so it matches the right side.  I also want to add some sort of plexiglass covering for convention display purposes.  I have a third divider somewhere that I can add more figures (just have to find a place to hang it, not much room next to these guys).

 
 
 
 
Here are a few of my unopened ones.  The rest are scattered throughout the house and a few, like my most wonderful R2-KT are still in AL's bin in the car.  I currently have strep throat and a humongous sinus infection and way too sick to get anything out of the car at the moment.  So, you have to trust me when I say I have more battle packs, Entertainment Earth collections, and single carded figures floating around.
 
 
 
I've included my R2 light set (I have two packages of these for my RV), the tiny R2 at the right is my rubber stamp from 1982 (a stocking stuffer from Mom to Dad), the rare McQuarrie concept is in the middle, and on the left is my very first action figure of any kind ever!  I found Leia and R2 pack at the flea market for $7.  I talked him down to $5 and now this pack is hard to find.  I scored big time and didn't even know it!!  Yep, that little find started me on the action figure collecting craziness.  Just droids and jawas for now, even though I have a few Maul's, stormtroopers, and one officer.
 
 
 
The tiniest action figures --  Micro Machines!  Found this for a song at last year's Denver Comic Con.  The seller held it for me for two days until I could get to his booth.  I have great friends, don't I?
 
 
 
Some of my other droids and jawas.  Someday I want to make the big green guy lower left corner.
 

 
Until next time,
Jawa Jaka (happily playing with her dolls while coughing up gunk)
 
As soon as I posted this a friend of mine found another great resource list:


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