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The Vintage Pod is a Podcast for collectors of vintage (1977-1989) Star Wars toys and memorabilia. It is intended for both experts and new-comers and features hobby news, market analysis, and insightful interviews.
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No, it doesn't all suck. And what better way to remember that it doesn't suck than celebrating the Archive all...year...long!
Jonathan "Johnny Too-Much" McElwain joins the pod to talk about this ever expanding world filled with shirts, bottles and geography.
Has collecting Vintage Star Wars gotten worse? If so, why?
Gather round the fire to hear a harrowing tale of authentic rarities , clear fakes, questionable fakes, false identities and "tricycle sales."
Plus a charity auction!
Somehow, Skye never uploaded this episode before the unofficial hiatus. So, here it is...the FINAL show in this enhanced format.
Table of Contents:
I'm not going to listen to this again, so I dunno, just listen to the thing.
Which vintage (and modern) Star Wars collectibles "won" the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show on Disney+
Table of Contents: (Contains Spoilers)
0:00 Intro
8:32 # 10 Winner- Emperor
10:33 # 10 Loser
12:16 — Interlude about music
17:40 #9 Loser - R2 and 3P0
20:01 # 8 Winner - Jawa
23:41 #8 Loser - Star Destroyer
23:41 # 7 Loswer - Rebel Snow Speder
28:34 #7 Winner - Imperial Probe Drois
31:02 # 6 Winner - Stormtrooper
35:26 # 6 Loser- Imperial Troop Transport
36:28 #5 Loser - Anakin Skywalker
37:59 #5 Winner - Power Droid
40:48 #4 Loser - Cantina Aliens
41:53 Steve and Skye’s Wacky Dino-Assassin Aside
46:35 #4 Winner - Leia
50:52 #3 Winner - Obi-Wan Kenobi
58:05 #3 Loser - Tusken Raiders
59:07 #2 Winner - Darth Vader
1:08:56 Interlude on Vader Obi-Wan Duel
1:15:33 #2 Loser - Luke
1:18:22 #1 Winners and Losers
The Short 79 back season begins with Ewok Bowman, Lumat. Mattias joins to talk about Mechanicals, foreign carded figures, unlicensed ceramics and an epic, consequential market watch game. Part of the 122nd Chive Cast.
Table of Contents:
08:00 Grumpy Lumat’s Story and History
16:47 Unproduced Zephee
19:45 Skye-Ku
21:28 Mattias Joins The Show
24:54 What is the deal with 79 Backs
29:21 What are all the Lumats?
33:41 Ledy is NOT THE SAME as Made in Mexico
34:57 Trilogo Madness?
41:02 Vintage Vocab: Mechanical / Final Comp
1:01:21 Unloved Item - Bootleg ceramics
1:04:09 Market Watch Game and Outro
Join Skye, Steve, Ron and Yehuda as they discuss the wonderful world of early, unlicensed miniatures.
Join Skye and Steve as they identify which vintage Star Wars collectibles won and which ones lost the “Book of Boba Fett”. Luke, Tuskens, 8D8, Rancor Keepers and all the Boba you can shake a Gaderfi stick at.
Table of Contents:
3:43 2D Clone Wars Discussion
6:57 #10 (X-WING / GAMMY)
9:59 # 9 (R2 / 3PO)
11:56 #8. (NIKTO, BARADA, WALRUS MANS, GREEDO / KLAATUS
16:34 #7 (JAWAS / CHEWBACCA , BOSSK AND OTHER BOUNTY HUNTERS)
20:57 # 6 (SLAVE 1 / OTHER OT SHIPS)
26:15 # 5 (BIB / JABBA)
35:40 # 4 (8D8 / 9D9)
35:10 #3.5 (Max Rebo/Other Skiff Folk)
40: 40 # 3 (Rancor / Rancor Keeper)
45:10 #2 (Tusken / Luke)
58:48 #1 (Boba / Fett)
SJoin Skye and Steve as the discuss the only toy based entirely on the emotion of grief. Ron joins to teach about rough clay sculpts, Palitoy ads, Dixie cups and Yupis. Plus, quite a bit of bear discussion on this month’s chive cast
Table of Contents:
3:58 The value of the Worst Figure ever? Trump Stance? Bored?
10:04 The Kenner and Palitoy Commercial Difference
17:53 Behind the Steve- Everybody is loved and Hardwar Wars?
25:54 Skye-Ku
27:01 Ron Joins the Show
44:16 What is a “Clay Rough” sculpt
53:41 Unused Clay Micro Soldier, or, How the Rancor Keeper Sculptor got his job at Kenner
59:04 Palitoy Adverts - Nugget From the Archive
01:04:41 Unloved Item: Yupi
01:11:22 Dixie Cups
01:13:02 Kink? Rancor Keeper is a Bear
01:15:42 Market Watch Game
01:19:46 Bear Focus Collector?
Skye and Steve chuck the AT-ST driver out of the cockpit in this episode which reveals a shocking conspiracy about the character. Hardcopies, Sculpts, Alternate photo-art, lots of beautiful modern and some Australian cereal madness. Plus, what the hell is a mirr-a-kit?
02:15 The AT-ST talk begins Conspiracy
20:06 Skye-Ku and Skye’s Ninja Story
24:50 -Broc’s Run Explained Sculpt,Mold, Hardcopy,Protomold,First Shot
37:15 The Original Photo art of the AT-ST Driver
40:42 International AT-ST Carded Figures: Tri-Logo, Lili Ledy
42:32 Polish AT-ST Figures
49:16 Nuggets From the Archive – PowerSparks!
59:30. An Interruption! Australian Decoder Discs?
01:03:45 UNOLVED: ROTJ Pyjamas?
01:05: 54 UNLOVED Mirr-a-Kit
01:12:25 Carded Micro Machine
01:18:50 Market Watch “Game”
Duncan Jenkins joins us from the cobwebbed cloisters of his Sithsonian Crypt. Every item has a relation to Halloween, can you figure out what it is… before it is tooooo late???
Table of Contents:
3:43. Finnish LIquorice
8:44 Hershey ESB Treys with Collector Cards
12:21 Bootleg Rubber Toys
18:01. Spanish C-3PO Mobile
23:25 Scholastic News Explorer with Rick Baker
28:57 Mexican Googly-Eyed Wicket
30:26 Blue Harvest Rain Jacket
32:57 Jabba the Hutt Finnish Monster Magazine
35:31 Halloween Cards Galore
46:00 Taiwanese Match Book
51:34 Bootleg 45-RPM “Arturito” Mexican Funk Song
53:39 Bootleg 8-Track Star Wars Song
58:31 Bootleg 45-RPM, Italian Ewok Celebration Song and Do Do Phone Me
01:00:00 Jedi Ghost Toothbrush
01:07:33 Spanish Cap Gun
01:10:59 Bootleg American T-Shirt
- Costume-o-Rama
01:13:43 Croner Stormtrooper Costume
01:16:36 Mexican Bootleg “Darth Vader- Enemy of He-Man” costume
01:21:30 British Cheryl C-3P0 Costume
01:23:25 Canadian Fameux Halloween C-3P0 Halloween
01:28:25 French César Tusken Raider Mask
01:30:48 Line Art for Ben Cooper Ad
01:32:05 Canadian Fameux Halloween Chewbacca Costume
01:35:00 Outro and Haunted Dead (tape) Story
1Two-pack of an episode! First The action goes boom with Mark Vanis and Jon Peck who talk about collecting the Face of Prune. Then on-the-ground reporting from skye at the Pensylvania International Collectors Event as he visits some of the best collections in the world.
2:53 The Hottest Lego set to get
5:15 Prune Face Discussion Begins. Ablism.
13:52 Behind the Steve
19:10 Skye-Ku
20:37 Figure Development: Painted Hardcopy
23:25 Jon Peck and Mark Vanis join the show.
33:22 Comic Book Men Story
35:12 Nugget from the Archive (Blueprints)
44:28 The Hardcopy Returns
47:15 Prune Swag
48:47 Weirdest Prune Face Item?
53:19 Unloved Item- Store Display
56:38 The Scrapped POTF Coin
59:22 Double Lighting Round
1:06:11 Market Watch Game
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1:20:28 Episode 117 • Intro
1:21:47 Bruce Lieberman’s House! (Rebo, Prop teeth, Hong Kong Collectibles,
1:32:20 Room Sales Banter (Holiday Special Photo, Elstree Audio Label)
1:39:05 Brad Portnoy’s House (Chewbacca Central 1 – Hoojibs Art and More)
1:42:20 Steve Rensi’s House (Chebacca Cental 2- Japanese Masks for Duncan
1:44:24 Andy Loney’s House (ESB 12” Chewbacca, Japanese Stuff,
1:47:03 Mike DeStefano’s House ( Autographs)
1:52:58 Mark Rusciano’s Shipping Box Story
02:04:52 Bill Cable’s House (A 3P0… and the Box Returns!)
The Ewok warrior turned poet receives laser focus attention on this month’s episod as Ron Salvatore joins to ask “why in the world don’t more people care about Teebo?” Why don’t they care about alternate sculpts? Forgotten books? QC samples? Unproduced sculpts? Color-Me Cards?
Table of Contents :
3:52 The Duality of Teebo
7:01 Roland Welker of Ewoks.
8:57 Skye-Ku
9:47 Joe Johnston’s Ewok
14:56 Ron discusses Sneering Teebo and “Relic Sculpts”
30:13 QC Sample (actually interesting?)
32:38 Nugget A: Unproduced Teebo Animated Sculpt
38:49 Nugget B: Ewoks Teebo Mock-up Photograph
44:06 Advertisement: Pulp Empire by Paul Hirsch
50:05 Unloved “Color-Me Cards”
55:07 Market Watch game
01:03:00 Joe Johnston Revisited and Outro
How big were vans in the 1970s? Bigger than you can possibly imagine. Ron Salvatore joins the show to talk about the fad and how it interacted with Star Wars. Not just Kenner toys and the MPC model kits, but also the crazy custom painted vans of Mr. Van and a failed pitch to Kenner by the mysterious Mr. Van. Plus, what does it have to do with the Huffy speeder-bike promotion.
Share a half-smirk with Skye and Steve as they work their way through Han Solo in his Trenchcoat and by Harrison Ford in his Ennui. We talk about the figure from his head mold to his signature coat and from Singapore to Mexico. Aaron Longbine joins to talk about focusing on Trenchy and Todd Chamberlain teaches us about the enigmatic John Marco, the illusive first replica prop maker and the first cosplay dealer.
5:09 Behind the Steve: Origin of the trench
9:30 Behind the Steve: Harrison Ford Wants OUT!
14:07 POTF Coin
16:24 Did Kenner Care about Han Trench?
18:44 R-Rated Skyeku
21:02 Han Trench Hardcopy mold, Three Trench Coat Prototypes
28:37 Nugget From The Archive – ERG Han Trench Test
32:47 The Tale of John Marco with Todd Chamberlain
47:20 John Marco the Muffler King?
50:52 Interacting with the man
58:30 How to document disappearing legends of the hobby?
01:02:33 International Han Trench Items: France, Europe, Singapore and Mexico
1:10:09 Han vs. Luke in Cardback form. Optimism vs. Cynicism
1:14:15 Aaron Longbine Joins The Show
1:31:07 The Kenner Hurt Debacle
1:40:41 Market Watch Game with Aaron
An episode so good it took two months to record! Jump aboard the Skiff with Skye and Steve as we contemplate the background character so good it he gets two outfits. Familiar face Ron joins to talk about “technical renderings” before OG Space Freak Beanie Wilkins talks about his collection. Then we jump across the pond to the east of England with Andrew Plant to talk about a sad childhood memory that led to a happy collection. Finally, we close the show with our thoughts on the legend, John Kellerman.
3:35 Skye-Ku
6:28 Behind the Steve with Corey Dee
11:10 Ron Joins the Show
14:55 The Unpainted Hardcopy
20:19 Cool Cool Cool (internal First Shot/Protomold)
30:37 Technical Renderings
36:05 Topps Cards Mania!
49:50 - Chris Wilkins joins the show.
56:45 7-11 Father/Son tumbler
1:01:17 – Nugget from the Archive- Trilogo MIscard
1:08:15 – Nugget 2: Klaatu-pac
1:14:57 – Market Watch Game
1:27:17 – Lightning Round with Chris “Beanie” Wilkins
1:36:11 – Andy Plant Joins the Show
1:54:20 – Steve’s International Klattu Madness
1:56:20 – Model Trem
1:59:40 – Canadian’s Know you’re disappoiunted in Klaatu.
02:02:26 – Nugget from the Archive: German Klaatu Grail
02:04:00 – Unloved: Good, Bad and Ugly Klaatu Costumes
02:11:15 - Remembering John Kellerman
BOMBSHELL alert! There is a new never-before-known-about Kenner display in this podcast. Ron takes Skye and Steve on a tour through the early, early history of Kenner’s merchandising involvement with Star Wars. What was available in Christmas 77?
Table of Contents:
3:15 Was Kenner stupid and lazy in ’77?
6:56 The Early Bird Controversy
11:57 Scholastic News Explorer?
17:58 Escape from Death Star Game
24:38 Kenner Painting Sets
28:39 Store Display Mania!
36:19 Conceptual Rendering of Displays
38:43 Never before known displays Bombshell!
45:07 Market Watch? 8x10s sold on Facebook
49:02 The Foley’s Store Display
50:13 Early Bird Display
Skye and Steve discuss the impact of Mandalorian Season 2 on the value of different vintage Star Wars collectibles. Boba Fett, Weequay, Troop Transports, Luke and more! Best of all, we introduce a new feature “Ask Ron a Star Wars Question.” Plus, the “Episode 7” effect is theorized and explained, Skye antagonizes Ahsoka fans, spoilers are discussed and the show is interrupted by a Biz Markie alarm clock. Oh Snap!
This is our first (last?) ever “video podcast” but the video isn’t super great and Skye looks all twitchy for some reason, but check it out on YouTube if you want to see it anyway.
Table of Contents;
00:00 Show Intro
05:53 #10 Winner and Loser – Droids Category
08:11 #9 – Bartender Category
10:25 #8 – Fish Aliens Category
17:11 #7 – Ships Category
20:43 #6 – Imperial Grunts Category
24:26 #5 – Ugly Ass Aliens
29:00 #4 – Cool Guy Category
34:53 #3 – Ugly Aliens
39:31 #2 – Mandalorians
46:28 -Honorable and Dishonorable Mentions-
50:49 #1 – Saga Defining Character Category
01:01:00 Closing Thoughts
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