Once more, great STAR WARS toy history! The sculpt of that 1995 / 1996 Imperial Gunner helmet was a game changer back then.. very movie accurate, very shiny, incredible sculpt. The new Vintage Collection gunners with their pinhead size helmets are pathetic in comparison. I was fortunate enough to find both the red and green cardbacks at my local Toys R Us in Greenwood, Indiana back in the day & I still have both versions MOC 25+ years later.

@frankschalk7790

Жыл бұрын

It was a breath of fresh air, agreed, after the horrible first wave of figures from ‘95. Luke looked like a dim witted Roid head who failed his audition for WWF. Han Solo looked terrible too. Such a disappointment, all of those. BUT! The vehicles were badass, and a welcome upgrade

The 1990s. We were very blessed to be alive during that wonderful time. It was a sweet spot in history. The economy was strong, the Cold War ended, the internet became available to most people, and the pop culture was good.

I still army build with these stormtroopers and yes sandtroopers.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Me too, and Biker Scouts.

There were also the long saber versions of Luke, Vader and Obi Wan, the Frito Lay mail away Spirit of Obi Wan, and the theater edition Luke. Then there were the many variations of the orange card Boba Fett. Oh, and it was in that Power of the Force 2 line where we finally got the Rebel Fleet Trooper.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Aw, man, yeah. I had both the mailaway Ben Kenobi, and the boxed set of all three, later on. There was a different translucency between the two Ben Kenobis. I also did the mailaways for Muftak and Kabe (the big spidery-eyed guy and the little bat-faced girl) and for Oola and Salacious Crumb. Don't forget Cantina bandmates, and B'Omarr Monk spider droid.

@Brianwvrelichunter

14 күн бұрын

Prices of original era fig. These may shoot up higher in value..And the mail away Han in ST outfit worth keeping mib .. good luck

For those of us that grew up with the original figures, it was exciting to see the new ones in the 90's. Even with the buffed out physique, it was new Star Wars. As a college student, I didn't have the money to buy any of them at the time, but it was a great time to be a fan.

@italjahcorntrashroller

Жыл бұрын

West Chester, Golden Rams?

POTF2 was a great time to be a collector. Also thanks for your mentions of those great 90's magazines like Lee's Action Figure News,Toy Shop, and Tomarts.Those always bring back some great memories.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

I still have bunches of those Tomart's and Lee's magazines, and still peruse certain ones, once in a while! That and Wizard, and its wonderful spinoff, ToyFare!! Wish ToyFare still existed. They were also *very* funny!

I thought , back then, that anything new was Awesome! Slave Leia, Tarkin & being able to get a cheap Yak-Face was thrilling. They finally gave me what I wanted since the 70's. The Cantina Band members. Great video JM!!! You Rock!!!

@francoisregis2155

Жыл бұрын

Great time to collect back then

B'omarr Monk will always be the crown jewel in my collection. Good times! Would have gotten the Slave Leia but I was hitting my teen years... would have sent the wrong message. Still remember picking up Tarkin and Long Snoot. Great figures!

Getting that Slave Leia was tough. I had friends looking everywhere. They finally found me one. Two weeks later I walked up on one when I was looking for Tarkin. Truth be told, I transferred the "Never Before" label to that 2nd Slave Leia I found. (yes, I opened the first one) When the Bespin Luke (w/removable hand! said the sticker) and Darth Vader (w/removeable helmet!) showed up at a local toy show in the mall..I got one of each. Slides I really didn't care about that much...but it sure felt good having those ESB characters.

Agreed. I think we can all agree that the muscles was a misstep. However, I had so much fun doing the HUNT in the mid to late 90s. And, I believe the early POTF2 vehicles was a nice upgrade to 70s/80s Kenner line.

I can still remember when I 1st found the new 1995 SW Figures at my local TRU..I was so excited for NEW SW(because there wasent much out there back then) that my knees almost buckled!.TRU had them all except for C-3po..A Great day that people who don’t collect will never understand!

Great topic for a video! Not enough POTF2 love around, but I am a huge fan. By the way, if anyone's interested, there are exactly 227 figures in the POTF2 line, from 1995 to early 2000 when they changed it to Power of the Jedi.

I went absolutely nuts over the POTF2 figures, but I really got excited learning about the up coming Expanded Universe line, looking at the magazines and drooling over the pictures .. One of my top favorite figures from the 90s is Jedi Leia. Thanks for doing this video. Although I've moved on from POTF2, for the most part, I still love the 90s SW figures. Alot of great memories collecting that line like going shopping after we (my sister & myself) got our Christmas money from our grandparents and we went to the mall and I spent all my money on Star Wars figures. My grandma was pissed and I over heard my grandpa say, "well, it's his money". haha :)

Honestly, it's refreshing to hear positive words about these 90s figures, especially because these were MY childhood figures. It makes me wish Star Wars and its fandom had a more holistic love for itself. Thanks for the hope!

@Dragonrider1227

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. This was Star Wars for me as a kid and I still enjoy buying them from time to time

In 1995 When I was 13 there was a grown man who almost fought me for a Rare monkey face Leia at Kay Bee toys!!

@allanbard6048

Жыл бұрын

I literally walked up on a pitched battle over a Boba Fett in a ToysRUs, a kid and a middle aged woman. Turned on my heel and left. I didn't want to be anywhere near that level of craziness.

@tperson8347

Жыл бұрын

@@allanbard6048 I was 10 in 1995, but didn't get into SW til 97. It hit me like ton o bricks. :) haha

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Aw, man. ToyFare magazine loved to ridicule the sculpture of Leia's figure's faces. They found a perfect match of a monkey face and juxtaposed it with the 'honeybun' head Leia. Then, they used the inner card photo of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "One Hot Minute" CD to say the face under the Boussh helmet looked like Anthony Keidis! And they said "Carrie Fisher should sue, and sue again!"

Nice to see some love for the Power of the Force 2 toys. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who loved them. The Jabba's Prisoner Leia figure was especially nice. Also, Grand Moff Tarkin was super great to get. It's about time that we got a figure for who was thought to be the main bad guy other than Darth Vader in the first Star Wars movie. Loved getting Han Solo in Stormtrooper Armor from Fruit Loops! What a great idea that was. I was excited to see new Star Wars toys again when these came out. I got two of each of the ones that I got: one for my collection and one for my nephew who had just turned five - about the age I was when the first Star Wars toys came out in 1978. That was so fun introducing him to Star Wars movies and toys! These action figures were fantastic! The vehicles from this line were even better - perfectly made. I loved that they used some of the same molds or designs from the first lines, but did a much better job painting them to look like the vehicles in the movies. The Sandspeeder, for example, got those cool pin stripes and had the access hatch removed on one of the engines just like in the movie. They even made the Scout Troopers have bendable knees so they could actually sit astride their Speederbikes rather than awkwardly perched on top of them with that T-bar kinda holding them in place. Thanks for this video!

Don't forget Lando on the Red/Orange Power of the Force card back in 95-96, you could find him everywhere. Still find Lando everywhere.

@cutjack242

2 ай бұрын

Green Lando was the hard one to get. Came in a 3 pack at costco.

Great video Junkman the return of the star wars figs in the 90’s was great back then it was easy to complete your wave Stores were full of merch I had bought several trooper to make armies or squad for me 8 was my lucky number. Back then twice a week I was checking the toy stores or wal mart KMart just to get my fix of plastic now I get that fix once a month or 2 months later. Boy I miss those times

I managed to complete my set of orange card POTF2 figs (including variants) not long after the transition to the green cards. I was able to find them all in stores fairly easily, except the R4-D5. That one I found at a comic shop for $25 in 1997. I even decided to buy an extra Tatooine Stormtrooper.

@MrAvenger1975

5 ай бұрын

*R5-D4 Whoops

I remember finding a Jedi Luke with brown vest at TRU and thought I won the lottery that day.

What was great about Stormtrooper Han/Luke is that if you had these figures, along with basic Stormtrooper, you basically had multiple Stormtroopers for "troop building." I know there are people who would want a dozen of them, in a practical sense, you really only need about three of them, and Stormtrooper Han/Luke has got you covered.

I had a ton of these figures and all of them were stolen. My buddies and I would go to Zayre, Venture and Kmart, shove a few down our pants and walk out the door. Department stores (other than Target) were on the decline and the security was absolute shit. After a few months doing this I did get caught and had to sign a document stating I had stole merchandise and that I would never enter Venture again. Security handled it, there was no arrest. However, about a month later my father (who has the same name as I do) opened a letter from a law firm. The letter was meant for me but he opened it assuming it was for him. The letter included a bill for $250. The law firm filing the paperwork I signed was charging me for the time to file the paperwork and the details regarding the theft were documented. Needles to say it was pretty embarrassing revealing to my dad I was 22 years old and had been stealing action figures.

Expanded universe characters were like the Mini-Rigs of action figures. Yup! I said it!

@Therealjoker44

9 ай бұрын

I would do any thing to get all of the EU figures

Finally getting the A wing and Luke's skyhopper in this line was also a great thing.

Do you remember when regular leias were going for 25?? Just cause they only had one per box?

I agree. That Death Star Gunner figure was AWESOME!! When I first saw it in a toy shop in the Metro, I immediately bought it. I still have it on card. That Sandtrooper fig is cool, too. Excellent video, as always Junkman!

A simpler time for collectors... I was only 8 years old back then and wow what a way to start!! I remember always going over to my friend's house because he had figures that I didn't and I had figures that he didn't so it was always exciting for us to play with different figures

I remember looking all over for Slave Leia in the stores, and I wasn't going to pay scalper prices, so I just waited a few months and I found a couple.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

They were like that. No variants, or anything, either. I got to the point where I could find enough to cannibalize for customization in my private dioramas, that I started ignoring them, when I'd see them. They stopped being as scarce.

I ordered the Han Solo Stormtrooper when i lived in Maryland. Somehow i got two (different packages) of them. I gave one to my younger brother who was little at the time. I still have it to this day.

5:05 I had the Empire Strikes back Boba. (Different coloured jet pack) I don’t remember anything else about it. I thought THAT the one you showed here was the alternate (because it was released with that oversized armour from The Shadows of the Empire line)

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

There were these other wonky ones, sort of considered 'Deluxe', had Han with a weird orange harness and backpack with jetpack and weapons, and I recall a Boba Fett with a similar bulk, but different backpack. Found them eventually on clearance, and decided to finally grab one of each, anyway. Why not?

@TheSickNeeds

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure how different the silly deluxe Boba Fett was from the regular but the one in the 2 pack with Ig88 was slightly different from the regular.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSickNeeds not very different, but the arms are posed differently, the legs aren't so arched.

Loving your videos and history insights. From one collector to another many thanks.

I scored (didn't know it at the time) a Luke Skywalker long tray short saber at my hometown Shopko in 96 or 97. Sold it to Brian Semling (Brian's Toys) in 2000 for $700. His "shop" was out of his parents basement in Bluff Siding, WI across from Winona. Crazy times.

I remember my dad bought me all the EU figures for Christmas. Was so excited to finally get the Dark Trooper and Kyle Katarn after playing the shit out of Dark Forces and Jedi Knight. Good times.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Very much so! Dark Forces game and all spinoffs were SO much fun! I loved Thermal Detonators and landmines, and how you could set them for either timer, or proximity. I may be a tiny bit sadistic, but I liked the way Grans (Ree-Yees guys) and Gamorreans squealed when they blew up!

I did a lot of driving for a job I worked at the time, in my own, and neighboring states. When finding the elusive figures was tough at home, it was easier, out of state. (I might have been a factor in why a lot of people didn't find theirs, sorry!) I have almost every figure from every wave, and some still in packages.

I have every single one of these figures in my collection right now. My Han Solo Stormtrooper is standing on my Death Star escape play set along with my Luke Stormtrooper.

Still got mine, for now, plus some episode 1 figures, collected about 100 figures plus some other stuff. I knew someone who worked at my local toys r us in the uk, if they got something i didnt have he used to store one away in his locker for me.

Where can we hook up that Snaggletooth Belt Symbol hat the Junkman is rocking?!!

@ThatJunkman

Жыл бұрын

you cant

@stevenfunderburg1623

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatJunkman What?!!! Why?!!! In the name of The Force, WWWWWWHHHHHHYYYYY??!!!!😣😣😣

I've got two of the sand troopers. Funny thing is one has an orange pauldron while the other is grey.

6:00 - Slave Outfit Leia largely came from the constant term 'Enslaved By Jabba The Hutt on the Topps cards that were popular at the time and also Jabba enslaved her... on the audio cassette and record The Story Of Return Of The Jedi.

I was totally excited for these , in fact I was totally excited when I went into a toy store near and actually seen figures back on the shelf.. and also was excited when I sent away for My fruit loops han solo stormtrooper disguise potf2.

Simply Great Job Junkman 👏

Cool action figures. Some never used or opened. Came with display back ground

I remember some of those. Thanks Junkman

Thrawn was such a cool figure. Also had a vintage look about it too

I think my favorites were the Shadow of the Empire figures... that was really the only expanded universe story I ever read as a teenager. I think Chewy in weird apocalyptic Rambo style fatigues and with a flatop was my favorite of those figures because it was so weird.

@francoisregis2155

Жыл бұрын

It was a cool serie of figs

@alu.304

Жыл бұрын

The N64 Game was awesome!!

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Chewie Snoova disguise! Luke in that weird red Imperial Guard uniform (I did the boil-and-pop customization method and made a matching Lando!) I went nuts and did a lot of custom work back then, made Xizor in his robes, with wineglasses for he and Leia, and I painted his face with his blushy pheromone look.

What I miss about the 90's is that we were mostly left to our imaginations about what the rest of Star Wars was like, which I'm afraid was a lot more exciting than what we eventually got in the PT. Even the EU was more "Star Wars" than the PT!

Somewhere I have the sandtrooper, Han Solo, ASP Droid, Boba Fett, and I think death star gunner. Gotta see what they go for.

I remember all of these being the hot stuff, but especially Tarkin. I still remember the exact day we got it at Target after pestering the stock guy.

When I first got into collecting POTF2, I was really waiting for them to make an R5-D4. I thought they really hit the R2-D2 out of the park, and that R2 body with an R5 dome would have been amazing! But then...we finally got the R5 figure... 🤬

@pauljoyner4338

Жыл бұрын

Lol. The rocket launcher/morter R5-D4. Lol

I wonder why lots of the stuff from the 2011 -2012 era fetches lots of money but the 1990s doesn't get much love. I'm 49 so of course Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are my favorites from the 1970s and 1980s.

My buddy got all these and I thought the Sandtrooper was great. Kenner should have made them. I did mention to him, why they so jacked? I only got the Death Star Gunner. When the POTF line came out, I started really to look at Star Wars figures again as the sculpts and characters they started doing got really cool (Cantina aliens especially).

@That Junkman Did you know? Costume designers (Nilo Rodis-Jamero and Aggie Rodgers) draw inspiration from the works of fantasy artist ''Frank Frazetta''. When creating Princess Leia's ''Slave bikini'' costume. I can clearly remember shopping at a local ''K-Mart'' and buying the (Star Wars Power of the Force- Grand Moff Tarkin) action figure in 1997. I still have it, and it's MOC. I also still have the Kenner, Star Wars, 12" (Grand Moff Tarkin), MIB.

What was the price of the greenish 3pO vs the regular?

One of my most prized possessions is the Han in a Luke red card that I pulled out of the shipping box.

Did anyone want that droid? I can't imagine. I couldn't believe Tarkin wasn't listed as number 1. And, as someone else pointed out, this list missed the rebel soldiers from the original movie. (Maybe they didn't come out in the group you're talking about.)

I got the 12inch Boba, chewbacca , Darth and c3po all signed by the the original actors.

Yeah, now they are all peg warmers, and the only figs ever instock.

How about the crazyness over the Yakface misspelling on the back card. LOL

I was excited to get a Yoda...🤗💯✔️

I had the stormtrooper and C3PO.

Yep. had mulitples of all of those. Do I still? IDK. Maybe. Sold a lot off. Think I still have some, like the Han/trooper mailaway. I was not supercharged about the EU stuff or the Special Edition stuff, but still collected it. It was a good time tho. No wife or GF, no school, no scool loans, no debt, no mortgage. I had steady employment. Just income and free time. Free to roam the department stores and toy stores. I could hit toy shows or flea markets on weekends too and see vintage stuff showing up. Late 90's was good times. THE COLLECTION benefittied in those days.

I agree with your list junk man but I think yak face should have been on it I remember the buzz over that figure since it was so rare in the force line

If I recall, back in '97 when the owner of the comic shop told me about the Leia in a bikini, he referred to her as the "Slave." That was the first time I've heard her referred to as a slave, but I guess it did become more common a few years later.

Great video. There was a great hype in Europe even paying insane amount of money to import it. Thast why they can not make people rich because of the high collectors price back then.

I still have boatloads of those figures, from orange cards, to green cards, to hologram cards, to film cell cards. I can remember getting thrawn for my brother. Not all of those figures in that line were bad, in my opinion. I felt the playsets they came out with, like the death star hallway, were pretty damn cheesy, and yes, I still have that one as well. I just wish they didn't get so damn carried away with some of them, like switching it up to the 3 pack scene sets. Don't get me wrong, some of those were pretty damn cool, but as far as "toy factor" went, they weren't good. I'm thinking of the emperor's throne room from Jedi that had palatine in the throne, Luke and Vader. As a diarama set, it was awesome, but play factor, it was way low on the scale in my opinion.

Love¡ more pof2 content please love ‘‘em good video

I really enjoyed this, Thanks Junkman. ™️

Another figure everyone wanted was the Vader with removable helmet ...

I got the Death Star Gunner and Boba Fett figures when I was a kid. Unfortunately, a dog my family had at the time chewed at the Gunner figure and it got partially damaged. An arm got chewed off.

@TheSickNeeds

Жыл бұрын

you can still get all of those figures super cheap.

He was wearing the outfit too Haha

This may be a hot take but I like this era of Star Wars toys better than the current and even the original vintage. Of course, it helps that I am a 90s kid XD

I got tons and it's a bummer they aren't worth anything but damn it was exciting hunting for those figures

The slave Leia looked good apart from the lousy hip articulation & one hand being bigger than the other.

Good stuff

Exciting times I bought 5 of the green cards back in 96 thinking they will be worth some money in years to come! Then about 5 years ago I bought 5 of the orange cards that’s 10 of my favourite figures altogether! Got them stored away in the attic and they’re still not worth much today 😩😂

Good times

I got the ASP-7 figure because It was featured in shadows of the empire as an enemy

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

That's right! And, Vader is using one as a training droid in one of the SOTE comics.

JUNKMAN how's it going.Hey still till today I have 3 power of the force figures.Han solo with Jabba the Hutt,Luke Skywalker & Han Solo by himself.

I have the imperial Gunner the Han solo in stormtrooper disguise and Force ghost Ben Kenobi from from the Lay's potato chip to mail away.

What is malawe?

So weird . We just look up popy star wars Watched it then you upload a star wars video 😄👽

I got a Slave Leia with Salacious Crump two pack I believe it was a mail order. It's somewhere in my attic.

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean Oola with Salacious Crumb?

@anthonyreed3682

Жыл бұрын

@@georgetrapp6666 it's Leia in the metal bikini with salacious crumb

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonyreed3682 okay, okay. I just remember buying _my_ Salacious Crumb with an Oola mailaway exclusive.

I would do anything for the EU figures i just want them so bad i have just thrawn and no one else

Garindan for me

I never liked that the Power of the Force characters looked like they were ripped.

That's true in the 80's no one said "Slave Leia" we used to say "Leia in the gold bikini"

@MrAvenger1975

5 ай бұрын

Or "Leia in Jabba gear."

I was out of toys when these came out. I missed the original line also because I was too young LOL. My little brother got the han mail away and my mom got 2 thinking of me but I was too and didn't care

Great list forgot about Han stormtrooper but I think the rebel trooper should have been in there and asp7 not.

You have your mic setup for stereo. It is weird. You get close and it is on the left, or move right and its on the mic. just use the mono setting so your voice just stays center.

I didnt care for the Han Stormtrooper outfit cos they had its legs in a dumb pose which made it limited to how it could be posed.

Just wish they had a gun with Han, haha you have to get one from eBay

@tperson8347

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, what the hell, Kenner?! :)

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that. Sounds like the GI Joe line, where one of the cereals (Corn Flakes, I think) had a mailaway for the medic, Lifeline. He was resculpted with no holsters, the one hip is smooth, and the carded figure is packed with a silver pistol, a silver radio backpack, a sort of briefcase med pack, and an oxygen mask. The mailaway, no silver pistol.

You're awesome

Remember Turing down a blue snaggletooth for £50 to get Han stormtrooper instead lol! Man what a mistake that was!

@TheSickNeeds

Жыл бұрын

the force wasn't with you that day!

@lordpicklefartthemighty4231

Жыл бұрын

Most definitely not lol

Back in 1995 these figures was my BIG retirement plan. However a single Apple shares was $0.24. 😒

Grey beard Ponda Baba was a big draw, too.

How many Action Figures are in the Power of the Force line ???

#10 Death Star Gunner was a peg warmer, for a while, in my area #8 Mare Jade, I have 2, she was easier to find #6 -2 Were easier to find #1 Never felt the need to get mail-away Han.

@ThatJunkman

Жыл бұрын

This video wasn’t about easy to find or saying

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

Boil-and-pop home customization got most of us what we wanted, by buying a standard Han, a removable-helmet Luke Stormtrooper, and making the swap. The Luke figure wasn't short enough for Leia's first words to Luke, anyway. (Then, you could put a Lando head in the Han body, paint his hands, and have Lando from the end of ESB!)

Grew up with potf2 figures, now I've returned to them as an adult collector,. Turned out perfectly, potf2 is readily available and dirt cheap :) But feels weird among other collectors, the vintage series does nothing for me, I've never had or even seen these toys

I just went on eBay to buy a Thrawn and they want $60 for it !!!! 🤣

I remember long saber, long-tray/short saber, Boba Fett's dots on his hands, and other variants people paid stupid money for. At any rate, POTF2 isn't a total waste. It did give us nicely-painted reissue vehicles as well as the new figures like Tarkin and slave Leia that you showed. I know it's one with a slide, but another one people sought back then was Darth Vader with removable helmet. It also came with the bonus of doing Vader correctly with having that second half-cape around his waist, which other versions didn't have up to that point.

@tperson8347

Жыл бұрын

I love that Vader figure and I'm glad they added the tail of the robe to it also. :)

@georgetrapp6666

Жыл бұрын

I never owned the variant-gloved Boba Fett, but did have the long-saber figures, but opened mine before they were discovered, corrected, and deemed discontinued. Most of people 'in my boat' thought the lightsabers looked wrong. Little did we know what would happen.

@tperson8347

Жыл бұрын

@@georgetrapp6666 I'm thinking the long sabres were a throwback to the double telescoping lightsabers of the vintage line. That's the only thing I can think of. Not only that, but they've done a similar thing with the box art regarding Stormtroopers in TIE fighters and AT-ST's and figures holding the wrong weapons at times. :)