The Star Wars Collectors Archive Podcast

Jonathan McElwain joins the show to talk about all things vintage custom Star Wars cakes, before the dark times, before the Wilton license. Then he talks about Wilton! Also, a new fake item from Argentina is confirmed at the end of the episode. 00:52 Intro 4:44 Comedy Bang-Bang Interlude 5:32 Porg Cake Story 8:13 Jonathan Mcelwain’s Heartwarming Cake Story 9:53: Mail Box News Magazine 18:48 Steve Starts The Chewbacca Cake discussion 22:47 Jonathan’s Favorite Cakes 26:36 Wilton Cake Memoribilia 32:00 The Argentinian Fake Issue

It’s a strangely on-topic episode all about Lando in his Skiff disguise as Skye and Steve talk about the character, his outfit and a lot about his toys. Long time hobby mainstay David Gaule joins the show to discuss his absolutely incredible Skiff focus, to posit that many of his Argentinian prototypes might be fakes and to unveil a never-before-shown Kenner photograph. Plus he lends his talents to Kenner Commercial Theatre and a market watch game. All this plus so many unloved items, a discussion of Disneyland and a WTF “are we good?” interview with Michael Havens. All this on this first ever hundo broken ‘Chive Cast Table of Contents: 06:21 Steve’s trip to Disneyland 12:40 Lando Skiff Mania 20:38 Behind the Steve 27:37 Skye-Ku 29:27 Tskuda Lando 33:33 Nugget from the Archive (Unproduced POTF) 37:22 David Gaule joins the show 42:36 David’s Pre-production Run 55:24. The Great TopToys fake? 01:09:05 Blueprint talk 01:10:15 Modern Applause Sculpt 01:12:10 Two Different sign-offs from Smile 01:13:16 CMYK Proof talk 01:15:42 Lando Gets Closer in Proofs 01:18:41 Star Wars Babies? 01:20:24 Never Shown Before Uncensored Toy Reference Photo 01:29:37 Kenner Commercial Theater 01:35:42 Visiting the Hasbro Offices 01:40:16 One Dollar Vlix Market Watch Game 01:48:07 So-be-it Lightning Round 01:57:32 Unloved Italian Stickers 02:00:56 Unloved Topps Cards 02:03:07 Unloved Ugly 02:05:14 Unloved Coloring Book 02:11:14 Michael Haven’s Interview 02:59:15 Outro

Years after Skye married Steve, Steve now marries Skye and the two go on a fantastic vintage Star Wars 100th episode honeymoon in Iceland and former Yugoslavia. It’s a deep dive in a shallow pool as we cover every single vintage item known of in the two countries that did not exactly have Star Wars fever. We feature stories of Steve’s cousins and interviews with Skye’s wife, Marjena Popovic, and her friend, Zemo. We are talking Books, magazines, stickers, posters and more handbills than you can shake a Steve at all on the new ‘Chive Cast. 7:55 Steve’s Guide to Icelandic Star Wars Collectibles 10:10 Icelandic Star Wars Names and Books 18:98 Icelandic Handbills. 30:55 Marjena and Skye’s Guide to Yugoslavian Star Wars Collectibles (and history) 41:17 Yugoslavian Star Wars Posters (Part 1) 42:35 The Yugoslavian Star Wars Novel 1:03:22. Zemo on (sort of) growing up Star Wars in Yugoslavia 1:12:13 Yugoslavian Star Wars Posters (Part 2) 1:18:19 Yugoslavian Comics (part 1) 1:33:57 The Importance of Ewoks 1:43:25 Why Marjena Has No Toys 1:58:19 Skye and Steve’s Outro aaabzktt

“The Honesty, which is kindness, that comes across as cruelty.” This episode is about collecting the Biker Scout, but it is also about the pre-Facebook / Post-Facebook collector divide. We talk about the rocket rider’s short snout and proofs while also penning an open letter to the unofficial leadership council of the FaceBook collectors. We invite John Alvarez and Joe Yglesias -the eternally old-and-grumpy Stattler and Waldorf of vintage Star Wars - to share tales of old hobby beefs and how it used to be on Rebelscum. John pipes in to discuss how he built his storied and dismantled Biker Scout run and then Joe helps us to think about where the Scout DNA hides in Vintage bootlegs. Plus FX Master history lessons, VHS commercials, Quartz Stop Watches and an improvised Market Watch on the Gretzky Podcast! Table of Contents 01:30 Show intro 10:34 Open Letter to the FaceBook Gods 22:30 Actual Biker Scout Talk Begins 28:40 Behind the Steve with the “Rocket Bike” rider 37:20 Skye-Ku 38:12 Netherlands Biker Scout Stuff 42:35 John and Joe Tell Tales of Trolls Past 54:30 Nienast debate 1:03:14 The Great FX Master Scam History 1:13:13 The guy who didn’t understand what a Yak Face hardcopy is 1:27:30 John’s Old Biker Scout Run 1:47:30 Biker Scouts DNA in the Bootleg 1:51:32 Nugget from the Archive (Unproduced clock, Stopwatch Layout Art) 1:59:10 Havens debate and John 2:03:09 Unloved Item (Ditty Bag) 2:07:15 Vintage Kenner Commercial 2:11:30 Biker Scout Improvised Market Watch 02:15:45 Short Mouth Variant 02:17:22 CBS-FOX Video Sweepstakes Ad and outro

What is a Protomold? How is it different form a Hardcopy? How was it made? Who made it? So many questions, amazing amounts of answes coming from Ben Sheehan, who just wrote the blog post about. Ron Salvatore joins to add his prototype knowlege, Steve keeps it on the rails, and Skye talks about his mom's underpants. In other words..its a typical 'Chive Cast!

Hear Skye and Steve live from the Collector Social Podcast stage and from the show floor of Celebration Chicago, 2019. We talk about the Archive Party, C-3P0s eating competition, their collector track panel, grooming Wookiees, buying Lobby cards and interview Derby, Salvatore, White, Lev, Warren and our very own Grammy Daddy. All this and some iffy sound quality on the 98th Vintage Pod. 2:10 Jasper Nixon Returns 5:56 Archive Party IV Recap 9:31 C-3POs Eating Competitions 12:07 Positivity and mending rifts 14:09 Talk about the Panel 16:15 Skye’s Big Purchase of a Plush Display 23:43 Steve’s Lobby Cards 27:40 Canadian Paploo 30:50 Anthony “Grammy Daddy” announces contest winners 34:45 Ron Salvatore Hates Star Wars (and the podcast) 39:30. The Rocket Fett 40:56 Tom Derby joins the show briefly 46:33 Bruce White Talks Leia 49:21 Jasper from the Show Floor 50:51. Interview with Lev (from Toy Tokyo) about his last Uzay 53:04 Warren Tells a happy tale 56:17 Skye Meets the New Chewbacca

Jakub Burzyński joins Skye to talk about growing up buying bootlegs in Poland as well as his new book on the subject, Far Far Away. This interview was once a part of an April fools joke. If for some reason you want to hear and watch the original version (filled with weird jokes and music) then you can find it here: http://theswca.com/podcast/chive_97.m4a

Ol’ Three Eyes is Back as Skye and Steve discuss Ree-Yees, his deleted scene, his original design, his cigar habit, his video game skills, his photo art, his sculpt, his trinoculars and even his dixie cups. Gus Lopez joins the crew to talk about the John Mollo sketch book, the unproduced White Witch and the 25th Anniversary of the Archive Panel at Celebration Chicago. Finally, Chris Georgoulias and Pete Fitzke hop on to discuss the recent Prop Store auction. All this and a discussion of the most recent scandals from Hasbro and Red Letter Media. Table of Contents: 12:34 – Skye-Ku and bad high school joke 15:08 – Behind the Steve and Flip the Script 25:08- News (Hasbro Retro, Red Letter Media Controversy) 39:27 – Prop Store Auction Intro. (Chris and Pete Join) 54:56 – The Ride on Speeder Bike Auction 1:02:46 – Giant Canadian Plush Chewbacca Display 1:07: 01 – Paploo Soft Copy Coin and Star Trek 1:09:57 – Vintage Vocab (Photo Art) and Steve’s “discovery” 1:19:48 – Gus Lopez Discusses the “Trinoculars” 1:23:26 – Gus Discusses the John Mollo Sketchbook 1:30:00 – Gus Disgusses the White Witch 1:37:32 – Dus Gisgusses Celebration Chicago Panel and Archive Party 1:42:56 - Nuggets from the Archive (Ron’s Sculpt and Hardcopies) 1:54:00 – Unloved Item (Dixie Cup) 1:59:40 – Feedback and Baseball Returns!

After speaking with Skye and Steve about collecting and the Great White North, Toby Black and Chris Porteous share their amazing interview with the production manager for all Star Wars toys in Canada, Gord Warren. You will learn a lot from this interview by one of the people actually responsible for getting the toys into the hands of children. We have a great lightning round and sudden death overtime market watch on this 95th ‘Chive Cast. Table of Contents: 06:29 The ‘Chive Cast List of Ennemies 09:20 Toby and Chris Join the Show to talk about Canadian Collecting 21:18 The Amazing Gord Warren Interview 40:10 Market Watch with Toby and Chris 01:01:11 Lightning Round with Chris and Toby 01:20:52 Outro

Ron Salvatore joins Skye and Steve to discuss a beautiful and gigantic piece of unused ROTJ Kenner art. What was this Endor scene intended for? Was it for a never released display? What does it have to do with the Northern Renaissance? Is it, in fact, the greatest piece of Kenner art ever? Then, we go over ALL the details for tickets and premiums for the upcoming Archive Party IV at Celebration Chicago. Sculptures! Cereal! Prices! Pizza! It is all on this double blog-log-pod. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 2:38:00 – Ron Joins The Show 5:04 – Potential Unused ROTJ Kenner Display Art Described 7:40 – Ron Explains how the piece came into his collection 12:10 – The Specialness of the Art 13:13 – What was this Art For 15:00 – Connection to ROTJ Space Display 24:09 – The Northern Renaissance Connection 27:02 – The Archive Party Discussion Begins 32:01 – Food at the Party 37:43 – The BIG contest 38:45 – Bill Cable’s Key Art 41:34 – Cardback and Coin Art 45:03 – The Coin 46:03 – The Sculpture 50:13 – Pricing tickets

Skye and Steve talk about the worst character in the Star Wars saga, Bib Fortuna. We discuss different colored capes, amazing toothpaste figures, dentist post cards, beezers, Paint-by-Numbers and then are joined by the #1 Bib collector in the World, Phidias Barrios. He regales us with the stories of his amazing collection and how it was made. We’re talking everything from the wax sculpt to the strange and exotic patent references that you have definitely never even thought about. An episode so good, you’ll be saying “Yay wanna wanga” and “Yay Jabba! Yes Badda!” 02:26 Skye Explains How PSAs made him hate Bib Fortuna 06:19 What there is to love about Bib 08:12 Bib’s Coin Text 08:56 Majordomo talk 11:14 Behind the Steve on Bib Fortuna’s Design Origin 17:07 Skye-Ku 18:38 Unloved Item of the Month (Paint by Numbers) 23:45 Vintage Vocab (Red Cape, White Cape, Burgundy Cape) 41:13 Spanish Colgate Bib Fortuna 48:07 Oral-B Dentist Postcard Set 53:53 Skye Plugs his stupid music YouTube channel 56:19 Phidias Barrios Joins to discuss his mind blowing collection 57:22 The Wax Sculpt (and what is a Wax Cast?) 01:03:20 The Unpainted Hardcopy 01:06:03 The Painted Hardcopy 01:10:02 The Protomold 01:19:09 Bib Fortuna Smash Bros Market Watch Game 01:29:40 Nugget from the Archive (Bib’s Patent References) 01:48:13 Outro

What is a grail? Is there a definition? What about so-called “Grail Inflation”? Is it about the objective rarity, or, about the subjective desire? Either way, Joe Yglesias’s most recent purchase of a Bootleg Uzay Mock-Up Prototype Hot Troopie qualifies. He tells the 20 YEAR story of its discovery and purchase. 00:56 Intro to Switzerland 02:55 Brick through Joe’s Window 06:03 The Archive Grail Classification System Explained 09:21 The Archive Grail Classification System Illustrated with Chewbacca 12:50 What is the prototype Mock-Up bootleg Uzay Hoth Trooper? 17:14 Lev brings the trail out of Turkey 19:43 Lee buys it from Lev…who is Lee? 20:58 The time Joe traded a Rocket Fett for a Head Man 26:57 The grail makes its first magazine appearance in 1999 27:46 Who is Tom Derby and how did he help get the grail to Joe 33:42 Outro to Switzlerand

Skye and Steve peak behind the fake beard of General Madine with special guest focus collector, Broc Walker. We discuss the General’s Jedi outtakes, nugget of alternate sculpts, talk about head pulls, go deep on bagged samples from Macao, plus an epic Market watch game. Plus, Gus Lopez drops in from Argentina to give a brief and technologically abbreviated unloved segment on vintage candy wrappers in honor of Halloween. Table of Contents: 12:45 – Behind the Steve Debuts! 18:40 – Skye-Kus 25:45 – News: Gonk Scam 37:20 – News: Underoos 39:30 – When Steve’s hous almost burned down 45:20 -- One Dollar Vlix Market Watch Game (ALCS Version) 57:45 – Gus talks (briefly) about Candy Wrappers 01:04:25 – Broc Talks Montgomery Ward Flyer! 1:08:58 – Madine Different Sculpts. Nugget from the Archive 1:17:09 – Macau Bagged Sample 1:35:33 – Blueprints 1:28:30 – Kenner Store Baggy. 1:34:16 – Tri-Logo Madine

Skye and Steve hit the road and record a show LIVE at some of the greatest vintage Star Wars collections in the world during the recent New York State Collector Event. We interview friends, family and collectors about their favorite items from the collections of Ron Salvatore, Yehuda Kleinman and Paul Chu. Plus, we take you with us as we walk, talk, travel and party together on a boat and in hotels. Steve gets initiated into the Pop-a-Jalop ritual and Skye conducts a strange interview with artist and bootlegger supreme the Sucklord. Then, Ron and Yehuda become official Guest Hosts for the second half of the show as they take you through the first ever ICCC convention in Nashville. At Ron’s House: 02:49 – Kenner Plush Fat Jawa 05:15 – Kenner Golf Trophy 06:26 – Bunny Ear Trooper 08:18 – Rio Scrapbook 10:44 – Yoda Bootleg Toothbrush Holder 12:12—Black Bespin Guard Focus: Hardcopy, Sculpt and QC Sample 18:52 – Boat At Yehuda’s AT-Attic: 20:19 – Alex Bickmore talks Jessica Meade Head Mold 23: 41 – Elaine Grief Talks Stretch Pennies and her husband talks about the ceiling 26:57 – Kevin Lentz Discusses Bootleg Indonesian Little Golden Non-Read-Along-Books 28:17 – Anne Jenkins Discusses Power Spark 29:35 – Duncan Jenkins discusses Hebrew Language books and VHS 31:26 – Jonathan McElwain discusses Yupi 36:09 – Modern Lovers: Fruit Loop Han Troopie with David Brott Nonsense: 34:21 – (drunken nonsense) Poppin’ Jalops with Yehuda, Ron, Ross and Mattias 50:28 – (sober nonsense) The Ronkonkoma Dunkin’ Donuts Story with Ron and Skye At Paul Chu’s 56:10 – Mattias Describes Tusken Raider Photo Art and Negative 01:04:01 – David Gaule Describes Boba Fett Color Separations and the RECENT history of their discovery 1:08:22 – Paul Chu introduces The Carded Rocket Fett 1:10:05- Erik Janniche Explains the discovery of the Carded Rocket Fett 1:15:43 – Ron tells of matching the Toy Fair ’79 Negative to the Carded Rocket Fett 1:22:49 – Paul describes Rocket Fett Negative 1:25:58- Jonathan McElwain talks about a Paperweight 1:27:00 – Steve Rensi, Alex Bickmore and Derek Ho talk about Popy Inserts 1:29:51 – The UZAY run 1:31:11 – The Head Man story with Jonathan Morla and Paul Chu In Chinatown: 1:38:14 – Skye goes to Sucklord’s Suckhole In Nashville: 1:49:05 – Ron and Yehuda Go to ICCC 1:50:30- Pete LeRose talks Vinyl Cape Jawa Values (Market Watch) 1:51:56 – Yehuda unboxes his VIP package 1:53:49 – Michael Havens talks ICCC 1:57:09 -- Yehuda talks about Factors Jewlery Display 1:58:40 – Duncan Jenkins discusses panels and buying Canadian Comics (Unloved Item) 02:01:53 – Ryan and Cathy Peck Discuss Cosplay (Space Freaks of the Week) 02:04:31 – Christopher and Stephanie Riley Recap the Show 02:07:16 – Steve Danley Man Out

This episode features Kenner Puzzles in the US and Canada from 1977 to 1979. Ron Salvatore joins to discuss his article and Canada’s greatest know-it-all Scott! Bradley Bradley jumps in to talk about the Canadian versions. We learn about the mysterious disappearing rebels from the medal ceremony, the meaning of “electric mauve” and Canadian food promotion featuring monstrous gobblers. All this plus a little discussion of the Archive Party at the end of the show on the eighth “Blog Log Pod.” 06:31 Common Misconceptions about Kenner in 1977 09:40 Irwin toys selection process 10:17 Why no Indiana Jones in Canada 11:45 Kenner Board Games (and why Ron hates them) 13:41 Skye’s Gazebo Story 16:10 Electric Mauve! (Puzzle talk begins in earnest) 18:10 Second Series Puzzle 21:42 Kenner Sucked at non-Toy products 25:26 Kenner needed more photos! 27:14 The Problematic Space Battle Puzzle 28:50 The Victory Celebration. Disappearing rebels. 38:43 Where were these things made? 42:23 Which Star Wars Scene represents Online Dating? 45:55 Hard to Collect? 46:26 Luke and Leia Weird Image 47:30 Banta! Banta! 47:58 Corridor of Lights (A new focus is born!) 51:47 Canadian Puzzles Discussion begins 52:58 Irwin Sucked at non-Toy products 53:50 Canadian exclusive puzzles (Stormtroppers) 55:03 Boring Canadian Exclusive Puzzle 55:43 Death Star Exclusive Puzzle 57:26 1995 Han Penis-finger Puzzle 58:07 Skye’s inevitable language segment 01:00:28 Irwin Breaks the Language Law! 01:02:28 Alpha-Getti Gobbler and Promotion 1:09:05 Schneider’s Bacon and Wieners Promotion in Canada 1:17:00 Archive Party IV Details