The Star Wars Collectors Archive Podcast

This month’s podcast is dedicated Jabba’s squid-faced barge henchman and venetian blind enthusiast, Squid Head. Skye gives you the top five reasons this figure is hot as FIRE and Steve breaks down the character’s design just before Derek Webster stops by as the Space Freak of the Week (like Raphael Sadiiq). Ron R.A. “Ron-Ron” Salvatore Mundi stops by to ask the greatest unasked question in Vintage Collecting…Why is Hammerhead called Hammerhead? He also shares memories of collecting modern (?!?); talks about the weekly “Ad of the week” on the Archive’s Facebook page, discusses his completely updated vintage catalog multipack article from theswca.com and helps Skye give a damn about Squid Head cape colors including a discussion of the brown and the pink. You’ll learn what a soft good sample is and what isn’t a salesman sample. Mike Cooper pops by to discuss Satanism in Star Wars, the unproduced Mongo Beefhead Tribesman, the Mexican Squid Man, an unloved puzzle and plays a high-stakes market watch game. All this plus Obi-Obi-Obi Ozzy on the latest Vintage Pod. Table of Contents: 00:07:54 Top 5 Reasons Squid Head is HOT 00:14:07 Steve’s Squid Head thoughts 00:17:13 Cardback Art Meditations 00:18:21 Palace vs. Barge: The Distinction Must Be Made 00:26:37 Skye-Ku 00:28:01 Flip the Script: Chris Walas and Squidface? 00:33:00 Derek Webster is the Space Freak of the Week (like Raphael Sadiiq) 00:46:36 Ron joins the show and shares Squid-thoughts 00:49:35 THE BIG QUESTION: Why is Hammerhead called Hammerhead? 00:50:54 Vintagesploitation Explodes: Baby Gap 00:56:30 Modern Collecting Nostalgia-rama with Ron and Skye 01:02:10 Ron’s Weekly Vintage Advertising Facebook Posts 01:07:19 ALL about Vintage Catalog Mailers 01:21:03 Brown Caped Squid Heads: What is the Deal? 01:30:32 Pink Caped Squid Head: What is a soft goods sample? 01:37:06 Mike Cooper Joins the Show: what is he all about? 01:44:25 Vintage Video on Satanism and Star Wars Toys 02:02:22 Obi-Obi-Ozzy 02:03:52 Nugget from the Archive: Unproduced Mongo Beefhead Tribesman (featuring Grandma talk and Gwar Analysis) 02:19:58 Lili Ledy Ficha Technicas and Hombre Calamars 02:22:32 Unloved Item: Jabba’s Fiends Puzzle 02:31:03 Squid Market Watch (Plus Golden Grail and J-Slot Boba Sale Discussion) 02:53:50 Lightning Round 03:07:35 Feedback

The Last Jedi: Vintage Winners and Losers - The Star Wars Collectors Archive Episode 90 Skye and Steve analyze and review Solo A Star Wars story by breaking down which vintage Star Wars collectibles will benefit from the movie which ones will suffer from it. From Snoopies to Troopies, Chewie to Han and from 3P0 to Gonk, we cover it all in our now traditional top 10 Winners and Losers lists . How can a new movie impact the collectability and the desirability of 40 year-old toys? Listen to find out our take on the 90th ‘Chive Cast Vintage Pod: A podcast story, anthology. 00:01:32 Opening Thoughts on Solo 00:04:43 Skye’s Rant against Slate, NPR, Cinemasins, Red Letter Media Style Film Criticism 00:11:53 # 10 LOSER (B-Wing Pilot) 00:12:54 #10 WINNER (Bossk) 00:16:27 #9 WINNER (Death Star Droid) 00:18:50 #9 LOSER (Rancor) 00:20:08 # 8 WINNER (Falcon) 00:21:59 Steve’s Soundtrack rant against re-used sound cues. 00:25:57 # 8 LOSER (Non SW Han Solo Figures) 00:30:40 #7 LOSER and WINNER (X-Wings and Tie-Bombers) 00:32:18 # 6 WINNERS Imperial Commander and AT-AT Commander 00:37:12 Steve’s rant against Lawrence Kasdan’s screenwriting 00:41:19 #6 and #5 LOSERS (Snoopies and Troopies) 00:43:39 #5 Winner (Han’s Blaster) 00:47:52 What about the Bandolier? 00:49:40 # 4 Winner (??? A Droid ???) 00:54:03 # 3 Winner and Loser (??? Head Trouble???) 00:59:38 #2 Loser (??? Skye is probably wrong about this ???) 01:01:22 # 2 and # 1 Winner (???Lando and Chewie, but Which order???) 01:04:09 #1.5 WINNER (Bantam Books) 01:20:18 # 1 LOSERS (Neal Scanlan MUST be stopped) 01:21:43 Eat at Denny’s… Pray for Death

Bill Cable discusses the first ever confirmed 45-A back C-3PO with Skye and Steve. After searching for 20 years for this debut cardback, he finally finds one. What is the story? What is up with proofs? Peruvian droids? How did it happen? Is there another?

Skye and Steve walk the plank with Weequay this month and discuss his Don Post Mask; his connection to Moby Dick; his cardback image; his original nameplate; his Blue Harvest faux prototypes (faux-totypes); and his original fate. Phidias Barrios joins to talk about his amazing run of our favorite Sandy-Wrinkled-Noble-Sailor-of-the-Dune-Sea and fights with Tommy “Money Train” Garvey in a spectacular Market Watch. Enjoy more Garvey action as Katie’s brother explains the newest feature on the Archive: “The Community Digest.” Plus, we spread some love and talk about for the Bickmore boys, “American Toy and Furniture,” old toy stores in Kentucky and Skye says at least 3 objectively inflammatory things that are probably wrong on this month’s episode of Steve’s Vintage Toys Collecting the Archive with Skye and People!

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Love reigns supreme over the ‘Chive Cast when Skye and Steve host a round table of Rebel Commando connoisseurs comprised of Chris “What’s in the” Botkins; Stephen “sward” Ward; and Chris “Special” Leddy. We cover it all from mock-ups, to blueprints, to Presto-Magix to mini-rigs. For the first time in years we really go deep to understand what makes a focus collector concentrate on one character and why. Ron “Ron” Salvatore joins us as well to talk about the devastating Commando Acetate Sculpt and defines what a Plaster Cast is. All this plus many extended heart-warming meditations on the meaning of our hobby in this month’s Vintage Pod. 02:01 - Show intro 07:13 - Skye’s Movie Thought 10:30 - Flip the Script – Two Death Stars? 18:35 - Skye-Ku 25:00 - Skye’s new (dumb?) Focus Collector Classification System 30:56 - Love Segment 31:27 - Bob Martinazzi Love 35:36 – Tessa Love 38:35 – Empire State Collector Club Love 43:13 – Skye and CAS Love 56:00 - MOC(k) is Love 57:13 - ICCC Love 58:01 – Star Wars in the Movies Podcast Love 01:01:27 – Vintage Rebellion Love 01:04:03 – Nugget From the Archive (Acetate Sculpt, with Ron Salvatore) 01:25:29 - Vintage Vocab (Plaster Micro Mold) 01:39:52 - Rebel Commando Roundtable Introductions 01:44:09 – The C-Team Intro Song (Why you collect Rebel Commando?) 02:01:18 – Stephen Ward’s ToyShop talk 02:17:34 – Molded face a thing? 02:20:19 – Rebel Commando’s Odditys 02:25:05 – Endor Forrest Ranger Talk…really? 02:30:28 – One Dollar Vilx Market Watch (Rebel Commando competition) 02:46:19 – (Three-Way) So be it Lightning Round 03:02:32 – Unloved (Presto-Magix) 03:05:55 - Outro

Jonathan McElwain joins Skye and Steve to exhaustively discuss the 1977 Wonder Bread Star Wars Promotion. From the cards to the displays to the bags, we cover it all. Plus, Skye rambles some about the history of Wonder Bread. 00:54 Intro - Yes, we are going to talk about Wonder Bread Collectibles for an hour 1:58 Wonder Bread Commercial from the 1950s 04:38 Jonathan McElwain joins the show 06:55 16 Cards 11:51 Vader Card Discussion (well…Skye monologue, really) 14:49 The Descriptions on the Back of the 16 Cards. 19:20 John Van Hammersveld superstar designer 21:11 Toyota Celica and Wonder Bread 24:40 Braun’s Town Talk Bread Promotion 27:25 Shelf Danglers aka. Wobblers and the Pyramid Imagery 32:00 Unintentional Wonder Bread Market Watch 37:44 So Many Bread Bags 39:29 Bag Variations as Symbols of America 48:09 Why you should join the Food Collectibes Facebook Group 51:03 The “fresh guys” commercial

Fratastic Pete, Skye and Steve discuss many important Vintage Star Wars auctions over the last 20 yearswith Ron Ron Salvatore and Chris Georgoulias. We briefly mention several auctions which we will return to at a later date, but go in depth on the following events: -The 2002 Celebration II Collector Track Auction -The 2007 Celebration IV Charity Auction (and the great Lucasfilm Marketing Dumps) -The 2011 The Boba Fisher Auction somewhere in Pennsylvania -The 2008 Premier Collectible Auction in San Diego, the greatest and most important Vintage Auction there has ever been and ever will be -The 2017 Hakes Auction which could be a harbinger of things to come. Wait, how many 10s of thousands of dollars? Have a listen and learn how the hobby we love has recently become "Auction House Worthy." Plus...plumbing supply warehouse selling vintage??? 05:41 Fratastic Pete Joins the Show and discusses 2007 Lucasfilm Auction 10:59 Chris Georgoulias Joins the Show 14:19 Celebration II Collector Track Auction 17:05 The DiCaprio Auction 20:15 Discussion of Celebration III Lucasfilm Marketing Dump (featuring books and animation cels) and the later 2007 Lucasfilm Marketing Dump 24:50 Celebration IV Charity Auction revisited 26:30 The Plumbing Supply Warehouse that used to sell merchandise directly from the Lucasfilm archives 29:36 BOBa Fisher, the man and the auction 54:21 The 2008 PCA San Diego Auction, The Biggest and Best Vintage Auction of all time 01:24:07 Hakes round One

Skye and Steve declare the Vintage Winners and Losers from the Last Jedi movie. It is filled with spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the movie..do not listen to it! On this unenhanced and un sound-effected ‘Chive Cast we answer the question “Which vintage Star Wars characters and collectibles were made more or less relevant, interesting and valuable by their representation in the second part of the postquel trilogy. We give our top 13 winners and losers which all somehow ended up working perfectly in paired categories. Like the movie itself, however, things are not as clear as they may seem as many winners are revealed to have also lost and visa versa. More question marks than exclamation points in this movie! Skye does most of the blabbering on this episode, so you may want to put on your anti-gravity boots to resist the sheer power of the blowhard force coming at you from Hothchester. Somehow Steve went the entire episode without mentioning the fact that he wrote an amazing blog write up on the movie at his website, www.starwarsatthemovies.com. C’mon, Steve, self promote a little! Starwarsatthemovies.com So come and listen to our take on Rian Johnson’s vision and its impact on the Vintage Star Wars hobby. The number 8 loser will anger you! The Number 7 winner will move you! The #11 winner will bore you! The number 2 loser will mystify you! And the # 1 winner will shock you to the very core and leave more surprised than the movie itself. Join Skye and Steve as they force Skype like Rey and Kylo about the Last Jedi on the next podcast. Table of Contents: 11:56 – Last Jedi is good for the kids 14:53 –The Porg Cake 21:37 The categories are declared 21:45 - Category – Rebel Pilots – Winner and Loser #13 25:03 - Category: Droids– Winner and Loser #12 28:32 - Category: Vader– Winner and Loser #11 31:20 - Category: Power of the Jedi – Winner and Loser #10 41:02 - Category: Nostalgiatastic – Winner and Loser #9 49:09 - Category: Sort of Featured – Winner and Loser #8 54:21 - Category: Kylo’s Parents – Winner and Loser #7 01:06:30 - Category: Han Adjacent – Winner and Loser #6 01:10:20 - Category: Cuteness – Winner and Loser #5 01:18:12 - Category: Not In the Movie – Winner and Loser #4 01:22:18 - Category: Cool Guy – Winner and Loser #3 01:32:06 - Category: The Divider– Winner and Loser #2 01:46:25 - Category: The Unifier– Winner and Loser #1

Klaatu receives the dubious and unfortunate honor of being the last figure covered with Skye’s broken microphone in this quick and dirty episode. (Its okay, well get him back with a Klaatu skiff episode in a year or so) We talk about the history of Klaatu’s original name Wooof and propose an alternative future for the figure should he have maintained this moniker. Then we interview our Instantgram “Grammy Daddy” Anthony Spinnicke as our new contributor and our Space Freak of the Week. Then we discuss the Nugget from the Archive is a hardcopy which leads to a discussion of internal Kenner memos on the height of figures, a peculiar shipping case and a Canadian catalogue. The unloved item is the much-loved Sigma Figure, which it turns out is the Sympathetic male Stripper variant. All this and less on the 86th 'Vintage Pod! (The bad news is that the audio is terrible. The good news is that Steve is considerably louder than Skye) TABLE OF CONTENTS: 8:00 -- Skye-Ku and the story of Wooof 17:00 -- Lili Ledy Klaatu 20:40 – UZAY Talk 21:38 –Space Freak of the Week –Anthony Spinnickie 31:33 – So-Be-It Lightning Round 44:27 – Nugget from the Archive: Klaatu Hardcopy and more Wooof notes. 51:40 – Unloved Sigma Sculpture (Klaatu the Stripper)

This month Skye and Steve present the first ever Halloween episode of the Star Wars Collectors Archive Podcast. We present terrifying tableau of terror as we get stories of spooky finds in the scariest of basements, attics and porches from Ron “Wookiee Slayer” Salvagore and Ross “I’ll use a butcher knife to” Cuddie your neckie. Then Todd Chamber “of Horrors” lain gives an overview of vintage Ben Cooper Costumes. Terminally, Sean and Ryan Lemghoul join to tell a legitimate and gruesome ghost story of a Dead, Dead Cincinnati Fred. All this, plus many chilling reminders of your own mortality on the haunted 85th Chive Cast Vintage. 1:48 Intro 11:02 – Spooky Tale: Steve and Skye’s “Scary” Griffith Park Experiences 14:10 – Spooky Tale: Skyelence of the Lambs 17:30 – Failed attempt at Calling Todd 19:03 - Scariest parts of Star Wars? 22:30 – Ron Salvagore Joins the Show 23:30 – Ron’s Report from the Cincinnati Toy Show 2017 30:50 – Ron’s Trilogy of Terror 31:10 – Chapter One: The Feral Child 38:22 – Chapter Two: Just Drive 45:33 – Chapter Three: Drain the Kenner Morgue Swamp 53:39 – Vintage Halloween Newspaper Clippings 01:03:32 – Ross Cuddie presents “A Picker’s Tale” 01:24:22- Todd Chamberlain teaches about Ben Cooper Masks 1:56:05 – Tales from Two Lemkuhls 1:59:32 – 1: Dead Cincinnati Fred 2:06:03 – 2: George the Ghost and Fred’s Revenge 2:13:58 – Outro and Contest Info

In the wake of "Skye2K" and the loss of cursed 'Chive Cast 84, we rally to interview comedy writer, producer, and longtime Star Wars collector David Mandel (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and currently show-running HBO's Veep) about his development as a collector and several significant moments in hobby history that were documented in never-aired episodes of his anarchistic and hilarious video game review show "Dave and Steve's Video Game Explosion" filmed at Celebration II in Indianapolis in 2002. You'll hear about "First 12" character photoart selling for $3,500 and the infamous "Rocket Fett choking incident" that unfolded at the Cloud City Collectibles booth. We also discuss David's experience partaking in Mark Hamill's Pop Culture Quest.

Collecting folk hero Steve Denny regales the ‘Chive Cast with tales of finding literally thousands of carded figures and prototypes in the wild wild Midwest of 1980s and 1990s Cincinnati. Learn about the proof finds, Canadian Droids and Ewoks, UDEs, 4-UPS, Rocket Fetts, Revenge Proof Sets for $50 and the mysterious Mr. X. Plus, Skye unveils a conspiracy theory that may lead to the greatest scandal in the history of the hobby. All this on the cursed 83rd Vintage Pod! Brought to you with the help of John Wooten and kennercollector.com TABLE OF CONTENTS: 06:40 – News: Steve’s At The Movies Podcast Launches 10:52 – News: Theft at Rancho Obi-Wan 14:55 – Skye’s Worst Joke Ever 24:00 – Skye’s Boat Trip 37:31 – Storytime: Steve Denny’s Inconceivably Huge Canadian Haul – Droids, Ewoks and Sandcrawlers 48:30 – Story time: Zteca influence on Kenner and Banana Boxes? 52:04 – Toy Shop memories and Die Cast Display’s with Ron 59:16 – Vintage Vocab – Proof Cards and a proof’s voyage 1:09:58 – The New Management of Kenner Collector.com 1:13:39 - Storytime: How Steve Denny found ALL the proofs 1:19:40 – Chinchillas Attack! 1:20:29 – How many Rocket Fetts? 1:21:59- Mr. X and His Magical Chalk Box of Prototypes 1:25:11 – Micro Prototypes 1:27:00 – A most peculiar trade (how many Snowtroopers?) 1:29:51 – Father’s Day Memories 1:32:15 – How to Get Rid of Revenge Proofs 1:36:22 - Skye’s Theory of the biggest

Skye and Steve talk about the amazing and underappreciated world of MPC Model Kits. They are joined by innovative artist Mark Enright and super collector Ron Salvatore who talk over their two amazing SWCA Archive Blog entries on Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back model sets. Do you know how many model kits were made? Do you know about the art? Do you know how inexpensive they are to collect? Do you know what are the rare ones? Do you know what you are missing? No, you don’t! So have a listen to the third Blog Log Pod.

It is a Celebration of Chief Chirpa, of Celebration 8, of the 3rd Archive party, of Singaporean collctibles, of show floor market watches, of Kenner Street signs, of Jasper Nixon and Star Wars at the Movies, of Crunchee soap, of Room Sales, or Vintagesploitation, of Yoda Grapes and Nasty Latara on the 82nd ‘Chive Cast Vintage Pod recorded mostly in orlando. Table of Contents: 00:55 – Celebration Intro 06:11 – Wednesday Nightcrawlers 10:32 – Thursday Morning Show Walk. R2 Toter, Hasbro Vintagesploitation 12:12 - Empire State Booth 15:41- Singapore Collectibles , Booth and Discoveries(with Derek Ho) Archive Party 3 Recap 23:22 – AP3: The Set Up 25:00 – AP3: The Games 35:40 – AP3: The Costume Contest 38:02 – AP3: The Marriage of Jarrod and Shawna 40:00 – AP3: The Raffle (The Ballad of Bill and Darren) 41:08 – AP3: The Silent Auction and the Ackbar Scandal 49:22 -- AP3: The Vader Case Mania and Skye does not hate Puppies FRIDAY 54:08 – The Show Floor Chirpa Quest Begins 56:14 – Top Toys Chirpa 57:50 - 48-B Sidetrack 58:45 – Unproduced Chirpa Hardcopy 01:00:13 – Podcast Stage “Comedy” 01:01:30 – Yoda Grapes 01:02:50 – Mattias Interruption 01:04:23 – Jarrod and Tommy talk Pre-School Chirpa items 01:08:50 – Sock Talk 01:11:18 - Crunchee Soap 01:12:22 – Shane Appears and Skye’s Room Sale Recap SATURDAY 01:17:16 – Nasty Latara and Teebo 01: 19:34 – Star Wars at the Movie Panel (featuring Jasper Nixon) 01:33:19 – Post panel and Papa John Pizza 01:37:19 – Mattias’s Chirpa Cromalin SUNDAY 01:38:14 Tommy’s Vintage Soap review and Hallmark Blue Snaggletooth 01:40:44 – Loose Jedi Luke Show Floor Market Watch 01:43:53 - Tots and Dave And Amy’s One of a Kind Collectible Story 01:51:10- FedEx with Phidias