Action Display Stand, Scout Walker, Dagobah

In this post I've included a few different items that relate to the Empire Strikes Back movie. Fist off is actually from the original Star Wars toy line. It is the Action Display Stand. Originally, you could get this through the mail by collecting proof of purchase seals on the back of carded Star Wars figures. Then late in the run, they were packaged with to be sold in stores. By the time they hit the store shelves most kids who were interested already ordered theirs though the mail. So not many of these boxed displays sold leading to their rarity today. Also in this shot are to original Star Wars "shelf talkers" that were used to in stores to attract potential buyers. The "Galaxy" one came out first. In between them is a reproduction of a super rare shelf talker feature the last three of the original twelve figures released. The center figure in the clear tube is a Tusken Raider sealed in a Kenner Baggie. Below is not one from my collection. I've never even seen one in person. This is a very rare ESB release of the Action Display Stand featuring six ESB figures. Only a handful of them are known to exist today.This shot is of a sealed Dagobah Playset that I acquired through a trade at a store called All Time Toys in Ellicot City, MD. Its nice to see that some of these "brick & mortar" stores are still around. You can also see the large Yoda puppet boxed on the left and a Luke in the X-wing Pilot outfit is sealed in a Kenner baggie in the far left plastic tube.

Hoth toys take up a lot of room because of their quantity and because they include huge playsets and vehicles. So I've whittled collection down to a few key items. The ESB Darth Vader figure case was hard to find and fetches a good amount of $$ on Ebay. The AT-AT poster in the background is from the European toy company Palitoy. So that's pretty rare here in the States. The figures featured here are all sealed in Kenner baggies. And the Probot droid goes with the playset pictured below this one.