Welcome Vintage Star Wars collectors!
Collect Vintage Star Wars Figures and Toys? If so, then hit CTRL+D now, (or otherwise bookmark this site) because this is the free resource you've been looking for! Although this site is not just for Ebay collectors alone, many of you have been to the following eBay category:
Home > All Categories > Toys & Hobbies > Action Figures > Star Wars > Vintage (1977-89)
This area of eBay.com sums up pretty well the area of vintage toys that this website is dedicated to. The unique layout of this site offers free advice, price lists, parts checklists, everything a vintage SW collector could possibly want all in one place. And for the first time on the net, it's all for free!
How to use this website
This site is still under some construction, but the pages that we've finished now, such as the ones listing earlier figues themselves, are quite easy to navigate. Every Figure is listed in order of issuance. Simply use the navigation menu at the upper left-hand side to choose your series of Vintage Star Wars figure or toy, and the resulting page should have all of the items in that series listed with pictures. We will be continually updating entries of each item, but we won't be placing any pages online that don't already have all of the toys in its' series accounted for. So if we've posted the page it's supposed to be on, then it's there somewhere, so just scroll down to find it.
However, if you're really in a rush to find the something, try our "Search the VSWT website" button first.
Why a whole website about a single line of 25 year-old toys?
Because the popularity of Star Wars Toys, even those made 25 years ago, is astounding. Even back in 1985, when Return of The Jedi was fresh in all of our minds, we kids already knew that these toys were worth more than our transformers, our GI Joes, and all of our green, plastic toys soldiers combined... The "collectability" of Star Wars toys was already hyped up beyond any other toys, and 20 years later, there is no end to the hype in sight... Our need to continue collecting them is at an epic proportion!
For instance, at the time of this writing, there are currently 5,700+ toy auctions being sold in the category mentioned above. And that's just 1 category in the star wars section of collectable toys in eBay alone! Think about that. Some are for a simple replacement part like Obi-wan's vinyl cape, and many others are 'used lots' of 50 or more figures in various shape. Average that out to something like 1 vehicle or playset and 15 figures w/weapons & clothing articles times 5,700, then add in the other categories these toys might fall under, then add in other auction websites and online stores, and you've literally got many thousands of people selling Millions of vintage star wars toys, a child's toy that hasn't been produced since 1985, at any given time, 24/7/365!
Top that, Barbie, Cabbage patch kids, pet rock, and Mr. Potato Head!
*All Star Wars characters, likenesses, people, places, events, things, and universes are all the trademarked property of Lucasfilm Inc. -But you probably knew that already, didn't you? I mean, if we had to put a little "TM" sign beside every last trademarked reference on this site, there'd be no room for the content! So please just pretend you saw it beside every other word we've written here, ok? Thanks!