I picked up a new tower of little drawers and set about sorting and figuring what's a keeper and what needs to go, side note this whole tote is a keeper, ha ha... anyway I sort of sorted them in little piles of Droids, Jedi, Scum and Villainy and a pile of Rebels. Then talking with a buddy of mine it made more sense to sort them by franchise (New Hope, Empire, Clone Wars, etc.) though that hasn't happened yet. As I unpack stuff I I tend to have little flash backs and start messing around, getting side tracked is easy with this tote of stuff. I noticed several little, heavy bundles at the bottom all wrapped in tissue paper, I unwrapped one and rediscovered a little Galloob TIE Fighter. A few more unwrapped bundles and I had my little collection of 90's era Die cast.
For the most part they are all Galloob, the exception being the Blockade Runner, which I think when Hasbro took over making these was it's first appearance, say around 2006. You may or may not know this, but Galloob, the Micro Machines Company, was bought by Hasbro and rolled under it's banner of toys. The Hasbro Titanium line was born from these Die Cast Micro Machines. I was always saddened that the smaller, almost rubbery, plastic Star Wars Micro Machines didn't make the cut. That was such a great line in itself.
So borrowing a cue from Collin over at Super Duper Toy Box, I labeled an image to help you sort what's what.
A. Imperial Star Destroyer - One of my favorite all time Sci-Fi Starships.
B. Y-Wing -Can't have an X-wing without a Y-Wing. "Stay on Target!"
C. You know this one, it made the Kessel Run in les than twelve parsecs.
D. The Rebel Blockade Runner (Obviously these are way out of scale)
E. "Red Five Standing By", Luke's X-Wing, not big enough to be a threat to the Death Star... right?
F. The TIE Fighter that spurred this post.
G. Boba Fett's Slave I
H. A Jawa Sandcrawler, though this seems a little squatty, this is a fun one.
I. Luke's Landspeeder, another fun one. I am not sure if it's intentional or not,
but the wheels are off slightly on the axles and it
makes a cool,subtle wobble when rolled, like it's floating.
J. This is a all plastic version of Slave I, part of the X-Rays line,
showing the detail inside the ships. They came in two packs, this
may have come with Darth Vader's TIE Fighter, which I gave away
to my son or one of his friends long ago.
These were a great little find in the bottom of that tote and I found a few other things in there that may be of interest to Toy and Star Wars fans alike, you'll have to stay tuned for those.
4 comments:
The X-Rays Slave one is really neato! Have never seen that! ...and don't you love it when you "rediscover" a toy? :)
I remember these from awhile back.
what i regret of that Hasbro-Galoop "fusion" is that the Micromachines line itself didn’t survive... anyway this Titanium series really worths, great detail in metallic cast =)
@ chrismandesign - I know what you mean, all those great little cars that are all gone. I have a few of the ones I picked up, but those were really great in design and manufacturing, nothing like that today.
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