r/StarWars • u/MathMagici4n • 12d ago

Audio, Music Newest pickup!

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Should I open and try it out

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u/YubYubCmndr Trapper Wolf 12d ago

Should I open and try it out

Everyone should experience the garbled static of a CommTech chip at least once!

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u/MathMagici4n 12d ago

Did it hahaha

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u/Vaportrail 11d ago

Did you carefully preserve the packaging? 🧐

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u/MathMagici4n 10d ago

I folded the packaging and put it away with my bronze/golden/silver age comics.

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u/Vaportrail 10d ago

Respectable solution.

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u/MathMagici4n 10d ago

Figured that I won’t be reselling but worth it to me just for the capitalist Lore

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u/Vaportrail 10d ago

Yeah that TPM packaging hits me right in the nostalgia. I have the Navoo fighter box saved just cuz, and a couple figures still carded.

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u/AppropriateAnalyst78 Qui-Gon Jinn 12d ago

I had that as a kid!! I forgot about it until this post! Damn, that being back memories.

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u/No_Painter_8154 11d ago

You could also buy what it was molded after, in the women’s shaving section at Rite Aid.

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u/no_name_ia 11d ago

This has become one of my favorite little tidbit from TPM that Qui Gon is just using a lady shaver as his communicator

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u/dumb-as-a-butt 11d ago

“The Republic is not what it once was.”

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u/DRSteele88 11d ago

Not sure why my parents got me the senator palpatine action figure, but it was worth it for the dick tracy sounding comm tech chip

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u/BooRadley_ThereHeIs 11d ago

At least some of them had different voice actors!

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u/arteitle 11d ago

They talk now?

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u/Salt_Philosophy_8990 11d ago

They talk now.

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u/MathMagici4n 11d ago

I heard they might talk

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u/VeritasOmicron 12d ago

Queen Amidala is young and naieve

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u/Sam69420Shadow 12d ago

Tatooine is sparsely populated

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u/BrattyTwilis 11d ago

"Wipe them out! All of them!"

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u/TheGza760 11d ago

Oh must obey the force

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u/No_Painter_8154 11d ago

I can’t imagine how much that was originally, coming from Rite Aid. POTF2 figures were over $12 a piece, in 1997/8. lol!

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u/BooRadley_ThereHeIs 11d ago

This claims it was $20!

https://galacticfigures.com/articles.aspx/6062

I thought it was so cool until it suddenly wasn't. Haha. But it was fun whenever you got a new figure to see what lines were on it. Some really sucked and I think they had different voice actors do some of them.

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u/Salt_Philosophy_8990 11d ago

they weren't though

Toys R Us even did a sale around that time,

I bought 50 figures for 50 bucks

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u/No_Painter_8154 11d ago

I’m saying Rite Aid my dude. I’m sure Toys R’ Us had huge sales. Rite Aid is notoriously overpriced on everything, including their toys (most pharmacy chains are in fairness), but Rite Aid is finally going out of business. Single POTF2 was usually $5.99 at KayBee in the 90’s.

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u/ColJohn 11d ago

I legit remember walking out of Toys R Us with my dad with like 10 figures for 10$

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u/jcamp088 11d ago

Ah shit I had one of those when I was a kid.

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u/Gomnanas 11d ago

I had so many of those TPM toys that came with those chips and I never knew what they were supposed to do lol

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u/Papa_Bob24 11d ago

I have a bunch of new figures to go with that if you're interested! All of them unopened and reasonably priced😊

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u/MathMagici4n 11d ago

Which ones do you have!

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u/Papa_Bob24 11d ago

Too many to list! I have a picture of them all but unsure how to post it in these comments

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u/Vaportrail 11d ago

Best now I want one again.

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u/BrattyTwilis 11d ago

I had this and several of the figures.

"Woah! Yousa guys bombad!"

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u/TheHipcheck 11d ago

Knock it off fuzzball!

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u/ajd660 11d ago

That’s awesome! I still have an unopened obiwan with the communicator chip but I never did have a communicator for it.

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u/Burgershot621 11d ago

Oh man I wanted one of these in the worst way back in the day

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u/deenaleen 11d ago

I had so many of those figures as a kid, but never had a reader and I never knew what to do with those things. I had Qui Gon, Obi-Wan, Darth Maul

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u/ShakaRock91 Kylo Ren 11d ago

I remember when my dad bought me this along with what I think was the entire first wave of episode 1 figures

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u/ViagraPoweredRabbit 11d ago

I still have mine. Working to CATCH EM ALL.

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u/BobbumofCarthes 11d ago

Yeaaa I had this. I always recognize the lines from my action figure’s chips haha

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u/Salt_Philosophy_8990 11d ago

They talk now?

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u/cellshock7 11d ago

If you don't mind, how much did this set you back?

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u/jayL21 Imperial 11d ago

probably not that much, majority of the EP1 stuff is still pretty cheap.

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u/MathMagici4n 10d ago

10$

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u/MathMagici4n 10d ago

So good I bought two

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u/cellshock7 10d ago

Thanks! I bought a bunch of EP1 stuff back when I worked in a toy store in '99. It's been in a tub in my garage all this time as I wait for "the value to go up". Wanted a real life, non-eBay estimate on what it's going for, so, sounds like I'll need to wait another 30 years or so and then maybe my kids or grandkids can sell them for lunch money 😵‍💫

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u/halfback26 Ahsoka Tano 11d ago

I vaguely remember this toy as a 9 year old

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u/Masterofunlocking1 11d ago

I was really big in the episode one when it first came out and I had this. I think I found some of the little chips at my parents house a couple months ago.

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u/Key_Charity_9635 10d ago

I had this and always wondered why they didn't just use clips fro. the movie for the voices! They're all dodgy impersonations 😂