So this makes 7 out of 12. Missing: Boba Fett (Droids version has a special blaster variant), Thall Joben, C-3PO, Tig Fromm, Sise Fromm.

Pics of each figure:

Thanks for looking.

Now to the pics, please enjoy.

Chuck Norris

Purple Super Ninja

Reed Smith

Ninja Warrior

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usually I only blog about my newest acquisitions, but today I want to talk about something completely different. Today it’s all about: the man Kim Simmons. If you don’t know him by now, he is the man who took many of the photos for Kenner’s packaging, sales slides and those images used for internal use of all the different figures / spaceships / packaging / prototypes / whatever-you-name it. He has had all the sought after prototypes in hand, to name a few: Rocket firing Boba Fett, the black cape + golden belt Squidhead and red cape Bib Fortuna. I can remember all kinds of ads from my childhood that made me tell my parents that we need to go to the city NOW to get all the different figures. And he’s also responsible for the photos that were used on the packaging of our beloved toys of Star Wars up through 2000. Until this day I remember standing in front of the toy shop, looking at the box of the B-Wing, wishing I could own one to recreate the scenes pictured on that box. But unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to have one. (Side note: Now that I’m grown up, of course I have fixed this. )

Kim goes by a nickname: TheManwhoshotLukeSkywalker. This very cool nickname was first given to Kim in the first edition of the Star Wars Galaxy Collector magazine. I own a copy and I can only encourage you to grab a one too if you are interested in Kim’s work. Among other interesting things, in the interview in this magazine he talks about setting up the shot below:

Some of you who know me to some extent or have followed my blog for a while, you know that I became addicted by Kim’s work and have started a small collection. Sometimes I’m lucky and some of his work becomes available for sale, but unfortunately this doesn’t happen very often. I am trying to acquire everything that I can get my hands on, but sometimes other people are just faster than me and I believe that a lot of stuff is sold ‘behind the curtain’ and not in public so to speak. Since I have started collecting I have missed out on a few occasions, much to my demise. So far I have acquired 3 8×10″ transparencies and 16 35mm slides that Kim produced back in the days and I’m proud to own them. As I’m writing about 20 new items are on their way to me, but much to your surprise maybe these are not Star Wars related. (Hints can already be found on my blog.)

The coolest thing about Kim is, that until to this day he is still passionate about his old work too, just the same way as we collectors are, and he will email you with answers to some of those questions you have had. He has painstakingly done as many high-res scans as he could and archived most, if not all, photos he took in the past. Plus if you have film that was sold to you, if you loan it to him he will more then likely give you a serious discount on a print you order when he returns your film. He offers a great service: You can buy prints of his work in different sizes, so for example you could display them together with your focus figure or print a poster of a pic used in your favorite ad from the past and hang it on your wall. You can view a selection of prints you can get on his website, so head over there now and take a look: http://themanwhoshotlukeskywalker.com/. If you don’t find that image you have been looking for, don’t despair and show no fear, there is a huge chance that Kim can provide you that print. Simply head over to his Facebook page and leave a comment – Kim will read it and help you out: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Themanwhoshotlukeskywalker/423659341026868?fref=ts

As always – thanks for reading.

In this post I will only showcase the latest additions, in case you want to check my complete Star Wars Photo Art collection, please click here: <CLICK>

1st slide shows Kenner’s show rooms of Star Wars toys (left side) and Six Million Dollar Man (right side), photographed at the 1978 New York Toy Fair. The seller further stated “The only photo published of the Star Wars Showroom shows attendees visiting in the showroom area, as shown in the 1978, #3 issue, of the now defunct Future magazine. My slide shown here has no attendees covering the view of the showroom. I believe that this photo was taken by the Future magazine photographer and was not used by the magazine and passed on to Kenner.”

2nd slide shows a Star Wars Showroom Display at the same New York Toy Fair in 1978.

Slides 3-7 show a Star Wars diorama. The slides are marked and I assume the markings say that they have been taken in 1978. Also marked with the letters “PL”. Not sure what that means, but maybe I can find out later. Any lead to where these pics were used is appreciated. The seller told he had found these together in a box with all the others.

Slides 8-11 are most likely another set of reference slides. The seller told me that he had found these together in the same box with the other 7 slides. This could mean that these have been used to give a preview of planned toys or maybe just as fillers? Guess we’ll never know.

Only slide of these 4 without any marking.

Marked ’274′ and ’2′.

Marked ‘M-2′ and ‘No retouch’

Marked ’331′ and ‘X-Wing in Hangar’

Thanks for looking.

The 8D8 came from Mexico.
The Nien Nunb from the UK.
The C-3PO and the AT-ST Driver from the US.

Thanks for looking.

haven’t blogged in a while, but fear not, I am not gone. I’m back with something I am really, really proud of having in my collection. A NSW LL 8D8. Wtf is that you ask? NSW stands for ‘non sonic welded’, meaning the figure has not gone through the process of sonic welding, so the front and back of the torso are not ‘glued’ together so to speak. To be a little more precise, this figure consists of unused (and in this case even unpainted) parts. These unused parts are also called ‘overstock parts’. And LL stands for Lili Ledy of course. There are not many legit complete examples floating around, I heard of 2 so far (mine being one of them). Given the source I got it from I am 100% sure that all parts are legit.

And here it is:

Disassembled

Assembled (front)

Assembled (back)

I really like these sets and hope to get more of them in time.

]]> http://www.home-of-boushh.com/?feed=rss2&p=464 0 http://www.home-of-boushh.com/?p=578#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-contest-show-some-love-for-home-of-boushh-if-you-like http://www.home-of-boushh.com/?p=578#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:00:45 +0000 Dennis http://www.home-of-boushh.com/?p=578 [...]]]> Hi fellow readers,

maybe you have already read or heard about it, there’s a great vintage SW figure photo contest going on at ratherchildish’s blog. I’m proud to say that my submission made the cut to be among the top 8 pictures. The winner will be determined by vote and the price is a Emperor’s Royal Guard MOC, which I could really need for my collection.

Anyhow, all the entries are great (the Black Wampa is a classic ), so head over there and have a look. And if you like, vote. My submission is the one with the Hoth Stormtroopers, called “‘Ready for action” by Dennis (maniac79)”.

Click >HERE< to join the voting fun.

Below you will see selections of outtakes, that I made for the contest, but didn’t send in as a submission.

The left one is a common AT-AT Commander and has had his COO removed. I’m not 100% sure about the right one though. Two things are for sure: It is a Hong Kong COO and is a so called “pale face” variant. Maybe Palitoy? If you know for sure, please post a comment. Again, please see below for closeups.

The game is called – spot the difference! So let’s get straight to the point – hint: It’s no hollow tubes variant!

If you were able to spot the difference you are good at telling variants apart. The left one has dark brown straps, while the right one has light brown straps. See below for closeups (dark brown straps first, light brown straps seconds).