Star Wars: Power of the Force 2 Wave 1 - Pegwarmers
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- On this episode of Pegwarmers, Kevin talks about the impact and his personal experience with the first wave of Star Wars: Power of the Force 2 action figures by Kenner.
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I love POTF2. I was born in 1982, so by the time I was old enough to want Star Wars figures, they were long gone. Then these figures came out, and I had a ton of them and a whole bunch of vehicles. The first one I got was the Boba Fett on the red card (I think the Toys R Us in my area got the first two waves at the same time, which was why I got Boba Fett first). I was definitely an opener.
boba fett was not in the original first wave. He was released the second year. First he was released at the disney store in Florida, then the series was released to the commercial stores after. The first POTF2 Boba fett figure was part of wave two.
@@LarryDavid47 Maybe they were late in getting the figures? The first time I saw Star Wars at retail, Boba Fett was there. That's all I know.
This remains my favorite SW line of all-time. I was a huge SW fan as a young boy in the early to mid 90s, but there wasn't much merchandise besides a few video games and the micro machine line to sate my appetite. I wanted actions figures and toys so bad, but they were a decade out of production, and as a young boy in the pre-internet days, I had no way to find the vintage stuff from collectors (and my mother likely wouldn't have wanted to pay the collectors' prices either). When I saw these advertised in an issue of Star Wars: Insider, I was thrilled and grabbed every character I could when they appeared in stores a few months later.
I actually liked the stylized muscular builds of the figures. Thought it gave them an expressionistic appeal. I find their design far-superior to the original vintage line's goofy-looking faces, blocky builds, and stiff, undynamic arm and leg poses. (I understand the nostalgia and history for the original line, but, seriously, their design has aged very poorly.) I managed to acquire most of the action figures and vehicles in the POF2 line, and still have them all to this day. Only collected a select few number of pieces from the subsequent SW lines since then. SW toys became way oversaturated after the prequels. (The Hasbro lines got rebooted more often than Lucas' changed the OT!) I went from being starved for SW toys to there being so much SW that I lost my appetite. Also, the later, more movie-accurate lines were just never quite as cool to me as POF2.
I was born in 89. I saw Star Wars for the first time in 1995 when the special auditions came out on VHS and fell in love. These figures where for me what vintage Kenner was for most 80s kids.
As long as you had fun, it doesn't matter which line was your first Star Wars figures.
Another 5 star episode buddy.. I always look at POTF to be a successful TOY series.. We forget Toys are created for kids to play with. Because of the saturation of the line, many kids got to have fun playing with these toys.. To the Collector it as a failed line and all the short comings of the line is what we are left with. I was too old for these but it arrived at the perfect time for my little brother and I remember how much he LOVED playing with these action figures. It was like I was reliving my own experience in 80s with Kenner
This line went on for a long time. After a couple waves they slimmed down the bodies.
What I like most about POTF2 are the enhanced versions of the vintage vehicles. I have the Millennium Falcon from this line hanging on my wall, and it's the perfect and most affordable Faclon for 3.75 scale collectors. I espeically like the Shadows Of The Empire subline (I'm a Legends junkie).
I dunno if it was the same line but i used to have bossk and dengar. Bossk was one of my favorite figures.
Ohh, I definitely had the r2. His legs were super loose cos i played with him in the bath a lot.
Yeah, I'm sure they were the same line.
Was a good line. The light sabers were sick
Now this is my jam right here. Born 1988. These were MY Star Wars toys.
Let's see, I had Vader, Jedi Luke, Stormtrooper Luke Leia, the Hoth medical droid, two Jawas, the astromech with the bad motivator, Endor Han, Carbonite Han, Stormtrooper Han(Five. Weeks. :o), Boussh Leia, Slave Leia, Skiff Guard Lando, Obi-wan, and ghost Obi-wan (second hand so no wait on that one). I would eventually get artoo and threepio, but not until the line where threepio comes apart and artoo has for the scope that pops out of his head. From that line I also got bespin Luke, Hoth Chewie, and Darth Vader With The Removable MF Helmet(a personal holy Grail of mine ever since I saw pictures of it in a magazine).
Nice! Glad we could serve this one up for you.
Yeah POTF2 brings back so many memories. I never had many figures but I loved them. I restarted collecting star wars figures the year after I graduate highschool and basically never stopped since then. I've really really gotten into the POTF2 and Power of the Jedi lines. I honestly think they are still some of the nicest Star Wars figures ever made. Not to mention the size of the lines is something that idk if we have seen with any figure line since then. Really glad to see you back!
Yeah, they were a nice balance of character selection and scene specific.
I really enjoyed this line at the time. I was a teenager but just was into star wars and had fun picking them up for display. They definitely were weird but thought they were fun for what they were.
Yeah weird but fun is a great way to describe them.
That Batmobile looks like a good repair and restoration project. Enjoy! 😁
Yeah, I wonder what the parts will cost.
Fun episode. I only had for my collection a Vader and a Boba Fett. But that was cause as a kid I had close to a full set of the Kenner SW stuff.
But around 96 a buddy sold me his POF2 collection for cheap. Like 100 figures or close to that,pile of vehicles and some of the bigger figures for 200.
I had EVERY figure in the first wave circa 1995, including the "Long Sabre" versions of Luke, Obi-Wan, and Vader, but eventually I sold them off because I was trying to get rid of "clutter" in my bedroom (did not have the "mail-in" Han Solo in Stormtrooper armor, however).
Yeah, this line is part of what created the modern adult collectible toy market.
These were the First Star Wars toys I remember seeing on shelves. I went back and purchased some recently and they do hold up though my favorites are the Deluxe figures and the shadows of the empire set where they gave some characters Boba Fett capes.
Yeah, they are great!
Man, i remember watching action figure adventures many years ago one summer on youtube. Came across Animation Creation too, think back in 2006 or 2007. Very enjoyable, and i still think of some of those skits to this. Good music choices you guys made too. Really enjoyed the usage of new order and other 80s newwave.
Nice video though, these were my first starwars toys and introduction to starwars in the mid 90s. Eventually got my uncles collection from when he was a kid in the 70's and 80's.
That's awesome that you watched my old shows!
That batmobile is a steal
BACK IN TEH DAY I HEARD: When these FIRST hit stores, there was a very limited run/supply of each figure in existence. the ORIGINAL (first run) Princess Leia potf2 figure was deemed facially too masculine and was retooled/rereleased. When the second one started hitting stores, the original released Leia figure was selling for a lot of money back then on card (ebay). The second release looked very similar but didn't rise in price.
I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen a comparison of two Leia faces.
I remember buying an extra Obi wan and Leia because I thought they were rare and putting them away sealed, lol
Also I remember there being soooo many of these every where, Walmart had a whole side of an aisle that was just pegs of these
Probably why they never went up in value lol
Yeah, there were Soooooo many produced.
Yeah, we all went a little overboard on those, Kenner brought those out at the right time, we were all hungry for them that's for sure.
Action figure adventures looks cool
It was a lot of fun to make, but using "real" music in the early days of CZcams has those videos in the long term.
@@Pegwarmers just like all the great stuff of the past copyrighted music keeps us from owning all the great stuff now-a-days
Loved this line and was 100% on board when it was announced and finally released. Got the entire 1st wave (skipped the X-Wing though) and was pretty steady with the first 3 or so waves, but then it just out of hand. I remember Leia and 3PO being incredibly difficult to find when the 1st wave launched.
I was able to find Leia pretty easily, but didn't manage to get 3PO until a year later when my mom found him and got it for me for Christmas.
Actively collecting Jawas… army building them I love them
They are fun with the light pipe eyes
PotF2 is the SW line I had/have the most of. I had some vintage RotJ (maybe yard sale ESB) stuff as a kid, but I lost interest (though I still loved the movies) when I saw He-Man. They were one of the first things I got rid of. When this line came out I was at the height of my SW fandom (during a short period where I would've actually said I was more of SW fan than Trek). I wouldn't say I speculated in them, but I kept them on card mostly to display. Now, they're just boxed in the basement. I recently decided to open and display all the Stormtroopers, though.
I forgot you had a bunch carded. If you have complete waves or almost complete waves maybe I'll borrow them down the road for more of these.
@@Pegwarmers It's not complete, but I do have a couple variants and some obscur(ish) characters.
Awesome video on the power of the force figures collection were amazing keep collecting and may the force be with you all star wars fans the force is strong with this one 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Kevin pegwarmers
Thanks!
I started buying these in 1995 as well. Bought a ton of these, still have them in boxes and unopened. They do take up some space, so I should toss em.
They were cheap in 90's so you can recoup most of your cost, but you aren't going to turn a big profit.
@@Pegwarmers Yeah, I wished I didn't buy so much. I had the Star Wars fever like most of us did, still do, lol.
I actually prefer the longer lightsaber for the earlier style figures and it will forever burn me that they never made one for Jedi Luke.
It still amazes me that they were able to pass 18 year old vehicle molds as new with just some extra paint, new decals and a bit of retooling for the electronics, which really speaks for the quality of the old Kenner molds.
Those original vehicles are amazing. They were a little tight for these musclebound studs.
@@Pegwarmers Yeah I remember somebody mentioning in another video how the plastic on their X-wing had bowed around the cockpit because Luke's shoulders were so wide 😂
Had all these as a kid. Still have my Jabba the hut and slave 1
I had a lot of fun with the Boba Fett from this line.
i use to have luke and vader, and the milenium falcon. i think i use to have boba fett with the slave 1, i don't remenber, but also i still keeping my batmobile from batman returns, mine is still complete almost, cuase the missiles are missing, the really bad think is i don't have my batman figure from batman returns, but one think i still keeping today in the original box, is the batman and the batmobile from the new batman adventures series in 1997, with all the accesories. nothing missing
I had the Boba Fett from this line (i think) where his backpack ballooned out into a spring loaded wardrobe on his back. He finally had a firing missile though. BTW, love this channel but it is more fun when it's a discussion between 2 or more toy enthusiasts. That's what drew me in when i originally came across it.
I want to get back to that, but there was more help with the channel and less personal commitments. So I'm just trying to maintain for now. Hopefully we can get more back to normal soon. Thanks for sticking with me.
@@Pegwarmers Keep up the good work man! Love the shows. And I know all too well the struggle of keeping solo content rolling despite not having the same friends involved who were there at the beginning. (happened with my Podcast)
What I wanna know is...for folks like me who collected POTF 2 line as 'toys', did you mainly use them to a) re-enact iconic movie scenes with them OR b) use whomever you could acquire for new adventures not seen on film. (Or both?)
I am firmly in the B camp but I know many friends who just did A.
@@puffinman1138 With Vintage and PotF2 I would do alternate Rerun of the Jedi stories or adventures between filmed.
Love the vehicle re-used molds
With the plussed up paint apps!
Power of the Force: everybody got buff for the '90s.
All they did since Return of the Jedi was work out.
00:12 i just have to say, right from the hop, that is an *impressive* set Sir uh, Jason is it please? i'm mike. Just enough G.I. JOE and one of the best pieces that they hadn't made when i was playing, *and* a bonus puzzle in my top right hand corner because it *really* is all about the game within' the game right folks? If i had to guess i would say two things. 1. Eternia 2. There really is NO "common sense" reason why i would know that. FUN! :)
I'm glad you like it.
Now this is a line I have a ton of nostalgia for.I remember like it was yesterday going to Toys R Us constantly with my grandmother buying entire boxes of these before the Toys R Us workers could even open them and put them on the shelves 😆
I had a ton of these figures MOC and like you for some reason I never got any vehicles or the deluxe figures.I sold them all as a lot a couple of years ago for like 100bux.
The variants in this line drove me nuts. I don't remember which was more valuable at the time, the long lightsaber or short. And then the Princess Leia has a variant with something that has to do with her belt buckle. The Boba Fett figure also had a couple as well. On both hands if he had two full circles I believe that was regular but if you had one that was a full circle and a half circle that was more rare or something like that 😆....Yikes
You bought boxes of them?!?!
@@Pegwarmers well i didnt,my grandmother did.
I was 19 when these came out so I wasn't playing with them but I did open them and put them on a shelf. I did buy a second Boba Fett to keep on the card but when I dug it out of storage early in 2022 I found the card is damaged which is fine because these figures aren't worth much.
Yeah, it's hard to keep carded stuff in nice shape in storage unless you have cases.
I have a micro saber variant . It’s smaller than the short saber . Im still looking for the short saber long tray Ben kenobi
Sorry to hear about the micro saber!
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Power of the Force was out in my young adult-adult life and I skipped on it completely. I liked some of the Start Wars Micro Machines, but didn't buy any of the Power of the Force. I bet it is nostalgic for lots of folks.
I and a plethora of the Star Wars micro machines. They were incredibly little sets! Glad to see another connoisseur of fine toys 😉
Yeah, I like the Micro Machines playsets, but the scale of the ships kind of drove me crazy.
@@Pegwarmers Micro Machines needs an episode
@@Pegwarmers The ships were wild in scale. The new Micro line seems better. I like the old Micro Machines for the figures. They were close enough to HO scale that they looked good through building windows. I didn't let them wander around in the streets with actual HO scale figures because the scale wasn't that close, but in buildings they made neat geeky folks.
@@robwaters8848 I still have most of the Micro Machine line.
Came out in 1995 mate.
Sorry about that.
Released in 95, not 94 😞
I really miss file cards/character info on the back of action figure packages. Something sorely missing from contemporary action figures. They don't even show all available figures on the backs of figure packages anymore. Maybe a trite sentence or two. Nothing to stimulate the imagination.
Toys used to get released locally and then other companies would lease the molds to sell toys in other countries. Now Hasbro sells internationally so they want as little as possible to translate.
@@Pegwarmers Figured it was something like that, considering there are so many different languages on action figure packaging now.
94? Australia did not get these until early 96…… not much has changed…. y’all heard about the netternet thing?
Yeah, most of the world was behind the US on toy releases back then.
Haha double guns Chewbacca.
Ha ha!
What about Police Academy action figures? Any interest? 😂
I have some of them.
I have a ton of never opened toys from this line and just don’t care for the PED era toys of that generation
Sell them!
4:51 "upgraded" to green cards? they were downgraded imo. the red cards look so much better. also the chrome logo looks better than the gold logo.
I may have meant updated...
I was born in 2007 and while the Star Wars figures I grew up with were the Playskool Galactic Heroes I just love and I mean LOVE all the characters they made my favorite figures got to be Muftak and Kabe because I’m a big fan of there story in the Tales from the Cantina book…
Galactic Heroes are cool!