80's Toybox: Used Millennium Falcon, low mileage, 1 owner

Remember Your Toybox?

When you were a child, your whole Universe was contained within the toys you played with and collected. Obviously I can't talk for the ladies of the 80s, but us lads now in our late twenties and early thirties and beyond still have an enormous hankering for toys from the 80s.

I don't know how many times I've been in a grown up situation, talking about the new exhibit at the Nelson and next thing you know someone is saying "Ah man, I used to have Castle Grayskull and every He-man figure, and then when I went to college, my Mom sold them all at a garage sale for nothing, imagine how much that shit would be worth today." Then someone else would chime in with their 80s toy story.

This blog is going to chronicle toys I find and toys I already have. I'll try to keep to the 80s, but I know I'll wander into other time periods. And if you come across any great finds and want to share them, please be my guest.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Used Millennium Falcon, low mileage, 1 owner

I was walking through the City Market Antique Mall with the wife when we both spied this hidden treasure at the same time. I nearly sh*t my pants when I saw the asking price was only 18 bucks.

The second I picked it up a guy made a B-line straight for it. "Are you taking that?" he asked with puppy dog eyes. "Yes, I sure am" was my cheeky reply. He wanted it sooooo Bad...but too bad.

I didn't care that it was a 1995 reproduction of the Falcon and not an original, for the price it could have been made from egg cartons, I was ecstatic. It has to be by far the most desirable Star Wars toy and I finally had one.

Just say the name: "Millennium Falcon." That name holds a certain amount of magic and conjures up so many images in the mind. The old junker of a ship that held the Empire at bay, the ship that saved Luke, Leia and Han's collective butts a million times, the ship that made the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs!

And now I have one...god I'm drunk on power...this must have been how the Emperor felt.