What vintage Star Wars saw their stock rise thanks to "The Rise of Skywalker"? Which ones saw them fall? What do Skye and Steve think of the movie? Lots of passionate thoughts and insightful insights!

*not an enhanced episode. What is the point of that?

First Skye and Steve break down the Vintage “Winners and Losers” of the Mandalorian. You won’t believe the #1 loser! Then Ron joins to discuss the Yoda Draught of 1980 and early Yoda prototypes. Seriously awesome information!

Table of Contents:

00:54 Intro

02:50 Fancy Steve Goes to the Movies

04:38 Skye’s big time 501st Buddy

08:15 Mandalorian Thoughts (We all win when Vintage toys smash!)

13:15 Neal Scanlan is the Devil

14:46 We need Rian and Filoni

-MANDALORIAN: Winners and Losers-

16:30 Number 5 Loser (Bib)

17:13 Number 5 Winner (R5)

17:56 Number 4 Loser (Power Droid)

18:35 Number 4 Winner (Jawa and Land of Jawa)

19:34 Number 3 Loser (Jabba’s Goons) And Last Jedi discussion

23:04 Number 3 Winner (Ev-9D9) and the Toy Box discussion

24:42 Number 2 Loser (Bossk)

26:38 Number 1 Loser (???)

27:10 Number 1 Winner (Ugnaught)

28:52 Soundtrack Length Talk

31:05 Baby Yoda talk

RON

35:00 Ron joins the show

38:58 Yoda joins the action figure line! (31-Back and 32-Back Timeline)

43:01 Jar Jar was the new Yoda

47:08 Finding The Yoda Sculpt with Fluffy!

51:09 Gimer Stick: A Star Wars Story

53:53 The Yoda Puppet

1:07:19 Internal Kenner Plannogram Shot

1:10:13 Porg vs. Baby Yoda, Skye vs. Mall

1:12:12 Mervyn’s Commercial

1:13:50 Thanks Mortimer, and Goodbye!

Lando’s Halibut Faced co-pilot takes center stage in this months show as Skye and Steve return to the silver mic once again. Broc Walker comes on the show to talk Nien Nunb Hardcopies, Toltoys, Sweepstakes fever, Proofs and coca-cola tumblers. This episodes features the great 2010 Hardcopy auction and outlines how a first shot went from Toy Shop to Broc. Plus an EPIC Market Watch game that proves that James Brown is better than Prince on the next vintage pod.

Table of Contents:

00:00 Intro

02:29 The Havens Interview fallout

07:09 Skye and Steve’s Personal lives and the showa

14:40 Muppet, Language, Racist, Labia (Very Diverse Nien Nunb Thoughts)

30:07 Skye-Ku

32:35 Vintage Vocab ROTJ 48 Backs

41:54 Australian and Canadian Nien Nunb

46:36 Kenner Commercial Break

50:42 What if you wanted to collect ALL Carded figures with Nien Nunb on it?

53:05 Broc Joins the Show

54:08 Nugget from the Archive (2010 Hardcopy Auction Story)

1:00:30 First shot: from ToyShop to Broc

1:03:54 Revenge of the Jedi Mock-up Proof Card

1:07:43 The ROTJ Kenner Sweepstakes

1:19:41 Unloved Item of the Month (Coca-Cola Tumbler)

1:23:05 Super Market Watch Game: Prince v. James Brown

1:35:58 Baseball talk

1:45:03 Outro

Jonathan McElwain joins the show to talk about all things vintage custom Star Wars cakes, before the dark times, before the Wilton license. Then he talks about Wilton! Also, a new fake item from Argentina is confirmed at the end of the episode.

00:52 Intro

4:44 Comedy Bang-Bang Interlude

5:32 Porg Cake Story

8:13 Jonathan Mcelwain’s Heartwarming Cake Story

9:53: Mail Box News Magazine

18:48 Steve Starts The Chewbacca Cake discussion

22:47 Jonathan’s Favorite Cakes

26:36 Wilton Cake Memoribilia

32:00 The Argentinian Fake Issue

It’s a strangely on-topic episode all about Lando in his Skiff disguise as Skye and Steve talk about the character, his outfit and a lot about his toys. Long time hobby mainstay David Gaule joins the show to discuss his absolutely incredible Skiff focus, to posit that many of his Argentinian prototypes might be fakes and to unveil a never-before-shown Kenner photograph. Plus he lends his talents to Kenner Commercial Theatre and a market watch game. All this plus so many unloved items, a discussion of Disneyland and a WTF “are we good?” interview with Michael Havens. All this on this first ever hundo broken ‘Chive Cast

Table of Contents:

06:21 Steve’s trip to Disneyland

12:40 Lando Skiff Mania

20:38 Behind the Steve

27:37 Skye-Ku

29:27 Tskuda Lando

33:33 Nugget from the Archive (Unproduced POTF)

37:22 David Gaule joins the show

42:36 David’s Pre-production Run

55:24. The Great TopToys fake?

01:09:05 Blueprint talk

01:10:15 Modern Applause Sculpt

01:12:10 Two Different sign-offs from Smile

01:13:16 CMYK Proof talk

01:15:42 Lando Gets Closer in Proofs

01:18:41 Star Wars Babies?

01:20:24 Never Shown Before Uncensored Toy Reference Photo

01:29:37 Kenner Commercial Theater

01:35:42 Visiting the Hasbro Offices

01:40:16 One Dollar Vlix Market Watch Game

01:48:07 So-be-it Lightning Round

01:57:32 Unloved Italian Stickers

02:00:56 Unloved Topps Cards

02:03:07 Unloved Ugly

02:05:14 Unloved Coloring Book

02:11:14 Michael Haven’s Interview

02:59:15 Outro

Years after Skye married Steve, Steve now marries Skye and the two go on a fantastic vintage Star Wars 100th episode honeymoon in Iceland and former Yugoslavia. It’s a deep dive in a shallow pool as we cover every single vintage item known of in the two countries that did not exactly have Star Wars fever. We feature stories of Steve’s cousins and interviews with Skye’s wife, Marjena Popovic, and her friend, Zemo. We are talking Books, magazines, stickers, posters and more handbills than you can shake a Steve at all on the new ‘Chive Cast.

7:55 Steve’s Guide to Icelandic Star Wars Collectibles

10:10 Icelandic Star Wars Names and Books

18:98 Icelandic Handbills.

30:55 Marjena and Skye’s Guide to Yugoslavian Star Wars Collectibles (and history)

41:17 Yugoslavian Star Wars Posters (Part 1)

42:35 The Yugoslavian Star Wars Novel

1:03:22. Zemo on (sort of) growing up Star Wars in Yugoslavia

1:12:13 Yugoslavian Star Wars Posters (Part 2)

1:18:19 Yugoslavian Comics (part 1)

1:33:57 The Importance of Ewoks

1:43:25 Why Marjena Has No Toys

1:58:19 Skye and Steve’s Outro

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“The Honesty, which is kindness, that comes across as cruelty.”

This episode is about collecting the Biker Scout, but it is also about the pre-Facebook / Post-Facebook collector divide. We talk about the rocket rider’s short snout and proofs while also penning an open letter to the unofficial leadership council of the FaceBook collectors. We invite John Alvarez and Joe Yglesias -the eternally old-and-grumpy Stattler and Waldorf of vintage Star Wars - to share tales of old hobby beefs and how it used to be on Rebelscum. John pipes in to discuss how he built his storied and dismantled Biker Scout run and then Joe helps us to think about where the Scout DNA hides in Vintage bootlegs. Plus FX Master history lessons, VHS commercials, Quartz Stop Watches and an improvised Market Watch on the Gretzky Podcast!

Table of Contents

01:30 Show intro

10:34 Open Letter to the FaceBook Gods

22:30 Actual Biker Scout Talk Begins

28:40 Behind the Steve with the “Rocket Bike” rider

37:20 Skye-Ku

38:12 Netherlands Biker Scout Stuff

42:35 John and Joe Tell Tales of Trolls Past

54:30 Nienast debate

1:03:14 The Great FX Master Scam History

1:13:13 The guy who didn’t understand what a Yak Face hardcopy is

1:27:30 John’s Old Biker Scout Run

1:47:30 Biker Scouts DNA in the Bootleg

1:51:32 Nugget from the Archive (Unproduced clock, Stopwatch Layout Art)

1:59:10 Havens debate and John

2:03:09 Unloved Item (Ditty Bag)

2:07:15 Vintage Kenner Commercial

2:11:30 Biker Scout Improvised Market Watch

02:15:45 Short Mouth Variant

02:17:22 CBS-FOX Video Sweepstakes Ad and outro

What is a Protomold? How is it different form a Hardcopy? How was it made? Who made it? So many questions, amazing amounts of answes coming from Ben Sheehan, who just wrote the blog post about. Ron Salvatore joins to add his prototype knowlege, Steve keeps it on the rails, and Skye talks about his mom's underpants. In other words..its a typical 'Chive Cast!

Hear Skye and Steve live from the Collector Social Podcast stage and from the show floor of Celebration Chicago, 2019. We talk about the Archive Party, C-3P0s eating competition, their collector track panel, grooming Wookiees, buying Lobby cards and interview Derby, Salvatore, White, Lev, Warren and our very own Grammy Daddy. All this and some iffy sound quality on the 98th Vintage Pod.

2:10 Jasper Nixon Returns

5:56 Archive Party IV Recap

9:31 C-3POs Eating Competitions

12:07 Positivity and mending rifts

14:09 Talk about the Panel

16:15 Skye’s Big Purchase of a Plush Display

23:43 Steve’s Lobby Cards

27:40 Canadian Paploo

30:50 Anthony “Grammy Daddy” announces contest winners

34:45 Ron Salvatore Hates Star Wars (and the podcast)

39:30. The Rocket Fett

40:56 Tom Derby joins the show briefly

46:33 Bruce White Talks Leia

49:21 Jasper from the Show Floor

50:51. Interview with Lev (from Toy Tokyo) about his last Uzay

53:04 Warren Tells a happy tale

56:17 Skye Meets the New Chewbacca

Jakub Burzyński joins Skye to talk about growing up buying bootlegs in Poland as well as his new book on the subject, Far Far Away.

This interview was once a part of an April fools joke. If for some reason you want to hear and watch the original version (filled with weird jokes and music) then you can find it here: http://theswca.com/podcast/chive_97.m4a