Making Star Wars Figures from a pile of Junk - Toy Polloi 

I never get tired of watching you rescue old, battered toys. Your wabi sabi approach to toys has influenced my own habits as a collector and customizer.

I would love to see you take a bag of parts and make up some new figures. Like Hans leg missing the foot, put a peg on it and make it part of a skiff pirate.

The figures that were loved and enjoyed are often my favorite.

I too would love to see kit bashing new figures.

I love seeing these old toys getting rescued. Great stuff!

personally I vote for more videos like this: rescue of toys belonging to Star Wars, MOTU, micronauts and LJN AD&D. Ten broken ones making up 5 good ones, I love that.

Another brilliant video! Love the concept of switching the Star Wars heads around and nice to see these toys being recycled rather than just thrown away

That fix with the pin on the Artoo legs is pretty ingenious.

Brilliant! I wish I could give two thumbs up. So inspiring!

Love it when you do videos featuring repairs or customs to vintage Kenner STAR WARS, Dave! This was a fantastic video!

I had several junk R2's that I made pins for so my son could use them with his 1979 Droid Factory.

A tip for the R2D2 sticker. I totally agree with you about the worn look. It actually shows the joy and love some kid once had with the figure. What I have done is to print a replacement decal on some vinyl paper/sticker, but not glued it on. Instead i tape the end very slightly, under/behind the leg (on to the body) then let the legs press down the paper. The other end goes full circle and also ends up under/behind the same leg, and I tape that end on to my newly replacement sticker. The tape is hidden by the leg, and I have the original sticker still on underneath the replacement decal.

That Lego Axle pin is so great for head swaps, very creative!

Love the intro!!!!!! 😂❤

I want to thank you polloi for the video on Darth Vader tie fighter. I watched and carefully followed the video because mine made no sound or red light did not work. And I'm pleased to say I now have on display a complete and working vintage Darth Vader tie fighter so THANK YOU and keep the videos coming. Regards Sir Damon k. Wheeler KBE

you are an inspiration

I agree, those beater R2s look really cool!

Going to fix me up some old Star Wars junk there 😆😆😆 I’ll be sure to keep this video in mind appreciate again for the good help 🤝🤝🤝

Dude! Nice work

Idea for the neck piece of Lego, put the piece in your drill, and grab some sand paper, pull the trigger and sand the piece away. Quick and easy

I will definitely been fixing a few figures with the drill and peg!

Watching these videos takes me back so much. Great content always. 👍🏼

Stellar work as always -- such a great result for these beaters. Especially love the astromech parade at the end.

What a wonderful video! You’ve inspired me to try and hunt up broken parts and see if I can do this myself.

Learned a few things for my work. Nice techniques! I will come back for more.

Great work! 👍

That was satisfying.....LEGO DESTRUCTION.

Videos like this got me into the hobby ❤

Tempted to buy some beaters to do this with

Great fixes, I really like the peach dome. Would make a unique astromech. It's nice to be able to reunite figures with their rightful limbs as well.

You make it look so easy. Great video. Super interesting.

Great video, I enjoy getting motivation from you to return old figures into service again! There is an industry for restoring furniture why not figures too? Great work as always

Always inspirational! Now I have to start collecting broken toys just so that I can go through the process of making some original characters from that that others discard!

Brilliant video!! Thank you!

My 3 brothers all loved starwars figures in the 1980s Starwars figures all over the house ! 😂👍

Dave, GREAT vid. Thank you.

Excellent Repairs as Always, Dave! I love your gang of wabi sabi astromech droids! They all look battle worn and hard core. Cheers!

14:10 that lever piece is also useful to make an antenna for a G1 Whirl

I love watching these get repaired!💯👍

Lovely video mate Yr Star Wars collection must be bloody awesome 👍🤘

Hey Dave Excellent fixes. Thank you for sharing. Happy Weekend and take care😊

You should print a sticker that matches the color of the peachy R2 unit

You are the man!

Toy Polloi, Your videos are fantastic! I just had to subscribe!

Where were these repair techniques when I was a kid? 😀

Great restoration!

no toy left behind!

Great job as always, saw a little bag of older weapons of all kinds of old figs. Thought of you, but with little knowledge about what is good, I decided to leave it for someone else.

Simple, but satisfying! You could maybe put the Lego pin into your drill, spin it, and sand the little ridge off that way, to avoid having to cut around on the figure itself? I've used a battery drill as a sort of lathe on a few toy repairs now- spinning up parts for my 12" Vader lightsaber, for example. (Admittedly, I put the drill into a vice because I don't have three hands!)

Always amazing work Dave.

Awesome video.

Very cool. Love your passion.

I’d love to see you make one of those R2 units into a custom astromech of your own design. 🙂

Toy Polloi, This is great! I liked it and subscribed!

I've had that same decapitated imperial officer since I was about 8. I guess I know what to do now.

You should see if you have the parts for a Mongo Beefhead. It would have been a 1986 character. I would be customizing the life out of that bag.

Excellent!

The 3:28 segue of the Punched Toy Polloi Logo Pegholder in the Style of the Battle of Yavin, Death Star POV says everything anyone needs to know about TP's Channel! A Complete Legend & a True Artist! Utter Respect my Good Man! -I haven't even finished watching this vid yet but had to comment that on sight, on site! ;) :) Edit after watching, Love your Work as Always Dude! :)

Would love to have a go at customising the R-Glue-D2 leftovers.

Great vid man. So cool and such good work.

Nice one👍

Great vid! Just picked up a few busted R2s I need to fix up!

I Would Love To See Half Vader Become Whole Darth Vader.

Great video Dave i really enjoy your content i wath your videos since 2017.

I need to look up in the attic to see if I can't find any of my siblings old 80's Star Wars figures.

This is great info! I do wonder if you could do the same thing using Glyos parts. I like the orange and silver dome R2. Earlier this year I got a vintage Logray that was discolored, but the yellowing gave him a cool tiger stripe look.

When are you gonna do a video tour of your collection room?

I would like to see you make some Imperial Astro Max. Paint them black

to bad you didnt have a spare han solo head - would have loved to seen han as imperial officer

If you need to remove glue, you'll need a solvent. cya glue hates acetone, but that can also melt plastic. I use TriFlow, a PTFE based lubricant that also has a solvent based that's safe on plastics. Also works great on Sun bleached plastics and rubbers that are brittle. Just like your petroleum jelly trick on rubber tires

love love your videos keep op the amazing work only thing i want to say is you might want to make a tool or or use a vice with rubber clamps to hold the figures while drilling because the first time the bit slips out and goes in your finger or hand it not going to end well , just looking out for you from the united states

Great vid, Dave. Really fun project. How do you like the pin vise drill? I've debated getting one over my power drill. Fun music too

Have you considered Craftsman’s technique of casting various body parts and fabricating a unique figure

Dave, in earlier head swap / limb repair videos, you recommended chipping away at the pegs until they fit into the figure. I noticed on this video, you simply used a screwdriver to get limbs into place. I have two current projects (both are Kenner Boba Fett figures) and I would like to get the parts in place without chipping / cutting away at the plastic if possible. One figure is a headless Boba Fett who is in otherwise perfect condition and a donor head with the stem fully intact. The other is a figure who needs an arm and a leg, and again, I have two perfect replacement parts. Any tips on how I can get those parts in place without damaging the recipient and donor figures? You made it look so easy with the Endor Han, but a couple of years ago I tried and tried to get a Han Solo leg into place to no avail, so I started cutting away the peg until it fit. I got the leg in, but was not pleased with the results, so I would rather do a better job on the Boba Fett figures I am working on if at all possible. Thanks in advance for any pointers you may have.

Have you ever tried creating an original character from the spare parts?

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Love lego destruction ha

I really hope none of your repaired stuff makes its way back out into the market I'd hate to have something repaired..

I have a mini Votron 3 lions… one leg on the blue lion is broken, I have a second that is also missing one, butt will work on the other. How do you work on 80’s Lion bots? Where can I send you pics? Thanks, long time viewer.

There's a old Kenner what if figure cross of a hammer head arms an squid head head an body

I Would Love To Receive A Toy Polloi Stickers To Put On My Xbox One.

Would you sell them or donate them?

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oh, i thought you were going to kitbash new characters by putting together random parts, not fix old figures, the title says making star wars figures, not repairing old figures, making star wars figures implies creating new characters

Dave, GREAT vid. Thank you.