I absolutely love the potf line with it's kenner retro packaging, the amount of details and information on the box. The vehicles are fantastic as well reminiscing the vintage line. That hole in the cockpit console was an attachment cockpit control which came with the darth vader tie fighter Gunner station.
I remember having this as a kid. I didn't care that it was Vader's, I just wanted more TIE's, cause I was an Imp kid lol. (Always bugged me that I could never find an Interceptor, it's one of my favorite grunt fighters in any franchise)
I keep my camera mounted on a slider. Handy for such shots as you’re asking about and also I don’t need to deal with moving a tripod around. Unless I’m dealing with larger toys.
I never owned any Darth Vader TIE in the action figure scale so this was cool to see up close. Is his cup holder deep enough to hold his lightsaber in, by chance?
I have one too and I lmfao at why he has a cup holder I. His tie fighter. He can’t take his mask off in his tie so I doubt he’s flying around chugging a Dr Pepper while hes shooting down rebels
I managed to snag one from a local K-Mart for TEN BUCKS Before all the K-Marts went out of business. I have the Re-Pop of this with the Florescent Green Missiles. I have since torn it apart to make it "Screen Accurate" using many different sources, My finished "Re-Build" will have Lights AND sounds and will have an accurate Cockpit AND still take the Action Figure. I also have the TIE X-1 and X-Wing from the "Death Star Trench Run" that I bought for my Grand sons several years ago for a Christmas present. When they out grew them I managed to selvedge all of the parts and figures and save them. I will do a similar "UP-GRADE" to the X-Wing and once I get a Second Regular Standard Issues TIE Fighter I will display all THREE like in the Movie.
Quick question how did you get the wings to stay on your original Darth Vader tie fighter? Mine popped off months after I got it. And to this day 40 years later I can't get them to stay on the mounts.
Maybe the spring mechanism inside has worn out. Either a clip might’ve snapped off or there’s a stress joint on plastic. It’s actually normal for a lot of Kenner TIE-Fighter molds to have something of a problem like that.
Why does it look have a cup holder? he can’t take his mask off in his fighter and drink so it’s not like he’s chugging a soda while he’s shooting down x wings!
Grand Master Yoda i like them besides the vehicles they are too small and not real scale. When you can have han solo stand higher then the falcon somethings wrong
Sorry for such late reply, I know yours is an old comment, but I feel the same way. Besides the reasons you and jdl mentioned, the collector in me knows massive production left some who think only about value and rareness jaded. But not me. How can I shun the very thing that made my favorite ❤️ toyline so affordable and available?
I don’t know if you will see this but on mine the two blaster turrets below the glass are removable and feel like they have a spring as they would shoot but I can’t find anything that will shoot them, if you could check it out that would be great
I wonder why they didnt put a plastic insert on the hatch? looking at mine you can stick a pen through the hatch! LOLOL....or did they and mine is missing?
Yup! And that flat top catch always bothered me. Also, I would've liked a leaner, more narrow Vader's ship. Never bothered anyone else though, it seems. :}
I had this one. I lost the top hatch on it… actually I dropped it off at a local toy store, (with a buncha other crap) told the guy maybe a customizer or someone, even a small kid would get a kick outta it.
