Ranking the Top Star Wars Worlds and the Vintage Toys in Them - EP 52 - The Padawan Collector

In this episode we're ranking the vintage Star Wars worlds in the original trilogy movies and the Vintage Kenner Toys and Action Figures that came from them. The best Star Wars Planets sprung some amazing collectibles and the top Star Wars worlds created some of the best environments for our imaginations. Join me for some awesome Star Wars collecting!

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[MoparMcNeer]

You really can't pick a bad environment in Star Wars. They're all fantastic for their own reasons & have so much to love. Even the asteroid field. I'm even more amazed though with your haul this time around. So many great pickups! And yeah, that Wampa... 😎. So bright!!!

[cyrusq]

My favourite environments are: Tatooine, Hoth ... and ... open space. For the bridge of the Executor - for the six bounty hunter figures - for Boba Fett and Bossk.

Never owned a Wampa, but did see one in a Toy -Town store in 1983 - along with a Tauntaun (open belly feature). I chose to take home the Tauntaun.

I was also surprised by how small the Wampa box and figure looked in your hands. When I first saw it all those years ago, as a child, it looked BIG.

Congrats on your latest haul.

[CollectingStarWars]

Rock On Joey!!! 🤘🤩 This is my favorite video of yours to date! Outstanding, my friend. Fantastic breakdown of the Original StarWars environments and toys. I loved your parachute Hoth Luke story. So glad you found a clean new Luke with a beautiful boxed Wampa. I love that creature, my all time vintage favorite! I patiently hunted until I found a really good one last year. Gotta love how with one paw he can drag a figure and even hold one up in the air by their foot. Two Thumbs Up on this 5 Star video! 🤓👍👍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[bothanOO]

Great Vid as ALWAYS T.P.C.!! But I have say how glad I am to finally see ROMY and JOZ get out from under LOBOT’S shadow.😂🤣
Nice flip flop on tatooine.

[garyjones]

Hi Joey, what a fantastic episode! Such a lot packed into this one. It was great to see all the amazing play sets produced by Kenner and Palitoy. I think you did extremely well with the Wampa and Luke figures! They are really lovely original examples which is whats its all about. Regards Gary 🙂

[JorgeRodriguez-exrr]

Both is my favorite as well. That Wampa is beautiful brother and in a nice box … woo. Nice grab. Cheers

[ashjp]

Joey what the video !! Your best one yet ! Love your finds as well!

[MartinFutter]

Joey, nice nostalgia trip on this one, Wampa, Attack Base, and my personal favourite, the Snowspeeder.
Love the Hoth Luke, another firm favourite.
I've been slacking on the vids of late, so I'm going to blast through a few this week...hopefully 😂

[xdd_fishlips]

Awesome Joey! Loved the video. Think I’m going to agree with u on hoth. Such cool toys . I also love the figures from Jabbas palace. Cool pick ups . Lovely white Wampa. Keep it up dude. 🤘

[BenRaik]

yavin was seriously overlooked by kenner. no ceremony outfits, no additional pilots, no extra droids

[BigBossMan]

I am so glad I have several original Kenner sets.

[fcss]

Hoth would be my favorite group of figures. Can't beat the snowtroopers for a cool looking character. Really enjoying your channel. 👍🏼

[darthg]

Tatooine is my favorite environment & My favorite creature is the Patrol Dewback! Hoth is almost a tie with first. Cheers!

[salvatorecaterino]

Loving your channel. I would have to say Hoth is my favorite environment. My favorite toys in the line came from Hoth. Endor and Tatooine would be 2 and 3 on my list.

[Marcoroll]

Great video, wampa looks very nice ! really like your channel, i started collecting from scratch last year and your video’s are very informative.

[eddiehizo]

I really like watching your star wars info. You are more positive and uplifting than that "Retro-Blasting" show. That retroblasting guy seems very mean and grumpy. You bring the excitement in the star wars toys and seeing that I want to continue collect star wars!

[acrodave]

Another good video!
It's a pity they never did a proper bespin playset, just the Canadian cardboard thing. I was never a big fan of of the backdrop playsets, although I do have a boxed land of the jawas. Mine is the kenner version, as I actively boycotted the palitoy version as I knew it should have come with an escape pod!
I felt we were getting short changed here in the UK, especially when I saw a photo of the kenner death star in starlog magazine, and we had to make do with a cardboard one!
Ah, the short sightedness of youth...
Still got mine, though and it's complete and in good condition!
Keep up the good work Joey!
Looking forward to the next installment!

[enfieldjohn]

The Micro Collection made sweet playsets! I wanted those so badly as a kid! Ones big enough for the 3" figures would have been incredible.

You have a great point with Endor (or the Moon of Endor). So many cool figures, playsets, mini rigs, etc. Love the Ewoks and the Speederbikes. Those speederbikes were the best vehicles for carrying around. Their only downfall were the break flaps, but I figured out finally how to avoid popping them off by only snapping them to the hinge but not to the arm that makes it move when you pick the bike up.

My favorite though is Bespin/Cloud City because of how beautiful it is. It also has my favorite light saber duel of all time and the cool labyrinth/dungeon that Luke follows Darth Vader through during the fight.

Hoth comes in second for having the AT-AT, 21B, FX7, Snowspeeders, INT-4 (another fantastic looking, small ship for flying around), Wampa, Taun Taun etc. So much cool stuff! As a locale, it's not as awesome looking as Bespin though.

The trees on Endor are pretty cool too for being so gigantic, though. Tatooine does have some cool toys too. I have the Dewback and the Sandspeeder. Then, there's one of my all-time favorite creatures - the Jawa there.

When you think about it, there's cool stuff from almost every locale, so it's not easy to rank them based on that. I'd say Alderaan might be at the bottom though. It is in a really dramatic scene when it blows up, but that's it. I guess you could say the asteroid field is also sort of Alderaan since it's debris might be part of it after the explosion. :) I do love the asteroid scene so much.

I love my Retro Collection Boba Fett! These Retro Collection and Vintage Collection figures may be the only figures that I ever keep mint in box. Some people don't like them, but for a lot of collectors, these represent a budget friendly way to have that MOC look.

Super cool Wampa there! My wife knows I'd love to have one, but when she saw how much they were, she got me a cool stuffed animal version for Christmas instead. It's awesome because it makes Wampa roar sound effects and it's from her, so that makes it special.

[kevcox]

Great episode! Agree with you on Hoth and I LOVED Jedi Luke as a kid but my second fave Luke was Hoth too. That is an unreal Wampa! I've got 2 loose and both are yellowing slightly. BTW that boxed Rancor i saw - amazing! I checked recently on prices and I bought a perfect loose one on ebay in 2010 for £7.37 (including postage) and they now sell for around £70 here in the UK 😳 Jeez!! Keep up the good work Joey, happy hunting and amazing video edits as usual! 👍🏼👍🏼

[Drewbfree]

Great video Iam a fan of endor always loved the Ewoks congratulations on the Wampa. I am happy for you I can’t wait to get mine that I won through John’s auction 👍