How Much My Vintage Star Wars Playsets Cost Me

I finally collected all the vintage Star Wars playsets made by Kenner from 1978 to 1984. Let’s tally up the price and see how much the total came out to. Let’s Go!

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[bountyhunter]

When you see the total amount you say, that's a lot of money to spend on play sets.
But when you think about the journey to collect all this, the stories behind them, and the historical value, someone can see why you are doing this.
Great work my

[zw]

This is literally the first video I've seen of yours and I think you can call yourself "The MASTER Collector" because this is so cool !!! SUBSCRIBED !!!

[christopherdyson]

Just want to start by saying that i love watching your video's! Its great to see someone so happy and passionate about collecting so thank you!! I started recollecting 6 years ago thanks to my wife as she got me a figure bundle from ebay, ive got 15 figures left to collect. I only own 2 playsets, the ewok village which is in excellent condition and i only have the 3 post fence missing and i have the jabba the hutt playset which again is in excellent condition i dont have the boxes but i have all mine on display in scenes from the movie's. My next playset is definitely gonna be the dagobah one. Can't wait to see you start the vehicle collection.

[DanMiller]

Final cost? $19, 467.45 Thanks for bringing us along on your journey. I've enjoyed every video!

[mlballhawks]

Great stuff! I just got a Canadian Kenner Death Star - that thing is fun! Great work, Joey!

[veronatragedy]

Wow, what shocked me was that the playsets cost almost the same as the full set of loose figures! I thought you would have paid about thirty thousand just for all the loose ones because they just seemed more expensive to me, but I had no idea the playsets would be this expensive, I was thinking maybe 5, 000 for all the playsets. but i mean i know nothing just was a laymans guess.

[uksith]

You do a great job and produce absolutely tiptop professional videos sir. So interesting and so rich with details.and information. THANK YOU for sharing with the collectors community!

[MoparMcNeer]

Wow Joey! Watching this video recap was awesome. Seeing all the different playsets that you acquired, and going back over the versions that you picked up, and how your collecting of this run progressed was a ton of fun. You definitely have some gems in there that I would love to have in my collection.

It's crazy when you tally up all the dollars you spent, but I feel it was well worth it. And I'm sure, after seeing some of the unused contents sets that you picked up, that you may go back and reacquire some of the original sets that you didn't get in that condition. I've basically been doing the same thing for the last 2 years as well. It's a little wild how our buying "requirements" elevate as we move along in our collecting.

As for your grand total, I figured your playset run would be pretty close to the same amount that your figure run was, and seeing the amounts at the end, I wasn't far off. Looks like you spent a total of $19, 467.45. 🤯

Seems a little insane when you look at that as a whole, but it's hard to put a price on the joy that those items bring to you. I know that's how I feel personally. Worth every penny. 🥰

And while this was an exciting video, hearing all the runs that you have ahead of you, that really gets me stoked. I'm (re)collecting right along with you, making it all that much more special and fun.

Keep up the great work and congratulations on wrapping up another run my friend. ❤

[scotthildebrand]

Well, when ever you get tired of having your ESB Droid Factory, I'll give you $1, 255😂👌 That's a nice Dagobah playset you got for a great price 👍 That one you have is even the rarer one with the alternate photo on the box. It's referred to as the printed offer version. It came out later, maybe that's why the foam is still good, they must've improved it a little. Happy collecting bro 😎🤙

[tperson]

Thanks for doing this.
I'm always interested in what a collector had spent.
Sorry you weren't able to make it to the convention.

Thanks for the video

[andyrozycki]

Great video joe! Waiting for more. I'll be patient...lol

[paulbarbacano]

I remember my mom asking the clerk at KB toy store why the jawa was so expensive. He said because his cape was hand made.😂 It was $4.99😂... Plastic cape was $2.99

[acrodave]

If you ever manage to get a good, clear original Palitoy DS canopy to replace the yellowed one (it looks like somebody had been blowing smoke into it! Ew!) whatever you do, keep it out of ANY kind of light; it's light that does that. I only know as mine stayed clear because it had spent 40 years locked in a dark cupboard! ✌️

[speedpony]

Just a little trivia, Rick Springfield is a big Starwars collector :-)

[brianwyde]

I bought several of the Star Wars playsets I owned as a child over the past five years. I got most of the sets I originally owned. I had to buy replicas of the cardboard Cloud City and original cardboard Cantina bc originals are just too costly. 💰 if I saw some other sets at prices/condition I considered reasonable I would buy a few more sets that I never owned as a child but I have the ones I liked the most that I owned as a child.

[josephreynoldsii]

I remember buying the Cloud City playset from Sears back in the day when it came out. Much to my chagrin, I've lost all the little white pegs that you insert into the cardboard so that the figures can stand. Any idea where I can buy them?

[pmrode]

Where you get the foot pegs for cardboard cantina

[CC-dwch]

I'm really sorry that you couldn't have been with me in the 90s when I was running all over the lower mainland (Vancouver) looking for everything Star Wars. Not as much available then, no ebay etc, but still a load of fun.

[krdragon]

Do you also factor travel expenses like airfare, hotels and rental cars?

[jartladder]

Thanks for the journey! What's next?