Chris Georgoulias

I suppose this whole Star Wars collecting thing started for me back in 1990. That was about the time I dusted off my old toys and learned that there was a whole world based on toy collecting. I was always into Star Wars as a kid which is pretty apparent when you check out my entry in the Nostalgia section. I guess you could say a lot has happened to me since 1977.

When I started collecting (as an adult) I was intrigued that there was a market for all of this stuff and I was pretty psyched to be able to go to toy shows and find old stuff in it's original packaging. I started hitting every show around as well as flea markets and garage sales. Plus I found Toy Shop magazine which was like the bible of SW collecting until ebay reared it's ugly head. In college in 1992 I discovered the internet newsgroups (ahh, life before the Web....) and my life literally changed. The internet is what really propelled my collecting because there always seemed to be something to talk about and someone else willing to discuss it. And to this day, there still is.

Over the years my focus and interests have shifted around a bit. I started out like anybody else I guess, but I really had an appreciation for carded figures since I started. Everything was going like clockwork until 1994. That year I bought my first prototype piece and that sealed it for me. It was Bondo from the unreleased 2nd series of Ewoks cartoon figures. No longer was I very interested in items originally targeted to the consumer. I wanted the stuff that only Kenner employees had access to. The stuff I would have to really hunt down to find. Right now Prototypes are my big thing. I like them because they offer a glimpse into the story behind the toys that dominated kid culture in the early 1980's. I love seeing how things were developed back at Kenner. I also like prototypes because you never know what you're going to find and you never know what you want until you see it. This is quite satisfying when you approach it from a collecting standpoint.

Another collecting interest of mine is Kenner dealer catalogs. Catalogs are fun to track down since they were never intended for consumers. Catalogs were given to retailers in order to help promote and sell product. It's fantastic to see how Kenner marketed thier Star Wars toys to the big retailers. But to sell in stores you need displays and as you could probably guess I'm also into Kenner store displays as well. I suppose I'm a little weird because I really have become a nut for nearly anything that came out of Kenner that wasn't intended for public consumption.

Please email me if you have items like this that you want to talk about, sell, trade, or whatever. Or if you have any questions or comments about something you see on this site please let me know. I'm always up for discussing these sorts of things.

-chris