The Jedi Temple Archives Team

email: chuck@jeditemplearchives.com

Forum Handle: Rogue3

Age: 42 years old.

Location: Lexington, KY

Collecting Interests: Hasbro, Sideshow, Gentle Giant, and Vintage. I also collect bits and pieces of everything else!

email: paul@jeditemplearchives.com

Forum Handle: darthpaul1974

Age: 38 years old.

Location: Philadelphia, PA (but a NJ boy at heart)

Collecting Interests: Hasbro; Sideshow Collectibles Premium Format ¼ Scale Figures, 1:1 Life-Size Busts, and 12” Figures; RAH Medicom 12” Figures, Kubricks and VCD Figures; ACME Archives Character Keys; Scaled Replicas; and Gentle Giant Mini Busts, Statues, Bust-Ups and Maquettes.

Favorite Memory: My dad took my younger brother and me in 1983 to see Return Of The Jedi in a theater with obviously no THX sound or giant screen.  It didn’t matter, because it was and still is larger than life and it lit a passionate fire that still burns strong today.  That same year for Christmas I got all the ROTJ toys from Kenner and still have them today.  I remember it as if it were yesterday.

Hobbies: 60s, 70s, and 80s music, pop culture, movies and television.  Fine dining. 

Miscellaneous:  I always collected Kenner/Hasbro stuff, but I always leaned more to the higher end collectibles.  But ever since Hasbro released The Saga Collection in 2006 and 30 (77-07) in 2007, my interest in the Hasbro product has been invigorated.

email: morgan@jeditemplearchives.com

Age: 43 years old.

Location: Rochester, MI

Collecting Interests: Vintage Kenner & Takara; Modern Hasbro; Sideshow Collectibles 1:6 Scale & Premium Format ¼ Scale Figures; Gentle Giant Mini Busts, Jumbo Vintage Kenner, Statues & Maquettes; Medicom Kubrick, RAH & VCD Figures;  Attakus 1:5 Statues, Elite & Metal Collections; LEGO.

Favorite Memory: I first saw Star Wars in 1977 for my 7th birthday.  I remember holding my breath as the opening crawl faded off into the distance.  The music, the Star Destroyer, everything about it blew me away!  It still does to this day.

 

email: chad@jeditemplearchives.com

Age: 34 years old.

Forum Handle: chaddcobain

Location: Seattle, WA

Collecting Interests: All Hasbro, most 1/6 scale Sideshow.

email: barbarianj@live.be

Forum Handle: BarbarianJ

Location: Belgium

Age: 39 years old.

email: anthony@jeditemplearchives.com

Age: 33 years old.

Comments Handle: The_Question

Location: Connecticut 

email: jeff@jeditemplearchives.com

Age: 54 years old.

Comments Handle: Sjefke

Location: Fallston Maryland,  The Burbs, north of Baltimore

Collecting Interests: 3.75 figures and vehicles. I love anything to do with scum and villiany.

Best Star Wars Memories: I saw ANH (back then we just called it STAR WARS) at least 12 times in the theatres. As a joke, my mother bought me TESB Yoda, but I still have it somewhere. I always watched the movies when I got the chance, but wasn't a collector. 

When I had kids of my own, that changed. I took them to see THE CLONE WARS on the big screen. They were the perfect age for it and it made a big impression on them and me. My 6 year old son became a Rex fan, and my 4 year old daughter fell in love with Ahsoka Tano. We were grocery shopping when they saw the TCW wave 1 hanging on the pegs and we picked up Anakin and dirty Rex. That's when it started. We got 10 more figures for Christmas, but there was always a figure or two that the kids still wanted, but I kept pushing the OT. I discovered JTA when I was searching on-line for TCW Aayla Secura.

One afternoon, I saw Legacy Ben Kenobi and got that, purely for myself. That's the day I became a collector and not a toy buyer. I still love watching the kids playing with their vast army, while my poor wife shakes her head at the excess. I have my own collection of realistic firgures that is purely for display.

Hobbies: Carpentry, Crafts (handy, when you're customizing), Science fiction, Films, Scuba & snorkeling, Skiing.