Thought about sharing a few pics of CE2 in a separate thread. Please add yours as well if you like.

10:00 AM. We have just arrived at Essen's  main train station: coffee time!




11:00 AM. Last stop of U-Bahn 11, we are close to the Messe now.




11:30 AM: Quickly check in at the hotel and drop my stuff.
Tiggy can not walk so far with his bootlegs, so we booked a hotel which is literally just across the street.




12:05 AM. Almost in time for an interesting presentation by Stephane Faucourt on French vintage Star Wars.



Tiggy and his bigger Star Tot cousin, who is guarding the Collector's Stage.


Talk later

Marco & Tiggy

Nice so far Marco!

Well done Marco, but where are all the slave girls leia's??!?!?!

awesome Marco - keep em coming !!!!

Tiggy's Birthday wish is to have his picture taken nestled between some Slave Leia's boobies  

I know you can hook him up - just tell the ladies your a Doctor and its for "Medical Research" purposes  

@ourchickenshack wrote:

awesome Marco - keep em coming !!!!

Tiggy's Birthday wish is to have his picture taken nestled between some Slave Leia's boobies  

I know you can hook him up - just tell the ladies your a Doctor and its for "Medical Research" purposes   

+1,000,001 !

And I want to see some pics of the TIG gang with TIGGY drinking some pints (and/or shots)!!!!!!

Marco, Keep them pic's coming dude
Doing a great job mate

Thanks dude. More coming I hope!

Saturday update..

Keep the pictures coming. Hope everyone there has a great time. 

Cool pics Thargoil. Thanks.

I'd like to see some TIG group pics or pics of some vintage for sale!

some pictures of friday

@GanjaFett wrote:

Cool pics Thargoil.  Thanks.

I'd like to see some TIG group pics or pics of some vintage for sale!

Can't help you there mate..
Instead of being at the proposed meetingplace i was stuck in the theater for the masquerade contest.
(I thought i was attending the lecture on German collectables but really wasn't  , imagine my surprise..)

Wrt vintage sales i wasn't to impressed (4 or 5 stands i think). Perhaps the really nice stuff sold yesterday though still quit some lili ledy MOC's.. (1 guy had ~ 10 lili leia's 12" for sale, all boxed)
Ebay +10-15% prices is my guess, bought nothing vintage but some stormies (duh).

I did buy me a 12" carded GG stormtrooper. Really nice figure, now i want the ESB version also.
12" is still a dwarf next to my 15" Mexican buddy.  



Home already, my mate wasn't feeling to well so we left at around 16:00. Still very satisfied and glad i went.
Now to continue the wedding planning with slave leia from the pics

Any pics of bootlegs on sale, seeing the polish cards was sweet as, glad your all having an awesome time guys, it looks amazing....

Keep em coming guys.

Isn't that bootleg multi-pack Hungarian?

@walkie wrote:

Keep em coming guys.

Isn't that bootleg multi-pack Hungarian?

They certainly are Hungarian, my mistake.  

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@GanjaFett wrote:

 

I'd like to see some TIG group pics or pics of some vintage for sale!

There is not(may be room sales?) much vintage for sale,

Great pictures so far lads.

That Lego Star Destroyer is superb!

Great pics! Thanks for taking the time to upload them lads
have fun  

I'm stumped on one of fred's photos. What is the green thing in below ackbars portrait?

@walkie wrote:

I'm stumped on one of fred's photos. What is the green thing in below ackbars portrait?

I'm going with Ackbar's food source or Ackbar's poo.
No clue.

@walkie wrote:

I'm stumped on one of fred's photos. What is the green thing in below ackbars portrait?

Glad you guys asked, because I was thinking exactly the same!

The Hungarian bootleg is actually individual figures stapled together and was used as a store display  

Maybe the summer compo has started!!!!

I think that Hungarian 10 pack is also the only one in existence!

@walkie wrote:

Maybe the summer compo has started!!!!

I think that Hungarian 10 pack is also the only one in existence!

 
 

Is it Steve Sansweets?

I thought sansweet has one?  I know the one in the pic is or was Joseph y's.

Is this 10 pack the same one?  There is a video of sansweet showing off bootlegs and he says his is one of 3 known.  The SWCA shows what appears to be the same one as Joseph's, and says that one of the known ones was separated and sold individually.  So is there 2 or is this it?

There are at least 3 Hungarian store displays. Sansweet and Joe have one and another collector that is a member here has one. I believe he limelighted it in one of the bootleg threads. They are stapled with a plastic cover that fits over the front of all the MOC's. It's a thing of beauty!