Recent eBay Sales on Some Big-Time MOCs
The Action Figure Greater reviews recent eBay auction results for vintage Kenner Star Wars mint-on-card action figures and related collectibles. Sales ranged from under $400 for a Lily Ledy Darth Vader to over $10,700 for a Power of the Force Anakin Skywalker. The host offers grading commentary and his personal assessments of whether each sale represented fair value.
Summary
The host opens by reviewing a rare 1977 Kenner toy fair dealer catalog that sold at auction for $716, noting its significance as an early piece of Star Wars retail history featuring early artwork and a double-telescoping lightsaber Luke Skywalker image.
Several 12-back and 20-back Kenner figures are discussed next. A Tusken Raider on a 12-back A graded AFA 80 sold for $1,725, though the host expressed mild surprise at the 80 grade given damage near the hang tab. A Stormtrooper on a 20-back sold for $1,278, with the host noting unusual specks inside the blister that may be paint overspray or dust. Bella's Toy Chest items appear throughout the video, including a Walrus Man (20-back E, AFA 80+) for $602, a Jawa (20-back E, AFA 80) for $847, and a UKG 75 Wampa with a box variant featuring the Hoth Rebel Commander in the art instead of Luke Hoth for $585. A Luke X-Wing on a 21-back sold for $710, and a Hoth Stormtrooper debut card (AFA 80) sold for $927.
Two Lily Ledy figures made for the Mexican market were highlighted as major finds — an AT-ST Driver and a Star Destroyer Commander, both graded AFA 80 with archival cases, selling in the UK for approximately $2,900 each. The host explains the difference between positive and negative card back variants on Lily Ledy cards. Bella's Toy Chest also sold a Lily Ledy Darth Vader (CAS 80) for $396, which the host considered a steal. Two Han Solo 77-back A alternate image cards were compared: an AFA 75+ with clear blister for $461 versus an AFA 80+ with yellowed blister for $540.
A standout Bella's Toy Chest item was a 65-back B Obi-Wan Kenobi graded AFA 85 with a clear blister that sold for $835. The host reinforced his view that high-grade Return of the Jedi cards with clear blisters command premium prices. A Sy Snootles band graded CAS 85+ sold for $787, though the host questioned whether the scuffing warranted an 85+ and suggested AFA may grade boxed items more loosely than carded figures. A factory-sealed Patrol Dewback sold for $306, described as a bargain despite light wear. An AFA 85 B-Wing Fighter sold for $1,775, and the host used it to illustrate inconsistencies in grading standards between AFA and CAS.
A Power of the Force Luke Stormtrooper Disguise (CAS 70) sold for $1,125, and a Power of the Force Luke Jedi (AFA 80, unpunched, archival case) sold for $690, which the host felt was below typical market value. The video concludes with the headline sale: a Power of the Force Anakin Skywalker graded AFA 70+ sold for $10,700. The host was surprised it exceeded $10,000, noting that higher-graded examples had previously sold for around $8,800. He attributes the strong result to the blister being extremely clean despite a yellow designation, with the card's creases being less visually apparent, causing the piece to present better than its grade suggests.
Key Insights
- The host argues that the Anakin Skywalker Power of the Force card sold for $10,700 despite only a 70+ grade because its blister presents almost as clean as a clear blister, and the reasons for the lower grade — creases on the card back — are not immediately visible when viewing the item.
- The host claims that CAS and AFA appear to grade boxed playsets and vehicles more loosely than mint-on-card figures, citing the Sy Snootles band receiving a CAS 85+ despite visible scuffing that he feels would not merit that grade under AFA standards.
- The host notes that two Lily Ledy figures for the Mexican market — the AT-ST Driver and Star Destroyer Commander, both AFA 80 — sold for approximately $2,900 each in the UK, describing high-grade Lily Ledy mint-on-cards as extremely difficult to locate.
- The host explains that Lily Ledy cards exist in two variants — a positive card back with black line art on cardboard, and a negative card back with white line art on black — and acknowledges uncertainty about which is rarer, noting some characters may not have had negative card backs at all.
- The host states that a previous AFA 80 or 80+ Anakin Skywalker Power of the Force card, which was an international example, sold for approximately $8,800, making the $10,700 result for the lower-graded 70+ surprising even accounting for the clean blister presentation.
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Transcript
[0:01] [music] [music] >> Welcome back to the channel. This is the Action Figure Greater and I've got some more recent mint on card sales for vintage Kenner Star Wars action figures. All of these sales were on eBay over the last couple of weeks. Some pretty decent [0:32] deals, some surprising in terms of the high and the low, but for the most part I feel like these prices were pretty fair. Most of these were auctions. As always, thank you to my Patreon supporters patreon.com/actionfiguregreater and also thank you to my YouTube channel members. Okay, so this is the only non-mock, but I wanted to show it because it's not something that I had seen before. This is…
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