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What an awesome thing to be able to document, this is history right here! Awesome video mate!

A long time ago in a galaxy 20 years ago !!💯💯💯

Notice how fans stayed around with the craze and hunger for another star wars film despite the unconscious fallacy of “the prequels are bad” going around… it was never true.. the prequels are some of the best Star Wars films and hit in they’re own special way while still feeling like the Star Wars we know and love… you didn’t see this during the Disney trilogy crap lol.

Sometime after “Return Of The Jedi” ended and I watched shows like “Ewoks” and “Droids,” and there was a drought in Star Wars media (though we still had books and comics) I would LITERALLY have dreams of toy stores stocking brand new Star Wars action figures. I was missing it that much. So as a young man in my 20s…to have seen brand new Star Wars action figures and new characters…it was LITERALLY a dream come true. 1999…what a time to be alive!

Then all the same items were in the bargain bin 6 months later 😂

And then ebay sells them at a loss. So well deserved for such a garbage prequel.

Hags on RUclips cry if you don't like the prequels. Vintage keeps gaining value, Prequel toys continue to drop and average a 47% loss.

Great thing is the prices on prequel toys have gone down if you account for inflation. Just not wanted anymore. "Traditionally, Star Wars toys have gone up in price." Didn't age well. Anakin is $11 on ebay. Adjusted for inflation that is a 47% loss.

And now a new toyline coming out is like Jeopardy. Everyone hovering over that button and pressing it as quickly as they can in the hope they can secure a product produced in maybe only a fraction of the amount to meet demand. And then it comes and the eye paint is missing and it has two left hands. Thanks Hasbro…

2005 is still my favorite year

I was 9 years old back in 2005 and while I never went to the midnight releases for these, it’s honestly so sad what’s become in 20 years time 😢. You literally don’t have people who want to leave their house, let alone for a midnight toy release! I still remember how packed KB Toys & Toys R Us were in May 2005 during the release of this film! We will never see these days again. Things went south after social media took over our society in 2010.

There’s a store about 45 minutes from my house that still sells those figures for $5. It’s like a big middle finger to resellers.

When life was still real

Lol, this was an actual event, I was there. And I spent a lot thinking the same thing that a lot of these people thought, that they'd be worth a lot someday, well that never happened. So many were made and sold, they're not rare at all.

I wonder where these toys are now

The wildest thing about this is that it was probably filmed on a camcorder. No cell phones in sight. When the lights in the parking lots are out, our natural inclination 22 years later would be to pull out our phones and use the flashlight. These people didn't have that. They couldn't just whip out their phones and Google something, or record video, or use the flashlight. That one dude had a list of action figures that he had to print from a computer. A simpler world, just people living in the moment.

Toys aren't worth shit.

I won the communicators from Lays

And by that Summer's end the Ep 1 toys were worthless

I would love to go back in time and do it all over again.

I still waited until after the movie came out then buy the figures. However, I did buy the four Sneak Preview figures at TRU one day several months before the release.

I never attended the midnight madness. I played the waiting game and get them when I want to. Collecting Star Wars toys will always be my #1 hobby. I agree with J.R.'s advice on collecting SW items. Don't buy them for profit, just pleasure. I enjoy looking at his collection. I'm jealous when I first got my first collection as a kid, I opened and played with them. Now, I keep them in the packages. I even have several SW actors/actress autographs like Jeremey Bulloch(Boba Fett), Peter Mayhew(Chewbacca), Kenny Baker(R2-D2), David Prowse(Darth Vader) and Carrie Fisher's(Princess Leia) autographs on my POTF2 action figures, now they are all deceased.

Life was soooo much better In 1999 when this was going on.. It was prettymuch the final peak of American society that year.. In all Its carefree delusional excess. One of the last truly great summers of music , movies , games , perfect weather , and a society so chilled out you almost had to dream of some serious drama happening around you (with the exception of columbine). A time In America so nostalgic and Innocent In comparison to now It almost makes you cry Inside.

They line up and wait outside at midnight for that shit like it's a bag of dope . Next year it'll be in the dollar bin at goodwill next to the limited edition , collectable , anniversary , signed , hand made , designer , exclusive , limited time , type of stuff .

2:12 “it’s just an investment” 🤓☝️ Get wrecked resellers 😂😂😂

Fun times, half way good movie and toys no body wants. I have like 5 boxes of figures, basically worthless.

As a Star Wars fan, I have one question. How many of these people died from covid-19.😁😁😁

0:25 when ur extremely late for school and the doors are locked

Back when Star Wars toys were worth buying. Good times.

2:08 Adjusted for inflation, that gentleman spent $563 on Star Wars Toys. Let that marinate. Then let it simmer knowing our currency value has almost halved since 1999...

I love the enthusiasm that most people had on this video for the franchise. Even though, I do enjoy everything that Disney does, I still have great hope for this franchise.

3:45 “Best Action Figure Right There.” What is the figure? I’ve been trying to figure it out haha. I’m thinking it’s Padmé? 😂

I worked at this Toys R Us for a time

What I'd give to go back to this.

Take me back man!

Wow, first one here. I’m surprised to see all the old Star Wars games. WEG Star Wars miniature game and the D20 role playing game. Also interesting that most of the cosplayers were Rebels, Imperials, and Tusken Raiders. A few years later and we would have been seeing a whole variety of clone troopers.

God I miss the early 2000s so damn much.... It was just so much better back then... 2002 to 2006 were some of the best times of my life ❤️💯

That 2002 Triple H denim jacket tho!!💯😂😂❤️

The best figure line of the Prequel Trilogy ❤❤

I was born 99. Wish I could've experienced this 😢

“You kno’ jar jar is the key.. you know kno’ to all of it… it’s like… yukno’ .. poetry..”

11:47 I like how they used a silver Kakama (Pohatu's mask) for that Hailfire Droid

Charlie Hu still works at the closed Toys R Us where he made his "investment" 25 years ago.

I actually won something from that Lays contest.

Love stuff like this

Thank you to all who purchased these, kept them mint in box, thinking they would be worth a fortune some day, only to realize 20 years later everybody else is doing the same thing and now mint in box toys from the prequels sell for less than the original price. 🤣 I saw this coming a mile away in 1999 when the nationwide lineups happened.

White males enjoying themselves and coming together by finding common ground on something they collectively enjoy. Nineteen years later it's the reverse 🤔

1:17 that dude was a visionary

The movie still is garbage but what I miss the most is that we're never going to have this kind of repeat hype for a new Star Wars movie again because Disney has tarnished the IP with mediocre junk.

All of the Prequel toy lines sold really well. Yes, a lot was discounted - only because such an insane amount was shipped to stores. Though the lines were over produced, there was no product lingering on retail shelves years later. At Ollies in 2024, Last Jedi and Solo figures can easily be found.