**The Bobblehead Collector: A Tale of Two Admirals**

As I sat amidst my vast collection of bobbleheads, my eyes landed on two figures that caught my attention - the original Admiral Ackbar and his newer counterpart. The first thing that struck me was the difference in design between the two. The classic Admiral Ackbar bobblehead was a staple in my collection, but it had been years since I'd seen one for sale. I was thrilled to find a new, unopened figure of the same character, which I promptly added to my shelf.

**A New Addition**

I carefully examined the packaging and found that this newer Admiral Ackbar bobblehead was part of a Power of the Force series. It featured a more detailed design and a unique sculpting style compared to the original vintage figure. As a collector, I was excited to see how this new version would compare to my existing one. The manufacturer had clearly put more effort into creating a more accurate representation of Admiral Ackbar, with intricate details on his uniform and accessories.

**A Brief History**

As I pondered my latest acquisition, I couldn't help but think back to the original vintage figure that had started it all. While it was still a beloved part of my collection, I had to admit that this newer version was more impressive in terms of its design and construction. The Power of the Force series had been criticized by some collectors for its smaller size and lack of detail, but I saw these as benefits rather than drawbacks.

**Mon Calamari Soldiers**

My attention turned to a second figure that caught my eye - a Mon Calamari warrior. As a fan of the Star Wars universe, I'd always been fascinated by the Mon Calamari people, known for their skilled pilots and warriors. This particular figure was part of a series that included several other characters from the Clone Wars era. I was delighted to add this figure to my collection, which now boasted an impressive array of Mon Calamari soldiers.

**A Deletion Scene**

As I continued to browse through my figures, I stumbled upon another interesting character - a pilot who had been removed from a scene in the original Star Wars film. This particular figure was part of a special release on Blu-ray and had caught my eye as a collector's item. I was impressed by the level of detail and accuracy that went into creating this character, which I promptly added to my collection.

**Collecting the Classics**

As I gazed upon my growing collection of figures, I couldn't help but think about the importance of preserving the classics. While newer versions might be more impressive in terms of design and construction, there was something special about owning a vintage figure that had been passed down through generations of collectors. For me, it was the nostalgia and sentimental value that came with owning a piece of history.

**The Importance of Community**

As I sat amidst my collection, I realized that I wasn't alone in my passion for Star Wars figures. I'd joined online forums and communities to connect with other collectors, share knowledge, and learn from one another. These interactions had not only enriched my collecting experience but also provided a sense of belonging and camaraderie.

**Conclusion**

As I wrapped up my tour of the collection, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the opportunity to showcase these amazing figures. From the classic Admiral Ackbar bobblehead to the newer Power of the Force series, each one told a story of its own. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just starting out, there's something special about collecting Star Wars figures that brings people together.

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**About the Author**

The author is a passionate collector of Star Wars figures and has been sharing their experiences with others through online forums and communities. With a vast collection that spans decades, they're always on the lookout for new additions to share with fellow enthusiasts.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello world i'm chris pirillo and you tuned into another live edition of Perillo pics I just reacted to the Muppets the new show the new Muppet Show The Muppets and now I'm going to show you a stuff that I've had and just started to get again um I was a fan of Admiral Ackbar and I remember the first time I saw Admiral Ackbar I was you know going the store to pick up action figures and there was a male away offer ken are used to do this back in the day you could basically take five proofs of purchase and send them in to get and the the Admiral Ackbar figure this this and i still i thought i know of i still have one not in great condition a lot of my vintage figures are not in a great condition at all night i probably need to rebuild that at some point so the first time I saw Admiral Ackbar was on you know mail away offer and then of course I did mail away I saved my cards to get the proofs of purchase sent away for it waited several weeks then this is before we knew anything about Adam roll a quarter we need we knew like what he looked like we knew the name Admiral Ackbar what does this creature like we don't know what he sounds like we know kind of what he looks like we don't know what he's going to do but it looked cool he was an alien right we didn't even know his race that I know about him we didn't know the race Mon Calamari um and I grew up later you know when i first ordered calamari I kind of felt a little conflicted you know I'm well I'm meeting Adam relax are here calamari I mean it's good now I'm not room I like fried calamari she only cat well no actually yeah I think it's about the only time I've ever had calamari I didn't know how to pronounce calamari back then so uh I was always kind of fascinated with the design of Admiral Ackbar in back in the day you didn't have a lot of Admiral Ackbar merchandise honestly we had that figure and that was about it so a few months ago you might remember we picked up a few toys for Jedi including a squeaky Admiral Ackbar it's not a trap this is not at this video is not a trap and akbar squeaks now this is the return of the jedi admiral ackbar here casino not the new one not that is it general ackbar now are they still calling am Admiral Ackbar I thought he was general maybe maybe he is still an admiral I've got him sitting right here because that's the next one I'm going to show you this guy right here Admiral Ackbar pop vinyl now this is the one from the force awakens and it looks like I'm going to need to return it I noticed the box is kind of odd NT and venti I don't like that that annoys me and what sometimes when you get the pop vinyl through amazon it really they don't come in good condition so um this isn't an admiral ackbar pop vinyl and since i'm going to be returning it i'm not going to worry about damaging the box further second i will show you this Admiral Ackbar bobblehead figure it's a bobble look at that he is aged well there really are no points of articulation with the bobbleheads and you can you can stand admiral ackbar on the Admiral Ackbar Stanley and put that down move it out of the way here is the Stan let's see if I can get to stand up here maybe maybe not okay I'm not gonna bother with it it's not going to go on you can get an admiral ackbar this is the new one now if you know of the the classic return of the jedi admiral ackbar pop vinyl let me know cuz I don't have one I need the classic Admiral Ackbar bobble in at a good price I'm not looking for scalper prices so uh anyway that's the the next Admiral Ackbar thing I have now in my collection oh look at that Smuggler's bounty advertisement that's cool i already have smugglers bounty thank you very much one of my favorite things ah then even though I do have my vintage Admiral a quelle I think somewhere you know it's it's likely not in great condition I went back and I got the power the force Admiral Ackbar figure community am Admiral Ackbar you know you got to have the figure this this looks a lot like the vintage figure though well you know I would say even better than the vintage figure this this Admiral Ackbar part of the the series that a lot of collectors really weren't fans of not only because they were five POA but because the the characters were some times larger than life so to speak this one was a part of the freeze-frame action slide series like if you look at like this Luke Skywalker is very he's like buff and Lando's all buff too but Admiral Ackbar man he's looking Admiral ask I could have used more Mon Calamari soldiers back in the day so when I knew that they had a Mon Calamari warrior figure I grabbed it as well and they didn't make a lot of the Mon Calamari figures this is one here on the back there's another one I may end up grabbing a corn warrior that one there I tend to be attracted to to those types of what pretty much I would say you know honestly I may go for the clone scuba trooper and then possibly possibly I don't know the corn yeah those two things the corn soldier yeah fan of that so if you want to build your army you can if you're into Mon Calamari so there were more than just Admiral Ackbar like in terms of the race uh and then in case you were looking for a pilot you could have won this particular character i believe was a deleted scene yeah and it was on the blu-ray there's a Mon Calamari soldier a pilot so you can get this particular character this figure as well and I did I got this one there are two that I know of beyond these three figures that i have minus the vintage one there are let's see here to two others one is a blue mon calamari and that was a part of a comic pack i could get it online but it's terribly expensive so i'm going to pass and then there was another male away figure that was a character from the clone wars and i remember seeing the character in the Clone Wars but I never got the figure and I think Admiral Ackbar he Ackbar was in that show too um but there are two so there are two mon calamari figures that I don't yet have yet cuz eventually i may get one so that's that is my Admiral Ackbar collection squeakers and tweakers and that's not a trial that's gonna be it is you know you can't have too many Mon Calamari don't you just want to eat them up don't don't because they're their toys don't don't eat toys toys they're not they're not edible uh if you know of any other Admiral Ackbar figures specifically ones that I have not mentioned please let me know I'm serious I'm a fan of the figures more than anything more than anything even these things okay thank you for tuning in I'm going to move on to answer some tech questions from our community and then talk about today's tech news and techniques using and then the geeky stuff in between you can join me for the full TL DR it's about an hour long every weekday head over to chris pirillo com and become a patron today's free podcast highlight was brought to you by all of my active patrons from chris pirillo com if you want access to the full TL DR episodes both audio video past present and future which can be up to an hour long or longer with even more tech insight from me every weekday plus other bonus content without ads and support me at the same time you can sign up to become one of my super noemi's to this is just a brief taste of what I'm producing for you daily again get more through chris pirillo com youhello world i'm chris pirillo and you tuned into another live edition of Perillo pics I just reacted to the Muppets the new show the new Muppet Show The Muppets and now I'm going to show you a stuff that I've had and just started to get again um I was a fan of Admiral Ackbar and I remember the first time I saw Admiral Ackbar I was you know going the store to pick up action figures and there was a male away offer ken are used to do this back in the day you could basically take five proofs of purchase and send them in to get and the the Admiral Ackbar figure this this and i still i thought i know of i still have one not in great condition a lot of my vintage figures are not in a great condition at all night i probably need to rebuild that at some point so the first time I saw Admiral Ackbar was on you know mail away offer and then of course I did mail away I saved my cards to get the proofs of purchase sent away for it waited several weeks then this is before we knew anything about Adam roll a quarter we need we knew like what he looked like we knew the name Admiral Ackbar what does this creature like we don't know what he sounds like we know kind of what he looks like we don't know what he's going to do but it looked cool he was an alien right we didn't even know his race that I know about him we didn't know the race Mon Calamari um and I grew up later you know when i first ordered calamari I kind of felt a little conflicted you know I'm well I'm meeting Adam relax are here calamari I mean it's good now I'm not room I like fried calamari she only cat well no actually yeah I think it's about the only time I've ever had calamari I didn't know how to pronounce calamari back then so uh I was always kind of fascinated with the design of Admiral Ackbar in back in the day you didn't have a lot of Admiral Ackbar merchandise honestly we had that figure and that was about it so a few months ago you might remember we picked up a few toys for Jedi including a squeaky Admiral Ackbar it's not a trap this is not at this video is not a trap and akbar squeaks now this is the return of the jedi admiral ackbar here casino not the new one not that is it general ackbar now are they still calling am Admiral Ackbar I thought he was general maybe maybe he is still an admiral I've got him sitting right here because that's the next one I'm going to show you this guy right here Admiral Ackbar pop vinyl now this is the one from the force awakens and it looks like I'm going to need to return it I noticed the box is kind of odd NT and venti I don't like that that annoys me and what sometimes when you get the pop vinyl through amazon it really they don't come in good condition so um this isn't an admiral ackbar pop vinyl and since i'm going to be returning it i'm not going to worry about damaging the box further second i will show you this Admiral Ackbar bobblehead figure it's a bobble look at that he is aged well there really are no points of articulation with the bobbleheads and you can you can stand admiral ackbar on the Admiral Ackbar Stanley and put that down move it out of the way here is the Stan let's see if I can get to stand up here maybe maybe not okay I'm not gonna bother with it it's not going to go on you can get an admiral ackbar this is the new one now if you know of the the classic return of the jedi admiral ackbar pop vinyl let me know cuz I don't have one I need the classic Admiral Ackbar bobble in at a good price I'm not looking for scalper prices so uh anyway that's the the next Admiral Ackbar thing I have now in my collection oh look at that Smuggler's bounty advertisement that's cool i already have smugglers bounty thank you very much one of my favorite things ah then even though I do have my vintage Admiral a quelle I think somewhere you know it's it's likely not in great condition I went back and I got the power the force Admiral Ackbar figure community am Admiral Ackbar you know you got to have the figure this this looks a lot like the vintage figure though well you know I would say even better than the vintage figure this this Admiral Ackbar part of the the series that a lot of collectors really weren't fans of not only because they were five POA but because the the characters were some times larger than life so to speak this one was a part of the freeze-frame action slide series like if you look at like this Luke Skywalker is very he's like buff and Lando's all buff too but Admiral Ackbar man he's looking Admiral ask I could have used more Mon Calamari soldiers back in the day so when I knew that they had a Mon Calamari warrior figure I grabbed it as well and they didn't make a lot of the Mon Calamari figures this is one here on the back there's another one I may end up grabbing a corn warrior that one there I tend to be attracted to to those types of what pretty much I would say you know honestly I may go for the clone scuba trooper and then possibly possibly I don't know the corn yeah those two things the corn soldier yeah fan of that so if you want to build your army you can if you're into Mon Calamari so there were more than just Admiral Ackbar like in terms of the race uh and then in case you were looking for a pilot you could have won this particular character i believe was a deleted scene yeah and it was on the blu-ray there's a Mon Calamari soldier a pilot so you can get this particular character this figure as well and I did I got this one there are two that I know of beyond these three figures that i have minus the vintage one there are let's see here to two others one is a blue mon calamari and that was a part of a comic pack i could get it online but it's terribly expensive so i'm going to pass and then there was another male away figure that was a character from the clone wars and i remember seeing the character in the Clone Wars but I never got the figure and I think Admiral Ackbar he Ackbar was in that show too um but there are two so there are two mon calamari figures that I don't yet have yet cuz eventually i may get one so that's that is my Admiral Ackbar collection squeakers and tweakers and that's not a trial that's gonna be it is you know you can't have too many Mon Calamari don't you just want to eat them up don't don't because they're their toys don't don't eat toys toys they're not they're not edible uh if you know of any other Admiral Ackbar figures specifically ones that I have not mentioned please let me know I'm serious I'm a fan of the figures more than anything more than anything even these things okay thank you for tuning in I'm going to move on to answer some tech questions from our community and then talk about today's tech news and techniques using and then the geeky stuff in between you can join me for the full TL DR it's about an hour long every weekday head over to chris pirillo com and become a patron today's free podcast highlight was brought to you by all of my active patrons from chris pirillo com if you want access to the full TL DR episodes both audio video past present and future which can be up to an hour long or longer with even more tech insight from me every weekday plus other bonus content without ads and support me at the same time you can sign up to become one of my super noemi's to this is just a brief taste of what I'm producing for you daily again get more through chris pirillo com you\n"