These are the vintage carded figures in my collection. (I just started getting these in 2002 so it will be a while before there are many of them here) I’ve tried very hard to make sure they’re all Mint on mint cards, or at least close to it. Like basically all collectors today, I didn’t have any of these as a kid, because I opened all of mine, but I really wanted some vintage carded figures to see them as they were brand new, and the card fronts and backs are very nostalgic and bring back almost as many memories as the figures themselves. Almost all of the vintage figures came on more than one card. Many came on five or more different cards. For this reason, I am only collecting figures on the first card front and back, or their "A" or "premier cards", as they’re most commonly called, that they were released on. Because I am not that into the packaging even of vintage figures, I’m not going to try to get each figure on each different card it came on. That would be the difference between about 112 and over 400 figures. There are that many different cards that the figures came on, and it’s much easier to maintain and enjoy the figures on just their premier cards. The figures on premier cards are rarer in many cases, and for me more special since all but a few of the figures I had as a kid came on the premier cards, so it’s like seeing my figures as they were before I opened them. It’s a huge price difference from carded to vintage, so I’m sure it will be several years before I have all the carded ones I want, but I’m really excited to finally be getting them, and having a lot of collecting friends to help me get what I want is a huge help. I’m looking forward to enjoying adding to them over the next ten or more years. The pictures below show the front and back of each carded figure. I merged the front and back pictures to make them easier to view at one time.
(click figure names below to see full screen pictures)
