Scarif Stormtrooper: A New Hope

here's a sort of good news for me, i read about it last February but i did not have the time to post about it immediately..
there might be another chance for me to acquire a 3 & 3/4 inch scale, highly articulated Scarif Stormtrooper..
i saw it via Rebelscum, in a feature regarding the 2019 New York Toy Fair..
it showed that Hasbro's The Vintage Collection line will also be releasing a 3 & 3/4 inch scale Scarif Stormtrooper...

the first release of the highly articulated 3 & 3/4 inch version was with The Black Series line..
even though there was one figure which was sold through eBay within my country before, i was discouraged to buy it because of its price..
as of now, there are still lots of 6 inch scale Scarif Stormtrooper available within my country, and what i notice is that they are cheaper compared to the smaller version..
so that's the reason why i can't consider buying a Scarif Stormtrooper which costs more than Php 800..
but i don't know if i'd still have the same mindset once The Vintage Collection becomes locally available...

the first thing that needs to happen, is for the figure to actually reach my country..
it'll be a tough challenge for me if sellers will only sell it as part of a bundle, because i'll have to dispose of the unnecessary figures once again..
so it'll be better if i'd be able to buy it as an individual piece...

---o0o---

also, regarding my eBay store..
i was about to sell my last available item there, but unfortunately the buyer backed out (again)..
i can no longer recall how many buyers did that to me - bidding or buying my item first, and then convincing me later to agree to their own terms... :(

Batteries' Limit

here's a late post..
it's about my discovery last week..
and a day after that, i underwent a surgery, that is why i was not able to post about it immediately...

anyway, here's the story..
i was performing the general cleaning of my room when i remembered about the batteries of my old version of Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi (my only battery-operated Star Wars unit)..
and for some reason, i just had the hunch that i need to check its status..
so i took the time to see how it is doing..
from the outside of the figure's battery compartment, everything looks fine..
the lightsaber's light is still functional as well..
but upon checking the inside, i was surprised to see that after a very long time of being there, the batteries had started to corrode...

let's see..
so this Ben Kenobi figure makes use of two (2) x 1.5 Volts A76/LR44 button cell batteries..
and it has been utilizing a certain Alkaline Cell GPA76 ever since i bought it..
i had this figure from as early as 1998, and i must say that it was really impressive that it remained operational for more or less 20 years..
but unfortunately, batteries don't last forever...

in a way i felt lucky that i had that hunch to check on it..
because of that, i was able to save my action figure from possible battery leakage..
i mean, i have seen it happened to other toys and devices before..
and it can be really messy and hard to clean or restore...

here's what it looks like when i disassembled the figure..
there were a few rust-like stains in the removable cover of the battery compartment, but it was still easy to clean though..
the corroded batteries had left a light greenish discoloration on the metal conductor inside the action figure (that greenish thing near the figure's left shoulder), and i was not able to completely clean it off..
the greenish discoloration is one of the usual results of having a corroded battery inside a device, and it is really hard to remove..
for the batteries, both had started to become a bit rusty, and one was a bit bloated already...

here's a closer (but blurred) look at those corroded cell button batteries..
thankfully, i was able to remove them on time...