{"id":9636,"date":"2019-12-14T16:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=9636"},"modified":"2019-12-14T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:17:36","slug":"empire-con-2019-interview-with-prop-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/collectibles\/empire-con-2019-interview-with-prop-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Con 2019: Interview with Prop Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Empire Con, we spoke with Ethan Teller, a copywriter and researcher for <a href=\"https:\/\/propstore.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Prop Store<\/a>. The Prop Store booth had on display an AFA 85 graded Kenner &#8220;prototype&#8221; Boba Fett figure with the L-slot style rocket launcher, there to promote their upcoming auction in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video-embed-wrap\"><div class=\"video-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Empire Con 2019: Interview with Prop Store\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2s2b611cEpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s projected to sell for between $50,000 and $100,000. However, this one has a history of selling for all kinds of prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In July 2019, an L-slot sold for $112,926 via Hake&#8217;s Americana and Collectibles.<\/li>\n<li>In March 2018, an L-slot with an AFA grading of 85 sold for $86,383.47 at auction via Hake&#8217;s Americana and Collectibles.<\/li>\n<li>In July 2016, an L-slot with authentic 4-sided missile (AFA authenticated and encased on 12\/12\/03) sold for $19,632 (\u00a315,000) at auction via Vectis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/bounty\/toys\/anh\/anh_rocket\/\">Bounty record<\/a> for this figure for most historical auction data.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan shares the backstory for how these figures came to be, where the general public in 1980 didn&#8217;t have rocket firing missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Empire Con, we spoke with Ethan Teller, a copywriter and researcher for Prop Store. The Prop Store booth had...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collectibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}