You’ve found a box of old Star Wars figures in the loft and you want to know if they’re worth anything. They almost certainly are. The catch is that “worth anything” covers a lot of ground. The same figure can be a £3 figure or a £300 figure, and the difference usually comes down to a couple of details people don’t think to check.
Here’s how to work out roughly where yours sit.
Condition is everything
Vintage Star Wars figures means the Kenner ones, sold here as Palitoy, made between 1977 and 1985. There were getting on for 100 of them in total. What yours are worth depends mostly on which figures they are and what state they’re in.
The thing that trips people up is accessories. A figure only counts as complete if it still has its original weapons, and those little blasters and lightsabers were the first things to disappear down the back of the sofa in 1983. Forty years on, that means that the accessory is often worth more than the figure itself. Loose Luke Skywalkers are ten a penny. His original lightsaber isn’t.
Then there’s the obvious stuff: sun-fading, chewed limbs, loose legs, biro “battle damage”. A figure that lived in a drawer is a different proposition to one that lived in a sandpit.
Rough values in 2026
These are collector prices, roughly what figures sell for between collectors in the UK at the moment. All figures are ballparks, not promises.
| What you’ve got | Rough value |
|---|---|
| Common loose figure, no accessories, playworn | £3–£10 |
| Common loose figure, complete with original weapons, good condition | £10–£30 |
| Sought-after figure (First 12 Princess Leia or Luke, Yoda, Twin Pod Cloud Car Pilot, Luke Jedi etc.), loose and complete | £30–£100 |
| Rare “Last 17” figures from 1985 (Yak Face, R2-D2 with Pop Up Lightsaber, EV-9D9 etc.) | £100–£500+ |
| Any figure still sealed on its original card | £70 into the thousands, depending on the figure and the card |
A handful of figures are in a different conversation entirely. A vinyl-caped Jawa, a blue Snaggletooth, an early figure with a double-telescoping lightsaber. These can four figures and even five figures if on a nice card. They’re genuinely rare and most collections don’t have one. But it costs you nothing to check, and they do turn up in shoeboxes.
Vehicles and playsets work the same way. A Millennium Falcon with half its bits missing is worth a fraction of a complete one, and a boxed one is worth more again.
Collector prices vs what a dealer pays
The prices above are private-sale prices, collector to collector. Sell to a dealer like us and the offer comes in lower. We often have clean and identify everything, check the parts are original and not reproductions, and often sit on stock for months before it finds the right buyer. Then there are the usual business overheads and fees.
Selling privately can get you nearer full value, but it isn’t free money either. eBay’s fees come to about 13%, you’re paying for postage and packaging, and you’re spending your evenings photographing the lot, writing descriptions, fielding questions and dealing with the odd timewaster or return. That can add up to longer than you think. It’s also easy to miss subtle details that means you sell for far less than they’re worth. The difference between a regular R5-D4 and a red bar R5-D4, for example, is very subtle and missing it can mean leaving several hundred pounds on the table. That’s where we come in.
Both are fair ways to go. Want top whack and don’t mind the hassle and researching every figure in detail? Sell it yourself. Want one offer, one parcel, and the money in your account within 24 hours of it reaching us? That’s us.
Finding out what yours are worth
You don’t have to identify any of it yourself. That’s our end, and it’s the part we actually like doing.
Lay the figures out, take a few clear photos (phone on the kitchen table is fine) and send them over through the Sell my toys form or on WhatsApp. We’ll make you a free offer with no obligation to take it.
There’s more on the figures, ships and playsets we’re after on our vintage Star Wars page.