Chris Botkins

  • Welcome to Vintage Dental Health!

    My aim for this site is to act as a guide to all things related to vintage Star Wars dental health. Not just the toothbrushes, but store displays, advertising, packaging […]

  • Room sales were a blast! There was only two drawbacks… one that idiot poster guy, and two the dude with the Wookiee family stuff. Other than that they were great!

    Saw some incredible stuff. Proof cards, cast […]

  • Chris Botkins posted a new activity comment 11 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Tim! What sort of information are you looking for? My head is filled with stuff right now! 🙂

  • C6 day one! Yea… Ummmm… I am spent at the moment. Holy crap it’s been a day. Not sure where to begin or what to say. It’s about 1 am and we are operating on a fine combination of caffeine, whiskey, sleep depravation and exhaustion. I think I’m averaging about 4 hours of sleep a night. 😉

    I’ll post more tomorrow but wanted to give you some quick hits. Archive party was incredible! Met some amazing people, my favorite so far would be Johan from Sweden! Lee Bullock is an animal! Had to get that in. 🙂 I had long conversations with Oscar and Luis Villagomez tonight about Lili Ledy and saw some insane factory photos. I learned more about Lili Ledy in 30 minutes from those two than I have in all my time on the boards. The convention is insane! Saw some amazing tattoos and cool stuff at the booths. I haven’t scoped too much stuff yet, just been too busy. Ran around getting all of my “con” stuff out of the way first today. Autographs, prints and general crap. 🙂

    I picked up a few things for myself, nothing too wild yet, but fun stuff none the less. BTW, the girls are totally kicking our ass at getting free pins! Holy crap those two are on point with them. And yes, you do need two lanyards. It’s not even funny! The 3PO “golden shower” pin is by far my favorite!!!!!

    We’ve also seen some incredibly rare shit! Totally blown away!!! I’ll get some photos of them but there was some amazing things being sold EARLY this morning.

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  • You. Are welcome! 😉

    So we totally rocked Disney yesterday! I think we pulled a 10 hour Disney bender! We would’ve went longer but we were starting to get tired, hungry and needing a break in the a/c for a bit.

    The best part about Disney was the fact that, despite our fears, it was pretty empty. We rode every ride we wanted to before noon. The longest line we stood in was for Big Thunder Railroad, and that amounted to roughly 20 minutes. I think my personal favorite was the Buzz Lightyear ride. I don’t know what it’s called but you get to shoot lasers at alien targets. It even records your score! So naturally, upon finding this out, we just HAD to do guys versus girls. 🙂 . Let’s just say we totally demolished the women. I think my score was something like 565,000 and the highest girls score was 56,000. Nothing like sweet victory! Never mind this was a ride clearly aimed for 8 year olds. Or the fact that I was on full in Call of Duty Modern Warfare assault mode. We still won! And thats all that matters. Chalk another victory up in the battle of the sexes boys!

    I also would be remiss if I didn’t mention Star Tours. Two words, absolutely incredible! The only drawback to Star Tours is its in a totally different park from Magic Kingdom. So you either need a park hopper pass or a separate park ticket. Bummer. Other than that, the updated ride is amazing. We rode three or four times and had a different ride each time. The best was Hoth and Naboo. And yes, Jar Jar was in Naboo. 🙂 .

    I do have to tell you about the worlds biggest Star Wars prick though. At the end of the ride, Disney naturally drops you off at the store (Merchandising!). Well there’s this new attraction at the Star Tours store called Build a Droid. You basically have bins full of astromech parts (legs, feet, body, dome, Mickey ears) and they are in all different colors, types and styles. You then are allowed to build whatever droid combo you want. Well Aimee had stood in line while Shawn, Sarah and I rode Star Tours again so Shawn could build a droid for he and a friend of his back home. When we got there after the ride, Aimee overheard this idiot at the front of the line mention how he was going to build one of everything. That’s right folks, 25 separate droids for his collection. Shawn literally stood in line for 30 minutes behind this ass hat while he argued with the Disney worker over what colors he was missing. Needless to say, I went to management to rectify this situation before Shawn stood there for hours. Idiot. Still mad at that.

    Last but not least after dinner we met up with a bunch of collectors that started trickling in. Mattias, Broc, Steve, Josh Blake, Shane, Gallo, Mike Ritter, Elling, Derek, Gus, BradP and a few others. It was a great time and one beer turned into 3 and 10:00 pm turned into 1:30. 🙂 . And thus starts the celebration no sleep marathon. 😉

    I’ll upload more pics later. Once Shawn tells me how to upload a giant batch. Today we are going to help set up at the convention center and then off to Harry Potter world! Keep an eye here and on FB for updates and photos.

    See you all soon!

  • Finally! After a few delays and some frustration we finally made it to Orlando. Weather is good, although its been raining on and off all night.

    Soo glad we upgraded to a condo! Holy cow this is awesome! We can see Universal Studios from our patio! We’ve had a wonderful night having dinner with Aimee’s brother, enjoying our evening with Shawn and Sarah and getting all of our C6 gear unpacked. Room sales watch out! We are coming for you!

    Tomorrow we conquer Disney!

    And…. card backs for the party all made it safe and sound as well.

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  • We made it through! Even with 1500 card backs!

    Aimee and I joked with each other that the security guys would mistake the card backs for bricks of drugs! 🙂 Thankfully they didn’t! They didn’t even give us flack for our little goody for JoeY! 😉

    And now… It’s time for a bloody Mary and to chill out before the plane takes off. Keep checking in. I’ll try and update as often as I can!

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    Well, well. Here we are, about 12 hours to go until we depart for Orlando! I feel like a kid before Christmas, nervous, anxious and most of all excited!!!

    We have our bags packed, all 5 of them. One of the most interesting parts of this trip is trying to figure out how to transport 1500 (or 41 pounds) or Manatee proof cards down to C6. We’ve devised a plan that involves 2 carry-ons, a messenger bag, Aimee’s purse and my work laptop bag. I’m not kidding you when I say my carry-on bag weighs more than my checked bag!

    Some of you might be asking why we are traveling with them? Well… Good question. 🙂 I guess part of it is some responsibility to ensure they arrive safe and sound. And part of it is not fully trusting the post office. And the other part would be we are just a tad stingy!!!! 😉

    Keep your fingers crossed for me!

    Signing off for now. I’m going to try and get some rest so I travel day can get here faster. Happy travel day eve everyone!

  • Chris Botkins posted a new activity comment 11 years, 7 months ago

    You’ve got to have Binks in there. 🙂 Wouldn’t be a Celebration without him.

  • We are exactly two weeks away from the start of C6 now! 🙂

    So I thought what better way to start the countdown than to reveal a few more buttons that we’ll be giving away. I alluded to a few more in my earlier post, well, here they are!

    These are all limited quantities, and we’ll only be handing out a few each day (25ish). You’ll be able to find us all over the place, but mostly the Tattoo area, artist booths, collector panels and especially at the Archive Party. All you have to do to get a button is find us and introduce yourself.

    Can’t wait to see you all down there!

    Jar Jar Button

    Wicket Button

    Ahsoka Tano Button

    Rebel Commando Button

  • Chris Botkins posted a new activity comment 11 years, 8 months ago

    Here’s what the German box looks like:

    http://theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=63484

    And here is the Spanish one:

    http://theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=19954

    There’s six total in the set. I have the Canadian ones, just need the US, German and Spanish ones to complete my sets! 🙂

  • Chris Botkins posted a new activity comment 11 years, 8 months ago

    I know!!! I need to find the German and Spanish versions. Hint, hint Wolff! 😉

  • Chris Botkins posted an update in the group Group logo of Latest PurchasesLatest Purchases 11 years, 8 months ago

    Also added a red Polish Unarticulated Rebel Commando bootleg to the collection.
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  • Chris Botkins posted an update in the group Group logo of Latest PurchasesLatest Purchases 11 years, 8 months ago

    Finally completed a deal that’s been brewing for awhile. I couldn’t be happier with adding an Oral-B Dispaly!
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  • Chris Botkins posted a new activity comment 11 years, 8 months ago

    Wow, that’s awesome Wolff!!!! I really like that one!

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