Which sets contained Chrome Darth Vader?

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• Farmer_John Member Posts: 2,405

  January 2013

  ...ping...

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• legomatt Member Posts: 2,543

  January 2013

  I don't know for myself, though I'm sure someone has the answers, but in the meantime have you searched/asked at fbtb.com (frombrickstobothans).
  
  There's a lego starwars community there, who might be eager to impress with their sets knowledge.
  

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• prof1515 Member Posts: 1,550

  January 2013

  Larger sets, not smaller sets, would seem more likely to have them though I can't say for certain that they were excluded from any sets.

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• Zacherano Member Posts: 59

  January 2013

  Though I bought mine secondhand (but NIB), I can guarantee you that these were in plenty of the 2009 CW battlepacks. They also were said to appear in large numbers in the Vader's TIE Fighter. Beyond that, I am not sure.

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• legomatt Member Posts: 2,543

  January 2013

  Yes i'd heard (after the event) that '09 battlepacks were good hunting grounds, which is why they fetched high prices sealed (even though you can almost guarantee that there's no Chrome Vader in the aftermarket ones, as they will have been carefully weighed and probed already).
  
  

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• Furrysaurus Member Posts: 156

  January 2013

  i got mine in an echo base (#7749) set. i thought it was anything with the little darth vader head in the seal on it in the corner had the chance of having one.

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• Farmer_John Member Posts: 2,405

  January 2013

  The reason I ask is that I have several unopened SW sets from 2009. I know some people were weighing the smaller sets to determine whether they contained a chrome DV...there are actually youtube videos out there showing a guy weighing sets in a Walmart (or maybe it was a Target) store.
  
  Just trying to get a firm list of the sets with DV so I would know whether I wanted to check those particular sets...

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• yys4u Member Posts: 1,093

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  I would look up the weights of your sets on bricklink and then weigh yours and see if there's any difference. The chances of bricklink listing the weight of sets with the darth vader are slim so I'd think that'd be a good way of going about it.

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• Farmer_John Member Posts: 2,405

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  I searched and searched and finally found this list...
  
  7748 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid
  7749 Echo Base (Premiers 6/09)
  8014 Clone Walker Battle Pack
  8015 Assassin Droids Battle Pack
  8016 Hyena Droid Bomber
  8017 Darth Vader's TIE Fighter
  8018 Armored Assault Tank (AAT)
  8019 Republic Attack Shuttle
  8036 Separatists Shuttle
  8037 Anakin's Y-Wing Starfighter
  8038 The Battle of Endor
  8039 Venator-class Republic Attack Cruiser
  
  Statistics
  Weight: 0.2 ounces (approximately 5.7 grams) with polyester bag.
  Pieces: 7 (1 Head, 1 Helmet, 1 Torso, 1 Pair of Legs, 1 Cape, 1 Lightsaber Hilt, and 1 Translucent Lightsaber Blade).
  Retail Value: Approximately $70 - $120
  Odds: 1 to 300
  
  Now to figure out how to find one without actually opening the box. Weighing works fine for smaller battlepack sets, but I think the larger sets will be much more difficult.
  
  

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• prof1515 Member Posts: 1,550

  January 2013

  You could just look for 2009 Star Wars sets here at Bricklink. ;-)

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• brickmatic Member Posts: 1,071

  January 2013

  X-Ray it! You do have an x-ray machine, don't you?

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• Furrysaurus Member Posts: 156

  January 2013

  if you're in the states, send it through the TSA slave scanners at the airport and ask to see the image.
  

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• Farmer_John Member Posts: 2,405

  January 2013

  ^That's funny... but then they might want to frisk my MFs, and I think everyone would be embarrassed.

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• carlq Member Posts: 792

  January 2013

  ^Yes, nothing more embarrassing than frisky MFs, believe me....;-)

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