{"id":2634,"date":"2025-05-21T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/star-wars-fan-gets-2-1-million-for-toys\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:03:10","slug":"star-wars-fan-gets-2-1-million-for-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/star-wars-fan-gets-2-1-million-for-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars fan gets \u00a32.1 million for toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-21 12:03:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; nerd has sold his collection of toys related to the film franchise for \u00a32.1 million.<BR><br \/>\nJeff Jacob spent 33 years collecting over 800 mint-condition toys &#8211; some of which were in their original box &#8211; including figures, spaceships, vehicles and playsets based on the George Lucas film series.<BR><br \/>\nJeff put his memorabilia &#8211; which had been displayed in glass cabinets &#8211; under the hammer at Hake&#8217;s Auctions in Pennsylvania, USA, and it sparked a global bidding war for the sci-fi goodies.<BR><br \/>\nA figure of the &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; villain Darth Vader with a double telescopic lightsaber fetched close to \u00a3100,000.<BR><br \/>\nAlso, a Jabba the Hutt playset went for \u00a329,200 and a 1978 Jawa figure with its original cape sold for \u00a313,600.<BR><br \/>\nThe Denver, Colorado-based construction worker said he will be spending his earnings on building a new house for himself.<BR><br \/>\nHe is quoted by The Sun newspaper as saying: &#8220;When I started collecting, I wanted all the characters.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Once I got every variant I could possibly think of, I went on to the package stuff.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nA spokesman for Hake&#8217;s Auctions said: &#8220;Jeff was able to get the best of the best.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-21 12:03:09 A &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; nerd has sold his collection of toys related to the film franchise for \u00a32.1 million. Jeff Jacob spent 33 years collecting over 800 mint-condition toys&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}