Star Wars collectors with some cash to burn who love high end collectibles and prop replicas flocked to the wonderful Star Wars pieces made by Master Replicas. Their helmets, lightsabers, blasters, character heads and other pieces were meticulously created user laser technology to duplicate the original prop item. High quality materials and workmanship make these items highly desirable for any Star Wars collection.

But last year, the contract with the Lucas enterprise ended, and the last of the Master Replicas pieces are just out now. Lucas contracted with well-known toy-maker Hasbro, and completely unknown collectibles outfit eFx Collectibles to carry on the high-end Star Wars collectibles lines.

The new company, eFx Collectibles, will create, make, and and distribute collectible, limited-edition replicas of both full-sized and scaled props; studio- and reduced-scale vehicles and ships; full-sized helmets; and high-end, die-cast vehicles and ships that encompass the entire Star Wars universe. They’ve already got a couple of products on the ground, and one of the is the full size helmet of the clone Storm trooper:

It’s a fabulous piece that’s very high quality, and it retails for $429. Not cheap! But definitely high quality, “studio accurate”, and beautifully made. If they do as well as Master Replicas, and it seems they’re off to a good start, their prop replicas will be expensive to buy but will have a generous secondary market to give them a nice profit when they’re sold. If you look at closed prices of Master Replicas products on eBay, owners are easily getting $1500 and up for one of the limited edition pieces, when they paid a few hundred a few years ago. In fact, with this economy a lot of collectors of Master Replicas’ light sabers, helmets, and vehicles like the Millennium Falcon and Luke’s X-Wing Fighter are putting them on eBay and as time goes on and people need cash, you’ll see more of these high-end pieces going for very reasonable prices. You’ll have to keep checking back often and use the Saved Searches function to snag them.

Here are some pictures of other items in eFx’s pipeline. You can buy these directly from the company’s website but be prepared to be patient – it can take 6-8 weeks to produce your item, as they don’t mass produce these fine collectibles. I believe they also do special custom order pieces. If you were lucky enough to attend this year’s Comic Con in San Diego, you might have seen their booth with some of the sample pieces.

eFx Collectibles X-Wing Fighter

eFx Darth Vader Helmet

Definitely a company and product line to watch! In a future post I’ll cover what Hasbro has been up to. Not a good time to be launching new expensive collectibles, but hopefully there’s a few folks out there with some money to spend!

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