“helping you must , me…”

Would be the first spoken words by this old Jedi Master from the Galactic Republic after he joined our Appartement.

First – thanks Mum! This was finally your Birthday present to me.

I negotiated with someone in Japan and he wont sell it for less than 1000 Dollar plus 200$ shipping cost. No! I am not talking about Hongkong-Dollar.

But finally i found my new little friend in the United Kingdom. I still paid a lot for this dead body…
Why “dead body”? that is a story for itself… I am German Native and Ebay translated “body” into “Leichnam” which is a 100% “dead body”. Caused by that, i was telling the Lady on my side always that the “Leiche” should arrive soon…

And a week ago – he arrived…

“Fragile” is written on the box and this is seriously true.
After a week i finally opened the box and saw the whole shame.

Now i know how Yoda smells. Yeah – I do not think so – but the content of the box smells like something old and is seriously weird.

This old guy from a species where no one know the name, is seriously damaged.

One of his ears is broken and the other one is also not in best condition. You can also see everywhere that the “Make-Up Layer” has cracks and the layer beyond in made in an dark color. Yoda is build with foamed material back in 2013 or 2014 and with a layer of Latex above it. This Latex seems to be the reason why there is only a handful of Yoda in good condition available. Latex is good if this is new and the feeling is like our own skin. It sounds ok-ish in 1994 and seems like a pretty good decision but Latex is aging and gets old and hard under the sun.

Especially if the manufacturer has added an Letter with some words like “please use Clear hair spray” to protect him from time to time…
Hair spray is nothing else like a clear acrylic coat who is not flexible enough to be used together with Latex. i also think that may caused some chemical reactions.
The Sun also worked as cataclysmic converter which caused finally a kind of sunburn or Yoda-Cancer…

See the picture above again, the brownish color of Yodas hand was not protected with his coat. The light-green-blueish is still in perfect condition.

The head, the ears and the neck are all broken, or ripped off or have a visible drop. Somehow, Yoda was falling on his head or he was within the parcel transported on his head. This was causing now or earlier that the neck is visible broken and need to be repaired. The advise by the manufacturer to use hairspray was also binding Yodas Coat on the Latex and it is not easily possible to remove it without causing more damages on Yodas head. I need to think how to remove it without causing more damages.

Additionally i have no clue right now how to refill the foam beyond Yodas Head latex to bring his head in the correct form again. Similar topics applies with all broken Latex areas. I also found on Yodas Coat some fox marks who will be cleaned and handwashed in the winter period when i want to perform a total restauration of him…

yes – may the force be with me…

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