Star Wars chirashis

[Lex]

I bought these Japanese miniposters and was wondering are these rare or how valuable they are? They look great and they are going to my wall.

[HWR]

They are pretty cool Lex, I really like them espicially the ESB one. You should buy some reaslly nice frames for the display, as items this cool deserves to be displayed in a proper way.

I don't have a clue what the value of them are, actually this is the first time I have ever heard of these.

[JohnA]

I wrote an article several years ago that needs to be badly updated. http://theswca.com/images-speci/chirashi/chirashis.html
I have tons of those from SW to Indy to Austin Powers. Most can be had for $1-3. Rare ones are usually in the $10 range. Overall a great way to enjoy the art for cheap.

I'll use this opportunity to plug myself. Looking for *any* I do not have. I won 2 I needed recently that are missing in the mail, I know of 2 Jedi variants I need, and recently I saw a Clone Wars one I'm still working on getting.

John

[Lex]

Thanks for the info. Is there any fakes around?

[Jrosen]

I don't think there are any fakes out there, but due to the small size, it wouldn't suprise me too much.

I also wouldn't be too worried since they were basically printed in the tens of thousands and many movie goers would collect these. Since there is so much supply, it wouldn't make much monetary sense to bootleg these.

If you don't care about owning the originals, there is a small book that I purchased about a year ago that has 16 Charashis printed in them. The book only costed me about $10.