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Cox NaBOO - Just in time for Halloween
rsv1cox Yesterday at 3:25 pm
Jim started it with his Three Stooges post then CLG and roddie chimed in with Cox Star Wars models featuring the NaBoo whatever it is and I was hooked. Big departure from what usually captures my attention. Kid stuff, weird but extremely interesting. I like style and the Naboo has gobbs of it.
I looked for the cheapest example on ebay and made a low offer which was accepted. Four star seller, within seconds he accepted my offer, then within minutes he was on the way to the Post Office with it sending me a tracking number. Next door to West Virginia in Maryland I got it almost the next day.
Happy with it. It needed some disinfecting but cleaned up well. Model encased in a plastic bubble, control handle/line and instructions never touched. Cox flight kit never opened and I can hear fuel slopping around.
A little nasty here and there. Vacuumed the stuff out of the no window box, some Windex on a wet towel followed by dry did wonders.
Price progression, (regression) started at $39.95 in 1998 dollars, dropped to $29.95, then $15 which probably was flea market money.
Tis a beautiful thing and I like it. Goes to my Grandson (eventually) who is a Star Wars walking encylopedia.
I looked for the cheapest example on ebay and made a low offer which was accepted. Four star seller, within seconds he accepted my offer, then within minutes he was on the way to the Post Office with it sending me a tracking number. Next door to West Virginia in Maryland I got it almost the next day.
Happy with it. It needed some disinfecting but cleaned up well. Model encased in a plastic bubble, control handle/line and instructions never touched. Cox flight kit never opened and I can hear fuel slopping around.
A little nasty here and there. Vacuumed the stuff out of the no window box, some Windex on a wet towel followed by dry did wonders.
Price progression, (regression) started at $39.95 in 1998 dollars, dropped to $29.95, then $15 which probably was flea market money.
Tis a beautiful thing and I like it. Goes to my Grandson (eventually) who is a Star Wars walking encylopedia.
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1975 control line guy Yesterday at 4:15 pm
Of all 4 I too like the Naboo Fighter the best. 
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Re: Cox NaBOO - Just in time for Halloween
Elchappo Yesterday at 4:58 pm
Do you think the grandson will will fly it, or will it be a museum piece? The price you paid was significantly less than the 250 they normally go for. I have one of the federation drones and every day I change my mind about flying it or not flying it.
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Re: Cox NaBOO - Just in time for Halloween
roddie Yesterday at 5:04 pm
rsv1cox wrote:Jim started it with his Three Stooges post then CLG and roddie chimed in with Cox Star Wars models featuring the NaBoo whatever it is and I was hooked. Big departure from what usually captures my attention. Kid stuff, weird but extremely interesting. I like style and the Naboo has gobbs of it.
Price progression, (regression) started at $39.95 in 1998 dollars, dropped to $29.95, then $15 which probably was flea market money.
Tis a beautiful thing and I like it. Goes to my Grandson (eventually) who is a Star Wars walking encylopedia.
It's a coooool model Robert..
It looks more like an aircraft than any of the other models in that series.. IMHOSad to know how these "RTF" models died on retail-store shelves.. but now; one of them can finally be appreciated by you Robert!
CLG recommended a control-sys. mod.. so make sure that you address that..
Here's an image of a Naboo N-1 that's currently my laptop's wallpaper..
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1975 control line guy Yesterday at 5:43 pm
Elchappo wrote:Do you think the grandson will will fly it, or will it be a museum piece? The price you paid was significantly less than the 250 they normally go for. I have one of the federation drones and every day I change my mind about flying it or not flying it.
The Trade Federation Droid Fighter will fly "better" if the tip weight is taken out of the inboard and relocated next to the outboard side tip weight (double tip weight outboard). Flying in any winds over 3 MPH is courting disaster.
The most I have paid for any Star Wars plane was $80.00 and the least $35.00 with shipping. However we may be improving the market
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Re: Cox NaBOO - Just in time for Halloween
rsv1cox Yesterday at 6:52 pm
However we may be improving the market
It happened with the Cox Mercedes Benz, for a month or so there were several of us bidding on any example. If I remember I had 17 at one time, sold about 10 mostly at a loss. Doesn't matter, most were basket cases which I restored having my fun. After that I just lose interest. But I kept several of the best most interesting examples. Got one that has all the boxing intact even the top locator which got MudHens attention.
Old #2, I still have it.
The sellers price for the Naboo was $95.00. I contacted him and offered $75 which he accepted. I felt like I over-paid, still do but I wanted it. My usual offering is $35 or less for most anything................except chainsaws,, I will have my son checking flea markets for a cheap one, maybe crashed or without a box. I would love to fly a Naboooooo on Halloween under a full moon.
It happened with the Cox Mercedes Benz, for a month or so there were several of us bidding on any example. If I remember I had 17 at one time, sold about 10 mostly at a loss. Doesn't matter, most were basket cases which I restored having my fun. After that I just lose interest. But I kept several of the best most interesting examples. Got one that has all the boxing intact even the top locator which got MudHens attention.
Old #2, I still have it.
The sellers price for the Naboo was $95.00. I contacted him and offered $75 which he accepted. I felt like I over-paid, still do but I wanted it. My usual offering is $35 or less for most anything................except chainsaws,,
I will have my son checking flea markets for a cheap one, maybe crashed or without a box. I would love to fly a Naboooooo on Halloween under a full moon.
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Re: Cox NaBOO - Just in time for Halloween
KariFS Today at 2:26 am
Star Wars Episode I was released in 1999, so the model is probably from year 2000 or a little later. I guess control line craze was pretty much ”over” already, as far as mainstream/toy stores were concerned. R/C and electrickery was already on their way in.
My wife and I lived in St Louis in 1998-1999, and in Atlanta from 2000 on. We went to see the movie in a theatre, but not sure in which city Anyway, I remember being fascinated by the sleek lines of Naboo fighters and also the Queen’s spacecraft. No reason why you wouldn’t consider style and aerodynamics, even when you travel in space
Bob, I’m sure you could whip up a twin engine version from balsa by Halloween Just look at the photo Roddie posted, all you need is two big aluminium spinners and go from there.
My wife and I lived in St Louis in 1998-1999, and in Atlanta from 2000 on. We went to see the movie in a theatre, but not sure in which city
Anyway, I remember being fascinated by the sleek lines of Naboo fighters and also the Queen’s spacecraft. No reason why you wouldn’t consider style and aerodynamics, even when you travel in space Bob, I’m sure you could whip up a twin engine version from balsa by Halloween
Just look at the photo Roddie posted, all you need is two big aluminium spinners and go from there.
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Re: Cox NaBOO - Just in time for Halloween
rsv1cox Today at 7:44 am
Thanks Kari, I'm waiting for roddie to build his own version. I bet it would be spectular. roddie crosses all of the t's and i's in his builds. I only cross some of them. 
The date on the boxes SKU thingy says 12/98.
I would think the box printing predates the Naboo's manufacture by a few months so 99'/2000 is probably correct. I don't remember the movie. I will have to look it up.
The box is a mess, I will have to find a window and do some repairs, but I have one ahead of it.
I went looking for old #2, found it and others. I had a lot of fun with those things. I left one in "as found" condition. Someday I will tear into it.
The date on the boxes SKU thingy says 12/98.
I would think the box printing predates the Naboo's manufacture by a few months so 99'/2000 is probably correct. I don't remember the movie. I will have to look it up.
The box is a mess, I will have to find a window and do some repairs, but I have one ahead of it.
I went looking for old #2, found it and others. I had a lot of fun with those things. I left one in "as found" condition. Someday I will tear into it.
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