Absolute Grail • The Mock-Up Uzay Hoth Trooper: The SWCA Podcast Blog Log Pod Episode 9 - a podcast by podcast@theswca.com

What is a grail? Is there a definition? What about so-called “Grail Inflation”? Is it about the objective rarity, or, about the subjective desire? Either way, Joe Yglesias’s most recent purchase of a Bootleg Uzay Mock-Up Prototype Hot Troopie qualifies. He tells the 20 YEAR story of its discovery and purchase.

00:56 Intro to Switzerland
02:55 Brick through Joe’s Window
06:03 The Archive Grail Classification System Explained
09:21 The Archive Grail Classification System Illustrated with Chewbacca
12:50 What is the prototype Mock-Up bootleg Uzay Hoth Trooper?
17:14 Lev brings the trail out of Turkey
19:43 Lee buys it from Lev…who is Lee?
20:58 The time Joe traded a Rocket Fett for a Head Man
26:57 The grail makes its first magazine appearance in 1999
27:46 Who is Tom Derby and how did he help get the grail to Joe
33:42 Outro to Switzlerand

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