I have a possibly rare red dwarf chrome sticker

[dayne97wightman]

Hi guys, I recently discovered in a red dwarf book I purchased a chrome sticker which pictures starbug. Now I have no idea if it’s rare or even worth anything, as I’ve never seen one and I can’t seem to find any others on the internet. I hope some of you guys know what it is as I’m rather excited to find out.

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[Richietee]

It sounds like the Starbug sticker that came with the Six of the Best VHS set its a great looking rectangle holographic image

[Dave]

Yes, it’s a nice hologram sticker, although I don’t think it’s worth much sadly – copies of Six Of The Best with it included can still be found pretty cheap.

[Ben Saunders]

I’m so young I thought this was going to be about some extension or skin for Google Chrome

[Bargain Bin Holly]

I once saw that Starbug playset thing on ebay once back in 2013 but someone brought it before I could. That is all

[bloodteller]

i bought that Starbug corgi model off eBay once. and that cost a fair bit, it was like £20 or something?

and then the Starbug playsets were something insane like £300, which is quite a big cost. so i never bothered buying one

[GlenTokyo]

That Starbug playset was £40 when it came out wasn’t it? It’s alright but Christ, the values of things that are ever so slightly rare is ridiculous. I saw a broken one for £150 on my Red Dwarf saved search.

Its the same with the corgi ones. The one with Starbug, Red Dwarf and the figures has people asking for like £80 or something, they were cheap, I remember getting quite a few because they were a few quid from a Forbidden Planet or something about 10 years ago. I don’t believe they’re that rare, I bet there’s a load in a warehouse somewhere too.

[Dave]

I’m so young I thought this was going to be about some extension or skin for Google Chrome

It applies a film effect to your browser and removes the laugh track.

[Flap Jack]

You don’t want to know how much The Bodysnatcher Collection playset is going for on ebay.

[bloodteller]

it’s $42 at CeX

[GlenTokyo]

That bodysnatcher playset was shit. Just some firedamaged hair in a bag.

Seriously though Bodysnatcher is £40 on eBay (except for some pillock charging £90 because he’s supposedly never watched it, and as we all know if you buy a DVD someone else has watched, it’s not as good /s) which is reasonable.

I don’t think £40 is bad for bodysnatcher. A high quality piece of entertainment.

[International Debris]

Didn’t it cost that much new anyway?

[Flap Jack]

£40 isn’t too expensive to justify a purchase of 3 series of Red Dwarf with a heap of great extras (even if the episodes themselves are the worse versions), but it’s still very expensive. The Bodysnatcher Collection came out over 10 years ago, and I’ve no idea what it’s original RRP was, but getting a used copy now has got to be as expensive now as a new copy was in November 2007, after you could get it for less than £15 new in 2011. That’s… not good.

Also, you can get the individual Series 1-3 DVDs (which have the definitive versions of the episodes, with just as many – though different – extras) for just £2.50 collectively from CeX. You could literally buy Series 1, 2 and 3 almost 17 times for the price of 1 Bodysnatcher Collection!

So sure, there’s obviously pricier RD merch out there, but Bodysnatcher is definitely up there as far as DVDs go.

[GlenTokyo]

It’s original RRP was £49.99, so it’s come down £10-15 depending on what deal you can get on eBay. Still a lot of money but these kind of boxsets don’t depreciate as bad anyway even without a warehouse fire.

Itd be nice if they released them digitally though to give people the choice.

[Pete Part Three]

One would hope that the extras (which is the reason that The Bodysnatcher Collection was worthwhile as the Series 1,2 docs are great) get ported to the Blu-ray.

[Dave]

Yep. I’m hoping the BR set will effectively replace everything on DVD so far.

[Piplup2003]

I really want to get the Bodysnatcher Collection, just the £40 price tag puts me off.

[Flap Jack]

I guess at this point you might as well wait for the Blu-ray set just to see if it’s a better alternative.

[Dave]

You can pick up Bodysnatcher for less than that if you keep your eyes open, around £30 usually.

[dayne97wightman]

Thabks for all of your replies, not the best news but still a good collectors item!

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