Aw yeah, here’s a present from me and Mantooth, another chapter in my favourite part of the site, Vintage Toy Store shots. This year we spend a lot of time in 1978 when the Star Wars phenom was taking hold but we also explore a local Heroe’s World store (most toy collectors know from whence […]
The idea of having this fan club meeting in the Empire State building is genius, too bad that whole “Star Wars” fad never really caught on… Send me your mall appearance photos!
Hopping the pond to the UK for this Mall Appearance which happened in the early 1980s when Darth Vader himself dropped in on a “Toymaster” (great name) shop to promote the Empire Strikes Back Video cartridges that I spent the majority of 1981 playing.Send me your mall appearance photos!
I cannot begin to tell you the good times me and that rifle had…
So let me paint this picture, these kids were winners of the Palitoy “Draw a Droid” competition (which I imagine was exactly what it sounds like) in 1979, the grand prize was a tour of the set for “Empire Strikes Back” where they had Gary Kurtz give them a tour and meet up with Harrison […]
Matt sent in this fun shot of him and Darth Vader in the Wisconsin Dells circa 1978, note the signed 8″ by 10″ glossy in his hands. Matt gets bonus points for the cool Starsky and Hutch shirt but I’m not sure why Darth Vader is wearing the buzzer from my grandmother’s apartment building lobby […]
Toyfair 1978: Can’t imagine what these are supposed to be…
I’ve done a couple of ebay transactions with Colbie in the past, so I knew he some great toy tastes but recently he sent shots of his toy room and will admit to being gob smacked, so much to see, it’s like walking into your childhood.Ahh, Vintage Star Wars, Black Hole even the foreign produced […]
UK kids weren’t immune to the awesome, corrupting influence of George Lucas and got Star Wars Mania every bit as bad as we did here in North America. There were of course, subtle differences as evidenced in this 1979 toy catalog by Palitoy, UK distributor for the Kenner line. Among them you’ll notice several exclusives […]
I didn’t hear tell of the Sears exclusive Cantina playset until my adult years and I think the first time I’ve ever heard of “action figure variants” was this blue suited Snaggle Tooth. Even though he’s tall and I never had him as a kid, he’s just one of those things that makes my nerdy […]
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