?? john menzies sw related

hello lads
ive always been really interested in anything starwars related to the uk "JOHN MENZIES" shop
mostly as it was one of my fave haunts for stuff circa 82-85
ive seen some tiny little pics of promo posters / store box offer stickers etc etc before but cant find them now , and saddeningly the one time i had a chance to win / own a john menzies figures promo poster on ebay around 2011 i forgot about it made worse by the fact its sold for about a tenner :evil:
i would love to see if anyone has anything menzies related for sale or just to njoi seeing 8)

Hi about 30 of my Carded figures came from John Menzies when they sold off all their old stock circa 1989 . That's where I got my tri logo Luke Bespin and Death Star Droid. I got birthday money and went through the bin looking for figures. When I got home I put them on my shelf. Then boxed them up in the attic.

I had the 1983 JM promo poster but don't know what happened to it.

I'd love to own a MOC with a John Menzies or Woolworths sticker.

Hi, I don't own my childhood collection unfortunately but when I was a kid JM was THE best place for me to pick up SW toys. I remember my Mum taking me in one day to meet Darth Vader. He was standing down stairs in the shop with a Stromtrooper on each side of him. I was 8 so I was frightened out of my mind. Vader put his hand out to shake my hand and I always remember putting out the wrong hand for the hand shake. I got Vaders autograph that day (most likely a fake) because I doubt that it was Dave Prowse going round all the toy stores back in the 80's but that Darth Vader autograph was stuck in my wall next to a Vader poster for the best part of the entire 1980's lol. The good old 80's and John Menzies. 8)

Captainsolo1978 said:

Hi about 30 of my Carded figures came from John Menzies when they sold off all their old stock circa 1989 . That's where I got my tri logo Luke Bespin and Death Star Droid. I got birthday money and went through the bin looking for figures. When I got home I put them on my shelf. Then boxed them up in the attic.

I had the 1983 JM promo poster but don't know what happened to it.

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yeah i can actually remember seeing these cheap figures in my local jm around 88-89 even possibly as late as early 1990 too , sadly by then i had zero interest in anything other than enjoying being part of the acid house rave generation . last thing on my mind was toys so bought nothing!
i have many memories of instore menzies big offer stickers for bogof etc stuck on trilogo boxes ,have yet to have found a single picture of these anywhere
the one i remember most was big red and blue stripey circle with menzies toy sale written on it the price being £3,89 and this was on a trilogo b-wing , i remember loads of xwing and scout walker and jabba set being 2.99 -399 each also some were sellophaned together as a 2 for one deal with a big white sticker with jedi toys printed on it

Jez said:

I'd love to own a MOC with a John Menzies or Woolworths sticker.

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yeah i clearly remember the huge wire baskets of starwars figures in woolies inc the loose baggies sets with 4 - 8 loose figs in for i think 99p , again even as late as 89 i remember literally hundreds of trilogo cards all chucked in these big wire baskets at 79p each ,an abandunce of emperors and anakins moc in particular in the end it was buy 3 maybe even 4 moc for 99p just to get rid before being binned or given away

Grant said:

Hi, I don't own my childhood collection unfortunately but when I was a kid JM was THE best place for me to pick up SW toys. I remember my Mum taking me in one day to meet Darth Vader. He was standing down stairs in the shop with a Stromtrooper on each side of him. I was 8 so I was frightened out of my mind. Vader put his hand out to shake my hand and I always remember putting out the wrong hand for the hand shake. I got Vaders autograph that day (most likely a fake) because I doubt that it was Dave Prowse going round all the toy stores back in the 80's but that Darth Vader autograph was stuck in my wall next to a Vader poster for the best part of the entire 1980's lol. The good old 80's and John Menzies. 8)

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yeah menzies and woolies even finefare lol , great memories the co-op group also had a seperate toystore i think called ( coop yourtoy store?) this was my 3rd avenue which also loads of good toys . starwars , m.a,s.k all the usuall he man / transformers used to spend ages in them just looking

This is a very interesting john Menzies exclusive that few people know about. Enjoy.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/69594756714615583/

Chris

Caswellbot said:

This is a very interesting john Menzies exclusive that few people know about. Enjoy.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/69594756714615583/

Chris

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yeah great that , i know for fact that sticker was put on instore as i know a bloke that worked in my local menzies and when i mentioned to him just 5 or 6 years ago he said he rembered me coming in and when i was asking about the things they had poster or promo wise he remembered putting on various stickers on and that stormtrooper offer was one of them allthough i never thought to ask if the sticker was made by menzies themselfs or sent by palitoy for menzies to stick on either way he and other staff deffo were adding these by hand theres another one like that but it was with a free b-wing pilot on it .i suppose which wouldve been attached to b-wings

jay4 said:

Caswellbot said:

This is a very interesting john Menzies exclusive that few people know about. Enjoy.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/69594756714615583/

Chris

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yeah great that , i know for fact that sticker was put on instore as i know a bloke that worked in my local menzies and when i mentioned to him just 5 or 6 years ago he said he rembered me coming in and when i was asking about the things they had poster or promo wise he remembered putting on various stickers on and that stormtrooper offer was one of them allthough i never thought to ask if the sticker was made by menzies themselfs or sent by palitoy for menzies to stick on either way he and other staff deffo were adding these by hand theres another one like that but it was with a free b-wing pilot on it .i suppose which wouldve been attached to b-wings

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allthough i had and he also had memories of such stickers being stuck on other boxed items some of which you were just given a carded figure along with it ,he told me that sometimes they would break seals and slide a carded figure in a box and reseal .which i think may explain why palitoy may have sent the stickers seperate to give each menzies store the choice of wether it was required that a freebie was needed to help sales along or not

Menzies ran some nifty competitions too, I've got a picture of a couple of their competition flyers on my old PC. They might be floating about on the net actually so if I can find them I will post them up later.

The poster can be found on ebay but they can be pricey at times. Seen them sell for £40-50!

Joe said:

Menzies ran some nifty competitions too, I've got a picture of a couple of their competition flyers on my old PC. They might be floating about on the net actually so if I can find them I will post them up later.

The poster can be found on ebay but they can be pricey at times. Seen them sell for £40-50!

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yeah i think if you google it there a couple of really small photos of those flyers .
and yeah they posters with menzies at the bottom with the proto speeder on it tend to sell between 30-60 dependant on luck and as with anything condition. they rarely come up on ebay tho sadly
i will get one eventually :roll: i hope

I won third prize in a John Menzies competition in Perth. Won a landspeeder. Was the 1983 reissue and was really pleased!

My boxed ESB Falcon has a 26.99 JM sticker on it .

Here are those competition flyers/entry forms

Joe said:

Here are those competition flyers/entry forms

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: shiiiit they are lovely / i really want them. would be great framed

Awesome stuff Joe and Chris

I have 3 or 4 MOC with Menzies price stickers on 8)

Remember getting IG-88 and Leia Poncho at my local John Menzies.

John Menzies Bournemouth ruled back in the day. There's a few related John Menzies posts coming up for the Farthest From 2014 Challenge

woohhooo it paid off got myself a lovely huge 34"x22" menzies vehicle / fig poster at last , phew! chuffed.com 8)
just want a flyer or 2 now :wink: .got one ? pm me