Tauntaun saddle variants ?

Hi guys got this tauntaun from a friend who found it in a danish childhood lot with a palitoy box.

But the saddle have a thin strap and all my other saddles I have, have the thick strap. I am surprised that I have never seen or heard about
a thin strap before. A few years ago I got another palitoy box from a danish childhood lot also with a tauntaun and that saddle is thick.

Have any of you seen the thin one before ? :? any stories about it ?

After looking at it, I would say the thin one looks better than the thick ones. Could they have changed the production because the thick one always break ? or do they just come from different factories ?

Thin one comes the solid belly Tauntaun Lars

fuzzybuzzytoys said:

Thin one comes the solid belly Tauntaun Lars

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That was a little embarrasing. I got it with a open belly tauntaun, so I only checked all my open belly tauntauns and I never thought about checking my solid belly tauntauns. It must have been years since I have had my solid belly tauntauns out and I have never noticed that it was thinner on those tauntauns I found my solid belly tauntauns and they all have the thin one :shock:

But I still think the thin one is better, was the open belly not produced after the solid belly ? so why change the saddle ? :?

Pomse2001 said:

But I still think the thin one is better :?

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ok

Pomse2001 said:

so why change the saddle ? :?

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I'm guessing they put a thicker saddle on the Open Belly toy because kids would remove it and re-affix it more often to use the new feature, with the thicker one being less likely to rip.

chipsteak said:

Pomse2001 said:

so why change the saddle ? :?

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I'm guessing they put a thicker saddle on the Open Belly toy because kids would remove it and re-affix it more often to use the new feature, with the thicker one being less likely to rip.

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Maybe you are right about the thick one was better for kids in the old days. I never had one when I was a kid.

Maybe it is the age of them that makes the thicker one not that strong or maybe I have just me unlucky to get some not so good saddles with thick strap. When I put them on my tauntauns then I think today the thin ones is better to work with without breaking them. The thick ones is very fragile.

Well, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, but I really don't think so. I owned both a solid belly and an open belly Tauntaun back in the 80's, both of which I bought new from my local Toy Shop when they were released. Both were ESB Palitoy boxes and both Tauntauns had thin saddle straps. It wasn't until many years later when I started collecting vintage again that I saw a thick saddle strap, and I remember thinking how unusual it was as I had never seen one before. So perhaps the change from thin to thick straps was a running change that happened shortly after open belly one was released?

Snaketibe said:

Well, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, but I really don't think so. I owned both a solid belly and an open belly Tauntaun back in the 80's, both of which I bought new from my local Toy Shop when they were released. Both were ESB Palitoy boxes and both Tauntauns had thin saddle straps. It wasn't until many years later when I started collecting vintage again that I saw a thick saddle strap, and I remember thinking how unusual it was as I had never seen one before. So perhaps the change from thin to thick straps was a running change that happened shortly after open belly one was released?

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Thanks mate for that info. Because the one I got with esb palitoy box and open belly also had the thin strap and my friend found it in a danish childhood collection