Where it all started - Pics please!

I had a yellow inflatable saber - as well as the force-beam banana lol

Nick_IoW said:

...as well as the force-beam banana lol

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I can still see the display stand in the toyshop for the Forcebeam as if it were yesterday... polystyrene base holding all the upturned 'lightsabers' with the orange and black handles heavily wafting about, back and forth... no wonder the tubes were all bent :? I spent an age trying to select one as true as could be- impossible task

My avatar. It's the only one I have

Another one, this was my last SW Christmas, (got a B Wing and TIE Interceptor) think I was 13 so it was decided I was too old - pretty funny considering I'm 41 now and all I want for Christmas is a boxed B Wing
Look at the inserts in the bin



And yes the Elaine Paige Album was mine - I thought she was hottest thing on 2 legs (I was a hormonal 13 year old remember!)

I'm more concerned with the Elaine Paige album!

Edit: just saw the bottom bit.

By the way I have performed with her in Evita on the West End.

db94 said:

Look at the inserts in the bin

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As heartbreaking as it is to see now, it was normal back then, wasn't it? I loved all the boxes and the packaging (looking at it from a very early design perspective :wink: ) as much as the toy itself... but I was always cajoled into throwing all the surplus away by thorough parents and bossy elder siblings... I wish I had stood up for myself more in my formative years

Bramistuta25 said:

I'm more concerned with the Elaine Paige album!

Edit: just saw the bottom bit.

By the way I have performed with her in Evita on the West End.

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You're a child of the stage, Bram? This is what I love about this forum... every corner turned brings up another story

Go on, mate- I'm all ears. How did it all begin?

TC-14 said:

Bramistuta25 said:

I'm more concerned with the Elaine Paige album!

Edit: just saw the bottom bit.

By the way I have performed with her in Evita on the West End.

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You're a child of the stage, Bram? This is what I love about this forum... every corner turned brings up another story

Go on, mate- I'm all ears. How did it all begin?

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Not sure how old I was, probably about 7 or 8, definitely in primary school, some people came round to all the schools to find singers for the production, we had to sing "morning has broken" on our own. Good job my b###s hadn't dropped. Anyway I got in and we had to have afternoons off school to go and perform, plus we got paid. From memory it was about £11 per show.

There were matinees and evening shows, as always. I was on stage 3 times, once as part of the choir, once to get autographs from Eva Peron and lastly as a group of 5 boys in smocks with battery powered candles in an arc. Pretty scary when your at the front as I was. Especially when on one night the battery died and my light went out!

It was pretty cool and I did do other productions for live bands and shows, but then I found footy and Bing bong your gone!

I've got a picture somewhere of the kids cast, I will see if I can dig it out.

Bram

Superb story 8) get that cast photo unearthed...

Picture of Elaine Paige - I feel all hormonal again :lol:

Steady on, Colin :wink:

What a great thread, and nice to see how it all began for a few of us. I've only got the one childhood SW photo.

An added bonus is seeing all the 70s/80s "accessories" (TVs, LPs, furnishings etc); what a nostalgia hit! :lol:

Here's my earliest documented star wars collecting
Ree yees figure for my birthday, February 1984 I'm guessing....

8) Then Chewbacca, Chirpa and removable limbs 3po at Christmas 1984, I think...

Fantastic. Where did you get the Han Solo costume?

Fantstic thread guys, I love all this childhood pictures from the old days :shock:

Wish I had pictures like that from my childhood. But there is always only Lego on my childhood pictures and that is very strange
because I also loved star wars a lot when I was a kid and played a lot with it.

The oldest picture I have is from 2001 when I began to collect again

Cc4rhu said:

Fantastic. Where did you get the Han Solo costume?

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:lol: Exactly what I was thinking! :lol:

This photo was taken around 1982 in the living room of a pub my dad used to run in Preston. The pub is still running and is pretty much in the same state it was 30 odd years ago. I mentioned to the wife the other day how i would love to recreate the photo. I have everything except an AtAt ..don't have that jumper though :?

What would be ace is if the people who run the pub now would let me do the photo in the exact same location - upstairs in that doorway. I got friendly with the last landlord but they moved on. Don't know the current ones. It's kind of a life ambition to redo this photo. Only thing is that I would feel like a cock saying 'can i take a photo of myself and my Star Wars collection upstairs in your pub'.

Absolutely love all thees photos, love the nostalgia.

Clearly Brown was a very popular colour back in the day. :lol:

Yep, 50 shades of brown back in the 70's & 80's. Cars, clothes, carpets. Everything