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Buying in the 80's how we used to buy figures
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<blockquote data-quote="batman" data-source="post: 506136" data-attributes="member: 2569"><p>I was born in '78 and we did not see the movies until we got a vcr in the late 80's but i remember buying most of our figures out of large metal baskets filled with tri logos sitting outside on the curb in front of our local Intertoys toy store . They were only 1 gulden so they were very affordable and we would spend ages rummaging through all the figure not knowing who they were or even what kind of role they played in the SW universe . Even back then the blisters were not firmly sealed so beneath the metal baskets all kinds of accesoiries had fallen on the sidewalk only to be swept into the gutter at the end of the day . As tempting as that was our mother told us we were not allowed to pick them up as they belonged to the store . </p><p>We got 12 of the last 17 figures from those baskets, i wanted Warok, Lumat and Paploo but could not find them anywhere and i clearly remember passing on carbonite Han because he looked silly with his fat neck, now he is still one of the last figures i need but my opinion on how he looks has not changed a lot . About a year after the baskets had disappeared a bunch of A wing pilots showed up at the same store and i got very exited thinking a new wave of figures must have been released as i had never seen him on the back of the cards but it turned out to be the last remnants of the overstock .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="batman, post: 506136, member: 2569"] I was born in '78 and we did not see the movies until we got a vcr in the late 80's but i remember buying most of our figures out of large metal baskets filled with tri logos sitting outside on the curb in front of our local Intertoys toy store . They were only 1 gulden so they were very affordable and we would spend ages rummaging through all the figure not knowing who they were or even what kind of role they played in the SW universe . Even back then the blisters were not firmly sealed so beneath the metal baskets all kinds of accesoiries had fallen on the sidewalk only to be swept into the gutter at the end of the day . As tempting as that was our mother told us we were not allowed to pick them up as they belonged to the store . We got 12 of the last 17 figures from those baskets, i wanted Warok, Lumat and Paploo but could not find them anywhere and i clearly remember passing on carbonite Han because he looked silly with his fat neck, now he is still one of the last figures i need but my opinion on how he looks has not changed a lot . About a year after the baskets had disappeared a bunch of A wing pilots showed up at the same store and i got very exited thinking a new wave of figures must have been released as i had never seen him on the back of the cards but it turned out to be the last remnants of the overstock . [/QUOTE]
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