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Buying in the 80's how we used to buy figures
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<blockquote data-quote="TheJabbaWookie" data-source="post: 506169" data-attributes="member: 9217"><p>I don't remember ever purchasing Star Wars with my own pocket money. I was born in 76 and would of only been 6 when I got into it around the time Star Wars was released on TV in October 1982. I didn't go to the cinema to watch Jedi either so my early memories of the saga are all of Star Wars, hence it is my favourite film of the original trilogy. I definitely saw ROTJ before 1988 so I'm guessing it was a pirated copy. </p><p></p><p>My only memories of buying or receiving Star Wars were going to the local Tesco superstore which had been recently built in December of 1982 and marvelling at the size of it and the rows and rows of Star Wars on the shelves. I selected a Darth Vader's Tie Fighter. My other memory was of receiving a second Gamorrean Guard for Christmas in 1984. I don't recall the date exactly but since I remember clearly it being on television I'm putting two and two together as it was first shown on tv at Christmas on 30th December 1984. It sticks in my head because I remember the dilemma of having to decide whether to keep it or take it back to the shop. In the end I decide to keep it and it's the only childhood memory I have of actually opening a card, though I couldn't tell you what packaging it had. I think it was my only duplicate.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't until I was in to He-Man that I can actually remember going to a shop with my grandfather and actually purchasing an item. I selected Man-At-arms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheJabbaWookie, post: 506169, member: 9217"] I don’t remember ever purchasing Star Wars with my own pocket money. I was born in 76 and would of only been 6 when I got into it around the time Star Wars was released on TV in October 1982. I didn’t go to the cinema to watch Jedi either so my early memories of the saga are all of Star Wars, hence it is my favourite film of the original trilogy. I definitely saw ROTJ before 1988 so I’m guessing it was a pirated copy. My only memories of buying or receiving Star Wars were going to the local Tesco superstore which had been recently built in December of 1982 and marvelling at the size of it and the rows and rows of Star Wars on the shelves. I selected a Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter. My other memory was of receiving a second Gamorrean Guard for Christmas in 1984. I don’t recall the date exactly but since I remember clearly it being on television I’m putting two and two together as it was first shown on tv at Christmas on 30th December 1984. It sticks in my head because I remember the dilemma of having to decide whether to keep it or take it back to the shop. In the end I decide to keep it and it’s the only childhood memory I have of actually opening a card, though I couldn’t tell you what packaging it had. I think it was my only duplicate. It wasn’t until I was in to He-Man that I can actually remember going to a shop with my grandfather and actually purchasing an item. I selected Man-At-arms. [/QUOTE]
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