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SWTOTW, Week 48, 2019 Dengar
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 521686" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>Dengar! Back in 1980, this was a very exciting figure for me. Having been blissfully ignorant of the mail-away Boba Fett offer here in the UK (mainly due to me not reading comics at the time and hence never seeing the adverts), Dengar represented my first ever experience of sending away for an unreleased figure. Talk about exciting! I gleefully destroyed 3 cardbacks to remove the name plates and sent them away to Palitoy, along with my 30 pence for postage and packing, and then waited... and waited...</p><p></p><p>I was one of those children who received a postcard from Palitoy (as shown here <a href="http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww130/sublevel_photo/DSCN2156.jpg?hotlinkfix=1575250731098" target="_blank">http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww130/sublevel_photo/DSCN2156.jpg?hotlinkfix=1575250731098</a> - not my photo) explaining that there would be a delay in the delivery of my figure, which only made the anticipation all the greater! And of course, because this was my first ever mail-away, in my 8-year old ignorance, I expected the figure to be sent on a cardback, just like all the other figures I had seen and bought. And so it was that when, several weeks later, a small white cardboard packet arrived in the post with my name and address on it, I genuinely didn't know what it was. I opened the packet with curiosity more than excitement, and then I saw what was inside! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>Wonderful stuff! Yes, the figure is a little chunky. Yes, he can have problems holding his rifle. And yes, that rifle is completely wrong (Kenner having cheaped out and donated the equally incorrect Snowtrooper's rifle to our bandaged bounty hunter), but it was still a thing of wonder to the child version of me!</p><p></p><p>Fast-forward a decade or four and here's the selection I have today. A range of armour shades and skin tones are available across at least 2 similar, but different sculpts, with the darkest armour coming courtesy of our Spanish friends at PBP:</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62128[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62129[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62130[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62131[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62132[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62133[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62134[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 521686, member: 7379"] Dengar! Back in 1980, this was a very exciting figure for me. Having been blissfully ignorant of the mail-away Boba Fett offer here in the UK (mainly due to me not reading comics at the time and hence never seeing the adverts), Dengar represented my first ever experience of sending away for an unreleased figure. Talk about exciting! I gleefully destroyed 3 cardbacks to remove the name plates and sent them away to Palitoy, along with my 30 pence for postage and packing, and then waited... and waited... I was one of those children who received a postcard from Palitoy (as shown here [url]http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww130/sublevel_photo/DSCN2156.jpg?hotlinkfix=1575250731098[/url] - not my photo) explaining that there would be a delay in the delivery of my figure, which only made the anticipation all the greater! And of course, because this was my first ever mail-away, in my 8-year old ignorance, I expected the figure to be sent on a cardback, just like all the other figures I had seen and bought. And so it was that when, several weeks later, a small white cardboard packet arrived in the post with my name and address on it, I genuinely didn't know what it was. I opened the packet with curiosity more than excitement, and then I saw what was inside! :D Wonderful stuff! Yes, the figure is a little chunky. Yes, he can have problems holding his rifle. And yes, that rifle is completely wrong (Kenner having cheaped out and donated the equally incorrect Snowtrooper's rifle to our bandaged bounty hunter), but it was still a thing of wonder to the child version of me! Fast-forward a decade or four and here's the selection I have today. A range of armour shades and skin tones are available across at least 2 similar, but different sculpts, with the darkest armour coming courtesy of our Spanish friends at PBP: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 01.jpg"]62128._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 02.jpg"]62129._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 03.jpg"]62130._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 04.jpg"]62131._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 05.jpg"]62132._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 06.jpg"]62133._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Mr Bump - 07.jpg"]62134._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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