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SWTOTW, Week 49, 2019 Millennium Falcon
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 522043" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>The Millennium Falcon! What a toy! Our friends across the pond might have been treated to it in Kenner Star Wars packaging, but over here in the UK we had to wait for The Empire Strikes Back to come out before we could get our hands on one. Of course, as an 8 year-old boy in 1980, I was blissfully unaware of the grotesque injustice of the States getting it a 'whole film' before us, and so all I knew was that it was a new ship made for Empire and I wanted one... Badly! The trouble was it cost the princely sum of £20, and I certainly couldn't afford that, not on my meagre pocket money of 50p per week, most of which had to be swiftly invested in tooth decay at the local sweet shop :wink: </p><p></p><p>And so the year went by and I longed for a Falcon. I still didn't get one, but I longed for one. Lusted after one, in fact, but it made no difference. My family wasn't that well off, but even if we had been my mother certainly wasn't about to gift me £20's worth of toy for no reason! And so eventually Christmas approached with all the plodding speed of a tortoise on Mogadon, and naturally I knew what I wanted! But again, £20 was a lot of money. In those days, my mother spent £10 on each of my brothers and me for Christmas, and £10 simply wasn't £20... What was I to do? Well, as luck would have it my birthday is in January, and so I approached my mother with the brilliant idea of combining my Christmas and birthday gifts into one single gigantic Millennium Falcon shaped present! :-D I thought it was a terrific idea, but my mum would only say she'd think about it. Of course I kept pestering, sorry, I mean 'reminding' her of my wishes, but frustratingly she just wouldn't commit! And as Christmas became very close indeed I genuinely thought I was out of luck :-(</p><p></p><p>But then one day, a friend came round my house to play, and we were looking for one specific toy to play with that seemed to have vanished off the face of the Earth. I can't even remember what it was now, but at the time doubtless I thought it was vitally important to my continued well-being. And so, being a rather persistent so-and-so (nothing changes ;-)), my friend and I set about hunting through the house for the missing toy. And so it was that I found myself standing on a chair and searching the top shelf inside my oldest brother's wardrobe (something I certainly shouldn't have been doing!), hunting for toy 'A', and shifting blankets and bed sheets about, when my astonished eyes unexpectedly beheld one of the most amazing sights they had ever seen!... There, at the top of my brother's wardrobe, at the very back of it under a blanket, was not a pile of girlie mags (give that one a few more years), but a Tesco 'Delaware' price sticker reading '£20.00'... and it was attached to a brand spanking new Palitoy Millennium Falcon! <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" /> <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" /> <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>I probably was more excited than my friend, but it was a bloody close thing! And I was terrified he would spill the beans and tell my mother what we'd found! I was smart enough to know that I really shouldn't have found it, but not quite smart enough to stop worrying that if she did discover that I'd found it, I might not be given it! :lol: And so I managed to persuade my friend to keep his mouth shut, and I continued to remind my mother that I wanted a Falcon, just like I had been doing before I found it, only now safe in the knowledge that I would have one in my hot little hands come Christmas Day... which I did! <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>Sadly, I no longer own that particular Falcon, but instead these days, if only to spite Kenner's America First policy, I do own a Kenner Star Wars boxed unused one:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62322[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62323[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62324[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62325[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62326[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62327[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62328[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62329[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62330[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62331[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 522043, member: 7379"] The Millennium Falcon! What a toy! Our friends across the pond might have been treated to it in Kenner Star Wars packaging, but over here in the UK we had to wait for The Empire Strikes Back to come out before we could get our hands on one. Of course, as an 8 year-old boy in 1980, I was blissfully unaware of the grotesque injustice of the States getting it a 'whole film' before us, and so all I knew was that it was a new ship made for Empire and I wanted one... Badly! The trouble was it cost the princely sum of £20, and I certainly couldn't afford that, not on my meagre pocket money of 50p per week, most of which had to be swiftly invested in tooth decay at the local sweet shop :wink: And so the year went by and I longed for a Falcon. I still didn't get one, but I longed for one. Lusted after one, in fact, but it made no difference. My family wasn't that well off, but even if we had been my mother certainly wasn't about to gift me £20's worth of toy for no reason! And so eventually Christmas approached with all the plodding speed of a tortoise on Mogadon, and naturally I knew what I wanted! But again, £20 was a lot of money. In those days, my mother spent £10 on each of my brothers and me for Christmas, and £10 simply wasn't £20... What was I to do? Well, as luck would have it my birthday is in January, and so I approached my mother with the brilliant idea of combining my Christmas and birthday gifts into one single gigantic Millennium Falcon shaped present! :-D I thought it was a terrific idea, but my mum would only say she'd think about it. Of course I kept pestering, sorry, I mean 'reminding' her of my wishes, but frustratingly she just wouldn't commit! And as Christmas became very close indeed I genuinely thought I was out of luck :-( But then one day, a friend came round my house to play, and we were looking for one specific toy to play with that seemed to have vanished off the face of the Earth. I can't even remember what it was now, but at the time doubtless I thought it was vitally important to my continued well-being. And so, being a rather persistent so-and-so (nothing changes ;-)), my friend and I set about hunting through the house for the missing toy. And so it was that I found myself standing on a chair and searching the top shelf inside my oldest brother's wardrobe (something I certainly shouldn't have been doing!), hunting for toy 'A', and shifting blankets and bed sheets about, when my astonished eyes unexpectedly beheld one of the most amazing sights they had ever seen!... There, at the top of my brother's wardrobe, at the very back of it under a blanket, was not a pile of girlie mags (give that one a few more years), but a Tesco 'Delaware' price sticker reading '£20.00'... and it was attached to a brand spanking new Palitoy Millennium Falcon! :D :D :D I probably was more excited than my friend, but it was a bloody close thing! And I was terrified he would spill the beans and tell my mother what we'd found! I was smart enough to know that I really shouldn't have found it, but not quite smart enough to stop worrying that if she did discover that I'd found it, I might not be given it! :lol: And so I managed to persuade my friend to keep his mouth shut, and I continued to remind my mother that I wanted a Falcon, just like I had been doing before I found it, only now safe in the knowledge that I would have one in my hot little hands come Christmas Day... which I did! :D Sadly, I no longer own that particular Falcon, but instead these days, if only to spite Kenner's America First policy, I do own a Kenner Star Wars boxed unused one: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 01.jpg"]62322._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 02.jpg"]62323._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 03.jpg"]62324._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 04.jpg"]62325._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 05.jpg"]62326._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 06.jpg"]62327._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 07.jpg"]62328._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 08.jpg"]62329._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 09.jpg"]62330._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Flying Hamburger - 10.jpg"]62331._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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