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<blockquote data-quote="£1.49 FIGURES" data-source="post: 521083" data-attributes="member: 3407"><p>I remember the fascination I held as a kid for the Palitoy Death Star playset (poring over the details from the cardback it featured on) but never once saw it in the shops in the early to mid 1980s when I was actively seeking out SW related toys. Many years later in mid early 20s (prior to 'The Phantom Menace') I spotted a boxed Kenner version of the playset in the window of an antiques shop in Edinburgh and being intrigued by it as well as very amused by the £80 price-tag!</p><p></p><p>I received a couple of original SW items in the mid 1980s that were otherwise going in the bin (!!!) from a family friend of my cousin who was a good few years older than ourselves - namely an original Palitoy landspeeder and a boxed and complete Droid Factory that was of most interest due to the 3 legged R2D2 included. I never saw either in the shops, infact it was really only Darth Vader's Tie Fighter and some of the left-over/unsold 12" figures that I ever spotted with the Star Wars logo beyond the action figures.</p><p></p><p>After I had moved on from buying SW toys I recall visiting my childhood toyshop where so many purchases had been made (it was the go-to place for Star Wars!) while looking for a He-Man toy for my brother's birthday and seeing a couple of boxed Skiffs, an A-Wing and a few discounted JEDI Imperial Shuttles looking rather forlorn and lost in an otherwise SW free shop - time (and the buying habits of kids) had definitely moved on. Just a year and a half before there had been B-Wings and Y- wings everywhere!</p><p></p><p>Where's the time machine?!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="£1.49 FIGURES, post: 521083, member: 3407"] I remember the fascination I held as a kid for the Palitoy Death Star playset (poring over the details from the cardback it featured on) but never once saw it in the shops in the early to mid 1980s when I was actively seeking out SW related toys. Many years later in mid early 20s (prior to 'The Phantom Menace') I spotted a boxed Kenner version of the playset in the window of an antiques shop in Edinburgh and being intrigued by it as well as very amused by the £80 price-tag! I received a couple of original SW items in the mid 1980s that were otherwise going in the bin (!!!) from a family friend of my cousin who was a good few years older than ourselves - namely an original Palitoy landspeeder and a boxed and complete Droid Factory that was of most interest due to the 3 legged R2D2 included. I never saw either in the shops, infact it was really only Darth Vader's Tie Fighter and some of the left-over/unsold 12" figures that I ever spotted with the Star Wars logo beyond the action figures. After I had moved on from buying SW toys I recall visiting my childhood toyshop where so many purchases had been made (it was the go-to place for Star Wars!) while looking for a He-Man toy for my brother's birthday and seeing a couple of boxed Skiffs, an A-Wing and a few discounted JEDI Imperial Shuttles looking rather forlorn and lost in an otherwise SW free shop - time (and the buying habits of kids) had definitely moved on. Just a year and a half before there had been B-Wings and Y- wings everywhere! Where's the time machine?!! [/QUOTE]
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