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<blockquote data-quote="Simply Sci-fi" data-source="post: 389930" data-attributes="member: 5480"><p>If we're going to proceed with the assumption that the Palitoy grey X-Wing was sold in the 1982 "Battle Damaged" box, does anyone have any idea of the timing/reasons/method of its manufacture?</p><p></p><p>Since I assume Kenner was using the tooling moulds for the toy, Palitoy didn't do a production run of its own and simply issued the standard X-Wing, using the Kenner "battle damaged" stickers. Palitoy modified the box photos by obscuring the button and nose light. The light grey colour and the smoked cockpit canopy could I assume be excused by dim lighting in the photography.</p><p></p><p>If Palitoy manufactured the grey X-Wing that eventually emerged without electronics and a nose light, I assume that the tooling mould that was sent over from Kenner was modified to obscure the hole where the nose light fits through. The activation button was not so easily covered up and was left in place. </p><p></p><p>We seem to be getting very late in the day for the grey X-Wing to have been packaged in the 1982 Palitoy box but it's not impossible. Why Palitoy would bother to use and modify the Kenner mould is a mystery. A grey X-Wing with a smoked cockpit could have been manufactured from their own mould in 1982 and it would have matched the photos on the box.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simply Sci-fi, post: 389930, member: 5480"] If we’re going to proceed with the assumption that the Palitoy grey X-Wing was sold in the 1982 “Battle Damaged” box, does anyone have any idea of the timing/reasons/method of its manufacture? Since I assume Kenner was using the tooling moulds for the toy, Palitoy didn’t do a production run of its own and simply issued the standard X-Wing, using the Kenner “battle damaged” stickers. Palitoy modified the box photos by obscuring the button and nose light. The light grey colour and the smoked cockpit canopy could I assume be excused by dim lighting in the photography. If Palitoy manufactured the grey X-Wing that eventually emerged without electronics and a nose light, I assume that the tooling mould that was sent over from Kenner was modified to obscure the hole where the nose light fits through. The activation button was not so easily covered up and was left in place. We seem to be getting very late in the day for the grey X-Wing to have been packaged in the 1982 Palitoy box but it's not impossible. Why Palitoy would bother to use and modify the Kenner mould is a mystery. A grey X-Wing with a smoked cockpit could have been manufactured from their own mould in 1982 and it would have matched the photos on the box. [/QUOTE]
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