70s/80s Toy Shops

[Cymonguk]

Honestly have no idea where I bought them from! I used to go to Middleton or City Centre Manchester so I imagine it was from shops there. I am going to guess at Menzies and Smiths, although I do remember getting other toys from C&A and more strangely a Coop in Oldham I think. So its possible that I got some out of there. Around 85 my Mum regularly picked up cheap figures for me (I remember those big stickers on the front). However I really don't remember where I ever saw them?

I also remember buying a Slave-1, but can't remember where I got it, it was the only big ship I had until I bought up other kids old collections.

 

[x-pack]

My childhood shop for Star Wars was Toy & Hobby, Standishgate, Wigan.

My brother says he bought our 1st figure Princess Leia back in 77-79 in Dolgellau, Wales while on holiday. Most likely in this shop or whatever came before this shop. Link below.

http://prntscr.com/fpa09w


Any information anyone might have on this shop, I'd be interested.

Toy & Hobby Preston and Chester I knew well. Did not know Wigan had one

 

[laurencedyer]

Zodiac Toys.
Orange one still full of Action Man figures.

Very cool carrier bags.

 

[laurencedyer]

I looked a while ago at the old toy shops in Leicester and one of them was a Zodiac toys which is now a Tesco Metro, there was also a Dominoes Toys which had a revival a couple of years ago but is now closed again, the other place my toys came from was Tescos at Beaumont Leys in Leicester which is still a Tescos (rather unsurprisingly)

There was also Alpha Toys on Churchgate.

Dominoes was the main one for me, a Leicester icon.

 

[Gaz46&2]

I remember frequenting the London Forbidden Planet (Denmark St, I think) in the late 80s/early 90s.

The used to have big plastic bins chock full of MOC ROTJ figures, reduced to a few quid to sell.
Bought four figures and intended to go back for the rest, at some time.
Never happened.
Oh for a time machine.

It was on New Oxford Street around August 89. I only remember that as I went there when Tim Burton's Batman came out.