jayums said:
bosk70 said:
When I see these old catalogues it always surprises me at the cost back then for the at-at and mel falcon £25 -£30 pound was a lot of money back then so was so lucky to get what I did back then, at the time the larger ships were not a cheap toy, love the miconauts to another fav of mine
That's what I was thinking - they weren't cheap at a time when the average wage was about 6 grand, and when a lot more households had the one earner (if at all). An at at was essentially a 200 quid toy in today's money... Makes the vintage price for them seem good value!
The Millennium Falcon was the only large item I ever got - I'm pretty sure that it was £30 plus, which was a lot of Money back then for my parents to shell out. It was the toy that I got the most use out of though in my entire childhood.
I was also collecting Micronauts toys, which were considerably cheaper, especially when Mego went bust and their Hong Kong factory dumped all of the leftover stock on Romford Market (or so it seemed).
There was a great lack of Star Wars stock in the shops around Romford, apart from stalls in the Rumford (correct spelling) Shopping Arcade, which had dealers who would no doubt ferret out stock from where ever it was available (and priced it accordingly).
The kid who lived opposite had a roomful of Star Wars. His parents shopped at the out-of-town Sava Centre, which apparently had Star Wars stacked high. That was the Star Wars nirvana that I never visited - apart from in my dreams!