SWTOTW, Week 51, 2018, Part 1/2 Tauntaun With Open Belly Rescue Feature

[Pomse2001]

and here are my kenner box and a few loose

As usual Lars, you never fail to impress with your vast collection! That's a wonderful assortment of open belly tauntauns. The Danish price stickers on the Palitoy boxes are very interesting to see too. Can I assume Denmark did not have its own licensed boxes, like Palitoy in the UK, Meccano in France, etc.? Or did they have a mix of their own and foreign imports? It's something I feel I really ought to know already, so apologies for my ignorance!

Thanks as always for sharing your tremendous collection

thanks mate for our very kind words as always Yes Denmark did not have its own licensed boxes. They imported from Palitoy, Kenner USA, Kenner Canada, Meccano and Clipper. As I understand it some stores imported from this factories others bought from a wholesaler in denmark maybe there was more than one :? others also bought from BRIO, you can read a little about it here on this link :wink: http://trilogo.info/intro-history/european-countries-companies/

 

[Snaketibe]

and here are my kenner box and a few loose

As usual Lars, you never fail to impress with your vast collection! That's a wonderful assortment of open belly tauntauns. The Danish price stickers on the Palitoy boxes are very interesting to see too. Can I assume Denmark did not have its own licensed boxes, like Palitoy in the UK, Meccano in France, etc.? Or did they have a mix of their own and foreign imports? It's something I feel I really ought to know already, so apologies for my ignorance!

Thanks as always for sharing your tremendous collection

thanks mate for our very kind words as always Yes Denmark did not have its own licensed boxes. They imported from Palitoy, Kenner USA, Kenner Canada, Meccano and Clipper. As I understand it some stores imported from this factories others bought from a wholesaler in denmark maybe there was more than one :? others also bought from BRIO, you can read a little about it here on this link :wink: http://trilogo.info/intro-history/european-countries-companies/

Thanks for the info and link!

 

[Pomse2001]

As usual Lars, you never fail to impress with your vast collection! That's a wonderful assortment of open belly tauntauns. The Danish price stickers on the Palitoy boxes are very interesting to see too. Can I assume Denmark did not have its own licensed boxes, like Palitoy in the UK, Meccano in France, etc.? Or did they have a mix of their own and foreign imports? It's something I feel I really ought to know already, so apologies for my ignorance!

Thanks as always for sharing your tremendous collection

thanks mate for our very kind words as always Yes Denmark did not have its own licensed boxes. They imported from Palitoy, Kenner USA, Kenner Canada, Meccano and Clipper. As I understand it some stores imported from this factories others bought from a wholesaler in denmark maybe there was more than one :? others also bought from BRIO, you can read a little about it here on this link :wink: http://trilogo.info/intro-history/european-countries-companies/

Thanks for the info and link!

Your welcome, I hope you can use it

 

[Robstyley]

Oh man that has got to be one of my favourite boxes - the Empire Palitoy ones. The colours look so cool and it's a great size too. This is my own childhood open belly which I must have got for birthday or Christmas 82'. I remember playing with this a lot with the Wampa and Luke and Han Hoths. These items mean so much more to me as I was handling them 35 years ago and they were gifts from my parents or other relatives. I think Im going to display my childhood bits all together at some point.

 

[Snaketibe]

Oh man that has got to be one of my favourite boxes - the Empire Palitoy ones. The colours look so cool and it's a great size too. This is my own childhood open belly which I must have got for birthday or Christmas 82'. I remember playing with this a lot with the Wampa and Luke and Han Hoths. These items mean so much more to me as I was handling them 35 years ago and they were gifts from my parents or other relatives. I think Im going to display my childhood bits all together at some point.

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I think it's great that you still have your childhood toys; I wish I did! Your tauntaun is also in great condition, so you must have been a careful child that looked after his toys!

Thanks for sharing

 

[Pomse2001]

Oh man that has got to be one of my favourite boxes - the Empire Palitoy ones. The colours look so cool and it's a great size too. This is my own childhood open belly which I must have got for birthday or Christmas 82'. I remember playing with this a lot with the Wampa and Luke and Han Hoths. These items mean so much more to me as I was handling them 35 years ago and they were gifts from my parents or other relatives. I think Im going to display my childhood bits all together at some point.

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Cool that you still have all your childhood star wars toy sounds like a good idea to display them together. I would have done the same, if I had not been so stupid to sell the beaters in 2001 and to mix most of them with the rest of my collection so I now do not know what is what :roll: lucky I did manage to ID a few special figures from my childhood lot. But the rest I do not know if I still have them

thanks for sharing the great story and a picture of that beautiful tauntaun :wink: