Argos catalogues

I found a great site last night where someone had scanned in all the old Argos catalogues. I've copied the SW pages and it makes a great chronology documenting the popularity of Star Wars. Argos apparently didn't start selling loose figs until ESB and only sold the whole range by the time of ROTJ

The range first appears in 1979, and the focus is on the 12" line



1980





1982





1983



1984







1985 - popularity winding down





1986 - last time it appears



I've not bothered posting all the other toy lines, but will post the Action Man on another forum - anyone that is interested the scans are all here:

http://retromash.com/argos/

just noticed that there are clearly green and brown Rancors pictured - always thought the greens were discoloured

The 1986 shot pretty much sums up my childhood toys, great find!

Was it the retrosmash site? There's an old thread on it here http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23531&hilit=argos

Fantastic memories 8)

Cazza said:

Was it the retrosmash site? There's an old thread on it here http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23531&hilit=argos

Fantastic memories 8)

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it was indeed - link above

I'd forgotten that thread but useful to have the SW pages out - took a couple of hrs to browse through it all...

Awesome. They really bring childhood memories flooding back!

I used to love looking at all the catalogues when I was young, specially the Kay's catalogue :wink:

Very cool spoons

If only we knew then what we know now...!

Robert

Bloody awesome thread. Used to play a game called "tax" with Argos catalogues. Sit with a friend as soon as a page is turned you quickly ppint to what you would want and shout "tax". Always remember the most exciting items apart from toys was the pots and pans with whole roast chickens or meat joints lol. Ahhhhhh, fun times.

stormcab said:

Bloody awesome thread. Used to play a game called "tax" with Argos catalogues. Sit with a friend as soon as a page is turned you quickly ppint to what you would want and shout "tax". Always remember the most exciting items apart from toys was the pots and pans with whole roast chickens or meat joints lol. Ahhhhhh, fun times.

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Did the same but shouted "bagsie" :lol:

These are a massive part of my Childhood memories about Christmas. Used to love looking through all the toy pages.....the anticipation...

Great post

Notice the Chad Valley name in the 1980 picture

Love looking at these - brings back loads of great memories

I've studied these pages carefully, written down everything I want and sent the list up the chimney. Hopefully if I'm good all year?

Great memories there, the last couple of years most notably sum up my childhood memories, though we inherited a secondhand AM assault tower, so a slight hazy mix of years I guess...

itfciain said:

Notice the Chad Valley name in the 1980 picture

Love looking at these - brings back loads of great memories

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That's what started the thread Iain - I saw Chad Valley whilst browsing and added it to the other thread. I assume that Argos were just confused by the make-up of the company as they listed them as Palitoy in 1979

Great stuff...Wonder if there's a old littlewoods out there.

Great pics ,

That stretch hulk is worth a fortune now ! It says Chad Valley but was Deny's Fisher . I never remember seeing too many large SW figures in the shops .

Great memories

I bagsie everything in those pictures.

steve obi wan said:

Great pics ,

That stretch hulk is worth a fortune now ! It says Chad Valley but was Deny's Fisher . I never remember seeing too many large SW figures in the shops .

Great memories

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I had the stretch Hulk back then, I remember I pulled his arms so far apart that they split and all the goo started to seep out and he wouldn't return to shape ! Bugger. Great memories though, I look at some of those catalogue pages and recall them as clear as if it were yesterday.

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