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Reading through the text of my book, I’m short of memories about the excitement the Star Wars trilogy generated. There were queues around the block at cinemas in many areas. I don’t remember a queue to see Star Wars though. I think my dad was canny enough to wait until the end of the run...

People seem to have gotten into the nitty-gritty of the origin of the action figures. The toys and playsets seem to be a bit more tricky. I've not been able to establish where the Kenner boxed Return of the Jedi stock came from, whether it was manufactured by Palitoy or was imported into the U.K.

I can only think of two Chad Valley Star Wars items – the Electronic Battle Command Game and the Slide Projector. I expect that Palitoy did not want to release them and just like other rejected Star Wars items (large size action figures, model kits, etc), their affiliate companies scrabbled to...

Thanks for the info. I have a few dates from Kenny's tour listed but your cinema is a new one.

I have just unearthed my childhood Star Wars T-shirt from 1978. There's no sign of a copyright or a company name, so its probably a bootleg item. It really took me back though. There's a photograph of me somewhere wearing it. There may be a slim chance my T-shirt is official. The licensee...

That's interesting. What cinema did Kenny visit?

I edited my last post before I noticed your reply! The white and the grey X-Wings being sold in conjunction fits the evidence really well. If stocks of the grey X-Wing were being sent from Meccano and Palitoy still had its own stock of white X-Wings, it would have been pot luck as to which...

That's a good point, that the clear canopy doesn't fit the grey X-Wing. I have never tried to swap them over. The idea of a different factory rings true, too as Meccano also apparently produced the X-Wing later on and was simply assembled at Palitoy http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1003493-3/ I...

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...

Thanks for the photo. The picture on the box bares more resemblance to the white X-Wing than the grey one. Are grey X-Wings common? I hardly ever come across the back in the 90's. Putting "Palitoy Battle Damaged X-Wing" in Google Images turns up a load of white X-Wings with clear canopies in...

I found the thread you’re talking about. http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t7463-the-x-wing-fighter-variations-thread I’m glad that it says that the ordinary white X-wing was also supplied in the ESB Battle Damage packaging, because that is all I have ever seen in all of my years. I have seen...

That’s right. The light grey version was sold later on in the same tri-logo box as the white one came in. It had the battery box glued down and button but there was no electronics. It had a smoked canopy that made it look pretty cool. I know that Palitoy created its own “tooling” mould for its...

I'm not able to make it too - gutting. I hope you have a good time.

Fantastic to see that. Thanks for posting the picture. This item was pretty expensive back in '83. Far beyond my pocket money, that's for sure. You could easily buy the individual items from this much more cheaply. So all you would be forking out for was a pretty piece of artwork on the front.

I was delighted to contact another collector whose collecting passions are so close to mine (maybe there is a common thread running through ‘Craig’s’!). Craig Spivey is a top man, all round. Craig (Stevens).

I could be up for this depending on the time everyone wants to see the film. I'll be travelling from Whitby that day and will be arriving in London in the evening.