Anyone remember getting a SW figure in blackpool tower?

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We used to go to Blackpool quite a bit in the 80's for holidays! Did anyone else ever go and play in jungle jims with the slides and cargo nets and stuff?? Anyway there used to be a little shop/hut thing inside there where you buy drinks and sweets...You could also buy a lucky bag and in it you always got a star wars figure with weapon!
Just wondered if anyone here had done this too? I still have my Rancor Keeper from that bag but he is the only one I remember even though I know I bought loads :D
 
Don't remember that but I do remember the comic book shop just off the beach front called 'THUNDERBOOKS', great little shop that had all sorts of stuff, plenty of vintage in there - this was back in the very early 90's.

Does anyone remember the takeaway with the huge Indiana Jones logo?
 
My parents didn't take us into into the Tower as kids but I do remember around 1984 going into a shop somewhere on the front and getting a Gamm Guard, 'cos I remember the shopkeeper saying "He's a rare one isn't he!".

I'm assuming they were loose in the lucky bag? Where they in plastic bags? Or even in Kenner/Palitoy baggies?
 
I do remember the Lewis's store in Blackpool had an amazing range of vintage Star Wars.
 
Bootyhunter said:
I do remember the Lewis's store in Blackpool had an amazing range of vintage Star Wars.
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Lewis's was always heaven on earth for kids. The Liverpool one always had massive displays of SW, Playmobil, Lego, Action Man etc.

Happy days :D
 
SublevelStudios said:
Don't remember that but I do remember the comic book shop just off the beach front called 'THUNDERBOOKS', great little shop that had all sorts of stuff, plenty of vintage in there - this was back in the very early 90's.

Does anyone remember the takeaway with the huge Indiana Jones logo?
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Didn't go in the tower much as a kid so haven't ever seen the shop. Thunderbooks though :D They had Thunderbooks 2 in Preston. From the one in Blackpool I bought a nice boxed At-At for a tenner back in the mid 90's. They had loads of cool stuff. Always remember them having a James Bond collectibles section. THey had a mint in box Matchbox Bond Rolls Royce. Always wanted one of them. Very cool shop that existed until only about ten years ago.
 
The figures were loose just in the lucky dip bags! No baggies or anything! Used to be a pound a bag.

Lewis's was great for toy's I remember going into the Leeds one alot in the 80's.
 
We had a Lewis's in Hanley here in Stoke. The greatest department store ever. Every Christmas in the early 80's, there would be a route around the Potteries that Santa and his procession would make, crowds would line the streets for miles and the elves would throw badges into the air - amazing times, you'd never see that now - it would be a traffic nightmare.

And the shop itself, especially the toy department - nothing short of epic. I'm so glad I grew up back then :)
 
SublevelStudios said:
We had a Lewis's in Hanley here in Stoke. The greatest department store ever. Every Christmas in the early 80's, there would be a route around the Potteries that Santa and his procession would make, crowds would line the streets for miles and the elves would throw badges into the air - amazing times, you'd never see that now - it would be a traffic nightmare.

And the shop itself, especially the toy department - nothing short of epic. I'm so glad I grew up back then :)
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Amazing shop as a kid! Visiting Father Christmas was the event of the year, although that scary spiky culture hanging off the side of the building always terrified me as a child!
 
SAVORY100 said:
Amazing shop as a kid! Visiting Father Christmas was the event of the year, although that scary spiky culture hanging off the side of the building always terrified me as a child!
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Cool, you went to the Hanley one too?!

The Spikey Man was actually fixed into position by my Grandfather and his company when the sculpture was finished. It's just so cool.

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That's the fella!
I lived in Woolstanton as kid and Clayton for a year before we moved south when I was about 10/11 years old, so the Hanley store was my earliest memories of visiting Father Christmas's grotto etc. That shop was pretty special :D
 
SAVORY100 said:
That's the fella!
I lived in Woolstanton as kid and Clayton for a year before we moved south when I was about 10/11 years old, so the Hanley store was my earliest memories of visiting Father Christmas's grotto etc. That shop was pretty special :D
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HA! I lived in Wolstanton!
Boulton Street at first, then moved to Porthill across the road :)
Did you go to Ellison Street school? When did you live there?
 
I remember Blackpool Pleasure Beach having a piss-poor filler attraction in a dark corner where, for 10p, you could drive an un-Starwarsy buggy around a glass-encased sandy landscape ( maybe about 6' by 4' ) that had some random Star Wars figures glued down amongst it. It must have been created circa 1979 as I remember a Death Star Droid and a Power Droid but no ESB figs.

It may as well have been called Space Wars or Star Quest. You get the picture.
 
Yup I remember that it was there for years, the toys got a little more faded every year :lol:
Also this is gutting but I remember seeing boxes of Jedi figures being sold on the tat stalls for £0.49 each! A lot of squids, ackbars, klaatus etc
 
MOCs in Blackpool tat shops? There's something to meditate on.

On the subject of end-of-line figures going cheap, every time I see a Tri-Logo Fett I'm reminded of my class-mate buying a pale Fett on a ROTJ skiff scene card circa Summer 1986 in the local sweet shop for pennies. He went on to throw it about the playground in a condom he'd lifted from his parents' bedroom.

I remember realizing SW was over at that point.
 
chipsteak said:
I remember Blackpool Pleasure Beach having a piss-poor filler attraction in a dark corner where, for 10p, you could drive an un-Starwarsy buggy around a glass-encased sandy landscape ( maybe about 6' by 4' ) that had some random Star Wars figures glued down amongst it. It must have been created circa 1979 as I remember a Death Star Droid and a Power Droid but no ESB figs.

It may as well have been called Space Wars or Star Quest. You get the picture.
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I'd completely forgotten about that!
 
Another Blackpool SW memory.

Anyone remember the SW display as part of the North Shore Illuminations where the big tableaux were? It had a full-size-ish ( maybe ) X Wing Fighter and the two droids.

Here's evidence. It looked better before the storm, of course.

http://bispham2.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/star-wars-weather-strikes-back.html
 
I don't remember the Star Wars items in Blackpool, I think I was there in 1979 , however do remember the Dr who tardis. You had to go downstairs to it , I looked at a tardis for the Tom baker figure , went to find my parents and went the wrong way and couldn't get back it , I was devastated.

Only took me 35 years to get one :D
 
Always remember lewis's having brilliant star wars diorama's / window displays ( use to enjoy the diorama's more than the illumination)
Fond memories of going on holiday with grandparents and getting bought Leia hoth / ugnaught :D
 
steve obi wan said:
I don't remember the Star Wars items in Blackpool, I think I was there in 1979 , however do remember the Dr who tardis. You had to go downstairs to it , I looked at a tardis for the Tom baker figure , went to find my parents and went the wrong way and couldn't get back it , I was devastated.

Only took me 35 years to get one :D
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I remember the Dr Who Exhibition where they had a Tardis against at the side of the building creating quite a neat illusion.

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The illusion was shattered a bit when you left the exhibit via a chippie/ cafe to get back out on the street. :D That was more Mr Benn than Doctor Who.
 

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