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Buying in the 80's how we used to buy figures
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 506184" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>Perhaps I'm a little unusual then (yes, 'weird' is another word ;-)), but I remember buying loads of Star Wars toys in lots of different places. Yes, most were bought from Ware Toy Shop in Hertfordshire, but I also remember getting some from Ware Tesco, Hertford Toy Shop (saw some Kenner 20 backs there and wondered what the hell the Dewback was and why I'd never seen one, plus why the Droid Factory and Cantina shown on the card differed from my Palitoy ones!), Stevenage Toy Shop, Stevenage market (finally got a Boba Fett there, but was disappointed it wasn't a Palitoy card! :lol: ), Inverness Toy Shop (where I bought a Snowspeeder whilst on holiday at Loch Ness, but had to take it back as it had one missing and one duplicated part, and I ended up having to swap it for a Turret and Probot playset instead, as they had no more Snowspeeders). I remember swapping figures with my brother's friend, which finally got me a pin head Han, and all of this between the ages of 6 and 11. I would say 10, but although I sold my collection to a friend when I was 10 so I could buy a Halfords Turbo BMX bike (which was every bit as rubbish as it sounds), I couldn't resist buying one ROJ figure, in the form of Chief Chirpa, at age 11, again from good old Ware Toy Shop.</p><p></p><p>There's plenty of things I don't remember from my childhood, but many of my clearest memories revolve around Star Wars, usually the toys, but sometimes the films, like being taken to see Star Wars at the Odeon, Leicester Square by my godparents, and marvelling at how huge R2-D2's dome was on screen during his close-up on Tatooine when C-3PO throws a wobbly and ditches him after landing. Or like going to see Empire with the same godparents a couple of years later and being really annoyed that the audience cheered when an AT-AT was brought down on Hoth, instead of watching the film in respectful silence, like considerate people do ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 506184, member: 7379"] Perhaps I'm a little unusual then (yes, 'weird' is another word ;-)), but I remember buying loads of Star Wars toys in lots of different places. Yes, most were bought from Ware Toy Shop in Hertfordshire, but I also remember getting some from Ware Tesco, Hertford Toy Shop (saw some Kenner 20 backs there and wondered what the hell the Dewback was and why I'd never seen one, plus why the Droid Factory and Cantina shown on the card differed from my Palitoy ones!), Stevenage Toy Shop, Stevenage market (finally got a Boba Fett there, but was disappointed it wasn't a Palitoy card! :lol: ), Inverness Toy Shop (where I bought a Snowspeeder whilst on holiday at Loch Ness, but had to take it back as it had one missing and one duplicated part, and I ended up having to swap it for a Turret and Probot playset instead, as they had no more Snowspeeders). I remember swapping figures with my brother's friend, which finally got me a pin head Han, and all of this between the ages of 6 and 11. I would say 10, but although I sold my collection to a friend when I was 10 so I could buy a Halfords Turbo BMX bike (which was every bit as rubbish as it sounds), I couldn't resist buying one ROJ figure, in the form of Chief Chirpa, at age 11, again from good old Ware Toy Shop. There's plenty of things I don't remember from my childhood, but many of my clearest memories revolve around Star Wars, usually the toys, but sometimes the films, like being taken to see Star Wars at the Odeon, Leicester Square by my godparents, and marvelling at how huge R2-D2's dome was on screen during his close-up on Tatooine when C-3PO throws a wobbly and ditches him after landing. Or like going to see Empire with the same godparents a couple of years later and being really annoyed that the audience cheered when an AT-AT was brought down on Hoth, instead of watching the film in respectful silence, like considerate people do ;-) [/QUOTE]
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