Did Toni ever sell any ROTJ Meccano cards?

[spoons]

Just browsing ebay and saw some nice ROTJ Meccano's which are something I know very little about. They are the same phase as the ROTJ Pal 45 and 65 backs but with French text and a miro-Meccano logo. What struck me about the Luc was the centrally placed bubble and limited tearing from its removal - which seemed very familiar.

After a bit of browsing I found the Chewie, which also seemed familiar with its upside down bubble - but it looks like Chewies could fit in the right way round, unlike the Toni Snowtroopers.

To be fair Top Toys bubbles also fall off with very little help, and the Meccano's use a different bubble to anything else and it may be that one size fits all - I'll have to look at Stephane's book when I get home. Nearly all the sales on ebay are France or Europe in general, and I'd be more worried if they were UK sales.

Food for thought in any case - and some nice card backs 8)

 

[snaggletooth]

I hope your wrong spoons and if you look at the chewy he is central but the edge of his bubble goes right to the edge of the card.

 

[spoons]

Not really suggesting there's any foul play but thought the similarities were interesting. The bubble backs are quite wide so tere is not a lot of option about placement

 

[mr_palitoy]

The Palitoy factory in Coalville did not produce Meccano ROTJ cards as far as I'm aware, and none were on the magic list of Toni cards. On that luke bespin, the bubble is not centered over the bubble area. Maybe the meccano factory just had crap glue on that batch of bubbles, like with toptoys.

Jason

 

[mr_palitoy]

The stickiness of the bubbles varies, as can be seen on my cardbacks pic:-

My Luke Bespin looks pretty much the same.

Jason

 

[mr_palitoy]

They weren't for sale on his website either. Just the Meccano 20 back Jawa was.

Jason

 

[spoons]

nice run there Jason - I need a Han Hoth if you find any spares

the similarities just struck me as odd, I'm sure there is nothing to worry about

 

[beginner]

I have not heard about it :|

 

[Pomse2001]

I hope toni have nothing to do with meccano, lovely cards andy and jason 8)

 

[coinnut]

I hope not but that is a great looking Luke card back