I’ve just located my 60+ childhood cardbacks!

[UKS]

NFS obv.

Would anyone be interested in photos or details? I obviously Loved the mailaways due to the amount of missing name tags!

I am enjoying the retro price tags - so may upload those anyway. 75p EV-9D9 from Asda is a favourite!

 

[Snaketibe]

It would be great to see them

 

[Cazza]

Nice one- pics would be great! 8)

 

[theforceuk]

Yeah cool, lets see them!

 

[StarWarsFan]

Please do would be great to see

 

[chrisfnx]

Sounds good, put some pics up when you get a chance, cheers

 

[DarthHamblin]

Yeah I would like to see these

 

[Alisdairmac]

Would be great to see

 

[UKS]

Right! I am going to try and do this tonight when the wife is in bed.

UKSWIFE: "What are you up to at this time of night?!"

UKS: "Errr.... It's a pornography website. I was buying pornography."

 

[UKS]

Ok, here is the first (major!) batch. I'll pulled out all the Kenners and put to one side, and most the Palitoy ROTJ Like Bib, Klatuu etc.

Bizzarely, (as I would have only been 4 or 5) I can remember purchasing some of these - and a few still have shop labels on! I will ID where I can...

The story behind these, is as far as I can remember, whenever I got a new Star Wars figure, I would put the cardback into "my drawer" which was in a standard MFI cupboard from the seventies. I loaded a variety of childhood things into that drawer intill about 1989 when it was full and then I must have stopped. That drawer remained *untouched* until my parents passed away about 7 years ago and we had to clear the house. I put the cardbacks into a box folder and put it to one side, where it was "lost* until I found it in the garage the other day.

My great sadness was not keeping that drawer as a time capsule. It was a hard time (obvs) and so I didn't really think like that - but all the emphemera in that drawer and how it was layered (just like an archeological dig!) would have been fascinating for any photo-pop-retro-historian.

Just to give a taste, it was full of things like old school books, Superman 3 rub games that came in cereal, Black Couldron Kellogs give-aways and finished with a bad drawing of the Ogre from the GW bloodbowl game!

Anyway, onto the cardbacks!

This one I can remember buying in Gamleys in Worthing!

 

[UKS]

This is the Bristol Debenhams! I always remember the figures being much more expensive there - In the "fancy" department store

Yet Boba is more expensive! This is almost certainly the second Boba I got - This is from Martins - Which IIRC was a toy shop in a South Bristol shopping centre called Broad Walk. I remember it being huge and awesome selling TCR and Airfix, Action Man and Star Wars - This is probably rose tinted glasses!

 

[UKS]

Beatties! My favourite toy shop (and the only one I could reach from 89-94) My brother was married at the registry office behind it in the mid eighties and I tried to persuade them to take me there during a lull in the wedding proceedings. No such luck! :-(

This is the oldest cardback from my childhood surviving. I did have a SW Greedo Kenner Cardback but that has disappeared over the years. :-( :-( Interestingly, not the first figure I bought - Not even close - Which shows how cards hung around in shops!

Then we have the monster that is ASDA! I imagine this would have been where most my toys came from. My mum shopped there every week and I would often go along. My parents NEVER went into central Bristol - So if it was at ASDA - I had a chance of getting it.

 

[UKS]

Finally to wrap up today - Some Tri-logos from ASDA... Check out the discounted price! I loved a Bargain!

 

[Cazza]

Those are brilliant! Great memories- thanks for sharing mate 8) Funny how Debenhams was more expensive- I remember McIlroys in Swindon being like that- I always looked in there, but never bought anything as thought it was a rip-off. Are you still in Brizzle?

 

[UKS]

I'm in a village a few miles outside these days. But yes, still there or thereabouts!

 

[Cazza]

Nice one. Lived in Cirencester as a kid and visited Bristol occasionally for family shopping trips. Don't remember buying any SW there though. Work in Thornbury now, so not a million miles away.

 

[Snaketibe]

What a fantastic array of Palitoy goodness :-D

 

[x-wingMark]

Thanks for sharing them. 8) I would have loved to have my original card backs.

 

[Palifan]

This is the Bristol Debenhams! I always remember the figures being much more expensive there - In the "fancy" department store

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Yet Boba is more expensive! This is almost certainly the second Boba I got - This is from Martins - Which IIRC was a toy shop in a South Bristol shopping centre called Broad Walk. I remember it being huge and awesome selling TCR and Airfix, Action Man and Star Wars - This is probably rose tinted glasses!

Great to see your childhood collection and is the Martins toyshop the one in Kingswood? If it is we may well have bumped into each other back in the day

Ian

 

[UKS]

Ah I was a south bristol boy - this one was in Knowle West. Bit sad to know I missed out on any bristol toy shops!

 

[tobedesu]

Great story.
So good to see.

I've got mine, some with a price label on them so it serves as a memory where they came from.
The majority of mine came from Zodiac, Wooworths, Co-Op.
A few have Asda and Menzie's labels on them and a few have an unbranded yellow or orange label. Not sure where they're from. Maybe indoor market.

 

[Palifan]

Ah I was a south bristol boy - this one was in Knowle West. Bit sad to know I missed out on any bristol toy shops!

I didn't realise that there was a chain of them and the Martins in kingswood kept all of their Star Wars figures in wicker baskets, so you had to rummage through them to see what was in there. I remember them using these right up to Tri-Logo so I expect there were a lot of bend back backs that came from that shop :roll:

Ian

 

[Pomse2001]

NFS obv.

Would anyone be interested in photos or details? I obviously Loved the mailaways due to the amount of missing name tags!

I am enjoying the retro price tags - so may upload those anyway. 75p EV-9D9 from Asda is a favourite!

Thanks mate for the pictures, I would love to see them all, do you still have the figures ?

 

[UKS]

Yes, but not sure where. I did a loose run in the mid 90's, and that included some of my original figs, and I stored it in some lovely tool drawers - But I don't actually know where they are.

I did find my box of beaters last year - I think I put a photo on here somewhere of them.

And I found this in the garage last week!

I had forgotten I had loaded it with mostly Imperials back in the day! EDIT: The Stormtrooper with the faded/damaged arms and slight reddish (from plasticine!) body is the original trooper from that Cardback above.

I'm lucky/weird in that I still have all my old childhood toys in a storage unit. I never binned them or sold them on in my teens.

 

[Cazza]

Another fabulous find! Chuffed for you mate 8)

 

[Pomse2001]

Yes, but not sure where. I did a loose run in the mid 90's, and that included some of my original figs, and I stored it in some lovely tool drawers - But I don't actually know where they are.

I did find my box of beaters last year - I think I put a photo on here somewhere of them.

And I found this in the garage last week!

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I had forgotten I had loaded it with mostly Imperials back in the day! EDIT: The Stormtrooper with the faded/damaged arms and slight reddish (from plasticine!) body is the original trooper from that Cardback above.

I'm lucky/weird in that I still have all my old childhood toys in a storage unit. I never binned them or sold them on in my teens.

Looking great, if you find the figures then I would love to see the figures with the cardbacks and also the weapons if you still have them. It could be great info to see which variant that match the cardback 8)

 

[StarWarsFan]

Cheers for sharing mate.

 

[palitoyjunky]

Many thanks for sharing your nice little story. I so wish all my childhood cardbacks were kept! Only kept a few.

Some nice card backs there including that rare 41 back R5-D4 8)

 

[Dr_Ball_MD]

Great collection, thanks for sharing. If you're on Facebook there's a group specifically for showing UK price tags.

Vintage Star Wars UK shops & price stickers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/388047358386597