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<blockquote data-quote="peekaygee73" data-source="post: 552128" data-attributes="member: 6023"><p>I've not bought much this past year or so - there are a few items I'm after but with prices so nuts I really can't justify spending so much money. What I've been doing instead is keeping an eye out for items with price stickers from my childhood toy shops... and I've been lucky to buy two! Both were bought locally.</p><p></p><p>So we have an Ewok Glider from 'Conways Arts & Crafts', which was based in Keighley, West Yorks. It's only recently they closed, which is a shame as they were the last toy shop standing from my childhood.) Interestingly, I have a Speeder Bike from the same store which has a completely different price sticker on it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]174247[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>I also have this Klaatu, which is a little bit special. Carters of Bradford was my main toy shop and would almost certainly be where my Grandma would've bought me the exact same figure (100% remember it being Palitoy, not Kenner) as a Christmas present back in the 80s. As an added bonus this is one of the reduced figures that was kicking round long after the toys had fallen out of fashion. It'd already been reduced once before being reduced again to 45p! </p><p></p><p>It was in bad shape when I bought it but with a boiling kettle, some heavy books and a little patience it's flattened out really, really well. It's now sitting on my shelf with my Klaatu Skiff Guard... which also has a Carters sticker (£1.75 price sticker)! I feel a focus starting... <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]174246[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="peekaygee73, post: 552128, member: 6023"] I've not bought much this past year or so - there are a few items I'm after but with prices so nuts I really can't justify spending so much money. What I've been doing instead is keeping an eye out for items with price stickers from my childhood toy shops... and I've been lucky to buy two! Both were bought locally. So we have an Ewok Glider from 'Conways Arts & Crafts', which was based in Keighley, West Yorks. It's only recently they closed, which is a shame as they were the last toy shop standing from my childhood.) Interestingly, I have a Speeder Bike from the same store which has a completely different price sticker on it. [ATTACH type="full" width="804px"]174247[/ATTACH] I also have this Klaatu, which is a little bit special. Carters of Bradford was my main toy shop and would almost certainly be where my Grandma would've bought me the exact same figure (100% remember it being Palitoy, not Kenner) as a Christmas present back in the 80s. As an added bonus this is one of the reduced figures that was kicking round long after the toys had fallen out of fashion. It'd already been reduced once before being reduced again to 45p! It was in bad shape when I bought it but with a boiling kettle, some heavy books and a little patience it's flattened out really, really well. It's now sitting on my shelf with my Klaatu Skiff Guard... which also has a Carters sticker (£1.75 price sticker)! I feel a focus starting... 😂 [ATTACH type="full" width="659px"]174246[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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