Frunkstar
Grand Master
Please bear in mind that the below rough guide is all my opinion only & put together from many years of cross referencing the baggies I have added to my own collection & had the opportunity to inspect closely.
All are Heat Sealed unless otherwise stated.
PLEASE NOTE VERY IMPORTANT - ALL BAGGIE DESIGNATIONS have been changed to BELOW the images to bring this guide in line with the other guides, this was near impossible with the old forum software, so I am thankful it's finally looking how it should in terms of conformity
Palitoy-a (Tape sealed) small light blue horizontal text/font - Crisp
Palitoy-a large font
Palitoy-a large & small font comparison of the 2 exact baggies shown above
Palitoy-a Type c - alternate font, (Tape sealed) small light blue horizontal text/font - Crisp, this is a subject/variation I have to date not really dealt with, but have seen many many times over the years & maybe a sub-classification needed, thin lighter font Palitoy-a which we will just term Palitoy-a type C for want of something better
Palitoy-b - small light blue Horizontal text/font – Crisp (Heat sealed)
Palitoy-c - Dark Blue or Purple Horizontal text/font – Soft
Palitoy-d RECLASSIFICATION DUE TO NEW EVIDENCE 10/9/15, Different baggie type now allocated as Palitoy-d after discovering that the Palitoy-k baggie (shown at the bottom of the page & is a Gamorrean Guard) was in fact produced through the full life of the toy line rather than just in the SW wars era, so the previously thought to be Palitoy-d (Black sharp edge thin font large letters), is in fact a Palitoy-k - sorry I know this reshuffles things a bit, but hey ho, this is how we learn - from experience & doing our homework, funny how finding one little missing link can throw things out so much, but it started a deductive line of reasoning which has led me to the point of having to reclassify this one, previous image at bottom of page to try to maintain the flow.
Palitoy-e – (Tape Sealed) Black Horizontal Text/font – Soft
Palitoy-f Type A Taped baggie from an endor chase set that also came with 2 Palitoy-u Biker Scouts, note the extra wide tape used, same as on the Palitoy-u baggies.
Palitoy-f Type B (open one end) – This one is a bit of an oddity, much like the reclassification of the Fett baggies with the same font & top heat seal (from KENNER SW-d to ROTJ-j), this however is purely a baggie issued by Palitoy & has been found both in Woolies 99p 8 packs as well as in the POTF Endor play packs, it can be found both open one end as well as factory tape sealed, it has even been encountered factory stapled & is to date only the 2nd baggie type to be confirmed as having been issued directly in the stapled format.
So in Short there are 3 versions of this know which I will sub-classify as follows -
Palitoy-f Type A = Tape sealed
Palitoy-f Type B = Open one end / no bottom seal
Palitoy-f Type C = Stapled
There are as said also Kenner issued baggies which are as good as identical, those being the ROTJ-j type, which fall in to 2 era's (SW issued & ROTJ era issued)
So this is why it's taken me years o want to make a solid classification for these, heck there's still dispute with some over the reclassifying of the Kenner issued ones, so I shall firmly keep my tim hat on with thse - confused? I hope not
Additional below -
This baggie has been reclassified to the above, this is down the the fact after some open woolies 8 packs have been found with a similar line up, the vaders (no text vader previously shown in woolies 8 pack) have proven to be in Euro-b baggies, way back when I got these woolies packs where the vader is included I was not aware of a no text version of the clipper mailer, this classification will be altered to another baggie type soon, one which has needed a classification for far to long, I am leaving the image here for the time being until the new type is shown.
Palitoy-g – (Tape sealed) Green Horizontal text/font - Crisp
Palitoy-h – Small Light Blue Horizontal Text/Font – Soft
Palitoy-i – (Tape Sealed) Small Light Blue Horizontal Font soft baggie, this is the longest of all baggie types being almost twice as long as most examples & is found both tape sealed & open ended, a few examples of it have even surfaced simply knotted to seal it, I would have written the knotted examples off totally as just done after the fact if it were not for a large cash of 8D8's turning up like it many many years ago, obviously only examples found tape sealed can be 100% confirmed as it's way to easy to switch the figure out on an open or knotted example, so caution is always advised when looking to buy this type of baggie.
The font is a lighter blue than the Palitoy-a's & the font is also notably smaller.
Palitoy-j – Palitoy/Parker/Bradgate in blue box with small light blue Made in Hong Kong Horizontal text/font below – crisp
Palitoy-k Font type A: (Revised) This type has much cleaner well defined solid font compared to the Type b,no discernible blotching or bleed out or over-inking of any kind(Gammoren Gaurd example shown) & the ink application is solid & these have frequently been mistaken for Kenner SW-f baggie in the past.
Palitoy-k Fonttype B: These have a much softer edge/outline to the fonts compared with the Type a & come in varying degrees of ink applied, they suffer from some blotching & minor bleed out of the ink, this I think is purely down to how much ink was in the press at the time or the possibility of 2 different presses being used.
Conclusion:- although the fonts do look rather different, the font-set/type is the same & the letter spacing is the same with the spacing between each letter & each word being consistent, hence both types falling under the Palitoy-k umbrella, please note 2 examples of the type B are being shown to illustrate the difference there can be with the ink / font application (Lobot heavily ink saturated & Tusken Raider with a more regular ink application)
Palitoy-l - (tape sealed) dark Blue/Purple Horizontal font/Text - Crisp -
Palitoy-m - Dark Blue/Purple Vertical Text/font - Soft
Palitoy-n - (Tape Sealed) - Larger Blue/Grey "matt" Horizontal Text/font Crisp -
Palitoy-o - Very similar to the Kenner SW-d (Small font) but different enough to confirm it is not a kenner issued baggie type.
Palitoy-p (reclassification), this baggie type had previously been mistaken for Palitoy-n, but on close inspection there are a number of notable differences between the 2, colour or font, N being more gray / sharpness of the font edges etc etc, the (New) P classification has a more blue/grey colouration as you can see & I will add a side by side comparison image at the bottom of the page for clarity.
Palitoy-q - Made in China Horizontal black text
Palitoy-r - (Reclassification), one I have been meaning to get classified for some time, this is another Palitoy baggie which has been seen with a couple of figures, most notably the Nein Nunb & Admiral Ackbar, the baggie has been found in some palitoy NN mailers as well as Clipper versions, it is speculated these are of earlier origin than the Palitoy-a baggies, as I have an example in a Kenner box with Palitoy sticker overlay & the clipper versions that have been found included this baggie.
Palitoy-s - exclusively used in the Euro / UK issued Rebo band set for the figures, I will not be allocating a lettered designation for larger outer bag which has the "made in hong kong" black text, but regards the piano & accessories baggie as Palitoy-s / Large as they are the same material & seal, just bigger
Palitoy-u Hoth Rescue Pack no text baggie - thin very soft material, Thanks to a great find by our very own Laurence Dyer, I am pleased to be able to confirm this baggie was not solely found in the Hoth rescue pack & I suspect to be an internal baggie made in house at Palitoy much like Kenner did with the ESB-h, usually intended for opening for carding (speculation), as Laurence found a good size cash of mostly palitoy issued baggies in a loft find from someone who actually got them all back in the day & has had them stored in a loft ever since, a great find which also confirms that Palitoy had some Kenner issued baggies at the time toward the end of the toy line, so hypothetically speaking, some of the woolies 8 packs that have been found with the odd Kenner baggie included in the lineup (sadly all open examples to date) may in fact be correct.
Palitoy-v blue/green/grey text thinner font that the N, but same crisp material type & almost the same colour, but heat sealed
Euro-a – Made in Macau, Horizontal small blue text/font – Crisp
Euro-b - No Text single seal – soft, all found to date have been no COO/Deep Scarred & with the textured cape
Euro-c – Made in Macau Black Vertical Text/font
Euro-d – No Text soft – (single heat seal) German YPS Trooper – I think this one is specific to just this one figure, due to it being a special offer item only issued free with the German comic book - soft
Euro-e/A – Twin Heat sealed – Very soft – no text, these have to date been found with no coo & coo scarred figures previously being sold as meccanos, but are PBP issued often found in overstock baggies from the meccano factory.
Euro-e/B - Twin Heat Sealed - Soft but more rigid that the Euro-e/A's I am at this point "speculating" that these are in fact another Palitoy baggie type with the figures found in them so far being either MIHK or No Coo, not coo scarred like with the Euro-e/A's & of a different material type - any help on this baggie type appreciated if you have one as with the Euro-e/A's, as a lot more cross referencing is still needed to confirm this 100%
Euro-f - (reclassification), this baggie type is soft material & usually always found stapled rather than heat or tape sealed, it was one issued in France & most examples have come from the Meccano counter top red sticker free figure offer, please note this baggie type has no text, a new image showing one without the red sticker will be added when it is available (image needed without sticker).
This classification previously covered all the red sticker baggies till it was discovered multiple baggie types had been used in the promotion, this was not clear till the big cash of them turned up in 2016, these were so rare before the find that it was impossible to know this as they used the red stickers to cover any font on the various baggies used in the promotion.
New Euro-g (reclassified) this baggies has always been considered to be a kenner ESB-h baggie but it varies considerable both in size & in the coo of the figures included & is now confirmed to be of European not United Stares origins, more details to follow
Euro-h - photoy courtesy of Del - this is a baggie that rarely crops up & is often considered a fake, it is a genuine baggie though, material is very flimsy & the text usually has a lot of bleed out & it's the sloppiest quality baggie of any.
This baggie type has been found both heat sealed & tape sealed, the example shown is heat sealed, there is very little know about these & few examples documented, most having shown up across Europe, it's certainly an authentic baggie, but due to the very fragile nature of them I suspect most have popped/torn & been opened up, hence their scarcity even more so than some other non kenner baggies (another example to be added of a lando skiff that came from France)
Euro-i / Meccano (Ex Euro-c) - explanation - this was till now considered to be the Euro-c baggie like the clipper Darth Vader shown above, on close inspection they are totally different baggies, Euro-c only has one heat seal at the bottom, the Euro-i is twin heat sealed & the font is noticeably larger, this info updated as of 30/7/16 this baggie was known to have been distributed in France in the free figure when you buy a large vehicle offer (red sticker)
Euro-j again a French issue Meccano baggie, with large defined straight edge's black font, very much like if not the same as the Palitoy-k but obviously horizontal rather than vertical, can be found both taped & stapled with what would look to be brass staples
Euro-k - to date a baggie that has been a point of speculation regarding it's authenticity, the mystery surrounding it suddenly became clear when a recent find of red sticker meccano baggies were discovered, it has been one in question as more know examples are part of the meccano free figure offer/promotion (see main guide for full details) & have a large rectangular red sticker on them which covered the font type on the baggies, glad to put this one to rest & confirm it's authenticity at long last,it is tape sealed & crisp with a blue green large font
Euro-l - (PBP/POCH Internal-a) Courtesy of Javier Ruilopez - soft baggie & heat sealed
Euro-l (PBP/POCH-b) - Soft baggie / tape sealed, images courtesy of Enric Rovira
Please NOTE that the above 2 baggies types are the same, but one is heat sealed & the other heat sealed, hence the (PBP/POCH-a & b) designations
I would like you to consider that this is so far just a preliminary rough guide to the Non kenner issued baggies I am familiar with to date, there is also a Macau red text baggie known I believe?, but I sadly do not have a photo, all of the above baggies are part of my own collection & IMO are legitimate baggie types & are ALL still factory sealed, for most of them I have multiple examples to cross reference seal/font/material types & am more than happy to add further photo's on request to back up my finding to date, I would ask that if you have a baggie type that does not conform to any of the ones above or to any known on the SWCA, to please contact me & forward me some info & photos as this is to be a basic matrix for further work so we can actually start to make some sense of the wilderness/mine field that is Euro issued baggies.
I hope this rough guide is of some help to others & that we can work together on this as an open ended project.
& remember - you saw it first on SWFUK
Palitoy-p verses Palitoy-n side by side comparison image - Palitoy-p is on the left of the photo
All are Heat Sealed unless otherwise stated.
PLEASE NOTE VERY IMPORTANT - ALL BAGGIE DESIGNATIONS have been changed to BELOW the images to bring this guide in line with the other guides, this was near impossible with the old forum software, so I am thankful it's finally looking how it should in terms of conformity
Palitoy-a (Tape sealed) small light blue horizontal text/font - Crisp
Palitoy-a large font
Palitoy-a large & small font comparison of the 2 exact baggies shown above
Palitoy-a Type c - alternate font, (Tape sealed) small light blue horizontal text/font - Crisp, this is a subject/variation I have to date not really dealt with, but have seen many many times over the years & maybe a sub-classification needed, thin lighter font Palitoy-a which we will just term Palitoy-a type C for want of something better
Palitoy-b - small light blue Horizontal text/font – Crisp (Heat sealed)
Palitoy-c - Dark Blue or Purple Horizontal text/font – Soft
Palitoy-d RECLASSIFICATION DUE TO NEW EVIDENCE 10/9/15, Different baggie type now allocated as Palitoy-d after discovering that the Palitoy-k baggie (shown at the bottom of the page & is a Gamorrean Guard) was in fact produced through the full life of the toy line rather than just in the SW wars era, so the previously thought to be Palitoy-d (Black sharp edge thin font large letters), is in fact a Palitoy-k - sorry I know this reshuffles things a bit, but hey ho, this is how we learn - from experience & doing our homework, funny how finding one little missing link can throw things out so much, but it started a deductive line of reasoning which has led me to the point of having to reclassify this one, previous image at bottom of page to try to maintain the flow.
Palitoy-e – (Tape Sealed) Black Horizontal Text/font – Soft
Palitoy-f Type A Taped baggie from an endor chase set that also came with 2 Palitoy-u Biker Scouts, note the extra wide tape used, same as on the Palitoy-u baggies.
Palitoy-f Type B (open one end) – This one is a bit of an oddity, much like the reclassification of the Fett baggies with the same font & top heat seal (from KENNER SW-d to ROTJ-j), this however is purely a baggie issued by Palitoy & has been found both in Woolies 99p 8 packs as well as in the POTF Endor play packs, it can be found both open one end as well as factory tape sealed, it has even been encountered factory stapled & is to date only the 2nd baggie type to be confirmed as having been issued directly in the stapled format.
So in Short there are 3 versions of this know which I will sub-classify as follows -
Palitoy-f Type A = Tape sealed
Palitoy-f Type B = Open one end / no bottom seal
Palitoy-f Type C = Stapled
There are as said also Kenner issued baggies which are as good as identical, those being the ROTJ-j type, which fall in to 2 era's (SW issued & ROTJ era issued)
So this is why it's taken me years o want to make a solid classification for these, heck there's still dispute with some over the reclassifying of the Kenner issued ones, so I shall firmly keep my tim hat on with thse - confused? I hope not
Additional below -
This baggie has been reclassified to the above, this is down the the fact after some open woolies 8 packs have been found with a similar line up, the vaders (no text vader previously shown in woolies 8 pack) have proven to be in Euro-b baggies, way back when I got these woolies packs where the vader is included I was not aware of a no text version of the clipper mailer, this classification will be altered to another baggie type soon, one which has needed a classification for far to long, I am leaving the image here for the time being until the new type is shown.
Palitoy-g – (Tape sealed) Green Horizontal text/font - Crisp
Palitoy-h – Small Light Blue Horizontal Text/Font – Soft
Palitoy-i – (Tape Sealed) Small Light Blue Horizontal Font soft baggie, this is the longest of all baggie types being almost twice as long as most examples & is found both tape sealed & open ended, a few examples of it have even surfaced simply knotted to seal it, I would have written the knotted examples off totally as just done after the fact if it were not for a large cash of 8D8's turning up like it many many years ago, obviously only examples found tape sealed can be 100% confirmed as it's way to easy to switch the figure out on an open or knotted example, so caution is always advised when looking to buy this type of baggie.
The font is a lighter blue than the Palitoy-a's & the font is also notably smaller.
Palitoy-j – Palitoy/Parker/Bradgate in blue box with small light blue Made in Hong Kong Horizontal text/font below – crisp
Palitoy-k Font type A: (Revised) This type has much cleaner well defined solid font compared to the Type b,no discernible blotching or bleed out or over-inking of any kind(Gammoren Gaurd example shown) & the ink application is solid & these have frequently been mistaken for Kenner SW-f baggie in the past.
Palitoy-k Fonttype B: These have a much softer edge/outline to the fonts compared with the Type a & come in varying degrees of ink applied, they suffer from some blotching & minor bleed out of the ink, this I think is purely down to how much ink was in the press at the time or the possibility of 2 different presses being used.
Conclusion:- although the fonts do look rather different, the font-set/type is the same & the letter spacing is the same with the spacing between each letter & each word being consistent, hence both types falling under the Palitoy-k umbrella, please note 2 examples of the type B are being shown to illustrate the difference there can be with the ink / font application (Lobot heavily ink saturated & Tusken Raider with a more regular ink application)
Palitoy-l - (tape sealed) dark Blue/Purple Horizontal font/Text - Crisp -
Palitoy-m - Dark Blue/Purple Vertical Text/font - Soft
Palitoy-n - (Tape Sealed) - Larger Blue/Grey "matt" Horizontal Text/font Crisp -
Palitoy-o - Very similar to the Kenner SW-d (Small font) but different enough to confirm it is not a kenner issued baggie type.
Palitoy-p (reclassification), this baggie type had previously been mistaken for Palitoy-n, but on close inspection there are a number of notable differences between the 2, colour or font, N being more gray / sharpness of the font edges etc etc, the (New) P classification has a more blue/grey colouration as you can see & I will add a side by side comparison image at the bottom of the page for clarity.
Palitoy-q - Made in China Horizontal black text
Palitoy-r - (Reclassification), one I have been meaning to get classified for some time, this is another Palitoy baggie which has been seen with a couple of figures, most notably the Nein Nunb & Admiral Ackbar, the baggie has been found in some palitoy NN mailers as well as Clipper versions, it is speculated these are of earlier origin than the Palitoy-a baggies, as I have an example in a Kenner box with Palitoy sticker overlay & the clipper versions that have been found included this baggie.
Palitoy-s - exclusively used in the Euro / UK issued Rebo band set for the figures, I will not be allocating a lettered designation for larger outer bag which has the "made in hong kong" black text, but regards the piano & accessories baggie as Palitoy-s / Large as they are the same material & seal, just bigger
Palitoy-u Hoth Rescue Pack no text baggie - thin very soft material, Thanks to a great find by our very own Laurence Dyer, I am pleased to be able to confirm this baggie was not solely found in the Hoth rescue pack & I suspect to be an internal baggie made in house at Palitoy much like Kenner did with the ESB-h, usually intended for opening for carding (speculation), as Laurence found a good size cash of mostly palitoy issued baggies in a loft find from someone who actually got them all back in the day & has had them stored in a loft ever since, a great find which also confirms that Palitoy had some Kenner issued baggies at the time toward the end of the toy line, so hypothetically speaking, some of the woolies 8 packs that have been found with the odd Kenner baggie included in the lineup (sadly all open examples to date) may in fact be correct.
Palitoy-v blue/green/grey text thinner font that the N, but same crisp material type & almost the same colour, but heat sealed
Euro-a – Made in Macau, Horizontal small blue text/font – Crisp
Euro-b - No Text single seal – soft, all found to date have been no COO/Deep Scarred & with the textured cape
Euro-c – Made in Macau Black Vertical Text/font
Euro-d – No Text soft – (single heat seal) German YPS Trooper – I think this one is specific to just this one figure, due to it being a special offer item only issued free with the German comic book - soft
Euro-e/A – Twin Heat sealed – Very soft – no text, these have to date been found with no coo & coo scarred figures previously being sold as meccanos, but are PBP issued often found in overstock baggies from the meccano factory.
Euro-e/B - Twin Heat Sealed - Soft but more rigid that the Euro-e/A's I am at this point "speculating" that these are in fact another Palitoy baggie type with the figures found in them so far being either MIHK or No Coo, not coo scarred like with the Euro-e/A's & of a different material type - any help on this baggie type appreciated if you have one as with the Euro-e/A's, as a lot more cross referencing is still needed to confirm this 100%
Euro-f - (reclassification), this baggie type is soft material & usually always found stapled rather than heat or tape sealed, it was one issued in France & most examples have come from the Meccano counter top red sticker free figure offer, please note this baggie type has no text, a new image showing one without the red sticker will be added when it is available (image needed without sticker).
This classification previously covered all the red sticker baggies till it was discovered multiple baggie types had been used in the promotion, this was not clear till the big cash of them turned up in 2016, these were so rare before the find that it was impossible to know this as they used the red stickers to cover any font on the various baggies used in the promotion.
New Euro-g (reclassified) this baggies has always been considered to be a kenner ESB-h baggie but it varies considerable both in size & in the coo of the figures included & is now confirmed to be of European not United Stares origins, more details to follow
Euro-h - photoy courtesy of Del - this is a baggie that rarely crops up & is often considered a fake, it is a genuine baggie though, material is very flimsy & the text usually has a lot of bleed out & it's the sloppiest quality baggie of any.
This baggie type has been found both heat sealed & tape sealed, the example shown is heat sealed, there is very little know about these & few examples documented, most having shown up across Europe, it's certainly an authentic baggie, but due to the very fragile nature of them I suspect most have popped/torn & been opened up, hence their scarcity even more so than some other non kenner baggies (another example to be added of a lando skiff that came from France)
Euro-i / Meccano (Ex Euro-c) - explanation - this was till now considered to be the Euro-c baggie like the clipper Darth Vader shown above, on close inspection they are totally different baggies, Euro-c only has one heat seal at the bottom, the Euro-i is twin heat sealed & the font is noticeably larger, this info updated as of 30/7/16 this baggie was known to have been distributed in France in the free figure when you buy a large vehicle offer (red sticker)
Euro-j again a French issue Meccano baggie, with large defined straight edge's black font, very much like if not the same as the Palitoy-k but obviously horizontal rather than vertical, can be found both taped & stapled with what would look to be brass staples
Euro-k - to date a baggie that has been a point of speculation regarding it's authenticity, the mystery surrounding it suddenly became clear when a recent find of red sticker meccano baggies were discovered, it has been one in question as more know examples are part of the meccano free figure offer/promotion (see main guide for full details) & have a large rectangular red sticker on them which covered the font type on the baggies, glad to put this one to rest & confirm it's authenticity at long last,it is tape sealed & crisp with a blue green large font
Euro-l - (PBP/POCH Internal-a) Courtesy of Javier Ruilopez - soft baggie & heat sealed
Euro-l (PBP/POCH-b) - Soft baggie / tape sealed, images courtesy of Enric Rovira
Please NOTE that the above 2 baggies types are the same, but one is heat sealed & the other heat sealed, hence the (PBP/POCH-a & b) designations
I would like you to consider that this is so far just a preliminary rough guide to the Non kenner issued baggies I am familiar with to date, there is also a Macau red text baggie known I believe?, but I sadly do not have a photo, all of the above baggies are part of my own collection & IMO are legitimate baggie types & are ALL still factory sealed, for most of them I have multiple examples to cross reference seal/font/material types & am more than happy to add further photo's on request to back up my finding to date, I would ask that if you have a baggie type that does not conform to any of the ones above or to any known on the SWCA, to please contact me & forward me some info & photos as this is to be a basic matrix for further work so we can actually start to make some sense of the wilderness/mine field that is Euro issued baggies.
I hope this rough guide is of some help to others & that we can work together on this as an open ended project.
& remember - you saw it first on SWFUK
Palitoy-p verses Palitoy-n side by side comparison image - Palitoy-p is on the left of the photo
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