Original Cost?

[Panza]

Can anyone remember the original cost (rrp) of figures launched here in the UK during the 70's?

I seem to recall i paid £1.60ish for some but not sure which line that would have been - anyone else as old as....i mean anyone else with a better memory than me?

 

[Richard_H]

I remember seeing £1.59 quite a lot. There are many carded figures with price tags still on them if you look around some of the FS threads and limelights. Thinking now, that was quite expensive at the time. No wonder that I didn't get a lot!

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

It depends mate.

There was £1.59 stickered POTF Trilogos but you could pick up many figs including Yak face for 50p a time! :shock: :shock:

 

[Richard_H]

but were those the discounted prices? It's difficult with mark downs and sales.

 

[itfciain]

I remember them being around the £1.50 mark in 1983-84

 

[Richard_H]

For £1.50 you could get 300 mojo chews. I think my mother would have taken my head off my shoulders if I ever came in with that many sweets.

 

[Palifan]

The first figures released in Bristol (shop called Martins) went for 99p back in 1978. I really remember that price value and I've had a Sand people reseal which also had a 99p Beatties price sticker on it. I've only seen one cheaper price sticker on a Palitoy 12 back which was for 98p but I think that's about as low as they started out.

I remember several months later that a family friend had to pay 1.10 for there's and I was really shocked by the price increase. At least that was in Newbury and good old Bristol was still banging them out at 99p for a little while longer.

Ian

 

[Captainsolo1978]

I think they were 99p when they came out.

I had a disc with Palitoy commercials and the rrp for figures says £2.25

Tescos sold all the £1.59 stickered tri logos for 99p. They scored through the yellow sticker with black marker pen!!!

I remember in 1984 when tri logos came out most of them were Between 99p and £1.50.

Those were the days!!!

 

[Snake_eyes_82]

Classic I wish I had a time machine thread!!
Haha

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Around when I first started collecting they were £1.29 -(ESB 1980) rising gradually to £1.49 (ROTJ).

May seem cheap by today's prices but this was a lot of money back in the early 80's.

 

[x-pack]

And that was back when people only earned tuppence a week down't coal mine! ...up north anyways :wink:

 

[mr_palitoy]

Palitoy 12 backs were 99p when they came out, I have the price stickers to prove it!



Jason

 

[Mrleemur]

So if they were 99p in 1978, apparently that equates to £4.82 with inflation and stuff...

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

So still cheaper than today's figure by quite some margin! Of course the price of oil will be affecting the price of figures today, which i gete the impression rises way above inflation.

It amazes mevhow much my parents used to spend on me and my brother, did one of these conversions on a BMX advert i found a while back, couldn't believe how much they were!!

 

[rob71]

For £1.50 you could get 300 mojo chews. I think my mother would have taken my head off my shoulders if I ever came in with that many sweets.

I always preferred the bigger ones for a penny each to the smaller ha'penny mojos :lol:

On the Star Wars front, I always remember a toy shop in Durham (long since gone) having the ESB carded figures for £1.29... what a bargain!

 

[TC-14]

I remember them being 99p in 1978. One memory springs to mind, I cut my neighbours lawn (front and back garden) for £1 one afternoon (it didn't seem like child labour at the time, I thought it was big money)... and I had my heart set on buying a Jawa from Youngsters toy shop in town. I'd finished at 4:30pm, and raced back home to ask my dad if he would take me into town to make my purchase (I was 8 years old at the time)- he was busy making the tea and said I'd have to wait until tomorrow... that evening went by very slow, as I remember

 

[itfciain]

That could've been a Palitoy Jawa

 

[TC-14]

It was a Palitoy Jawa, Iain (I distinctly remember feeling let down some years later when the Palitoy logo was replaced with Kenner)- true to his word, my dad took me to Youngsters the day after and I made my purchase. Sat in the car on the way home, the bubble was ripped off the cardback to get at my latest acquisition... if only I knew then what I know now... :?

 

[Panza]

I remember them being 99p in 1978. One memory springs to mind, I cut my neighbours lawn (front and back garden) for £1 one afternoon (it didn't seem like child labour at the time, I thought it was big money)... and I had my heart set on buying a Jawa from Youngsters toy shop in town. I'd finished at 4:30pm, and raced back home to ask my dad if he would take me into town to make my purchase (I was 8 years old at the time)- he was busy making the tea and said I'd have to wait until tomorrow... that evening went by very slow, as I remember

When Tesco's first introduced trollies with a 10p deposit (10p!), myself and my brother amassed 40p each thanks to customers who couldn't be assed to return them. Working out that a few more nights like this would equate to being able to buy some figures we excitedly made our way to the Tesco's carpark the next evening only to find the place overunning with money hungry slavering kids and not a trolley in sight - word certainly spread fast......