Star Wars prices 1978

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I have made a list of all of the Star Wars prices I could find in my paper archive. Unfortunately I don't have anything on Helix.

I don't have much on Letraset stationery except for prices starting at 7p and a Grattan catalogue offering the entire range for £1.65, so it must all have been pretty cheap!

Star Wars cinema programme book: 50p

Super 8 Star Wars films (Leisure Mail/Mountain Films) 200 ft (8 minutes): B & W silent: £6.25. 200ft colour silent: £12.95. 200ft colour sound: £16.95. 400 ft colour sound (20 minutes) £32.95.

Factors T-shirts: £3.00.

Soundtrack Double Album: £5.00.

Novelisation: 95p.

Travener Rutlege marsh mellow shapes: 3p.

Star Wars Weekly: 10p.

Large format comic adaptation parts one and two: 50p each.

Star Wars Blueprints: £3.60.

Scandecor posters: £1.30.

Topps pack of trading cards: 5p.

Palitoy action figure: 99p (RRP).

Escape the Death Star board game: £3.99.

Brown Watson annual: £1.50.

Cliro soap model: 99p.

Cliro R2-D2 or Darth Vader bubble bath: £1.50.

Bradley Watch: £9.95.

LCD watch. £9.99.

Northlight R2-D2 bedside lamp: £8.50.

Letraset stationery from 7p.

Waddingtons jigaws: 99p.

Cosalt Exports silver plated mirror: £9.00.

Greville jewellery (SWCA lists it as "Pastahurst"). Metal guilt: £3.00. Solid silver: £14.00. Solid Gold: On request.

Star Wars Collectors Edition: 95p.

KP Outer Spacer (with Star Wars kite offer). 5p.

Denys Fisher R2-D2 and C-3PO model kits: £3.00.

Denys Fisher X-Wing Fighter and Darth Vader TIE Fighter model kits: £4.00.

Force Beam: £3.50.

"I've seen Star Wars" car window sticker: Free from your local cinema!
 

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Be interesting to work out the values today compared to back then - some with have gone up 1000% and others hardly changed
 

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More '78 prices in yankee dollars!

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Be kinda interesting to do an 'inflation' rating for the different toys to see which has increased by the largest percentage.

For example, the Sears Cantina was only one/third the price of a Millennium Falcon at the time, now it's comfortably 3 times more valuable.
 

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Yes, I had assumed they must be dear. Offering home viewers a chance to own even 20 minute versions of major films, during their release run, must have been a premium sport.

ETA although they are priced similarly to a Millennium Falcon or ATAT toy. Our favourite toys really did cost a premium compared to similar contemporary items.
 

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Yes, the Super-8 films were very expensive and the projector equipment too. I did my best to explain the Super-8 scene in the latest podcast.

We got the Star Wars Super-8s well before the film came out via Mountain Films. It was the first collecting craze in the UK, with Mountain films hardly able to import enough copies.
 

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Seeing those US advertising pages takes me straight back to being a kid filtering through our Argos and my Nan's Freeman catalogues looking at what I might get for my 1980's Christmases 8)
 

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I have the same kind of memories. Some of the catalogues used to allow you to pay in instalments too.

I had some very understanding friends and relatives that let me rip the Star Wars pages out of their catalogues. I hope my feverish desire for Star Wars didn't come across as too weird!
 

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SAVORY100 said:
Seeing those US advertising pages takes me straight back to being a kid filtering through our Argos and my Nan's Freeman catalogues looking at what I might get for my 1980's Christmases 8)

For the first time in about 30 years I've just had the exact same memory: my brother and I hunched over the Argos catalogue making an, as always, optimistic list. AT-AT and Falcon always in positions 1 and 2. Thanks for promoting that memory. It was lost to me.
 
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