Thanks both of you for your replies and extra info. Clearly this was a UK offer that passed me by!... And now I really DO feel like I missed out!
. Clearly also therefore, the Fett mail-away offer in the UK does indeed predate the Dengar one, so many thanks indeed for increasing my Star Wars knowledge. I appreciate it, and I genuinely mean that
. I can only assume that because the Fett offer (again, to my knowledge!) never made it onto any of the Palitoy cards, and certainly none of the ones I ever owned, I never knew anything about it. I was never into comics as a child and so wouldn't have seen the print ad there, and my local toy shop never offered me the flyer, since I definitely would have sent away for Mr Fett if I'd known about him!
Anyway, the scarcity of Dengar and Fett on their earliest actual or theoretical debut cards becomes clear. I now have to wonder what the issue was with Yoda (unless he also had a mail-away offer that passed me by!)? As jedisearcher observed in his excellent post above, perhaps there were production problems of some kind, as it seems very odd that Palitoy would think Yoda wouldn't be a popular character and hence deliberately chose to under-produce or short-pack him. Yoda was always one of my favourite figures as a kid because he had so many cool accessories (even if I did slightly disapprove of the orange snake, since I never saw one of those in the film and certainly not around his neck
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Oh, and if it makes you feel any better Ian, some of my friends ruined the 'I am your father' moment for me as well... little bastards! Fortunately, I didn't fully believe them, so I went to see Empire not completely sure about it![/quote]
Well I'm just glad that my memory hasn't completely failed me yet :lol:
Boba coming first was the way I always remember it and I kept my mailer box for years after receiving it although I think it's long gone now
. Growing up with the first release of these figures I was in and out of the toy shops all the time. My local toy shop would keep their figures in big wicker bins that I would rummage through in search of the elusive 12 back Jawa. I can't imagine many mint mocs surviving that retailers displaying methods but I do remember looking in the shop just before the 20 backs came out and seeing just one lonely Luke 12 back in the bottom of the basket! One thing from this whole time though was that I never came across a 30 back Boba Fett so I really don't think many of these were released, probably due to the mail away offer. All my friends had mail away Boba's so I'm thinking a lot of children back then received theirs that way also.
As for the Yoda I remember getting that figure but mine had an orange snake. I always presumed it to be a Palitoy 30 back as that was the time that I received it but as I found out on here Yoda was released with a brown snake on the 30 backs and and the orange snake was only released in the UK much later. Here's my old thread about it - http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=15477
I can only think that the Kenner Yoda's were sent over to the UK due to demand for the figure as it was from the second batch of 30 backs released in the UK and was first on a 32 back in the US. I'm pretty sure it would have been a popular figure to have so Kenner must have thought it best to keep the children happy, after all they did seem to really care about keeping their customers happy (unlike most toy companies now a days).
It's funny thinking back that I didn't even realize there was a brown snake until years later and for me Yoda always looks better with an orange snake. I have an orange snake Yoda that I may well marry up to a Palitoy 30 back card back just so I can make my dreams come true!
Ian
