UK shop display - Palitoy and Kenner

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Crikey, you learn something new every day - so was that the first ever showing you think? Amazing the think there was such a delay over getting a wide release over here, when clearly the film was shown in the UK not so long after it was released in the US in May.

Do you have a pic of that ticket so I can compare it to mine Matt? Will there be any other items like that ticket going on display?

The main problem was the bicycling of film prints - that is, they didn't strike fresh prints for UK releases of films but used those no longer required in the US. I would imagine the popularity of the film in the US had an impact on the number of prints available for distribution outside the US.