What was the first SW toy you received/bought as a child?

[Michael Sith]

:lol: wood vader :lol: Todd you gotta have that :wink:

Or one of these

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94132256@N07/8774110694

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Year 1980, figure Greedo

 

[tiefighterboy]

:lol: wood vader :lol: Todd you gotta have that :wink:

Or one of these

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94132256@N07/8774110694

That is actually an awesome carving. I will take four please. 8) :lol:

 

[Michael Sith]

Got to agree, carved really well, walnut apparently 8)

 

[monkey_roo]

I remember the first time I was exposed to SW was a VHS copy of Return of the Jedi in 1986.

My first figure was a Han Hoth, loved it from the get go (still my favourite) and then that Christmas my folks took me on a shopping trip to Hamleys. I remember there was a life size Ewok and hang glider on the ceiling (it was Awsome) and my pre Christmas haul included an X-Wing, and AT-ST with driver a couple of ewoks and Liea Bounty Hunter - Great stuff, we got back home so late I wasn't allowed to open anything that night so I spent the night staring at the boxes from my bed too excited to sleep

 

[x-pack]

Vader in 1981. He was the obvious choice. God knows what happened to my old figures :?

 

[JuniorChubb]

Vader in 1981. He was the obvious choice. God knows what happened to my old figures :?

Well if you pray before you go to bed tonight you might find out :lol:

 

[x-pack]

Please God give me my old figures back. PLEASE God give me my old figures back! ...preferably mint in the box :wink:

 

[JuniorChubb]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Did it work?

 

[x-pack]

Kind of but i had to pay for 'em :? :lol: Arrived in the post today - a MOC ESB back Bespin Leia from Bram and a 4-LOM ESB card for resto from Dinnersquadron

 

[JuniorChubb]

DinnerSquadron is God

Not even God does freebies :lol:

 

[x-pack]

DinnerSquadron is God? Well that's a turn up for the books. He'll be pleased to hear that

:lol:

 

[TC-14]

I was busying myself with cut-outs and model making at 7 years old in 1977, but couldn't wait for the new figures to appear. As soon as they did, my cardboard models were ditched (the superficial nature of youth). The memory is somewhat hazy now, but I'm certain my first purchase was R2-D2 followed by C-3PO after I'd saved up enough pocket money. Being drawn in to Youngsters toy shop on Ropergate in the late 70s is still a vivid memory for me... it was literally my home from home.

 

[Wild Whiphid]

I got to know Star Wars just after the Special Editions were released and POTF2 showed up in stores. My first item was the force/fx R2-D2, with the magnet that allowed you to move him on his Tatooine base. Before that I had a model kit of an X-Wing, but never realized it was Star Wars until I saw the movies.

 

[rob71]

Christmas 1978 when I was 7 - I received the Palitoy Death Star, Obi Wan Kenobi, Vader, R2-D2, C3-PO, Leia, Sand People, Chewie, Greedo, Luke X-Wing, Death Star Droid... yeah spoilt kid!! :lol: Never did get an original Luke or Han though for some reason...

I have all the figures but sold the Death Star boxed a few years back. Just won one on ebay to replace it though.

Doggarts in Peterlee and Josephs in Sunderland were the toy shops which seemed magical back then... happy days