What was your first figure, vehicle or playset as a child..?

[sith-smith]

I have no recollection, but my mum says it was Luke, and would have been at some point in the late 70's 8)

 

[bosk70]

Pocketeers I had the missile tank attack one and pinball machine, think they were palitoy but may be wrong , first SW was x wing and for some strange reason a power droid on sw card and think luke farm boy and stormtrooper, think, just liked the look of the power droid, how strange

 

[Waltham Wookiee]

Mine was a fixed limb C3po.
I still remember to this day my Mum and Dad bring back from the weekly shop at Tesco's one evening and giving it to me. I was over the moon with it.

 

[Dorsetmark]

Remember getting a Folcon with some figures , defiantly a Han Solo and Chewbacca in there (probly a Kay's catalogue special) for Christmas.

 

[Cardbackkid]

Can't remember the exact figures and play sets but at one time me and my brothers had about 6 ewok villages , 6 at-at's , X-wings , tie fighters and well over 100 figures ( mainly ewoks) all bought from carboots in the early 90s wished I still had them ! Even pictures of them would be nice

 

[reddogblues]

Remember it very clearly - would have been ESB card - and it was Han Solo Hoth Outfit. I had the figures before even seeing the film, so it was the toys that got me hooked.

Still have the figure and was lucky enough to add the MOC version a few weeks ago

 

[Snaketibe]

Luke Skywalker Farmboy was my first figure, and my first vehicle was a Palitoy Landspeeder, which I can still clearly remember buying from Ware Toy Shop

 

[AL_Bundy]

I am not sure what my first figure was, but I think the Falcon was my first vehicle.

 

[Vialli]

First figure was AT-AT Driver, got him before I'd seen any of the films. I remember thinking it was the coolest action figure I had ever seen despite not really knowing what Star Wars was all about. I still have him, although he is a little worse for wear !

 

[Robstyley]

Bloody good question, would love to know :?:

 

[x-pack]

IMy first figure was Vader. I've no recollection of buying him so I suspect he was bought for me. First vehicle was, appropriately enough, Vader's TIE Fighter which was a Christmas present. Great ship!

He is more bothered about his iPod or his PS4, I know stuff like that wasn't around back then but being a kid snack then just seemed more fun.

Well, we had Pocketeers!! :wink: :lol:

Closest thing I had to a fancy computerized thing was a casio watch with a light and stop watch! Simpler times

 

[ScruffyLookingNH]

Mine was an At-At Driver back in 1980 after I had just been to see a double bill of Star Wars and Empire at my local cinema. It cost £1.59, by the following week I had eight figures and a papermashe Hoth base. I was ten at the time, Star Wars has been in my life ever since. I have fond memories of going into my local toy shops just to see the figures and dream of owning them.
Back then Chesterfield had about four independent toy shops which were all fantastic, toys were just better back then.
When I take the kids into the local Toys R Us it saddens me to see how poor the toys are.
I am sure some of it is just rose tinted glasses on my part but today's toys even the Star Wars stuff just has no appeal to me at all. When I was eleven the same age as my son is now I was massively into Action Man, Star Wars, Scalextric etc my son has no interest in toys at all.
He is more bothered about his iPod or his PS4, I know stuff like that wasn't around back then but being a kid snack then just seemed more fun. Apologies for taking the thread in a different direction but I just felt like venting a bit.

Couldn't agree more, although do agree I think it's nostalgia. That whole vibe takes on a slightly fuzzy, warm longing for happier days

Anyway, my first figure was definitely Chewbacca on what may have been a Palitoy 45a cardback, but is more likely to have been on a Kenner card as I pulled it out of a big tub of figures at Folkstone (or possibly Canterbury) market in around 1981. I got it for being a good boy at the dentist although that was a complete lie my mum told the school because we went to the market instead of me going to school in the morning and I never went anywhere near the dentist. I got the full Spanish Inquisition when I got back to school from the teacher who clearly didn't believe that I hadn't been to the dentist at all. Can't remember what tipped her off. I didn't bloody care: I had Chewie! I can still remember the smell of the freshly minted figure.

I can't claim to remember any branding at all; what did I care, it was all SW! As for vehicle that was probably an my MTV-7 although could have been the AST-5, can't remember which one.

 

[Alltooeasy]

Damn fantastic stories! Whilst I don't wish to be older I do wish I was young enough to have lived through these figures being sold in the shops and getting them at the time!!

 

[ScruffyLookingNH]

Damn fantastic stories! Whilst I don't wish to be older I do wish I was young enough to have lived through these figures being sold in the shops and getting them at the time!!

Often wished I was 3 or 4 years older myself just so I could remember more about what was in the shops, etc. I bet I would have ended up keeping my childhood stuff then, too!

 

[Alltooeasy]

Damn fantastic stories! Whilst I don't wish to be older I do wish I was young enough to have lived through these figures being sold in the shops and getting them at the time!!

Often wished I was 3 or 4 years older myself just so I could remember more about what was in the shops, etc. I bet I would have ended up keeping my childhood stuff then, too!

Obviously I have my own memories of toy searching in the early 90s but would have lived to have done the same but in the 80s with Star Wars!!

 

[reddogblues]

Damn fantastic stories! Whilst I don't wish to be older I do wish I was young enough to have lived through these figures being sold in the shops and getting them at the time!!

Often wished I was 3 or 4 years older myself just so I could remember more about what was in the shops, etc. I bet I would have ended up keeping my childhood stuff then, too!

Obviously I have my own memories of toy searching in the early 90s but would have lived to have done the same but in the 80s with Star Wars!!

I was 4 in 1980, so was into ESB and ROTJ at just the right age. Looking back, it was pretty amazing - going to the local toy shop and seeing the figures and ships on the shelves. I also remember the excitement waiting for the new ROTJ figures to come out - I went nuts waiting for Luke Jedi Knight!

 

[fett1972]

Great Thread. The first time I saw Star Wars figures was in South Shields Binns department store. A few days later my mam and dad purchased my first figure the Mighty Chewbacca from Farnons in Newcastle. Seems like yesterday and Both stores unfortunately are long gone.

Was really disappointed to receive Chewbacca as I really wanted Luke but thankfully I didn't have to wait too,long.

Can anyone remember when Star Wars toys were first released in the UK. I remember the first ones available in South Shields and Newcastle were Luke, Han, Chewbacca, R2, Leia and Ben but I can't recall the release date.

 

[Davaider]

My Dad took me and my 2 brothers to Asda. Me being the youngest I got an Ewok lol, Middle bro got Darth Vader, Eldest got the Royal Gurad..... Never could remember if was Tri logos cards or Rotj.

 

[Snaketibe]

Can anyone remember when Star Wars toys were first released in the UK. I remember the first ones available in South Shields and Newcastle were Luke, Han, Chewbacca, R2, Leia and Ben but I can't recall the release date.

I'm fairly certain 1978 saw the first Palitoy carded figures coming to UK shops. That's certainly when I started to get mine. I was an impressionable 6 years of age... I'm now a less impressionable 44 :-D

 

[Woolyniner]

First figure for me was R2D2, and I remember playing with him on the silver rails in Boots on the day I bought him.