Hi all.
Lloydie here, i'm 35 yrs old, lived here in rural West Wales all my life and involved in beef farming.
Being born in '78 i was quite late in knowing about the SW toys and movies. It was only when i saw other kids (in parka coats of course!) in my primary school in late '83/84 bringing their own SW toys to school that i came to know about anything to do with SW. I remember an AT-AT, X-wings, B-wings and nearly every mini rig you can think of being brought to school to be played with, not forgetting the figures too. When your'e 5 yrs old going on 6 the AT-AT was a massive and impressive toy!! Who remembers that childs tv show on BBC "crackerjack"? I remember vividly being hellish jealous
when a child won a load of toys at the end of that show which included a boxed AT-AT!! Also, anyone remembers on the news back then about Ronald Regan wanting to establish "star wars" or something in space against the soviets? Well i didn't know that at the time but i thought it was actually something to do with the toys and movies!
My first SW toy i ever had was a Luke jedi figure and i remember playing with it for hours outside my grandparents' house and looking at the back of the 77 cardback thinking which figure i wanted next, 2-1B was always the one i wanted but never came round to buying. Remember having a Han Hoth once which our dog chewed his legs off! Unlike some of my mates i was never a spoilt kid, biggest vehicle i had was a speeder bike along with a Leia Hoth and a Lando Bespin one xmas.
Remember being ultra excited before one xmas when ITV was advertising their xmas movies schedules (maybe 1984?) with Star wars on boxing day i think. There i was with a 77 cardback during the film spotting the figures when the characters appeared in the movie!
Gradually as the mid 80's passed most of us in school started buying He-man stuff, Transformers was too expensive so i bought a load of Go-Bots figures! Later on M.A.S.K appeared. Interest in SW figures came back in about xmas 88 when i was given a carded Rotj Ree-Yees as a xmas present. I went to every bloody toy shop in Aberystwyth in early 89 but couldn't find any SW toys for sale
.Last time i ever saw a SW figure for sale or whatever was at a our local travelling fair in late 1990 - a carded 77 back Gamorrean guard was a prize in some poxy "throw darts to win" stall. I regret not having a go at that stall but i was 12 back then and buying toys was long finished by then.
Roll on 2001 and i began to scour the net for vintage figures and vehicles i wanted when i was little, discovered ebay and between 2001 and 2003 i went on a mini buying binge. Boxed b-wing, palitoy snowspeeder, slave 1, AT-ST, MISB INT-4 and loads of loose figures came my way. Bought a C9 MOC luke jedi, MOC C8 Han carbonite and C6 MOC Rotj Power droid from Brianstoys in 2003 (don't mention the fackin customs bill :evil: i had!!
Golf is another interest i've got and 2 weeks ago i wanted to buy this GPS golf watch thing. Finances are tight so i had an idea of getting out from the attic and selling my lovely (now yellowed, grr) MOC Han POTF Carbonite to raise finances but fook that, decided against the watch for now so i'm back after a 10 year hiatus looking for more vintage stuff. Anyone got a nice carded Biker scout for sale?!!
