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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 508630" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>I think nostalgia will undoubtedly have a lot to do with many collectors liking it (as it does with collecting vintage Star Wars in general for most of us, of course). I'm sure there will be some people who never owned one, but still appreciate the toy too of course, but if you never owned one as a child, you won't have the nostalgic thrill of remembering how awesome the Palitoy Death Star was to actually play with. I spent hours playing with mine, sending Luke, Han, Chewie and Leia sailing down the trash compactor chute, then trying to crush them with the moving wall just before they managed to escape at the last moment through the door! The central chasm was used for Ben to stand perilously close to as he switched off the tractor beam to let the Falcon escape! Our heroes would race through the rooms and across the bridge as they fought their way out against the Stormtroopers and Death Squad Commander, but had to be very careful not to fall down the lift with its rising Stormtroopers <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />! Ben would face off against Vader as Luke watched on, horrified, before they finally made it to safety! Meanwhile, a stormtrooper would sit in the gun chair and battle my X-Wing as it swooped overhead looking for the exhaust port! :-D</p><p></p><p>If you played with one as a kid, I challenge you not to love the thing today! If you didn't, well, you can save yourself a few hundred quid then ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 508630, member: 7379"] I think nostalgia will undoubtedly have a lot to do with many collectors liking it (as it does with collecting vintage Star Wars in general for most of us, of course). I'm sure there will be some people who never owned one, but still appreciate the toy too of course, but if you never owned one as a child, you won't have the nostalgic thrill of remembering how awesome the Palitoy Death Star was to actually play with. I spent hours playing with mine, sending Luke, Han, Chewie and Leia sailing down the trash compactor chute, then trying to crush them with the moving wall just before they managed to escape at the last moment through the door! The central chasm was used for Ben to stand perilously close to as he switched off the tractor beam to let the Falcon escape! Our heroes would race through the rooms and across the bridge as they fought their way out against the Stormtroopers and Death Squad Commander, but had to be very careful not to fall down the lift with its rising Stormtroopers :-)! Ben would face off against Vader as Luke watched on, horrified, before they finally made it to safety! Meanwhile, a stormtrooper would sit in the gun chair and battle my X-Wing as it swooped overhead looking for the exhaust port! :-D If you played with one as a kid, I challenge you not to love the thing today! If you didn't, well, you can save yourself a few hundred quid then ;-) [/QUOTE]
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