The Star Wars comics that appeared in each issue of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly between 1979 and 1984, with their immediately recognisable pink bordering,…
Category: NZ Collectibles
Because of its isolated location, New Zealand has traditionally not seen much in the way of locally exclusive toys or collectibles. This has appeared to change somewhat over time with the globalisation of merchandising (i.e., we are exposed to licensed items from large, international corporations like Pepsi and KFC), but the costs involved in niche licensing still limit our truly exclusive pickings compared to larger countries, in particular the USA.
Having said that we do in fact have quite an interesting history of unique product harking right back to the very beginning…1977. Geographic isolation and modest population numbers have influenced the story of NZ Star Wars collectibles in other ways: some items and sets were produced in small numbers only, and have become quite sought after due to their rarity. This category chronicles such collectibles.
A new video has just gone up on the SWNZ Youtube channel, checking out another unique New Zealand Star Wars collectible – the…
Did you know… very early local reviews of Star Wars when it was released in New Zealand of December 1977 had to go…
The Star Wars comics that appeared in each issue of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly between 1979 and 1984, with their immediately recognisable pink bordering,…
Between August 1979 and May 1984, Star Wars comics appeared in a total of 251 consecutive issues of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly…
The Warehouse have recently added a wide range of The Empire Strikes Back-themed stationery items, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that movie.…
Did you know… back in 1997, to coincide with the availability of the Star Wars Original Trilogy on VHS, local breadmaker Quality Bakers…
Did you know… one of the main goals of the SWNZ website is to research, archive, and document the background of Star Wars…
In 2011, collectibles and packaging manufacturer S&A Partners, who already held a licence to produce Lucasfilm Ltd products, entered into a collaboration with…
Did you know… one of the main goals of the SWNZ website is to research, archive, and document the history of Star Wars…