Did you know… that these 1983 Return of the Jedi jigsaw puzzles were made in New Zealand? There were 3 in the set,…
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.
2002 was a big year for New Zealand in that, with the opening of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, we saw Kiwi…
The Star Wars comics that appeared in each issue of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly between 1979 and 1984, with their immediately recognisable…
The Star Wars comics that appeared in each issue of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly between 1979 and 1984, with their immediately recognisable…
From 01 April 2005 through to 30 September 2005, Goodman Fielder ran a Revenge of the Sith Promotion in association with their Uncle Tobys…
Confection Concepts International Ltd. was a New Zealand-based chocolate manufacturer that released licensed collectible card sets (e.g. The Simpsons as well as Star Wars) over a short…
The latest line up of Star Wars stationery items at The Warehouse are all designed locally and exclusive to that chain. They feature…
The locally printed vintage Toltoys NZ action figure cardback is a unique, interesting, and very rare piece of historic kiwi Star Wars memorabilia,…
The Quality Bakers bread cards were fun Star Wars memorabilia items that you could acquire with your weekly grocery purchases. This set of…
Toltoys (NZ) Ltd, the New Zealand subsidiary of Australian Toltoys Proprietary Ltd, manufactured and distributed a wide range of licensed Star Wars toys and…