The Event Cinemas chain of movie theatres is celebrating Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenings with themed drink cups and a metal…
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.
After a late night/early morning watching a new Star Wars movie, how else could you start the day but with Star Wars cereal?…
The Listener magazine, a mainstay of the periodicals shelves of NZ bookstores and corner diaries since 1939, has had issues featuring the early Star Wars…
The Star Wars Cosmic Shells campaign was a promotion run by Countdown Supermarkets from 4th August to 18 September 2016. The campaign centered around…
The fifth story in the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Star Wars comic strip series (read more here) was entitled “The Second Kessel Run”. It…
Hallmark Cards NZ Ltd has held the license to produce Original Trilogy themed products a couple of times in its history. In 1983/84,…
Countdown Supermarket’s Star Wars Cosmic Shell campaign is proving very popular – a large proportion of New Zealand Star Wars fans of all…
Following on from our articles on The Story of Star Wars on vinyl and The Empire Strikes Back on vinyl, it’s necessary to complete the…
Following from the announcement yesterday about the launch of Star Wars Cosmic Shells at Countdown supermarkets, the Star Wars elves have been out…
For many of us around in the ’70s and ’80s, the narrated Star Wars LP adaptations were a well-used favourite in the record collection. Following…