Spring cleaning uncovered a pile of old UK Marvel 'Return of the Jedi' comics. Flicking through them, I found a few interesting articles and adverts, like this one that shows the assembly lines within the Palitoy factory...
Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
- MattG
- Site Admin
- Posts: 4922
- Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:46 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Auckland
Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
Matt G
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
- Harvey Mushman
- High Colonel
- Posts: 1097
- Joined: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:10 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Auckland
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
VERY COOL!
- oota goota
- High Colonel
- Posts: 1908
- Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:08 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Taranaki
- Contact:
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this
- MattG
- Site Admin
- Posts: 4922
- Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:46 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Auckland
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
Yeah, there used to be links to the over in this thread, but the vids have gone stale.oota goota wrote:yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this
Here are a couple of other scans from the same magazines that many will remember:



Matt G
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
- MattG
- Site Admin
- Posts: 4922
- Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:46 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Auckland
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
That old version of the factory clip that I had bookmarked might be gone, but I recently found this version, which is longer and of higher quality...oota goota wrote:yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this
[youtube]eFEX1jvSFDo[/youtube]
Matt G
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
- oota goota
- High Colonel
- Posts: 1908
- Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:08 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Taranaki
- Contact:
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
nice one MG!
- fredstar
- Colonel
- Posts: 711
- Joined: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:04 pm
- Country: NZ
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
Mmm Vintage 

- darryl
- Lieutenant
- Posts: 100
- Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:19 am
- Country: New Zealand
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
That was really cool to see
- MattG
- Site Admin
- Posts: 4922
- Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:46 am
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: Auckland
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
Earlier today I was looking through some old 1978-79 Marvel comics (researching for something specific), and found these old action figure adverts that just had to be scanned for posterity...
Matt G
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
My Trade/Want List

Website: www.SWNZ.co.nz
Facebook: Facebook.com/StarWarsNZ
Twitter: @StarWarsNZ
- Anchorhead-Autos
- Ensign
- Posts: 94
- Joined: Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:29 pm
- Country: NZ
Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"
That's clip is soooo cool. So that must be in the UK if it was the Palitoy factory?
Anchorhead Autos Ltd, you break them - we fix them. Finest speeder repairs this side of the Outer Rim...