Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"

Post by **MattG** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 2:06 am

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...

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Post by **Harvey Mushman** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:39 am

VERY COOL!

Post by **oota goota** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:03 pm

yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this

Post by **MattG** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:47 am

oota goota wrote:yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this

Yeah, there used to be links to the over in this thread, but the vids have gone stale.

Here are a couple of other scans from the same magazines that many will remember:

Post by **MattG** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:54 pm

oota goota wrote:yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this

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...

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Post by **oota goota** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:50 pm

nice one MG!

Post by **fredstar** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:19 am

Mmm Vintage

Post by **darryl** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:27 pm

That was really cool to see

Post by **MattG** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:07 am

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...

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Post by **Anchorhead-Autos** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:34 am

That's clip is soooo cool. So that must be in the UK if it was the Palitoy factory?

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