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

Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 2:06 am
by MattG
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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Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:39 am
by Harvey Mushman
VERY COOL!

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

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:03 pm
by oota goota
yeah that's cool! I seem to remember there being some youtube clips around this

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

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:47 am
by MattG
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:

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

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:54 pm
by MattG
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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Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:50 pm
by oota goota
nice one MG!

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

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:19 am
by fredstar
Mmm Vintage :D

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

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:27 pm
by darryl
That was really cool to see

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

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:07 am
by MattG
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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Re: Old scans..."Making The Star Wars Toys"

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:34 am
by Anchorhead-Autos
That's clip is soooo cool. So that must be in the UK if it was the Palitoy factory?