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Jun 28, '07, 9:22 AM
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Not many movies can still keep selling toys two years after their debut but I guess that's why Star Wars was such a phenom. The kenner toys were kind of in a state arrested development by this point, next year would see Jedi and tons of new toys but at 13, I found much of it too "muppety"*. Star Wars figures piqued at Zuckuss, Bossk and IG88 for me. It's all about the bounty hunters baby...

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MegoScott
Jun 28, '07, 10:45 AM
Are those Candian prices, Brian? $54 seems a bit high for an AT-At, even with 1982 Stagflation...
palitoy
Jun 28, '07, 11:28 AM
Yep! This is from Consumers Distributing, I have no concept of the exchange rate at the time but Inflation was bad back then.
toys2cool
Jun 28, '07, 11:59 AM
Are those Candian prices, Brian? $54 seems a bit high for an AT-At, even with 1982 Stagflation...

I was just thinking the exact same thing :shocked2:
jwyblejr
Jun 28, '07, 2:00 PM
I think '82 is when I started to lose interest in Star Wars. Didn't get as much stuff then.
huedell
Jun 28, '07, 2:33 PM
"Let's just stick some nondescript space guns in there with the Star Wars merch"

"Sounds good Frank"
jwyblejr
Jun 28, '07, 5:33 PM
That second one looks like the one I had. Got it around the time Star Trek II came out. Would pretend I was shooting Khan and his flunkies with it.
Vortigern99
Jun 29, '07, 1:37 PM
Yeah, '82 was about the height of SW for me, too. For Xmas '81 I got Slave I and the Falcon, so that spring endless bounty hunter escapades ensued in my backyard! When Jedi came out in '83 I still collected the figures, but I didn't really play with them from sunup to sundown like I did in those heady, hearty days of ESB.
johnmiic
Jul 5, '07, 8:58 AM
Muppety, eh-heh-heeh-heh-heh.....

I don't have to pay a royalty for saying that do I?
The Sentry
Jul 5, '07, 2:20 PM
WOW! Sans the guns I have everything on the page! 82'-84' were great years for toys for me!

I loved the Micro collection peices! They were my favorites! Plus when the bulid-a-model sets came out I got a couple of AT-AT's and AT-ST's and had me some rebel crushing fun!