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Still have both the articles for the Star Wars and Empire playsets. We never duplicated them or got the official blueprints, but we mimicked a lot of it. Incredible inspiration for adding to your own imaginative play value!
See that "Personnel Launcher" in the second picture? I was obsessed with trying to make that. It involved stretching a piece of rubber balloon over an embroidery hoop. I think I remember sort of getting it to work, but it wasn't quite as springy as suggested in the pic.
Man, I wish I'd known about these back in the day. Empire Strikes Back toys were my last hurrah before the tween years really kicked in and I moved on from toys. I used to love setting up displays of stuff, and this Hoth setup would have been dynamite.
I remember some of those.
I also remember being very jealous of people who had so many extra figures that they could make these things.
Because I sure wasn't getting any.
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