The Empire Strikes Back Again!

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Seeing as it's #1 at the box office again, let's relive when it was #1 in the toy aisle as well. It's hard to believe but prior to the release of Empire, the sales dip of SF toys had many publications asking is it all just a fad?

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[sprytel]

I still want everything on that page!

[tay666]

While I still collected the figures at this point, I didn't get any of the toys or playsets.

[RonnyG]

The AT-AT seems pretty expensive to me even for 1980/81.

[SeattleEd]

WOW! Haven't see that Sears page in a long time. Still in my memory and how my friend ordered a lot of that stuff for Xmas, other than the space case and gun. He already had the transporter.

[jwyblejr]

*sigh* I remember when the Sears stuff would show up at KBs at a reduced price. If I knew then what I know now. They would get the Cloud City set and the Sears Jabba set.

[TrekStar]

I never had the AT-AT although my friend did, so I had the Slave 1 which worked since Boba Fett was very cool, but secretly I really wanted the AT-AT.

[Myoldtoys]

Oh man. I wish you had not posted that. I had forgotten about those model sets at the bottom of the page. Now I’m going to have to search for those and see if I can buy them. Lol.

[justzeg18]

The AT-AT seems pretty expensive to me even for 1980/81.

Same here, looks like an inflation calculator puts it around $132 today.

[Bruce Banner]

I still have several of the items on that page.
SW forever!

[Klosterheim]

Those are amazing toys in a fantastic advertisement!

[msenger76]

If anyone has the ramp for that slave 1, hook me up!

[Red Hulk]

I only had the Slave-1 from that page.I had the blaster rifle too but it had a Star Wars sticker on it.I do like the Space Figure case too.