I've been trying to sniff out of any connections between toys of the Sixties and Star Wars.
Lacking sufficient Force this time of the morning my Thursday brain is struggling to get past the scum and villainy of my dreams.
Short of tearing this moonbase apart to find the plans, the only thing I can think of is an old link I found in the first months of the blog in 2008 to a website called Secret Fun Spot.
The site had a fun section about Star Wars knockoffs.
Alas the site appears now to be defunct but I did archive a particular image:
Along with obvious C3PO clones made of metal there is a neat set of our friends the Blue Box space vehicles.
Interestingly the Space Car at the bottom of the picture is white. Back in 2008 I'd never seen a white one before and now in 2017 I'm not sure I have yet.
Have you readers?
Why they are Star Wars knockoffs I'm not sure unless the website was only interested in the C3PO bit. Yep, that could be it.
What's your fave Star Wars toy or collectable?
Secret Fun Spot is still there Woodsy
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My favourite SW (knock-off) toy is a HK made Laser Sword (ca. 1978), with the toy's name printed in SW typeface on a tall and slim window box.
The favourite collectable is something I brought home with me from London back in 1983, an uncut 2-sheet poster announcing a £5000 reward for a stolen ROTJ print.
May The 4th Be With You!
Well done Arto! It was a flash drive problem on my laptop which made me think it was dormant. Nice to see its still there! I like the whole Star Wars knockoff slideshow. There are quite a few swords on there too. Is your favourite in there?
ReplyDeleteThat poster sounds fantastic. When you say print do you mean film stock?
Yep. A complete 35 mm film print of ROTJ was stolen and Lucasfilm offered a reward for it.
DeleteTo answer your other question Woodsy, the Laser Sword is the one on the left
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About Secret Fun Spot,The site itself should remain unchanged as long as the blogger wishes to keep it there.If you click on "My Blog" you will go to Kirk DeMarias' Secret Fun Spot blog, which gets updated,although not much lately.Kirk also has a Twitter page which gets updated a little more often.I've kept him bookmarked for years as I find his bloggings interesting,if infrequent.
ReplyDeleteI do worry about sites where a huge investment of time and energy has gone. Anything on the net remains there at the whim of the web giants like Google, who own Blogger on which we talking right now. I was shocked when the hugely informative website The Gerry Anderson Comics History disappeared when Virgin had a clear-out as were many people http://www.fanderson.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3031 . I had thought Secret Fun Spot had gone too so I'm very glad its still around. Just last year I was flicking though Kirk's cool book about those comics classifieds at the back of marvels and the like. Great book and site.
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