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CentralHarlem t1_j3wmaeq wrote

No Star Wars toys? What kind of outcast were you?

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captainflowers t1_j3wp5qu wrote

And famously during that first Christmas after Star Wars was released there weren’t any toys. They sold cardboard boxes with images of the toys, and a certificate to take into the store to exchange for the real toys when they were finally completed and real to be sold.

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OrangeLoco OP t1_j3wpsqh wrote

Very interesting fun fact. Thank you for sharing that!

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wojo_lives t1_j3xaa6h wrote

I don't temper exactly, but I think only a few figures were available by Christmas '77, but you could order them and they'd give you a cardboard certificate of sorts that promised the toy was coming. Something like that?

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CentralHarlem t1_j3xb004 wrote

I remember a kind of cardboard platform you could buy to hold the figures when they came out.

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OrangeLoco OP t1_j3wobu8 wrote

Star Wars premiered exactly 7 months prior to this day. I saw Star Wars while I was in the first grade, but not sure if I saw it before or after Christmas.

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