How did your games and world change in 1977 / 1978?
Cross posted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two
Happy International or InterGalactic Star Wars Day – May the 4th be with you!
Tag: May the 4th
Farewell Chewbacca – May the 4th Be With You!
Sad news that another of the original Star Wars cast has passed away, Peter Mayhew the very tall actor who played Chewbacca, announced on the eve of International Star Wars Day (May the 4th – be with you!)
In honour of the day and Peter Mayhew’s memory, here is a small parade of some my childhood Star Wars figures from the early films. Each represents a part of my mis-spent youth, literally, as if I spent no other pocket money I could scratch together in 1978 about one pound a month. That was what each Star Wars figure cost in the shops. Birthdays and Christmas might stretch to a spaceship or a playset.
By hiding the fiddly bits like guns away in a tin, I still have a few of them left, surprisingly as they have now been played with by several generations of the family over the last forty years.
The bases stopped them being quite as tippy, although lining them up for a photo, they were still fairly unbalanced. On their own they could not stand up well at all which made play a problem, but with no bases they could fit into vehicles or onto lugs on playset bases.
Star Wars remains one of my favourite films, one of the few films I have seen twice in the cinema as a child. It enlarged the scope of my imaginative games beyond soldiers, knights, cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians. Suddenly everything was space crazy again.
Collecting these figures put a serious dent in my pocket money, so the Airfix figures came second place for several years. Star Wars and action figures must have been a serious challenge for toy and model firms like Airfix and Britain’s.
I haven’t used these large Action figures in any space gaming scenarios since the 1980s. However I do have some smaller 54mm figures that I still use: https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/close-little-space-wars/
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/in-a-garden-far-far-away/
Star Wars formed part of my childhood reading too!
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/march-reading-minor-galactic-epic-fail/
However you spend today, have a Happy International Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you!
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN on May the 4th 2019. Another new film due this year …
Happy International Star Wars Day May the 4th … be with you!
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/in-a-garden-far-far-away/
Happy International Star Wars Day, May the 4th … be with you!
A day for duelling lightsabers no doubt!
In homage to one of my all time favourite films (life was never quite the same after 1977/8) and in keeping with our last Duelling game blog about Bartitsu, some interesting duelling illustrations:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/more-duelling-inspiration-bartitsu/
http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2015/12/e-w-skywalker-vs-darth-vigny/
and some much more ‘serious’ discussion about lightsaber moves in duelling.
https://www.fx-sabers.com/forum/index.php?topic=23437.0
Happy May 4th!
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 4 May 2017
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