Star Wars

Philip Reed September 9, 2017

Yesterday's ad for ToyFare magazine was fun, but this ad for the magazine's first issue -- found in the August...

Philip Reed September 4, 2017

Kenner was trying everything they could think of in 1984 and 1985 to keep the Star Wars brand strong in...

Philip Reed September 4, 2017

Decipher's Star Wars CCG (find at Amazon.com*) has been dead for close to two decades, and yet even in death...

Philip Reed September 3, 2017

December 15, 1977. Who wants to go see Star Wars for Christmas in 1977? This newspaper ad for the "....

Philip Reed August 29, 2017

This 1981 Kroger newspaper advertisement is a snapshot of retail offerings for Christmas of 1981, with everything from a solar-powered...

Philip Reed August 28, 2017

I think I posted the best ad that we've yet seen for the Radio-Control R2-D2 toy back in 2015, where...

Philip Reed August 25, 2017

Even though I have already published two different 96-page books of Star Wars newspaper ads -- Collect These Figures and...

Philip Reed August 24, 2017

Nove,ber 8, 1984. This advertisement from the Lionel Playworld stores is a bit of an unusual one; the ad doesn't...

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