Star Wars packaging
Back in t'day when Star Wars was new (the proper original trilogy here, not those jumped up firework displays of toy comercials*) I was a lad of 7 and had LOADS of the action figures.

These figures came in packs with a plastic bubble containing the figure attached to a carboard back sheet, on the back of which was a list (with pictures) of all the other figures available.

Now for years I had three of these back-pieces in a draw under my bed, for the only reason that I liked looking at the other figures I didn't have and memorising their names.

Fast forward to when I was around 15. The star wars toys have been banished to the loft as cool collectors items. I was watching something along the lines of Antiques Roadshow afternoon when one of the people on the show brought out tub of star wars figures just like mine in to be valued. What stuck with me was the proto-David Dickinson asking the collector if he had any of the original packaging "As the carboard backs are worth £50 each alone" he crowed.

"£50 each? For cardboard?" Thinks I (remember, this is the early 90s and I was 15- £150 was nothing to be sniffed at.

I ran upstairs and turned my room upsidedown looking for those 3 pieces of cardboard.
Nothing.

I check the loft.
Nothing.

I asked Mum.
"Oh those things?" She said, "I threw them out a few months ago; they were just cardboard."

Not sure what upset me more; the fact she'd cost me £150, or that I realised then how much I had valued those three pieces of cardboard as a young'un.

Length? They were about 6" of cardboard, but I loved them.
*Spaced, yay!
( Evilscary off lurking for a bit, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 17:20, closed)