Originally posted by: C3PX
When you talk about the Palitoy Death Star, you are talking about the one made of cardboard right? It looks cool, but I mean, it is made out of cardboard. I think it was available in Canada too.

Yeah, cardboard (or pressboard, whatever) it may have been, but man the amount of play features in all of that!

Actually, some of my favorite toys from back in the day were nothing much more than cardboard, and maybe a little bit of plastic. The Cantina Adventure Playset (which was more like the Mos Eisley Streets Playset) was nothing but a cardboard backdrop with plastic footpegs, as was the later Cloud City Playset. However, I got so much play out of those things just by using my imagination based off what was printed on the backdrops. But I admit, not a lot of built-in play value there. The Palitoy Death Star, on the other hand, had multiple levels and rooms, with corridors, a trash compactor, a turret gun, and much more. Really amazing for something made from cardboard.

The Land of the Jawas Playset and Hoth Ice Planet playset were mainly cardboard too, with a plastic base (the same one). Yet those really fired my imagination as well. A full AT-AT or RC Sandcrawler were too expensive, so I made do with the cardboard versions... and probably had just as much fun.

Incidentally, I really liked the retro-ish cardboard fold-together Jabba's Palace and Cantina playsets that Kenner/Hasbro did in the mid-to-later 90s. They were like the old cardboard playsets only much more accurate and with tons more detail. Unfortunately, most of their later plastic playsets left a lot to be desired.

--SKot