The Retro Star Wars Thread — Page 6

Vader was also front and center on the first ESB poster.
http://www.theforce.net/collecting/posters/esb/advance.asp

Cut-out X-Wing and TIE-Fighter

The X-Wing was included in Star Wars Weekly # 1

I had a hard time finding a proper high resolution pictures of the cut-out X-Wing online, however I do own a copy of the Norwegian Star Wars #1 comic from 1983 which borrowed the design;

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(Here’s the instructions in English. This was the only high res. picture I could find online of the UK version.)

I even made one myself about 10 years ago when I bought the comic;

(PS. I didn’t actually cut up the comic, I photo-copied the page and used that. However I had to glue it to some card-stock to make it work properly, and even then it ended up looking a bit wonky.)

In Star Wars Weekly #2 they included a TIE-Fighter version.

I don’t have the Norwegian comic that includes this; however I did manage to find a scan of the English version in pretty decent resolution;

Instructions (in English)

As a side-note I got a lot of these pictures (the UK ones) from the blog Episode Nothing: Star wars in the 1970’s "For those who Knew Luke Skywalker before Darth Vader was his father."
There’s a lot of interesting info here about the old Star Wars Weekly magazines, and other SW-related merchandise from the UK in the late 70’s.

(I got bored, so I figured I’d post some more SW school supplies. For some reason these things always amuse me.)

(I can’t help but feel that someone like Darth Vader doesn’t really belong on a “safety blade” with “round edges.”)

Wolfman said:

This is the best I can do for the Star Wars Weekly X-Wing

Yeah, that’s the same one that I found when I googled it.

However, the Norwegian one I posted above is in high-res, but the colours are a little off. I guess I could try to colour correct it and add English text, but I don’t exactly have any need for it.