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This is the best I can do for the Star Wars Weekly X-Wing
Vader was also front and center on the first ESB poster.
http://www.theforce.net/collecting/posters/esb/advance.asp
Where were you in '77?
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;
(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;
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.
Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.
(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.”)
Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.
This is the best I can do for the Star Wars Weekly X-Wing
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.
Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.
So, did people actually wear these?
(I know they still make SW pins, but I’ve never seen anyone actually wear them.)
Buttons/badges were pretty big in the late '70s and early '80s in the US. I remember seeing this kind of thing quite a lot back then, particularly among kids and teens. I actually still have my “Darth Vadar Lives” button; it’s identical to the picture above, roughly three inches in diameter, and it’s proudly pinned to the giant, three-foot-tall Vader action figure in the corner of my art studio.