I'm wondering if anyone else has read this book? Just thought I would share.
I've had this book in my collection for a few years now. It's not a vintage book, but it is a good read.
It gives some nice back ground information about how Kenner brought Star Wars to Canada by partnering with Irwin Toys, to become Kenner Canada. Published in 2000. It about 120 pages thick.

It has some interesting info about the GDE logo's, Sears Canada figures, Yak Face, the Wind Up R2-D2, etc..
In the author's foreword, he gives credit to Tom Derby for his contribution of pictures and Mr. Mac Irwin, former president of Kenner Canada.

It's on my wishlist.

Yes, i used too own a copy myself but for some reason sold it when i thinned out my book collection.

i have it awsome book! a must have for any cardback variant collector all these types of books are these would be the last tings to go if i ever sold of everything.just waiting for a palitoy,or lili ledy or toltoys or harbert or clipper or takara/popy/tsukuda or bootleg book to come out.then i will add them to my book collection

daren

Its on my wishlist too

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It's on my wishlist.

I Second that! Been searching for that forever! Still after a copy of Meccano To Ti-Logo as well

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I Second that! Been searching for that forever! Still after a copy of Meccano To Ti-Logo as well

It's still avaialble from Stephane's website..... http://www.meccano2trilogo.com/

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It's on my wishlist.

There's one on Amazon.com for $50

Jim's book is fantastic !!! It's always a pleasure to read it and each time it is possible to find little details i missed.

There is a member on RS who's selling it, he's located in the Netherlands, might be interesting for european guys

http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1087777/

I also second Jim's book as well. A number of years these were sold on RS for roughly $10.00 a pop. I jumped on the price and have read it many times. Sadly, I have never personally met at Celebration and I am not sure if he is "in tune" with the hobby anymore. Again, a great book.

emperorburns wrote:

i have it awsome book! a must have for any cardback variant collector all these types of books are these would be the last tings to go if i ever sold of everything.just waiting for a palitoy,or lili ledy or toltoys or harbert or clipper or takara/popy/tsukuda or bootleg book to come out.then i will add them to my book collection

daren

I would get all the books as well :-) I have this book and it is great . I have seen some of the rare stuff from the book pop up fs now and then . Right now the AT-AT with a baggie AT-AT driver is fs on RS .

So i don't know how up to date it is now a days . But still a good book

Hi Soren,

I have missed that AT-AT , could you PM me the link to the page ?

Thanks

olivier

Sent you the PM mate

I got my copy of this book today, took me ages to find when I looked on Amazon they were selling for over £100 I never paid anywhere near that, Have not read it yet but looking at the pictures it looks like its going to be an interesting read.

Holy Crap! Over £100, Really? Damn Amazon. I can remember the collector that I got my copy from. It was a local collector that was liquidating her collection in 2008 and she was asking $7 for it. You can still see the sticker at the top left corner of the front cover. She had many 25%, 50% & 75% sale reductions, so I likely never paid any more than $5.50 for it. Just before she had to move, she finally just gave me a box full of stuff (new & vintage) that no one wanted. I still have some of the stuff packed away somewhere???

She even made one of the local newspapers a few times with her collection!

I have this book by Jim. Got it when it first came out and announced in the Vintage Rebel Scum forum.

The only shortcoming is the gum on the book binding is not strong enough, which made the pages fall off easily if you are not careful in handling this paperback book. Other than that its a very documented treatise on the Vintage Kenner Canada Star Wars toys.

I just noticed that Amazon.ca has this book on sale for $14.95 CAN if anyone was still interested and looking for a copy?
Looks like it's 27% off the regular price.
Here is a screen shot of the search.

Does John still have the donations for TIG set up for Amazon and does it work for Amazon.ca??
http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t5090-please-support-imperial-gunnery

I agree it is a must have for any cardback collector, it is little out of date but still the best and only Canadian reference book. I think it may have been one of the first ones issued, so the overall quality is not quite as nice as the kellerman, or tri books.

Toddg