I bet if you put a WTB on RS you would find some Jay- actually, Dave Tree had a bunch of these quite cheap a few years ago for sale on RS, no idea if he still has some though.

i got these off ebay some years ago
apparently they come from "Journal De Mickey" (Mouse), a weekly magazine originating in France, also available in Belgium

Is anyone keeping track of magazines that carry sw-toy-ads?

here are some more:



Yan Solo on the rescue to save Chiquetaba on board the Faucon Millenaire. Will he have enough energy?

According to Stephanes From Meccano To Trilogo book the ads were from "Pif Gadget" Magazine for kids - here is that old RS thread I spoke about btw - Meccano half sheets RS

ooh love those, Joe!

next batch:



Sexually indecisive pod ship and Luc fly very fast to the rescue of Leïa and Ben Kenobi.

I'm guessing the inhabitants of wherever they departed from, are happy to see them go. Fireworks happy!

Luc rests for another 4 seconds, providing the electronics don't betray him...

funny how they used a palitoy/meccano landspeeder, with non opening hood. Also, i think Luc's leg might be broken.

Will Leïa and Ben Kenobi reveal the Centaure secrets to Dark Vador? Nothing can save them now...

Luc has 15 seconds to join his space ship. Suddenly...

look at the tension on his face!

Chiquetaba has arrived in time to help Ben. A TIE Fighter appears!

Idefix13 wrote:

aussiejames wrote:

I shouldn't joke around so much

how many different address' on instructions would there be?

This is the stuff I was hoping for! James could you please take a picture of the whole instructions (front page) to see if there is any other difference?


Uli

the instructions mystery is solved : http://www.toltoys.com/?s=speederbike

Hyver wrote:

Will Leïa and Ben Kenobi reveal the Centaure secrets to Dark Vador? Nothing can save them now...

That is class!!

Pardon my ignorance on these things but what size is the above meccano advert? Is it on a sheet on its own or part of a booklet magazine?

Reason i ask is i bet framing some of these would look uber cool.

Cheers Jay

they're cut from children's magazines, about A5 in size

aussiejames wrote:

Idefix13 wrote:

aussiejames wrote:

I shouldn't joke around so much

how many different address' on instructions would there be?

This is the stuff I was hoping for! James could you please take a picture of the whole instructions (front page) to see if there is any other difference?


Uli

the instructions mystery is solved : http://www.toltoys.com/?s=speederbike

nice work AJ, interesting that the TT box came in slightly larger size! More variations!

After a long hard search and thinking that there was no toy ads in mags over here (that I could remember), I can make a nice contribution to this thread finally. All of these came from Famous Monsters issue #174

Sandcrawler


Figures and playsets


Figures and vehicles


Taun Taun, vehicles and the all new IG-88 12" doll.


I know this one isn't toy related, but had to add it. The Star Wars radio ad.

in my childhood I was a die hard PIF Gadget collector
my first issue was 639 back in 1981!
exactly in the right time on the right place, because the first "small scene" were published in 638, the second one in 640 and so on... (25 small scenes were published in every bi-weekly issues)
I loved them, they were my first ever SW experiences/memorabilien months before the hungarian movie release dates!
today I have almost all these old magazines, but unfortunately, cca. 25 years ago I cut off all my SW related pics from them and they are lost...
only one survived!!!
issue 646!
a real gem for me!
a magazine, complete with a "small scene" meccano advert!
some pics from it:







an other great stuff from a PIF, my first ever Star Wars stuff!



for luck, a week ago I met an other old PIF collector (here in hungary) who offered me old PIF-s to buy
naturally, almost all the SW ads were cut of from her specimens as well
it is very hard to find untouched PIF-s today
especially which contained SW pictures, seems everybody cut them off
except this two issues which I bought


issue 660:






and issue 611:









after my "gems" here are some more meccano ads in "cut off" format
I have only the pics without the complete magazines
they have been bought from e-bay

issue 595:



issue 674:



issue 640 (in very bad shape):



issue 650:



issue 648:



issue 660:



issue 642:



issue 654:



issue 676:



issue 678:



issue 644:



issue 668:



issue 666:



issue 680:




issue 646:




one of my favourite from my childhood
the issue with the great ROTJ poster!
naturally, I lost it completely
ten years ago I caught the poster in the flea market:

from FIX & FOXI:

Nice adverts skywalkerhu!

Uli

P.S. Check your PMs!

Idefix13 wrote:

Nice adverts skywalkerhu!

Uli

P.S. Check your PMs!

OK, I just have ansvered it!

some kind of prototypes have been pictured here
watch out their paintings
rebel soldier and han hoth are great!!!
have you got better pics from these versions? maybe I could paint some for myself

This is the image in colour, it was mirrored for the cardback.

I believe ALL of the figures are some form of prototypes, painted hardcopies as far as I remember.

Wow they all look like nothing i have ever seen. Great color on all of them

Lukes saber is just a stick or home made baseball bat :-)

When i see this ad , i come to think off a ESP ad i had from the magazine 1998 or 1999. Luke Bespin had this very sharp and ponty saber in the picture.

Hans-Ole / Michael has that ad now , mayby he can post it here ?

the guns are strange too

Its been a while since we had any new paperwork items in this thread. I was wondering if there has been any new aquisitions???

Great collections you all have

Craig T wrote:

Its been a while since we had any new paperwork items in this thread. I was wondering if there has been any new aquisitions???

good call Craig, here are a few paperwork items I've picked up in recent weeks...

Star Wars Jedi Arena



Battle on Ice Planet Hoth



Comic style ads




Star Wars Texas Instruments watch

Artoo_Detour wrote:

The Kenner SW Cash Refunds catalogue

Thats 12"stormtrooper has a sweet blaster. Does anyone know if any of those exist??