Comparison of the stickers with instruments inside DV's TIE Fighter....


Kenner Version

Source - Pauli



Lili Ledy version





Funny, they are different. Small discovery of the day.

No I start to wonder about all the other versions....

nice little discovery there Marco

similar to when I found there were two variations of the X-Wing Fighter battle damage decals, I'd always assumed there was just one.

Hey cool, didn't know that either.


Here is another funny difference...



Palitoy Version (Kenner has the same artwork).

Source - Capetown



Lili Ledy version





No idea why the Death Star was replaced by a Endor like planet.


Maybe cause this is the first Death Star and Lili Ledy wanted to promote toys from ROTJ?

I sent some pictures of the Canadian Speeder Bike and Canadian Tri-Pod Laser Cannon. Let me know if the pictures arrived and are good enough for the thread.
Thanks

Clint

Commander Clint wrote:

I sent some pictures of the Canadian Speeder Bike and Canadian Tri-Pod Laser Cannon. Let me know if the pictures arrived and are good enough for the thread.
Thanks

Clint

Hey Clint,

Pictures received in well order, they are great and will be used to update the entries!!!

KUDOS for helping us.

Also KUDOS to our new member bonglee23 (Steve) for sending pics of a boxed German white TIE Fighter.

This is a GREAT resource! Thank you! We just bought a HUGE collection and, besides Rebel Scum (which doesn't always have everything), this is the best guide I've seen! Thank you so much! Totally using this!

POTB update


New entry for the Tie Fighter section:

US Kenner German issue with German instructions and non tape-sealed box. This version originally came shrink-wrapped.

see here:
Imperial TIE Fighter

thank you TIG member bonglee23 for contributing the pics and descriptions

POTB update

new addition for the ATST Scout Walker section:

Bilogo Scout Walker with French/Spanish language. This differs from the version we already have documented which is a Bilogo with French/English language.

see the new entry here:
AT-ST (All Terrain Scout Transport)

Thanks to Ackbar100 for sending us the pics

Hey Guys!

I would just like to say this is an AWESOME Thread  

and a valuable resource.

I have one question regarding the "US. Kenner. ESB. AT-AT Special Offer with Bonus Accessories."

How Rare is a Boxed one of these with with large tear to side and some creasing?

Thanks for any help guys!

Liam:) 

POTB SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

MECCANO FRENCH BOXED vintage AT-ATs

Stéphane Faucourt (chiquetaba) kindly forwarded us info and pics from two recent discoveries that he and fellow collecter, Yann Leroux, made regarding the AT-AT vehicle.

Thank you Stéphane and Yann for sharing these new discoveries with TIG's Project Outside The Box.

The entry for AT-AT vehicle has also been updated, see here: AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport)









How and when the AT-AT vehicle was originally released in France back in the 80s has always been quite a mystery. During many years, it was simply believed not to have been marketed.

With the surface of only Bilogo boxes (front side in English, back side in French) and listing in 1984 retailer catalog, it was believed to have been marketed late 1984; and unlike most ESB vehicles, there was no evidence so far about imported Kenner/Palitoy boxes with French notification stickers...

Well, more light can be made thanks to TWO incredible unreferenced variants made by myself and my pal French Collector Yann Leroux in the recent weeks: a Palitoy ESB box with Meccano sticker, and a Bilogo box with Meccano sticker and French Miro-Meccano ROTJ instructions.

That makes TWO significant discoveries on a same vehicle within a few weeks, which we are now sharing with the community .

This new information allow to determine that the AT-AT was first sold in France late 1983, from a Palitoy imported box, then quickly replaced by the Bilogo box on which a sticker was still applied, to finally end-up with the Bilogo box without any additions.

Of course, Meccano used to import ESB Palitoy boxes during the ESB marketing era and sold them with a French notification sticker and French ESB instructions (eg. Twin-Pod Cloud Car, Snowspeeder, and Millenium Falcon); however importing an ESB Palitoy box to retail during the ROTJ era is quite unusual.

The evidence of this AT-AT not being retailed during the ESB era is the ROTJ logo printed on the large notification sticker and the ROTJ French printed instructions.

In overall, the AT-AT was retailed in France throughout three variants:

1: Palitoy ESB 'Bounty hunter' box with French sticker + ROTJ Miro-Meccano French & Palitoy instructions
2: regular Bilogo ROTJ box with French sticker + ROTJ Miro-Meccano French & Palitoy instructions
3: regular Bilogo ROTJ box -without sticker- + ESB Kenner Canada & ROTJ Palitoy instructions


Stéphane Faucourt



ROTJ Bilogo with Meccano sticker for distribution in France


Comparison pic: newly discovered early Bilogo with Meccano sticker (front) with regular Bilogo version (back)




Comparison pic: newly discovered early Bilogo with Meccano sticker (right) with regular Bilogo version (left)




Instruction sheets:
- regular bilogo box: ESB French Canada + ROTJ Palitoy




Instruction sheets:
- earlier bilogo box with meccano sticker: French ROTJ miro-meccano + ROTJ Palitoy





Box inside details: Regular Bilogo (left). Bilogo with Meccano sticker (right)




Regular Bilogo box with its 2 instructions sheet (ESB Kenner Canada + ROTJ Palitoy)




Bilogo box with Meccano sticker, with its 2 instructions sheet (ROTJ Miro-Meccano + ROTJ Palitoy




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ESB Palitoy with Meccano sticker for distribution in France



ESB Palitoy with Meccano sticker




ESB Palitoy Meccano sticker front



to see these new entries in their AT-AT thread go to:
AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport)

Great info, thank you Paul and Stephane!!  

POTB update


New updates for the Speeder Bike section: Speeder Bike

• Canadian Version
  
• Biligo Version with 'Moto Jet' printed on the box
  
• Meccano Version with 'Speeder  Bike' sticker on Kenner box.
  
• Lili Ledy version
  

Thank you Capetown, Jawa.57, Walkie, and Commander Clint for providing the new pictures.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• US. Kenner. POTF. Tatooine Skiff.
  
  
  

US. Kenner. POTF. Tatooine Skiff.


Pictures made by Dr Dengar.





A few pics making it clear that the Tatooine Skiff was made in Mexico, by the General Mills Tijuana factory.
This is a different factory than the Lili Ledy Tlanepantla factory. See also: http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1084964-2/










Pictures made by Capetown.











Please help us by contributing pics of your Tatooine Skiff.

For more info about this project you can click here: PROJECT OUTSIDE THE BOX

Great updates, keep em coming.

PS i'll take a few photos of the Tatooine Skiff Instructions asap

Thanks Stef, looking forward to these instructions.   

I have just added some extra info emphasizing the Mexican origin of the Tatooine Skiff.

Marco, thanks for the latest round of updates.  
I have some more Canadian boxed items to photograph when I have a moment.

Love all the new updates   

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• US. Kenner. ROTJ. TIE Interceptor.
  
• Europe. Bilogo. ROTJ. TIE Interceptor.
  
• Brazil. Glasslite. POTF. Nave Imperial.
  
  
  
  

US. Kenner. ROTJ. TIE Interceptor.


Pictures made by Capetown.













Europe. Bilogo. ROTJ. TIE Interceptor.

Photo by Mike Skywalker.






This version 'Moulded in France' - 'Assembled in UK'.

Pictures made by Jawa.57.
Instructions by Walkie.
Poster by Hyver.




       

     







Brazil. Glasslite. POTF. Nave Imperial.

Pictures made by…





Please help us by contributing pics of your TIE Interceptor.

For more info about this project you can click here: PROJECT OUTSIDE THE BOX

Commander Clint wrote:

Marco, thanks for the latest round of updates.  
I have some more Canadian boxed items to photograph when I have a moment.

Artoo_Detour wrote:

Love all the new updates   

Cheers, Clint and Paul.

I try to make one or two empty entries every week now till they are all there.
From then on we only need to fill them with pictures.

So looking forward to the Canadian pics, Clint.   

BTW: Cool avatar, Paul!  

 

Is it me or are the pictures missing in some sections?
I have just looked at page 10 (falcon and imperial transport) and there are no images being displayed at all for those two.
I know not every entry had pictures, but I could have swore the Falcon had some if not at least one up.

I was looking at some ebay listings for boxed Falcons and in most shots with boxes, I can't see how in the heck the Falcon actually fits inside the box. It looks 6+++ inches longer. Poor angles distorting perspective?

Anyway............... just seeing if I was remembering something that wasn't there.

cheers!

psybertech wrote:

I have just looked at page 10 (falcon and imperial transport) and there are no images being displayed at all for those two.
I know not every entry had pictures, but I could have swore the Falcon had some if not at least one up.

cheers!

Hi Jay, most of the more recent entries are still empty, like those for the Millennium Falcon and Imperial Transport.
So you must have seen ghosts.   

The idea is to first complete all entries and then fill them.

Cheers

X-Wing entry updated with new Glasslite pics and info:

X-Wing Fighter

Hello boys,

Great work on the thread as usual. Haven't spent enough time here obviously, but I'm back!

Marco, you fancy admin you, you do know I have sent you pictures of the bilogo Tie Interceptor too, right?

Emiel

Also, I've acquired the Palitoy 2nd issue if you guys want the pics?

Emiel, great thing that the collector's bug caught you again.

There are many more pics which you and others have sent me, just have troubles to divide my sparse free time nowadays over the many activities (Ledy, Poch, potb, facebook, and my own collection all of which desperately needs some attention). I don't complain, cause it is all fun to work on and provides some distraction from the hectic during the day. But I admit progress is a bit slow nowadays. Maybe I should go to Kamino and clone myself.

Will react on your text message later, bro.
Cheers