Star Wars Toys Worth Millions $$$ Dumped in a Landfill?
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As a young boy I used to live in Glenfield which is not far from Coalville I can remember climbing into skips on the industrial estate and finding them full of Star Wars figures we used to sort through them and take the ones we hadn't got to add to our collection
Lucky lad !
I lived near universal cycles, we used to go down their skips, get frames wheels etc and make our bikes lol. Was great till a lad broke his ankle in a skip (big container type one) then universal locked their skips up .
I always find it odd that toy and video game companies decided to throw unsold products into landfills instead of just filling up all the donations boxes for Christmas or something.
They don't want.that stuff. People are like that. Toys ppl are weird with.
cant write it off if you gave it away ,like most warehouses :/ sad really as a big kid id love some of that stuff & they can have the PS5
It’s for tax purposes. Simple as that. So in reality, blame government
@@thebluetarp donations are tax deductible.
Tax laws make them do things liek this
Hi Tony. Thanks for another informative video. The Star Wars figures dumped by Palitoy were all variants.
I live 30 mins away from Coalville, back in the 90s I used to frequent Coalville car boot sale, I once bought a sack of Star wars figures from an older gentleman there. He told me his wife had worked at the coalville factory back in 70s and early 80s , and told me that back in the day, Palitoy dumped thousands of Star wars figures into skips and bins,they also sold cheap bundles of 10 or 20 figures in the coalville factory shop, they were also given to employees at a reduction. Most of the figures I bought from him were of the ESB line and most had minor defects, bad paint apps, over spray on masked areas or eyes/eyebrows missing. Another thing about these Palitoy figures is that they were a brighter coloured more flexible plastic, made in hong Kong but with more floppy limbs, maybe this is the reason thousands were dumped, plastic quality issues that weren't up to Kenners set standards??
Awesome Indy intro sequence Tony, and fascinating video overall! 😳 And hey, the long-rumored Atari 2600 cartridge landfill turned out to be true (and found!) so who knows what may yet be unearthed in the future 😁
It's true. I remember living several doors down from a girl in 1983 - 1985. Her dad brought her haul after haul of Palitoy Star Wars figures and vehicles. He knew a place where these toys were regularly dumped. He brought so much stuff back. But that girl and her father are lost to the past now - and I was only 10. I lived in Leicestershire at the time - but the story is true....
The production value and effort in the opening sequence is by far your best work to date. You have set the bar a step above. So great!
My mum worked there in the 60’s on the production line, my mother in law worked in the sales office, my father in law was actually a toy designer there and worked on action man, star wars, return of the jedi , girls world and many more, I also worked there in the early 80’s in the sales office, no idea about dumping but i’m going to ask my father in law 😊
I love these types of legend. I'm really looking forward to this.
I know a lot where buried on the infill of the Great Central Railway between Danvers Rd and Upperton Rd Leicester. Me and my friends managed to find some back in the early 70’s
This might be the first premiere ever I don’t skip on principle this sounds really interesting. I am not a toy guy I just like learning about the lore of niche communities so I am subscribed to you and a few other toy channels. This is exactly why I subscribed for a story like this.
Reminds me of the Atari ET landfill story.
You're right! I saw a video on that a couple years back where that Atari game sold so poorly they just dumped them all in a landfill. Crazy!
Contrary to ET however, these Star Wars toys would likely fetch a ton of money with collectors nowadays. Wish I could go there with a truck and dig them all up. 😅
I live close to Coalville and as an aging toy fan looked into this some years ago, it has been confirmed to be true by Palitoy's Bobby B himself no less and for the most part if not entirely would seem the land it's under is private as mentioned and possibly a motor cross/dirt bike park nearby to said council landfill.
A cool toy treasure adventure that continues on. Thanks for another fun video, Tony.
There was a tip at Hartshorne where Palitoy used to dump stuff.
What is it that makes people dumb down museums? My local one is undergoing 'modernisation' work. The two items at the top of the list of 'improvements', are a coffee shop, which replaces a comprehensive, and popular gallery about wartime Ipswich, and the other 'important' thing is an enlarged giftshop. I've seen pictures of what they intend doing, and it looks like a Fisher-Price 'My First Museum'.
Thanks for the great video, and for also saving me a trip to the V&A Bethnal Green. It looks very dull indeed, now. I went years ago, and it was wonderful. I'll give it a swerve, now.
It's being 'decolonised'.
Awesome video as always Tony, I just ordered you in action figure form, thank you for your service.
What a great episode !
Fantastic and informative. Thank you. Here because of your connection to RetroBlasting. Keep up the great work.
Completely fascinating!
This just hits all the right spots when it comes to theories and confirmation.
I watched this 3 time's!
Thanks so much!
Such a shame the museum is changing, and lots of things locked away, and also so much stuff dumped , hopefully it can be found one day ? Thanks for getting a time capsule for us when you did 😀👍🏽🤙🏼
I can remember as a kid when the Star Wars figures seemed to quite quickly lose popularity and interests turned to Transformers, Action Force aka Gi Joe and The Real Ghostbusters. Think this would’ve been 86 - 87. Not sure when Thundercats, Centurions came out but they did well in the UK too.
That's it "lose popularity! " Nobody but some rich people own rarities. The population doesn't care about original vintage rare so long as new products show improvement. Where Star Wars action figures end up today are "Disney now vs George Lucas patronized products" going into innovation, creativities, improvements, etc. the mass consumers want and will buy through. I bet Kenner then Hasbro made much more dollars 1995 to date vs 1977-1983 only because of the movies not the rare toys of "lost popularity of the time!" 🤔
I have just spoken with my mother in law as I remembered she worked for Palitoy back in the late 70s and early 80s in Coalville, most of the factory floor workers had multiple duties she worked on Girls World but would also spray the Action Man and Star Wars figures, she remembers a mask had to be work and the Company supplied lots of free milk to drink whilst spraying. She worked nights but remembers clearly that the skip bins were always emptied in the daytime. She has no idea where they went but it was virtually a skip a day and they were always full of toys and figures.
What a great video, I have subscribed as I actually collect vintage wind up Marx Toys.
That intro had no right being as amazing as it was.
Living in Canada I find it interesting how many made in England Star Wars toys I had in my collection.
I knew an English lady that use to work there. She had interesting stories in her years of working there.
There is a dirt mound and 2-4 foot deep water hole at the bottom of it where I grew up full of Star Wars, He Man, Gi Joe and transformers toys i had in the 80s. Me and my neighbor was in a competition to see who could get the most lol. We used that dirt mound and water hole to play with them on. No telling how many are still buried in it or at the bottom of the small pool of water. We often left them there and would forget about them. A few yrs ago I made a trip back home, visited the old home place but it was torn down. I could still see the small dirt mound in the feild and actually thought about poking around in it to try to find some list toys but I don't know who owns the land now so I didn't. But I know there are several major Star Wars, Gi Joe ect still there. I recall sinking a x wing in the pool pretending Yoda would raise it. Did that often till one day it sank and couldn't find it. I know it's still there.
I know a field locally that was always said to be a palitoy dump as the original tip is now a park, the security guard on the gate would swap our broken action man for a new one 😊
I lived 1 mile from the palitoy factory. We used to go bin diving all the time. I had thousands of Action Man bits
My parents friends worked in Coalville and used to supply them with all my Christmas and birthday presents…… off the back of a lorry. 😅 40 years ago.
The story is true, I work in Coalville. Friends of mine used to raid local tips to make up Action Man for free from discarded parts ;)
I can tell you that one of the dumps was at Welford Village on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border. In 82 and 83 kids from Welton village would jump the fence at the weekend and bring action figures and bags and bags of LED Space Invader and Pacman games to sell at school (Guilsborough County Comprehensive). Which is where I bought mine! They were normally £2 each or three for £5. I can't remember how much the figures were because that wasn't my thing then.
I never went dump-diving myself as Welford was too far for me to cycle there from my village Yelvertoft.
There is treasure in them there hills! 🤖🇬🇧
it breaks my heart to see warehouses full of toys that go unloved all of their lives, when i have a home that welcomes those rejected toys.
Hell of an episode Tony.
Nailed the editing too.
-Dustin
In 1978 when l started collecting my local toy shop was closing down and offered me the following ALL at 25/- shillings each (£1.25 each)
10 x bubble packs of…….Darths, Lukes and large amounts of other Star Wars figures, speedsters etc. all at knock down prices
I said “Naw probably won’t be worth much in the future” 😳
This was to be the BIGGEST mistake of my collecting life as bubble packs were the first thing the kids destroyed when opening them and now in mint condition are worth an absolute fortune £££$$$$’s ☹️😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Like the atari landfill cannot wait
I used to have one of those talking cars. The police one in particular. I think some of the phrases were taken from an American model, though. Such as, 'there's been a break-in at the bank', and, 'he's got a gun, (bang, bang.)' 🤣
I have one on the shelf next to me, bought it because I used to own a Triumph 2000. I’ve never put batteries in it and it’s never occurred to me that it would do anything other than just light up. Going to have to try it now and see if it talks…
When the Matchbox factory closed at Moonachie,N.J, in the early 80s (?) dumpster divers had a field day as raw bodies,
prototypes, drawings were all thrown into dumpsters. At a toy show I purchased a '57 Chevy proto. w/ tilting front clip for
$5 and a Unimog proto. w/ snowplow for 6. Same seller also had resin bodies, drawings, and boxes of documentation
that had been retrieved.
I know my local landfill probably has tons of my childhood toys under tons of garbage.
I was brought up in the village next to the one where the landfill is. They dumped about 30 tonnes at lount. My aunt lived on the street next to palitoy so lots of my toys came from the skips
I've heard Hasbro in NZ used to bury old stock.
My dad used to deliver to Palitoy and as a kid I often went with him,I remember going under the loading bays when we was being unloaded and there were loads of unboxed toys abandoned under there.I imagine they were from damaged pallets and just thrown out of the way,whilst I don't remember what figures were in the piles,I did manage to find enough parts to build up the Beetle and Pick up truck from the Stock Car Smash Up set
I’ve dreamt about finding these
Thoroughly enjoyed that Tony, extremely interesting and educational too, I know of the landfill story, but not of a lot of the story surrounding it, great watch 👍
Hope you’re having a good one my friend 🎄👍
Very good video as always! The French Kenner counterpart Miro-Meccano did the same thing as Palitoy in the City of Calais (North of France, near the English channel)
20 years ago when I visited the factory plan, the manager show me their huge backyard where the company domped many over stock of toys.
You can go digging if you want! the manager said to my 2 friends and I but we didn't come with or Showlers that day :D
Today the facility is still existing and I think they builded a storage plan above the backyard when the company expanded its facilities.
If Palitoy has made so many toys back then by the millions, this makes me wonder where all of those have went to.
Brilliant vid Tony! Especially that intro you have filmed with the Indy/Action Man figs. And the content was told like and enthralling documentary, none of which i was aware. Thank you mate 👍👍🙏
I have 2 Atari cartridges in my games collection dug up from the unearthed pit. Each with an authentic tip smell
Another great video Tony, superb editing of the opening with the Indy action figure. 👏
Epic story! That's why I say that the future of collecting is restoration.
In the 1970s my Dad would take unsold and returned toys from shops in Northamptonshire to Coalville in school holidays I would go . We would throw the toys out of transit van in to big bids ! Yes I had lots of toys at home!
That was a great vid! Thank you for sharing this. I'd heard the rumours on the internet about the landfill dumps and was really looking forward to this.(and it didn't dissapoint!)
I remember the decline of star wars toys. The prices went silly in our local asda's toy section.. typical, i just wished I'd stocked up back then😂
Great video Tony! It is well documented about the Atari games, like the E.T. game, that were dumped in a landfill in the U.S.
That beginning Indiana Jones type archeology opening sequence is so fun! And the clips of commercials are priceless. Thanks for the video!
(:
There’s rumors that there are tons of unsold Star Wars Episode One toys, mainly Jar Jar Binks toys, under the parking lot at Hasbro’s Pawtucket, RI Headquarters.
It would definitely be like finding the Ark of the Covenant to randomly unearth piles of that vintage Palitoy goodness. I think I would drop dead from shock😂 Thank you for the great video, Tony. It was super interesting learning about the possibility of such a treasure. Cheers mate!
Wow that’s one I’ve never heard and I have heard a lot. I’ve heard of a warehouse somewhere on the west that houses Hasbro’s “final waves” that got into production but the lines shut down before they could reach retail. Supposedly, the droids A-Wing was repackaged from this warehouse and supposedly thousands of GI Joe Ninja Commandos are there too, I think it was either a new version of Quick Kick or Budo was made into Shang Tsung for Mortal Kombat line a year or so after the Joe line shut down etc.
These urban legends are fun, but I tend to take them with a grain of salt at the same time.
Still got Talking Dalek and K9, plus odd star wars figures sadly got rid most my stuff as when in my late teens nowadays which now wish still had...
Don't know about a secret location but I do know loads of this stuff ended up at lount "tip" and it was a free for all, they just gave it away as thete was so much of it, you could turn up and take what you wanted in bulk.it was all defective though I remember my millennium falcons, they all had the same part missing.
Hi. Interesting video. I’m one of the organisers of the ‘Many Faces of Palitoy’ 2019 exhibition and the recent ‘Action Force 40’. The rumours about other tips on farmland are absolutely true, I built an Action Man from parts obtained from one of these tips which was displayed at ’Many Faces’. Most of the stuff dumped on this particular site was component parts of various toys usually damaged or mis-moulded. There were always groups of kids and adults at this site when a new batch had been dumped. This was shut down before Star Wars toys were being manufactured so it only contained Action Man material and various doll parts as well as packaging. The packaging was very much sought after as a star scheme was in operation at the time so by collecting the stars from the packaging one could send them in and receive a new Action Man. The tip when closed was buried under tons of earth and is now very boggy ground. I won’t say exactly where this is as I know the farmer’s family. Suffice to say that word has got around and the farmer recently had to put up a new gate to seal off the area.
There is a landfill less than 10 miles from the old Palitoy factory in Coalville. I used to work there until quite recently as gasfield technician (stopping methane from rotten garbage escaping by using it to fuel a generator).
This was such an awesome video tony!
This is the best Indy film outside of the TRILOGY!!! The true 4th and ONLY 4th film.
I've just found u love your work big 💚🇬🇧
Hello..
I was a 13 year old kid and one breaktime my friend said to me meet me after school I have got something to tell you.
My friend asked me if I was busy Saturday morning I replyed er no why... I have have got to show you he said. Well the weekend came and my friend took me to a field with anbig fence round it. We went threw a hole in the fence and on the other side we got caught by the security guard.Some how he knew my mates name . I thought we where in a lot of trouble till the man said Jason how many times have I told you to use the bloody gate.It was my mates dad . He took us round and showed us a huge dump of broken toys everywhere.i walked on broke three wing spaceships x wings ,falcons ,tie fighters, God there was alsorts .And loads and loads of r2d2 heads. We took a load of figures and alsorts .I am now 52 and my friend sadly passed away I went up to the old dump and it is a green field .I saw this video and it brought a tear to my eye but also made me thing about the two lads who got loads of free toys. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together you made a granddad feel young again .
Great intro!
But I also have to think anything left out and buried outside in the rain heat and cold for nearly 40 years would be so damaged that, while it would probably exist still ... It would be in terrible condition, and only something truly rare would be worth anything at all in that kind of condition.
Great video, however the factory was off Jackson street and not on Owen Street. My grandfather lived on Owen street and his garden backed on to factory grounds
What a wonderful intro to your video 😊. Had to stop immediately, to tell you, how delighted I am 👍.
Think there's a chance some of these figures just got sold off? Can't remember the year but one Boxing day I convinced my parents to let me go and spend my Xmas money and WoolWorths had bags of five Star Wars figures without the packaging for just a couple of pounds each. Think I ended up with about 10 loose for about four quid.
Great effort put into this well done piece. Thank you.
I could see this as an Indiana Jones style movie about two avid toy collectors racing to find clues to its location. It could work as a comedy.
Need to get the Time Team on it.
I discovered one of these landfills at around 2005 in England. All it had in it was a bunch of Jawa figures with a cheap plastic cape. I already had that figure with a cool material cape, so I just reburied the 200 or so duplicate figures I had found.
😂😂😂
Ironic... but the crazy thing is Palitoy probably did exactly that. (They would definitely have destroyed the capes when changing to fabric) The only vinyl cape Jawa I have ever come across in the wild , I bought from Coalville carboot in late 90s in a sack of Palitoy rejects from spouse of ex Palitoy employee. I'ts my personal theory that the figures that that Palitoy sent to landfill failed quality control and were binned at Kenner's behest.
Wonderful Video, Tony. Thanks for sharing!
This is fascinating and exciting. I've never heard this story. I'm now imagining a documentary like the one about the Atari dump! I'd love to see this happen...
Knowing my luck, I’d find one of the sites but just dig up 500 Chickaboos.
Excellent indy animation at the start of the video Tony, really enjoyed that 👍
TRUE STORY !!!!
The Hunt Midwest caves in Kansas City Missouri still have deep holes filled with new discontinued toys and electronics from the early 80s.
Your story of Action Man videos were done in 2011? Geez the years go by fast!
It's so hilarious living in a world that now includes the ability to forage and mine collectible toys.
This stuff belongs in a museum ;-)
I grew up in the 70's and 80's and had almost every Star Wars toy made at the time. I also had a massive sandbox in the back yard my dad built us and we pretended it was Tatooine. Countless Star Wars action figures and space ships are still buried there....
This is not an urban legend. I was told by a husband of an ex Palitoy employee, that while his wife was working at the Colville factory, thousands of star wars figures were bagged up and thrown into skips/dumpsters. At the time I wasn't sure if he was pulling my leg. Now I'm convinced he was being straight. I bought about 100 lose figures from him including a vinyl cape jawa. Bespin Leia is a brighter pink colour with poorly sprayed flesh collar, Luke X-wing was a very vivid orange. All the cantina Aliens where more brightly coloured than the usual HK releases. Most had more floppy sticky limbs than usual some have plastic deterioration I suspect Kenner recieved samples for quality control and demanded that Palitoy bin them. All the over stock went to Woolworths, Debenhams and Co-OP department stores (loose figures in clear bags) In my opinion the figures that were trashed were not overstock that could be sold but were floppy limbed factory failures.
Indy-Those toys belong in a museum.
It sounds to me like the story of Atari dumping ET cartridges in a New Mexico landfill got changed to Palitoy in retellings as it crossed the ocean.
Exactly what I first thought. Has got mythical urban legend written all over it. Even IF they had trouble shifting certain lines why wouldn’t they be heavily discounted rather than literally dumping them. Highly unlikely.
Great Indy intro. Well done. :)
Love your figures.
I sincerely hope there aren't a vast number of these toys in the landfill, but if there are, I most certainly WOULD love to dig 'em up.
Stuff like this makes me sick.
I wish they would give this stuff away or sell it cheap, if anything else.
That would be a fun, rewarding vacation.
Thanks for the video
Although it could be that a lot of these toys ended up in landfill, you need to take in to account the fact that these toys were turning up in bulk I. Shops right up to the early to mid 1990s. Especially the star wars figures. A local newsagents to me were selling off retail card backed star wars figures for 20p each for about 5 years,then 10p each after that. I picked up 100s of them. 10 figures for £1. Another store called 'Mad Harrys' were selling off waste bin bags with about 30 mixed figures in it for £1.25 a bag, again I bought about 30 bags of these. Other shops seem to have had them in stock,but it wasn't normally toy shops, it was more discount stores or shops that sold toys as ancillary items to whatever the main business was, including local market stalls and even the guy at the local chip shop was giving away toys with kids Neal's. It seems to me that these business were buying them at auctions, or from someone who acquired the items in bulk at auction. If I had known what the value would if been on those figures I acquired when I was 9+ I would of boxed them up until now so 40+ year old me could not only pay off the mortgage on my 3 bed bungalow, but probably have bought the one next door and extend in to and have enough money to live out my days. Infact, I know I still had a bundle of un opened ones, plus a very big collection of used but mint star wars, all my old action man figures, some action force and various other toys including 3 barrel sized drums full of Lego and Meccano which got left up in the attic if my childhood home when we moved out in 1997, so whoever moved in had a very big stroke of luck (I sat and worked out the market value on everything I could remember that got left behind. I did this in about 2012, and it totalled up to about £60k in 2012). I dare not to do the calculation again now for today's values. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it. Not just because of the loss s of money, but I lost most of my childhood losing those toys. I have bought a lot of the same ones I used to have, but it's not the same.
Love the Video and I hate to say it this probably happens way more than we all know. Very well done.
I lived right by the Childhood museum when in university, it’s a crying shame it’s gone.
Lount tip, nr Ashby de la zouch leicestershire,
There is still a house hold waste site there,
Ashby moto park covers most of the site now,
I remember going with my dad, got be late 70s, found a few starwars figures maybe 3 or 4 stormtroopers,
They had covered the rest with other rubbish/ earth,
And they are probably about 50ft + under now? Hope this helps in your quest 👍🇬🇧
Even if you found them in perfect condition would they really be worth anything? Let’s say you find 5000 Skywalker figures in mint condition, once you start selling them online it devalues the existing ones and the market value plummets.
That's exactly the adjustment the market needs
@@timothyward8695 to be honest I have no idea of the values of Star Wars figures since I don’t collect them, are they all currently vastly overpriced? Had presumed they were issued in their tens of thousands, maybe hundreds.
Fantastic video.......
Thanks 🐸
Excellent opening! Best yet!
Epic video! :-D let's get digging!
The land fill was true my auntie worked therei believe and my dad lived nearby, as kids we went to the tip and I brought stuff home,, but everybody else had been first and there wasnt that much left.. Coalville all changed around that area so its all way underground now.
I saw a similar video where some guys in California actually dug a landfill and found hundreds of early video game cartridges that actually worked. Maybe Coleco?
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing Your passion and adventures 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇬🇧🇨🇦♥️💯💯💯💯💯
Where did the museum's inventory get sold to??
I know of a couple old land fills from 80s n early 90s. Been joking about digging up old toys from there for years.
I'll tell you what. I bet they're everywhere . Just binned in local landfill. Granted. It's probably a mile down by now .
Like boba Fett in the sarlak
I know exactly where the Palitoy stock was dumped. It wasn't all dumped in one landfill, it was all gathered together on a container ship and owing to a deal with the US government through parent company Kenner, it was secretly buried in one huge landfill site on a place called Oak Island.
Well that's where everything else anybody's ever lost or went missing seems to be...
Interesting video, and I had heard the story, as has anybody who collects or has an interest in vintage toys. Do the landfills exist? It's not impossible, but I'd take it with a large but sympathetic pinch of salt...
How cool would have it been to have a family member working at Kenner or Palitoy back in the eighties? I can only imagine the gifts they'd give us lads! It'd be like have a family member as a rock star or something.
I knew a girl whose uncle worked at the Bendy Toys factory and she got precisely nothing because they were t allowed to just help themselves, sadly. She begged him to steal a Bendy Bully, then made only for the TV series as prizes, but he wisely refused.