Star Wars Toys Only Sold at Sears
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- For today’s noon video, we look at vintage Star Wars toys that were only sold at Sears department stores or in the Sears catalog which book so let’s look at action figures and place it and ships release from Kenner Star Wars collection that was sold only at Sears 
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Sears operated catalog stores in small towns all across rural America where it was just a simple room with catalogs you could buy and take home, or use there. That gave Sears greater access to more markets than the retailers who stuck to just the cities, and with that, Sears had the leverage to get exclusives out of producers. When my family lived in rural Texas in the mid-80s, we ordered from there. That's how we got quite a few things otherwise only found in big cities.
It's Ike today where we have Target or Walmart Star Wars exclusives. Kinda sucks because I don't have a car to drive to five different stores to find them and when I've looked online they're already sold out. I have some exclusive 3.75 Black Series stormtroopers from Walmart, but I had to wait two years to find them on Ebay at a reasonable price.
Sears had a ton of amazing Gi Joe exclusives that deserve there own video.
Wish I had seen your comment, before I elaborated. My comment is about the Dreadnok Stinger and RAM cycle boxed set.
As a kid, I and others would get made fun of if we bought stuff at Sears. Oftentimes if we showed up to school with new Sears clothes or toys we'd have to lie when asked, "did you get that at Sears?" Now I bet everyone misses Sears.
My mom got clothes from JC Penny, but the Sears catalogs were the best. There was so much stuff that you wouldn't see in many stores. I would check off what I wanted for Christmas, make sure to show my parents, then let them pick my presents.
I heard that more often with Kmart
Weird because Sears was considered top quality when I grew up. If you got Kmart or Walmart clothes that was another story.
@@EDFCentral I think my deal was if I wore Tough Skins jeans that Sears sold then I’d be made fun of. I think everything else was ok.
Tim Taylor buying his clothes at Sears was a running gag on Home Improvement. I have a friend who told me that her husband was told that as an actor he looked too working class and would be best suited to a commercial of a guy buying an engagement ring from Sears.
Wow, takes me back. I had those pjs. I remember my mom finally putting them away in a trunk and years later when she took them out, along with other clothes, the white of the pjs had turned yellow, so she threw it away. we must have gone to sears a lot because I had a few of these...the cantina adventure set, the creature cantina, the gun turret and spy droid, and the rebel command center. I had a cousin that had the jabba dungeon and the besbin set. I was always telling him the dungeon was the same thing as the droid factory and he wouldn't believe me.
kids always believe what they want to believe 😅. my 9 years old son had the same problem with a friend of him. things don t really change 😉
Being a kid growing up inthe 70,s , we had LOTS of catalog sets .Pennys ,Sears ,Montgomery Wards , even K-Mart got into the act .Store Exclusive item were here & there , even back then.
I was SO pumped when I got the Cloud City Playset as a gift from my Grandma. I feel like it was Christmas but it could have been a birthday. Lord knows what happened to it. But I had many adventures with my Star Wars figures and that playset. You know back when we used to play with our toys instead of leave them in the box and look at them.
Sears was one of the few stores we had in Northern NJ back in the late 1970s. Sears and Two Guys. No K-Mart, Wall-Mart or Target. Not even a Toy R us (that was built in the 1980s). I got all my Star Wars toys at Sears and every Xmas I would go through the Sears catalog and circle what I wanted from Santa!
I'll ask you the same thing. May I ask, Hackensack? Toy section, major appliances and pool center in separate building?
I remember Two Guys as well, one in Lodi, and one with huge neon letters visible all the way from Route 3 on the way to it in North Bergen.
@@georgetrapp6666 actually, I am from Morris County. Use to buy all my toys at Sears in the Livingston Mall. Two Guys was on Rt. 10 in east Hanover.
I had the craftsman millennium falcon.
I remember going to the Sears near me in NJ and buying the Cloud City Playset. Other than being made out of flimsy cardboard material, losing the white pegs to stand the action figures up was rather annoying.
May I ask, Hackensack? Toy section, major appliances and pool center in separate building?
Actually had almost the entire Micro collection from the Empire Strikes Back. In fact as far as ships went those were the only ships we got growing up due to the price. My mom worked at Sears in the 80's and in our town the only free standinding department stores were K-Mart, Hill's and Zayres.
Sears did some exclusive stuff for GI Joe as well, I still have the motorcycle, but the car is dilapidated. I once had the Dreadnok/Zartan version of the Cobra Stinger but the roof and doors changed from light green to dark green in sunlight, photochromic. The rest of the Stinger was molded in black and dark green, the colors of the Swamp Skier. The same box also contained a version of the RAM cycle, same color scheme, but the seat, wheels, and sidecar Gatling cannon were the light green photochromic.
Had and still have all of these items (except for the pajamas). Always made it a point to ask Mom for the Sears exclusive sets.
I remember taking the train downtown Chicago Marshall Feilds.. Dude.. It was amazing as small child.
Here in Canada Simpsons/Sears is now closed going back years ago. There was a scam regarding the workers pension fund when the company closed. Shame really that Kenner Sears don't sell Vintage SW items w special figures. Fun times for all who remember.
I had that Cloud City Playset. I loved it, and the (at the time) exclusive figures. I supplemented the cardboard by building a HUGE Cloud City around the cardboard playset with Styrofoam forms from furniture and electronics. Totally rocked.
I have a creature Cantina set that's in excellent condition. It was from a collectors personal collection. Probably why it's so nice and well taken care of.
I spent so many quarters playing that arcade game.
Fun factory even had one you sat in like a real imaginary xwing.
Sears Wish Book
When it arrived in the mailbox you knew it was Christmas time
I still have my Imperial Cruiser and Rebel Command Center, with the boxes. I also have a blue Snaggletooth, but I “accidentally” put that in my Vader case when I was playing with a kid in my grandparent’s neighborhood.
20 years ago i bought the bespin playset and i was surprised how the box was so tiny ! photos always look bigger.
Those are some pretty good lookin' PJ's...🤘🏼💯✔️
So many Hoth playsets. You'd think there'd be at least one Cloud City playset that wasn't 99% cardboard.
There were. Unfortunately they were only in the micro line.
Imagine those sets, but for the 3.5inch figs.!
That would have been awesome!
I wanted a figure of the women escaping Bespin, with the coffee pot, or whatever that was!
I'm kidding, but I did buy that fig. When it came out on the green back cards.
Imagine the adventures...!
I heard Disney is making a new show based on her life, living with Lobot!
I Can't wait!!
I had the cantina and bespin ones as a kid, the "playsets" were rubbish, but it was sweet getting 4 action figures at once so i did love them at the time.
Got the Bespin Playset from the catalog. Was so excited for Bespin Han Solo.
I remember going to the Sears toy department AFTER Christmas and saw stacks of large unsold Star Wars toys!!!! As in the Falcon!. 50% off! I dont remember the year, early-mid 80's probably.
Here in Canada, almost all my Christmas Star Wars toys were from the Sears Wishbook.
A friend of mine had that Turret and Probot set. The one I wanted was that micro collection Falcon.
I just dug out my star wars for my grand daughter. Setting not 15 feet from me is my Sears exclusives Rebel command center, Imperial cruiser, And the Jabba the hut dungeon. My Grandmother worked as a manager at the big Sears store in downtown Dayton, Ohio, very convenient for a Star Wars toy collector. lol.
So envious of you!
I'm still amazed how long it took for the Imperial Transport to make it onscreen in a project.
I have the cantina adventure set (with Blue Snaggletooth) and the Rebel Command center set. Sears was king back in those days.
I remember getting the millennium falcon at Sears. I wanted it from the Wish book and I went with my mom to pick it up
Toy section before Christmas was amazing.. look it up
I remember getting the Falcon from this store called Kelly’s Corner. It was fantastic shopping experience. The place was not only down the street from a relatives house, but it was like walmart before walmart, but better. The place had a grocery, furniture, pet, clothing and toy store all in one location.
Now that the Junkman has said, Klaatu barada nikto, the Necromonicon has been activated, may God have mercy on our souls.
I still have the Millennium Falcon with all its figures. 🙌🏻
I got two Sears exclusives. Land Speeder with R2 and 3-PO '77-'78 school year. And Bespin (Han, Ugnaut, Lobot, and Dengar) Christmas '80.
The next year, I bought the "Turret and Probot" set from Best (They were a catalog based store).
The Jabba The Hutt Dungeon...1983 version I have and love it...1984 version - welp guess my focus shifted to things besides toys and yet here I am 38 years later looking at toys lol
Hey Junkman, I had the the Janna the Hutt dungeon and the Hoth rebel base with Hoth Luke. They were awesome.
Something tells me a lot of the Power of the Force vehicles, like the Ewok's Battle Wagon & Jabba's Skiff ended as SEARS exclusives, simply due to most stores not ordering them.
Wait a minute while we American's get the ESB cloud city playset with just two figure, Canadian's get three figures ? WTH ? no wonder Sears went out of business, they messed us over.
We had a Sears Surplus which was a more cluttered Sears. I got the 4 figure cantina set there. I discovered early on the plastic cantina fit perfectly on the right of the cardboard base. Combined, the original 12 figures displayed nicely. I didn't know they had so many exclusives. I still have a prized Super Joe Commander's Rocket Command Center from there. Its plastered with glow in the dark stickers. Which made it all that more cool to me. Unfortunately, Joe and Luminose rubber joints and hands have hardened to crumbs. So there comically in a shambles of pieces. Apparently a universal condition that exists even in unopened figure bubbles. LOL! At least Joes black jump suit holds his bits like a sock full of bones.😂 Poor ole Joe... Looks worse than I do.
I still have the Micro Falcon! Got it for my tenth birthday! The miniatures are all beat to hell, and I think I'm just missing the guns.
It was 1985 when l applied for a JC PENNY card same day l purchased the 2nd release of Jabbas dungeon w the Amanaman fig and much more stuff was on clearance
To be honest, I think the real death star was made with 95% balsa wood, to cut down on the galactic cost. That’s why It blew up so easily ;)’
I owned some of those toys as I got older and had a job to pay for it all. My mother couldn't afford to provide for us AND buy everything we wanted. Priorities.
My parents boycotted Sears for reasons unknown to me. I did manage to acquire a couple of the later sets becuase dad needed a tool or something and took me there, and I, using my own money, picked them up (Rebel Command Center and first Jabba Dungeon). I do remember seeing and handling the micro Falcon in my local Kiddie World (big indie toy store) and wanting it but could not afford it. They were in the same shopping center as Sears and Penny's, so either maybe the managers of the stores did a deal with each other, or like you say the set wasn't 100% exclusive. I still want one, BTW.
Oh, I did need to get a Blue Snaggletooth by trading a bunch of GI Joes ro my buddy whose parents shopped at Sears, He told me his cantina was long gone at that point. (cardboard toys not meant to last) but I would have had that too, had he taken more care.
I wore my Sears pajamas proudly
While the Bespin set was pretty flimsy cardboard, there was a little plastic elevator mechanism that served as a low-budget carbon freezing chamber. That (and “Bespin Han”) really made the playset for me that Christmas. The Hoth and (Version 1) Jabba’s Dungeon also made appearances under the Christmas tree.
You are one lucky nerfherder!
I didn't have any of these and I was a huge fan. If you take out the playsets that were Sears exclusives, I had around 85% of the other ships and playsets.
Maybe it was because I live in Quebec and a lot of things would never cross the border, because of the French language laws, but in one of the photos Junkman showed, the writing was in French, so I don't get it?!?
Cheers from Canada
to my knowledge Cloud City playlet didnt come with a plastic elevator level like the Land of Jawas or ATAT playlet.
@@eguy70 Looking at the pictures online, I think you’re right. The Mandela Effect is strong with this one, I guess.
Loved my imperial cruiser
i found an imperial cruiser without the dish for $5 when I first started collecting
I had the Yoda underoos,and Jabba pj's
You should do a video on the Sgt Rock action figure line. I think that would be pretty cool. If anyone would like him to do that, thumbs up this comment to let him know!! 👍🏻
They certainly got value for money out of those base moulds
I used to stare at the Star Wars pages in these awesome catalogs, when I got older it was the ladies' panties and bras section...
I had the second Jabba's Dungeon with Amanaman, EV-9D9 & Barada. However,I got mine on clearance at Kay-Bee Toystore for $5.99 from $12.99
I wish I still had that one, it was one of the only Star Wars toys I sold to Meltdown Comics (the same comic book shop that was parodied on The Simpsons, the cool comic book owner wearing a Porkpie Hat) when it became pricy in the guides 20 years ago
Ah, Kay-Bee Toys was awesome and there was one within bike riding distance from me. Well, 2 miles but I still made the run weekly during summer if I had the money.
Fun video, but I was hoping to see more photos of each playset, as opposed to the same old photos kenner used for advertising.
I am Australian so we never had Sears. I met a Canadian recently that told me shops in Canada suck and people bought new old stock from Sears and sell it thrown everywhere. Did Walmart kill Sears? How did it die? I had to import my blue snaggletooth. Just never happened here!
we got all of these in Australia no sears here
At the Star Wars...Star Wars cantina...the weirdest creatures you've ever seena
🎵 ❤
I’ve seen wierd a in the immigration line at the air port👎😤
Way Cool!!!
Laugh all you want Sears had it all at one time!!!
I got Jabba the hut from SEARS.
It sucked if you lived overseas.
I live in Australia and we didn't get a lot of the playsets, especially from "A New Hope".
My mate went to the USA, and being spoilt rotten, he got a lot of playsets that weren't in Australia, or so he said, since he never invited us over, so I started to think he was full of it.
Loved that video game 🎮 🕹
Yea, remember it fondly! Gotta be worth $$$ now!
Wait a minute: KLATUU BARADDA NIKTOO......that was on Evil Dead 3, army of darkness. Wasn't it that's what ash keeps saying to open the gate thru the book of the dead. Right!?
We'd heard of the Sears catalogue in the UK even back then. Another thing we couldn't f***ing get here!
Shit..!😡😂
Had a UK friend in elementary school and he had these Judge Dredd comic books. That was it except Corgi cars. Thanks for Led Zep and The Clash !
@@captlazer5509 they had “action force “ a Euro version of GI joe. In France they had “Eagle force” die cast metal soldiers. I got one off my mum’s French friend.
@@aidanbutcher8817 Mego figures in Europe had more accessories which ticked me off too
Wish I had ,but sadly didn't
I wonder is the Sears Wishbooks are worth anything. I still have some from the 80s.
Probably $25 to $200. The older ones go for more. Like anything on ebay price depends on if you want it now or play the waiting game.
Ive picked a few up for $10 by being patient.
I bet the ones that closed in the 90's got looted by collectors !!!
were the figures in those playset boxes on their boards or in little baggies or small white boxes like in the mail ones?
Bagged
Now Walmart is the new Sears, yay!🙄
Was the Imperial Cruiser a US only release? I never heard of it until about a year ago and now I actually have one in box but its a US box.
Yes US
Which store sold the Darth Vader cases with figures? Was that JC Penny or Sears?
I remember them at Sears. At Christmas time the toy isle ballooned and pretty much everything Star Wars was at Sears.
Thinking about Walmart going out of business and shutting down all their stores today seems just as inconceivable now as the idea of Sears going out of business would have seemed to us in the early-1980s. Sears was the unstoppable retail giant of the time. They even made a full episode of M*A*S*H that was all about the Sears catalog.
Thats what I keep telling folks! Include Amazon too! Going back you had your travelling "drummers", then mom and pop stores, then 5 and 10 stores, then catalogs/mail order, then department stores, now Internet. Someday something else will come along. Now, knowing what that will be could make one very wealthy!!!!
Sears decline was when they did a crap job stocking toys.
Did Sears have their own Atari video game system? Or was it compatible with Atari cartridges?
yes
You sure know how to sweet talk a girl 😘💕
true :)
I have an Imperial Cruiser