All New Palitoy Inspired Star Wars Playset - Death Star Detention Block review - Toy Polloi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Today we take a look at an all new playset inspired by the Palitoy play sets of old. This Death Star Detention Block playset is created by Paleetoy with a vac formed base and cardboard walls and comes packed in a retro style box.
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Once again the fans are doing the best work.
Hasbro should be ashamed that others companies (smaller than them) are not only engineering better products but bringing brands of the past to the present.
YOU said it perfectly.
I couldn’t agree more !
@@kingvagarif anything, they should be more embarrassed that they're not developing fresh concepts for a new generation of children rather than relying on decades old I.P. and middle-aged men's nostalgia.
@@edwinsmith-jones6205 I agree with you about Hasbro not developing fresh concepts for a new generation of children, but that is more a problem with a creatively bankrupt society when it comes all related to the entertainment industry (movies, comics, video games, music, toys, etc.).
Now, taking with good faith your: "relying on decades old I.P. middle-aged men's nostalgia." Star Wars is an intelectual property that as well as Marvel, DC & Transformers is making new content every now and then, so Hasbro like a company that is, is going to capitalize going for olds fans and new fans of any gender [since Grogu, more females are interested in ST] having said that my comment criticizing Hasbro and agreeing with @manko8852, is that small companies like Stan Solo & Paleetoys (the one in this video) are making better products (design, quality, imagination, etc.) than one of the biggest toy company in the world in lacking in not only engineering better products but bringing brands of the past to the present, to us the consumer (middle age, teen, children, women, old people, etc.).
This is genius, we need more stuff like this
I think it would be cool that if they do make more to have some of them be able to clip together so they can form kind of diorama style play set kind of how the death star had multiple rooms. The ages 40 and up gave me a little laugh.
The retro vibes are amazing! Perfect size to make a nice diorama. Would love to have something to put my landspeeder on…🥰
Playsets no matter what materials they are made out of (plastic, cardboard, and etc) are always a joy to have!
GOD this takes me back to my child hood this is amazing I would have played with this for days when i was a kid ...
Oh my days, and then I was ten years old all over again, playing with my Palitoy Death Star playset. Amazing work, looking forward to seeing what comes next!
I remember when he started this project and the amount of effort was huge, all the tests and prototypes- the red base version looked very cool. Fans are continuing to produce the very best stuff we all actually want.👍🏻
Nice play set! I could see my younger self playing with this back in 1979! I could see this with a new background and different Color base plate as a cantina play set or the Lars garage. Swap out the tractor beam generator for a moisture vaporator.
"Ages 40 and up," lol.
Lol exactly!
...then the cover shows a kid playing with it! 😂
@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 well,it’s to keep w the SW Kenner/Palittoy traditional look which I would if I designed the box art ,Lee Gregory did a remarkable job
A fun looking set for all those Retro lovers out there - My first Star Wars vehicle was the cardboard Land of Jawas from Palitoy, I remember gluing a matchbox behind the front section, so the Jawa could sit in and drive!
WOW!! Lee nailed it on this one! It’s like traveling back in time to see you inbox this AMAZING playset. Thank you for the share, Dave!
£68.50 Ouch
Sold out. The next batch looks like they will be £84 each. When I was watching it made me wonder why the toy manufacturers don't make things like this anymore. I would have thought they would be cheap to make and they could make large profits. But then I saw this price, which made me really confused. I guess it comes down to the volumes made. Does the vacuum forming require expensive tooling?
Hand made in small numbers in someone's spare time. It takes a lot of time and effort. I understand if the price puts you off, but plenty of people will want these and can see the effort that has gone into making them.
I honestly want to see them make sets for more franchises. I would have loved sets like these for the Ghostbusters or the Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles.
Thanks for this video. I've been following these sets, so it's nice to see the set up on video. I was smiling as you folded the main cardboard part. The artwork is so in keeping with the old Polity Death Star thatI got a wave of nostalgia! If you do end up reviewing any more of these sets, I'd love to see how they look set up next to your old Polity DS! Cheers
Bring back so many memories brilliant just brilliant ❤❤
This took me back to christmas 1978, we could not afford the big plastic Kenner playset for our two sons but we could afford the Palitoy one which was sold by Sears Canada. The lads had fun with it for many years and various battles. It weatherd them all very well and it went into the big blue Star wars trunk alas. we did not keep any of the boxes at that time :o) Thanks again.
Dang, why does this have to be fan produced. This would have fit in perfectly in wrapping paper under late 1970’s Christmas Trees!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
I'd love to see someone do something like this for sets that would interact with modern figures, say for example, Jabba's Droid Dungeon, with a space to put POTF2 EV-9D9's datapad / desk and U-8D8's branding iron. Or maybe an Echo Base Medbay, with places for the POTJ Deluxe Luke Bacta Tank parts and FX-7. But that's just me, pipe-dreaming.
Or since it's on paperboard, a three sided Echo Base large enough for the Falcon and maybe a Snowspeeder or X-Wing. Vacform crates, walking platforms and the wedge looking hanger lights could be included to sprinkle around the ships. The med bay could have an appropriate doorway to align with the hanger! (Could even have a clear plastic tube with a vac-formed cap and base for the bacta tank in the medbay.) Anything in Jabba's palace would be cool too.
@@jpatt1000 I like the way you think.
What a multi meta experience with all the references 😄
PaliToy logo, vs ToyPolloi logo vs PaleToy logo*
The play set it self look super cool, and would serve as a good display kit.
This made me wanna try to built my own set during my summer vacation.
*Yes, I get that they all should look like each other (well, the PaliToy beeing the reference)
I would suggest everyone who buys one scan all the decals and background pictures in a file. Then you can make replacements if you need to. Decal making on a printer is pretty easy with a little practice.
What a fantastic display piece, and fits right in with what you'd expect from that era.
This thing is amazing. Definitely looks like it would be right at home amidst my original
Star Wars play set collection. Others have said it already, but its a shame it takes the fans to do what should have been done in the first place. Although I think its exceptionally cool that technology is such that the average person can bow do these things at home with somw minor equipment. Thanks again dave.
These are amazing! I've not collected vintage Star Wars since I sold up in 1997, but I'm feeling the pull again..
I just got mine today!
That's awesome! It puts me in mind of the old cardboard Death Star I had when I was a kid
You have the console panel upside down.Look at the picture on the box.
A spin feature to the platform ben Kenobi is on would be a nice feature, I'm sure Kenner would have added to it if it was made back in the day.
That's pretty cool!😊
Let's get this out onto a tray, nice.
Excellent fan make! Deffinetly be interested in buying one.
This is great. Well made, truly.
Cool video Dave. Nice simple yet effective playset. looks really cool
Starting with a playset and then populating it with figures is my preferred method of collecting and displaying as I find it gives them a life you don't quite get with just rows of figures on a shelf. Masterful work by Paleetoy with the right combination of style and simplicity.
Tractor beam! 😂
Also, that would make an awesome figure display
That's really cool and well made!
I do miss simple playsets like this. Great looking set!
Thanks Dave 😎
Great video Mate. Ah Man. I used to have the Palitoy Death Star. God knows what happened to it.
Such a cool concept for a playset! Love it! Thanks for the review!👍
Can’t wait to open mine!
as a kid i clearly remember the back of the boxes for the millenium falcon and the rebel transporter had an uncoloured version of the front. my brother and i spent hours carefully colouring them in on boxing day. the only other box i can remember being the same was the AT-AT. my brother says he remembers the snowspeeder box was like it as well but isnt sure if he is misrembering
There were multiple different style boxes for the vehicles. Some full colour, some with drawings on. I'm sure there is a site with a full list of what was available.
I just love it. Hard to believe everytime Hasbro reissued old kenner designs they want a fortune. This is as good as my Kenner playset.
This playset is pretty expensive too though, nearly £70.
Think the only playsets I picked up as an adult were the detention block rescue set which Woolworths just couldn't shift and ecentually marked it down to about £4.99. And the other I got was the cardboard Jabba's throne room. The good thing about these cheap sets is that they do the job of giving displayed figures an interesting backdrop that represents the set from the movie. Doesn't need to be 100% lifelike, as the figures aren't 100% accurate to the actors.
Why is hasbro not doing this for the retro collection
Nice, but I'd prefer the scene with the compartment for 3PO and Artoo to hide.
Nice Homage!
Nice diorama set, this kind of idea shows how creatively bankrupt companies like Hasbro are, imagine how much money they would be making if they came up with this concept first. If Paleetoys wants, he can do this kind of thing for vintage G.I. Joe or Kenner Super Powers.
But the thing is that Hasbro does produce this kind of dioramas for Star Wars; they only use much more plastic in them rather than cardboard, and therefore stylistically they come across as different. Recent examples would be the Nevarro Cantina, Endor Bunker, or Tantive IV Hallway.
They did a couple of old style cardboard sets for the Solo movie but I don't know if they're any good.
@@subraxas I know Hasbro makes diaromas for the vintage line, but like you said, they use more plastic... the ones presented here use little plastic and have cardboard to complement the set, not just making it feel like a 70s or 80s toy but making it much cheaper for the consumer. Parents then can buy a playing set without spending big bucks if Hasbro decided to make them.
@@Boyer316 Yes they are hard to find and if you do find one they cost an arm... Solo movie for small space display purposes they are good. Just as well as the one presented here in this video.
And if a small company like the one Toy features here can make them. Imagine Hasbro, which is a big company, they can make them available and would cost less than the plastic diorama they have for the vintage line, as well as make them feel like they belong with the original toys... thus my original comment.
Looks great.
That is amazing! 🙂
That’s really cool!
I can tell you were excited to get started, you didn't even bother with the tweezers to painstakingly apply each decal. You just eyeballed that sonofagun and went for it! I love it! LMAO
Empire bunker would be cool
Bravo! Excellent! Encore! You always have great videos A+++++ Thank you
Dave, I LOVE what Lee has done here! It really has a very nice, professional, retro feel to it that captures the spirit of what Palitoy was doing back in the day!
That said, I think that THIS is an opportunity for you and your channel. The only major weakness (that I can see) to this playset is the flimsy nature of the cardboard. It's just not sturdy enough, IMO, and I'd love to see you make a background out of two pieces of styrene. You could cut on a doorway, build some consoles to attach to the wall, add some greebles and paint something up! It would be a very interesting video for viewers because it would show how you could improve on an already amazing product, and people at home could actually modify their own based on what you come up with. I know that there's nothing particularly wrong with what Paleetoy has done here. It's not broken, and it is good enough, but there's also nothing wrong with going the extra mile either. It's just an idea. I know for a fact that I'd love to see you take on something like this in a future video. Even though you're not a customizing channel, I don't think it would hurt to modify and improve existing toys sometimes, especially if you have the ability, materials and know-hot to do it. I think it could be a lot of fun. I hope you'll consider doing something like that in the future.
Regardless, thank you for showing us this great new product! I would have bought one, but they were already sold out by the time I visited the site! Keep up the great videos!
😮....this is AWESOME.
I want to see this in grey
Thanks for the great review!
Pleasure. It really is a fantastic set. A great idea. Looking forward to what you make next.
This is a very nice piece 👌
Nice!
None of his stuff is in stock? And the Instagram link isn't working for me. If anyone here finds out when they are available, please let me know.
This is sooo cool
Brilliant idea. Another "I should have thought of that" to add to the list. 😅
Simple but effective! It reminds me of the old Transformers S.T.A.R.S. command and communication center. Not much by itself but looks great when populated with figures!
The fans are doing the most expensive work 😉
These do look great! Unfortunately just came at the wrong time for me, but definitely hope to pick one up in the future, great overview Dave 👍
It sounds like there are more designs in the works. It's a really neat idea.
The kid on the box is Lee's own son. 🙂
I thought it might be.
That is a fantastic set. Great review Toy-Polloi. I've got to ask, what is that music called that you use? It's so catchy. 😄🎶
Just wondering,how much was it.Over here on ebay fan made custom playsets and diagrams sets run from $20-$40 dollars and alot them are more fun than the $75-$100 sets that Hasbro is putting out.After you got it put together I found myself wanting one.
It's almost £70.
I saw another guy review this, and he was impressed. By the way, did you go to Japan recently, again?
Looks like it's based on the vintage canteena
Great review of this item, thank you. Hey did you notice that the LED style clock above the doorway/corridor on the left (visible fairly clearly at ca 5m 36s) is displaying 1138? Perhaps that is a reference to THX 1138.
Wasn't 1138 the cell that Leia was in also?
@@Jaytee. Nah that was 2187 if I recall correctly, but you've reminded me that Chewbacca was ostensibly a "prisoner transfer from cell block 1138" I think. I had totally forgotten about that so thank you.
@@phillipbuchan9180 Yeah, that's it. Luke said it when he was telling porkies to the imperials. Maybe Luke had seen THX 1138.
the website says they are sold out, i just heard about this
it's cool , but why did they put the tractor beam there? instead of a fake door drawn, they could have just molded a cell block area through the real punch hole door and they could have included some more cardboard for the cell block walls and one side would be leia's cell with a bed and you could punch a hole in the other side for a later playset to jump through to the garbage crusher area.
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Basically you are saying you would have made something different than what Paleetoy made?
@@toypolloi instead having the tractor bean there, i would put a walkway , and give the set a cardboard set of walls to make leia's cell, so you could have that cell right next to the walkway
how did you make your figures stand up or was it just a matter of putting them there and hoping they wouldn't fall over while you took the picture?
The figure just stand up fine on there own. All nice tight limbs on these. Cheers
I'm surprised it has the full Star Wars logo on the box, as well as the term “Death Star." Their website has none of that.
Paleetoy would do well not to mess with Disney's lawyers.
Their evil, evil, evil slimeball lawyers.
If he did a repro Death Star I'd be all over it....
Wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes in my childhood
And that is why the cardboard sets made at the time are so hard to find today. Many kids destroyed them.
Where can buy these playset?
Link in the description as always. Cheers
All out of stock currently, it seems.
IT'S CHRISTMAS 1978 AGAIN!!!!!!
...just in time for the LEGENDARY _Star Wars Holiday Special!_ 😎👍
Wheres the link please?
In the description.
But it’s £84!
Hasbro can take a running jump; just make the figures, fan made playsets are where it's at as far as I'm concerned!👍
Hasbro have tried to make playsets using cardboard before (like the Kessel mine), but people seemed to complain about the cheapness of them, so you can't win really - I guess modern collectors and vintage collectors want different things.
@@dantooine4279 I think you're probably right. Personally I don't mind as much what a playset is made of so much as the care and invention that goes into it. Back in the day I was insanely jealous of the Kenner Death Star when all we got was the cheapo Palitoy one, now of course, having both, I have a true appreciation of the ingenuity and ergonomics that went into designing and producing what is a genuine work of toy Art. All praise the Lord our Bob!
@@acrodave9287 I do love how the British turned toys on the cheap into works of art, as opposed to the US bigger is better mentality.
Hey! That kid on that cover does NOT look like he's 40! 🤨
It's not a playset, since it doesn't have any action features. This is called a diorama.
But I do love it!! 🙂 ❤
playset
noun
"A themed collection of similar toys designed to work together to enact some action or event."
Action features are not required for a playset. The main difference between a playset and a diorama is that a diorama is not intended to be played with. This set is, and it emulates the adventure playsets Kenner released in the 1980s.
NGL as amazing as this is, the use of English wording instead of Galactic Aurebesh does kind of bum me out. IDK perhaps old Palitoy sets all did that?
Like the set but not a big fan of the figures displayed on the cardboard background.
Take a look at some of the old playsets and you will see exactly the same thing done there.
@@toypolloi That's what I get for not doing research. Thanks for the reply!
This looks amazing! But "Paleetoys" is looking to get themselves a C&D by copying Hasbro and Star Wars branding so closely. This could easily pass for an official toy release and according to Hasbro and The Mouse anything that could be confused with an official toy is a big "no-no."
Haha he must be nuts, 80 quid for a bit of vacpak and card, wayyyyyyy over priced, worth about 20 max
Please let me know when you have your own set made and for sale. A lot of work goes into something like this and they are produced in limited numbers. I understand they are not for everyone, but lots of people will be very happy to have them. Cheers
@@toypolloi Wow
*"What a piece of junk..!"*
Let’s be honest it’s a diorama or a display set looks cool but not much play value
There is plenty of play value in this set, you just need a little imagination, and some figures.
Where can you buy these, sold out on their website. Anyone have info??
Contact Paleetoys. I'm sure they will be happy to help.
@@toypolloi thank you