Showing posts with label C-3PO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C-3PO. Show all posts

Friday, 23 September 2022

Star Wars C-3PO's Exercise Book

C-3PO's purpose may be human-cyborg relations but he also makes a snazzy cover model for this 1977 Letraset Star Wars exercise book, especially set against the starry blue background.

This 24-page faint ruled exercise book has survived from my childhood. I say survived, but, well... there's not much of this book left. The pages are gone - it's just the cover remaining. But it's here, so this Threepio collectable gets documented on this blog.


I love the fact that on the back there are some "inter-galactic" translations of a handful of English words in to strange alien languages such as French, German and Italian!


On the inside of the cover there are some stickers - E.T. and Weetabix - I've even included a photo of these for your amusement (or your disgust, if you're a purist who can't stand the thought of a kid in the 70s spoiling this future collectors item). At least I had the foresight to keep this.

Is Uncle Owen interested in buying this collectors item?

Perhaps, if the back of the book had some bocce translations! Complete and good condition examples may fetch £25+. Not sure about the cover only. Sure, there's a value, but I wouldn't be sure on guessing. Funnily enough, the stickers inside may add to the value.
 

Monday, 4 March 2019

C-3PO Epic Force Display Figure

To quote old golden rod, "I'm standing here in pieces,and you're having delusions of grandeur!"

This Kenner figure released in 1997 is taken from a scene towards the end of The Empire Strikes Back, where, having partially been put back together by Chewbacca on Cloud City ("Wait. Wait! Oh, my! what have you done? I'm backwards, you stupid furball....") before they escape with Lando's help (big shout to Lobot too!) In this scene C-3PO is berating R2-D2 for not completin his repairs and instead is about to fix the hyperdrive so Luke, Leia, Lando, Chewie and the droids can escape the clutches of Vader and the Empire.

Not sure it needed the rotating 360 base but there you go, it has one. This has never been out of the box and has been in a display cabinet for a few years as I think it's quite neat.