Showing posts with label Letraset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Letraset. 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.
 

Sunday, 28 July 2019

Star Wars Letraset transfer sets

Dating back to the late 1970s, these were fab transfer sets that were great fun for kids, albeit very annoying when after rubbing neatly with pencil you found Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi's head hadn't transfered properly!

Of course, being a kid I didn't do them properly.  Stormtroopers has to be jumping from the Falcon, mechanics were fixing spaceships as they flew by, characters intended to be far away in the scene appeared next to close-up characters. The adult in me is somewhat aghast as my childish efforts, though I admit a degree of rebellious pride too.