Millennium Falcon and Alpha Star in 1984
November 22, 1984. Working on my new book of Star Wars newspaper ads led to many hours of exploring the newspaper archives, and digging deep often leads to great finds like this ad for the Millennium Falcon and Alpha Star toys. What I find most interesting here is that the Millennium Falcon isn’t heavily discounted. Christmas in 1984 and the Millennium Falcon toy is still over $30? What crazy store was this?
Wow, Children’s Palace by us–one of my fave stores as a kid. It was basically Toys R Us before TRU made it to the midwest. And the building did indeed look like a castle, which made it that much cooler!
Found this on Plaid Stallions: http://www.plaidstallions.com/toystores/five.html
The facade is just as I remember it. 🙂