Matt Hamm on his not-so-impossible mission to buy every vintage Star Wars figure released between 1977 and 1988.
Nobody can ever forget the first time that they watched Star Wars. Aged only six years old, I remember going to the cinema with my older cousin Mike to watch The Empire Strikes Back. It blew my mind. I was hooked. Luckily, Mike already had a few Star Wars toys, so we could immediately re-enact those epic battles.
Now I wanted my own collection of Star Wars toys. I used to regularly go to my local toy shop, Dentons in Witney, Oxfordshire and pore over the wall of Star Wars figures on display. As you can imagine, now top of my Christmas wishlist was the iconic Millennium Falcon ship.
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