Masks/Helmets at Star Tours ride circa 1991?

[tingjunkie]

Kind of an odd question, but does anyone know the maker/company who produced Star Wars masks/helmets to be sold in the gift shop of Star Tours at Disney World around 1991? Don Post perhaps? I remember they had Vader, Boba, Troopers, Chewie, Ewoks, etc.

The reason I ask is that I went there when I was 10, desperately wanted to buy a Stormtrooper helmet, but just didn't have the greenbacks at the time. I'm thinking it may be time to reclaim a piece of my lost childhood. (Cue world's smallest violin! :lol)

Oh, and if they were Don Post, anyone want to hazard a guess as to which series were being produced in 1991? I do remember they were not cheap. Thanks for any info.

 

[Aegis159]

Kind of an odd question, but does anyone know the maker/company who produced Star Wars masks/helmets to be sold in the gift shop of Star Tours at Disney World around 1991? Don Post perhaps? I remember they had Vader, Boba, Troopers, Chewie, Ewoks, etc.

The reason I ask is that I went there when I was 10, desperately wanted to buy a Stormtrooper helmet, but just didn't have the greenbacks at the time. I'm thinking it may be time to reclaim a piece of my lost childhood. (Cue world's smallest violin! :lol)

Oh, and if they were Don Post, anyone want to hazard a guess as to which series were being produced in 1991? I do remember they were not cheap. Thanks for any info.

Yes they were the Don Post masks and helmets.

EDIT: well the reason they were so expensive was because you were looking at them at Disney, hehe! They were nothing but the regular line of helmets just with a Disney markup!

 

[tingjunkie]

They were nothing but the regular line of helmets just with a Disney markup!

Isn't it funny how our standards of quality change as we get older? In my minds eye, I remember looking at a wall full of helmets which looked like they had come right off the movie set! Now when I look at one of the basic Don Post helmets it looks like a cheap toy.

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when a wiffle ball bat or flashlight made a perfectly good lightsaber. Now I need an original Graflex with Exactra bubbles and screen accurate t-track to get me excited! :lol

EDIT: After a little more research, I am pretty convinced they were the Classic Action series given the price point. That makes me feel better to know my aesthetic as a ten year old wasn't that bad.

 

[dcarty]

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when a wiffle ball bat or flashlight made a perfectly good lightsaber. Now I need an original Graflex with Exactra bubbles and screen accurate t-track to get me excited! :lol

True dat!

Dave

 

[Dexvader]

Yes, I agree on the Don Post. I picked up the Band Member and Niun Numb from Disneyland in 91.

 

[SingleSeat]

I recall the sloppy engraving of "20th Century Fox" rather than any DP monikers (same DP product though). Although that might have been prior to 1991.

 

[Star Wars Helmets]

Guys,

they were the standard Don Post helmets on sale at Tatooine traders at Disney MGM. They also sold them at Disneyland in LA. The helmets I saw were the standard Stormtroper, Vader, Biker and Boba but by the sounds of it there were others - however I dont ever remember seeing the Classic Action range, just the standard (sold at inflated Disney Prices)

I have a video of the display somewhere - along with an original RotJ Stormtrooper on display behind some grilling as you got off the Star Tours ride and entered the store.

The Disney StarWars weekends were the catalyst for my renewed interest in the subject and resulted to SWHelmets being created - the first pages being a Don Post and an Disney MGM.

Happy days!

Cheers

Jez

 

[tingjunkie]

Guys,

they were the standard Don Post helmets on sale at Tatooine traders at Disney MGM.

You sound quite confident, so I stand corrected. I guess in retrospect passing one up was the right call.

 

[KnightAsylum]

Isn't it funny how our standards of quality change as we get older? In my minds eye, I remember looking at a wall full of helmets which looked like they had come right off the movie set! Now when I look at one of the basic Don Post helmets it looks like a cheap toy....

That is why, regardless of how bad the grown-up fanboys cry about them, my 10 year old nephews face lights up when he sees the Rubies helmets.

When magic and imagination rule instead of the judgmental bitterness that seems to come later:unsure