I totally had this when i was a kid

And it comes with Chewbacca-esque dog

I had the speeder bike half. I was totally psyched about it until I found out mom and dad decided not to pony up for the walker half. Then I was pissed.

Still, find memories of this swing.

As much as I love this, I can see some really inept parents putting it together. Thus causing it to no longer exist.

Well, if it makes you feel any better...from that photograph, the Millennium Falcon photographed in the background is almost certainly going to be unable to pull up before crashing, considering how close to the ground it has to be. And seeing a how close the 500± mile Death Star II looks, it's almost certainly within the atmosphere already, and equally unable to recover——and even WITHOUT considering the massive hypermatter reactor it has onboard, it's pretty certain that those kids are toast. Along with a good portion of their continent.

...unless, of course, someone's trying to pull off the Adama Maneuver. With the Death Star. Which would require both a pair of cold-forged gonads, and a truly impressive Axis I mental disorder.

For the longest time, I didn't believe this play-set was real, as I'd never seen one in real life and none of my friends had even heard of it. I thought I had made it up in my feverish childhood imaginings. But there it is, complete with speeder bike swing! Thank you for showing me I wasn't crazy.

damn, further proof the 80's was the greatest decade of all time.

I don't remember this, but I do remember a Speeder Bike that was an actual bike. Unfortunately, I don't think it was ever available for retail. It was a limited number of them given to department stores as contest giveaways. I remember at that age, I'd have given away my brother for one of them!

That thing looks like it's one stiff breeze away from killing a dog.

Eight year old me thinks that's totally rad. Adult me thinks it's totally rickety-looking and would probably topple over in a light breeze.

My neighbor had this in his backyard, and for a seven year old it was the absolute coolest thing. It didn't hold up too well in the weather, though: the sound effects barely worked after a few weeks and the thing eventually rusted. Oh, and if that speeder bike thing was going fast enough you could totally bring the entire fort down. Found that out the hard way...

This is awesome. It's sad because things like this can't exist today. Can you imagine how many lawsuits or complaints they'd get from the over-safe parents of today? Especially for the awesome speeder bike?

ah, sweet justice. all those nerds who says that this millennium is a great time to be a kid has just found reasons to eat their words. yeah, suck it you nintendo ds playing, pokemon collecting bundle of snots! XD

Well, I'm gonna have to get my DIY head on, coz this summer I'm gonna build my kids one of these out of some sturdy-ass wood and stuff. Damn, my childhood sucked.

Kebabyuchenko xxx

I remember coveting this thing as a kid. I think I also remember my parents telling me I already had a nice swing set. I'm pretty sure it was later that same summer that I got stuck upside-down with my feet in the rings of that swing set reenacting the wampa scene. I was there for at least 45 minutes.

Ah yes, there was one kid in my dirt-poor little podunk town that had this thing--the mayor's son.
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He used to sneer at us about how it was too awesome for us to play on as we'd ride by his house on our bikes. We were jealous at first and then realized that:
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A)His awesome "speeder bike" was just an over-glorified swing that never went anywhere, whereas our awesome "speeder bikes" (aka, our actual bmx bikes) could actually go places and we could chase down imaginary Ewoks (aka stray dogs) to our hearts content.
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B)He had no friends to play with because no one would put up with his spoiled little-ass, where our group constituted an entire squad of badass biker scouts, stormtroopers, bounty hunters, and junior Sith Lords that tore around our small town rooting out "Rebel Sympathizers" (aka, the silly kids that either weren't in our clique or, worse, actually liked Luke Skywalker). All the poor little rich boy had was his swingset.
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The last time I drove by the mayor's house I could see that the remains of that thing were still standing, albeit 25 years of weathering has caused most of the plastic to crack and fall apart and what little is left is so sun-bleached that it's pretty much unrecognizable.
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Meanwhile, two and half decades later, I'm still friends with most of my old Imperial compadres and we still reminisce about the misadventures of the good old days--when we're not actually setting around a table and rolling dice during our new Star Wars misadventures.

Are any of us actually small enough to use it? It seems pretty unstable, so just sitting on the speeder bike wouldn't work. I suppose one could just build it and stare at it occasionally... Nevertheless, things like these should be more common.

Holy fucking shit that's rad. This almost erases the pain that is the jealousy over my kindergarten rival Greg Adler's sweet-ass Death Star playset, that foul turd.

I hate Great White Snark so much right now. Because I would buy it in a flash, but I will never find one no mater how hard I try

The funny thing is that I could totally see the Empire producing these things as a way to indoctrinate little kids.

"Look how much fun you'll have as a Stormtrooper! Don't worry, we only wipe out entire planets once, maybe twice per year!"

That thing looks shoddy as hell. I can almost imagine two kids on big wheels wrapping a cable around the legs and pulling it down with the kids inside.

I must be getting old, because the first thing I thought of when I saw that thing was "Damn! Does that look dangerous and unstable!"

I just remember seeing this in a booklet of "things that happen in 1984" at a Bob Evan's restaurant

Shit! I remember that. I wanted my Mom to buy it but she wouldn't!

...fuck you Mom!

Little young for this to have ever been an option for me. But jeeze kids really aren't allowed to play on things that could injure them anymore, what's wrong with the world?

This entire backyard scenario is taking place on Capt. Picard's Halo-deck...

Look at the grass? Astroturf is jealous of that $hit...I wonder if the ass part of the speeder swing has George Lucas' face on it...

seeing that things shows how much fun the times of the orignal release of stars wars was back in the early days fans got to have cool stuff like that for there is no way given that every one is lawsuit happy that thing could ever be reissued.

I was once fortunate enough as a child to move into a house that already had this bad boy in the backyard. I remember mine had a slide though. Much fun was had on that ol death trap.

mt neighbor had this many years ago.. i was always jealous :(