But Stuart Warburton, of Coalville Heritage Society, said Coalville was not the place to find the droids.<\/p>\n
He said: “We all like myths, but unfortunately there’s no truth to the legend.<\/p>\n
“There was a tip on the outskirts of Coalville that’s now in somebody’s private field that was used for tipping old packages, Action Men, Tiny Tears, in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
“Kids used to go to this field to try and find the old boxes so they could cut the stars out and send off for a free Action Man.<\/p>\n
“All the kids in Coalville who are now my age know exactly where that field is, but that was long before the Star Wars toys.<\/p>\n
“When the Star Wars toys were disposed of they were taken to a landfill, dumped, lorries and JCBs and crushers drove over them and over them, and then they were all buried before the next load came in.<\/p>\n
“So there is a landfill outside Coalville, that is full of lots of smashed up Star Wars toys. There is absolutely no chance of getting your spade and digging and finding that rare Obi-Wan Kenobi figure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Stuart Warburton, of Coalville Heritage Society, said Coalville was not the place to find the droids. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}