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Pictured: The sale featured a huge selection of retro toys, including this Thundertank from the Thundercats<br />
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A canny collector who bought dozens of Star Wars toys for as little as 49p from a Tescos 'bargain bin' 40 years ago has sold them for almost £50,000.<br />
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The anonymous shopper scooped up as many of the discounted plastic toy figures as possible from a trip to the supermarket in the 1980s.<br />
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They have remained sealed in their cardboard cases since then and have shot up massively in value.