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Pictured: The sale featured a huge selection of retro toys, including these Thunderbirds toys

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.

The anonymous shopper scooped up as many of the discounted plastic toy figures as possible from a trip to the supermarket in the 1980s.

They have remained sealed in their cardboard cases since then and have shot up massively in value.