I think I have the cockpit to one of these somewhere in my house, either that or its at my Grandma's house, either way

I had one and still have it. It is missing the one ship on the wing. I also had the Starbird Command base. I was cardboard and had a tower on a raised platfom with a ramp that wend up the the raised platform that had a place for Starbird to land. I don't have that anmore.

The engine sound feature was way cooler than any Star Wars ships. I still have mine, doesn't work but other than that it's complete.

Had one & the base as a kid. I bought a ship(ok condition) and the base(PRESTINE, still wrapped & unopened) from a guy in Britain a few years back. It's tempting not to open it up and play with the base!

this was the coolest thing ever! it makes that "infinite up" or "infinite down" sounds when you point it up / down, and fire the guns in front, which also light up. it breaks down into lots of pieces, which can be reassembled in a few different ways... attaching the engine to the front cockpit to make a mini-fighter, for instance. the little round ball came out too, like a little probe thing, and the little wings in the back separated, and were each modeled like little spaceships. i never could figure out how the sound was always going up (or down) and never actually went up! freaked me out, but i loved this thing.

I still have my old Star Bird toy from um 1981 or 1982 I think. I remember taking it with me to see Fire Fox (1982) at the movies since it looked so much like that plane. My one is slightly different that the one here though. It was made by Bandai not Milton Bradley. The Logo was the same, the general shape was the same but the body was silver. There were no removable parts like this one and the speaker was actually in the tail section not the front so the back is thicker to fit it. It also has clear yellow parts for the cockpit and over the molded engine detail on the back. The nose has red clear plastic with the lights inside it for the laser guns. It also had firing red missiles from the sides of the front section. I'll take some pics of it and I'm sure I still have it's box. I kinda think this version was trying to cash in on Galactica rather than Star Wars as the original version is considering the changes in the engine detail in the back and colouring is very Galactica like.

Had the follow up that was the Avenger (also listed) - in the pics I've seen, the Avenger must have been made with improved mouldings, and it looks smaller in photos. Great toys - the engine responded to the slightest movement.

I thought "Avenger" was just the name for the white one (pictured). The black one was "Starbird Intruder".

There are at least 3 versions of the Starbird. The Bandai version. The Starbird, which had up/down sounds, a fire button for lights and sound, and removable fighters, turret/turret ring, and engine, and could be configured to a "shuttle" (just the engine and the sound module), the fighter, which was the outer cowling over the shuttle, and the full starbird, which removed the engine module, put it inside the aft hull, and attached the aft hull in its place. The Starbird Avenger, which was a redress (and electronics revamp) of the starbird; with the avenger, one could dogfight with the intruder. The Starbird intruder was a different aft hull, and all parts black instead of white, but had the same configuration options. I had the Starbird, and the base. I wanted the avenger and intruder but never got them.

THIS WAS THE BEST TOY EVER MADE!!! I had one & it made it all the way to California from Omaha Neb. Like an idiot I let someone play with it & he dropped it into the pool & it never worked again : ( !!!!! I would love to find one in good working condition!!!!

I loved mine. I had it when I was abou 8.. I ended up taking it apart so that I can put starwars figures in it or taking out teh engin and putting it as part of the front attachment. Thing was AWESOME... until I wanted to see what made it work and took it apart.

WOW! ME AND MY COSIN , FRIENDS AND ALOT OF OTHER PEOPLE LOVE STAR BIRD. WHEN I WAS A KID I COULD OF SWORE I SEEN IT ON THE BATTLE STAR GALACTICA TV SHOW BACK IN THE DAY.4

To add to what D. states...The Starbird Intruder was much smaller than the Avenger. It had the same basic forward module, but the aft module was much smaller. It didn't have any of the configuration possibilities that the original Starbird or Avenger had, but I think you could use the forward module on the Avenger.

Oops...actually that adds to what Wil states.

After getting this for xmas one year I took it apart. Inside there is a metal ball in a clear box with contacts on either side of the box. If you tilt it up it contacts one side which tells it to change sound one way and then if you tilt the other it changes and contacts the other side of box and changes. Pretty ingenious for the time frame it was invented.

I used to crank Isao Tomita’s “The Bermuda Triangle” opening song and pretend my Starbird was descending onto an alien world. The engine sound along with that soundtrack transported me to worlds of my imagination. What a great toy!