The Spanish company Poch (or Novedades Poch) never produced SW action figures on its own. In July 1980, three companies including Poch merged to form the PBP company, these companies were: Poch, Borras and Palouzie. The production of Star Wars Toys then began around 1981. Each of the three companies of the newly formed group kept their logo on the package because they wanted to keep the buyers confidence.

From 1980 to the middle of 1985, PBP was an independent company producing toys under licensee i.e. from Kenner. What we can consider a second company is G.M.J. (General Mills Juguetes). But when PBP was absorbed in 1985 by the General Mills company, the staff and the factory was the same as it was during the PBP period.

So we can see that there are no “Poch” Star Wars figures at all, only “PBP” figures. Even on the earliest cardback (31-back) the PBP logo was printed on the back. But we also seem to have two totally different production periods. To differentiate between those, collectors choose to call the earlier figures „Poch“ and the later figures „PBP“ variants. I will also use these terms to make it easier to determine in which time the figures appeared.

We can say for sure that the so called “Poch” figures only appeared on the 31 and 37/41a backs. Some of the so called “PBP” figures appeared already on 37/41 b and c backs. In general a very small amount of Spanish carded figures survived from this period. Unfortunately sometimes we only have one known example to use to confirm loose figure variants. In addition most of these carded figures have disappeared into private collections so that many of the figure variants lack the evidence of proof.

Thanks to Juan Carlos (aka Panastur/Nobelsix) and http://www.starwarsspanishstuff.info we have two online archives which at least show a few of the survived examples. Both sources are a huge help for identifying loose figure variants and that can not be honoured enough.