If you’re of my generation, the generation that was young when Star Wars came out, you’ll likely remember the Boba Fett toy that never was. Before Empire Strikes Back even came out Kenner was offering a mail-in promotion: buy a bunch of Star Wars figures (like I needed an excuse to do that) and they’d send you a Boba Fett. A Boba Fett who launched a missile from his back.
The problem was that someone figured out that a toy that launched a missile was almost certain to blind somebody. And this was in the era of Jarts. Anyway, a couple of prototypes slipped into the wild, but a generation of kids were left wanting for a missile launching Boba Fett.
They’re left wanting no more. The following image comes from Toy Fair, via Rebelscum via the Twitter feed of Kyle Newman. This could be the first Star Wars toy I buy in almost a decade.
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I remember having to send away for the Emperor figure back in the day, and, IIRC, the adult Anakin Skywalker. Lucas isn't getting anymore of my money though.
Yup – Emperor send away, Dengar as well I think (plus some pony Bounty Hunter backpack thing). I can also remember when some of the toys had 'adverts' on the back for the 'Revenge of the Jedi' toys (pretty sure it was for a Gamorean guard). God I'm old.
The bounty hunter was Zuckass (?) I believe. One other "send-away" figure was Nien Numb.
I miss chewing on those toys 🙁
Did anyone really purchase Jar Jar and those skinny robot action figures?
Please don't say roger roger 🙁
I sent away for the Emperor, the "dead" Obi Wan ghost, and the B'omarr Monk. I still have a B'omarr Monk in the package that I suppose I'll throw on ebay some day if star wars crap is ever worth something again.
I'd buy that toy in a second. Damn, that's cool
LOL! So THAT was the deal with the Emporer ! !! ! !!!!! In my small country town in rural Australia we had a Toy World and 90% of it's Star Wars figures were the same Emporer one. Occasionally you'd pick up another guy, extra's only though, no-one good. I used to have to playfight with like 11 Emporer dolls representing the Empire and 4 orange fighter pilots represent Luke, Han etc.
Admiral Ackbar was the figure I had to wait for the postman to deliver.
You bought a Star Wars toy within the last decade?
Yeah, the Boba Fett offer was my first inkling that there was going to be a second Star Wars movie. Blew my tiny little mind. I think there was even a 12 inch figure out a year or so before Empire hit cinemas? —- I bought Luke's Skyhopper/K-16 several years ago. That was something I'd had a long-term desire for: It's OT, MacQuarrie designed and Beautiful. —- @#4: there are rumors of a massive land-fill dump of Jar Jar shit after Prequel #1. That's why the the other two movies are wall-to-wall War-Robot toy adverts. The toy manufacturers went apeshit when only the Darth Maul stuff sold. The whole Clone Soldier vs Droid battle at the end of #2 was a late addition specifically put there to sell toys.
@9jsk6u- No, the Clone Army vs Droid battle was there to set up The Clone Wars. Nice work, troll.
All comments on this thread, with the exception of Gwai Lo are very very creepy. Grown ups swooning over Star wars TOYS, especially after the shit heaps that were the prequels, need to be put down STAT. It's the only way to stop de-evolution.
Fuck the Boba Fett toy – have you seen the size of the new AT-AT in the RebelScum photos??
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