Comments on: 1978 Kenner Star Wars Catalog

By: StarWars Collector

StarWars Collector — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:47:30 +0000

What a fantastic article! Brought back ALOT of memories! If I only had the racks of unopened figures…like it said, I could put my daughter through graduate school AND buy a 1958 Corvette convertible….

By: TRA

TRA — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:02:33 +0000

A friend of mine said to me, + I agree with her, that-
The two things, that most kids of the 1970s + 1980s, share as a common culture, or as a common pop-culture, are:
the first, three Star Wars films…(meaning- those 3 films that started in 1977), and seeing Bugs Bunny + Looney Tunes cartoons on TV.

(In the USA anyway, in part of the 1970s + 1980s, a TV channel ran a 1 or 2 hour block, of Looney Tunes cartoons, every Saturday morning. All of us, or most of us US kids, would run to the TV, + see them every Saturday. That was fun!)
Cheers!

By: Max

Max — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:45:23 +0000

I remember how bad the inflatable light sabres were. There was a knock off light sabre that came out before the Kenner stuff. It was a plastic tube on a flashlight, I thought that was great.
I met one the guys involved in putting that out decades later. I wish I remembered his name. But I did thank him.
Wouldn’t we all like to have heard his story.

By: DBenson

DBenson — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:21:18 +0000

“The Toys That Built America” had a season two episode titled “Masters of the Toy Universe”. That included the history of the Star Wars toys, from Kenner taking the license Mattel turned down through the scaling decision and the Christmas 77 mania, followed by the line’s unexpected legs.