The Empire hadn’t yet struck back
1979 made for some pretty wild Star Wars toys with the sequel still months away, Kenner started deviating from the first film. I must have been getting into The Black Hole at the time because I missed out on toys like the Imperial Troop Transport. The Remote Controlled Sand Crawler was the feature attraction at a birthday party I got invited to that year, every other guest gave the kid a jawa.
Thrown in at the bottom of this page was mystery man Boba Fett, I got this doll for Christmas that year despite not knowing who he really was.
I loved that Death Star Playset, great memories of that. Vintage Star Wars Ads are the best…
Oh I had Maximillion and Vincent 3 3/4 as well, wern’t those great figures.
I seem to remember a model of Vincent that had extra parts to make him Bob…
I saw ’em, but my Parents would’t buy ’em.
man, did i LOVE that 12″ Boba Fett…
I had the Droid factory. Loved the crane! You could build an R2-D2 as well.
Aww the memories.
For some reason I still had the escape pod long after I lost the rest of the Jawa sand crawler.
My dad picked up the droid factory on a business trip. You could build a three-legged R2-D2, which at the time was not available as a regular action figure.
I think the coolest thing about the Millenium Falcon was the little disco ball light-saber training thingy. The coolest thing about the Death Star was the foam “trash” that hid the neat little monster.
I’m digging the Star Wars Mystery Machine.
Oh, and I remember the limbo between SW movies rather well. You could mail-order the next movie’s “sneak peek” figure with some POP seals. I received Bossk and Boba Fett this way.