Darn right I wish they made these loved this movie

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/culture/toys/276584/the-last-starfighter-action-figure-prototypes-are-found

Better yet get Reaction Super 7 to make them

Of course all of this is more the fault of the filmmakers than the toymaker.

Anon: Good points. Frankly as much as I love the movie the only figures I'd have wanted out of the line were Rogan, Grig, Centauri, and a couple of Ko-Dan.

Andy (Rylos)

A big thank-you to our host and the gent with the figures for the fascinating history! As for the figures themselves? *wince* The character design/ color scheme was…*sigh*. This Anon is trying to be charitable. They're mostly generic lumpy-head aliens that look like rejected character designs for Star Wars' creature cantina/ Jabba's palace.

The color scheme for the figures is extremely unpleasant. Sad browns, tired greys, harsh reds. Even Alex Rogan in his flight suit (bottom row, viewer's far right) looks incredibly unappealing. There's no way he could have caught the attention of kids who'd grown up with the orange and white sexiness of an X-Wing pilot.

The designers of the original Star Wars Kenner figues always had a keen eye for colour. It's something that children respond to instinctively and, much later, when they're adults they recognize consciously. The Kenner people were using much more appealing shades, even when working with what appear to be superficially the same basic colours. As seen here:
http://www.starwarsreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Kenner-Figures-Poster.jpg

It's obvious that even back then, the Kenner people realized they had a basic colour scheme problem since a big chuck of the first and third movies take place in a desert environment. There are just so many ways you can "do" tan on brown on brown on grey-brown. They solved the problem in three ways: 1.) Tossing the original costume pages out the window and using bright exciting colours. Greedo and Walrus Man are the classic examples. 2.) enlivening the figures with patches of bright, lush, entirely non-brown colours… bright blues, bold oranges, interesting greens 3.) extremely careful colour coordinating of their brown palette. Even then, they clearly recognized they had to be very careful not to over-do it. Bib Fortuna and Squid Head are the super-models of the classic tatooine desert fashion scene with desert clothing in truly lovely colours. It's the kind of clothing that would have appeared in an ideal version of Frank Herbert's Dune.

These guys, no. They just weren't going to do it. The "two to a blister card" idea is simply awful. It means they were planning on charging more (parents LOVE that) and it also raises the certainty of getting stuck with loser character (kids LOVE that). I know for a fact that would have been a sticking point because it already had been with Star Wars figure groups sold in the Christmas catalogs. Even back then, I remember always looking at those figure groups with annoyance. "Wow, all the Imperial forces from Hoth. Oh, wait. there are also some Bespin guys. Lobot? Get out." Or, in one catalog, they deliberately broke up the Empire Strikes back bounty hunter group, saddling them with loser "side-kick" figures. If you wanted the classic line-up that stood on the bridge getting Darth Vader's pep-talk, your folks had to buy four different sets. That's crummy and a cheat. Even a kid can spot it.

Still, I'm going to add my vote for a ReAction reprint of these figures for one major reason and he's bottom row, viewer's far left. I don't remember who he's supposed to be in the movie but that is a fantastic likeness of KFC's Colonel Sanders. For a lot of personal and admittedly stupid reasons, I've always wanted a KFC Colonel Sanders action figure scaled for Star Wars/ GI Joe. He'll do. He'll do nicely!