The Star Wars SSP vans encompass two distinctly 70s fads, the custom van and zip-cord toy car. Well, make that three with Star Wars itself. I had one of these, along with a fantastic Evel Knievel stunt set. Both got a lot of play in the kitchen back in the day. These things didn't perform …
I'm amazed that the 90s Star Wars series started dipping into pre-production sources for inspiration so early in its life. The Airspeeder is based on designs by Ralph McQuarrie, and the toy is a bear-perfect representation of its two-dimensional counterpart. The lines and deco are pure McQuarrie, and one can spot the future Snowspeeder throughout …
I picked up Leia Boushh for the first time via a childhood trade, and was totally jazzed about having it. I hadn't seen Jedi in the theater when this figure hit my hot little hands, and I'd spoiled myself via the Marvel comic and the novelization, so the Leia reveal wasn't a big deal anyway. …
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What better figure to talk about this weekend than the original Kenner Han Solo. It's the toy that launched a thousand (okay at least fifty) future tiny Hans. Speaking of tiny, the head on this toy holds a special place in Star Wars action figure collecting history, as its one of the first major running …
X-Wing Luke is the first vintage Kenner figure I can remember getting. I snagged him during one of many family trips to Venture, one of many now-defunct department stores. He’s also the first Star Wars figure I can remember losing. My parents had a turn of the century two-story that they’d renovated in the late …
