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Picked up the fett helmet and of course the fett blaster. My wife rules so they are displayed with pride in the livingroom when not being wore by myself as a hunt our uglycute cat.

Jabba will pay good money for that cat... dead or alive.

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Picked up this vintage 12" scale Chewbacca yesterday at a local comic shop.
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Picked up the fett helmet and of course the fett blaster. My wife rules so they are displayed with pride in the livingroom when not being wore by myself as a hunt our uglycute cat.

Jabba will pay good money for that cat... dead or alive.

I was told the cat was no good to him dead.

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deadboy wrote:
Picked up the fett helmet and of course the fett blaster. My wife rules so they are displayed with pride in the livingroom when not being wore by myself as a hunt our uglycute cat.

Jabba will pay good money for that cat... dead or alive.

I was told the cat was no good to him dead.

Frozen in carbonite, that cat should make the trip to Tattoine with minimal collateral damage.

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Habbit wrote:
deadboy wrote:
Picked up the fett helmet and of course the fett blaster. My wife rules so they are displayed with pride in the livingroom when not being wore by myself as a hunt our uglycute cat.

Jabba will pay good money for that cat... dead or alive.

I was told the cat was no good to him dead.

Frozen in carbonite, that cat should make the trip to Tattoine with minimal collateral damage.

My wife told my cat that She loved him. He smugly replied "I know... Meow"


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Boba Fett offer (with printable order form) is now up:

http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/free-star- ... tt-figure/

UPCs from those cheap two-packs of basic figures will work, so you can get one of these by only spending about $30.


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anyone have the original boba fett with the firing missle before they discontinued it because children were firing it into there eyes :lol: ?

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anyone tell me anything about this...

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Besides the fact of being unlicensed...


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anyone have the original boba fett with the firing missle before they discontinued it because children were firing it into there eyes :lol: ?


Those Fett stories are urban legends, the rocket firing only went up to the test shot and no mass production done.
The recall was an industry move to stop all spring powered launching toys. A related incident was reported when a kid got hurt from some other ‘rocket’ firing toy, and the toy in question was Mattel’s Viper launcher.


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The incident with the Galactica toy was what prompted Kenner to remove the missile firing feature. There were never any missile firing Boba Fetts released to the public, although on some of the European issues the missile will pop out if you yank hard enough.


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^ I was angry for years, thinking that they sent me a regular one because I was outside the USA or did something wrong filling the coupon ...


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Good comparison pics comparing the new mailaway Fett with the vintage figure:

http://www.sgcollect.com/forum/index.ph ... opic=63176


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The Kenner test subjects.

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anyone have the original boba fett with the firing missle before they discontinued it because children were firing it into there eyes :lol: ?


Those Fett stories are urban legends, the rocket firing only went up to the test shot and no mass production done.
The recall was an industry move to stop all spring powered launching toys. A related incident was reported when a kid got hurt from some other ‘rocket’ firing toy, and the toy in question was Mattel’s Viper launcher.


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Star Wars continuity problem:

1995 book says Tusken Raiders hide their gender by wearing the same clothes.
Episode II toy shows "female Tusken Raider w/ child" with baby carrier on her back!!

Another thread said Lucas maintains tight control over the Universe... :roll:

Any other discrepancies?


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Tons. Lucas has pretty much left the "expanded universe" to the ministrations of his licensing people with only a few directives. As far as he's concerned, his "canon" is what's in the films (which still contradict one another a little bit), and to a lesser extent, the modern prequel-centered TV shows (which contradict each other a little more).

To him, books and comics and games don't count. I believe as far as Lucas is concerned, Boba Fett died in the Sarlacc. And as Sigmund Freud once said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a giant vagina with teeth in the desert."


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Star Wars Illustrated Universe--- Ralph McQuarrie

Any other SW books near this good? :|


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I got the "Tomart SW price guide" and there is a funny anecdote about SW rushing toys to market including a puzzle that no one could put together because it was mostly little stars and black space... Good times for sure :?


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That's awesome! I took a similar picture a while back when that new Boba Fett came out!

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It's great to see how these toys have changed over the years.

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Hey, I didn't know this thread existed. Nerd out!
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^^^^
that's at my parents house somewhere, thanks for the reminder. Those micro figures are pretty rad. Isn't their a mini Han imthe mini carbonite.?


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Yup, he's inside.


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I love the design of the Slave 1, but if I were a bounty hunter that's not what I'd be flying. Just saying


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The incident with the Galactica toy was what prompted Kenner to remove the missile firing feature. There were never any missile firing Boba Fetts released to the public, although on some of the European issues the missile will pop out if you yank hard enough.

Exactly. And it wasn't a missile being shot in the eye. A kid in Georgia actually died from choking on a missile. Parents groups mobilized. And from that moment onwards, no more missile launching toys. This site doesn’t cite the source, but the events are accurate.

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On December 31, 1978 a four year old boy in Atlanta aimed a Colonial Viper toy into his mouth and launched one of the projectile missiles, inadvertently choking himself to death. On January 11, Mattel issued a recall order for the Viper and three other vehicles. It also issued a missile mail-in for those who had had already purchased a missile-firing version of the toys. In exchange for the little red missiles, Mattel provided a Hot Wheels toys, "for the loss in play value." Mattel redesigned the vehicle line to have non-firing missiles.

The boy's death triggered a national outcry to remove projectiles from all toys. On March 23, the boy's parents sued Mattel. The judge presiding over the case singled out Star Wars space toys as the culprit (which upset Lucas very much.) The controversy had an impact on Kenner's Star Wars' toy line, as it delayed the shipment of its Boba Fett dolls. The action figure -- whose character would star in The Empire Strikes Back sequel -- was part of a mailaway offer on the backs of other Star Wars figurines. Although Boba Fett's original design and promotion included a rocket-firing backpack, this mechanism was removed from its design. No rocket-firing Boba Fett's ever rolled off the line, and only a handful of the unpainted prototypes exist.


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They should name a toy after the 4 year old like they do the McQuarrie concept figures... :P


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