Star Wars merchandising is infamous for making a plaything out of almost everything in the pic and beyond . That fervor is something we ’ll be see again next calendar month , whennew miniature for The Force Awakens come out . But not every Star Wars miniature planned has actually been released ! Here are nine that never saw the visible radiation of Clarence Day .
I ’m just going to start off with perhaps the most notable unreleased Star Wars action digit ever — in fact , probably the most famous Star Wars figure ever , full stop consonant . Shortly after making his animated unveiling in the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special , Kenner plan to tease their coming transmission line of fig based on The Empire Strikes back with a new chain mail - away offer : fans could purchase four figures and send proof to the company to get a Boba Fett action flesh that could launch a formative skyrocket out of his jetpack .
But shortly after the promotion began , a rash of wellness - and - guard issues with projectiles in toys swept across the U.S. , as nestling accidentally fool charge card toys into their mouth and centre , as kids are wo nt to do . Fearing a malicious gossip over the Boba Fett Figure could damage the Star Wars make , Kenner hurriedly reworked their “ Rocket Firing ” Fett and glue the shaping missile in place . former figures sent out were packaged with an apology that the firing feature was n’t included , and while the company long keep a single liberation Fett never made it into the natural state , several have since appeared for auction and in collecting as highly valuable items .
Speaking of the Holiday Special , Kenner planned on running a short lineage of digit based on the new increase to the Star Wars disgorge from the show to take advantage on the Star Wars boom . When the special move around out to be an unmitigated disaster despised by Lucas , its cast , and hearing alike , the program was quickly veto . All that remains of the planned line are prototypes for a band of figures based on Chewbacca ’s family that appear in the special , featuring Chewie , his wife Malla , his terribly describe father Itchy , and Chewbacca ’s even more awful named son Lumpy .
year before the ‘ ninety brought about the Star Wars Micro Machines railway line ( a line place to deliver for The Force Awakens ) , Kenner had its own serial of miniature playlists in the Micro Collection . The series was create as a way to produce heavy - scurf playsets for a smaller cost — rising plastic prices over the ‘ 70s and ‘ eighty saw toy dog company scale down from the then - traditional 8 - column inch and 12 - inch scales , part of which saw the rise of the 3.75 - inch figure spearheaded by Kenner with Star Wars .
Although several playsets were released in the Micro Collection , the line was cut short due to underwhelming sales ( and a veneration that said sales would eat into the money being made by the 3.75 ” figures ) . Unmade sets included an Hoth Bacta Tank , an extension to the released Death Star to add the Throne Room from Return of the Jedi , and Yoda ’s hut on Dagobah , which all made it to concept and paradigm stages before being cancel .
Star Wars is notorious for making activeness figure out of even the most underage type — even background characters seen for simple seconds in the film . One of which is Yarna d’al ’ Gargan , a.k.a . Jabba ’s six - breasted - dancer in Return of the Jedi .
The “ six - breasted ” fleck is potential why Kenner ended up cancel a plan Gargan figure in their Jedi range : higher ups thought that such a buxom alien was a bit much for the vernal audience , and she was ultimately scrapped . gayly , Yarna catch her day decades later on with an entry in Hasbro ’s “ Legacy Collection ” ( see above - rightfulness ) , singlehandedly proving that Star Wars figures are less for kids and more for collectors these day .
They were extremely popular during the recent stage of the Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back lines due to their low price , but eventually taper off out without a substantial connection to the films , leaving a bevy of unmade miniskirt - rigs in limbo , including the above prototype for a belittled starfighter that slotted in - between the front “ mandibles ” of the Millennium Falcon .
When Kenner first bring forth the Star Wars license in the previous ‘ 70s , they had a enormously successful stemma of playschool toys called the Tree Tots : small , cutesy unarticulated vinyl name designed for very immature nestling portray animals and human characters . With the planned action material body line squarely aimed at pre - teen boys , Kenner wanted something for young kid to play with too , and so they developed a line of interchangeable Star Wars vinyls , dubbed Star Tots .
For rationality unknown , the figures themselves never made it to grocery — and neither did a planned series of vehicles including an X - Wing and Luke ’s landspeeder . However the intent themselves would re-emerge during 2012 ’s Star Wars Celebration VI , where they wererevamped as Pin Badgesand sold as exclusives at the convention .
When Star Wars first released , no one expected it to become a ball-shaped phenomenon . By the time of the prequels however , hoi polloi knew that Star Wars was a smash : and that mean there was a screwball amount of merchandise planned for the launching of The Phantom Menace .
A few year ago on his blogToy Otter , former toy dog designer Jason Geyer let on a Brobdingnagian amount of planned , but never made , pieces of merchandise that he facilitate shift during the monolithic energy for Phantom Menace miniature , include some specially designed for the film ’s huge partnership with Pepsi . There ’s a lot to love , from weird things like aDagobah pencil sharpeneror aninflatable rendering of the Emperor ’s throne , but some of the weirdest are this trio of deal puppets , found on Jar Jar , Jabba and the Space Slug from ESB . Each would ’ve had sound chips to trifle cartridge holder of dialogue when you introduce your hand . The Space Slug even had a little Millennium Falcon to vanish out of its mouth !
By the mid-1980s , Star Wars was seemingly in its evenfall , and so was the merchandise . With no newfangled films after Jedi to sustain the monstrous sales of action figure , Kenner began winding down yield . But a abbreviated respite came when Lucasfilm put out two short - lived renovate cartoons serial : Droids , following the dangerous undertaking of C-3PO and R2 - D2 before A New Hope , and Ewoks , following the Ewok hamlet and their tribulation after the Battle of Endor .
Kenner hastily draw up plans for figures base on each serial , but both show were cancelled before a 2d wave for each line could be put out . paradigm for each wave were made however , and have slowly made their way into collector ’ mitt over the years .
The Droids and Ewoks figures were ultimately the last hooray for Kenner ’s Star Wars melodic phrase , which come to a net last in 1985 . But if Kenner had had their way , we could ’ve had a whole new Star Wars saga in toy form : an expanded universe beyond homecoming of the Jedi , five years before the hit novel Heir to the Empire was eject .
In 1986 , Kenner pitched a whole new line of Star Wars figures to Lucasfilm , all tied together by a brand unexampled tale that would ’ve followed the end of ROTJ . Dubbed The Epic Continues , the account would have seen Luke Skywalker and Han Solo fighting off the Imperial Remnant as well as the sinister Atha Prime : The geneticist who commence the Clone Wars , and his US Army of Clone Warriors ( top heart ) . Luke and Han would ’ve gotten unexampled feeling — admit a Luke in “ Jedi Knight Armor”—while authoritative fomite were break new paint jobs and tweaked looks . New stranger would ’ve been make too , admit the hilariously named “ Mongo Beefheads ” ( top left ) , an exotic tribe from Tatooine who joined forces with the Rebel Alliance .
The task never made it far beyond Kenner ’s original pitch ; Lucasfilm hastily disallow the idea , as they werealready conceive plans of their ownto continue the franchise beyond the film trilogy . All that remains of The Epic Continues is a scan of the original delivery document from Kenner , usable to read onlinehere , and several epitome figures including a Mongo Beefhead , an Imperial Attack Droid , and even an “ AT - IC ” , an AT - AT John Walker with a jumbo gun taking up half of its body .
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