Interesting that the sandspeeder at 9:58 was made into a Lego set recently! A lot of these concept designs seem to have been inspiration for some of the more recent products!
@gutz19814 жыл бұрын
Interesting how the escape pod piece showed up years later in the Solo movie, despite the old toy never being made or used.
@leebush40534 жыл бұрын
gutz1981 h the storm trooper carrier toy was used in Rebels. It would seem the back catalogue of produced and not produced toys and concepts are being used.
@alexandremilliard47264 жыл бұрын
They had one escape pod on the legacy collection falcon... but this concept was not used
@Jonny-xq5cb4 жыл бұрын
Disney has original ideas!
@chriscurran66294 жыл бұрын
That was exactly what I was thinking. Good catch. Disney has no original ideas ever
@nicholasdickens28014 жыл бұрын
Without getting into ‘Disney bashing’ a lot of the abandoned concepts for Star Wars in toys and for the original films had a lot of the designs dusted off and tweaked for the new movies.
@silvervalleystudios24863 жыл бұрын
Man I wish Hasbro would make these as a tribute to the designs just like they did with the Ralph Maqcquarrie concepts.
@SimpleTricksNonsense4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't draw parallels between that unreleased line and so much of the new SW. Poe Dameron's X-wing had the same color scheme as the 2 seater Kenner X-wing. The Escape Pod or detachable ship in the mandibles of the Falcon? We got that in Solo. The Artillery piece mounted on a muddy AT-AT? The AT-DT in Solo. Alpha Prime's droid also looks nothing like L3 from Solo. See in SW nothing ever goes to waste. Their "creative" team are like Native Americans... they use all the parts of the Buffalo.
@jeremyjustice89014 жыл бұрын
They looted the left over cannon..but I'm glad when I see that stuff... every thing in rebels is scraped ideas they saved. i like it
@kirgan10002 жыл бұрын
Or modern lucasfilm are totaly creative bankrupt. Did they make anything that was not a re-color and reused? The only think I can think of is BB8....
@DEP7172 жыл бұрын
In the classic TSR(?) Star Wars Roleplaying game, a lot of the concept art and such was from sketches that were drawn up for the Original Trilogy, but not used. One of the main freighter designs in the game was an alternate concept for the Millenium Falcon at one point. It is so neat that this stuff keeps brewing and popping up in new incarnations. It speaks to the well of creativity that came forth during the brainstorming for these films.
@Captain_Sarcastic4 ай бұрын
Show how much they lacked inspiration for the Disney Star Wars film, or as I like to call them the Disney Wars films.
@GrandFunker4 жыл бұрын
Tarkin: Evacuate?! In our moment of triumph?! You overestimate their chances.
@MUMSUniverse4 жыл бұрын
🤣
@silvervalleystudios24863 жыл бұрын
Tarkin overestimated Galen Erso's loyalty.
@cheddarcheese79284 жыл бұрын
It's crazy that after all these years they never came out with a Blockade Runner that you could use with the 3" figures..They even came out with Jabba's giant sail barge but no Runner..I'm in if they ever decide to do one..
@AvengerII4 жыл бұрын
It costs a lot of money to make molds for toys and models and I'm sure they're resistant to release a lot of playsets now because of the generally poor sales of Star Wars merchandise these last 4 years. Hasbro reportedly laid off at least 10% of its workforce last year? They got hurt bad by the SW merchandise sales collapse and the closing of the US Toys R Us chain stores. There's not a huge market to buy limited edition $500 toy playsets. Heck, people were passing on the $150 toy sets they tried to sell at Toys R Us. They're reluctant even with Original Trilogy toys. I have to say that not all the Star Wars merchandise I've seen on clearance has been Sequel Era, R1, Solo toys. They had things from the Original Trilogy they couldn't get rid of, either, at Barnes & Noble on clearance. The entire franchise was dealt a mortal blow by Disney's mishandling of it from the beginning. The bright side of Star Wars merchandising, the model releases, have been very measured and they're not spending insane amounts of money and building large models, either. The average Bandai model kits are usually well under a foot long; we're talking 7-8 inches at most. They just released the best-detailed, mass-market Star Destroyer model kit and that's just under 13 inches long. It retails for $80 mass-market (the LE edition with the lighting kit costs another $60 at least). You can get much larger resin kits of the Star Destroyer (some even studio scale!) but they're a hell of a lot harder to build and they cost easily 20 times as much. Again, very limited market for these things. And the kids are not buying this stuff... And I've heard from quite a few adult collectors that they just gave up Star Wars and don't want to put more money into they toys and merchandise. They're just fed up with it and discouraged. Can't say I blame them. Why give money to companies that don't listen to you or treat you like at ATM? Disney's finding this out the hard way now. Sometimes, you just have to move onto other hobbies or change your habits.
@bigpun79164 жыл бұрын
People are 3d printing the blockade runner. Almost to scale ..very movie accurate .
@Clay36134 жыл бұрын
@@bigpun7916 So it would have to be like 30 feet or something to be scale to the figures as they are in the movies.
@bigpun79163 жыл бұрын
@@Clay3613 no not that large , i said almost , 2 feet longer than the Legacy falcon .
@erichwang90423 жыл бұрын
@@bigpun7916 We did get a hallway. Thats like the Star Destroyer playlet which is only the bridge
@cobra-emperor6starwars6654 жыл бұрын
The Blockade runner would be super cool to have, but make it just a bit larger to fit 6 or 8 action figures
@john-evanbear87833 жыл бұрын
I’ve first heard of this cancelled Star Wars toy line from reading about it in Toy Fare magazine 18 years ago. It always fascinated me and I seem to have a hard time finding information about it until I’ve seen this video. The whole thing about Tarkin surviving the Death Star is really stupid, that is the one thing I’m glad that this toy line didn’t happen.
@steveverboom4 жыл бұрын
I can see why these didn't get approved. Most of them look like cheap hack jobs of the iconic originals. The Imperial Outpost looks amazing though. Truth is, I didn't even get the real AT-AT so there's no way I would have gotten a playset that expensive. I still had fun with my cardboard version though.
@nicholasdickens28014 жыл бұрын
Ah yes. I saw this on Toy Galaxy a while back. It was a great looking range. I think being catty that these designs were really better what we got in the prequel trilogy.
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
There weren't any cool toys that came from the sequels, that's what killed the line. And the characters weren't cool. Just a shitty story that needed more development.
@TheCatWatches4 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised we never got playsets of Palpatine’s throne room or the Bridge over the pit on Cloud City where Vader says “I am you father.”
@christophmahler4 жыл бұрын
"I’m surprised we never got playsets of Palpatine’s throne room or (...) Cloud City (...)" Or a proper 'Dagobah cave of evil' (instead of Yoda's 'doll house') - kinda shows that industrial mass production and _art_ don't go well together, not because it's technically impossible (these playsets would have been rather simple to produce e.g. by molding a throne in front of a transparent, circular window), but because 'corporate chief officers' didn't get into their position by sharing an artist's imagination, realizing that people watch certain scenes _repeatedly_ . The industry seems to be a bit more fluid now (think of the ongoing *vintage collection* exclusives or the sheer variety of sales, LEGO leeches off from the 'Star Wars' franchise), but rarely are products designed quite right: ('Black Series' 'Jaina Solo' - 'wrong' 6 inch line, not detailed enough for the pricing in comparison to NECA, but a an _interesting character_ to collect) news.toyark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/Black-Series-Jaina-Solo-26.jpg ('Black Series' 'Cara Dune' - _photorealistic_ likeness of a popular actress) media.entertainmentearth.com/assets/images/3c1cd454f6bf4bc4961d66c093735708lg.jpg Remember the times when You could walk into a store and sift through _dozens_ of wanted collectibles ? ...me neither...
@craven19273 жыл бұрын
That base was ambitious for sure. Remember that in 1985 Hasbro released the USS Flagg for the GI Joe line, this may have been Kenner's attempt to counter that with a massive playset of their own
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
That Imperial outpost looked huge, therefore would be too expensive. But it looked pretty cool. I'd buy it now if it was a Haslab project.
@BioFactory14 жыл бұрын
12:22 - Similar to Transformers like the Constructicons, this would have been 3 Imperial sets that could be used separately (Landing platform, Gun torrent tower, Bunker) or combined together. It was started around the same time as the Ewok Village went from concept to toy production. If it would have been approved there would have been a similar 3 Rebel base sets idea. In the mid-late 80's I remember someone being interviewed about the direction Kenner wanted to go to make Star Wars toys be able to compete with Transformers in sales and GI Joe in appearance until the plug was pulled.
@BioFactory14 жыл бұрын
One other thing I remember from this mid-late news broadcast interview is that these ships and playsets had some prototypes models simply cut out of cardboard. So the reason you don't see alot of them beyond the sketches is, i'm pretty sure, some would have been destroyed or fell apart. I think there was a cardboard cut out model of the Endor Bunker and Luke's Skyhopper shown along with the Tantive 4, Kenner still had it called Rebel Blockade Runner, and that Imperial sketch, which reminded me of where I seen them all before. I think there was a Star Wars Insider years ago that also showed some stuff of these prototype toys. Rebel Blockade Runner mock-up box I think was in that and the cardboard cut out model of Luke's Skyhopper I think was shown and mostly some mash-up figures and that Prime figure sketch showed up in Star Wars Insider a few times. .
@cobra-emperor6starwars6654 жыл бұрын
The AT-AT should have been made with the cannon the other way and it would raise up as well as swivel 360 degrees, as well as to have the cannon barrel to retract and expand,
@comicbookninja52684 жыл бұрын
Its fascinating to see how they repurpose parts from other figures and play sets to make new ones or just simply repaint existing vehicles and figures and call them something else. But that's what companies do to save on costs (that rear gun canon on the back of the AT-AT was probably taken from the old Death Star play set. I wonder if these prototypes still exist. If so they would be great museum pieces.
@jeffstark84494 жыл бұрын
A lot of cool stuff. I'd love to have an escape pod especially.
@davidmcfadden17634 жыл бұрын
That Imperial base had two suns in the drawing. Could've been Tatooine?
@DavidLLambertmobile4 жыл бұрын
I like how it had a deck, loading station for the AT AT. The Rogue One 2016 film had the AT-AC or cargo version. Lol...
@Psilocybin773 жыл бұрын
is it ever not Tatooine?
@davidmcfadden17633 жыл бұрын
@@Psilocybin77 Ahch-to had two suns, but you're right, it's always Tatooine. Lol!
@sunwentai14 жыл бұрын
A double cockpit X-Wing? I wonder what the point would have been...I mean there weren't any more guns or canons to fire on this...That modified AT-AT is so amazing, though!
@comicbookninja52684 жыл бұрын
You could call that X-Wing a trainer.
@jedi69outcast4 жыл бұрын
I am so pissed that Hasbro did not create a Legacy Version First Order Walker , Troop transporter and Kylo REN shuttle.
@ronniemckinney68084 жыл бұрын
It's sad some of these ideas never made it to the stores. I think Kenner should've tried to bring this stuff out in 1986. Unfortunately, Star Wars toy sales were stagnant in 1985.
@magnumrex4 жыл бұрын
GI Joe was dominating at this point.
@therecanbeonlyonechris50194 жыл бұрын
@@magnumrex I Remember GI Joe was cooler because of accessories. Star wars figures only had guns
@5roundsrapid2634 жыл бұрын
GI Joe and He-man were taking over.
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
@@therecanbeonlyonechris5019 GI Joe figs also were more articulated so you could pose them and there were lots of vehicles too.
@mattpries72464 жыл бұрын
The storm trooper gunner AT-AT would have been cool as well as the sand speeder. I think they would have had to use a different name for the Prime villain though, it would have been to close to Optimus Prime.
@cameronsturgill4024 жыл бұрын
I think this might be my favorite video out of all the great ones you've done. Gonna check out the Kenner Chronicles too. Had no idea about it. Keep up the stellar work, Junkman.
@ThatJunkman4 жыл бұрын
It’s been here for over a year. But people asked me to do this topic. It has like 200 views. So I just cut this part out and uploaded it. Now over 1,000 :)
@jedimoo4 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to note you said the Imperial Outpost looked like it was on Hoth. I notice someone else wrote they thought it was Endor. It's actually a Tatooine Outpost. If you look at the sky in the concept art, the twin suns of Tatooine are evident.
@brucestro184 жыл бұрын
@8:57 Lukes T16 Sky Hopper did get released in late 90’s. It was under “The Power of The Force” lineup. I found and bought one while @Target at the time.
@BioFactory13 жыл бұрын
Most of the bad guys were based on sketches of the Imperial City Planet, the early idea of Coruscant. Kenner didn't do all the drawings, most came from what Lucasfilm gave to Westend Games for role play books. Centenial Prime was actually a Centenial Guard
@JackieWohlenhaus4 жыл бұрын
Lego released the sandspeeder early this year, or late last year. It was sort of based on that concept but was worked into the storyline between Jedi & Awakens
@MUMSUniverse4 жыл бұрын
That Imperial Outpost would have been amazing. 😀💯 It would have been the USS Flag playset of StarWars!
@thethoughtcriminal87864 жыл бұрын
The Imperial Outpost would have made an amazing Micro Collection add on...especially with an AT-AT in the collection that you could use with the Hoth World playset.
@MikeFrazee2224 жыл бұрын
This would have been great. I alway wanted an episode 7 & 8 with Jedi Luke taking on what remains of the Empire.
@cybertronnation92474 жыл бұрын
Mike Frazee Writes sounds awesome! Definitely winning combination!
@Psilocybin773 жыл бұрын
The Timothy Zahn Thrawn Trilogy of books is the best we'll ever get.
@joeymanson22226 ай бұрын
"Tarkin somehow has returned." 😂😂😂 The AT-AT with the cannon would have been a hit for Kenner! The Imperial base was off the charts! That would have been like $300. in late 80's money. And impossible to get. But what a Dream! Cheers Junkman
@tommybenefield14804 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing concepts! Some of these would be awesome, and definitely would be a welcome addition to any fans collection. If Smithlords wanted to do ANYTHING, he should work on stuff like this. Not basically kit bashing existing figures. Come original. And it's so cool how a lot of this stuff actually made it through to other areas of the film's and comics. Absolutely amazing video Junkman!!
@darrellr2674 жыл бұрын
I wanted a Rebel Fleet Trooper.
@user-dk9vt2eq3u3 жыл бұрын
I wish they would do more stuff like this. More concept lines and different outfits for characters and concept ships besides constant straight movie or tv stuff.
@thunder24343 жыл бұрын
A lot of this artwork seems to have inspired Solo. Interesting.
@arcticfox68083 жыл бұрын
Kenner was just trying to keep it going, and coming up with better ideas than Disney ever would.
@cybertronnation92474 жыл бұрын
1:10: This villain looks the business! At least it became the Imperial Sentinel in Kenner's 1998 Star Wars Power Of The Force II Expanded Universe figures! Man someone needs to get in touch with the Kenner designers that made this range!
@CaptainRetroStation3 жыл бұрын
A Tarkin action figure would have been AWESOME! Just because he died, doesn't mean that he can't get a figure. I mean, the Death Star blew up with Tarkin, but the Death Star gets an ENTIRE PLAYSET?! Walrus Man got a figure, and he had FAR less screen time! I could be wrong, but I thought that the whole point of the figures were so that kids could RECREATE their favorite moments from the movies! Like, Tarkin was THE MAIN VILLAIN! PETER FREAKING CUSHING! No figure for him. But, the "Gonk" Droid... well, dang... who's R5-D4 gonna stand next to? I don't know about you, but when I was a kid back in the 70's & 80's, the idea of "prequels" wasn't an unheard of thing, and I would've LOVED to be able to have some adventures that took place BEFORE Star Wars. Or, maybe even come up with my OWN take on what happened on the Death Star! But, no... Kenner made SURE that Tarkin DIDN'T EXIST in the Star Wars universe. Totally AWFUL. Like, we weren't even allowed to PRETEND that the Tarkin figure could've another balding Imperial officer. I'm still angry over it!
@ThatJunkman3 жыл бұрын
has nothing to do with him being dead lol
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
And we didn't get rebel fleet troopers either. When I was a kid, I got white out and painted a death squad commander's helmet white with it. Instant rebel blockade trooper to fight the stormtroopers.
@mathieu42044 жыл бұрын
Solo looked like he just came back from another medal ceremony. Would have been great to see all those cool toys, though in 1986 I was way into GI Joe and would probably have skipped them in favor of more Joes :)
@TheEvilpossum4 жыл бұрын
The concept art is amazing, seems designed to look like Ralph McQuarrie sketches.
@wadafuttshowprolem79983 жыл бұрын
They probably are McQuarrie’s
@xtheflabeox88134 жыл бұрын
Blue for looks like she's right out of the movie solo
@tomgriffiths26224 жыл бұрын
WHY kenner WHY!!! We wanted more star wars WHY!!!
@gregsmith17924 жыл бұрын
Tom Griffiths but obviously not or sales would have sustained it
@Clay36134 жыл бұрын
He-Man, She-Ra, GI Joe and Transformers were massive at the time. Star Wars had no new movies or media presence other than loosely associated Marvel comics to support the toys.
@Zan_Jayna4 жыл бұрын
We are the EEEEE eeewoks..! Because the three tv shows they pumped out were abject garbage compared to others ?
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
I was there, I remember. I quit asking for Star Wars figures after the Empire Strikes back, I was around 11 yrs old when Return of the Jedi came out and I wanted a bb gun and a computer. Atari 2600 was big and the Commodore 64, and some kids wanted GI Joe figures or Hee Man and Transformers, so we outgrew Star Wars toys.
@egillyard4 жыл бұрын
Blue four looks a lot like L3-37 from the frontal view.
@5roundsrapid2634 жыл бұрын
I totally see it.
@PozerAdultRacingTeam4 жыл бұрын
Those are some nice figures and vehicles.
@xtheflabeox88134 жыл бұрын
So far it looks like the new Star Wars movies literally took the vehicles right out of kenner's proposed toy line
@DavidLLambertmobile4 жыл бұрын
Poe's black X wing is not a 2 seat version but it has some minor design changes. ✔. Netflix had a good Kenner toy doc about Star Wars. The firm re purposed & re did a few sets, toys in the 1980s post RoTJ. ABC & Lucasfilm has some TV stuff but nothing like the movies. This was pre streaming shows, internet. 💻📱🛸🚀🛰🎬
@theswissmiss693 жыл бұрын
I just got some headphones for Christmas and now I can hear every mic bump.😂
@wadafuttshowprolem79983 жыл бұрын
The Bronze Weaponized R2 Droid @ 8:00 also had a hefty missle right up his keister ! His head popped back to “shoot” ! Nicknamed Turtlehead .
@pimpdaddysatan3 жыл бұрын
That base playset would have been awesome.. kinda like to make something like that now.
@thatguysstuff154 жыл бұрын
If they made that playset it probably would have been that big ! It was the 80s ! G.i joe the f.l.a.g.g ! I can see a grey and white color scheme for the outside with red and black computer accessories ! A slide out deck to get to the at at ! Trap door that leads to jail cells ( the trash compactor thing has been done ) I think we'd possibly see a computer monitor with a spinning real of pictures on it ! And most definitely lights and sounds ! And the guns on top would blow up with a button push ! A place to store your small star wars vehicles ! Second floor with opening wall hatch for vehicle entry or exit ! A working elevator and a fake break away wall for stormtroopers to get blown out of ! im sure that set would have had all that !! A collector can dream !!! Mabey the next online pre order playset we get !?!?! For like 900 dollars ..... lol ....
@peppermintspacecapsule98984 жыл бұрын
Anybody know animation? Could we produce our own alternative ROTJ-sequel continuity fan-film using these characters and concepts? Keep Han & Luke alive? Perhaps Chief Bast ignored Tarkin's bravado and flipped a trapdoor-to-shuttlepod switch, and now Tarkin's back and wants revenge! :)
@Tom_Van_Zandt4 жыл бұрын
Holy sheep shit...the Imperial Outpost playset would have been fucking kick ass...expensive AF, but kick ass!
@26th_Primarch4 жыл бұрын
You forgot to add the double decker Star Destroyer.
@aveoxus11394 жыл бұрын
Something tells me that the 86' line had an inspiration for the new Disney star wars , black x-wing, sand speeder, and bad guy who isn't Darth Vader
@gavinhinchcliffe84574 жыл бұрын
Hey Junkman, I absolutely love stuff like this. It's fascinating to think how things might've turned out. I personally would've loved to have had that Imperial Attack Droid, I've always liked the idea of that figure. Also, as naff as it looks, the one you missed off the list..... Mongo Beefhead! What a name for an action figure that is!! Also, had we have had these extra figures and playsets, would the last 17 figures even be worthy any money? Great stuff as always, more like this please 😁
@cichlidjedi4 жыл бұрын
The Blockade runner would have been awesome!
@paulspopculture55924 жыл бұрын
I was the perfect age in 1986 and remember the shops haveing no starwars it was all a team and he man stuff most of my starwars was second hand would of loved theys by this time a lot of kids were getting out of starwars and theres me getting into it it was a struggle to get stuff back then no Internet great video junkman love your content fantastic 👍 ☺
@benjaminkitaura49817 күн бұрын
@thatjunkman I actually have a prototype single figure air speeder which was actually later made with a firing missle and bigger than the version I have.
@mattsimmons53584 жыл бұрын
Love it all. Except Tarkin surviving. That would have been dumb
@Wario77934 жыл бұрын
That Atma Prime figure concept looks a lot like a figure from the Shadows of the Empire line that came out after the videogame was a hit, the Luke Skywalker in Imperial Guard uniform. Shame none of these came to be back then, it would have made Star Wars hot for a few more years at least, maybe until the new POTF2 line came along.
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
Nope, I was there. Kids got away from Star Wars, it was GI Joe's, He Man, and later teenage ninja mutant turtles. Also computers were big then. Now if Lucas kept making more Star Wars movies or TV shows then yeah, that would've kept the toys going for awhile, but I quit wanting Star Wars toys right before Return of the Jedi came out. I wanted a commodore 64 and a bb gun, I was 11, my action figure playing days came to an end. But older me got back to collecting Star Wars figures, nostalgia.
@thudthud54233 жыл бұрын
Time to think like a hopeful and imaginative kid: The Imperial Outpost I'd have sold it in modules with each module being a separate section that could stand alone. You'd have one section that would be the Outpost's base, one "Communication" section would hold the antenna, one section would hold the large cannon, etc. Each would be sold separately so they wouldn't break the parents' wallets. Kids could have fun playing with these individual components and as birthdays, saved up allowances, Christmases, etc came along, new components could be bought. When completed, this station would stand about 4 feet tall, 4 foot long, three feet wide. With each component sold separately, they wouldn't be cheap. They'd come with different figures, weapons, etc. They would allow for an elevator to pass through each floor with removable hatches on each component. If kids wished, they could leave the base's components separate where kids could imagine they sat around a defensible perimeter. ("Hey, dad? Can we get a new cannon section? I need to set up a cannon on this other hilltop.")
@leebush40534 жыл бұрын
the first stormtroopers you showed look similar to the marauders in Solo??
@ThatJunkman4 жыл бұрын
Yes it does
@henryescat11042 жыл бұрын
That Imperial Playset tower looked awesome!
@stevegallo84833 жыл бұрын
That big cannon on the AT AT looks like a retooled version of the cannon on the Death Star playset.
@RetroActionUK3 жыл бұрын
5:27: Kenner’s idea on bringing back Tarkin might have unfortunately been deliberately the cause of the revival of Emperor Palpatine in Episode IX. It must be stated that most of the Kenner concepts have found their way into the recent Disney era of Star Wars.
@LigerFan4 жыл бұрын
FWIW IIRC Marvel kept their Star Wars comic going for several years after Return Of The Jedi. And with Hasbro already working with Marvel on G.I. Joe I could easily believe that they had planned to work together for post-Star Wars merchandise.
@robertlong60274 жыл бұрын
That pod ship on a Millennium Falcon looked like the. Ships on V. The visitors the mini movie series and tv show in the 1983 84 85 shows
@FredGee4204 жыл бұрын
I remember the kid playing with V figures and ship toys in the series and wishing they would actually make them for real.
@5roundsrapid2634 жыл бұрын
I remember V was huge for a while in the early ‘80s. Independence Day was a huge ripoff of it!
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
I would've bought V figures had they made them.
@toytantrum16874 жыл бұрын
I would have lost my mind for this expanded line. I had some of the Droids line characters and made my own adventures with them and odd Star Wars droids like 8d8 and r5d4 as the main players. I would combine them with Star Trek aliens and voila, new stuff.
@ascensionindustries96314 жыл бұрын
AT-IC? I would kill for that.
@xtheflabeox88134 жыл бұрын
Geez that Apex Invader looks like something very familiar that was in the new Star Wars movies
@rustyblades25664 жыл бұрын
I saw a figure in a store here in Sydney a few years back which was called Mongo beef head. This was Squidhead's head repositioned...looked like Hammerhead's arms were used also
@jeffmarlatt65384 жыл бұрын
Mongo Beef Head, he was our last hope.
@rustyblades25664 жыл бұрын
@@jeffmarlatt6538 Lol....no there is another hahaha
@jeremyjustice89014 жыл бұрын
Lol great namy
@5roundsrapid2634 жыл бұрын
What about Slab Bulkhead, or Fridge Largemeat?
@marklechman22253 жыл бұрын
Judging by the twin suns in the sketch, I'm guessing the Imperial Outpost was depicted as being on Tatooine.
@hondorockz4 жыл бұрын
These designers for Kenner had really great original ideas for new vehicles and figures, I wonder why they never made it into production, thanks for the video Mr. Junkman, have a great day!
@ThatJunkman4 жыл бұрын
Cause it was 1986, sales dying so line was canceled.
@brandonthetoyandgamecollector4 жыл бұрын
hondorockz interest in Star Wars was dying and George said he had no interest in continuing the brand at the time, so kids moved on
@hondorockz4 жыл бұрын
@@ThatJunkman yeah and us kids were getting older!
@hondorockz4 жыл бұрын
@@brandonthetoyandgamecollector at 18 years old back then, you bet I lost interest, thank you!
@cybertronnation92474 жыл бұрын
hondorockz totally wished these made it to at least the state where we could see the vehicles and Imperial Outpost in packaging mock ups. I want to know what the logo would've looked like!
@RP7520004 жыл бұрын
A lot of these toys came to fruition with Disney Star Wars movies and LEGO Star Wars themed product line.
@KenshoBeats4 жыл бұрын
Woah that Outpost playset is crazy! But where’s the 1986 Epic Force Bantha!
@M.A.S.K._Crusader4 жыл бұрын
I really want that X-Wing.
@alexandremilliard47264 жыл бұрын
Definetly it look a little battlestar galactica... a little😉
@DavidLLambertmobile4 жыл бұрын
The 2 seat version seems different. Newer ST X Wings were black too. If I recall, the Y Wing version fighter bombers could fit 3 pilots, crew or 2 pilots & a R2 droid.
@pauricboylan35714 жыл бұрын
Tarkin could have returned like Bobby Ewing from Dallas just a dream and he's having a shower in the Death Star bathrooms.🤔😂😂
@jamesmoconnell4 жыл бұрын
"Tarkin could *have* returned"…
@lamarravery40943 жыл бұрын
We needed Dallas action figures, lol.
@TheLeatheryman Жыл бұрын
That Imperial Outpost needs to be a HasLab project
@coliniverson85883 жыл бұрын
Kenner may have never released the Sandspeeder but Lego did which is pretty cool
@danieljohnson17653 жыл бұрын
This Prime guy was gonna be the new villain...I live near Amazon in Seattle...I think he achieved it!
@sausagethegodofcurry3 жыл бұрын
Although I agree that bringing back maul was a terrible idea in theory. If you watch the clone wars episodes with him in it. You'd be surprised at how phenomenally well he was handled. It's entirely up to you. But I would highly recom giving it a chance. But we can both agree that there's no way that tarkin survived being incinerated by the death star.
@markosziss64524 жыл бұрын
I guess most of the stuff there was used in solo.
@shimshambam4 жыл бұрын
3:07 Poe Dameron? Lol
@scoutisabelle4 жыл бұрын
This channel is so cool!
@Clay36134 жыл бұрын
So Kenner had the idea of a previously long dead character coming back from the shadows to cause trouble.
@cjalexanderjr8811 Жыл бұрын
Why was there never a bantha figure made by Kenner?
@salsheikh45083 жыл бұрын
Had to use my GI Joe HQ and the Terrordrome from Cobra as my Star Wars bases
@RadtoyzGalaxy4 жыл бұрын
If only they released this stuff....the base is kick ass!!!
@RetroActionUK3 жыл бұрын
Damn is! Imperial Outpost all the way!
@Transfixed4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! I've only seen the X-Wing and AT-AT before. This stuff looks amazing! Very in line with the later EU stuff like Dark Empire, which i love. Too creative for corporate approval i suppose, just like today.
@christopherdhill23543 жыл бұрын
Ok - I can pretty much guarantee that this expanded universe story did get developed - and became Heir to the Empire. Prime is C’Boath and Tarkin becomes Thrawn. As anyone that has looked into or produced a fan film back in the day knows - the way Star Wars licensing worked, is anything that is produced and is cast in the Star Wars universe immediately becomes the property of Lucasfilm. They can take anything and rework it. It’s interesting that the new x-wing colours become the colours of Poe’s x-wing don’t you think? Lucas is the consummate remixer. The entirety of the Star Wars story was lifts from various western, war and Japanese films. Heck the entire Death Star run was infamously shot for shot from Dam Busters. So Kenner folds but Lucas lifts a bunch of ideas, gives the overview to Zahn and you get Clone Jedi, and resurgent Admirals. And since the sequels basically lifted from the Heir to the Empire as well, then you can now, officially blame Kenner and their want to hock toys on us for that travesty. As an aside - that walking ION cannon - looks suspiciously like the prequel ATAPs in RotS doesn’t it?
@DoctorPretorious6164 жыл бұрын
I agree that bringing Tarkin back would been a stupid ides, but I strongly disagree about bringing back Darth Maul being a bad idea!!!! Yes, it sounds like a dumb idea on paper, but it gave us some awesome episodes of The Clone Wars where he has robotic legs, is given character development and a brother, and a cool voice by Sam Witwer!
@tomgriffiths26224 жыл бұрын
Ask phasma how to escape 😂😂😂
@martok21124 жыл бұрын
Apologies if TL;DR. :) Some of these concept art designs look like they did end up in some of the Disney Star Wars movies. -The droid in 5:46 made me think almost immediately that it was a borrowed concept for L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story. -The Apex Invader concept at 3:32 also made me think of Dryden Vos' space yacht in Solo. It also makes me think of something that would've looked at home as an Imperial craft of some kind in the Dark Horse Comics miniseries "Star Wars: Dark Empire". -2:33 The 1986 design for the Falcon with the mini-ship up front did end up getting recognized in the first version of the Hayne's Millennium Falcon Owner's Manual as an excursion vehicle called F-LER (Freight Loading Exterior Rover). I agree with poster *Simple Tricks & Nonsense* that the design got reworked as the escape pod for Lando's Millennium Falcon in Solo. Also, JunkMan, do you remember that later on, I think in the '90's, there was a Millennium Falcon that was released with a mini-fighter that fit in the side of the ship, in one of her docking ports? That was covered in Hayne's MF Owner's Manual as well. :) I LOVE the design concept for the Imperial Outpost! Good Lord, if they'd made that to scale with the action figure AT-AT vehicle, it would likely have been at least 3 1/2' to 4' tall! I would've loved to have had that! Even if they'd pared everything down to where the AT-AT was smaller so they could keep the design more like a mini-diorama at half-size, that would've been cool with the Death Star styled turbolaser tower...especially if the main turret swiveled and elevated. I do think a full-sized set intended to work with the action figure AT-AT set would've been feasible. Heck, they made the Imperial Shuttle, which was probably the largest action figure ship they ever made, and it stook, what?, almost 3 feet tall? May the Force Be With You and Yours, JunkMan!
@kaioken6544 жыл бұрын
I had a huge AT-AT and Millennium Falcon when I was a kid. But I was born in 89 so the figures I got were buff as all hell.
@edb.15773 жыл бұрын
Would've liked the Rebel blockade runner starship and it makes me wonder why Hasbro HasLab hasn't made one for the 2020's yet in a vintage New Hope Kenner box.
@jamesfrancistamburojr81804 жыл бұрын
Cool I didn't know this was around
@toomanyhobbies83513 жыл бұрын
That duel pilot x-wing is cool
@Zan_Jayna4 жыл бұрын
Remember how they said in Empire that they had adapted those speeders to the cold? It always bothered me that they keep on only showing them on other ice planets as if they’re specifically designed for snow. And they call them ‘snow speeders’ instead of just ‘speeders’. Like in Clone Wars, etc. That sand speeder totally validates my obsession! I wish they had showed them in a cartoon sometime.. All those figures are great. Seems like a few of the characters made it into Shadows of the Empire, the multi-media crossover which featured everything except a film. Too bad Kathleen Kennedy says theres no stories for them to do movies of, lol. Because Dark Horse is owned by Warner and she doesn’t own them or want to pay royalties to license them. She just wants to steal this or that scene from the cool parts secretly and make her own bootleg versions of their characters like Mara Jade. If you look at the list of 92 Kenner figures, and circle the ones who bit the big one in the films, there’s a lot of ‘done’ ones. Why does it matter if Tarkin lived to do a figure? Boba Fett and Rancor keeper didn’t live, even Jabba didn’t. Yoda, Greedo, Imperial Probe droid, R5-D4 (bad motivator), Vader..? No kid ever would have not wanted that figure based on him dying. The reason they didn’t do it is because he’s another ‘old man’ figure like Ben Kenobi. When a kid walks into a store the two figures he’s going to want the least are ‘old man’ Kenobi and Leia. The only way they’d buy those is if that’s the only figures on the peg or if they already have all the other ones already. That’s what Kenner execs think because the sales patterns reflect it. No one wanted the ewoks either, only middle aged ladies like them.. Which is worse, the yub yub song or the e e e e eeeewoks cartoon theme song..? Sorry George, but you cannot out-do the Muppets. Shame he spent so much effort competing with other directors in areas he was awful at, like singing marionettes. The live action ewok show was quite a bit cheesier than the Holiday Special which Lucas is so embarrassed of. No wonder the line fizzled. Imagine if they had put Wookies instead of ewoks like the original script called for? It might have kept going.. Chewbacca is popular, unlike just about every Disney ‘Imagineered’ character.
@AIParodyVideosforfun4 жыл бұрын
I once thought that the Imperial Outpost was the outpost from ROTJ. There was an ATAT in the movie that "dropped off" Luke to Vader and the Emperor. At the time 1986-87 where the BIG PLAYSETS including the USS FLAGG gi joe playset. I wonder if this was inspired by that? I wish I had the skill and time to make a custom one of these using the sketches of it or 3d printing. Someone devoted would make this piece because it is an awesome concept. Maybe Kenner could create this like the did the Sail Barge one day??
@raulzavala90613 жыл бұрын
Star Wars movies came out every three years its interesting had more sequels been made after JEDI and seeing how other toylines were influencing Star Wars had there been new toys in 1986 and 1989 and 1992.